I’ve been writing about video games, television and movies for Forbes for over 10 years, and you may have seen my reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. I cover all manner of console and PC games, but if it’s about looting or shooting, I’m definitely there. If I’m watching something, it’s usually science fiction, horror or superheroic.
A long while ago I got an invite to play The Finals, a game that I knew nothing about but I was told by a few friends it was one of the most truly innovative FPS offerings in a long while. I was skeptical, but even barely being a competitive multiplayer person these days, I hopped in and found out, yeah, that was true.The Finals is currently engaged in a widespread playtest, which has blasted up the Steam Charts past GTA 5, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Rust.
The Finals combines fast gunplay, custom character kits, verticality and most importantly, destructible environments to create a deeply unique shooter experience unlike anything else on the market. Not a battle royale, not an extraction game. Yes, there are traditional objectives in game modes, but the way you go about them with the flow of the game feels entirely different than anything you’ve played before.
The Finals is from Embark Studios, who is also working on ARC Raiders, a F2P, PvPvE extraction shooter in addition to The Finals, which we first saw at The Game Awards in 2021. But I do feel like The Finals is the more attractive project.
The destruction is…wild. And this isn’t just a slick trailer, it does actually look like that. We just don’t see this in most shooters these days, as most haven’t tried to go down this path at all. I remember the days of people always wishing that we’d have more games like “Red Faction” which heavily leaned into destruction physics, but the games which have actually tried that are few and far between. But The Finals has to be the best implementation the concept I have seen in ages.
There is no actual release date for The Finals, but this is the widest test yet and far from the closed alphas I used to play. I need to jump back in and see how it’s evolved, but I was deeply impressed back then, and I have to believe it’s only improved by now. The test runs through November 5, so there’s plenty of time to join up. You can
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