Not The Robots is a Survival/Stealth game where the player plays as an unknown robot who eats furniture and avoids security robots from small to medium sized.
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Monkey Mofo Hands-On Preview
Monkey Mofo probably gets its name from the fact that it will puzzle your brain like a Mofo! But as it’s just a monkey it dissarms the word a bit, making it a deceptively difficult game to master and yet easy and addictive enough at the onset to get you hooked. All of the mistakes players will make while trying to keep up with the game’s rapid speed could have them feeling a bit dumb, but instead of blaming yourself – pushing forward into the later stages actually provides an extremely rewarding feeling of gaining extra intelligence as has become very popular with other brain-tasking titles in the recent past.
The Shivah Review
The Shivah is a point and click adventure style game by Wadjet Eye Games. I have always these types of games to be extremely entertaining and fun experience just based off the fact of how simple but amazing it is.
Secrets Of Raetikon Hands-On Preview
Secrets of Raetikon is a 2D open world adventure game, that takes place in the alps above. You will be playing as bird with the ability to fly and maneuver through specific obstacles, it can be flying through winds, sky diving, or picking up other animals. You will have to uncover secrets hence the title, and a specific battle between the nature you live in, and the civilization on the outside.
Next Car Game Hands-On Preview
Next Car game is made from the same company that developed Flatout, Bugbear Entertainment. In this arcade game, players race around tracks or take part in demolition derbies, trying to destroy all others cars. In this title, you crash into other cars a lot;  It’s difficult to drive without crashing into other vehicles because there are 24 other players in that derby or race. That’s not a bad thing at all, I mean that’s what this game is so far. Crash and drive.
Zen Pinball 2 PS4 Review
Zen Pinball 2 takes a different approach to the video game interpretation of Pinball. Instead of using already established tables from the retro era, Zen Pinball 2 has completely digitally inspired Pinball tables that function as fantasy boards – my favorites of which are the Darth Vader table and the Plants VS. Zombies table. If you already own a lot of tables from the PlayStation 3 version of the game, you can import your ownership of those tables into the PS4 version – which is nice for people who are already invested in this Pinball experience. As new tables are released for the game, you can indulge yourself in a demo play-through before deciding if you want to skip or purchase them.
Euro Truck Simulator 2 Review
Euro Truck Simulator 2 simulates the experience of being a truck driver throughout central Europe. The ETS world is enormous; I have driven for over 13 hours yet I’ve still only managed to discover a fraction of the world. Because of this, there is satisfaction in exploring new roads and cities, but the real satisfaction is when you get paid in cash for successfully delivering a load. That is why ETS is a great game; it is simple yet has a economic sandbox core.
Recovery Search and Rescue Simulator Review
This game is so bad, that it is almost fun to play. Based of the title of this game, you would think that it would involve actual search and rescue missions. No! Literally all that you do in this game is search for items scattered about the “open world” map, which is huge! The open world makes traveling a drag. It is so boring to ride along on the ridiculous bike for minutes just to get the objective. I will touch on that a little bit later on. Basically every mechanic this game has sucks. This game sucks so bad that it is almost fun to play, because of how ridiculous it is.
Metal Gear Rising Revengeance PC Review
Metal Gear Rising Revengeance first appeared on consoles in February of 2013, but has finally arrived for PC. It now plays in 60 FPS and 1080P, that is if your rig can handle that. Although, I do highly recommended playing this game with a controller instead of a keyboard and mouse – because the way the control mechanics work, it is difficult to play with keys. This is definitely a great game, but it does still have some of the flaws that the console versions have. With that said, it is still an amazing game to freshen things up for the PC gaming community.
GOMO Review
Gomo is an indie point and click adventure game by Fishcow Studios starring a silent stuffed animal character named Gomo on a journey to rescue his dog Dingo from aliens. It is available on Steam, GamersGate, Gog.COM and Desura and can be played on both Windows and Mac with Linux support planned. The game is controlled purely by mouse. You can play a demo of the game via the game’s website but to play the full story and its mini-games, you must purchase the game.
Archangel Review
Archangel is a Diablo style game available on the Google Play store and iOS. Developed by Unity Games when you look at this game first hand it seems like you get what you’re buying. With games these days it can be a huge gamble, especially if it is digital so is Archangel a worth it investment in your game collection?
