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Where The Water Tastes Like Wine Review – A Mesmerising Folklore Adventure

1Mar

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

Where The Water Tastes Like Wine Review – A Mesmerising Folklore Adventure

This gritty and dark American Folklore tale is by Dim Bulb Games and Serenity Forge. It was also founded by Johnnemann Nordhagen, co-founder of Fullbright and programmer on Gone Home and BioShock 2. Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a surreal, poetic journey through American legend and fantasy, featuring delicious art and toe tapping original folk music. It spans a century of US history in the depression era, introducing players to a vast cast of drifters, fortune tellers, and magical creatures – and there’s Sting, yes the musician Sting. https://youtu.be/fnznWYE_wxc Gameplay Having lived for a while in the south, I loved hearing all the old stories, getting lost in the music and visiting vast places of cultural interest on my journeys around Mississippi, Tennessee and New Orleans, ...

Rad Rogers Review – Shoot Em Up Brilliance

20Feb

By StuartNo Comments

PC Reviews

Rad Rogers Review – Shoot Em Up Brilliance

Rad Rogers published by THQ Nordic, is a new take on an old classic. The side scrolling platformer! You take the controls of Rad Rogers, a rambunctious but spirited young boy who maybe plays too many video games. After dozing off at the tail end of a long night of gaming, Rad awakens to find his dusty old console has turned itself back on. Suddenly a vortex emerges and he's sucked into his TV, where he finds himself the star in his very own video game adventure. Dusty is Rad's good-hearted but foul-mouthed, now-sentient game console. His clock speed isn't what it used to be, but what he lacks for in megahertz he makes up for with experience and attitude! Rad & Dusty's adventure begins in the First World, taking them through seven dangerous stages of action-packed, humor-filled, h...

Accounting Plus PSVR Review – Insanity by the books?

30Jan

By JohnNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

Accounting Plus PSVR Review – Insanity by the books?

Accounting + is an updated version of the HTC Vive VR game Accounting from Crows Crows Crows & Squanch Games. Squanch Games was founded back in 2016 by Rick and Morty Co-Creator Justin Roiland. The studio was quoted as saying it’s dedicated to creating “Funny, Imaginative and Story-driven VR Content” When first approaching this title I had read the above information and honestly had no idea what to expect. Having never played the original on the Vive, and never watching Rick & Morty. The questions that instantly came to mind were: Was it a full on VR Game? Was it just a Comedic VR Experience in the style of Rick & Morty? Let’s see what I found out… Gameplay When I first put on the PSVR headset, was greeted by the title screen (as shown above) and saw the ‘Logo N...

29Jan

By StuartNo Comments

Features, PC Reviews

Thumb Culture Retrospective – Prey

For gamers of a certain age, the names Shodan and Xerxes are likely to trigger the urge to smash the nearest computer with a wrench. Long before Amazon’s Alexa was around to remind us to buy toilet roll, the megalomaniacal Artificial Intelligence of System Shock and its sequel ran amok in deep space, causing sleepless nights and the occasional nervous twitch for the players who stood against them. Xerxes did not care about your bathroom essentials; Xerxes wanted to eject you from an airlock and laugh as you crystalized in space. Not only a masterclass in sci-fi survival horror and storytelling, the System Shock games are also the spiritual predecessor to games such as Bioshock, Alien Isolation and Bethesda Softworks’ 2017 blockbuster, Prey. To say that Prey’s creation has been influe...

Star Wars Battlefront II Review – Is The Force Still Strong?

16Jan

By JasonNo Comments

PC Reviews

Star Wars Battlefront II Review – Is The Force Still Strong?

Much anticipated Star Wars Battlefront II by EA DICE, Motive Studios and Criterion Software has blasted onto our consoles and boy has it generated some mixed responses from the gaming world, unfortunately mainly negative. I have had the erm... pleasure to play through the latest offering in the Star Wars world and have temporarily cast the negativity aside to try and give you my honest verdict, Red 5 standing by! Gameplay Star Wars Battlefront II's newest feature is the single player campaign that sees you play predominantly as a female Imperial Special Forces Officer named Iden Versio. Jumping into her storm trooper boots just as the second Death Star is destroyed in Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi, you are sent on a mission of retaliation by your father Admiral Garrick Versio called...

