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We Sing Pop! Review – My My, How Can I Resist You?

8Dec

By JasonNo Comments

We Sing Pop! Review – My My, How Can I Resist You?

We Sing Pop! by THQ Nordic and Le Cortex is the latest karaoke game in the We Sing series to come to PS4 and Xbox One and features "the hottest sounds from the world's biggest artists", so long as you are in agreement with the track listing. Available as either a stand alone game singing into your smart phone or as a bundle with 2 gold topped microphones, let the drunken sing offs commence! (I don't condone drinking however it helps when it comes to singing!). Gameplay Boasting 8 game modes, 30 original song recordings and videos that span across the last 5 decades, We Sing Pop! certainly has something for everyone here. The first hurdle that I came across was connecting the USB wired microphones. Unfortunately for me, an issue with the front usb ports of my Playstation Pro made t...

Demon Gaze II Review – Friends Become Enemies, Enemies Become Friends

6Dec

By JasonNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

Demon Gaze II Review – Friends Become Enemies, Enemies Become Friends

Demon Gaze II by Kadokawa games and Experience is a Japanese role play game (JRPG)/dungeon crawler that is available exclusively on Playstation 4 and PS vita. Demon Gaze II is unsurprisingly the second instalment of the series that has been produced due to popular demand as a follow on to the original Demon Gaze that came out 4 years ago. So what's it all about? Lets find out! Gameplay Diving straight in, character creation is the first port of call. Choosing a portrait from between a dozen anime looking people then leads to selecting your temper, skill, name and voice. Temper is a choice between good, neutral and evil, something that ultimately is connected to the skills that you can then choose between. I went for a neutral temper and then had the choice of either a defensive ...

Far From Noise Review – Feeling Lost? Consult a Deer

6Dec

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

PC Reviews

Far From Noise Review – Feeling Lost? Consult a Deer

Video games have a wonderful habit of touching on tough subjects in the most unique fashion sometimes. Should that be titles such Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice touching on psychosis, The Town of Light heavily talking about mental health throughout, The Cat Lady taking a stance on suicide, Sym looking at social anxiety, and The Mull Littoral looking into anxiety. They all focus on telling a story by merging gameplay and story elements in conjunction with the selected mental health having some form of a hindrance on the progression, or dialogue. Far From Noise from developer George Batchelor, is one of these titles to fall under the category of subtly exploring depression by shifting the conversation between how you react to the current situation, but talks about life and death and how we ...

Ashes Cricket Review – Is It A No Ball Or A Hat Trick

5Dec

By StuartNo Comments

PC Reviews

Ashes Cricket Review – Is It A No Ball Or A Hat Trick

Cricket games are often seen as the lower end of sports games, with the beautiful game not getting its air in the mainstream, however released by Big Ant Studios to coincide with the real life event, we are given Ashes Cricket. Preening their cricket gaming skills on the previous Don Bradman Cricket games as well as a handful of Rugby League and even a Lacrosse game, we got on our pads, slid on our gloves and strapped on our helmet....oo-er. So does Ashes Cricket live up to the glory days of cricket games when Brian Lara Cricket was available, or is it a ginormous disappointment? Thankfully is the former. Lets read and find out some more. Gameplay Usually on a review of a game we would go through the game modes available to you in depth so that you know what you are getting into, and ...

1Dec

By Kevin1 Comment

PC Reviews

Party Hard Tycoon Review – Party Hard?

Party Hard Tycoon is being offered by Pinokl Games as a way to bridge the gap between the sims and the tycoon games. Have they packed out the place with banging choonz or is it as lifeless as a piece of warm wet lettuce? Time to find out. Gameplay Have you ever done something that achieved nothing? Have you ever regretted a decision? Have you ever meticulously planned something out only for it to fail? Welcome to Party Hard Tycoon. The instructions come in the form of a messenger conversation with a few pictures. These explain the basic game without going in to too much detail i.e. not having much point. The smart person will be able to work out what to do, but maybe never figure out why to do it. Party Hard Tycoon puts you in the position of a party planner. How hard can it be? R...

