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Is Warframe Worth Playing in 2023?
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The gaming industry is growing bigger every year, and we have more games, requiring you to invest more time. The problem is your time, on the other hand, isn’t expanding, and most likely your hard-earned money isn’t either. So, as a gamer it’s essential to make choices, and to focus on a few games. Some stay relevant in our libraries for years, others come and go. Yet, this decision is easier to make when the game is free-to-play.
Recently, we’ve been playing a 2018 game called Warframe. This game made a lot of noise when it first came out, but it was also plagued with bugs and issues. However, picking it up in 2023 may be the best decision we’ve ever made, and here’s why.
Overview of Our Warframe 2023 Review
Pros:
- Immersive sci-fi universe
- Incredible flow of movement, perfectly blending sword fights, magic, and guns
- PVE, PVP, Open world story mode and more available for free
- Beautiful and well-optimized
- Free-to-play, not Pay-to-win
Cons:
- Voice lines can repeat and become annoying
- You have to enter your Warframe password every time you play
- Weird keyboard mapping
Warframe Has Cool Sci-Fi Vibes
The first thing that hit us playing Warframe was the art direction and the style. Sure, it’s nothing revolutionary, and you can feel that Destiny came out earlier, but for a free game the quality of the initial cinematic and the introduction to the gameplay with a fully voiced tutorial is particularly impressive.
From the start, you know if you’re going to love it or hate it, with this opaque and mysterious lore unfolding as you play. However, we’d say that the dialogue in the Orbiter (your HUB where you upgrade and take on missions) is a bit too much with characters repeating their last lines every 5 minutes, in case you forget about what was told to you, when you’re just doing something else.
Still, playing as a space ninja with the potential to develop your character from an already cool character to an absolute menace is thrilling, and the PVE starts slow with easy to beat enemies, which allows you to contemplate the worlds you visit, listen to the dialogues and get invested in the story.
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Graphics & Gameplay: Taking Paid Games Back To School
After a long cinematic introducing the three characters you can play as, you’re immediately thrown into the game which leads us to the gameplay. No matter the character you choose, the game is fast, you can double jump, slide, bounce off walls, and it makes you feel powerful from the start, something few games can achieve and maintain in the long run.
Even with the basic attacks and weapons, you’ll feel like Gray Fox slicing up enemies. It’s also helped by the fact that the game is gorgeous. Its graphics are among the best we’ve seen for a free game, and it’s also well-optimized, we tried it on a recent configuration with a GTX1080 and easily put everything on high settings, the game could send up to 500 fps. We’ve also went above the 70 fps mark with a 2017 gaming laptop.
It’s a lesson in optimization, and when compared to games people pay over $100 for every year between the game, and additional content, we think Warframe is underrated. We haven’t even talked about all the content added recently, which is preparing the arrival of the developers’ new game: Soul Frame.
The Duviri Paradox
So, the story mode of Warframe is already pretty dense with our galaxy to explore. In terms of content, it also features various PVP and PVE modes. However, recently, the developers released The Duviri Paradox. This free update adds a new story mode where you can create your character with a human face this time, find flying mounts and try out a different gameplay, all within a gorgeous open world. Did we say all of this is free?
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It’s Not Perfect, But The Issues Aren’t Game Breaking
Warframe being a free-to-play, it strongly encourages players to pay for cosmetics, weapons and all the usual bundles. Still, it’s not in your face like in a Call of Duty, which is appreciated. The issues lie elsewhere. When starting the game, you need a Warframe account, that’s because Warframe supports cross-platform, and has a mobile companion. It would be fine if you didn’t need to enter your password every time you play, even if you only play on pc.
Not a major issue, but something irritating. We’ve also experienced during coop that cutscenes would skip for all players when one presses skip. It’s a good thing for the guy skipping, but the others can get frustrated. The last issue is more of a personal preference, but the keyboard mapping is a bit counter-intuitive, so we had to remap it a bit by adding the weapon switch to the mouse wheel or changing the “Interact” key to F or E instead of X (why X?! We’ve never seen that in any games before !)
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Should You Play Warframe in 2023?
If like us, you enjoy sci-fi universes with huge monsters to fight, with a dynamic gameplay blending swords and futuristic guns with magic attacks, then Warframe is one of the best games out there. It has levelling up systems, crafting, customization, exploration, PVE, PVP, and an open world. So, you can play the way you want and dive into intricate systems, or just play to relax and slice some aliens with friends.
If you really like the game you can pay for additional content, but even without paying anything the content available is incredible and shows that when you have passionate people behind a project it can be better than a AAA game.
Did you play Warframe? What do you think about this game? What’s your Tenno? Let us know in the comments below.
