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Late Shift Review – The Decisions Are You

26Apr

By StuartNo Comments

Late Shift Review – The Decisions Are You

Late Shift is a high stakes FMV crime thriller. Forced into a brutal London heist, you must choose your own adventure in this interactive cinematic experience. With adaptable storylines that lead to one of seven conclusions. Gameplay You play the character of Matt, a valet parking attendant in London. Decisions that you make determine his actions throughout Late Shift. These decisions vary from whether you should give a pretty blonde keys to a high performance sports car, to deciding whether to go up or down in an elevator. After I found the first ending and getting attached to Matt all bets were off in the following playthroughs. I sent him running from gunfire, abandoning any kind of selfless attitudes and only thinking about myself. Each experience followed generally the same story...

Crawl Review – Retro Hit? Or Creepy Miss?

25Apr

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

Crawl Review – Retro Hit? Or Creepy Miss?

Crawl is a roguelike, brawler indie video game by Australian developer Powerhoof and I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to review this quirky retro gem. Crawl is (appropriately) a dungeon crawler with an 8-bit heart of gold. The art style and music are pure retro: Modelled after arcade dungeon crawlers, they manage to somehow give the hero and monsters their own personalities and a trippy, kinetic feel. If Atari’s classic Gauntlet (the 1985 original) was three-quarters view instead of top-down, it might have looked like this... Gameplay The main player advances through randomly generated dungeons as a human hero while up to three other spirit players control the dungeon's enemies and traps to kill the main player. The spirit player who kills the human hero swaps roles to ...

24Apr

By Jason1 Comment

PlayStation Reviews

Knights of Valour Review – Free to Play

A side scrolling beat ‘em up featuring well-known characters of the Three Kingdoms period (think Dynasty Warriors), which is a free to play and easy to pick up game which features co-op play. Too good to be true? Gameplay Knights of Valour is an obvious free to play game, featuring characters from the well-known Three Kingdoms period, which have been made most famous by the popular Dynasty Warriors series from Koei. You have the choice of Guan Yu or Diao Chan at the beginning of the game and have the ability to unlock more using Goshki Stones, which can be gained by completing varying objectives or purchased for real life currency. The game itself puts you into a side scrolling beat ‘em up, reminiscent of games like Streets of Rage or Golden Axe. Varying amounts and types of enemies f...

21Apr

By JasonNo Comments

PC Reviews, Previews & Early Access

Squad Early Access Preview

Tactical shooting is a tough thing to get right but Squad totally hits the nail on the head with its adrenaline pumping and nail-biting Squad based combat. Slowly pushing through enemy lines with eight team mates covering your back, Squad makes you really feel an important part of a team with a real role to play in order to make sure you complete your objective. Gameplay Starting off in a base, in attack and secure your mission is to push forward and capture the bases between you and your enemy’s main base and to reduce the enemy’s tickets before yours run out. To do this, teaming up is essential so jumping into a squad with a good, confident and knowledgeable squad leader is a must. With orders being given over voice communications by the squad leader, you all jump into an APC and star...

Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom Review – Is This A True RPG?

18Apr

By TC Staff Writer2 Comments

PlayStation Reviews

Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom Review – Is This A True RPG?

Shiness is a game you’ve probably never heard of, but if you’ve mourned the loss of Playstation 2-era adventure games over the past decade, it’s one you should look out for. Shiness is an Action-RPG ( or what I’d like to call more as a JRPG ) developed by French independent studio Enigami, promising to take you on a journey through an enthralling universe on the verge of collapse, following the fragmentation of planet Mahera. The game’s universe was born over 20 years ago from the pen strokes of Samir Rebib, Artistic Director of the studio. You play as cutey Chado and his companions, traveling through the Celestial islands on their flying ship. After crash-landing on one of the most hostile of the Celestial islands, you find yourself in the middle of a conflict across multiple kingdoms. Ho...

