The GameOn Magazine Issue 64 | Page 17

Articles 5 Reasons Why Evolve is the Game you Need in 2015 of play styles for the team of hunters. class will have a number of different characters to choose from. For example, the Medic (a fairly standard class you might think) can be split between the support and healing-based Val and the buff and damagedealing Lazarus. Being able to mix and match within the class itself creates a wide variety Issue 64 • February 2015 Even as the monster you’re given a wide variety of tactical choices to make. Will you configure your Goliath to be a wrecking ball of rage and flame, or perhaps to take a stealthier approach, picking hunters off one by one with thrown boulders and lethal pounces? Will your Kraken hide in the shadows, slowly evolving to level three? Or will you put all your points in its long-range lightning attacks and fry the hunters in an ambush? 3. Horror without the horror game There were times while playing Evolve that I felt truly hunted. Though many of its matches end rather quickly when an inexperienced monster is quickly overwhelmed, once you come up against a confident player things can quickly change. The environments you’re dumped into in Evolve 17 • GameOn Magazine