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Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis is a F2P MMORPG set in the Phantasy Star universe, released after Phantasy Star Online 2 in Japan in 2021. and released elsewhere in 2022. When launching the PSO2 launcher apart form the already installed PSO2 NGS you can install PSO2 Data when selecting which game to enter when selecting characters. The PSO2 Data is set as a free DLC which gives you access to the game and older items which can be used in NGS.
When first starting a new game you are given the option to choose the look and class of your character, all changes you are making in appearance can be later changed using a currency called Star Gems (SG) or the Free Salon Ticket. The classes can be changed anytime at no cost. After the game's introduction to the game's mechanics you have the option to do anything you want: Exploring, Story missions, Side quest, World Quest (Ordinal Tower, Cannonball Rumble, Cocoon Towers,...).
The best part of the game is combat, every class has at least two equipable weapons and each one has its own abilities. When leveling up, each level gives you a skill point which can be used to upgrade your class. The combat is fast-paced, dynamic and fluid, with many option to enhance your weapons and armors. All weapons and armor can be earned doing quest or be bought in the Player's Market which is the place where you are going to spend your hard earned N-Meseta (in-game currency) for items with ridiculous high prices.
The Player's Market is a place where other players put their items and price at which they will be selling the item. Here is also where all fashion items can be bought, or at the Player's Market or with Limited-time Scratch Tickets bought with real money. Every single fashion items, especially for female characters costs a lot, so.., if you want to wear something you like, you have to grind every single day by doing Daily and Weekly tasks, yes..., doing those quests is the best way to earn money.
The end-game is literally just grinding for better gear and earning more N-Meseta in order to buy fashion items. Fashion is the true end-game, as many players say. Developers are still to this day continuously adding more end-game content, limited-time events and storyline missions.
The story even though it's not finished yet (since this is a live-service game) it feels a bit weak compared to base PSO2, it feels like they didn't want to experiment a bit, they wanted to play safe, unfortunately.
All in all, this game offers a good amount of content, many story quests, side quests and challenges, but after completing all of them, you are left only with grinding for N-Meseta and better gear and buying fashion items or wait for the developers to add some more content. The best part of this game is combat, but the end-game is mostly fashion.
When first starting a new game you are given the option to choose the look and class of your character, all changes you are making in appearance can be later changed using a currency called Star Gems (SG) or the Free Salon Ticket. The classes can be changed anytime at no cost. After the game's introduction to the game's mechanics you have the option to do anything you want: Exploring, Story missions, Side quest, World Quest (Ordinal Tower, Cannonball Rumble, Cocoon Towers,...).
The best part of the game is combat, every class has at least two equipable weapons and each one has its own abilities. When leveling up, each level gives you a skill point which can be used to upgrade your class. The combat is fast-paced, dynamic and fluid, with many option to enhance your weapons and armors. All weapons and armor can be earned doing quest or be bought in the Player's Market which is the place where you are going to spend your hard earned N-Meseta (in-game currency) for items with ridiculous high prices.
The Player's Market is a place where other players put their items and price at which they will be selling the item. Here is also where all fashion items can be bought, or at the Player's Market or with Limited-time Scratch Tickets bought with real money. Every single fashion items, especially for female characters costs a lot, so.., if you want to wear something you like, you have to grind every single day by doing Daily and Weekly tasks, yes..., doing those quests is the best way to earn money.
The end-game is literally just grinding for better gear and earning more N-Meseta in order to buy fashion items. Fashion is the true end-game, as many players say. Developers are still to this day continuously adding more end-game content, limited-time events and storyline missions.
The story even though it's not finished yet (since this is a live-service game) it feels a bit weak compared to base PSO2, it feels like they didn't want to experiment a bit, they wanted to play safe, unfortunately.
All in all, this game offers a good amount of content, many story quests, side quests and challenges, but after completing all of them, you are left only with grinding for N-Meseta and better gear and buying fashion items or wait for the developers to add some more content. The best part of this game is combat, but the end-game is mostly fashion.
Phantasy Star Online 2 is a F2P MMORPG set in the Phantasy Star universe, released in Japan in 2012. and released elsewhere in 2022. On PS4 to access Phantasy Star Online 2 you have to first download Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis and then download the free DLCs in the launcher. This game in the time of writing (May 2023) is no longer supported by the developers, the servers are still online, but there isn't any new content, since all staff and resources are now further developing New Genesis.
When first starting a new game you are given the option to choose the look and class of your character, all changes you are making in appearance can be later changed using a currency called Star Gems or the Free Salon Ticket. The classes can be changed anytime at no cost. After the game's introduction to the game's mechanics you have the option to do anything you want: Story missions, ARKS quest, Side quest. Leveling up isn't a problem, only later in the game it starts to become a grind.
The Story missions aren't a big of a deal, since they are mostly just a mix of voice and text-based cutscenes, but the story overall is great.
