Back 4 Blood Review (Wayeb)
TL;DR the game had so much potential and alot of love was put into it, but it was all squandered because of review bombing
This game is great, the story telling is the epitome of show don't tell, the world already beat the outbreak, but then it mutated and it turns out that it just went underground, so right off the bat you learn why everyone's a bad ass, but also clueless.
The character interactions are so organic too for instance jeff shoots doc, you'll learn their married and the banter will be friendly. If you play MOM on the bio hazard level with doc you'll learn mom has cancer and the cancers damaged DNA makes it immune and fights the virus for her, so if she every goes into remission she just dies. If you play the dlc character through the base campaign, you learn that the supposedly reliable major actually sent her team to die, and she is the sole survivor and the briefs become dark.
This eliminates the need for lore dumps, you learn as you play and listen, and the pacing is such that conversations never overlap or get interrupted, and a conversation flows through out a mission, not to mention that the TONE of the banter changes depending on how the team is doing, during one match we had made it half way through a chapter with no downs, and everyone full hp and all four characters just start laughing and making jokes.
The progression is also so well paced, playing through all chapters takes about 30 hours, and during that time you WILL unlock everything, no grinding, no farming, play the game start to finish and you'll have every card, and a bunch of outfits and camos.
And the CARD system is so innovative, the builds are diverse, and you'll learn what you need by playing, and failing, there are no classes and no pure builds, you need a mix of everything, and team effect cards are the strongest, team work in this game is mandatory, if you try to rambo you will be pinned or stunned and just die no matter how tanky, but the build variety is endless, and everything is viable, everything from a glasscannon gunslinger, or an immobile sharpshooter, or a tanky berserker, or a pyromaniac who buffs by being on fire, skys the limit.
But the ai director gets cards too, everything from armored commons to boss battles, and there is never an issue, bosses are added orgaincally to maps like they belong, the game has infinite replay potential, no two runs are ever the same.
BUT i cant recommend it , its been abandoned, at the worst possible time, reading the patch notes they were doing a balance pass when they dropped the game, and it shows because alot of stuff has disjointing uses, legendary weapons the highest tier are worthless compared even to rare weapons, alot of cards were nerfed to being worthless, temporary health was all but removed from the game. The game had alot of potential that was squandered because of review bombing.