Stick It To The Man! PS3 Review
Stick It To The Man! is an interesting platformer / puzzle game in which players take on a main character Ray, who after a mysterious head injury can now read minds. Everything opens up with a subliminal dream sequence – which may be taken as a metaphor preluding to later events – as players get the character to awaken himself from the dream and discover a parasite of some sort within the brain.
The Pinball Arcade – Season One PS4 Review
PlayStation 4 just got hit with the digital recreation of some of Pinball’s most beloved tables. The Pinball Arcade takes a focus on authenticity while adding Table Goals tracking and virtual tilt into the mix. Attack From Mars, Big Shot, Black Hole, Black Knight, Bride of Pin-Bot, Cirqus Voltaire, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Elvira, Funhouse, Genie, Gorgar, Harley-Davidson, Medieval Madness, Monster Bash, No Good Gofers, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Scared Stiff, Star Trek, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Taxi, Theatre of Magic, and Twilight Zone are all up for grabs in the Season One table offerings which can be grabbed separately or altogether as a Season Pass. The PlayStation 4 version of this game takes the intensity of emulating Pinball’s real life experience closer to full immersion by adding enhanced graphical fidelity as well as a full 60 frames per second frame rate meaning the action happens on screen as quick as your eyes can keep up with.
Knytt Underground Wii U Review
Knytt Underground is a platformer where the player explores wide varieties of environments. It is a title for PS3, Vita, Steam and Wii U. For the Wii U version, the Gamepad and Wii U Pro Controller are supported with off-screen play as an option as well via Gamepad Support and cross-save cloud support with the dual ownership cross-buy deal for PS3 / Vita owners.
Mutant Mudds Deluxe PS3 Review
Visually Mutant Mudds takes a unique interpretation to the 2D retro art direction style by allowing players to hop back and forth between foreground and background layers throughout various points in the title. This plays into the gameplay too which is packed with action and takes pieces of the greatest platformers while pitting the player against an invading enemy via a true sidescroller action combat system. The presentation of this game is so polished players will feel a great value in their purchase immediately. Story-wise the game even satisfies deeper questions as to what the action is all about as an invading race starts off when a meteor shower hits the planet threatening to end the human way of life.
Mutant Mudds focuses almost completely on fun factor while managing to deliver a high quality sound system full of nostalgic nods and enough fresh ideas to feel like nothing you’ve played before. A new brand has been formed with this IP which we hope to see explored again at a further date, though the creativity displayed by the developer Renegade Kid also plagues our minds with questions of what will they come up with next? A sequel is indeed in the works though, and we look forward to this being announced later this year.
The Deluxe version of this game features optional checkpoints (which can be turned off for those more hardcore players). Each level will challenge the player significantly both by design that is suggestive yet deceptive as well as the time limit that each course holds. Players select which level they’d like to approach from a set of doors and can also take alternate routes to the end of the level resulting in an even more retro-throwback challenge but also demanding the player to return for the correct exit badge to that particular stage.
Once stages are passed in the traditional sense though, that doesn’t mean they are done yet. Walk through a mirror in the center of the stage selection screen to discover mirror matches of the level once seen in the “real” world. In this alternate dimension of sorts, players must use a different weapon otherwise their ammunition simply cannot effect the ghostly representations of the mutant enemies which come back to life after being killed. This weapon also comes with limited ammo, even further increasing the difficulty of the game. After all of these remix stages are also passed players get access to even more content. Doors to more stages are seen in the foreground and later unlocked.
Thankfully Mutant Mudds never quite feels like a puzzle game, though it will take some trial and error before players master everything. MM is a straight up action platformer with plenty of shooting, hopping, a bit of hovering thrown in here and there, and good old fashioned collecting “coin”-like pickups called golden diamonds which are used to buy upgrade items fro Grannie’s Attic. The music heard is top notch quality and really pays homage to some of the classics while also feeling brand new.
Engine Performance:Â No glitches were encountered during our play-through of this game.
Replay Value:Â Between the many levels, their alternate versions, and the hidden / optional content players will have plenty of fun to have before even tapping into the set of 10 trophies and playing on a second screen for Vita owners adds a bonus experience to the mix as well.