Tricky Towers Xbox Review – Tetris For Lovers Of Physics

30Nov

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

Xbox Reviews

Tricky Towers Xbox Review – Tetris For Lovers Of Physics

Tricky Towers is basically a more modern version of Tetris, but with a magical and physics based twist. It also aims to get players together both locally, and Online to build their clumsy tower of bricks in various game modes. It’s recently launched on the Xbox One. The original game, developed by Weird Beard Games, launched on Steam and PS4 back in 2016. It went on to port to the Xbox One in September 2017 thanks to BlitWorks, with an exclusive game mode which I’ll touch on shortly. Whilst the title bears incredible similarities to Tetris, even down to every one of the standard blocks, the gameplay itself is different. Rather than clearing rows as you do in the 1984 classic, Tricky Towers finds you trying to stack the blocks as neatly as you can in order to form a tower, and depending ...

Max The Curse of Brotherhood PS4 Review – You May Need Controller Insurance

27Nov

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

Max The Curse of Brotherhood PS4 Review – You May Need Controller Insurance

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is a cinematic adventure filled with action-packed platforming and creative puzzle-solving. Armed with only a Magic Marker, Max must confront evil at every turn in a hostile and fantastical world in order to save his kid brother, Felix. Dive in and let me tell you a bit about it… Game Play The game opens as Max arrives home to find his younger brother, Felix, playing with his beloved toys. Enraged, Max searches the internet for advice on how to rid himself of his troublesome brother and happens upon a spell, via the Internet of all places, to spirit Felix away, which he recites. ( A fair and just punishment in my opinion, I mean who wants your snotty gross little brother touching your things? Eww) A portal opens in the bedroom and the younger boy is snatched...

This Is The Police PC Review – A Crime In Gaming!

23Nov

By JohnNo Comments

PC Reviews

This Is The Police PC Review – A Crime In Gaming!

This is the Police is an Adventure/Strategy game from THQ Nordic. Freeburg is the city backdrop of the game, a city on the brink of chaos. You take on the role of Jack Boyd the City Police Chief who is on the verge of retirement. Being pulled between the Mayor, The Mob and his own personal issues (not to mention the city crime – you know the job he is actually paid to do). Will he reach his goal of retirement and a nice pension? Let’s find out… Gameplay This is the Police has a gritty anime comic book style to the game overall which is mirrored by the personality of Jack Boyd. The game starts with a press conference where you are answering questions on your retirement and the city plans that will come to fruition afterwards. A comic strip explanation of Jack (Narrated by himself of c...

Xbox Games With Gold December 2017 Revealed

23Nov

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

News & Updates

Xbox Games With Gold December 2017 Revealed

Another four titles become available for free next month for users who have Xbox Live Gold, and the details are below. With this months offers still going, we're coming close to December, and the four titles that will be becoming 100% free to download for a limited time will be available to those who have an Xbox Live Gold Subscription. Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide (December 1st - 31st) A Xbox One title by Fatshark, that finds players in the End Times within the Warhammer universe. A co-operative adventure title for up to four players from a first person perspective, with you controlling one of five heroes taking down the Skaven enemy that roam the world. Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition (December 16th - January 15th) Created by Telltale Games, th...

Sonic Forces PC Review – Not The Sonic You Are Used To

23Nov

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

PC Reviews

Sonic Forces PC Review – Not The Sonic You Are Used To

The last time I played a Sonic the Hedgehog game I was eight years younger. My experience with Sonic ’06 was about as fun as locking yourself in a bathroom, huffing paint thinner and watching reruns of The A-Team. My weekend plans aside* I was also asked to play Sonic Forces, the newest iteration of that scruffy blue hedgehog that if animal control got its hands on would be put down before you could even utter the words “Gotta go fast”. I can’t even begin to review Sonic Forces properly without first noting the controversy surrounding its release. Year after year, mediocre Sonic games come out, and this one seems to be no exception to that rule. Bearing in mind I’m writing this paragraph while still downloading the game. After looking around on the internet though this game has been rec...