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Redeemer: Enhanced Edition PS4 Review – Hotline of War

25Jul

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Redeemer: Enhanced Edition PS4 Review – Hotline of War

Back when this game originally released, one of the developers over at Sobaka Studio described the game as a mixture of Hotline Miami and God of War. It was a very bold claim with both of the series the developer compared his game to being absolute juggernauts in the gaming industry. Whilst those claims are quite exaggerated, I can definitely see where the developer was coming from and now that Redeemer: Enhanced Edition is gracing consoles, it's time to take a look back at the game to see what improvements have been made. Gameplay In the game you play as Visily, a soldier turned monk who is just trying to live out his remaining years in a mountaintop temple. When his past catches up with him, all Hell breaks loose, leading to the capture of his monk brothers and the destruction of the m...

Planet Coaster: Ghostbusters DLC PC Review

24Jul

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Gaming, PC Reviews

Planet Coaster: Ghostbusters DLC PC Review

The Ghostbusters come to your park in this latest paid DLC for Planet Coaster, by Frontier Developments. The pack can be purchased alone or can be bundled with the base game at a discount on the Steam store. With the base game released November of 2016, this new content released in June appears to be on track to keep up with its Very Positive rating. Although I’m a new player to Planet Coaster in general, I was excited to take the deep dive into the Ghostbuster’s DLC after getting my feet wet in the base game. Needless to say, I wasn’t disappointed. Gameplay Planet Coaster: Ghostbusters not only brings new goodies to add to your own theme parks, such as iconic figures like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and the ECTO-1, but it also adds a new narrative campaign for the player to exp...

Streets of Rogue Nintendo – Rogue Delight

22Jul

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Switch Reviews

Streets of Rogue Nintendo – Rogue Delight

Streets of Rogue was developed by Matt Dabrowski and published by Tiny Build games. It was released on Steam, Switch and PS4 on 12th July 2019, having been in Steam early access since 2017. As is typical for a game which has been slow-cooking for so long, SOR is packed full of content and things to discover. You could be forgiven for thinking SOR is attempting to capitalise on the nostalgia for Sega’s 90s beat-em-up Streets of Rage. In fact, you should be forgiven because it almost certainly is attempting to capitalise on the nostalgia for Sega’s 90s beat-em-up Streets of Rage, much like the unrelated Streets of Red: Devil’s Dare Deluxe. SOR is not a side-scrolling beat-em-up, however, and instead chooses to follow in the footsteps of titles such as the original Grand Theft Auto, Hotlin...

10Jul

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Switch Reviews

Professor Lupo And His Horrible Pets

Hard to put down… Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets is the latest title from BeautiFun Games and is set to release on Switch and Steam on 11th July 2019. PLahHP (ugh!) is a top-down puzzle game in which the titular professor has captured various insectoid alien species from the far reaches of the galaxy and stored them aboard the labyrinthine Aurora space station for safe-keeping. These “pets” all share both the ability to transform from cute monstrosities into slightly less cute monstrosities and a hankering for human flesh, and Professor Lupo makes a pretty penny from auctioning off them off to various despicable dictators who have conspired to turn Earth into an oppressive dystopia. You play as The Intern, a lowly employee of Professor Lupo, whose job is to serve as bait to ...

My Friend Pedro PC Review – Bananas In Gun Holsters

1Jul

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Gaming, PC Reviews

My Friend Pedro PC Review – Bananas In Gun Holsters

My Friend Pedro is a side-scrolling action shoot 'em up game developed by DeadToast Entertainment and published by Devolver Digital. The game was released on the 20th June and is currently available on the PC & Nintendo Switch. Let's start by saying if you haven’t seen the launch trailer for this game, then you need to see it RIGHT NOW as its hilarious. Click the link below and come back here when ready. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyahBxUAYbs What’s funnier than a talking banana telling you how to cook, and what’s cooler than a fast-paced protagonist on a rampage of gun shooting, knife throwing and using a…frying pan? Yes, that’s what I said. So with that being said, let’s matrix-style “slow-mo” dive right in and see why there has been a lot of interest in this game. &...

