PC Reviews

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

13Jul

By JasonNo Comments

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 ...

The Spectrum Retreat Review – Welcome To The Hotel Penrose, Such A Lovely Place?

10Jul

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Gaming, PC Reviews

The Spectrum Retreat Review – Welcome To The Hotel Penrose, Such A Lovely Place?

Two years ago, 20-year-old game designer Dan Smith won a BAFTA in the Young Game Designers category for his prototype of what would become The Spectrum Retreat. Publisher Ripstone has stepped in to help turn the game into a fully-fledged product. It's quite an achievement for the up and coming game maker, so let’s check in and enjoy our stay, maybe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW7HN9Pd9nU GamePlay We have all been there at some point in our life, right? You wake up in a strange hotel room with no memory of how you got there or what happened the night before. Just as you start thinking of an egg McMuffin, a knock appears at the door, but this isn’t the usual breakfast call. You are greeted by an android asking you personally to come down for breakfast. (Just how much did...

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

2Jul

By JasonNo Comments

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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 ...

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker Review – You Believe Me, Don’t You?

29Jun

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The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker Review – You Believe Me, Don’t You?

A FMV murder mystery with a bit of a twist. Are they the insane ones? Is any of this real? Whats really going on? Thrust into a new world by the death of a doctor, can you handle the patient load as things appear to change all around you? Are you sure they are the crazy ones? D'Avekki Studios developed The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker, a FMV Lovecraft mystery, back in 2017. FMV, meaning Full Motion Video, where the characters you interact with are real people, its almost like watching a movie that you control the narrative to. You can type out your questions and answers to which there are 1600+ full screen HD responses the characters can use to continue the conversations. This sounds great in theory but I found my self typing multiple questions and phrases just for them to be con...

Shadow – Does More Power Come With More Problems?

15Jun

By John2 Comments

Gaming, PC Reviews

Shadow – Does More Power Come With More Problems?

UPDATE: Blade updated something which affects the freezing issue you experienced when the TV was on: Using the beta apps, you can use H265 and greatly reduce bandwidth without affecting quality. Blade also pushed a massive update 3 days ago that vastly improves fluidity. Hey there fellow Gaming Enthusiasts! Any of you that know me know my PC gaming pretty much died out back in the 90’s and I’ve only just started to dip my toes in the water with Steam more recently thanks to being part of this group. This means that my PC equipment itself is a little dated and makes some of the gaming a little frustrating to use with higher-end specs and can be a little more troublesome at times to run at all. Enter Shadow from Blade, the answer to all my problems! Access to more powerful hardware...

Floor Kids Review – Floor Rocking Or Wack?

15Jun

By JasonNo Comments

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...

House Flipper PC Review – If Only Housework Was Really This Easy!

12Jun

By John1 Comment

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House Flipper PC Review – If Only Housework Was Really This Easy!

House Flipper is a Casual DIY / building sim from Empyrean. Basically you’re a one man renovation machine. Working from doing odd jobs for people who need repairs etc. all the way up to flipping houses for a profit (Guess the title makes sense.. although not going to lie I was imagining flipping houses like burgers, with a giant spatula). The biggest question for me was, Can Virtual house work actually be fun? Let’s find out… Gameplay Let’s be honest, you have to be a pretty ‘special’ person to enjoy doing house work or DIY, I’m sure 99% of people would much rather have someone else do it for them (or else why would house keepers and repairmen have jobs?). Well at the start of House Flipper you’re basically a housekeeper. You need to do odd jobs to earn cash to take on and unlock t...

BenQ EL2870U 28-Inch 4K TN Monitor Review

7Jun

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BenQ EL2870U 28-Inch 4K TN Monitor Review

As with any maturing technology, 4K monitors are slowly starting to go down in price since they’ve been around for a while now, but 4K monitors that also come with built-in HDR support are still pretty rare, making BenQ’s brand-new EL2870U something of a specialty. Without further ado, let’s see just how good this product, realistically, fairs. About The EL2870U comes as a 28” screen with a 4K TN (Twisted Nematic) panel, boasting HDR, Freesync and a 1ms response time to boot. On top of that there’s a pair of anaemic built-in speakers, a couple of HDMI 2.0 ports, a single DVI 1.4 input and BENQ’s eye care tech for those who spend their life in front of their monitors. In case you aren’t sure what HDR is, this next part is lovingly just for you - HDR, or high dynamic range, is a ...

5Jun

By JasonNo Comments

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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

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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 ...