Savage Resurrection Reviews

I loved Savage 1 & 2. I bought Savage Resurrection as soon as I became aware of it. I enjoyed 2 whole days of buggy savage gameplay before the game completely died. This is a multiplayer game only. There are no multiple players. The developers abandoned the game almost immediately. Gameplay is buggy and imbalanced and unfun. There are NO players to play with. This game is dead on arrival. Please, please, do no waste your money on this piece of garbage. You will end up playing by yourself in empty worlds populated by retarded AI commanders incapable performing simple tasks. This is not a pre-alpha game, this is a tech demo cash-grab shitbox designed to steal money from rubes and run. Stay far, far away. This review is coming from major fan of Savage 1 & 2; be warned. You will find no joy here unless you enjoy wasting money on useless shovelware. Stay away.

As somebody with 190+ hours on this game all I can say is: Do not buy this. The game is dead, there are zero players. Now one could say it doesn't make sense to tell people not to buy because there are no players - buying will increase the player count afterall. However the developers handled this game very poorly and abadoned it already. EA was going well and a lot of new features were showing on the horizon. Unfortunately one day it was decided to simply stop EA with tons of bugs still in, bad mechanics (like voting and melee) and missing features like skill rating, replays, melee duels, map editor, etc. Patch frequency went from every 2-3 days to once every two weeks to none. All servers besides EU and NA were already shut down. Tech support is nonexistant. Lot of people can not even launch the game.

Its a great game but ive had it for a while now and i have yet to see more than 3 servers being used at the same time and theirs only a total of about 12 people online at a time. So playing a game online with more than 5 or 6 people isnt going to happen. I check in quite often to see if anybody is playing but im lucky to join a game of 8. Community needs to grow. Boring playing by yourself. Too easy. If the community were to grow it would be worth it. But at the moment it is not.

One person plays StarCraft. 15 others play WoW Alterac Valley. Good time for $15 dollars, and even $20 when it's not on sale.

I played the original and Savage XR extensively. Savage Resurrection is actually a good game but it's so reliant on having a community and player base. Most populated servers are US and UK, so if you're not in those regions expect 200-300 ping, which was devastating in the original and in XR but doesn't feel *as* bad in Resurrection. Check how many people are still playing the game too before buying. The main problem is how the game 'launched' without notice and with minimal marketing. I don't see any news outlets covering the game and myself as a huge Savage fan only discovered the game a week ago after it being in early access for 3 months. The point of a remake is also to surpass, or at least match, what already exists. It's currently lacking: - Proper tutorials for commanding/duels like XR has (there is a practice mode with bots) - Map variety (the classics are in but XR literally has thousands) - Map editor - Guild/Clan stuff - Replays One interesting addition is AI commanders for an 'easy mode' so you don't get one good and one bad commander facing each other. The AI commanders lack any kind of personality though, so it feels like being controlled by a robot (which is true but it doesn't feel as fun). Bot players act realistically enough but have weird quirks like never going siege. Overall, it's a true enough recreation of the game but it feels like S2's first game all over again. A lot of things have been innovated in recent years to make the multiplayer experience more personal and flavourful — whether it's 'play of the game' and upvoting the top players of the match for player recognition (important for voting commanders and choosing officers in future) or faction/clan/guild stuff — and it would be nice to see these little things help build a community out of the player base. Would recommend as it's a good game with great potential and it's honestly not that expensive. If development continues fast enough it'll be awesome, otherwise the player base will die very quickly.

A remake of Savage 1/XR from back in the day. This game is crazy fun and one of the highest skillcap games I know of. I would recomend it to anyone who is compeditive and has a drive to improve. The game is a little rough around the edges as of now. However, the devs are amazing and update almost every week, so I have no doubt that they will get it right.

Resurrection of a classic RTS/FPS Very enjoyable game, with a high skill ceiling. The only downside I can think of is the low playerbase, and this is due to no advertisement for the game. So try it out for yourself, and if you like it, recommend it to a friend. edit: Devs are throwing out updates like mad. They have some pretty nice things to look forward to aswell (new map, that base WILL EXPLODE). GOOD WORK DEVS :)

Ive played Savage1 for an infinite amount of time and the rumours about a "remake" made me all tingly. Savage 2 was innovative but wandered too far from the path. 3rd times the charm right? Try it! Its hella fun! The game is beautiful on its new unreal4 engine and having implemented the basics from Savage1 games are intense! I know, youre thinking it looks so weird right? What even is a fps-rts game? But my friend, once you set foot on the battleground, you wont regret it! Games are never the same and the possibilities are endless! Pros and Cons: + Beautiful maps and characters + The same awesome feeling from working together as I used to get from Savage1 + Melee is still the most awesome thing about this game, impossible to perfect! - I dont want this to be just Savage1, I hope they add more ways to alter strategies and tactics - Learning curve is still steep. Hopefully a good tutorial will teach good basics, and a rating system will seperate veterans and newbies some - Games tend to linger on forever when both teams and commanders are clueless Im gonna be playing this for a long time henceforth, see you on the battleground of Newerth! Ophelia is my leader!

I played the original Savage 1 competitively when it first released in 2003, and continued a few years after S2 Games abandoned it. Quit playing games for a couple years, but Savage Resurrection reignited that fire for competitive play again. A few of us returning veterans from different clans united to form a new clan in hopes for another few years of great games. We got one week of okay games at most. This current 40% off sale is a money grab, and I'm warning potential buyers. The game was released out of the blue when they said it would be marketed, just like this sale is out of the blue with again no word on their social media. The small dedicated community that came back still considers this game early access, and many quit playing when S2 Games did not listen to the community, and made changes that no one ever wanted. It should have never been released a month ago. We don't know if the devs abandoned this game already because there is no communication, can barely fill half a 16vs16 server, bugs that haven't been fixed, basic features missing, no tutorial or matchmaking for new players, same 6 maps for life (hoping a disgruntled S2 employee can leak out the map editor), etc. I will continue to play this game a couple hours a day for a round or two if we can get that, but for the most part a clanmate or two, maybe a random player joins, sit in an empty server, and figure out how to climb the mountains. It's a fun challenge for a few more days until we've completed this last map, and unfortunately I don't know if we have a game to keep playing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BADCJSrVsN8

Don't be misguided by the positive reviews this game is DEAD. There is no one online and there is no single player content. Devs made it pretty clear that they won't be supporting this game anymore. AGAIN, DO NOT BUY.