Rescue HQ Tycoon PC Review – What’s Your Emergency?

12Jun

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Rescue HQ Tycoon PC Review – What’s Your Emergency?

My childhood was very much similar to adulthood, my hobbies were games and one of the most memorable ones was Theme Hospital. I remember spending hours and hours pretending I was a doctor or a nurse building the perfect place where everyone was happy and everyone came out alive (oh my sweet child mind for believing this ). Given Rescue HQ Tycoon to review may just have brought back a whole ton of nostalgia giving me the chance to have a whole service station for police, firemen and a hospital to work with! Rescue HQ Tycoon is brought to you by developers Stillalive Studios, the same guys who brought us other sim games such as Bus simulator 18. It is published by yet more people who made sim style games Aerosoft who gave us more fun games such as emergency call 112 and truck simul...

Dollhouse PS4 Review – Dollhouse of horrors

11Jun

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Gaming, PlayStation Reviews

Dollhouse PS4 Review – Dollhouse of horrors

When finding out what game I want to review I always check out what kind of game it is, and as someone who plays a lot of horrors and watches numerous horror films with minimal flinching I thought would take Dollhouse and put my horror gaming skills to the test, but it was not like any other horror game I previously played! From the creators of many games including Ether One and Truck Driver SOEDESCO have teamed up with Creazn Studio and they have released this wonderfully creepy psychological horror 1950's Hollywood film noir for us all to enjoy! it is available on all PS4, PC and Xbox One. Gameplay You're an ex-detective called Marie, who has awoken in a location she does not know along with amnesia, the only thing you remember is the death of your daughter. You can hear a woman...

10Jun

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Gaming, PlayStation Reviews

Anthem – A Game I Still Want to Love

When Anthem released back in February, I was looking forward to a lengthy relationship with a game that brought refreshing gameplay and a new IP to the table from a studio that was well-known for its deep and rich storytelling. I spent more time streaming Anthem than I had anything else in a long while and I thought for sure I had found my new home. Post-launch plans were in place by BioWare for future content to keep the game fresh and things were really looking like they were on track for an avid community for a while to come. This new, shiny treasure was going to be amazing! Sadly though, healthy infancy wasn’t in the cards for Anthem. Almost immediately after the game went live for the full launch, it was already drawing criticism for falling short of its massive potential. Play...

Pandemic Express: Zombie Escape PC review – One Way Ticket To Death

31May

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Gaming, PC Reviews

Pandemic Express: Zombie Escape PC review – One Way Ticket To Death

Escaping real-life playing an escaping game, sounds like the best kind of game right? how about if you're thrown a curve ball including zombies, trains and guns! perfect? given the opportunity to play Pandemic Express: Zombie Escape gave me the wonderful option to do exactly this. Gameplay From the creators of fun games such as Hello Neighbour and Guts and Glory, TinyBuild Games have created yet another quirky game for us all to play all the way from America. Starting in a "cell" type room, filled with other prisoners ( Around Thirty - To be exact ) each and every one of them another player, you don't know who's going to be the zombie, all you know is it's going to be one of you and the second the lobby is full and the timer goes down the enemy will be revealed to you all. if you're l...

Layers Of Fear 2 – PC Review – Pack your pants for a boat trip!

24May

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Gaming, PC Reviews

Layers Of Fear 2 – PC Review – Pack your pants for a boat trip!

I really do love running around in horror games, and I am forever checking behind me just in case something is going to sneak up on me and get me, Layers Of Fear 2 really got into my head and no matter how many times I looked behind me I still felt on edge and worried I was going to have to reach for the third or fourth pair of pants for the night. Layers of fear 2 is the second Layers of fear game to be released, after the first was such an amazing game and big hit they decided to release a sequel, it is a psychological horror game developed by the Bloober team who brought us amazing games such as The Observer and Layers of Fear, it is published by Gun media who blessed us with games such as Friday the 13th! Layers of fear 2 are being released on PC, PlayStation 4, Swit...