Hood: Outlaws and Legends review

What is it? An online PvPvE heist game set in a dark imagining of the Robin Hood universe
Expect to pay: $30/£27
Developer: Sumo Digital
Publisher: Focus Home Interactive
Reviewed on: Ryzen 7 5800H, Nvidia GeForce 3070 (mobile), 16GB RAM
Multiplayer? Yes, 4v4 online
Link: Official site

PvPvE extraction games, where teams of players race and pummel each other to find a treasure/bounty/McGuffin on a map, grab it, then try to escape while others give chase, are on the up. With my beloved bayou blaster Hunt: Showdown reaching peak numbers while the more secretive Escape from Tarkov attracts tens of thousands of concurrent players, it’s inevitable that plucky pretenders will try to get their share of the spoils.

Hood: Outlaws and Legends is the latest game looking to grab some of that PvPvE plunder, bringing with it some interesting ideas: a third-person perspective, a focus on stealth, and an indestructible sheriff who stomps around maps like an ironclad Mr X, grumbling and swearing about the vault key that one of the players has stolen off him.

The premise is that two teams of four players are attempting to steal a treasure chest from a heavily fortified keep. The teams start at opposite sides of a sizable map, so the early going is spent taking out guards, working your way into the keep, and stealing the vault key off the sheriff.

(Image credit: Focus Home Interactive)

After that, you must find the vault—which is randomly located each time—grab the chest, and escort the carrier to one of three extraction points on the map, where you place the chest on a platform and hoist it out of the level. You can run into the enemy team at any point, and even if you’ve completed 80% of the extraction, they can take you out and complete the remaining smidgen of extraction themselves, winning the game. It can be cruel, but the constant possibility of snatching victory from the jaws of defeat (or vice versa) is an effective way to keep you engaged throughout the entire match.

source: gamezpot.com