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A new freebie is now available for Twitch Prime members. For a limited time, players can claim a free loot pack for Respawn’s newly released battle royale game, Apex Legends, hot on the heels of the release of its new patch (and impending new weapon). The pack is available on PS4, Xbox One, or PC and contains an exclusive skin, but you’ll need to be careful when claiming it, as it can only be redeemed on one platform.

The Apex Legends Twitch Prime Pack comes with a variety of cosmetics for the battle royale game. The highlight is the legendary Omega Point skin for Pathfinder, but it also includes five Apex Packs, the game’s equivalent of loot boxes which contain a random assortment of cosmetic items such as weapon skins and gestures.

To claim the Twitch Prime Pack, you’ll first need to link your Twitch account with your EA Account, then click on the crown-shaped Prime Loot icon on Twitch’s website. As previously mentioned, the pack is available on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but you can only redeem it once, and only on the first platform you log into with your linked EA Account. You can read more in the FAQ.

Twitch Prime is one of the perks included in an Amazon Prime membership, and it offers freebies for a variety of games. Members can also download a selection of titles every month at no charge; February’s batch includes Pikuniku, Dear Esther: Landmark Edition, Downwell, The Flame in the Flood, and Draknek & Co Puzzle Collection. Square Enix is also separately offering Final Fantasy XIV Starter Edition for free until May 3.

Apex Legends launched earlier this month following a surprise reveal, and it’s already hit a huge player milestone. Much like Fortnite, it’s free to download and play, but it also places a heavier emphasis on teamwork and features a variety of characters with unique abilities and characteristics, not unlike Overwatch. If you’re new to the game, be sure to check out GameSpot’s guides roundup for helpful tips and strategies.

Team balance can be pretty important in Apex Legends. Unlike other battle royale games, developer Respawn Entertainment’s inclusion of individual characters you can choose at the beginning of a match means good teams aren’t just thinking about how to beat other players, but how they can support and complement each other on the battlefield. Other than the medic character Lifeline, there’s not another Legend in Apex as team-oriented as Gibraltar.

Gibraltar is a defensive player, with abilities that are all geared toward standing his ground, protecting teammates, and making it tough for enemies to put fire on his squad. Used effectively, Gibraltar can save teammates’ lives and turn the tides of fights by making your team’s position more defensible than the enemy’s. But perhaps more than most other characters in Apex Legends, effective communication with Gibraltar is key, because he can do as much harm as he can good at times.

Playing as Gibraltar takes some getting used to, but once you’ve put some time in, you’ll be saving your squad with dome shields and potentially dropping whole squads with effective mortar strikes. We’ve got all you need to know about Gibraltar’s abilities, plus a whole mess of tips to help you make the most of any situation when playing as him.

We’ve also run down a whole lot of useful information Apex Legends doesn’t tell you, and spent some time myth-busting to find out exactly what is and isn’t possible in Apex Legends, so check those out. You might also want to read our Apex Legends review.

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General Overview

Gibraltar is called the “Shielded Fortress” on the Legends select screen, and that’s the best way to think about him. Most of his abilities are about absorbing damage and pushing the other team back and away from your squad, and they’re all useful in a pinch when you’re in a bad situation. Gibraltar is great to have on a team for those fights that aren’t going your way, when you need a second to heal, reset, or retreat.

The trick with Gibraltar is not getting too cocky about the shields he carries around. Yes, they’re good at absorbing damage and can give you a couple extra seconds in a fight, but used poorly, they can also become a huge liability. Over-reliance on your shields can make you vulnerable to smart players, and your shields can block your teammates as well as your enemies. Communication about when to use your capabilities is key to using them effectively, so your team knows exactly what to expect and when to expect it. Almost none of the other characters require as much team awareness as an effective Gibraltar does.

When used right, Gibraltar can totally shift a battle, making a position indefensible, forcing an enemy team on the run, closing off part of the battlefield to fire, or giving you the time you need to retreat or flank. He’s also great in a stand-up fight with weapons like the Spitfire LMG or Peacekeeper shotgun because he can take a little more punishment than other characters. As long as you know your limits, Gibraltar can help you wreck other teams.