The best part of the game is combat, every class has at least two equipable weapons and each one has its own abilities. When leveling up, each level gives you a skill point which can be used to upgrade your class. The combat is fast-paced, dynamic and fluid, with many option to enhance your weapons and armors. All weapons and armor can be earned doing quest or be bought in the Player's Market which is the place where you are going to spend your hard earned Meseta (in-game currency) for items with ridiculous prices.
The Player's Market is a place where other players put their items and price at which they will be selling the item. Here is also where all fashion items can be bought, or at the Player's Market or with Limited-time Scratch Tickets bought with real money. Since in 2023. there aren't as many players as before and since there aren't new Scratch Tickets, every single fashion items, especially for female characters costs a lot, if you want to wear something you like, you have to grind every single day by doing Daily and Weekly tasks, doing those quests is the best way to earn money.
The end-game is literally just grinding for better gear and earning more Meseta in order to buy fashion items. Fashion is the true end-game, as many players say. There is also a PvP mode which no one plays, so basically it's dead.
All in all, this game offers a good amount of content, many story quests, side quests and challenges, but after completing all of them, you are left only with grinding for Meseta and better gear and buying fashion items, if there is even something left of it. The best part of this game is combat, but the endgame is mostly fashion.
When first starting a new game you are given the option to choose the look and class of your character, all changes you are making in appearance can be later changed using a currency called Star Gems or the Free Salon Ticket. The classes can be changed anytime at no cost. After the game's introduction to the game's mechanics you have the option to do anything you want: Story missions, ARKS quest, Side quest. Leveling up isn't a problem, only later in the game it starts to become a grind.
The Story missions aren't a big of a deal, since they are mostly just a mix of voice and text-based cutscenes, but the story overall is great.
The best part of the game is combat, every class has at least two equipable weapons and each one has its own abilities. When leveling up, each level gives you a skill point which can be used to upgrade your class. The combat is fast-paced, dynamic and fluid, with many option to enhance your weapons and armors. All weapons and armor can be earned doing quest or be bought in the Player's Market which is the place where you are going to spend your hard earned Meseta (in-game currency) for items with ridiculous prices.
The Player's Market is a place where other players put their items and price at which they will be selling the item. Here is also where all fashion items can be bought, or at the Player's Market or with Limited-time Scratch Tickets bought with real money. Since in 2023. there aren't as many players as before and since there aren't new Scratch Tickets, every single fashion items, especially for female characters costs a lot, if you want to wear something you like, you have to grind every single day by doing Daily and Weekly tasks, doing those quests is the best way to earn money.
The end-game is literally just grinding for better gear and earning more Meseta in order to buy fashion items. Fashion is the true end-game, as many players say. There is also a PvP mode which no one plays, so basically it's dead.
All in all, this game offers a good amount of content, many story quests, side quests and challenges, but after completing all of them, you are left only with grinding for Meseta and better gear and buying fashion items, if there is even something left of it. The best part of this game is combat, but the endgame is mostly fashion.
2022
Gundam Evolution is a free-to-play multiplayer first-person shooter where you try to outplay the opponent's team in a 6v6 match in different gamemodes with different Gundams.
Every gamemode differs by the main objective, so far there are: Point Capture, Domination, Destruction and the latest added Headquarters gamemode. In every gamemode you play as both offence and defence. As most first-person shooter games nowadays have different classes in order to make every match a slightly different experience, so does this one. You take control of different Gundams from the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise and with various skills, both passive and active, try to use that advantage and coordinate with your team to succesfully complete the main objective of the match. In the time of writing (May 2023.) the game is still actively updated, where with every new season a new Gundam and map are added. When comparing it with other games like Overwatch, Paladins, Rogue Company, Valorant,... the only thing that differs are the maps and characters. Every single mentioned game has almost the same gamemodes, same game mechanics so all in all it's up to the player to decide which of those games is a bit better than the others.
All in all, the game itself is great, stable and fun, it doesn't offer a different experience from what you've probably already seen, but it makes a great addition to the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise.
Every gamemode differs by the main objective, so far there are: Point Capture, Domination, Destruction and the latest added Headquarters gamemode. In every gamemode you play as both offence and defence. As most first-person shooter games nowadays have different classes in order to make every match a slightly different experience, so does this one. You take control of different Gundams from the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise and with various skills, both passive and active, try to use that advantage and coordinate with your team to succesfully complete the main objective of the match. In the time of writing (May 2023.) the game is still actively updated, where with every new season a new Gundam and map are added. When comparing it with other games like Overwatch, Paladins, Rogue Company, Valorant,... the only thing that differs are the maps and characters. Every single mentioned game has almost the same gamemodes, same game mechanics so all in all it's up to the player to decide which of those games is a bit better than the others.
All in all, the game itself is great, stable and fun, it doesn't offer a different experience from what you've probably already seen, but it makes a great addition to the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise.
