Reflex Arena

Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.

I heard Reflex Arena became F2P and everyone and their mother decided to hop on the train. Here's my honest 2 cent review. It's a great game I admit although there are some part that I do not like within Reflex Arena. First of all, let's talk about the good things on it. Hit feels great, LG in this game is amazing almost on par or MAYBE even better in Quake Live. Sounds is alright and gameplay almost feels like Quake Live. There are unique gamemodes on here. 2v2 Duel? Oh my god, never heard of that. The fact that you can choose custom maps like even MGE Spire in TF2 or Aerowalk but its wide in X axis. These are if not good things about this games. Now let's talk about bad things on this. It's Quake. Without autohop. It's not unique, just play Quake Live it's almost the same. It prioritizes refinement over innovation, which may feel unoriginal to some players like me. The movement, it feels too slippery. Mirroring/Anti Mirroring feels weird due to this. Let's go to most popular AFPS games. Comparison to other AFPS games: Let's talk about Quake Live often considered the gold standard for competitive AFPS. When you think of perfection in AFPS games, Quake Live would be there. Xonotic, probably one of the most unique AFPS game I've seen. Unique weapon that you can think of. Change the direction of rocket to clear angles, clean out chokepoints via Electro that acts as a landmine. Combining both fluidity of movements and uniqueness of each weapon. Warfork, the fastest movement with dashes and can even walljump or use it to change direction. Even with the same loadout as Quake, it's uniqueness on movement makes it great. Especially if you play Clan Arena. UT2K4, similar towards Xonotic, has alt fire modes for every weapon. Create chains of combos or being versatile. Within these games there's that uniqueness that turn Quake Live into more unique like what if Quake Live but you can move faster and dash or Quake Live but you can chains combos or Quake Live but the weapons are unique. Reflex Arena doesn't have those. Even though with that, the main takeaway is Reflex Arena wasn't focusing to create a new innovative or creative way to play Quake Live or AFPS game. When I see an AFPS game, I would think, what is the difference between QL and this game. Reflex Arena isn’t trying to reinvent AFPS it’s trying to perfect it. It's not a creative innovation of "what if what if" This is MY HONEST take on the game. I love that it try to revive the genre. Although, it doesnt have uniqueness, it's a great game. I would probably play this more than Quake Live.