Recent reviews by Bat

Scare good story crazy atmosphere yes

Best mech combat, simple, fast and engaging.

The game is kinda dead though, and no content updates for a long time.

APB capitalizes on customization, great built-in design tools with lots of stuff to unlock and lots of skimpy non-clothing available for your female avatar's unproportionate ass. Even though unsubscribed players are limited in how many design elements they can have on each peice of clothing or each vehicle, it still feels functional and fun. Hanging around the social district and seeing the hilariously creative outfits that players design is the most entertaining part of APB. Giving myself a back tattoo that said "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥" for all to see provided me with deep satisfaction.

Although the matchmaking and missions are fluid, innovative and fun, the sub-par combat and driving mechanics don't provide a sturdy foundation for all of this glorious and limitless customization to stand on, and it is reflected by its ever-crumbling playerbase.

Play long enough and your "threat" level increases, putting you at a different matchmaking level to keep games fair and balanced, while at the same time isolating you from an exponentially larger part of the player pool with each rise in threat level. Before long I had reached the highest threat level, and was rewarded with a whopping 2 possible opponents that were currently online to play against. Nice. The most proposed solutions to lowering your threat level to again have fun with the game are to "lose on purpose" or "create a new character"... What? Seriously?

I'd like to see customization like this in the next stab at an online GTA-style open world game. APB definitely layed the groundwork for a matchmaking method that keeps everyone in the same world while simultaneously pitting groups of players against eachother. You'll often see fights between other teams going on right next to you.

Cool game overall, although the most fun to be had is in the customization menus and not in playing the game itself.

I got all the way to the second level before I started hating myself.

It's a good kind of hate.

This game is too hard for me because I'm a little ♥♥♥♥♥.