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9Jan

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

AO Tennis 2 Review – Ace Or Fault?

As the first Grand Slam of the year is on our doorstep, tennis aficionados start to dust off their classic tennis games to get their fill of the sport they love. Some may argue that the last great game was Virtua Tennis 2, others may side with Top Spin 4, however the one thing that fans can agree on is that as of late, tennis games have been awful. With that in mind AO Tennis developers, Big Ant Studios, returns to the baseline ready to serve with their aptly named AO Tennis 2. Echoes of their poorly reviewed first outing haunts them as they prepare to deliver their sequel. Sweat slowly dips, the furry ball has been firmly caressed. Will this be another fault or an ace? Gameplay If you are looking for an arcadey tennis game where you can speed around the court and pull off ridicul...

Club Soccer Director PRO 2020 – More Than A Mouthful?

22Nov

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PC Reviews

Club Soccer Director PRO 2020 – More Than A Mouthful?

Go Play Games brings us the longwindedly titled Club Soccer Director PRO 2020. This is finally my chance to not be foiled by the directors in Football Manager as I am now the director. This should be a walk, or good kick about, in the park. Time to grab a quartered orange, deep heat spray and put my skills to the test. Hold on, I'm the director, scrub that, make it a large cigar and a sheepskin coat. Gameplay Well Club Soccer Director PRO 2020 starts like any good managerial type game, a good tutorial. Here are the staff, here are the players, you can do this, you can do that etc... I decided to start with the career mode, so I took on the role of directing the mighty Stevenage. As the director of the club it is your responsibility to bring in players, sell players, fire staff, hire ...

Need for Speed Heat Review – The Heat Is On!

18Nov

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PlayStation Reviews

Need for Speed Heat Review – The Heat Is On!

Drifting around the car crash that was Need for Speed: Payback is NFS: Heat, but is this a return to the glory days or just another speed bump on the highway heading towards the nearest trade-in shop? Making its debut in 1994, Need for Speed is a franchise that most gamers will have fond memories of playing. Whether it be Underground, Hot Pursuit or Most Wanted, most people have an affinity with the franchise but then everything changed. After 24 games, an oversaturated market and a litterny of mediocre releases, it seemed to many that the franchise had broken down on the hard shoulder. However, in steps Need for Speed: Heat. Revitalizing the series with a focus on arcade racing and adding new elements such as the day/night cycle, fans that enjoyed any of the previous versions sho...

8Nov

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House of Golf Review – Fore!

Teeing off on November 8th is the Switch exclusive House of Golf. The arcade golf game developed by UK company Atomicom hits the eShop today but have they hit a hole in one or just got a bogey? Gameplay Crazy golf is fun right? Although you know what to expect, a series of small courses that has an overarching theme, the core gameplay of this sub-genre has always appealed to me but what makes this game stand out? Well, one key aspect of the game that really blew the sand from my balls (due to the golf ball landing in a bunker… don’t be filthy) is the design. Taking inspiration from games like Micro Machines, each environment is loving crafted to feel like the inside of a home. This nostalgia trip made me want to play in this world for longer than other mini golf games that lack innovati...

Fishing Planet: The Fisherman Review – Deepwater Fishing

7Nov

By KevynNo Comments

PC Reviews

Fishing Planet: The Fisherman Review – Deepwater Fishing

As I stated in my Review of Fishing Sim World Pro Tour, I’m no Fisherman, But I do love my sim games! Is The Fisherman worth the price tag over the free to play version? Let’s don our trusty fishing jacket and cap and find out! Fishing Planet originally launched as a Free 2 Play game back in 2015 the game itself was free but you’d pay for DLC’s and microtransactions, 4 Years later, Publisher Bigben Interactive releases The Fisherman, The Fishing Planet you know and love, boxed with all the DLC and not a penny more of your own hard-earned to spend! It also comes with an extra map, La Creuse. The new Trolling fishing technique, New boats and 4 new fish, only available in this version. Gameplay Unlike Fishing Sim World, The Fisherman has an interactive tutorial which over the course ...

