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New World
Explore a thrilling, open-world MMO filled with danger and opportunity where you'll forge a new destiny for yourself as an adventurer shipwrecked on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Endless opportunities to fight, forage, and forge await you among the island's wilderness and ruins. Channel supernatural forces or wield deadly weapons in a classl...
Details
- Released
- September 28, 2021
- Developer
- Amazon Game Studios, Amazon Games
- Genres
- Action · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure · MMO
- Publisher
- Amazon Game Studios, Amazon Games
- Platforms
- PC · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S
How it plays
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New World Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
While New World isn't a World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy XIV killer, it does prove that a new MMO can succeed. We'll have to wait to see how they capitalize on their momentum.
New World offers players — even MMO veterans — a satisfying mix of combat, character growth and discovery.
For all its faults and shortcomings, New World is probably the most immersive MMORPG I've ever played, thanks to its rich open-world and faction politics that keep things interesting each time I log in. This isn't an easy game to recommend, particularly because there are already other MMOs out there that have totally nailed the PvE questing and endgame aspects so perfectly that New World looks like a bumbling fool compared to those. Even so, it's hard to deny the allure of Aeturnum and all the potential it holds.
New World is not a paradise for all comers by any means. It's an escape for those willing to put up with some oddly misbalanced elements to get a taste of some really excellent PvP encounters. If you have a guild ready to grind out results and become kind of the mountain then New World is worth a look.
New World is an entrancing game at its best, and an absolute soulless grind at its worst. Here is our 100 hour New World review.
Amazon has done a decent job with New World with its exquisite visuals and overall environment. They just need to smooth out those rough edges and implement some mounts!
“New World brings a lot of excellent MMO twists to the table, but its marred by bugs, stale quests, and a lack of endgame content.”
A stellar crafting experience and surprisingly slick combat aren’t enough to compensate for the flaws in New World’s humdrum and frustrating quest design.
New World exemplifies not judging a book by its cover. New World starts like a competent MMO with lots of activities, many ways to engage with players, and an endgame that sounds very appealing, but the deeper you go, it reveals itself as a mess with loads of baffling design decisions that suck the life out of Aeternum’s, otherwise, beautifully crafted world. I never want to step in Aeternum again.
Story and Gameplay The scope, story, lands, crafting options, and gameplay mechanics of Amazon Game Studios’ New World are absolutely immense. Oh, the places you’ll go! The adventures you’ll have. The people you’ll meet. Even though the MMO market is chock full of options, it’s not every day th
There are very few things in gaming as exciting and monumental as the launch of a huge, new MMORPG. It’s that feeling of exploring an expansive world with limitless possibilities alongside millions of others for the first time that’s so appealing and difficult to capture. It’s also the feeling of getting in on the ground floor of what could be the next big thing that helps to fuel the exciting potential of what’s to come.
Despite bugs and queue times, Amazon Games' new MMORPG is good piratey fun (especially the Faction system), but the early game is very grindy and you will cut down a lot of trees.