2022
Omega Strikers is a F2P Sports game and can be described as a 3v3 air hockey game with abilities.
The main objective of the game is to outsmart your rivals and score a certain amount of points to win the match. The amount of points to score differs from gamemode. Before scoring a point, there are some parts of the arena where the ball must hit first, after doing that, the gate which defends the goal opens and makes the opponents more vulnerable. At the beginning of each match, you choose your character with certain abilities. Each character's ability adds variety to each game. Before the match, after choosing your character, you also choose a buff, adding an additional bonus to the role you play. There are two roles, two forward players and one goalie. Choosing the right character for each role can be crucial to the outcome of the match.
Apart from abilities, you have different arenas, which differs by only the parts which must be hit before the goal become defenceless. Apart from that, you only have three gamemodes.
There are not many obligatory microtransactions for a F2P game to be honest, which is good, mostly fashion items, but the important thing are the characters, who can be bought with currency earned by simply playing the game.
The main objective of the game is to outsmart your rivals and score a certain amount of points to win the match. The amount of points to score differs from gamemode. Before scoring a point, there are some parts of the arena where the ball must hit first, after doing that, the gate which defends the goal opens and makes the opponents more vulnerable. At the beginning of each match, you choose your character with certain abilities. Each character's ability adds variety to each game. Before the match, after choosing your character, you also choose a buff, adding an additional bonus to the role you play. There are two roles, two forward players and one goalie. Choosing the right character for each role can be crucial to the outcome of the match.
Apart from abilities, you have different arenas, which differs by only the parts which must be hit before the goal become defenceless. Apart from that, you only have three gamemodes.
There are not many obligatory microtransactions for a F2P game to be honest, which is good, mostly fashion items, but the important thing are the characters, who can be bought with currency earned by simply playing the game.
2011
One of Codemaster's early F1 games and there are many improvements compared to previous titles.
The game itself isn't a masterpiece, there are few issues, it isn't a racing simulation nor there are not any possibilities to make it due to certain settings, like the damage model is too forgivable and there aren't many difficulty settings that can transform it into a F1 simulation, so all in all we agree that this is a racing arcade.
The game also doesn't have wheel settings for a 900 degrees steering wheel, so there will be some small issues at the beginning, until you find the right adjustment of your steering wheel to make the game more realistic, but if you don't know how, there are some great wheel setups on some forums, which many of them, I tried and it did solve the problem, I felt the game a little bit more realistic then before.
The game also suffers from many frame drops, especially in split-screen multiplayer, it hardly keeps the 30fps cap, which makes the game a pain to enjoy while playing in rain or when there are many opponents on the screen. It also has some sound bugs, which cannot be explained, but it happens that while playing, you suddenly hear some weird sound like if you were on a completely other side of the track, it doesn't happen occasionally and it doesn't last long, but it breaks the already broken immersion.
All in all, a great game, great career mode, not so great graphics or perfomance, a game which needs improvements, but it is fun from the start to the finish line.
The game itself isn't a masterpiece, there are few issues, it isn't a racing simulation nor there are not any possibilities to make it due to certain settings, like the damage model is too forgivable and there aren't many difficulty settings that can transform it into a F1 simulation, so all in all we agree that this is a racing arcade.
The game also doesn't have wheel settings for a 900 degrees steering wheel, so there will be some small issues at the beginning, until you find the right adjustment of your steering wheel to make the game more realistic, but if you don't know how, there are some great wheel setups on some forums, which many of them, I tried and it did solve the problem, I felt the game a little bit more realistic then before.
The game also suffers from many frame drops, especially in split-screen multiplayer, it hardly keeps the 30fps cap, which makes the game a pain to enjoy while playing in rain or when there are many opponents on the screen. It also has some sound bugs, which cannot be explained, but it happens that while playing, you suddenly hear some weird sound like if you were on a completely other side of the track, it doesn't happen occasionally and it doesn't last long, but it breaks the already broken immersion.
All in all, a great game, great career mode, not so great graphics or perfomance, a game which needs improvements, but it is fun from the start to the finish line.
After a successful release of a driving simulator which is mainly based on GT3 and GT4 cars (DLC required) on PC, Kunos Simulazioni decided to release a console version of it, as console players always have a limited amount of driving simulators, which most of them are something in between driving simulators and arcades (games like Gran Turismo, Forza, Grid,...).
Well, the console release wasn't as successful as the one on PC. The 30 fps cap and many bugs were the main reason for it. After few updates, the 30 fps cap was raised to a 60 fps cap, but was mostly set at about 40-45 fps and few more if you have a PS4 Pro. Most of the bugs were fixed, some of them still occur from time to time. Probably the most irritating is when the game just freezes for less than a half of a second, which happens for no reason at all.
