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FIA European Truck Racing Championship PS4 Review – Precision Heavy Metal

8Aug

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FIA European Truck Racing Championship PS4 Review – Precision Heavy Metal

FIA European Truck Racing Championship (ETRC) is available for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Windows PC and on Playstation 4 which will be my test circuit. BigBen Interactive are the publishers for this game, they certainly don't need any introduction unless you've been hiding under a rock. N-Racing has been developing racing games for some time now, although mainly arcade-style racers to my knowledge. Gameplay FIA European Truck Racing Championship is a mouthful so from here on I will refer to it as ETRC. This was a new one for me. Truck racing is one thing I've never had a lot of experience with. I know it exists but I'm more used to hypercars or F1 cars zipping around a track. ETRC is something I am quite intrigued about. Eagerly I hit the options button to get straight into the acti...

7Aug

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Gaming, PC Reviews

Wolfenstein Youngblood PC Preview

Wolfenstein Youngblood is a first-person co-op shooter game and a spin-off to the Wolfenstein series, developed by MachineGames and Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. One really cool benefit of Wolfenstein Youngblood is if you purchase the Deluxe Edition of the game it grants you the Buddy Pass which allows you to invite a friend to play through the entire game with you—for free! The game was released on July 26th on Xbox, PS4, PC & Nintendo Switch and will also be coming to Stadia in the future. Gameplay Your role in Wolfenstein Youngblood is to play as one of BJ Blazkowicz’s (the protagonist of the Wolfenstein series) twin daughters named Jess or Soph, which by 20 years have passed since the events of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. You begin the game by c...

Rescue HQ Tycoon – PC Review – 911 whats your emergency?

6Aug

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Gaming, PC Reviews

Rescue HQ Tycoon – PC Review – 911 whats your emergency?

My childhood was very much similar to adulthood, my hobbies were games and one of the most memorable ones were 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 of brought back a whole ton of nostalgia. 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 simulator Gameplay The mayor, a cute little fella with a double chin ( i had to check that it w...

2Aug

By JasonNo Comments

Gaming, PlayStation Reviews

Car Mechanic Simulator PS4 Review – Time To Appreciate Your Mechanic

I do love to play around with cars in my spare time, usually fixing my own as I can't afford garage rates. Under the watchful eye of my father in law, who is a mechanic, I have successfully taken parts off my car and replaced them. It was a refreshing change to take a look at Car Mechanic Simulator by Red Dot Games on the PS4 as it meant that I wouldn't be scraping grease and oil off my hands afterwards! Gameplay I reckon that most people have seen or at least know of Car Mechanic Simulator as it has been around for a few years now. For those of you not in the know, the game comprises of you running a garage whereby you repair cars and try and make some profit while upgrading your tools and abilities to take on tougher challenges. Unlike Stu who reviewed the Nintendo Switch versi...

Forged of Blood PC Review – Forge Your Party and Retake Your Kingdom

1Aug

By CraigNo Comments

Gaming, PC Reviews

Forged of Blood PC Review – Forge Your Party and Retake Your Kingdom

Forged of Blood is the first game from developers Critical Forge. Forged of Blood is currently only being developed for PC, and it has received the Most Promising Game Award from Game Prime Asia in 2018 and from Pop Con Asia in 2017. Critical Forge is a small independent development team of 8 people, based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It's great to see a small independent team making the game they want to make without having the hand of a larger company telling them what to do. Let's jump in and find out if Forged of Blood is worth your time! Gameplay Forged of Blood is a tactical turn-based role-playing game set in a fantasy environment. In the story, the player takes on the role of Prince Tavias Caenican. The story begins with your father, King Aurelian Caenican being killed as the castle ...

Must Dash Amigos PC Review – Piñata Stampedes

31Jul

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Gaming, PC Reviews

Must Dash Amigos PC Review – Piñata Stampedes

Must Dash Amigos by miniBeast Games is a top-down battle racer for up to 4 players that is filled with avocados and pinata stampedes. You can play single player & local multiplayer of up to 4 players. The game has just been released on PC via Steam on 21st July and is aiming to be released later on in the year on the Nintendo Switch & Xbox One. Gameplay Must Dash Amigos is a fun and humorous game whereas the saying says “To survive in this world you cannot just run; you Must Dash Amigos!”. Your goal is simple, in “Race Mode!” you need to run, or should I say dash around the games 12 unique race tracks as fast as you can to the finish line, leaving your rivals behind you in a trail of dust. The controls are really simple in Must Dash Amigos so anyone of any age can pick t...

Diesel Brothers Truck Building Simulator PC Review – Look Mom, I’m A Mechanic

26Jul

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Gaming, PC Reviews

Diesel Brothers Truck Building Simulator PC Review – Look Mom, I’m A Mechanic

I often watch the 5 min creative videos you see floating around on social media and I think to myself "yep, I could do that, seems totally easy to recreate" and decided to watch a few Diesel Brothers shows myself which again I was like " looks hard, but I bet I could manage to build my own giant pink truck!" Turns out I'm an absolute wet wipe at building anything other than a lego figurine. Diesel Brothers; Truck Building Simulator is brought to you by developers Code Horizon the same guys who brought us games such as Gold Rush, It is published by both Code Horizon and PlayWay S.A The wonderful humans who blessed us with games such as house flipper and car mechanic simulator Gameplay The game is based off the actual television show Diesel Brothers which I have often found my...

Redeemer: Enhanced Edition PS4 Review – Hotline of War

25Jul

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Gaming, PlayStation Reviews

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...

CTR: Nitro Fueled Incense Burner & Other Merchandise

18Jul

By JohnNo Comments

Gaming

CTR: Nitro Fueled Incense Burner & Other Merchandise

With the current frenzy of fast paced Karting action currently occupying (almost) everyone’s gaming consoles, the guys over at Numskull have released a whole host of collectable merchandise and goodies that will turn any man-cave into a CTR shrine, and they were kind enough to send us here at Thumb Culture a few pieces to have a look at. The Peace de la resistance among this selection is the Incense Burner, following on from the trend that started back with Spyro, we have a wonderfully detailed version of Crash sat in his ‘Team Bandicoot’ Kart ready to burn off the line and get him some of that Wumpa fruit! At approx. 20cm long, 17cm wide and 14cm high, Crash is a fairly large statue for an Incense Burner, but that is to be expected considering it’s a Kart, and I think it fits qu...