Honestly, I wasn’t expecting much from New World. Amazon’s massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) drops players into a fantasy land modelled on 1600s colonial America.It’s a little uncharitable to be unenthused about a game ahead of playing it, but Amazon has had a chequered past in the gaming space.
Whether it’s hiring Clint Hocking or Kim Swift at the top of their game and doing nothing with them, or releasing the underrated – but genuinely fun as hell – Crucible, before delaying the already-released game and then cancelling it, Amazon lacks clout as a publisher.New World, then, is Amazon Game Studios’ first real attempt to make a properly successful game, and I wasn’t expecting to be particularly inspired.
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