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Author: @GeekDadGamer and Jo Robertson.
Overview
Crucible is a team-based shooting game played on a varied and dangerous alien world. Humans, aliens, and robots converge to hunt the mysterious and powerful substance known as Essence. Fight together, unlock new abilities, adapt to ever-changing conditions, and emerge victorious.
It's similar to other team-shooting games like Overwatch or Fortnite. But it also adds elements of games like League of Legends, with neutral computer-controlled enemies in the battle too. It also includes the ability to level up as you do in a role-play game.
You can fight with different characters. Each has different weapons and abilities. You select specific upgrades will be available to unlock, before each match. This adds strategy to the play and requires teams to work together to balance abilities, or go all-in on one style of fighting.
In the Heart of the Hives mode you collect hearts from lethal drone-spitting terrors. This is a four-on-four fight to be the first team to capture three hearts.
In the Alpha Hunters mode, you have just one life. Eight teams of two fight to be the last team—or solo hunter—standing. If your teammate dies, you can form a temporary alliance with another hunter, but that temporary truce will be broken if both of you make it to the final three.
In the Harvester Command mode you each control one Essence generating harvest points for your eight-player team. The aim is to steal your enemies harvesters to gain points faster. You can also take out enemy hunters for points. The first team to 100 points wins.
Crucible is currently out on PC, but from the rating information, it looks like it will soon be on PlayStation and Xbox One as well.
It's similar to other team-shooting games like Overwatch or Fortnite. But it also adds elements of games like League of Legends, with neutral computer-controlled enemies in the battle too. It also includes the ability to level up as you do in a role-play game.
You can fight with different characters. Each has different weapons and abilities. You select specific upgrades will be available to unlock, before each match. This adds strategy to the play and requires teams to work together to balance abilities, or go all-in on one style of fighting.
In the Heart of the Hives mode you collect hearts from lethal drone-spitting terrors. This is a four-on-four fight to be the first team to capture three hearts.
In the Alpha Hunters mode, you have just one life. Eight teams of two fight to be the last team—or solo hunter—standing. If your teammate dies, you can form a temporary alliance with another hunter, but that temporary truce will be broken if both of you make it to the final three.
In the Harvester Command mode you each control one Essence generating harvest points for your eight-player team. The aim is to steal your enemies harvesters to gain points faster. You can also take out enemy hunters for points. The first team to 100 points wins.
Crucible is currently out on PC, but from the rating information, it looks like it will soon be on PlayStation and Xbox One as well.
Game Details
Content Rating: PEGI 12
Release Date: 10/05/2020
Price: Free
Platforms: PC
Genres: Action, Role-Playing and Shooting
Developer: AMZN Game Studios (@AMZNGameStudios)
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Commitment
Duration: It takes between 5 minutes and 20 minutes to play a round of this game.
Players: This is a single player game.
Players: This is a single player game.
Costs
Crucible
This game is free to play. Additional in-game purchases are offered for items that enhance the experience. This includes a regular subscription fee (known as a 'battle/season pass') to unlock access to reward items and other aspects of the game. *The Tracker Founder’s Pack provides skins, 500 in-game Credits, the Pre-Season Battle Pass, and 100 battle stars—enough to instantly unlock 10 levels of rewards. *The Predator Founder’s Pack provides exclusive skins, 1,000 in-game Credits, a key to select your choice from a collection of legendary character skins, the Pre-Season Battle Pass, and 200 battle stars—enough to instantly unlock 20 levels of rewards.
- The Alpha Hunter Founder's Pack offers a skin for Captain Mendoza, 6,000 in-game Credits, the Gold Hammer Stability Pod drop pod skin, a key to select your choice from a collection of legendary character skins, the Pre-Season Battle Pass, and 400 battle stars—enough to instantly unlock 40 levels of rewards.
Age Ratings
Content Rating
Rated PEGI 12 because it features moderate violence. This game contains frequent depictions of non-realistic looking violence towards human-like and fantasy-like characters. Bright lights on the impact of attacks, whilst a health gauge shows how the amount of damage that is being inflicted. Human characters stagger backwards when attacked, but they quickly regain their balance and continue with the fight Once a character’s health bar has been depleted, it transforms into geometric shapes and disappears.
Accessibility
We haven't documented accessibility features for this game yet. Our Crucible Accessibility Report details system-wide settings that may help, and suggests similar games with accessibility features. Tweet the developer (@AMZNGameStudios) to let them know about our Accessibility Questionnaire.
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