There is also one thing that for some can be very frustrating, which are the replays and highlights. The replay records only up to 5 minutes before entering the Replay section and the highlights aren't really highlights as there is an overtake that wasn't even done or an overtake that happened before the actual highlight. Replays can be saved, but only those 5 minutes and the highlights cannot be saved even if you have more than 100GB of space on your hard drive.
Apart from that, the game itself is still a masterpiece, laser-scanned tracks, day-night cycle, changeable weather, astonishing car sounds and perfect physics, making this the best and the most accurate GT3 and GT4 simulation so far. After the mentioned updates, what you get as a standard edition is a full roster of GT3 cars, teams and tracks from 2018., 2019. and almost 2020. season (two cars and a track are locked as a DLC), the amount of tracks isn't really as big as some games have, just a little bit more than 10, if you bought all the DLCs. They also added the possibility to make custom liveries, which for some reason, only 10 custom liveries can be made and there are two customisation options that does nothing visually (due to the graphical downgrade they made to make the performance a little bit better).
The AI overall is very competitive and smart, probably the best AI ever, but you can only have up to 19 opponents, while the PC release has 40, which is weird from my perspective as Project Cars 2, a game from 2017. has better performance, better graphics (but after the ACCs console graphical downgrade) and they still have up to 31 opponents.
All in all, everything except the performance was well imported from PC, in terms of physics, sounds and AI, there are no differences between PC and console releases, the only thing which can be frustrating for some is the graphical downgrade, little freeze moments here and there, only up to 19 opponents and almost unusable Replays and useless Highlights. Even after all those issues, this game still is one of the most accurate racing simulators available on consoles so far.
Well, the console release wasn't as successful as the one on PC. The 30 fps cap and many bugs were the main reason for it. After few updates, the 30 fps cap was raised to a 60 fps cap, but was mostly set at about 40-45 fps and few more if you have a PS4 Pro. Most of the bugs were fixed, some of them still occur from time to time. Probably the most irritating is when the game just freezes for less than a half of a second, which happens for no reason at all.
There is also one thing that for some can be very frustrating, which are the replays and highlights. The replay records only up to 5 minutes before entering the Replay section and the highlights aren't really highlights as there is an overtake that wasn't even done or an overtake that happened before the actual highlight. Replays can be saved, but only those 5 minutes and the highlights cannot be saved even if you have more than 100GB of space on your hard drive.
Apart from that, the game itself is still a masterpiece, laser-scanned tracks, day-night cycle, changeable weather, astonishing car sounds and perfect physics, making this the best and the most accurate GT3 and GT4 simulation so far. After the mentioned updates, what you get as a standard edition is a full roster of GT3 cars, teams and tracks from 2018., 2019. and almost 2020. season (two cars and a track are locked as a DLC), the amount of tracks isn't really as big as some games have, just a little bit more than 10, if you bought all the DLCs. They also added the possibility to make custom liveries, which for some reason, only 10 custom liveries can be made and there are two customisation options that does nothing visually (due to the graphical downgrade they made to make the performance a little bit better).
The AI overall is very competitive and smart, probably the best AI ever, but you can only have up to 19 opponents, while the PC release has 40, which is weird from my perspective as Project Cars 2, a game from 2017. has better performance, better graphics (but after the ACCs console graphical downgrade) and they still have up to 31 opponents.
All in all, everything except the performance was well imported from PC, in terms of physics, sounds and AI, there are no differences between PC and console releases, the only thing which can be frustrating for some is the graphical downgrade, little freeze moments here and there, only up to 19 opponents and almost unusable Replays and useless Highlights. Even after all those issues, this game still is one of the most accurate racing simulators available on consoles so far.
2022
Bunny Raiders is a free and fun twin-stick shooter game, easy and accessible.
This is a game in which you don't have to pay anything to become good, only time and practice.
While it can be hard at first, you will soon understand the best way to defeat each enemy and after several tries, you'll be able to finish the game with no struggle whatsoever.
After some time the game will start to be quite repetitive as this game doesn't have any levels or many types of enemies, so after completing it several tries, it will become boring and repetitive.
All in all, this game doesn't give you any challenge and after few hours it becomes boring due to repetitive enemies and the graphics aren't really good, but well, after all, it's free.
This is a game in which you don't have to pay anything to become good, only time and practice.
While it can be hard at first, you will soon understand the best way to defeat each enemy and after several tries, you'll be able to finish the game with no struggle whatsoever.
After some time the game will start to be quite repetitive as this game doesn't have any levels or many types of enemies, so after completing it several tries, it will become boring and repetitive.
All in all, this game doesn't give you any challenge and after few hours it becomes boring due to repetitive enemies and the graphics aren't really good, but well, after all, it's free.
2022
After Konami renamed its successful sports game PES (Pro Evolution Soccer) into eFootball I already knew that the game franchise was coming to its downfall. Well, this is the perfect example of Konami doing what EA does best, makes low quality games ( by that I mean that the game is full of bugs and that the game doesn't differs much from its predecessor) with many ways to pick pockets from you.
