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Guts and Glory Review (18+) – Blood, Gore and Mayhem!

29Aug

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Guts and Glory Review (18+) – Blood, Gore and Mayhem!

Oh my freakin' god what have I just played! Let's get this said first. Guts and Glory is certainly not for the faint hearted or those that don't like the sight of the red stuff. Blood litters the streets, parts of limbs hang from hooks, my bicycle is in tatters and I am flying through the air after hitting a claymore mine. Yep it can only be HakJak Production's gruesome racing/action game Guts and Glory! Available across all formats and winner of both the IndieDB Editor's and Player's Choice award, was I going to find a great game or just some over the top blood bath of a gaming project? Gameplay Simply put, Guts and Glory requires you to race your character from one point to another through checkpoints within a makeshift 3D world while avoiding all sorts of everyday hazards su...

21Aug

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Gaming, PC Reviews

Guacamelee! 2 Review – A Fiesta For Your Eyes?

Guacamelee! 2 by developer DrinkBox Studios is the long awaited sequel to the platformer series which sees hero luchador Juan Aguacate come out of retirement for a new metroidvania style adventure set across the vast Mexiverse. Inspired by Mexican culture, folklore, crazy chickens and the thrill of wrestling moves, Guacamelee! 2 brings you an epic new story that plays across both the living and the dead worlds simultaneously as well as featuring 4 player local co-op. Available for both Playstation and PC, is Guacamelee! 2 going to be a fiesta or muy mal? Gameplay Guacamelee! 2 begins as a single player game as you recap what has previously happened in the first Guacamelee! back in 2013. Evil Calaca has captured El Presidente's daughter Lupita and is attempting to merge the worlds ...

Aces Of The Luftwaffe: Squadron – Review – Flying High?

13Aug

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Gaming, PC Reviews, Switch Reviews

Aces Of The Luftwaffe: Squadron – Review – Flying High?

Aces of the Luftwaffe: Squadron by German developer Handy Games, who incidentally were acquired by THQ Nordic last month, is a retro arcade vertical scrolling shoot'em up that sees you take command of fighter aces as you take on waves of Axis planes, panzers....oh and even a flying saucer as you attempt to foil the occult plans of the Luftwaffe. Previously in 2015, the console version of Aces of the Luftwaffe was shot down in flames due to it's terribly received port from mobile. Available now on PS4, Xbox One and Steam. Can Aces of the Luftwaffe: Squadron do better? Gameplay Aces of the Luftwaffe: Squadron begins immediately and you are introduced to 4 fighter pilots, namely; Steve Davis, John King, Melissa Monroe and Mark Taylor. The 4 pilots all fly in a squad formation with ...

Roccat Cross Headset Review – Something Like A Phenomenon?

8Aug

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Gaming, PC Reviews

Roccat Cross Headset Review – Something Like A Phenomenon?

I don't know about you but over the years I have had a few different gaming machines and being a bit of a family guy with small children I can't always get to enjoy my gaming in the evening feeling the explosions rippling across my carpet from the subwoofer nor the sounds of gunfire whistling around the room as I may wake them all up! As a result I have had a fair few headsets over the years and this has also led to the issue of having various types of headset to suit the device I am playing on. Enter the ROCCAT Cross, a stereo headset that offers multi-platform connectivity between your devices. On unboxing the Roccat Cross I was greeted by the headset as seen above along with 2 interchangeable leads and the instruction book. Of the 2 anti-tangle leads, one featured a 1.2m sin...

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! Review – Pile of Mash or Roasty Goodness?

1Aug

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Gaming

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! Review – Pile of Mash or Roasty Goodness?

A game about potato people. Seriously is this really a thing? I remember Rimmer from the TV show Red Dwarf talking about the "king of the potato people" but has the delusion finally become a reality?...well in a way yes, yes it has! Fresh out on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a very strange simulation game developed by Daylight Studios based in Singapore, whereby you manage a team of potato people who work in a weapon forge. Here you oversee the forging and selling of their wares to other potato folk who are looking for the right weapon for the quest they are undertaking. I really couldn't make this up, this is an "emerging genre" according to the press kit! Gameplay You control a potato who has inherited a weapon forge from his late grandfather and...