Tiny Troopers Joint Ops XL Review – Honey, I Shrunk The Troops!

12Jan

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

Switch Reviews

Tiny Troopers Joint Ops XL Review – Honey, I Shrunk The Troops!

Tiny Troopers Joint Ops XL by Epiphany Games is an epic bite-sized arcade shooter, filled to the brim with action-packed mini maps of mayhem! Take control of your tiny troopers as you battle evil adversaries from around the world with a multitude of weapons. Recruit specialist mercenaries such as Medics, Machine Gunners,and the Elite Delta Force to subdue enemy insurgents! Collect medals, dog tags, Intel and more during the course of each mission to ensure victory! Wait for it…It also has Zombies! Does the hype live up to the actual gameplay? Let’s Deploy, Stat! Gameplay I’ve recently got my hands on my very own switch and I have to say, I’m in love. I couldn’t wait to get stuck into some games I never had the chance to play before so, I was pretty excited about playing Tiny Troopers...

9Jan

By JohnNo Comments

Features

Yakuza: Going Back to Move Forward?

I hope you all enjoyed the holidays, and enjoying a good start to 2018. With Yakuza 6 due out in March, I decided that my Christmas play-through this year was going to be Yakuza Zero. A game which id been dying to play all year but never quite found the time (as I have been a fan of the series since I first played it back on PS2). Well, I finally finished it, and upon discussing it with a few friends I found that the same question kept being asked… ‘Should I play the others on previous-gen consoles?’ Since it’s a question I have been asked by a number of people, I thought I’d put my opinions out there for all in the hope that it helps. It doesn’t look like we're going to be getting a Kiwami 2 (remake of the 2nd game) here in the west, and the price tag of the original western release ...

Let Them Come Review – Endless Destruction

8Jan

By StuartNo Comments

PC Reviews

Let Them Come Review – Endless Destruction

Let Them Come is one of those games where it doesn't really need a massive amount of description, it is what it is, and what it does, it does incredibly well. Developed by Tuatara Games and published by Versus Evil you control Rock Gunar on this pixel art shoot 'em up. So what do you do? Let's take a look. Gameplay You are tasked with preventing the alien hordes from getting past you. In its simplicity you stand with your gun aimed at the aliens and you blast them all away. Or at least that is how it was going to go in my head. In actual terms, what you are playing is a simple game that is difficult to master, with battle tactics having to be used throughout your time. Simply holding down the fire button will only get you so far. As you kill the aliens you get coins that you ca...

L.A. Noire Remastered Review – Unneeded But Welcomed

5Jan

By StuartNo Comments

PC Reviews

L.A. Noire Remastered Review – Unneeded But Welcomed

So before we dive into Team Bondi (now defunct) and Rockstar Games' remaster of L.A. Noire, let's set out the stall for this review. I am going to be writing this from the perspective of a new review. Some of you may not have played the original, so therefore it doesn't seem right to pass judgement on the remastered side of the game. All it really means is that there are prettier visuals than its original counterpart, honest. So what is L.A. Noire? What do you do? Why was it so groundbreaking? Let's find out! Gameplay L.A. Noire is set in 1947 in Los Angeles, USA, and lets the player control an LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) officer by the name of Cole Phelps. You take control of him as he moves up the ranks within the LAPD through five divisions, including homicide and arson among...

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Review – Insert Witty Title To Get Views

14Dec

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

Xbox Reviews

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Review – Insert Witty Title To Get Views

So, here we finally are! PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is - without question - the biggest game in the world right now, so Microsoft's current console exclusivity for the title is obviously a big deal. Equally without question is that the PC game is notorious for its work-in-progress visuals and wobbly performance. With that in mind, some might say that it's somewhat miraculous that any playable version of PUBG is possible on a console right now. From another perspective though, what's clear is that the current build of the game is a long way short of the standards expected from a polished console release. Since Bluehole announced that PUBG would be coming to Xbox One, I was very excited. I have access to a really good gaming PC and have played PUBG on there to which I thoroughly enjoye...