Skills

Passive Ability: Gun Shield

In any given fight, Gibraltar gets a leg-up on whoever he’s battling with his Gun Shield. This is a damage-absorbing shield that covers his midsection whenever he’s aiming down the sights of a gun. It can take a fair amount of punishment and make inaccurate players stumble against you as you fill them full of lead, but it has the drawback of requiring a sacrifice in mobility to use it. That makes the Gun Shield good for midrange or close encounters where you can benefit from taking time to aim, while your opponent is more likely to hit the shield and not you.

Tactical Ability: Dome Shield

Your dome shield can be essential in any given fight. It creates 15 seconds of protection around a giving area, absorbing all fire in or out. That makes it great for blocking big attacks like air strikes, but any time you’re facing down a situation that’s not great, the shield can keep you alive long enough to get your bearings and get back the upper hand. The key is to avoid over-reliance on the shield–both teammates and enemies can walk right through it, so most people respond to seeing a bubble shield by switching to a shotgun and charging straight into it for close-range cleanup.

Ultimate Ability: Defensive Bombardment

While Gibraltar’s abilities are mostly about defending against gunfire, his ultimate can do serious damage to unsuspecting enemies. The Defensive Bombardment is a mortar strike that drops bombs around a smoke grenade Gibraltar throws onto the battlefield, and anyone caught in the middle can get fairly wrecked by it. Unlike Bangalore’s airstrike, Gibraltar’s covers a circular area around the smoke grenade used to call it, so you can drop it right on an enemy position, in a specific place you want to force people away from, or even on yourself–it’s great when combined with the Dome Shield to push a team away from you or quickly finish them off.

Tips To Play As Gibraltar

Gibraltar is a defensive hero, and you should try to use him as such whenever possible. That doesn’t mean you don’t get into a fight when you need to–aggression often pays off in Apex Legends, because giving a team a chance to heal up or revive enemies can lose you a fight. But the Dome Shield and Defensive Bombardment abilities are great for slowing or stopping an opposing team or giving your teammates the edge, so always think about how you can help keep your squad alive.

Your Gun Shield is a handy boost in a fight, but it carries serious drawbacks, so think about when you want to use it and when you don’t. It blocks a lot less damage than you think, and the loss of mobility means more fire comes at you. Use the Gun Shield when you have a weapon advantage, with something like a shotgun or an LMG, at a range where you’re more likely to do more damage than you take. It can also be effective when you’re sniping if you’ve got extra cover. In every instance, though, don’t rely on the Gun Shield to save you, because it probably won’t; it’s best for giving you an edge, and that edge can be especially handy at closer ranges.

Defensive Bombardment is a highly versatile ultimate. Drop it at the beginning of a fight to force another squad to scramble out of cover, or wait till you’re in close and they’re committed to fighting you turn the battlefield into a disaster area. The bombardment is also great for dropping on enemies you’ve knocked down: In most cases, the mortar strikes will kill them, and you might get lucky as a teammate tries to get the revive. Just note that you can take damage from your own bombardments, but your squadmates will be immune to it.

If you’ve got a teammate down, try throwing the Defensive Bombardment on their location, then running in and dropping a Dome Shield. Mortars will keep anyone from charging you, in most cases, while the shield will give you ample time to pick up your teammate, with the possibility that they’ll also have time to heal up a bit, too.

Dome Shields are actually highly vulnerable, so be careful how you use them. They block incoming fire, but turn into death traps if an enemy with a shotgun gets bold enough to run in. Try using them at range when possible to avoid having anybody close the gap on you, and remember that being behind the shield is just as effective at stopping fire as being inside it. Keep mobile and adapt even when shielding.

Domes are extremely visible to the enemy, and they cut through walls, so they basically give away your position whenever you use them. It’s possible to use that to your advantage, though; dropping a shield makes an enemy squad think they know where you are, giving you a chance to try to not be there. The misdirect can be especially effective with Bangalore’s smoke or Caustic’s gas, allowing you to move away from the shield while your enemies are focusing on the wrong thing.

You don’t just have to use bombardments to attack enemies–try dropping them at choke points or in areas where you’re worried a team might try to flank you. The bombardment is deadly, but its real defensive function is to push squads out of position and make them move, so try to use it to control the battlefield. The same is true of the Dome Shield, which you can position to block incoming fire from flankers while you deal with a closer, more pressing threat.

If you’re trying to escape a fight, try dropping the Dome Shield behind you as you go. It’ll block incoming fire like a wall while you keep moving, allowing you to get some distance on your attackers while they fire on you. If you’re lucky, the shield’s position might cause them to lose track of you as well.

