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Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 Review – Better than Fifa?

21Sep

By JasonNo Comments

Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 Review – Better than Fifa?

Pro Evolution Soccer by Konami has recently delivered their 2018/19 instalment of their franchise that has been running since 2001. As a direct rival to EA's Fifa games, many gamers favour one or the other and I was certainly influenced early on into Fifa as it seemed more popular with my friends, what with having all of the major football licenses, ensuring you could always play as your team. How does Pro Evo 2019 look, play and feel? Let's kick off and find out! Gameplay Pro Evo 2019 has disappointingly, as some of you will already be aware, lost the license to the UEFA Champions League after holding it for 9 years. EA looks to of snapped it up as it featured in their official reveal trailer back in June (release date 28th September). Don't let this put you off Pro Evo 2019 ho...

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! Review – Pile of Mash or Roasty Goodness?

1Aug

By JasonNo Comments

Gaming

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! Review – Pile of Mash or Roasty Goodness?

A game about potato people. Seriously is this really a thing? I remember Rimmer from the TV show Red Dwarf talking about the "king of the potato people" but has the delusion finally become a reality?...well in a way yes, yes it has! Fresh out on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a very strange simulation game developed by Daylight Studios based in Singapore, whereby you manage a team of potato people who work in a weapon forge. Here you oversee the forging and selling of their wares to other potato folk who are looking for the right weapon for the quest they are undertaking. I really couldn't make this up, this is an "emerging genre" according to the press kit! Gameplay You control a potato who has inherited a weapon forge from his late grandfather and...

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

12Jun

By John1 Comment

Gaming, PC Reviews

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...

Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation Review – Liches, Imps, and Demons O My!

14May

By AlexNo Comments

PC Reviews

Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation Review – Liches, Imps, and Demons O My!

I don't want to set the world on fire, but these demons sure do. Fight for survival as you try to rebuild some semblance of society. Gather water, farm, contemplate howling at the moon and more in Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation. Indie developer Suncrash pulled Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation from the depths of early access hell and summoned it to your PC via Steam. Now as a full release you must try to survive a world on fire as you train your rag tag group of survivors and teach them various skills as they level up. Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation adds some dashes of humour into your bleak end times as random events and waves of demons come crashing on to your door step. The first three hours I played of this game shot past and before I knew it I had cre...

CoolPaintr VR Review: Highlighting The Limits Of My Imagination

9May

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

PC Reviews

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...

Shoppe Keep 2 Preview – Granville, Fetch Your Hammer!

3May

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

PC Reviews, Previews & Early Access

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...