War of the Human Tanks Post-Mortem Review

War of the Human Tanks

In War of the Human Tanks players participate in matches of progression / attrition. Before starting a battle players must thumb through tons of dialogue and still frame graphics before actually getting to do anything. Thankfully the developers realized this was going to be a problem for the less reader-ish gamers out there and so this can be skipped though through a very fast message skip feature, unfortunately messages sent during battle do not get skipped and there’s a ton before the battles.

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Insurgency Post-Mortem Review

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Insurgency is a newly released first person shooter game available for Steam featuring Multiplayer shoot-outs that are akin to the shooter feeling released during the golden age of First Person Shooter games on the PC platform. Developer New World Interactive brings forward this release on Windows and Mac OS X with a training segment, matchmaking system, and the ability to set up co-op sessions with friends.

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Tales of Maj’Eyal (TOME) Post-Mortem Review

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Tales of Maj’Eyal is a game that immediately brings me back to the Angband days which practically gave birth to the dungeon crawling genre but in a way that perhaps only the most exquisite tastes could really grasp and appreciate. Many players will be pushed away from a title like Tales of Maj’Eyal due to the lack of eye candy and modern day role playing game features. This is at the cost of missing out on a classic formula that helped make the rogue-like genre possible.

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Long Live The Queen Post-Mortem Review

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In Long Live The Queen players take control of a Crown Princess who will become Queen and is constantly having every facet of her character tested. It seems like no matter what players do and how they build up the Crown Princess, something isn’t good enough. This is a frustration but at the same time the game is well put together enough that this also encourages multiple play-throughs and mastery of the mechanics. This means Long Live The Queen achieves a large amount of replay value, albeit at the cost of being an addiction and very difficult to master title.

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Blackguards Review

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With Blackguards, Daedalic Entertainment have created a game that is not easy to get into but unlocks tons of fun and satisfying gameplay for hardcore role playing game fans who are able to master its control set and user interface. If those don’t scare you off, then you’re in for a treat. Blackguards rewards players with a decent story, great battles, and an easy on the eyes experience that easily stands out in its genre.

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Magicite Early Access Review

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Magicite is an indie game that has an early access release on steam and continues the trend of indie survival adventure games but with a 2D platformer / RPG twist to it. When players start the game they create a character of which they would like to play the game as. This character creation process includes being able to choose how he / she will look. Stats for the character are randomly generated along with traits. Annoyingly though, you cannot select your own stats or traits which diminishes the customizability of your character.

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Frozen Hearth Post-Mortem Review

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Frozen Hearth is a real time strategy game available right now on Steam with a unique story-line that gives way to original gameplay mechanics and a diverse set of units which are controlled by the player in addition to a main hero style character that is customized to some extent based on the player’s play-style. Structure building has been simplified quite a bit to keep the player’s focus on the battle at hand and so sub-structures are built and replaced as attachments to the home base rather than freestyle bases being built across empty lands.

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Nidhogg Post-Mortem Review

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Nidhogg grabs potential buyers right away from the first sight of gameplay with its simplistic, retro-inspired art design and graphics. Using a conservative amount of colors and techniques, development studio Messhof has managed to pull off one of the most purely fun games to release in recent memory for the Windows PC gaming platform.

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Ethan: Meteor Hunter Review

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Ethan: Meteor Hunter is a 2D puzzle/platformer from developers Seaven Studio. It stars the titular protagonist, a little rat who is struck by meteorites and gains the power of telekinesis. With this new found power, Ethan goes on an adventure to collect more meteorites in order to become even more powerful. His overall goal however is to get revenge on the neighbor who destroyed his house. Is this a revenge tale worth getting into? In short…no!

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Euro Truck Simulator 2 Review

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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.

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Recovery Search and Rescue Simulator Review

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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.

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Metal Gear Rising Revengeance PC Review

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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.

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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.

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Pixel Piracy Beta Review

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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.

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Dementium II HD Review

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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.

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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.

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Hero of the Kingdom Review

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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.

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The Raven Legacy of a Master Thief – Episode 3 – Review

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Now in the final act of The Raven after the awesome experience in the first episode, and the good but slightly less awesome experience in episode two, we are met with the conclusion to something great that started in episode one. But now we find our self in a odd place.

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Ace of Spades: Battle Builder Post-Mortem Review

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Ace of Spades is a PC Game available on Steam which released a short while back and has been on the tip of my tongue for some time now. With Minecraft landing on more platforms than ever, it is important that gamers of all types are aware of this alternative gameplay option. While Minecraft focuses on creation of worlds and role playing while surviving the wild, Ace of Spades is essentially Minecraft with guns but a lot more than that at the same time.

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Tiny Brains PS4 Review

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Tiny Brains on PlayStation 4 is about the experimental procedures of a scientist who has constructed some miniature and intelligent beings. This means players take the role of four test subjects each with their own powers. Every character is needed in their own way for solving the puzzles that this strange science experiment presents them with and they are color coded. When a session has less than four people playing players can swap between different characters at will. Each is color coded to help the player remember their power and in addition to voice chat players can communicate with each other by using the DualShock 4′s touch pad to point out areas they are trying to explain. The color coding also lights up differently on each controller based on which character the player currently has selected.

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IndieSpotlight: Assault Android Cactus

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I recently have had the pleasure of e-meeting the developers behind an incredible new twin-stick shooter called Assault Android Cactus which is currently available on Steam Early Access (and as a playable demo) and will arrive on the PS Vita, PlayStation 4, and Wii U as well as provide support for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows PC Gaming platforms. After getting my own two hands on the title and speaking in-depth with Witch Beam about AAC I can definitely say that what makes this game stand out from others gunning for attention right now is the love and care the devs have put into it. With a real focus on platform specificity too, this is not just a game getting ported around but rather having tailor fit versions for each machine it ends up landing on. In the following article I will describe some of the discussions I had with Witch Beam in regards to Assault Android Cactus and also what each platform of gamer can expect out there. Later this week keep your eyes out for my hands-on Preview as well.

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