October 2018

29Oct

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

Heliophobia Review – Dreams Can Become Nightmares

Here we are again. Halloween is here again, everyone digs out their horror games or treats themselves to a new one. Luckily enough for me I got treated to a new game to enter the horror genre. Heliophobia is a game by Glass Knuckle Games and is available on Steam. Gameplay Heliophobia drops you straight into the game to give you that added sense of mystery. This is a good start for the game and something I liked about it. Initially to me the game felt like the famous P.T demo on PlayStation as the first section completed through me back to the start. Or what I thought was the start. As I stepped out onto the stage for the first time I noticed a long line of doors marked Audition and Standby. Heliophobia instantly feels like it's going to be a long windy path filled with scares and ...

Warhammer 40,000 Inquisitor Martyr Review – Bloodfest

26Oct

By JasonNo Comments

Gaming, PC Reviews

Warhammer 40,000 Inquisitor Martyr Review – Bloodfest

Warhammer has always been a piece of my life. I remember the early days of playing D&D style adventures during lunch breaks at school that culminated in epic battles using carefully painted figurines that spread across a battlefield of huge proportions in the common room. The Warhammer club was in full swing! The Warhammer universe has made steady progression across digital platforms for many years and Neocore's latest offering, Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr finally hit consoles in Summer. For the sake of this article I am going to refer to the game simply as Martyr from now on. Are you ready to purge the unclean and protect the Imperium from corruption? Lets get on with it! Gameplay In a first for the Warhammer 40K Universe, Martyr is branded as an open-world s...

25Oct

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

Gaming, PC Reviews

Dakar 18 Review – The Road To Nowhere

Developed by Bigmoon Entertainment, Published by Deep Silver, and based around the Dakar Rally. For those that don’t know the Dakar Rally, it is a rally race that is an off-road endurance event. The terrain that the competitors traverse is much tougher than that used in conventional rallying, and the vehicles used are true off-road vehicles rather than modified on-road vehicles. Dakar 18 is available on Playstation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows. Gameplay As the game loads in, you are presented with a very quick, very brief training introduction in the form of your “co-navigator” shouting at you. For me, as a variety gamer, I personally struggled with this as the industry jargon was straight over my head. I persevered on, once I’d been through the brief training, into the first “tut...

The Legend of Evil Review – Evil Dresses in a Suit!

24Oct

By GrantNo Comments

Gaming

The Legend of Evil Review – Evil Dresses in a Suit!

It’s ok to root for the bad guy, at least this is what Legend of Evil is telling us. Your job, as Bill, is to bring home the apocalypse, in style, with a dark legion at your disposal. Be careful though, being evil isn’t as easy as you’d expect! Gameplay Legend of Evil is a single player, side-scrolling strategy tower-offense game and comes armed with two games modes: Campaign Mode and Rogue Conquest Mode. Having played many a tower defense game, it’s a nice spin to instead be playing a tower offense game! Coupled with having a time limit, as well as it being played as a side-scroller vs. the typical top-down. It adds an incredible dimension to the genre, something that boasts very well on the Nintendo Switch. The Campaign Mode is incredibly challenging and if like me, you’re not ...

FIFA 19 Review – To Upgrade Or Not To Upgrade

23Oct

By StuartNo Comments

Gaming, PC Reviews

FIFA 19 Review – To Upgrade Or Not To Upgrade

With FIFA 19 it brings together a few new additions to the previous iteration, however does that mean that it's worth paying full price for this years version? Lets check out whats new this year. Gameplay Part three of The Journey brings a story from three separate angles, Alex Hunter returns, this year you are able to control both Danny Williams and Alex's Half-Sister Kim. With their storylines interchanging and intertwining you are able to switch between them at any time to see what each character is up to. This brings a great addition to the game, expanding the story to see how Alex gets on at Real Madrid, seeing what Danny gets up to once Alex leaves to go abroad and then following the hottest new talent in the Women's World Cup with Kim. FIFA 19 expands the Ultimate Team universe...