You can turn off Gibraltar’s Gun Shield anytime you want to, and if you’re trying to discreetly target enemies without being seen, it’s a good idea to switch it off. Seen by opponents, the shield is a big, orange, glowing rectangle, and like the Dome Shield, it’s very visible. Just remember to switch it back on for closer fights.

It’s possible to drop your Dome Shield generator on top of a Lifeline healing drone. That lets you push the floating drone forward, moving the shield, giving you a mobile barrier.

The shortest month is approaching its end, and Netflix’s slate of new offerings is slowing. Even a relatively slow week for the streaming giant has a handful of new shows and original films to watch, though, and this one is no exception. This week we get five new films, along with new series and a few additional seasons of existing shows.

The new films include the dramas The Drug King and Firebrand, the love story Paris Is Us, historical drama The Photographer of Mauthausen, and the comedy Paddleton. Those are joined by another volume of Chef’s Table, and new seasons of The Big Family Cooking Showdown, Rebellion, and Suburra. Plus a new comedy series Workin’ Moms premieres with its first season.

Meanwhile, a couple of offerings are leaving this week. Girl Meets World, the recent sequel to the classic sitcom, will have its seasons 1-3 vanish from the service, along with horror comedy movie Piranha.

Check below for the full listing of shows and movies rotating in and out this week, and watch above for our best recommendations this month.

Avail. 2/21/19

• The Drug King– NETFLIX FILM

Avail. 2/22/19

• Chef’s Table: Volume 6– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Firebrand– NETFLIX FILM
• GO! Vive a tu manera– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Paddleton– NETFLIX FILM
• Paris Is Us (Paris est à nous)– NETFLIX FILM
• Rebellion: Season 2– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Suburra: Season 2– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Big Family Cooking Showdown: Season 2– NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Photographer of Mauthausen– NETFLIX FILM
• Workin’ Moms– NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Leaving 2/19/19

• Disney’s Girl Meets World: Seasons 1-3

Leaving 2/20/19

The continually evolving Path of Exile will finally see the release of the long-awaited PS4 edition later in March. Intended to be released following the launch of the last expansion, Betrayal, in December, the game was abruptly delayed prior to its planned launch. During a recent chat with Path of Exile’s managing director Chris Wilson, he offered an update on the PS4 edition, and why developer Grinding Gear Games chose to delay it.

As it turned out, the developers held back the PS4 release to give it some extra time. According to Wilson, the game was in solid shape, but the team felt it could be improved. Due to the lengthy process to authorize the game for release, the PS4 version will now have its launch in March–final date still pending. At its debut, the newest console release will have all present DLC available, which includes Synthesis.

“It really feels like we’re completing the cycle with platforms for Path of Exile,” said Wilson. “We wished we could have gotten on consoles earlier, but our resources were pretty limited at the time. Thankfully we were able to get them done. It’s been really useful [not releasing the PS4 in December]. It would have been OK to have released it then, but we do want first-impressions to be good and there were certain areas of the game we weren’t happy with. We wanted to tighten it up.”

In addition to our talk about the PS4 release, he also went into detail about what’s to come with the game’s next update Synthesis, which adds a brand-new league to the game, along with a substantial rebalance to the game’s magic and skill system. If you want a clear idea of what’s to come with the Synthesis expansion, we breakdown all the new updates and rebalancing that’s to come with the new expansion, and how things get weird once you start exploring the dreamscape and its shifting memory clusters.

For more on Path of Exile, including when exactly you can play the PS4 release, be sure to visit GameSpot in the weeks ahead.

Path of Exile continues to keep new content rolling out at a steady pace. Following the Betrayal expansion last December, the developers at Grinding Gear Games still have big plans ahead for the online action-RPG. In addition to the launch of their next update, Synthesis, the developers will also bring the long-awaited release of the PlayStation 4 edition in March.

The Synthesis expansion launches on March 8 for PC and March 11 for Xbox One. It will shake up the game’s familiar spell system for something more tactical and user-friendly, while also introducing some new features that will give greater incentive for players to revisit past locations. Along with new additions to the game’s league system, allowing players to either start fresh with a new character or continue with their existing character, there’s also a new storyline that deals with restoring the memories of a mysterious character who has access to a large arsenal of spells and loot–all set within a bizarre dreamscape.

