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Fishing Barents Sea Review – Going Overboard

6Mar

By DanNo Comments

Fishing Barents Sea Review – Going Overboard

Get your waterproofs and rods at the ready as we sail the rocky seas in Fishing: Barents Sea Complete Edition. Developed by Misc Games and published by Astragon, Fishing: Barents Sea Complete Edition is available on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox and Playstation 4. Released on the 10th December 2019, this edition of the game comes with extras to lure you in. Today I am diving into the Switch port of the game, keep reading to find out how rocky these seas actually were. Gameplay So what makes Fishing: Barents Sea Complete Edition different from some of the other fishing games? This fishing simulator is a commercial take. So not only do you have to catch the fish, there is a whole other side where you need to maximize your income to assist with progression within the in-game career. You sta...

27Feb

By TristanNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

Overpass Review – Mud, Glorious Mspoud!

Every time I hear the word off-road I immediately think of the Off-Roaders from the Fast Show (showing my age again) and mud. Lots of mud. This winter has provided lots of the latter and the prospect of reviewing an Off Road game sounded a bit like my daily drive to work at the moment. Overpass has been billed by Swedish developers Zordix AB and publishers BigBen Interactive as unique in its genre offering a realistic take on off-road driving with over 20 officially licensed quads and buggies to be driven over technical obstacles along wilderness tracks. So does Overpass deliver on the dev's promise? Well, as they said in the Fast Show "Lets off-road"! Gameplay The opening menu offers four basic game modes - Quick race, Career, Custom challenge and Multiplayer. Quick race i...

12Feb

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

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Super Tennis Review – Ace or Fault?

Back in the halcyon days of the early nineties, half of the games that came out on the SNES were prefixed with the word 'Super'. Super Star Wars, Super Bomberman, Super Soaker, Super Souper (a fascinating game regarding the Irish Famine, look it up). The list was endless. It was a simple time for simple people and I should know. In fact, I'm old enough to remember that Super Tennis was one such game. It was glorious and I so wish that I could play it again- what's that you say? Super Tennis is available on the Switch and it needs to be reviewed?! Aw hell yeah! ... It was only after signing the review contract that I discovered that this was NOT the same Super Tennis. You cannot be serious! Oh well, tennis games have come on a lot since those days. I'm sure it'll be just fine...right? Ga...

Monster Energy Supercross 3 Review- All Revved Up

31Jan

By DanNo Comments

Switch Reviews

Monster Energy Supercross 3 Review- All Revved Up

Developer’s Milestone brings us Monster Energy Supercross 3, the third instalment of the series. The latest title promises new gameplay. How will it fair up against previous games in the series? We have seen a lot of negativity about this port but is it really that bad? Monster Energy Supercross 3 will hit the shelves on February 4th 2020 across multiple platforms. Gameplay I think I should start by saying I am not going to be comparing each and every aspect of Monster Energy Supercross 3 to the PC/Console versions. We all know the other versions will be better graphically. Let’s put that aside and celebrate what the title brings to the Nintendo Switch. Before playing any mode, you start by creating your own character. There isn’t as much as a selection in terms of customisations;...

9Jan

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

PlayStation Reviews

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

By Kevin1 Comment

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

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

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

By TC Staff WriterNo Comments

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...