4Nov

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Features

An Interview With… Squishy Sports Dev

We here at Thumb Culture were lucky enough to chat to Chris Jeffery, the programmer and game designer at Made By Titans, to discuss his latest game, Squishy Sports. So, tell us a little bit about your game and where did the idea come from? Oof. Straight in there! Squishy Sports is a couch competitive, physics-based 2D party/sports game where the characters are shapes and everything is squishy! Since it's physics-based, all our characters hit the ball in unique ways, thus create interesting and quite manic gameplay! So Squishy Sports came around quite sporadically really. There wasn't any "AH HA!" moments with it. My background for a lot of my game development career has been in web games and I've always toyed around with the idea of creating a couch multiplayer game but never really c...

CHIKARA: Action Arcade Wrestling Review – WrestleFest

31Oct

By Stu NNo Comments

PC Reviews

CHIKARA: Action Arcade Wrestling Review – WrestleFest

Introduction I have been a fan of wrestling since my Nan introduced me to the World of Sport on ITV in the late '80s and even more when Hulkamania ruled the world in the early '90s. Those wrestling games that I had on the old Commodore 64 were classic but for me, the best wrestling game I have ever played was WWF Raw is War. It had all the wrestling elements with an arcade attitude which was perfect as that's how you imagine how you would fight. These days it seems to be on rails and heavily following storylines whereas, I wanted to make my world and make a fantasy booking of my own. In Steps CHIKARA: Action Arcade Wrestling. Developed by VICO Game Studio and published by Reverb Triple XP it brings back that fast-paced arcade-style of wrestling along with the classic 90's wrestli...

29Oct

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PC Reviews

What the Golf Review – Non stop Golf Fun

What the Golf is a silly physics-based golf parody game developed & published by Triband and was released on PC via the Epic store on October the 1st, and stated as coming out soon on the Nintendo Switch. The developers declare that the game is made by people who know nothing about Golf and that it will not make you a better golfer, hence the catchline - “The golf game for people who hate golf”. So let's pick up our “tees” & “drive” on into this Epic exclusive & find out what it's like. Gameplay As I mentioned above, What the Golf is a parody game about golf, where each course you play golf on let's say, is a surprisingly different type of golf to how you would normally play. It starts off just like any type of golf game, the controls are simple, pull back, aim and rel...

27Sep

By StuartNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

FIFA 20 Review – Footballs Coming Home!

Blimey! Its that time again EA have graced us with another football game. If you don't know what FIFA is then i think you need to come out from your cave. Is FIFA 20 worth your money or has the cash cow finally caught up with EA...Let's find out! Gameplay As with most yearly updates to games whether you hand over your hard-earned cash all really depends on what updates have been made and what additions are evident. FIFA 20 introduces Volta, a more casual style game option, taking massive inspiration from previous FIFA Street titles. Giving you between 3 to 5 players and either with or without walls. The addition of walls brings a whole new element to the game. Simply just smash the ball anywhere! Volta brings a well-needed refresh to FIFA 20 and EA really needed something differ...

Pool Nation PS4 Review – No Drinks On The Table Please

13Aug

By JasonNo Comments

Gaming, PlayStation Reviews

Pool Nation PS4 Review – No Drinks On The Table Please

Pool Nation by Manchester-based devs Cherry Pop Games and published by Wired Productions is a photo-realistic billiards simulator where you have the chance to start a single-player career, beat your friends in a one on one while sitting on the couch as well as play against online buddies around the world. In what is, in essence, an overhauled version of the PS3 classic from years gone by with added features, will Pool Nation have you reaching for the chalk or leaving the pub early? Gameplay Pool Nation brings to the table a vast variety of game modes to test your cue wielding ways. I do enjoy a good billiard game albeit 8ball or 9ball as it is one of the few games in real-life that I play better after a beer (drink responsibly!). So what do you have on offer in Pool Nation? Wel...