The Incredibles Lego Game Review – Does The Formula Still Work?

13Jul

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LEGO, PC Reviews

The Incredibles Lego Game Review – Does The Formula Still Work?

Adding to the Lego gaming franchise that is brought to us by Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment and Traveller's Tales comes Disney Pixar The Incredibles. Launched just in time with the release into cinema of the second instalment of The Incredibles movies, is the Lego gaming franchise still its humorous fun self or has it grown old and tired? Gameplay As ever, The Incredibles game follows the very much tried and tested Lego gaming formula comprising of witty dialogues, short dynamic cut scenes and essentially teamwork between characters to solve puzzles and complete the levels. Here we get to play as The Incredible family, starting off with Mr Incredible and Elastogirl as we are thrown straight into the action onboard a huge tunnelling machine. Now it is at this point I must ...

Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered Review – Blast From The Past!

2Jul

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Gaming, PC Reviews

Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered Review – Blast From The Past!

The year was 2009, I was 29 years old, The Black Eyed Peas had a feeling, Dizzee Rascal was bonkers and Lady Gaga was showing off her poker face. The gaming scene was alive with Uncharted 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum and a little gem by developers Volition called Red Faction: Guerrilla. For those of you that were possibly only 9 years old back then (I'm not bitter at all and you missed an amazing millennium party) Red Faction: Guerrilla was the 3rd instalment of the Red Faction Saga which introduced a third person open world style of gameplay to the player. Previous games in the series, Red Faction (2001) and Red Faction II (2002) were first person shooters that saw you play in the first game on Mars as a miner called Parker who was having his life ruined by the giant Ultor Corporation ...

Floor Kids Review – Floor Rocking Or Wack?

15Jun

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Gaming, PC Reviews, Switch Reviews

Floor Kids Review – Floor Rocking Or Wack?

Floor Kids by Canadian based MERJ Media is a break-dancing battle game available on Nintendo Switch and PC with Playstation and Xbox in the near future. Floor Kids lets you learn skills, build a crew and find your style. Are you the next Ashley Banjo? or maybe you fancy yourself as an extra from that Run DMC music video! Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme! Get on up, it's Floor Kids time! Gameplay With a GTA intro style beat playing in the background I was optimistic how Floor Kids would play out. The only dancing games I have ever played have either been down the arcades (back in the day) or behind closed curtains using the Playstation Camera to track my silky movements across the living room floor. The fun and rewarding aspect of your physical movement being in time with the be...

5Jun

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Gaming, PC Reviews

Stay Safe Review – Insane In The Membrane!

Stay Safe is a crazily fast 3D futuristic racing game for PC by new French developer Atomic Raccoon. Touting themselves as being "half human and half raccoon" they are pleased to "make pretty hard games based on anarchy and chaos." In terms of hardness, how tricky can a racing game really be? especially when you compare it to today's offerings such as WipeOut where scraping a wall merely leaves you with a slight deceleration to your ship. Well in the words of Rocket Raccoon, "This is frickin' ridiculous!" Gameplay It has been along time since I have played a game so menacing, so frustrating, so ARRRRGGHHHHH!! yet it makes me want to hit that restart key and try the level over and over again. Stay Safe, yeah you just try and do that, is a series of short timed levels where the goa...

The Crew 2 Closed Beta Review – Your Next Favourite Game?

4Jun

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Gaming, PC Reviews

The Crew 2 Closed Beta Review – Your Next Favourite Game?

Well thanks to Ubisoft that was a very busy weekend! For those of you not lucky enough to receive a code to the closed beta for eagerly anticipated The Crew 2, sit back and have a claw through my review to read some of the highlights to be had. Ubisoft have definitely taken their game up a notch since the first Crew hit consoles back in Christmas 2014. Back then I played the beta and I wasn't massively impressed to be honest as you sought to take out revenge for the killing of your brother by infiltrating a gang. Yes open world driving was pretty fun but I couldn't get on with the physics of the cars and to be honest despite the cool google map style zoom in from map to ground level when playing, the graphics just didn't do it for me, especially when compared with similar large open ...