ARC Raiders is the Highest Rated Multiplayer Shooter in Virtually a Decade

ARC Raiders continues to carry agency excessive up the leaderboards on virtually each platform since being launched on October 30. The third-person extraction shooter has confirmed to be a refreshing change of tempo for a lot of followers of the style, introducing a post-apocalyptic panorama that encourages social interplay and collaboration quite than senseless fight.

It’s a sensational title that has confirmed it might probably maintain its personal in opposition to the titans of the style, a lot in order that it has managed to earn excessive sufficient rankings to change into the top-rated multiplayer-only shooter in virtually ten years.

ARC Raiders is the Shooter of the Decade

ARC Raiders has stumped up a Metascore of 87, which is admirable for a brand new IP created by a comparatively younger studio whose debut sport earned a Metascore of 80. In phrases of Metacritic alone, ARC Raiders is now the highest-rated multiplayer-exclusive shooter to hit the market in virtually a decade.

It’s topped solely by Overwatch (2016), which earned a Metascore of 91 and has the same working mannequin in that it solely accommodates multiplayer gameplay.

If it weren’t for Overwatch, ARC Raiders could be lining as much as be the highest-rated multiplayer-only shooter to ever be launched. It’s topped within the shooter classes by video games that got here earlier than, like Halo 2 (95), Gears of War (94), and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (94), however they’re all video games that characteristic different modes and parts, together with single-player campaigns.

With a Metascore of 87, ARC Raiders is on par with some actually heavy hitters:

• Ghost of Tsushima
• Subnautica
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
• Batman: Arkham Knight
• Forza Motorsport 6
• Call of Duty: Black Ops
• Halo Infinite
• Kingdom Hearts II
• Fallout 4
• Silent Hill

ARC Raiders additionally shines within the ‘User Score’ score on Metacritic. At the time of publishing, ARC Raiders boasted a User Score of 8.9, which is glowing. That aligns it with video games like Metal Gear Solid, Max Payne, Resident Evil, Half-Life, StarCraft, A Link Between Worlds, Bloodborne, Portal 2, and Mass Effect 2, to call only a few video games.

Embark Studios has created one thing actually particular in ARC Raiders, and because the studio plans to assist the sport for the subsequent ten years, it’s seemingly it’ll be evolving for a while to return.

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