4.6VALORANT
Our highest score. Tight tactical shooting where every round is short enough to analyse and every death has a reason you can name. Agent abilities add variety without turning it into a different genre. Everything sold is cosmetic.
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4.6Our highest score. Tight tactical shooting where every round is short enough to analyse and every death has a reason you can name. Agent abilities add variety without turning it into a different genre. Everything sold is cosmetic.
4.5The most complex game we cover and the most complete free offer in the genre — every hero is available from your first match. The first fifty hours are difficult in a way no tutorial can fix, but nothing else rewards study like it.
4.4Better signposted than its main rival and easier to start, with a rotating free roster and a well-judged introduction. Match length is the thing to plan around — around thirty minutes, and leaving early affects four other people.
4.3Nine classes, each instantly recognisable at a glance, in a shooter that has aged remarkably well. Official matchmaking is uneven; community servers are where the game still shines and where the regulars are.
4.2Among the best-feeling shooting in any game, wrapped in a structure that takes real effort to understand. A free account gets a genuinely large amount of content; working out which activities are open to you is the first challenge.
4.1The arena genre viewed over the shoulder rather than from above, which makes fights more physical and easier to follow. Plays well on a controller, which is unusual here, and the smaller community is noticeably friendlier.