Panzar

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Panzar is a single player and multiplayer role playing game with a fantasy theme. It was developed by White Wolf and was released on November 25, 2013. It received neutral reviews from players.

Panzar is a free-to-play, third-person action game in the spirit of modern competitive multiplayer games. The emphasis is on team-based play in a fantasy setting, and the game also includes character growth and experience-based leveling.

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gameplay75 positive mentions

grinding21 negative mentions

Diverse and well-balanced classes with unique abilities support varied playstyles and team roles.
Graphics are impressive and detailed, utilizing CryEngine 3 for visually appealing maps and character models.
Enjoyable fast-paced PvP gameplay with several capture and siege game modes encouraging teamwork.

Extremely low player base leads to long matchmaking times and frequent encounters with bots.
Progression and crafting are grind-heavy and time-consuming, with some aspects bordering on pay-to-win due to microtransactions.
Gameplay feels clunky and floaty with poor feedback on hits and sluggish animations, leading to a frustrating combat experience.

gameplay
183 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay centers on team-based PvP combat with diverse classes and unique abilities, offering a mix of fun and strategic depth. However, it suffers from clunky mechanics, imbalanced classes, repetitive grind, and pervasive pay-to-win elements that undermine the overall experience. Despite solid graphics and some innovative features, many find the gameplay outdated, frustrating, and hindered by lag and matchmaking issues.
- “The gameplay revolves around team-based combat where you select from a variety of classes, each with unique abilities and playstyles.”
- “Each class has the same base mechanic: left-click for a basic melee attack and right-click for a powerful melee attack, which consumes energy (that replenishes by itself or when you attack enemies with a normal attack and blocking, with ctrl). As you level up, you get skills. Every class has really different skills that are useful in different situations. You can craft equipment from materials gained by finishing levels, which are used to increase HP and mastery. Mastery affects every attack and skill by increasing their power, so they deal more damage. Even if you have equipment, your real-life skills affect your gameplay experience.”
- “The gameplay is solid, the classes are all varied and each has their own weakness and strength. The variety of maps and gameplay modes place it into the higher tier of online gaming. Something like 24 maps and 6 gameplay modes will give you hours of enjoyment. Each map has several of its own context-sensitive items and mechanics, and messing around with these mechanics to find the best effect is enjoyable.”
- “The once-decent mechanics now feel clunky and outdated, especially compared to modern arena combat games.”
- “Gameplay is clunky, item and upgrade system is either grind for 1000 hours or pay to win, loadings take forever.”
- “My computer is more than powerful enough for this to run at maximum settings with no issues, yet I get low framerates and one of the jumpiest, messiest gameplay experiences I've ever had.”
graphics
169 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's graphics are generally praised for their detailed, colorful, and impressive visuals, especially considering it is a free-to-play title running on CryEngine 3, with support for 4K and scalable settings for various hardware. However, many users report poor optimization, graphical glitches, low FPS on older GPUs, and occasional pop-in issues, which detract from the overall experience. While the art style and presentation receive positive remarks, performance problems and inconsistent visual quality limit the game's graphical appeal for some players.
- “This game looks amazing, graphics are phenomenally polished to such fine detail; my retinas can't even register the quality this game has to offer but it's no wonder why it looks so good.”
- “The amount of attention put into the graphics is phenomenal!”
- “Graphically beautiful and exciting with a wide range of effects enhancing the action and gameplay with a feeling of rich immersion.”
- “However, the graphics are clearly stuck in the past, and the game hasn’t aged well.”
- “Nice idea of a game, but very poorly optimized. I have to play on 90's graphics on a GTX 1080 for over 100 FPS... that's ridiculous... what about people that have 5-6 year old graphics cards?”
- “The game supports 4k graphics but the optimization is extremely poor, and you will get low FPS even on low graphics settings.”
humor
24 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's humor is widely appreciated for its lighthearted, quirky elements like a cheeky narrator, amusing character actions, ragdoll effects, and playful emotes, adding charm to both PvE and PvP modes. While some find the comedic tone enhances the experience and provides entertaining moments, a few note that humor is limited or overshadowed by gameplay issues. Overall, it is praised as a funny, casual game with enjoyable comedic touches.
- “Full of humor, from just the cut scenes and the tutorial that definitely puts it out there.”
- “Funny game with interesting, dynamic gameplay. All these orcs and dwarfs are making me smile and I don't know why.”
- “It's epic battles of high adventure with a cute sense of humor and more than one way to skin an elf!”
grinding
22 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users consistently describe the game's grinding as tedious, slow, and often frustrating due to poorly balanced progression, lengthy crafting times, and minimal gear improvements. The heavy reliance on grinding or microtransactions to advance detracts from the fun, making progression feel like a chore rather than rewarding. While some enjoy the challenge, most criticize the severe grind and pay-to-win elements.
- “Unfortunately, even this core gameplay is undermined by poorly balanced classes, grindy progression systems, and a lack of any meaningful updates in years.”
- “Not only that but the crafting system became worse and worse, making grinding almost worthless because the better gear you wanted to try and craft, the more the game would crush your hopes due to low success chances at higher levels; additionally, the armor and weapons themselves barely got upgrades, only negligible increases in health, mana, and damage.”
- “So not only will you spend weeks grinding the materials, but you'll also wait additional days or weeks to actually craft the gear.”
monetization
19 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's monetization is widely viewed as aggressive and grind-heavy, with many players criticizing intrusive ads and pay-to-win elements that detract from the fun. While some note that many items can be earned in-game without spending, the overall system feels unbalanced and cash-grabby, causing frustration among the community. However, a few users find the microtransactions less intrusive compared to other free-to-play games.
- “Free to play in today's gamer community is usually a very dirty word, conveying low quality and high prices in the long run via microtransactions, and despite the fact that Panzar's main menu has many microtransaction advertisements, overall they are not that intrusive.”