Well, what could you expect from a free-to-play game, well, microtransactions of course and the worst thing is there are almost to no singleplayer modes, we all remember PES from its „Master League“ and „Become a Legend“ game modes, well in this game apart from the multiplayer, the only thing you have is „Trial Match“ with just few clubs available to choose, no „Custom Championships“, no „Custom Leagues“, nothing.
What else to say, well, the game does use Unreal Engine, but the latest PES I have, PES 2019 looks 10x better than this, no shadows, blurry edges, grass details non-existent, user interface makes your eyes wanna scream and also always the same recycled commentaries and no fans chanting.
Just 30% of all clubs are licensed and almost only 5% of them available in „Trail Match“.
All in all I would rather recommend you to buy an older game of either PES or FIFA for 20$ or lower as this game isn't worth it even if it's for free. Better to spend some money into a higher quality game than to spend money on this and then after a year or so, Konami releases a new title and then turns off the servers of the older one which makes all your hard earned money a waste.
Well, what could you expect from a free-to-play game, well, microtransactions of course and the worst thing is there are almost to no singleplayer modes, we all remember PES from its „Master League“ and „Become a Legend“ game modes, well in this game apart from the multiplayer, the only thing you have is „Trial Match“ with just few clubs available to choose, no „Custom Championships“, no „Custom Leagues“, nothing.
What else to say, well, the game does use Unreal Engine, but the latest PES I have, PES 2019 looks 10x better than this, no shadows, blurry edges, grass details non-existent, user interface makes your eyes wanna scream and also always the same recycled commentaries and no fans chanting.
Just 30% of all clubs are licensed and almost only 5% of them available in „Trail Match“.
All in all I would rather recommend you to buy an older game of either PES or FIFA for 20$ or lower as this game isn't worth it even if it's for free. Better to spend some money into a higher quality game than to spend money on this and then after a year or so, Konami releases a new title and then turns off the servers of the older one which makes all your hard earned money a waste.
2012
In Far Cry 3 you play as Jason Brody (a normal character with no military experience) as he tries so set his friends free after they were captured by pirates, who are lead by an iconic antagonist called Vaas.
At first they were all captured while they were skydiving near the Rook Island, but Jason's older brother helped him escape the outpost before the camp was alerted, unfortunately his brother didn't make it. This was the start of Jason's journey to release all his friends and to avenge older brother's death.
While being on this journey, there is a group of natives of the island who are willing to help you, if you help them liberate the island by taking control over outposts all over the island. Apart from that, there are multiple activities and side quest which you can access after liberating a part of the island. Well, most of them becomes repetitive after some time and you lose interest completing them, but they give you some extra few hours of gameplay.
Jason will not only learn how to be a warrior, but also how to survive the jungle. By gathering certain plants, you will be able to craft syringes which will amplify you skills, and by hunting and gathering animal skins, you will be able to upgrade yourself so that you can carry more loot, ammo, syringes, etc.
Following the main storyline after some time you will gain ability to learn more skills, which are represented on a Tatau, which will complete itself after learning all skills. The main story is great, and on my opinion, it can be separated in two parts, every part of the story on a separate island. The first one where you will set you friends free and where you will kill Vaas, and the second one where you will hunt down Hoyt to help Citra avenge his brother Vaas for turning him into a madman.
Well, apart the great memorable story, there is also a character who stand out above all, and that is Vaas, of course, the crazy maniac who starts talking like a reasonable person and ends the talk by yelling at you and killing someone. He shows only in few cutscenes, but his impact as a character stands out.
The Rook Island is vast and beautiful, graphics are amazing, even today. Great amount of weapons, skills, upgrades and activities. The only thing that really shown how old this game is was the barely holding the 30 fps cap while driving and the bottom of the screen tearing while running.
All in all, for open-world fans this is a must play, within this game you get not only a beautiful world to explore full of mysteries to reveal, but also a great story full of iconic characters.
At first they were all captured while they were skydiving near the Rook Island, but Jason's older brother helped him escape the outpost before the camp was alerted, unfortunately his brother didn't make it. This was the start of Jason's journey to release all his friends and to avenge older brother's death.
While being on this journey, there is a group of natives of the island who are willing to help you, if you help them liberate the island by taking control over outposts all over the island. Apart from that, there are multiple activities and side quest which you can access after liberating a part of the island. Well, most of them becomes repetitive after some time and you lose interest completing them, but they give you some extra few hours of gameplay.
Jason will not only learn how to be a warrior, but also how to survive the jungle. By gathering certain plants, you will be able to craft syringes which will amplify you skills, and by hunting and gathering animal skins, you will be able to upgrade yourself so that you can carry more loot, ammo, syringes, etc.
