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Snooker 19 PS4 Review – Pot as Many Balls as you Can!

17Apr

By John6 Comments

Snooker 19 PS4 Review – Pot as Many Balls as you Can!

It’s been 8 years since the last ‘official’ snooker game crossed our tables with WSC 11. While it wasn’t perfect, it was a decent enough game. Given the amount of time that has passed, the announcement of Snooker 19 was met with a lot of expectations and excitement among fans of the green baize. As someone who has been a huge snooker fan for over 25 years and has played almost every snooker game since the Commodore 64. I have been counting the days for this game since it was first announced, and there is a simple reason why… Lab42 have worked alongside World Snooker to bring us what could be the most complete entry ever seen, the top 128 players all included, all the official tournaments and venues from the circuit as well as the first appearance of Jimmy White in an ‘official’ snook...

16Apr

By KevinNo Comments

Gaming, PC Reviews, Previews & Early Access

Etherborn PC Preview – Effortless, Surreal and Puzzling

Altered Matter bring us the gravity bewildering adventure Etherborn. Will it's simplistic artistic style prove to be a winner winner chicken dinner, or should it be fed to the dogs? Time to meditate and enter the weird and wonderful world before me. Gameplay A soft whispery voice guides me, I must follow the dulcet tones to discover the truth. There is a calming nature about this voice that makes me want to do as she is saying. Etherborn is best played with a controller, but keyboard play is possible for the PC owners that don't have a controller. You can jump, run, inspect and move. This game looks perfect, I love simplicity. So what is it all about? Well if you ever have a stressful day at the office and you fancy not shooting zombies to get it out of your system, well this g...

Shadowgate PS4 Review – A Modern Day Text based Adventure

11Apr

By John1 Comment

Gaming, PlayStation Reviews

Shadowgate PS4 Review – A Modern Day Text based Adventure

I’m sure any of the older gamers amongst us will know Shadowgate from the original iteration back on the NES. Well, Zojoi Studios have updated the classic text-based/point & click RPG for modern day gaming. Being completely honest, this one completely flew under my radar and the first I heard of it coming to PS4 was when it appeared for us to review it. Classic text-based games such as Zork were a big part of my childhood, along with the old choose your own adventure books (for any of you that remember those). So I was more than happy to jump on board and do the review (even though I didn’t play the original on the NES). Does Shadowgate do justice to the 80’s classics? Are text-based games still relevant in a gaming world that contains big open world RPGs like Skyrim and The Witc...

Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain PS4 Review – Bug Stomping

11Apr

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

Gaming, PlayStation Reviews

Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain PS4 Review – Bug Stomping

Earth Defense Force: Iron rain is a third-person arcade shooter game developed by Yuke's and published by D3 Publisher. The game will be released on PS4 on the 11th April 2019. With multiple weapon choices, your own personalized character and giant bugs to squish (via rockets and bullets) what else is there to have in an arcade game? Huge robots that want to kill you of course! if you've played the previous Earth Defense Force games you may want to try this one out, I hear Yuke's have upped their game massively to bring you Iron Rain! hit me baby one more time? Gameplay First of all, you get to design what character you want to create, you can personalize it any way you want, starting with gender, then hairstyle, body type, facial hair and many more! I think as an avid sims player I d...

Fenimore Fillmore: 3 Skulls Of The Toltecs Pc Review – Remastered Classic Or Tired Old Gunslinger?

10Apr

By KevynNo Comments

Gaming, PC Reviews

Fenimore Fillmore: 3 Skulls Of The Toltecs Pc Review – Remastered Classic Or Tired Old Gunslinger?

If you grew up during the 90’s you’d have struggled not to have played a point and click adventure. I’ve certainly played my share and loved most of them being a fan of puzzle games as a child, so I was very much looking forward to exercising my mouse clicking finger once more! Fenimore Fillmore: 3 Skulls of the Toltecs is a remaster by the Casual Brothers of the original 1996 game. Set in 1860’s Arizona you play as the game's namesake character Fenimore Fillmore - Gunslinger, after witnessing the attack of an old man named Buck and then accidentally poisoning him with hair tonic, you recover the Toltec skull before being ambushed yourself. When you come to your senses the treasure is gone, taken for safekeeping by a Friar and so begins your adventure… Gameplay Just like any...