Managing director Chris Wilson spoke with us at great length about what to expect for Path of Exile’s newest expansion, and how this one will be the beginning of an eventful year for the online-RPG–culminating at year’s end with another substantial update.

“The title of this expansion relates to the actual Synthesis league–which is for the new content in the game–but the other part of this is for the really big rebalance and changes in Path of Exile,” said Wilson. “It sounds like a routine thing, but the scope of it is a bit unprecedented for us. The goal is to try to open up a lot more viable build combinations for players. And honestly, as compelling as it is to release new leagues and other forms of new content, the rebalances often add more replayability to the game.”

Along with new updates to Betrayal’s syndicate gameplay, which will be rolled into the main campaign, the next expansion also rebalances a number of combat skills and spells in the main game. However, the main conceit of Synthesis is the larger quest to help the new NPC Cavas restore his lost memories. Scattered around the world are secret portals that open up the pathway to Cavas’ memories. Upon entering, you’ll explore a miniature world full of dangerous monsters and valuable loot. Once you reach the finish, you’ll acquire a Memory Fragment.

Eventually, you can take these fragments to the Memory Nexus, Cavas’ base of operations. Fragments can then be used to fill out spaces on the Memory Map, an ethereal space where new memories form a continuous set of mini-dungeons to explore on the map. If you’re able to complete a full sequence, you’ll acquire special loot and rewards from Cavas. However, the memories will eventually decay, making them unstable, causing some strange effects while within the memory. Once fully decayed, they’ll be wiped from the map.

In addition to the new gameplay loop with the Memory Map, one of the more substantial changes coming in Synthesis is the rebalancing of the spell system. Wilson stressed that this was the most difficult part of the expansion, which was also a long time coming.

“It’s not just numerical values we’re adjusting on the spells, we’re kind of fundamentally altering how they work,” said Wilson. “There’s about 40-ish caster spells are all augmentable with several hundreds of support gems, and also compared to the over 110 different skills you can use as well. They can go through all these different shapes and timings, like a meteor-spell for instance. Having them all balanced was a very difficult task for the team, so it needed a lot of effort.”

Here’s a quick breakdown of features coming with Path of Exile’s newest expansion:

• The Memory Map: Over the course of the Synthesis expansion, you’ll acquire Memory Fragments which can be placed onto the Memory Map, creating a series of mini-dungeons to explore. Successfully exploring a full sequence will yield valuable loot and special rewards.
• Fractured Items: The fractured items are special items that have powerful buffs applied to them, but they also often come with a downside. To combat this, fractured gear can be re-rolled to shuffle stats and buffs.
• New Spells And Rebalancing: Over 40 spells have been overhauled and rebalanced. Furthermore, new spells and skills have been added into Path of Exile, including the first-ever Holy-elemental attack.
• New Unique Items: 16 new unique items have been incorporated into the game. Coming in the form of armor, weapons, and accessories, the unique items of Synthesis are among the most powerful items that Path of Exile has seen yet.
• Synthesized Items: In the Memory Nexus, players can use the synthesizer to turn three different fractured items to produce a new item with a set of new mods.

Throughout 2019, Grinding Gear will release three additional expansions following Synthesis. With the next ones coming in June, September, and December, the developer also plan to reveal the game’s most ambitious expansions yet in November at Path of Exile’s fan convention in New Zealand. During this event, two new major updates will be revealed–one of which is referred to as a mega-expansion by the developers. At this rate, Path of Exile’s continued growth, which has been going for six years now, won’t be slowing down any time soon.

For more on Path of Exile, including the launch of the upcoming expansion and PS4 edition, be sure to visit GameSpot in the weeks ahead.

Ubisoft has announced the next Special Operation is coming to Ghost Recon: Wildlands on February 27. Special Operation 4 will introduce new PvP and PvE content, as well as several community-requested features.

A brand-new PvE mode is included in Special Operation 4, although Ubisoft hasn’t yet revealed exact details for it other than that it would “test your endurance.” In a blog post, the developer did say that completing the mode for the first time will unlock a new outfit, and that more information would be shared “soon.” On the PvP side of things, Ghost War multiplayer will be getting a new class in Special Operation 4, as well as two additional maps. The new Ghost War class will be exclusive to Year 2 Pass holders for a week, before going live for everyone else on March 6.

