Gangs of Sherwood

Gangs of Sherwood shows initial promise with its creative setting and colourful combat but runs out of steam well before the end of its already brief running time.

Gangs of Sherwood is a slightly above-average game whose biggest problem is that you don’t really learn anything from the story, but you have to play it anyway. The game isn’t bad—not at all. Is it a disappointment? Yes, it had so much more potential. As I said at the beginning, two months after launch, the developers are working to fine-tune and improve it. In my opinion, they’re succeeding. It’ll never be the kind of title that could shoot to the top of the best games list. But if you want to hang out with three friends, listen to some great one-liners, beat up the Sheriff of Nottingham’s henchmen, and destroy giant cannons, we’ve found the perfect game for you.

A nice game with an interesting world and story that could really use some quality-of-life updates and a price reduction.

In its own way, Gangs of Sherwood is a very focused game. The fights are entertaining, and the four characters are very well delineated from each other. It's fun to learn the combos and finish each fight in the most stylish way possible. Unfortunately, this façade crumbles as soon as you look behind the successful battles. Whether it's design, story or variety: "Gangs of Sherwood" is stuck deep in mediocrity. If you can overlook it and also grab a friend or two online, you can still have a lot of fun here.

Gangs of Sherwood offers an enjoyable and silly co-op action experience that mostly gets things right.

With a shiny presentation and swashbuckling charm, Gangs of Sherwood portends to be more than your average co-op title. Unfortunately, it turns the legendary outlaw's tale into even less than a placeholder beat 'em up.

Gangs of Sherwood is interesting due to its style and setting, but everything is spoiled by fundamental problems in gameplay and balance.

When the game opens up a bit, the combat is a lot of fun and there are plenty of scenarios to experience that keep the action varied. Don’t come for a story, but do expect some high-energy spectacle and wild action.

Gangs of Sherwood quickly showed signs of promise with its fun spin on the classic Robin Hood tale and colourful combat but fell flat about halfway to the finish line with its lack of depth in certain areas (looting) and graphical bugs. The story is okay but nothing to write home about and the combat can quickly become repetitive after playing a certain character for multiple missions in a row.

The Gangs of Sherwood had a lot of potential, whether because of the cooperation, the alternate world, or simply because of Robin Hood's big name. But it failed. Not significantly, but it failed. The title's main flaw is its very little content with semi-repetitive gameplay. Gangs of Sherwood doesn't do anything downright wrong, but it also fails to do anything right, making it just another mediocre title that will soon fade into the annals of history.