We'll let you into a little secret: according to our traffic statistics, you lot don't care a great deal about forthcoming PlayStation 4 shooter Evolve. Nevertheless, while this article is destined to scrape a couple of hundred views at most, we simply had to share this hilarious little snippet: 2K Games has deployed a free-to-play match-three mobile game to tie in to the title. Hmm.
Imaginatively named Evolve: Hunters Quest, and available now on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, the release sees you combining coloured gems to kill monsters in a Puzzle & Dragons kind of way. Winning said battles earns you Mastery Points, which can then be converted into boosts in the full game.
"An example of this would be that you unlock Markov's Lightning Gun Mastery Boost via Hunters Quest," the publisher explained. "The next time that you fire up Evolve, the game will read the Mastery Boost unlock and will increase your Mastery progression by close to 50 per cent of its total amount. The maximum amount that you can boost your Hunter Mastery progress for an item is a total of 50 per cent."
There are, of course, microtransactions available in the smartphone release that will speed up your progress. However, we're just not convinced that Evolve is going to be a big enough deal on consoles to even warrant all of this extra investment. We guess that the publisher knows what it's doing – but we're not exactly confident that this is going to end well.
[source eurogamer.net, via youtube.com]
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Speaking of match 3 games - whatever happened to Wonderflick? I know it came out in Japan about a year ago, and Level 5 is busy making about 300 variations of Yokai Watch - but none of those have come west either. Did Level 5 forget the rest of the world exists?
And for those who have had enough of PAD the Big Hero 6 variation is an improvement.
Really not sure this is going to work out for them. All of the initial post-reveal hype appears to have died down significantly, and as such I think they'd do far better to put the extra resource into turning the main game into something that will really "wow" us, instead of just dumping money into a mobile game that most people won't even realise exists, and even those that do likely won't care enough to actually download it.
Good lord, the state of this industry.
It will probably generate more profit than the actual game. Sad, sad times. When Uncharted 5 is released alongside a tie-in endless runner we'll know the apocalypse is upon us.
Why don't people care more about Evolve? This game is the reason I'm getting a PS4 later today! It is a lot of fun, as shown by the beta. And although this is a mindless phone game, it can help you earn things for the full game when it comes out. How is that a bad thing?
@Radbot42 I'm with you i played the beta and it was great and after watching the latest trailer i decided to pre order it I'm just surprised i found someone that likes it out of all my friends they ether don't like the game or don't know what it is
@rjejr If you're tired of PAD you're tired of life. Can't wait for the Mario edition. And get PAD on Vita, it's so simple and would actually help the handheld in Japan. Suppose Sony are allergic to money.
@rastamadeus - And get PAD on Vita
If Vita is losing Youtube I wouldn't hold my breathe for it getting anything else.
The Mario ed of PAD does look good, the Z bundle makes it look even better. If I get a new 3D SXL for my birthday in July I might have to pick it up.
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