Last week, Ubisoft unleashed its Skull & Bones open beta on Xbox Series X|S - ahead of the game's full launch on February 16th. It's been a long time coming, but we've now all had the chance to go hands-on with the team's seafaring open world adventure!
So... what did you think to the open beta? Has it tempted you to pick up the full release and carry your progress over to the launch later this week? Early impressions of the beta seemed decent, and we're curious to see what the Pure Xbox community thinks so far.
Here at PX HQ we've tried a little bit of the beta - but we're waiting for the main game to make a proper judgement. Ubisoft has been working on Skull & Bones for the best part of a decade - we hope it's turned out well in the end!
Anyway, based on your beta game time, what do you think to the title so far? Does it live up to your expectations or do you see this one struggling to make a splash with its $70 price tag?
Vote in the poll below and tell us what you think so far!
What Did You Think To The Skull & Bones Beta? (1,693 votes)
- It was amazing, I loved it!
- It was pretty good, I'm interested in the full release
- It was OK, middle of the road
- It was a bit disappointing for me
- It was pretty bad!
- I didn't play it, I'm waiting for the full release
- I didn't play it, couldn't be bothered to be honest!
Comments 19
Solid game! Not quite worth $70 to me but I don't tend to get many hours out of live service games. It has a ton of content and one of the IGN guys says he has even played some of each of the first 4 seasons. He was impressed with the content and direction it goes as a live service game.
This game will be more popular than people thought. Some will still cling to the "its trash" conclusion they came to years ago.
Outdated graphics. Inaccurate world. No swimming. No Fishing. No picture where you go to the beach from a boat or back. Overall is okey for 19.99
But boring aftrer 1 hour...
It seemed pretty good, particularly for people who enjoyed the sailing aspect of Black Flag. It won’t be a buy for me though even if it was dirt cheap simply because I’m not really into the pirates sailing the open seas thing. Couldn’t see myself remaining interested long enough to put in the hours it would need.
Everyone's friendly reminder that Skull and Bones will be on Ubisoft+ day one. Please don't give Ubisoft $70+ dollars of your hard earned money. Get one month of Ubisoft+ if in 30 days you still give a crud about this game promise you Ubisoft will offer the game for $30 or less
Played the beta for around 6 hours and enjoyed what I played. I believe the game will evolve over time and will get better based on feedback. Whilst the outright asking price may seem high, I will be playing through the Ubisoft+ subscription which is proving pretty good value for only £15 a month. So far I’ve enjoyed Assassins Creed Mirage, Avatar and will be playing Skull & Bones tomorrow. With Star Wars outlaws coming soon and various over bits and bobs including back catalogue that £15 is pretty cheap. Just my opinion.
Friendly reminder that you can give your hard-earned money to whoever you want. Whatever makes you happy.
It looks cool but it's a live service game so i don't have the time and the mental capacity to keep up with these types of games that get updated with new features all the time, I tried elder scrolls online way back and I don't think I'll ever touch one again.
Made me want to stop playing and play Sea of Thieves. Been really into it since the new update.
I couldn’t care less about this game. I was not a fan of Black Flag, they took the part I cared least about that game and built a full game around it. Hard pass.
@Lup
You sure can and that's why Ubisoft and EA haven't completely collapsed because there will also be blind followers of major companies who don't use their critical thinking abilities
Bad! No soul, no fun, typical Ubisoft formula.Took a break from Sea of Thieves to try out the demo. Went back to SoT after 30 minutes.
To those that have played it does it indeed transcend video games as we know them and begins the new era of AAAA video games? Or is Guillemot full of crap and is trying to oversell in reality a AA at best type of game?
I tried it and thought it was hilarious. I kept laughing about this being Quadruple A while I was playing. The combat is worse than Black Flags and the graphics are remarkably last gen. Can only leave your ship at dull, lifeless select locations. Really poor imo.
Honestly just hyped me up to play more Sea of Thieves. Definitely will not be buying Skull and Bones.
Horrible game. I played it for about an hour. Painful. Quit and uninstalled.
No actual treasure hunting, no swinmming or fishing, no sword or gunfights, no actual boarding ships(which I loved in Black Flag), and the character models and character creation was very disappointing. It absolutely felt like an unfinished AA game. Ubisoft has some gigantic ones to call this Quadruple A and charge $70.
I pretty much made my decision after the ridiculous bumper boats battle intro with boats everywhere going in all directions running into each other just so you can have fodder to shoot at. The ship combat is as far as you can get from anything approaching tactical and nuanced. It's just a shooter on the water. It's not black sails it's black ops, might as well just play cod
Yeah… no… might buy if sub $10, no way worth more than that.
I absolutely loved it. Played every moment of free time I had over the course of the 4 days of open beta(about 20 hours for me). There are some things I'd like to see implemented and some things I'd like to see changed or removed, but overall it's great, the graphics are fantastic and I enjoyed every moment I got to put into it. I will definitely be putting significantly more time into it at release!
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