Vaporum PS4 Review – A Chip Off The Old Dungeon Crawler Block

9Apr

By JasonNo Comments

Gaming, PlayStation Reviews

Vaporum PS4 Review – A Chip Off The Old Dungeon Crawler Block

Vaporum, by developer Fatbot Games and published by Merge Games, is a steampunk dungeon crawler with a simple movement concept that takes you right back to the original style first conceived in the 1988 epic Dungeon Master by FTL Games. Available originally on PC and Mac, the transition to consoles has taken nearly 2 years, however, it is finally here for Xbox One and PS4 on April 10th and Nintendo Switch the following day. Are you ready to confront fear and the ensuing perils? Enter, stranger... Gameplay Stranded in the middle of the sea on a small island you have no choice but to enter an odd, and out of place, gigantic mechanical tower. At first it appears all new to you, however, the place around you starts to get awfully familiar. Movement around the tower is first per...

A Plague Tale: Innocence Preview – Dont Go Down To The Woods Today

5Apr

By Stu N1 Comment

Gaming, Previews & Early Access

A Plague Tale: Innocence Preview – Dont Go Down To The Woods Today

I was lucky enough to get a preview key of A Plague Tale: Innocence which is developed by Asobo Studio and published by Focus Home Interactive which was an alpha copy of the final game that included the first 3 chapters of the game. I played the game on PC (via Steam) but it will also be available on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. A Plague Tale: Innocence is an action-adventure stealth game set in the plague-ridden kingdom of France in 1309 in which you play Amicia De Rune, a young woman who finds herself after a tale of unfortunate events, alone and on the run with her younger brother Hugo. Let's see how this tale turns out and what's hidden in the deep depths of the woods... Gameplay Without giving too many spoilers of the game, you start off with Amicia with her father and the...

The Walking Vegetables Radical Edition PS4 Review – Beat Your Vegetables

4Apr

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

Gaming, PlayStation Reviews

The Walking Vegetables Radical Edition PS4 Review – Beat Your Vegetables

Hate vegetables? rather smash one up than devour it? The Walking Vegetables Radical Edition may be right down your street. Brought to you by publisher Merge Games Limited and devs Still Running, The Walking Vegetables is an action-packed game available on PC, Nintendo switch, Xbox One and PS4 Gameplay You're a beat cop style guy who looks very much like Walter White with a DeLorean (every guy in the '80s had them right ?) yet you're less law-breaking and more helping the city and trying to not get mauled by giant mutated vegetables, The main aim of the game is to go through the levels to free the city from them. Using either sofa co-op (or if you're a lone ranger like myself) head out and beat the baddies solo. Multiple enemies cross your path, carrots, broccoli, tomatoes and many ...

The Division 2 PS4 Review – Welcome to DC

3Apr

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

Gaming, PlayStation Reviews

The Division 2 PS4 Review – Welcome to DC

The Division 2 is here finally and as you all probably know this is Ubisoft's latest work. So with nothing else to say let's dive straight in shall we? Gameplay The Division 2 is a tactical cover to cover shooter. You can choose to go in all guns blazing..... but why? I'm sure everyone has played the first game which was set in New York with a smallpox epidemic and if not then where have you been? Well anyway The Division 2 is set in Washington DC and smallpox is no longer the issue but instead you now have the green poison. Lovely isn't it? Story-wise this isn't as good as the original Division game. But this is a beautiful game with a really well thought out open-world that begs to be explored. Your choice of weapons vary also depending on how you play the game. In the or...

Generation Zero PC Review – An 80’s Robo-Nightmare

2Apr

By Craig1 Comment

Gaming, PC Reviews

Generation Zero PC Review – An 80’s Robo-Nightmare

Generation Zero is the latest offering from the developers at Avalanche Studios. It is a first-person co-op shooter developed for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Generation Zero released on the 26th of March, 2019. Avalanche Studios has had a pretty solid track record in terms of making fun open world games. Mad Max and the Just Cause series are among the titles Avalanche Studios is known for making. Let's get on our rad clothes, break out the boombox and check out the bogus events following a weekend campout with friends. Gameplay I have been looking forward to getting my hands on Generation Zero since I first heard about it. I mean come on, Robots? The 80's? Scavenging for weapons to survive? That sounds pretty awesome, right? In theory, yes, that sounds awesome. In practice, however, it's slig...