Following the main storyline after some time you will gain ability to learn more skills, which are represented on a Tatau, which will complete itself after learning all skills. The main story is great, and on my opinion, it can be separated in two parts, every part of the story on a separate island. The first one where you will set you friends free and where you will kill Vaas, and the second one where you will hunt down Hoyt to help Citra avenge his brother Vaas for turning him into a madman.
Well, apart the great memorable story, there is also a character who stand out above all, and that is Vaas, of course, the crazy maniac who starts talking like a reasonable person and ends the talk by yelling at you and killing someone. He shows only in few cutscenes, but his impact as a character stands out.
The Rook Island is vast and beautiful, graphics are amazing, even today. Great amount of weapons, skills, upgrades and activities. The only thing that really shown how old this game is was the barely holding the 30 fps cap while driving and the bottom of the screen tearing while running.
All in all, for open-world fans this is a must play, within this game you get not only a beautiful world to explore full of mysteries to reveal, but also a great story full of iconic characters.
Honestly, one of the best stealth tactical shooters I have played so far. I love how well they implemented the story with Bolivia and its people. The world of Bolivia feels so alive, children running, playing on the streets, people driving everywhere and you can also hear other's conversation.
The big variety of guns you can pick, the customisation of all guns and its accessories. The great thing I love far the most is how you unlock all those weapons, accessories and gears, of course by exploring the wonderful world of Bolivia which makes you use the open-world you have at your disposal. But with every wonder there is a danger, here you have to reach the boss of the well known Santa Blanca Cartel and capture or kill all his buchones.
Well not every game is perfect nor this is. The story...well we can say there is none, you just do some missions in order to reach the boss of the SB Cartel. There are few little things which are weird and maybe bad balanced, but it doesn't influence your gameplay. Maybe after some time it is a little bit boring due to repetitive actions, but you can experiment a bit, try approaching every base in a different way or tactic, and I highly recommend playing cooperative, you will enjoy it for sure.
All in all a great tactical shooter, the only bad thing that really affects the gameplay is the bad story, but I can't say I haven't enjoyed this game, because this is a wonderful game worth playing.
The big variety of guns you can pick, the customisation of all guns and its accessories. The great thing I love far the most is how you unlock all those weapons, accessories and gears, of course by exploring the wonderful world of Bolivia which makes you use the open-world you have at your disposal. But with every wonder there is a danger, here you have to reach the boss of the well known Santa Blanca Cartel and capture or kill all his buchones.
Well not every game is perfect nor this is. The story...well we can say there is none, you just do some missions in order to reach the boss of the SB Cartel. There are few little things which are weird and maybe bad balanced, but it doesn't influence your gameplay. Maybe after some time it is a little bit boring due to repetitive actions, but you can experiment a bit, try approaching every base in a different way or tactic, and I highly recommend playing cooperative, you will enjoy it for sure.
All in all a great tactical shooter, the only bad thing that really affects the gameplay is the bad story, but I can't say I haven't enjoyed this game, because this is a wonderful game worth playing.
2008
A game mainly based on the film also named WALL-E, a film about how humans destroyed their world known as Earth with rubbish and litter, so basically it wants to point out that the main problem is the amount of trash we produce in an year versus the amount of trash that can be recycled, so yes, if you want your grandsons to live peacefully, start caring about Earth and don't be a selfish idiot who only thinks of money and glory.
Ok, so the game isn't that long as expected, but still, it is fun and enjoyable. This game really is one of my favorite game from my childhood, and honestly, it wouldn't be as fun as it was back when I played at my school years. So if you watched the movie, you can basically know what will happen, which isn't that fun. For an 2008. game the graphics are decent, the game isn't hard, maybe some levels take some time to complete. I really recommend this game for children, it's fun and easy to play, at the end of the day it is an E ( E for everyone) rated game.
All in all, a good game, even though I think this game deserved more content and more gameplay variety.
Ok, so the game isn't that long as expected, but still, it is fun and enjoyable. This game really is one of my favorite game from my childhood, and honestly, it wouldn't be as fun as it was back when I played at my school years. So if you watched the movie, you can basically know what will happen, which isn't that fun. For an 2008. game the graphics are decent, the game isn't hard, maybe some levels take some time to complete. I really recommend this game for children, it's fun and easy to play, at the end of the day it is an E ( E for everyone) rated game.
All in all, a good game, even though I think this game deserved more content and more gameplay variety.
After years of releasing Need for Speed games, EA made one of the most successful games in the Need for Speed Franchise, which is indeed NFS Underground.
In this game, you take part in races during night and rank up, race after race, and eventually become the best driver in every race discipline. While doing that, you gain reputation points which gives you access to more cars, tracks, customisation options.
Unlike previous NFS games, where you could only choose the paint for the car, here, you can actually decide how your car will look, not just the color, but also body parts and each part can be painted separately, decorated with decals or brands, well practically everything can be personalised to your liking.
