2012
     
   
     
 
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Dishonored
86
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 09-Oct-2012
 
Save System:
 
Genre
RPG [!] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [!] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action [  ]
First Person [] Third Person [  ] Shooter [  ]
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth []
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle [  ]


Review
Poor graphics but amazing game. You have the option to be lethal or non-lethal and both will have their own consequences. Just like last year's Deus Ex you can sneak up behind the guards then choose whether you want to put them to sleep or permanent sleep. The mission area's are more like Hitman, open to some extent thus providing an option of several possible paths to your objective. It's only graphics where game disappoints. If you can only bear with that and you should so that you don't miss this masterpiece.

   
   
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
85
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 09-Oct-2012
 
Save System: Anytime 
 
Gameplay Video: Watch on Youtube    (1440p60 - No Commentary - 15:40)
 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [  ] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action []
First Person [  ] Third Person [  ] Shooter [  ]
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Turn Based []
   
   
Resident Evil 6
79
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 02-Oct-2012
 
Save System: Checkpoints
 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [  ] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action []
First Person [  ] Third Person [] Shooter []
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle [  ]


Review

Pros
1. 4 different campaigns where one is more of a shooter (Chris), other is more of survival (Leon), one is a mix of both (Jake) and final one which only unlocks when you beat first 3 campaigns is more focused on puzzle (Ada). The 4 campaigns not only helps to lengthen the game but also provide a good change after equal intervals.
2. RE6 is a mix of good and bad, sometimes it fells good and interesting and at other times bad and boring.
3. Inventory management is quite important factor in the game, so the fans of same won't be disappointed.

Cons
1. While there is a pause button but it won't let you access game settings. The 'back' key that lets you access game settings won't pause your game.
2. You collect skill points  in the game, which can be used to buy upgrades to increase health, damage etc. but you can only equip 3 upgrades at a time, though you can create different sets of 3 upgrades. But what use is that of? You can't change it in the middle of combat, so sets are useless. Thanks to all this, I had almost half of my skill points wasted when I finished the game.
3. Lots of action sequences, press some button in given time. Could have done something better with them.
4. Leon's campaign had too many boss fights towards the end and what is more irritating is that same boss kept on coming back again and again and again.

   
   
The Amazing Spiderman
76
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 25-Sep-2012
 
Save System: Checkpoints
 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action []
First Person [  ] Third Person [] Shooter [  ]
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle [  ]


Review

Pros
1. Controls are good - Hold RT to free swing, RB moves you to the point you are looking. Also holding RB freezes time for few seconds so that you can easily choose your next spot. It also highlights all the near by enemies in red, it lets you see them through walls like thermal vision.
2. Open world - Unlike the few recent Spidey games, this one is an open world. A spidey game feels incomplete unless there is some free world swinging. It also allows to add side missions to the game. Moreover web slinging in open world is fun.
3. Collectibles are fun - There are 100 flying comics and 600 other comics to collect. They are easy to spot and a quick move with RB makes them easy to collect. Besides 700 comics there are also within mission collectibles.

Cons
1. PC version is full of bugs - If you have an option, don't get this on PC. Game hangs/stutters every few minutes. No updates fixed this. It works fine for first few minutes then problems start arising. It was like playing video from a badly smudged disc.
2. Disappointing graphics - Buildings look okay something that you would be staring at for most of the time. Main mission levels are okay too. Vehicles look like painted boxes.
3. Very easy - Lacks challenge.
4. Repeating side quests - I am not saying that side quests get repetive, they are actually same. There are few types of side quests and most of them are given over and over again. Every time you clear main mission, the same side quest you did earlier becomes available at a different place.

ASM is a great game even though it suffers from the problems of low budget games. It's not challenging but it's fun. Do give it a try.

   
   
Borderlands 2
90
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 18-Sep-2012
 

Save System:

 
Nominated for Game of the Year 2012
 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action [  ]
First Person [] Third Person [  ] Shooter []
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle [  ]


Review

Borderlands 2 is a paradise for a shooter fan. It is one of the few games where mindless shooting is fun. It builds up perfectly on the previous game. New characters were introduced as protagonists in each class, while older one's were used in the storyline. B2 is a perfect reason that we should have more open world shooters. It is fun to loot or scavenge for new items, guns. You improve almost every few minutes as you do some upgrade or found a better shield or a better gun.

   
   
I Am Alive
64
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 06-Sep-2012
 

Save System: Checkpoints

 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [  ] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action []
First Person [  ] Third Person [] Shooter [  ]
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [] Puzzle [  ]


Review

Pros
1. A lot of effort on realism, especially combat. Bullets are rare and to overcome multiple enemies you have to strategise.
2. Puzzles are easy but you have to worry about your stamina, the whole game actually revolves around managing your stamina. Health hardly gave me any trouble, it was always about using resources carefully as far as stamina is concerned. Though it wasn't long before I had so much inventory that it didn't matter much.

