Tuesday, December 16

PC Reviews

Sea of Thieves Review – The Seas Have Calmed
14May By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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Sea of Thieves Review – The Seas Have Calmed

It has been a whilesince Rare’s swashbuckling title, Sea of Thieves launched. A highly anticipated title with many players, including myself being desperate to jump into the salty seas. However, to point out again, it has been a while since Sea of Thieves launched, and I feel it’s a good time to see how the game plays now that the tide of excitement has lowered. I saw Sea of Thieves grow from way back in the early months of 2017. Playtests had just got started in fact. I think I was the second wave of players to get accepted, but I didn’t get to play much. I knew from my short time with it though, that it was something nice and that the community was excited amongst one another in the private forums. February 2018 saw more playtests taking place as the game grew closer to launch,...
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CoolPaintr VR Review: Highlighting The Limits Of My Imagination
9May By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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CoolPaintr VR Review: Highlighting The Limits Of My Imagination

Video games can be like taking selfies with the filter switched on. It’s still you in there, but the version of you that you want the world to see. You play a driving game and get to live out your fantasies of being a racing driver, or getaway driver if that’s more your thing. A first person shooter will get you crawling through the battlefield, bravely leading team mates into the line of fire. A role playing game will have you walking the wasteland or exploring the mountains, all without leaving your house. Although CoolPaintr VR isn't a game, its no different. You go into it with a million ideas, creation at your fingertips and all of the power of VR to realise it. The only limitation is your imagination and you go in with the assumption that your imagination is limitless. Cool...
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Shoppe Keep 2 Preview – Granville, Fetch Your Hammer!
3May By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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Shoppe Keep 2 Preview – Granville, Fetch Your Hammer!

Shoppe Keep was a wonderful shop management title, played from a first-person perspective with a strong focus on just selling items to customers. It didn’t really venture further than that, and it was hard to get into due to the progression system feeling lacklustre. Shoppe Keep 2 is here to change the game. Shoppe Keep had always been a fun experience no matter how many times I revisited it. Sadly the initial enjoyment of earning enough money to upgrade the store ending up feeling like more work than it needed to be. Customers didn’t flock in, but those that did lobbed your items like a tired bull trying to cause chaos. Shoppe Keep 2 arrives on Early Access with a much stronger focus on management than its predecessor. It also seems to feel just as sluggish in gameplay as the previous ...
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For The King Review – A Tale Told In Coin Flips
2May By AlexNo Comments
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For The King Review – A Tale Told In Coin Flips

Released on April 19 and sneaking onto PC everywhere is board game turned turn-based RPG For the King. After spending some nights in the soft glow of my computer and accompanied by two friends to help in my journey I bestow upon you the reader a tale of rage and laughter. This is my review of For the King. Can BEARLY contain my excitement….sorry had to be done. Gameplay For the King takes you onto an adventure in the land of Fahrul. The game takes you on a journey to restore peace to the land after the king was murdered by an unknown assailant. You explore the map in a party of three whither that be with two friends, two online strangers, or you can control everyone. This game is a rogue-like joy ride across a hexagonal map. You start with a choice of three modes. The main...
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Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Review – Stack Rats on Rats on Rats
27Apr By StuartNo Comments
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Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Review – Stack Rats on Rats on Rats

Using fire, axes, bows, and a healthy dose of name calling wage an all out battle against the forces of both rats and evil northmen in Warhammer: Vermintide 2. Fatshark released Warhammer: End Times-Vermintide through Steam in 2015 amongst positive reviews. Following the familiar structure of Left4Dead it introduced us to the world of Warhammer and how much fun bashing in hordes of rat people can be. On March 8, 2018 they brought us Warhammer: Vermintide 2 for the PC to my excitement. Now after a month since release let’s see how it’s holding up.   Gameplay Verminide 2 doesn’t change the future of co-op gaming. But man does it improve upon it. You start in a tutorial as Markus Kruber, one of the five classes to play in this game, who has been captured and placed into a cag...
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Murderous Pursuits Preview – Making Assassination More Fun
23Apr By TC Staff Writer1 Comment
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Murderous Pursuits Preview – Making Assassination More Fun

If you prefer to eliminate your foes with stealth, and tactics rather than running in, all guns/swords blazing, then you might be interested in jumping on ship during the Jurassic Period, with Murderous Pursuits. Blazing Griffin’s assassination focused multi-player title, Murderous Pursuits ran an Open Beta from the 20th of April 2018, until 5am Monday 2018. Now, this one for me had been hiding away. I had seen nothing of the title anywhere before the open beta announcement until a friend of mine told me about it. So it was a lovely surprise to see it a few hours before it went live. Now, Murderous Pursuits is the toned-down equivalent where if Assassin’s Creed and Dishonored had a baby, and merged that DNA with a hint of The Ship, this is what you’d see birthed. The reason I mention...
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Double Kick Heroes Preview – Proper Death Metal
6Apr By JasonNo Comments
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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...
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Abandon Ship Review – A Kraken Good Time?
3Apr By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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Abandon Ship Review – A Kraken Good Time?

This year, there are two major nautical themed titles coming out (or have come out) that you’ve no doubt heard about. One of these is Sea of Thieves by Rare, which arrived in March, and then there’s Skull & Bones from Ubisoft due to land this Fall. Both looking to tackle different elements of being a sea-farer. Sea of Thieves bringing exploration to the main hull, and Skull & Bones manning the cannons for more combat focused gameplay. The real question is though, have you heard of the third nautical themed title coming out this year? Abandon Ship. Fireblade Software lower the sails and set off with their PC exclusive title, Abandon Ship bringing the management of a ship to the hands of wannabe Captain’s. Abandon Ship is a singleplayer only title, and takes heavy inspiration from...
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Blasters of the Universe Review – Pew Pew Die
3Apr By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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Blasters of the Universe Review – Pew Pew Die

[Advisory Warning: This review contains details which disclose that the reviewer is old enough to remember the 80’s. Reader discretion is advised.] Odd socks, impossibly large hair, guys in Porsches, women in shoulder pads and everyone wearing shades, all the time, even indoors. That was the 80’s. ET was everything, Transformers were huge, everyone listened to Madonna and Pop Tarts were considered the food of the future. Most video games could only be found in arcades and that is where this story begins. Back then the guns in video games had very little reference to real life. Overpowered guns fired impossibly large bullets that travelled visibly slowly across the screen, from hero to antagonist and vice versa. The aim of the game was nothing more than to dodge bullets and kill the bad ...
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A Way Out Review – Witnessing Gaming Evolution
27Mar By TC Staff WriterNo Comments
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A Way Out Review – Witnessing Gaming Evolution

I can’t begin to tell you how excited I was when I saw A Way Out at E3 2017. Not only did it look amazing with its appealing story-line, but also because I could actually FINALLY play a game with another physical person…. on…the…same…sofa! I haven’t done this properly since the Left 4 Dead series, but being able to play an actual story-based game with someone in the same room was, without question, a must-buy for me. A Way Out is a new co-op adventure from the director of the critically acclaimed Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Josef Fares (Yes, the Fuck the Oscars guy, my hero!) It’s developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts under their EA Originals program, but to make it clear, EA do not profit at all from this game. All proceeds go to the studio, who also retain ...
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