Game itself is excellent. It's a good evolution from PD2, no more 5 minutes of waiting on drills and the power creep has been dialed back enough that the combat actually requires a modicum of strategy on higher difficulties.

However, the game fails in the two categories that everyone was worried about leading up to launch.

Firstly, all heists are online only. Even when Solo. Not sure what the point of this was. On Launch Day the matchmaking was down for about 12 hours, and on Day 2 it's down in the evening (Europe) once again (I am writing this while being unable to "matchmake" into a private lobby).

The second issue is MTX. The Devs have stated that these will be added post launch. You've heard this before - wait until the reviews and the bulk of early sales are in, then drop the Fortnite shop via an update. The classic bait and switch. Absolutely disgusting. Of course, we don't know the extent of this, but this review is staying on negative until Offline Play is available and MTX are in the game, reasonably priced and limited to a few cosmetics. This game will be getting 4 paid DLCs per year, no reason to be greedy outside of that.

Off to MK1 I guess.

Game itself is excellent. It's a good evolution from PD2, no more 5 minutes of waiting on drills and the power creep has been dialed back enough that the combat actually requires a modicum of strategy on higher difficulties. However, the game fails in the two categories that everyone was worried about leading up to launch. Firstly, all heists are online only. Even when Solo. Not sure what the point of this was. On Launch Day the matchmaking was down for about 12 hours, and on Day 2 it's down in the evening (Europe) once again (I am writing this while being unable to "matchmake" into a private lobby). The second issue is MTX. The Devs have stated that these will be added post launch. You've heard this before - wait until the reviews and the bulk of early sales are in, then drop the Fortnite shop via an update. The classic bait and switch. Absolutely disgusting. Of course, we don't know the extent of this, but this review is staying on negative until Offline Play is available and MTX are in the game, reasonably priced and limited to a few cosmetics. This game will be getting 4 paid DLCs per year, no reason to be greedy outside of that. Off to MK1 I guess.