Anthem Review (PC)

Anthem primary reason to exist is not entertainment, but to make money, and that’s painfully obvious at any turn. It’s a shame because it bears the Bioware logo and, somewhere deep inside, a few great ideas are hidden.

The genesis of a new game usually follows the same route, no matter what studio is behind it. One or more people have an idea, and a game is slowly built around that idea. In this case, I don’ t really know if that was the path taken by Anthem. 

If I were to guess, Anthem most likely started its life as an original idea, but somewhere along the line, it was hijacked by some good old-fashioned corporate greed. Electronic Arts wanted a piece of the gaming-as-a-service market, and Anthem was just a bystander.

I say most likely because the game comes from Bioware, a studio that made sure their name is synonymous to storytelling, and it seems that game development started six years ago, right after the launch of Mass Effect 3. There are bits of informati...