- “The game is not entirely dependent on microtransactions as many seem to believe, possibly due to the main menu advertisements mentioned earlier.”
- “Things such as items, weapons, and armour can also be bought with microtransactions but once again these things are easily obtainable in-game and make no real difference in combat and gameplay if you are semi-competent.”
- “Aggressive monetization and grind-heavy progression.”
- “If you ever played an iOS free game or a Facebook game, this game is that type: full of microtransactions, the balance inclines to pay to win, also it is boring as hell to wait for the upgrades, big battles, messy, where you mostly don't know what is happening.”
- “This is a very poorly thought out system and screams cash grab.”
story
19 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game lacks a meaningful story or campaign mode, focusing almost entirely on PvP and team-based PvE missions without a narrative. While the graphics and world design are praised, many players feel the absence of a single-player story or quest-driven content diminishes the overall experience.
- “There seem to be quite a lot of different missions, around 40 I think, and you can play it with up to 4 other people.”
- “There is a short, brief tutorial mission on how basic movement & combat works.”
- “The game looks good in the pictures and piqued my curiosity, but gameplay is dependent on teams in every aspect, even the PvE, which is not even an adventure as there is no story.”
- “Nothing but a PvP game, no quests or objectives or storyline for that matter. This game has potential but the team went the wrong way with it and took the easy path.”
- “The tutorial is rude and lacks story plot, and while they boast amazing graphics, the players look like something out of Quake.”
optimization
18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's optimization receives mixed feedback, with some users reporting poor performance, low FPS, long load times, and graphical issues even on high-end PCs, while others praise its smooth gameplay and good performance on average computers. There are also platform-specific problems and recommendations to prioritize performance settings over graphics quality. Overall, optimization appears inconsistent and may require patches to address certain hardware and loading issues.
- “This is not the usual 'early access' fake excuse; this is a complete game very well optimized and runs well.”
- “That's an example of what I call a greatly optimized game.”
- “Amazing, I have an average computer and it runs smoothly on the highest quality. The gameplay is amazing and it's just fun.”
- “The optimization is extremely poor and you will get low fps even on low graphics settings.”
- “I have a high performance computer but it takes a lot of time to enter the game.”
- “Warning to AMD users: until they issue a patch, video is broken in fullscreen and video settings are stuck at max performance.”
stability
14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game suffers from significant stability issues, including frequent bugs, freezes, glitches, lag, and crashes, particularly during tutorial and gameplay. These technical problems greatly hinder the overall experience, despite some visual appeal and potential. Users generally do not recommend the game in its current unstable state.
- “I haven't been able to play this game at all because of the amount of lag, glitches, and bugs that appear throughout the game.”
- “Pretty buggy since tutorial (it disconnected me like 3947325 times).”
- “My experience was unfortunately buggy, laggy, and generally unfulfilling in most regards.”
character development
13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Character development in the game is mixed, with some users appreciating unique and detailed designs that add entertainment value, while others criticize the character designs as bland, juvenile, or even offensive. The variety and class symbols offer some engagement, but overall reactions to character design and development range from interesting and rewarding to disappointing and poorly executed.
- “The character development is interesting and I look forward to playing with friends.”
- “Character development and building is fun, rewarding, and easy.”
- “The character designs are very unique and interesting enough to keep you entertained for a while.”
- “I didn't bother to play this game. It looked cool and interesting until I loaded it and saw the throw-up-in-your-mouth character design.”
- “Classes and character design range from unappealing to almost offensive with how bland they are.”
- “It just feels weird, with silly animations along with some very strange character design.”
music
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's music is praised for its beautiful, memorable soundtracks with a folk fantasy theme that resonate with many players. However, some find the music generic and forgettable. Overall, the soundtrack is a standout feature that enhances the game's atmosphere for music lovers.
- “If you're a music lover, do yourself a favor and try this game for the beautiful soundtracks alone.”
- “I haven't played this game in many years, but I still have some of the songs in my playlist; they are that good.”
- “But other than that, I think Panzar is quite the good game: great music, cool maps, and all you can buy with real money you can get for free (just gotta play a lot longer).”
- “I didn't play much of Panzar, but sometimes you do not have to listen to a whole song to decide that you do not like it.”
- “The music is fairly generic as well and is forgettable.”
- “The music was also, with folk fantasy theme to it.”
replayability
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game offers solid replayability mainly due to the distinct and varied classes, encouraging multiple playthroughs with different builds. However, the tutorial lacks replay value and can put players at a disadvantage if skipped. Overall, the game's variety and graphics contribute positively to its replay potential.
- “The game's different classes vary so much that every time it's something different; each person brings a different build to the table, giving the game a replayability of 6.5/10.”
- “All classes are playable, adding to the game's replayability.”
- “A lot of replay value and the graphics are great.”
- “I created another character and I wrongly skipped the tutorial, which has no replayability, and if you don't play it the first time, you have a disadvantage in level and starting consumables.”
- “- Game has replay value.”
- “Replayability 6.5/10 - the game's different classes vary so much that every time it's something different; each person brings a different build to the table.”
atmosphere
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's atmosphere is widely praised for its cool and immersive in-game environment, drawing comparisons to Warhammer Age of Reckoning. Powered by the CryEngine, it offers visually stunning graphics that enhance the overall atmospheric experience.
- “The game looks visually stunning, running on the CryEngine, making it one of the most graphically pleasing and atmospheric games available.”
- “Atmosphere feels a bit like Warhammer: Age of Reckoning, which is a good thing.”
- “Cool in-game atmosphere.”