Several community-requested features will go live in Special Operation 4 as well. You’ll now be able to change the time of day in the solo campaign. Both Battle and Prestige Crates have been updated, with all voice lines and several emotes moving from the former to the latter. Prestige Crates will also drop higher rarity items more often. A new browser will allow you to look through custom matches based on your selected criteria. Challenges will also have increased Prestige Credit rewards, and two new PvP events are being added to the pool.

In our Ghost Recon: Wildlands review, Miguel Concepcion gave the game a 7/10, writing, “As only the second open world game in the Clancyverse, Ghost Recon: Wildlands is a middlingly safe tactical shooter and a slightly wasted opportunity given the ambitious scope of its seemingly boundless map. While its main strength is its mission diversity, it doesn’t take long to lose the motivation after reaching El Sueno’s doorstep. Even with a foursome of highly trained friends, Wildlands eventually reveals its diminishing returns. The feeling of positive immediacy and dopamine hits begin to wane sooner than you expected from a game with such a large and diverse world.”

If you’ve played Fortnite for more than a couple of seasons with the Battle Pass in hand, you know the weekly ritual all too well by now. A new batch of challenges are released, and each week you head to the internet (preferably GameSpot’s essential guides) to find out where golden balloons are scattered, shooting galleries are located, or where exactly to search between landmarks. Then you hop into Fortnite with the sole intention of completing these challenges as quickly as humanly possible.

At this point, the majority of these challenges are monotonous, and completing them each week has become a bit of a chore. There’s an obligation to do them that evokes a feeling not too dissimilar from the compulsory urge you get to play an MMO each month purely because you’re paying a subscription fee.

Fortnite’s Battle Pass is good value, but only if you put in the time to get the most out of it, and that means completing challenges to earn battle stars, which in turn help you to gradually ascend through the tiers and unlock each of the skins, emotes, and whatever else is on offer for that particular season. You can even earn enough V-Bucks to purchase the next season without spending a dime of real money, provided you can resist the temptation to purchase any of the skins that go on sale in the item shop throughout the 10 weeks a season typically lasts.

The battle royale scene has heated up in recent months thanks to Apex Legends and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4‘s Blackout mode. These are now vying for attention alongside established games such as Fortnite and PUBG. Epic has responded in kind with the opportunity for anyone to earn Season 8’s Battle Pass free of charge. Fortnite isn’t going to start hemorrhaging too many of its 200 million players any time soon, but with more options for people to choose from, offering an appetising incentive to play Fortnite is a prudent move on Epic’s part.

In order to gain free access to Season 8’s Battle Pass you have to complete a particular amount of the new Overtime Challenges. Much like the regular challenges found in the game, their quality varies wildly, but there’s one key difference so far: You can complete most of them by simply playing the game.

Whether you’re hopping in a plane to travel between numerous locations or have your face buried in a walkthrough to find a gaggle of hidden collectibles, you regularly have to veer off course to complete Fortnite’s normal weekly challenges. Sure, these kinds of tasks encourage players to explore the map to a certain degree, and they do introduce gameplay variety beyond shooting to kill, but you’re already incentivised to visit brand-new areas of the map just to see what’s new, while The Block–a specific area of the map used to showcase user creations–disregards challenges completely because it isn’t feasible when the play space changes each week. Sadly, however, the Block is all too easy to ignore if your time is dedicated to completing challenges.

There are exceptions to this rule, of course, and while the straightforward act of killing three people with a shotgun isn’t the most inventive of challenges, it is something that can occur naturally while playing to win, or even playing to rack up as many kills as possible. Other similarly structured challenges might force you to go out of your way to use a weapon type you usually never do, or task you with approaching firefights with a builder’s mindset. Fortnite could do with more of these challenges, as well as others that reinvigorate the weekly grind, instead of relying on the fetch quest facsimiles. Playing the game shouldn’t feel like a compulsory chore each week if you want to get the most out of your Battle Pass purchase.

The things you’re doing [in Fortnite’s challenges] aren’t changing in enough meaningful ways from week to week and season to season

At this point in Fortnite’s lifecycle, particularly if you’ve been playing for more than a few seasons, the things you’re doing aren’t changing in enough meaningful ways from week to week and season to season. Shooting golden balloons might be different from dancing in front of various gargoyles, but it’s still a bland task you have to go out of your way to do, and this whole process has become disappointingly rote. Epic does an admirable job of trying to keep the game fresh each week, introducing new weapons, working in exciting world events, and so on, but when it comes to the Battle Pass the weekly makeup of challenges has become counterintuitive to this freshness.

