Warframe review
Do you want to play a game where you can kill millitary clones, corporate and government superpowers, war criminals, and people machines and animals infected with a virus that the playerbase calls “space aids”, with a giant weapon arsenal and robot ninjas that have literal superpowers? Well if any of that sounds interesting to you, then I would recommend checking out the video game Warframe.
Lore dump
Warframe is an expansive sci-fi, live service MMO* shooter with RPG and openworld elements developed by Digital Extremes (or DE for short) in which you play as a Tenno, who are descendants of an ancient civilization of warriors from the Orokin era on Earth that have the capability to harness void energy which allows them to pilot weaponized symbiotic robots, or Warframes. You travel throughout the milkyway and beyond with the help of the Lotus, the matriarchal figure of the game and a being of sentient origin who was partially responsible for the fall of the Orokin empire, and Ordis a friendly, yet broken, computer ai that is called a Cephalon who has homicidal tendencies due to his dark past. Along with them you meet a wide variety of good-doers and ruffians to help you on your journey to bring peace to the galaxy, while also getting into some trouble along the way.
Said trouble includes (with pictures of the people that does the things, and in no real distinct order):
Culling a cancerous and parasitic virus that takes over your mind and makes you kill everything that isnt also fully infected (Here)
Putting a stop to unethical experimentation done by a crazy person (Here)
Stealing money and resources from an extremely rich jerkwad that takes people’s body parts as payments for their debt (Here)
Making a space pirate lady want to assassinate you all because you got to something before she did (Here)
Releasing an old geezer from a time looping dimension right before finding out that he’s actually an awful person (Here)
Taking part in gladiatorial-esque combat for a crazy lady’s own personal entertainment (Here)
Mining for valuable ores and lost relics while being shot at (Here)
Stealing important documents and research from awful people while dodging lasers and cameras (Here)
After doing a lot of missions and quests you start some of the more lore heavy quests, specifically the ones that go into the backstory of your tenno operator. Funnily enough, your operator is dying, and would you like to know where you can find a new one? Oh I don’t know… on the moon, that was hidden by the lotus, in a lotus shaped stasis pod-esque machine. Weird I know. After you get a new operator an assassin nearly succeeds at killing your operator, because of powers bestowed to him by an evil robot god(?) thing, that is also both the mother and father of the Lotus (the less you try to wrap your head around that statement the better). You then find out in another quest that the lotus was modeled after your adoptive step mother. After you find out the Lotus goes missing. Like for multiple major updates.
Game elements
With gameplay that is always engaging and maps that are randomly generated, as well as long term seasonal events and short term daily or weekly events, Warframe continues to keep things interesting. There is a faction system, weapons that range from your own fists to gunblades to high powered energy beams, and also roughly 52 Warframes that each have their own powerful and unique abilities. Said abilities also range widely going from simple CC abilities to using sand as a projectile, literal fairy dust, pulling an energy sword out of your hand as well as a dragon effigy that spits different elements, and so much more. For a full list of Warframes and their abilities, as well as pictures and descriptions of each, then I would greatly recommend visiting the Warframe wiki because it is edited by the community and it gives better explanations on anything Warframe related than I ever could (Here).
Synopsis
Now with all of the explanations out of the way, and with everything in mind, the game is really great from the trading, to optional paid currency, to factions, ability interactions, weapons and modifications, companions, and a lot of story missions that only add to the already deep lore that is constantly expanding. When you play Warframe it is almost immediately apparent that the developers care a LOT about this game, and there is a lot of love, care and devotion put into the making of Warframe that originally started out as an indie passion project. The quality that you get from the game is really amazing which is made even better by the fact that you dont have to buy the game to play it!
Final assessment
I would give the game a good score of 7.5/10, and the reason that it didn’t get a higher score is because the game can be really RNG based if you aren’t planning on spending any money on it, but at the same time the nice thing is that you can get just about everything without spending a single penny. To finish this up, I would highly recommend this game to anyone and I sincerely hope that this review has convinced you to try it out.