Reviews
Seven: The Days Long Gone Review
Dec 01, 2017
Seven: The Days Long Gone is a new game from a new studio made up of game developer veterans. The combined experience of the most beloved games in recent memory make a new, yet familiar experience. Known as Fool’s Theory, they’ve made Seven: The Days Long Gone a throwback to cRPGs and stealth games while bringing modern storytelling and open-world interaction to the forefront. This makes for a gameplay experience that’s fully free of restrictions, and allows the player to be immersed in its world.
Gear.Club Unlimited Review
Nov 30, 2017
You don’t find many true-to-life racing games for Nintendo consoles. Many tend to fall into the arcade spectrum, let alone use any actual licensed cars. Gear.Club Unlimited brings a grounded racer to the Nintendo switch while still maintaining an arcade feel. But does that make this game any good? Is it any fun?
AVerMedia SonicBlast Gaming Soundbar (G331) Review
Nov 29, 2017
AVerMedia has been working with sound and vision for a long time now. This is their first foray into soundbar offerings, and I’m rather impressed with what’s here. The AVerMedia SonicBlast Gaming Soundbar (G331) is a great entry-level soundbar on its own, that’s perfect for home theater or desktop gaming that’s solid for small and large scale usage. You’d be hard-pressed to find something so impressive and scalable.
RiME (Switch) Review
Nov 22, 2017
RiME has come to the Nintendo Switch after several months of waiting, and the results are borderline disastrous. This is my first experience playing Tequila Works’ game, and there’s a wonderful game underneath the grime and disappointment. It is difficult to say if any of these issues can be patched out, but until then it seems it would be best to experience this game anywhere but on the Switch.
Outcast – Second Contact Review
Nov 21, 2017
For folks that don’t know, Outcast is a PC game that originally released in 1999. I never knew about this game even though I dabbled in PC games with my father on and off. I vaguely remember seeing screenshots and thinking “this looks cool” but never got a chance to check it out. Years went by and I later attempted to try it out sometime in 2012, the results were interesting. I could see how wild and inventive this game was for its time and definitely could appreciate what it did for open world games. The problem was that it was marred with fairly outdated controls, flawed jumping mechanics, and lack of hand holding. So with this new release bringing a newer version of this classic, did anything really improve much? Sadly, not really at all.
L.A. Noire Remastered Review
Nov 21, 2017
Team Bondi’s period noir mystery set against the backdrop of 1940s Los Angeles was so different from the gritty, open-world games that existed around it. The studio would ultimately shut down, and no sequel or game like it would ever appear, but thanks to Rockstar Games for enhancing and re-releasing L.A. Noire for a new generation of players to experience this unique game. For the sake of clarity, I’m calling this game and review a “remaster”. L.A. Noire is at times uncomfortable, but accurate to the era of post-war Los Angeles, and stays intriguing throughout.
Lenovo Y27g RE Curved Gaming Monitor Review
Nov 20, 2017
Lenovo’s Y27g Razer Edition Curved Gaming Monitor is a more expensive version of it’s Y27g Curved Gaming Monitor, and the only difference between that and this is the price and the Razer Chroma lighting. Take that for what that means to you, but Lenovo’s offering here with or without the extras is rather impressive if not for it being slightly overpriced for not being as pixel dense as it should be.
VAVA Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Review
Nov 17, 2017
VAVA Mechanical Gaming Keyboard comes out of seemingly nowhere to provide a surprising and welcome entry in the mechanical keyboard market. It’s price is mid-range for its modest offering that gives you everything you want, and nothing of what you don’t. VAVA may not have been a company you’ve heard of before, but might be one you want to pay attention to, if the Mechanical Gaming Keyboard is any indicator to their solid offerings.
Call of Duty: WWII Review
Nov 15, 2017
There’s a reason Call of Duty games come out in early November. Surely, financial reasons are one, but mainly because of Veteran’s Day. The game’s origins were in World War II, and has a deep history of showing off the theme of sacrifice. I’ve felt that ever since the series strayed from World War II, “Call of Duty” felt weird for the title of the game when it didn’t exist in that era. Call of Duty: WWII is the return to the era, and more distilled gameplay that slows things down and allows everyone to catch their breath after ten years of the series getting faster and faster. As a package, Call of Duty: WWII falls a bit short, but the campaign is interesting enough and the multiplayer evens the playing field in ways that it has needed for a while.
Danger Zone (Xbox One X) Review
Nov 14, 2017
I can’t help but start this review in stating that this literally has a highway setting and it’s called Danger Zone… so memories of the song and theme of Top Gun played throughout my head the entire time playing Danger Zone. Not a bad thing. Aside from the movie and song reference I just mentioned this game seems stands out on its own though and is all about the destruction cars, trucks, and as many other vehicles as possible. This is truly a Danger Zone for all involved driving the vehicles.
Tower 57 Review
Nov 13, 2017
Tower 57 takes the approach of bringing retro, from the look to the gameplay into the modern day. The game was a success on Kickstarter, but when it couldn’t reach the stretch goals make it onto consoles, 11 bit studios stepped in to make this a reality. Tower 57 is inspired by Amiga games of the past like The Chaos Engine, and Tower 57 is a roguelike that provides destruction, humor, and diesel-punk in some interesting ways – it just doesn’t seem to come together like it should.
Super Beat Sports Review
Nov 10, 2017
Harmonix, the fine folks who brought us some of our favorite rhythm games over the years, has a brand new title available on the Nintendo Switch. A cute family friendly rhythm game that brings the rhythm genre to its basics; a fun and easy one to hop into that the whole family can enjoy.
Nioh: Complete Edition Review
Nov 07, 2017
By now, Nioh has been a huge critical and commercial success on PlayStation 4. Broken down to its bare essentials, it is Ninja Gaiden crossed with Dark Souls, but it is so much more than that. Death befalls you often, but is a learning experience to improve against your opposition. Nioh‘s excellence is in its design that feels fresh among a room full of impostors. Nioh: Complete Edition is what it says it is, offering a deep and rewarding game that is very difficult and challenging.
Hand of Fate 2 Review
Nov 06, 2017
Hand of Fate was a unique take on collectible card games, table top RPGs, and even action RPGs. Defiant Development blended all these genres in ways that had brought a choose your own adventure to life. It had some nasty repetition, and initial growing pains, but frequent updates righted the ship and is a better game for it. Hand of Fate 2 takes all of what worked in the original, and improves on it exponentially to deliver a solid sequel that does not disappoint.
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Review
Nov 03, 2017
Wolfenstein: The New Order was my pick for Game of the Year in 2014. It did things other shooters weren’t doing by telling a meaningful, heartfelt story amid a violent and righteous rebellion against the Nazi Reich overtaking of the United States. Machine Games didn’t exactly play it safe before, but now after the success of The New Order, are able to take risks with Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus in excellent and fantastic ways. “A colossus is a person or thing of enormous size, importance, or ability.” In this, I’d say the game can be summed up as such. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is important, bold, and emphatic with its refusal to let hate be all there is in the world.
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