With the most dynamic aspect of Fortnite becoming stale we could see a slice of Fortnite’s player base look to other battle royale experiences for a fresh twist on the formula. With high-quality alternatives such as Apex Legends now competing for our time, it feels imperative that Fortnite breaks out of this monotony. Offering a free Battle Pass for completing relatively easy tasks might be a shrewd idea, but the Overtime Challenges, like the regular weekly ones, only serve to highlight how lacklustre this aspect of the game has steadily become.

Treyarch’s big Operation Grand Heist update for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has arrived on PS4. The update introduces a slew of new content to the online shooter, including a new Specialist, maps, and weapons, with even more still to come over the next few days.

Launching alongside the update today, February 19, is a new Specialist for multiplayer and Blackout modes: Outrider. Treyarch has also added a new multiplayer mode called One in the Chamber, while those with the Black Ops Pass have access to two new multiplayer maps, Casino and Lockup.

Black Ops Pass holders also get an exclusive character for Blackout: the Zombie gorilla Cosmic Silverback. As Treyarch recently teased, the Blackout map has also been expanded with a new locale called Ghost Town. The aboveground area is designed after the Black Ops II map Standoff, while the caverns below ground are inspired by the Zombies map Buried.

Speaking of Zombies, the mode has also received some new content in the form of the Death-Con Five Gauntlet for the Classified map. Treyarch has also implemented a new Perk, Ethereal Razor, which “substantially increases a player’s melee damage with area of effect and life re-gen for each hit.”

Rounding out the additions are new Black Market weapons, camos, outfits, accessories, and gestures. Treyarch has even more content on the way every day this week. Beginning February 20, the developer teases that “a familiar face makes an appearance to welcome in the new Operation,” and the following day will kick off the first League Play event. Finally, on February 22, Blackout will get the new Hot Pursuit mode, which introduces three new vehicles: the SUV, PBR, and Muscle Car.

Like Operation Grand Heist, Hot Pursuit will go live first on PS4 and expand to Xbox One and PC the following week. You can read more details about the update on Treyarch’s blog.

Respawn Entertainment has released an update for Apex Legends, its wildly popular battle royale title. The patch, which was detailed on Reddit, is available for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Generally, it is focused on reducing crashes and addressing gameplay bugs.

Players on Sony’s console shouldn’t have a more stable experience, as Respawn has addressed an issue with GPU hangs and also resolved crashes that happened when a button was pressed in the loading process. An issue where players would occasionally move slower after a revive has also been resolved, as has one that caused crashes because of Mirage’s special ability. Finally, on Xbox One, crashes related to Gibraltar’s Epic skin have been addressed. Take a look at the full patch notes below.

Apex Legends February 19 Patch Notes

• Fixes for PS4 crash issues.
  • Addresses issues we saw with GPU hangs.
  • Fixed crash when pressing button early in load process.
• Fixed issue where players would sometimes move slowly after revive.
• Fixed issue with Mirage Ability causing crashes.
• Fixed issue with Gibraltar Epic skins on Xbox One causing crashes

Apex Legends launched on February 4, somewhat unexpectedly. The game has taken the world by storm and hit 25 million players in its first week of availability and, at one point, reached “well over” 2 million peak concurrent players. Of course, Fortnite is still very much the genre leader, with 200 million players and a peak concurrent record of 8.3 million players, but it’s been a very strong start for Apex Legends in a highly competitive genre.

In GameSpot’s Apex Legends review, critic Phil Hornshaw awarded the game 9/10. “Apex Legends is a mix of smart shooter ideas that makes for a competitive, team-based game that gets at all the best parts of battle royale while addressing a lot of the weaknesses,” he said. “Respawn’s intense focus on team play makes Apex more than just a worthy addition to the genre; it’s an indicator of where battle royale should go in the future.”

If you’ve been playing the game and need a little help improving, make sure to check out our Apex Legends character guides. Each of the playable Legends requires some getting used to, and you’ll have to consider their strengths and weaknesses in battle if you want to be the champion. Our character breakdowns will help you do that. We’re still working our way through the roster, so we’ll have guides for the remaining heroes soon.

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