Anarchy Reigns is the most recent release by Platinum Games. It’s an online beat’em up that’s characterized by its over the top violence, the wacky post-apocalyptic war environments, and cameos from previous games from the studio, including MadWorld and Bayonetta.
GenreAction
Platforms xbox360
DEVELOPER PlatinumGames | PUBLISHER Codemasters | RELEASE DATE
Anarchy Reigns Reviews xbox360
destructoid.com review
Despite some issues, brawler fans should find everything they’re looking for with Anarchy Reigns. It’s ridiculous, it’s fun, and it’s packed with enough content to last you a long while, so long as you don’t get tired of beating dudes up over and over. The budget pricing of $29.99 makes this decision even easier.
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gaming-age.com review
Overall Anarchy Reigns is definitely worth a look. There’s a substantial amount of content present for the asking price, and the overall feel of the game is pretty polished. The combat aspect that drives the single and online play feels really solid, with easy to pick up and understand movesets for characters that don’t feel like cookie cutter copy and paste jobs, featuring strong art direction and a fantastic soundtrack to wrap it all up. Platinum Games continues to impress with their newest release, and I can’t wait to check out their next effort.
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x360magazine.com review
A multiplayer-focused brawler shouldn’t work, but it does. And given the cheap-as-chips RRP, you’ll probably be able to pick up Anarchy Reigns for the price of an XBLA game before too long. On that basis alone, anyone looking for something a little different from a competitive online experience would do well to give this a go – you’ll never play anything else like it, that’s for sure.
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eurogamer.it review
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gamerevolution.com review
The cast on hand is varied and colorful, but all of the playable characters are brutish, full of themselves, and suitably standoffish. It makes total sense to go online, pick your favorite and proceed to beat the snot out of everyone you see.
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meristation.com review
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digitalchumps.com review
The only real knock I have against the entire package is it’s too easy to see where Anarchy Reigns could have been better. Games are made within a budget and Anarchy Reigns’ surely wasn’t much, but you have to admire the purity of its intentions. In a perfect world it would have a Call of Duty 2-like impact and birthed refined successors, but as it stands Anarchy Reigns is an enjoyable oddity pleading for an elegant sequel. If I may paraphrase Hunter S. Thompson, it’s like Anarchy Reigns is too weird to live, and too rare to die.
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gameinformer.com review
Anarchy Reigns’ multiplayer scratches an itch I didn’t know I had, but its camera faults and near-identical character move sets hold it back from scratching hard enough. However, online matchmaking is quick and easy, and the network fidelity held strong through every round I played. The campaign is rough at times but overall entertaining, though I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone looking for a high-caliber action experience.
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oxmonline.com review
The three-player Survival Mode doesn’t fare as well, as any decent team can easily make it to Round 10, at which point a pair of ludicrously overpowered mutants will almost certainly end the match. You’d also expect the selection of unlockable special abilities such as enhanced dash speed and increased charged-attack damage to have considerably more impact on the battlefield than they do. But when $30 nets you this much online-multiplayer insanity, it’s easy to forgive many of Anarchy Reigns’ missteps. Heck, at that price, you can ignore the grueling solo campaign entirely and the game’s still a decent value.
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xbox360achievements.org review
Anarchy Reigns might not reach the heights of genre stablemates like Bayonetta or Devil May Cry, but there’s still a lot to like here. The story-driven single-player campaign is throwaway yet mildly entertaining hokum, but does a fine job in introducing you to the fundamentals before you sink your teeth into multiplayer. Not especially deep, Platinum’s game is nonetheless well worth a punt, especially at its budget price for this tardy western release. Anarchy Reigns is a solid brawler and proof of concept, showing that this kind of fare can almost work in an online environment.
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oxm.co.uk review
The single-player mode offers some spectacular boss battles, but pads out the experience with long-winded slogs against disposable drones. Without humans to fight, the relative rigidity of combat is exposed, though Platinum could never make hitting something anything less than satisfying. Anarchy Reigns is a brash, scrappy runt in a litter of spectacular action games, but in making online brawling just about work it still offers something of its own.
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venturebeat.com review
Anarchy Reigns lives and dies on the amount of craziness it’s able to throw at you. When things are going well, like in its over-the-top multiplayer modes, it’s reminiscent of every great action figure battle you ever had as a kid converted into digital form. When things are slow, it’s a painful slog through the same repetitive scenarios over and over again. And due to the nature of its gameplay and approach to progressing through the campaign, things are slow much more often than crazy.
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