The Finals
The Finals is a PlayStation 5 shooter game developed by Embark Studios. It centers on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, combat encounters, and area and route exploration, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.3 / 10
About this game
The Finals is a PlayStation 5 shooter game centered on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, combat encounters, and area and route exploration. Missions pace progress through enemy waves, routes, objectives, and weapon opportunities, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Aiming feedback, projectiles, hits, and danger zones need to remain readable, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that camera turning, aiming methods, dense encounters, and peripheral support can increase control pressure. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
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PlayStation 5AI review
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Destruction transforms coordinated objective combat.
Destructible buildings let teams reshape Cashout defences and steal deposits before the timer expires. Coordinating weapons and gadgets rewards improvisation, making tactical awareness matter beyond simply winning individual gunfights. Cashout and Bank It create distinct risks around holding money. Comebacks sustain individual rounds, although the launch selection and slow unlocks place much of its lasting appeal on coordinated competition. Colourful arenas, collapsing structures and game-show commentary frame the competition. The spectacle gives each fight a lively identity, although repetitive vocal delivery offers less character than the changing physical environment. Digital Foundry’s five-hour PS5 sample mostly maintains sixty frames, with destruction and alpha effects causing fifties and tearing. Responsive delivery is not a locked-rate guarantee; the original analysis was verified through an identified reproduction.
Strengths
- Battlefield-changing destruction and gadgets.
Weaknesses
- Limited launch modes and slow unlocks.
Who it is for: Competitive teams willing to communicate.
Play notes: Historical PS5 measurements read through the identified reproduction. Official announcements separately establish continuing service, not real-time matchmaking quality.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Comebacks sustain individual rounds, although the launch selection and slow unlocks place much of its lasting appeal on coordinated competition. | Reviewed | 7.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Coordinating weapons and gadgets rewards improvisation, making tactical awareness matter beyond simply winning individual gunfights. | Reviewed | 8.9 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The spectacle gives each fight a lively identity, although repetitive vocal delivery offers less character than the changing physical environment. | Reviewed | 8.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Responsive delivery is not a locked-rate guarantee; the original analysis was verified through an identified reproduction. | Reviewed | 8.1 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Embark Studios
- Publisher
- Embark Studios
- Release date
- Dec 7, 2023
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Shooter · Primary genre
- Tags
- Shooting3D GraphicsReal-time CombatLinear LevelsSolo-friendlyReplayablePlayer versus EnvironmentExplorationDodgeThird PersonFast-pacedMain Story Under 10 Hours
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- MultiplayerCo-op
- Perspectives
- First person
Release editions
- PlayStation 5WorldwideDec 7, 2023
Game gallery
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