Cons
1. Uninteresting - IAL's gameplay is ambitious but not amazing. Even in the short 6 hour campaign things start to become repetive.
2. Unfinished storyline - 6 hour is way to small for a survival action game, IAL never even gets to the story it begins with, instead it drifts away to something else. It feels like someone started to tell you a story and then never bothered to finish it.
3. For side quests there are people(victim) you find through out the game. They always need some rare item. Thing is item won't be close and travelling involves resources and effort. Their location may also become unaccessible as main story progresses. Thus it just comes to luck, if you have the item you give it, otherwise just ignore them.
4. Clunky controls - A game in which stamina is always low, it's important to do everything perfectly but usually controls are not responsive enough. It's irritating that while you want the protagonist to go up, he decides to go to left or right.
5. IAL doesn't even mentions the point where it saves the game.

   
   
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
90
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 21-Aug-2012
 
Save System:
 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [  ] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action [  ]
First Person [  ] Third Person [] Shooter []
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle [  ]


Review

Truly amazing, this is the Transformers game I was waiting from so long. An action packed game from start to it's finish just like Michael Bay's Transformer movies, actually even better. You get to operate different bots during the campaign and each one has different abilities and powers. Unlike the last game the Autobots and Decepticons storyline go side by side, sometimes bots will swap even during the mission. The game has come a long way if you compare it with war for cybertron.

   
   
Sleeping Dogs
89
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 14-Aug-2012
 
Save System: By visiting your in game safehouse.
 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action []
First Person [  ] Third Person [] Shooter [  ]
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle [  ]


Review

Quite enjoyable, game takes you to the streets of Hong kong unlike the most of open world games and this provides a different and thus better experience. Soundtracks are good and have a chinese touch to them. Game's storyline boosts it effectively even though it is predictable mostly but it still helps you keep going for more. Storyline gives a feel of some asian movie. Combat is fun when you get hold of it, you spend lot of time without guns fighting with your fists. Collectibles appear on your map and are fun to collect, they even increase your health.

   
   
Darksiders II
88
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 14-Aug-2012
 

Save System: Save anytime out of combat, player location is reset to nearest checkpoint.

 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [] Fighting/Combat [] Hack N Slash []
First Person [  ] Third Person [] Shooter [  ]
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle []


Review
Darksiders II is something you will get if you mix Tomb Raider(old games) and Borderlands in a hack n slash game. Forgive the first 5 hrs when your character is still in development. As game progresses you become better and stronger, you also gain new skills which can make gameplay more strategic depending on your playstyle. You can't obtain all the skills in one playthrough but you can reset your skills anytime. Took me about 35hrs to finish and it was lots of fun.

   
   
Spec Ops: The Line
85
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 26-Jun-2012
 
Save System: Checkpoints
 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [  ] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action [  ]
First Person [  ] Third Person [] Shooter []
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle [  ]


Review
Pros
1. A good storyline which helps to keep your interest in the game alive.
2. You love to use turrets at your enemies but it doesn't lasts long as you are too exposed to enemy fire. Spec Ops lets you crouch while using turret though your aim won't be perfect but you can regain health and keep the fun going.
3. 9-10 hrs of solo campaign.

Cons
1. It's not what it seems from the name, the only thing in common with war shooters is that your protagonist and his team are military (at their own, without any contact with the command). It's more of a storyline shooter.
2. Plain and simple gameplay, aim and shoot as simple as that.

   
   
Inversion
56
 
 
 
 
 
 
Release Date: 05-Jun-2012
 

Save System: Checkpoints

 
Genre
RPG [  ] Racing (Simulation) [  ] Racing (Arcade) [  ]
Open World [  ] Fighting/Combat [  ] Action [  ]
First Person [  ] Third Person [] Shooter []
Wrestling [  ] Sports [  ] Stealth [  ]
Horror [  ] Survival [  ] Puzzle [  ]


Review

The challenging but not the entertaining experience. Game is not a rip off of some other successful title, it tries to bring out many things you won't see in any other game but still fails to create an experience that we will love. Lack of budget can be one reason, which can be seen in game's under par graphics. Inversion is ordinary in almost every aspect, even storyline fails to create any motivation to play the game. The boss fights are quite difficult especially in the final chapters. In these chapters you spend most of your time in boss fights, one boss is followed by another and sometimes you won't even get any checkpoint in between two. None of these are easy, you will probably die 10-15 times in most of them before you learn the trick. I have played lot of games in hard or veteran but here even normal was pain. So good for thoose who look for challenge but remember game is still boring and you may not find the enough energy to go through the game.

   
   
 
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