Downward Spiral: Horus Station – Its Space Jim But Not As We Know It

18Oct

By TC Staff Writer2 Comments

Gaming, PC Reviews

Downward Spiral: Horus Station – Its Space Jim But Not As We Know It

So here we are with Downward Spiral: Horus Station created for us by 3rd Eye Studios. Now this is a new company so it will be interesting to see what they can bring to the table. Lets see shall we? Gameplay Downward Spiral: Horus Station is essentially a VR game on PC/PSVR. It does also have controller support on the PlayStation 4 for people without PSVR. Personally, I think on a controller the game is clumsy and shouldn't be played like this, VR was forefront of the development teams minds when they created this game. The game itself doesn't give you too much help setting the scene and atmosphere. There is no narrative cut scene to set the mood. In-fact when you start off your adventure there is no help at all. Downward Spiral: Horus Station is an environmental storytelling ga...

Pathfinder: Kingmaker Review – Choose Your Path, Be The King

17Oct

By KevinNo Comments

Gaming, PC Reviews

Pathfinder: Kingmaker Review – Choose Your Path, Be The King

Owlcat Games have dug deep into the Pathfinder universe to bring us Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Start from humble beginnings and begin your epic quest to rule the lands. Pathfinder has been a popular role playing game for many years and Owlcat Games have brought the experience to the keyboard warrior. Time to strap on some full plate and grab my shield, I feel a campaign coming on. Gameplay Pathfinder: Kingmaker is set in a 3D isometric view. You can zoom in and out, but that's all the control you have. Use your mouse to control the players and get them to interact with the items in the scene. There are several useful functions as well, such as pressing Tab to highlight anything you can interact with. This saves time, a lot of time. What's the plot? You play whoever you want really, jus...

NASCAR Heat 3 PS4 Review – Dizzy My Head Is Spinning

16Oct

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

Gaming, PlayStation Reviews

NASCAR Heat 3 PS4 Review – Dizzy My Head Is Spinning

The market for retro gaming is huge right now. Since Nintendo have released two retro consoles, Sony recently announced their first and you know there will be a mini PS2 to follow. Xbox users mock PlayStation fanboys for a lack of backward compatibility, which does seem to be a real oversight on the part of Sony. But if I put aside the nostalgia of playing childhood games, and the cool factor of having a mini console by my TV, I do often wonder if I really miss the way games used to be. Were they any good? Did the simpler controls make for more fun? Does mo-cap and 3D rendering make for better games? Well wonder no more, with NASCAR Heat 3 you can remember exactly how bad games used to be. 704 Games is the latest studio to release a NASCAR title. The original came out in 2002, NASCA...

Roccat Suora FX Gaming Keyboard Review – Keystroke of Genius?

15Oct

By JasonNo Comments

Hardware & Tech

Roccat Suora FX Gaming Keyboard Review – Keystroke of Genius?

When it comes to building a gaming rig most of the money goes into the graphics card, cpu, ram and sexy 4K screen before there has been any consideration for the peripherals that you will be using to input your every command into your machine. The interface that you choose may seem insignificant in the grand scheme of things however you could not be further from the truth when it comes to the ways they can be customised to ensure that you are playing at top efficiency. For mice I recently took a look at the Roccat Kone Aimo Gaming Mouse and was wowed at the different configurations that were possible when gaming to make the experience so much smoother. For the last few weeks I have been using the Roccat Suora FX Gaming Keyboard and it is seriously something else. The first thin...

The Light Keeps Us Safe – Early Access – Death is Coming

12Oct

By KevinNo Comments

Gaming, PC Reviews

The Light Keeps Us Safe – Early Access – Death is Coming

Big Robot Ltd bring us The Light Keeps Us Safe an exploration game where the planet has been taken over by machines. Stay safe, stay alive and save yourself. Time to find a few AA batteries and journey out into the world of darkness for an early access look. Gameplay The Light Keeps Us Safe is the standard mouse and WASD format. Move around, look around, interact with objects and use your resources wisely. The premise is simple, stay alive by the clever use of light. The world has been taken over by machines that seem to have an inexplicable aversion to light. You have a torch. It was a marriage of convenience that worked out well. Keep the torch charged and in return it will keep you safe. Instructions are forthcoming on the screen and there is a strange woman doing a voiceover, ...