This game has 20 licensed cars, fully customisable and each car can be upgraded with performance upgrades gained during playing Underground Mode.As this game is almost twenty years old, it shows some imperfections that games had at that time, like stupid and unfair AI. By stupid I mean that they will practically crash into you if it happens that you've chosen to take the path to the right and he decided to take the one on the left as if there was no obstacle, he will not change mind at any cost whatsoever. By unfair I mean that there seems that the AI has more grip than the player, which was noticeable in two occasions, while racing as there are some parts of the track which are impossible to take without any braking, while the AI takes tight corners with no problem and carrying much more speed. The second occasion was when crashing into traffic, when I crash into traffic, my car always goes flying for seconds and seconds and eventually losing 5 or more seconds after resetting the car, while the AI only spins a little bit or slows down upon impact, nothing more, no flying or things like that. The jumps must also be taken perfectly as you will end up rolling over and over until you reset your car. Talking about traffic, if you are winning there are some occasions when a car would appear in the middle of the track right before the end of the race, eventually ruining your race as you don't have any time to react and crash into him.
Because of these issues, I've spend more time restarting races than making progress and making this my the most irritating NFS game so far.
All in all, I recommend this game to every NFS fan, even though it can be irritating at times, I still had fun playing it. Great amount of cars, car customisations, tracks and events will probably keep you entertained for a while.
In this game, you take part in races during night and rank up, race after race, and eventually become the best driver in every race discipline. While doing that, you gain reputation points which gives you access to more cars, tracks, customisation options.
Unlike previous NFS games, where you could only choose the paint for the car, here, you can actually decide how your car will look, not just the color, but also body parts and each part can be painted separately, decorated with decals or brands, well practically everything can be personalised to your liking.
This game has 20 licensed cars, fully customisable and each car can be upgraded with performance upgrades gained during playing Underground Mode.As this game is almost twenty years old, it shows some imperfections that games had at that time, like stupid and unfair AI. By stupid I mean that they will practically crash into you if it happens that you've chosen to take the path to the right and he decided to take the one on the left as if there was no obstacle, he will not change mind at any cost whatsoever. By unfair I mean that there seems that the AI has more grip than the player, which was noticeable in two occasions, while racing as there are some parts of the track which are impossible to take without any braking, while the AI takes tight corners with no problem and carrying much more speed. The second occasion was when crashing into traffic, when I crash into traffic, my car always goes flying for seconds and seconds and eventually losing 5 or more seconds after resetting the car, while the AI only spins a little bit or slows down upon impact, nothing more, no flying or things like that. The jumps must also be taken perfectly as you will end up rolling over and over until you reset your car. Talking about traffic, if you are winning there are some occasions when a car would appear in the middle of the track right before the end of the race, eventually ruining your race as you don't have any time to react and crash into him.
Because of these issues, I've spend more time restarting races than making progress and making this my the most irritating NFS game so far.
All in all, I recommend this game to every NFS fan, even though it can be irritating at times, I still had fun playing it. Great amount of cars, car customisations, tracks and events will probably keep you entertained for a while.
2019
This is one of those games that isn't beginner friendly, as there are many things which need to be learned in order to really master the car and to know how the car will react. Here even the driving assists won't help you, you will probably still sometimes end crashing into the nearest tree or hidden rock if you don't fully understand your co-driver, which is probably the most detailed and human-like co-driver I've ever seen.
This is not a licensed WRC title so don't expect the newest cars and liveries in it, nor the tracks are, the tracks aren't real, but they are pretty the same thing of what to expect from real tracks, the track design isn't really the most important thing as the surface and driving physics are, which is what Codemasters probably put the most effort in it, which can be seen from the first time you jump into a stage.
While the WRC cars aren't licensed, the RallyCross cars and tracks are, both 2019 and 2020 season.
Apart from those, there will be many historical and well-known cars like the Lancia Stratos, Subaru Impreza,... but there are some which aren't here, which in my opinion deserved the spot within the game, like the Citroen Saxo and Xsara, the Toyota Corolla and Celica and the Hyundai i20.
Well, what about the Career Mode? Well, that's the thing in which Dirt Rally 2.0 falls as there isn't really a Career Mode, you complete Championships or Events (Daily, Weekly, Monthly and AI Challenges), you get money with which you buy new cars or mechanics, buy upgrades both for your crew and car, or you spend it on repairing cars, all with online connectivity only.
All in all, I think this game is so far one of the best rally simulator, there are certain things which needs implementing, like a Career Mode similar to the WRC titles and more Weather and Time settings available for each track and stage.
Well, if you are more like a casual rally player and if you don't have a steering wheel, I would most likely recommend you to stick to the WRC titles.
This is not a licensed WRC title so don't expect the newest cars and liveries in it, nor the tracks are, the tracks aren't real, but they are pretty the same thing of what to expect from real tracks, the track design isn't really the most important thing as the surface and driving physics are, which is what Codemasters probably put the most effort in it, which can be seen from the first time you jump into a stage.
