Feature: VALORANT Beta Review (Xbox) - Riot Makes Its Console Debut With A Well-Crafted Shooter

Valiant effort.

We can still remember the hype when Riot Games launched its Counter-Strike-like shooter VALORANT on PC a few years ago now - there was a lot of excitement around such an esteemed developer taking on Valve's mammoth FPS series head-on. Four years later, the team is bringing the game to console, and its initial beta has gotten off to a pretty good start on Xbox.

We've had access to said beta for a week-or-so now, and besides playing through the helpful tutorial and messing about in the game's practice area, we've only started to dip our toe into public matches in the grand scheme of things. Riot has designed VALORANT to bring players in through a fairly simple team-shooter concept, while then providing tons of depth for hardcore FPS fans - and it seems to be getting that balance pretty spot on.

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