14Apr

By TC Staff Writer1 Comment

Xbox Reviews

Air Guitar Warrior Kinect Review – Thrash Metal or Soft Rock?

Ever thought of yourself as the next Jimi Hendrix or Slash? Always wanted a guitar that shot bullets at floating skulls? Ever wanted to ride dinosaurs, sharks with lasers, tigers and jet-powered crocodiles? Then, your dreams have come true in Air Guitar Warrior! Here you can be the Rock God/Demon Killer you have always wanted to be! Air Guitar Warrior for Kinect from the Virtual Air Guitar Company, the folks responsible for bringing the classic Boom Ball series and many other Kinect related titles to the console, and are quite clearly a super fun company! I can only imagine the amount of enjoyment they had making this game and having to call their partners of an evening saying “Oh no, I’m going to have to work late tonight honey. I’m so sorry!” just to spend that few hours more into...

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Review – Last Man Standing

13Apr

By JasonNo Comments

PC Reviews

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Review – Last Man Standing

Introduction Dropping onto an island, armed only with your wits and underwear (honestly!), you need to find weapons, armour and medical supplies in order to survive a 100 player Battle Royale style death match. Coming from the mind of Player Unknown, a man who has extensive experience in crafting these types of games from his work on both ARMA 2 and ARMA 3 Battle Royale mods and his involvement on King of the Kill for H1Z1, this is by far the most polished and true experience of a Battle Royale/Hunger Games type video game. With the ability to enter solo, duo or in a squad of four, to say this game is an adrenaline pumping and downright terrifying game would be an understatement. Knowing your demise could be around every corner or just over the top of every hill just gives you a buzz t...

The Walking Dead Review – A New Frontier Episode 3 “Above The Law”

10Apr

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PlayStation Reviews

The Walking Dead Review – A New Frontier Episode 3 “Above The Law”

A highly adaptable point and click adventure game plucked from the amazing mind of Robert Kirkman ( I have to say, I have his graphic novels. If you haven't read these and you're a zombie fan, do so now!) The walking dead a new frontier is available on Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, PS4 and Xbox one although it will not be released on the Playstation 3 or Xbox 360, but players that have saves from Season Two on these platforms will be able to download a patch on those consoles as to upload their saved game to Telltale's servers, and then access that from their new choice of platform. Above the Law picks up right after where the first two episodes ended, with Javi and his group standing outside the gates of Richmond at the New Frontier’s headquarters. Right from the get go, I was kic...

7Apr

By StuartNo Comments

Features

What Makes A Good Remaster?

Remastered games make up a large amount of game releases both in the past and in the future. With some big names getting the remaster treatment such as The Last Of Us and Modern Warfare, to the more independent titles such as Duck Tales and Another World, but as each of these remasters get released, are they really needed or are they just game developers trying to make a quick buck. Let's delve into why I think that remasters are swiftly becoming its own genre, and what makes a good remaster and a not so good one! Remasters allow gamers who might not have had the chance to play all the games in a series before What I'm saying here is that for example the previously released Assassins Creed Ezio Collection containing 3 previous games, Assassins Creed 2, Brotherhood and Revelations, the...

6Apr

By JasonNo Comments

PC Reviews

Darkest Dungeon Review – A Stress Inducing Dungeon Crawler to Madness

Long have I been yearning for a game that challenges both my mental wellbeing and personal stress levels and with Darkest Dungeon that is exactly the game I got! A PC only title that has a unique graphical art style and pits you as the manager of a town with its various buildings and upgrades whilst directing a band of rag tag adventurers into the depths of various dungeons in the search for loot and treasure. Gameplay Delving deep into dungeons in the search for loot with a group of up to four different adventurers’ sounds like the usual plot line for a game but Darkest Dungeon will punish you at every turn if you don’t take it seriously and decide to wander into a dungeon ill prepared. You need to decide on a team that will complement each other in terms of skills, prepare their weapo...