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Reception

Crimson Desert is unique in the gaming landscape. A vast single player game that's shaped by its original vision to be an MMO, it's gigantic and packed full of interesting places, but its story is incredibly rough and delivered awkwardly at best. Combat is excellent, but the bosses are mostly awful. There is always a negative side to the game's positives,...

Not everyone will have the time and patience required to truly appreciate Crimson Desert. It's a monumental achievement in open world design, but it's constantly struggling with the details.The campaign is a frustratingly disjointed journey, and quests range from downright epic to mind-blowingly bad. Mechanically, it's a game that tries to do everything,...

Crimson Desert is an 8 out of 10 that could have been a 9 or even a 10 with better controls and less clutter. It's a "wait for sale" or "wait for a 2.0 patch" for a lot of players. If you want to deep dive into a new world and you can ignore some of these flaws, you'll definitely have a fun time. But don't expect it to be a title that reinvents the...

Crimson Desert features a fantastic, content-rich open world where player freedom is the number one priority. There is so much to do and so many places to go to that it's easy to get lost among its ancient ruins, mystical forests, and snowy mountains. A lack of polish breeds frustration, but nothing can shake up the firm foundations of this incredible...

Crimson Desert is an extremely ambitious open-world adventure, and that ambition is what makes it both incredibly cool and gobsmackingly infuriating in almost equal measure.

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