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SURV1V3 – PCVR Review
VR Reviews

SURV1V3 – PCVR Review

Developed and published by Candymakers, a 2-man team. A new zombie survival game has entered the arena. It was released on steam 20th June 2021 and is compatible with all PCVR headsets with their website showing Oculus, PSVR, and VIVEPORT as "coming soon". SURV1V3 is a unique realistic zombie survival FPS game expressly designed for Virtual Reality that will let you test your survival skills. Let's check out some gameplay. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living The V1V3 virus has spread worldwide killing billions of people. Do you have what it takes to save the world? Gameplay On first loading into the game, you are greeted with a menu board. This helps with collaboration and some options such as free or snap turning. You are then taken to a tutorial. Y...
Lemnis Gate Preview
PC Reviews, Previews & Early Access

Lemnis Gate Preview

Lemnis Gate, by devs Ratloop Games Canada is a tactical first-person shooter at heart, but with one hell of a twist.  I was lucky along with a few other of the TC staff to take part in the recent Beta and with the game being deployed across PC, Playstation, and Xbox on the 28th of September it was time to get this preview written! Lemnis Gate - COD Meets Time Travel, Can Your Reality Survive? If you enjoy strategic turn-based fps-styled games, read on but be warned, all is not as clear-cut as it seems! Gameplay Lemnis Gate comes with 4 game modes across 7 maps at launch featuring ditties such as seek and destroy, domination, retrieve XM (capture the flag), and deathmatch.  With single-player, co-op, and PvP, every eventuality is covered.  The team that you control currently consist...
The Falconeer: Warrior Edition Review
PlayStation Reviews

The Falconeer: Warrior Edition Review

The Falconeer: Warrior Edition is an enhanced version of the base game with some DLC included for good measure. The base game was first released in November 2020 on Windows & Xbox series S/X. This version brings the game to PS4, PS5 & Nintendo Switch and is available now. With his debut, Falconeer comes from developer Tomas Sala and indie game publisher Wired Productions. Sala developed the game solo and Wired is known for games such as Deliver Us The Moon. Taking place in Ursee, a world mostly water, various factions, and houses emerged, and all seek to gain power. As a result, the falconeers have become warriors, guardians, and anything else needed to survive, supported by their giant warbeasts. This review is based on the PS5 version and you should also check out Jay's...
Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever Review
VR Reviews

Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever Review

Nominated for VR Game of the Year at the 2021 VR Awards, Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever is an arcade light gun racing shooter built for VR. Zombieland VR combines arcade shooting from ‘The House of the Dead’ with checkpoint time trials from racing games. Zombieland Rule number 2 - DOUBLE TAP! Following the hugely successful release to the Oculus store on 25th March 2021 where it was nominated for ‘VR Game of the Year’ at the 2021 VR Awards, Zombieland Headshot Fever has now launched onto the Steam store. With support for HTC, Valve, and WMR headsets, The leaderboard is definitely going to be opened up with new competitors. You can check out our Oculus Quest 2 review for Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever here. Gameplay There have been no overhauls to the gameplay for the Steam version...
Blightbound Review
PC Reviews

Blightbound Review

The developer Romino Games and publisher Devolver Digital are bringing you, a non-stop, all-action, fast-paced, online dungeon crawler. Unlock new characters as you crawl, along with an assortment of different and more powerful weapons to collect. Hack and slash, cast spells or just run as fast as you can to complete the objective Blightbound has it all. Blightbound- Non-stop Multiplayer Dungeon Crawling I have always enjoyed a good dungeon crawler, so I was super stoked to get my hands on, Blightbound and enjoy some good old dash and smash. Gameplay The world lies in peril. Decades ago, a band of legendary warriors slayed the dreaded Shadow Titan after a long and ferocious struggle, but their celebration was short-lived. The Shadow Titan’s true intentions revealed themselves when from...
Samurai Warriors 5 Review
PlayStation Reviews

Samurai Warriors 5 Review

As you may have expected, Samurai Warriors 5 or Sengoku Musou 5 as it is known in Japan is the fifth main installment in the Samurai Warriors series. Samurai Warriors started life in 2004 and itself is the sister series of Dynasty Warriors. Dynasty Warriors is a spin-off from the 1985 turn-based strategy series called Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Confused? Basically, Koei Tecmo has been doing this for over 35 years so it's fair to say they know what they're doing. Samurai Warriors 5 - A Cut Above The Rest - "It appears you have bested me, well, if you excuse me I will now retreat." Samurai Warriors 5 is a hack-and-slash game set in the Sengoku (Warring States) period in Japanese history and features characterisations of real people and real events. With 37 playable characters, the game...
Within the Blade Review
Xbox Reviews

Within the Blade Review

Its Retro, its 16-BIT and brings back all the memories of days-gone-by of sitting in front of a Sega Mega Drive as time flew by playing a certain 2D platform game with a blue hedgehog. From the indie house that is Ametist comes Within The Blade, a 2D jaunt around 1560's Civil war-torn Japan. Let's just get one thing out of the way first. If this game looks familiar to some that is because it is. Ametist originally released this game on Steam under the name Pixel Shinobi: Nine demons of Mamoru way back in 2017, now in 2021 we have it renamed and released for Xbox If you love this game and want to share your thoughts or just like this review, leave us a comment. We always love to know what you think. Gameplay At its heart Within the Blade is a 2D scrolling game, and everything fr...
Death’s Door Review
Xbox Reviews

Death’s Door Review

From the publishing giants Devolver Digital, under the development of Acid Nerve comes Death's Door. What we have here is an isometric adventure game where you play a reaper of souls - a crow. Your job is to go from door to door collecting souls from those whose time is up. With a very nice game world, multiple areas, and paths, Death's Door is shaping up to be one of the breakout indie games of 2021. How did I get on with it? Carry on reading to find out just what I think of this one. Death's Door - Hello! I've come to collect your soul I played Death's Door on the Xbox Series X thanks to an early review code we were provided. The release date for this one is the 20th of July. How many of you will be playing it? Let us know your thoughts down in the comments after reading this short rev...
Ubisoft Unveils New Tom Clancy Game XDefiant
News & Updates

Ubisoft Unveils New Tom Clancy Game XDefiant

Well after the many countdowns, Ubisoft has finally unveiled the first looks for their first-person shooter entitled XDefiant. Coming to Xbox, Playstation, PC and Stadia (if it is still around by then), Ubisoft hopes that this free-to-play "high octane shooter" will have you begging for more. First looks on the reveal show 4 factions made up of various characters from other Tom Clancy games set in close-quarter combat.  There are the Wolves, Outcasts, Cleaners and Echelon factions while the maps are all iconic locations that you will mostly recognise.  Ubisoft plans to unveil further "Defiants" as they continue. Checkout Ubisoft's screenshots below: With teams of upto 6 players by the looks of the reveal, you get to mix and match your traits, abilities as well as select you...
Bloodroots Review
Xbox Reviews

Bloodroots Review

Welcome to my review of Bloodroots. Developed and published by Paper Cult Inc, which is known for Fat Mask and is an indie game developer based in Montreal, Canada. Bloodroots is an action-packed game where timing is key in your survival to progress through the game whilst taking down foes. Bloodroots - Take Down Your Foes With Anything You Please The chosen platform here was the Xbox Series X. This is with thanks to it being added to Xbox Game Pass on the 15th of July. If you enjoy this review please check out my previous review here, where I played Open Country on the PlayStation 4. We're also very active on social media, you can find our links down at the bottom of my review. Gameplay We start Bloodroots in a bad way, our protagonist, Mr. Wolf, has been betrayed by his clan. But all...