The best of first-person shooters since the good old days of DICE's older Battlefields, simple enough to get into and has a fair learning curve to keep it interesting and rewarding. Requires the ability to make split second decisions which can either win or cost the match. Bomb-ass soundtrack. Underappreciated by the masses of Apex-kids and that's only a good thing.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand The Finals. The gameplay is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of physics and strategy most of the tactics will go over a typical player's head. There's also the game's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into its characterisation - its philosophy draws heavily from high-stakes competition literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these matches, to realize that they're not just exciting- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike The Finals truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in the game's existential catchphrase "Nothing can stand in your way," which itself is a cryptic reference to the destructive and chaotic nature of its gameplay. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Embark Studios' genius unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a The Finals tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kids

The best of first-person shooters since the good old days of DICE's older Battlefields, simple enough to get into and has a fair learning curve to keep it interesting and rewarding. Requires the ability to make split second decisions which can either win or cost the match. Bomb-ass soundtrack. Underappreciated by the masses of Apex-kids and that's only a good thing. To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand The Finals. The gameplay is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of physics and strategy most of the tactics will go over a typical player's head. There's also the game's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into its characterisation - its philosophy draws heavily from high-stakes competition literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these matches, to realize that they're not just exciting- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike The Finals truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in the game's existential catchphrase "Nothing can stand in your way," which itself is a cryptic reference to the destructive and chaotic nature of its gameplay. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Embark Studios' genius unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a The Finals tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kids