Jason, Author at Thumb Culture

Floor Kids Review – Floor Rocking Or Wack?

15Jun

By JasonNo Comments

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

By JasonNo Comments

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

By JasonNo Comments

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 ...

Everspace Review – Every Day I’m Hubblin’

22May

By JasonNo Comments

Gaming, PC Reviews

Everspace Review – Every Day I’m Hubblin’

Everspace is a single player 3D rogue space shooter by Rockfish games and is the German developer's first foray into the PC and console gaming world. Exhibiting at the earlier EGX: Rezzed in London, Rockfish games have made the leap across from mobile gaming where they found huge success with the "Galaxy on Fire" series. Born from the loins of a kickstarter campaign, as many indie games are now funded, Everspace has been available on PC and Xbox One since 25th May 2017 however it is finally arriving on Playstation today (22nd May 2018). So what is it all about then? Gameplay You play as a character called Hero who recalls vivid memories of a dispute that turned physical, escalating to being jabbed in the neck with a strange liquid filled syringe, and then escaping with a space shi...

8May

By JasonNo Comments

Switch Reviews

Trailblazers Review – Painting Your Way To Victory?

Trailblazers, developed by UK based Supergonk and published digitally by Rising Star Games is a Wipeout style racing game set in the future with a unique and colourful game mechanic whereby you can paint the track your team colour in order to boost. Available on PC and PS4 today (8th) and Xbox tomorrow (9th) with Nintendo Switch around June, the concept of Trailblazers sounds fun but the proof is always in the gameplay! Gameplay As the cartoon style intro begins and the dance track kicks in you are greeted by a simple selection of game options namely; Single player campaign, Custom race, Online race and Options. An exclamation mark points to the first game option and it is off to the campaign for the first few chapters to learn what Trailblazers is about. The campaign mode is set...

30Apr

By JasonNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

X-Morph Defense: European Assault DLC Review – Times Up!

X-Morph Defense by Polish based EXOR studios, who are responsible for the title Zombie Driver, is a tower defence game crossed with a top down shooter where (plot twist) you get to destroy planet Earth. Available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, X-Morph Defense has been in development since 2013 and unlike many games that use the Unreal engine, EXOR have created their own called Schmetterling which when translated isn't an alcoholic beverage for an elf but infact means "butterfly". Taking to the PS4 controller I was intrigued to see how this twin stick hybrid concoction would turn out! Gameplay The opening visuals are pretty cool as your alien race decide upon which planet in the universe is best suited for their needs. Through a robotic sequence of events, Earth gets chosen and the har...

23Apr

By JasonNo Comments

Features

EGX Rezzed 2018 Review

Wow what a busy weekend I had the other day! I had the great delight of checking out the latest indie offerings at EGX Rezzed in London where there was so much to see and play! With just under 200 games on display set across two floors of Tobacco Dock beside the river Thames, I was in gaming heaven. Showcases by SEGA, Nintendo and Xbox were equally matched by the talents on display within the large Indie rooms that housed the majority of up and coming titles. Here is my pick of up and coming games that you should look out for! Another Sight by Italian developers Lunar Great Wall Studios tells the tale of a young girl called Kit who suffers the misfortune of a tunnel collapsing while out exploring. The accident results in her losing her sight, creating a surreal world around he...

Double Kick Heroes Preview – Proper Death Metal

6Apr

By JasonNo Comments

PC Reviews, Previews & Early Access

Double Kick Heroes Preview – Proper Death Metal

Double Kick Heroes by French based developer Headbang Club who reside in a "dark garage filled with guitars, drums and beer corpses" located in "Hell's 6th circle" is a side scrolling zombie splattering game where Rock music is your key to your escape. Inspired by the dramatic worlds of Tarantino, King and Rodriguez, it is up to you to lead your dysfunctional band of rock musicians on a nightmarish roadtrip across the map while dismembering hordes of zombies that chase after your exclusively modded car, the Gundillac. Gameplay My initial thoughts when I first saw Double Kick Heroes was "Noooooo, not another pixel based game!" Having seen the strange popularity of the low-res graphic genre rise and rise since the introduction of Minecraft, many devs have adopted the blocky imagery wh...

Surviving Mars Review – Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying!

22Mar

By JasonNo Comments

PC Reviews

Surviving Mars Review – Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying!

Surviving Mars by independent game developer Haemimont Games (Victor Vran, Tropico 3, 4 and 5) and global publisher Paradox Interactive (Cities:Skylines, Hearts of Iron IV) is a real time survival simulation where, you've probably already guessed it from the title, you have to survive on planet Mars! It has been spoken about greatly on the news as to when we will colonize Mars. Elon Musk has set an aspirational goal to launch a cargo mission to Mars in 2022 on a voyage of discovery meanwhile Arnie found out the eyeball popping truth of the planet in the iconic movie "Total Recall" (The original not the dodgy remake!) If you enjoy settlement builder style strategy games and love all things sci-fi then keep reading as you may be in for a treat with Surviving Mars! Gameplay Start b...

Pure Farming 2018 Review – Udderly Fantastic?

16Mar

By JasonNo Comments

PC Reviews

Pure Farming 2018 Review – Udderly Fantastic?

Pure Farming 2018 by new developer Ice Flames is their first gaming title release and is published by Techland (Torment: Tides of Numenera). Available on PC, Xbox 1 and PS4, Pure Farming 2018 is unsurprisingly a farming simulator game that boasts playable farms set around the world and game modes that are suitable for newcomers as well as veterans of the genre. With Giant's Farming Simulator in my opinion being the leader in the farming sim field (sorry dad joke) and having played Soedesco's Real Farm last year I was really hoping for something magical in terms of gameplay, graphics and sound. What I found with Pure Farming 2018 was something refreshing and far from...Deja Moo. Gameplay "My First Farm", "Free farming" and "Farming Challenges" are the three game modes that lay in...