Final Verdict:
Mutant Mudds Deluxe is a game that brings the Platformer genre into a beautiful intimate relationship to the Side-Scroller Action / 2D Shooter genres while also adding new gameplay mechanics and graphical elements to the mix. With completely intuitive gameplay design as well as retro-inspired music, sound effects, and graphics MM does what most games could only wish to do and that is provide the ultimate complete package that every type of gamer is sure to fall in love with.
Overall Score: 10 / 10
RGN Rating: Diamond Game
Developer / Publisher: Renegade Kid
Available On: PC | PS3 | Wii U | iOS | 3DS | Vita
Played On: Sony PlayStation 3
Review Copy Info: A digital copy of this game was provided to RealGamerNewz by the publisher for the purpose of this Review
Pixel Piracy Beta Review
Pixel Piracy is a sandbox 2D adventure / strategy game where you explore a world randomly generated by the decisions you make before starting each game. It is a Steam and Desura game. The game is still in its beta stages and it continues to grow. This review is of version 0.4.30.
IndieSpotlight: Frozen Hearth
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Epiphany Games about their title Frozen Hearth as well as the universe that surrounds it and through the course of our many interesting and fun discussions many of the details of how the game works and what makes it unique to the RTS genre came to light for me in ways that I thought I’d share with the rest of you RealGamerNewz IndieSpotlight readers. As always, if you have any questions for the developers be sure to leave them in the comments or head to their Steam portal as these folks really are very open to ideas and feedback about everything from balancing issues to totally new feature requests with patches incoming just about every week thus far and more on the way.
Dementium II HD Review
Dementium II HD is a first person shooter with survival horror aspects. It stars a mental ward patient who must fight through his demented and often creepy nightmares. While being a remake / remaster of the 2010 Nintendo DS title, it can now be played with keyboard and mouse as well as a controller and features significantly improved visuals which we will evaluate as we go in this review.
A-Men 2 PS3 Review
A-Men 2 is a very interesting mixture of puzzle and action platformer gaming in which players see themselves through a number of stages that are meant to challenge the mind as well as skill of the player. Not only must the puzzle-like layout of each stage be solved but along the way the traditional gameplay mechanics of the platforming and side-scroller genres must also be mastered. For example falling from great heights will get the player killed and there are enemies actively patrolling who must be dealt with, sometimes fatally. The stages will even get so tricky that they allow saving mid-way at select points with kiosks made for such a task, you’ll be rewarded with extra experience points for not using these though.
Type: Rider Review
Type: Rider is an education game, teaching players the history of typography. This sounds dreadful doesn’t it? Well, it’s not. Type: Rider manages to be exciting to play, but also teach players the history of typography.
The Stanley Parable Review
The Stanley Parable started as a Half Life 2 Mod years ago, but has recently been remade into its own game. TSP is an exploration game with no action or violence whatsoever; It is driven by the narrator, and how he wants the story to go. If the player does as the narrator says, the game technically will end very shortly (took me 5 min). But that’s not what this game is. When the player “beats the game” the player hasn’t actually beat the game, because it is impossible to beat this game. TSP is called an exploration game. The player is supposed to disobey the narrator and explore the story; Find out what happened to Stanley’s co-workers, wife, and job.
TIME VIKING!!!!!ANDSPACERAPTOR Review
From the makers of many games featuring zombies and the creators of Charlie Murder comes a crazy game. Time Viking and Space Raptor is an endless horde style gaming experience. With waves of crazy chaos featuring various enemies and backgrounds with music cranked to max volume.
Dr. Luigi Review
The spiritual successor to the Dr. Mario games, and the final game apart of The Year of Luigi. This puzzle style game is one of the most surprising games to come out as of late but at the same time we all knew it was coming someday.
Hero of the Kingdom Review
Hero of the Kingdom starts out with a tutorial that guides players through some of the basic functions of the game and introduces them to the art style to be expected further down the line as well. The player’s family farm burns down once the tutorial completes, forcing an adventure that holds many challenges. At its core Hero of the Kingdom is a point-and-click adventure. In reality though, point-and-click adventures have never really gone this far with item accumulation and bartering being key elements the player focuses on as well as resource gathering.
SteamWorld: Dig Review
SteamWorld: Dig is a hybrid of an action-platformer and a mining game in a 2D environment set in a Wild West setting. It stars a robot who is constantly evolving.