While the WRC cars aren't licensed, the RallyCross cars and tracks are, both 2019 and 2020 season.
Apart from those, there will be many historical and well-known cars like the Lancia Stratos, Subaru Impreza,... but there are some which aren't here, which in my opinion deserved the spot within the game, like the Citroen Saxo and Xsara, the Toyota Corolla and Celica and the Hyundai i20.
Well, what about the Career Mode? Well, that's the thing in which Dirt Rally 2.0 falls as there isn't really a Career Mode, you complete Championships or Events (Daily, Weekly, Monthly and AI Challenges), you get money with which you buy new cars or mechanics, buy upgrades both for your crew and car, or you spend it on repairing cars, all with online connectivity only.
All in all, I think this game is so far one of the best rally simulator, there are certain things which needs implementing, like a Career Mode similar to the WRC titles and more Weather and Time settings available for each track and stage.
Well, if you are more like a casual rally player and if you don't have a steering wheel, I would most likely recommend you to stick to the WRC titles.
2013
One of the best open-world game at that time, following the same mechanics of GTA but this time with another story, but not just of one character, but even three of them, Michael, Trevor and Franklin in their quest for money and in the beginning we learn how they met each other and their background story.
The city of Los Santos is beautiful and bright, that even after many years, you are not bored with it.
Apart for the main missions, there are many things you can do while playing the main game; side quest, hidden quest and many things to discover or reveal.
Of course, where there is crime, there are weapons for that, and so this time Rockstar didn't disappointed us, many guns, pistols, rocket launchers,... and of course with them, even weapons attachments for better recoil or accuracy.
Well, you might ask what after that, what after all the main storyline quests and all side activities, well, in singleplayer there aren't many things left to do, which caught me off-guard as I always remembered playing all those vigilante, fire and ambulance truck activities which I was looking forward to, but this time, none of them are here. But this doesn't mean anything because there is a massive multiplayer mode waiting for you to try new things, buy apartments, play heists with other players or friends,... ( Well from this year the online servers are shut down, but for the review, I still had to point out how good the Multiplayer Mode was).
The only things that killed the enjoyment was the massive loading times, both singleplayer and multiplayer mode, in multiplayer is even worse, after every activity outside the game session you had to wait the servers to put you back in another game session and so on.
All in all, one of the best open-world game till this day, even though nowadays half of the game locked due to servers being shut down, but you still have the whole main story left to complete which will give you many entertaining hours of enjoyment and thrill.
The city of Los Santos is beautiful and bright, that even after many years, you are not bored with it.
Apart for the main missions, there are many things you can do while playing the main game; side quest, hidden quest and many things to discover or reveal.
Of course, where there is crime, there are weapons for that, and so this time Rockstar didn't disappointed us, many guns, pistols, rocket launchers,... and of course with them, even weapons attachments for better recoil or accuracy.
Well, you might ask what after that, what after all the main storyline quests and all side activities, well, in singleplayer there aren't many things left to do, which caught me off-guard as I always remembered playing all those vigilante, fire and ambulance truck activities which I was looking forward to, but this time, none of them are here. But this doesn't mean anything because there is a massive multiplayer mode waiting for you to try new things, buy apartments, play heists with other players or friends,... ( Well from this year the online servers are shut down, but for the review, I still had to point out how good the Multiplayer Mode was).
The only things that killed the enjoyment was the massive loading times, both singleplayer and multiplayer mode, in multiplayer is even worse, after every activity outside the game session you had to wait the servers to put you back in another game session and so on.
All in all, one of the best open-world game till this day, even though nowadays half of the game locked due to servers being shut down, but you still have the whole main story left to complete which will give you many entertaining hours of enjoyment and thrill.
At first glance, major improvement are visible, graphics are more realistic and they added the possibility of tire puncture and manual windscreen wipers and headlights control.
But after a while, you start to notice some things which are even worse than the previous title, like the co-driver and engine sound, horrible, soo frustrating, I can't even disable the HUD because of that, you just cannot distinguish when you even have to change gear if there wasn't an on-screen display for that. At last, also the force-feedback is awful, you just can't distinguish when you are both oversteering or understeering.
All in all, I would highly recommend you to rather play the DiRT series, as they even if the game doesn't have licensed WRC cars and tracks, it's still a far better game than this.
But after a while, you start to notice some things which are even worse than the previous title, like the co-driver and engine sound, horrible, soo frustrating, I can't even disable the HUD because of that, you just cannot distinguish when you even have to change gear if there wasn't an on-screen display for that. At last, also the force-feedback is awful, you just can't distinguish when you are both oversteering or understeering.
All in all, I would highly recommend you to rather play the DiRT series, as they even if the game doesn't have licensed WRC cars and tracks, it's still a far better game than this.