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Shoppe Keep 2 Preview – Granville, Fetch Your Hammer!

3May

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

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 ...

Train Sim World: Founders Edition – Will It Leave You Chuffed Or Steaming?

4Apr

By TristanNo Comments

Xbox Reviews

Train Sim World: Founders Edition – Will It Leave You Chuffed Or Steaming?

Steaming onto Xbox One and Xbox One X comes Dovetail Games' Train Sim World: Founders Edition. Dovetail are already the kings of sims on the PC, but Train Sim World: Founders Edition marks their first foray into the world of consoles. The Train Sim World franchise is already well established on PC with a plethora of tracks, trains and DLC. Dovetail have taken their Great Western Express DLC from the PC as a base game to begin what is set to become an extensive train sim console franchise. So don your anorak, fill up your thermos with some weak lemon drink and channel your inner trainspotter and join me aboard Train Sim World: Founders Edition on the Xbox One. Gameplay The game starts with you having just been employed by Great Western Railways as a driver on the London Paddington to ...

Surviving Mars Review – Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying!

22Mar

By JasonNo Comments

PC Reviews

Surviving Mars Review – Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying!

Surviving Mars by independent game developer Haemimont Games (Victor Vran, Tropico 3, 4 and 5) and global publisher Paradox Interactive (Cities:Skylines, Hearts of Iron IV) is a real time survival simulation where, you've probably already guessed it from the title, you have to survive on planet Mars! It has been spoken about greatly on the news as to when we will colonize Mars. Elon Musk has set an aspirational goal to launch a cargo mission to Mars in 2022 on a voyage of discovery meanwhile Arnie found out the eyeball popping truth of the planet in the iconic movie "Total Recall" (The original not the dodgy remake!) If you enjoy settlement builder style strategy games and love all things sci-fi then keep reading as you may be in for a treat with Surviving Mars! Gameplay Start b...

Pure Farming 2018 Review – Udderly Fantastic?

16Mar

By JasonNo Comments

PC Reviews

Pure Farming 2018 Review – Udderly Fantastic?

Pure Farming 2018 by new developer Ice Flames is their first gaming title release and is published by Techland (Torment: Tides of Numenera). Available on PC, Xbox 1 and PS4, Pure Farming 2018 is unsurprisingly a farming simulator game that boasts playable farms set around the world and game modes that are suitable for newcomers as well as veterans of the genre. With Giant's Farming Simulator in my opinion being the leader in the farming sim field (sorry dad joke) and having played Soedesco's Real Farm last year I was really hoping for something magical in terms of gameplay, graphics and sound. What I found with Pure Farming 2018 was something refreshing and far from...Deja Moo. Gameplay "My First Farm", "Free farming" and "Farming Challenges" are the three game modes that lay in...

Ultrawings PSVR Review – O! For a Game with Wings

28Feb

By JohnNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

Ultrawings PSVR Review – O! For a Game with Wings

Ultrawings is a new PSVR flight ‘sim’ from Bit Planet Games. I use the word ‘sim’ loosely’ as after playing it for only a few minutes I realised it’s a lot more user-friendly than I generally find sims to be. The premise of this title is simple, build your aviation business by taking on various jobs across multiple destinations in the island themed world that you find yourself in. However, don’t take simple as boring. This game is far from it and here is why I believe it’s this generations version of one of my favourite flight games (Pilot Wings). Gameplay So, when I first loaded up Ultra Wings I decided to play it safe and use the Dualshock 4, I wanted to get a feel for the world and visuals without having to worry about the controls (as we all know there are times when the motio...

27Feb

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

PC Reviews

The Sims 4 Review – Console Controls Conundrum

The Sims has always been a staple of my now limited gaming time. Whenever I get the chance I do tend to load up The Sims 3 and spend an hour or so continuing the mundane life I've created for myself. Now it seems I can do such mundane tasks on a console, with The Sims 4 on Playstation 4. I've never been a fan of The Sims on console, as to be fair it's much more suited to the keyboard and mouse than controller. But, I was willing to give this a shot and to see where it would take me. After the disappointment that was the Xbox 360 version of The Sims 3, I was extremely hesitant to play this. So much so that upon receiving my review copy, I put it off for as long as I could. I lasted about a week before surprising myself and popping the disc into my console. Usually at this point in the...

Railway Empire – A Trip Down Memory Lane

26Jan

By KevinNo Comments

PC Reviews

Railway Empire – A Trip Down Memory Lane

Gaming Minds Studios have brought us a trip into the history of the train and how it transformed North America. The question is, did it make the nation bloom or did it sink into a great depression? I once again tackle a great railroad, but this time from the safety of the owner's office. Railway Empire, here I come. Gameplay Railway Empire is a classic point and click construction game, not a lot can go wrong really. There are a few modes, Campaign, Scenario, Free mode and Sandbox. Start with the campaign as this will guide you through the basics of the game. It's the 1800s and you need to build a successful railroad company. Build stations, build trains, build track. That's the game in a nutshell. Obviously there is more to it than that, I'm just making it sound easy. You need to su...

Purrfect Date – Will You Get The Right Pussy?

22Jan

By Kevin1 Comment

PC Reviews

Purrfect Date – Will You Get The Right Pussy?

Bae Team have decided to give a spin on the dating sim by adding furry felines to the agenda. The question is, will Purrfect Date be the cream of the crop, or pussy whipped into oblivion? Gameplay Purrfect Date, as the name suggests is a cat dating simulator. I know what you are thinking, why? Why would anyone create such an experience? Well unfortunately I cannot answer that question without a little time playing with my ....... cats. I started as a human. I chose a name. I wanted to be called Dick Whittington, but that was too long. So Dick began his adventure with the famous Professor Pawpur. Dick gets shown the famous Cat Island and to his tent and then his equipment. Have a drink? Don't have a drink? What drink to have? The sense of realism and decision making was finally upo...

Train Simulator 18 Review – Knobs, Levers and Buttons

2Jan

By KevinNo Comments

PC Reviews

Train Simulator 18 Review – Knobs, Levers and Buttons

Dovetail Games brings us Train Simulator 2018 on the PC, the cunningly named sequel to ....... Train Simulator 2017. So apart from the unoriginality of the game title does it speed down the tracks or should it be shunted back to the yard for scrap. Time to wrap a sandwich in tin foil, grab a flask of tea and perch myself in the cab. Gameplay I have never driven a train, so am I qualified to even write a review of Train Simulator 2018? I do however have a train set, in fact I have 2, so I think that should qualify me to test out what it would be like to be the person responsible for getting my train from A to B with as little hassle as possible. The first thing you get in this game is a choice of what to do, drive, build, profile, ACADEMY, ok, so I hope you got the hint. There is no way y...

1Dec

By Kevin1 Comment

PC Reviews

Party Hard Tycoon Review – Party Hard?

Party Hard Tycoon is being offered by Pinokl Games as a way to bridge the gap between the sims and the tycoon games. Have they packed out the place with banging choonz or is it as lifeless as a piece of warm wet lettuce? Time to find out. Gameplay Have you ever done something that achieved nothing? Have you ever regretted a decision? Have you ever meticulously planned something out only for it to fail? Welcome to Party Hard Tycoon. The instructions come in the form of a messenger conversation with a few pictures. These explain the basic game without going in to too much detail i.e. not having much point. The smart person will be able to work out what to do, but maybe never figure out why to do it. Party Hard Tycoon puts you in the position of a party planner. How hard can it be? R...