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Dishonored |
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86 |
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Release Date: 09-Oct-2012 |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
[!] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[ ] |
First Person |
[✓] |
Third Person |
[ ] |
Shooter |
[ ] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
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Stealth |
[✓] |
Horror |
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Survival |
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Puzzle |
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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.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown |
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85 |
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Release Date: 09-Oct-2012 |
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Save System: Anytime |
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Gameplay Video:
Watch on Youtube (1440p60 - No
Commentary - 15:40) |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
[ ] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[✓] |
First Person |
[ ] |
Third Person |
[ ] |
Shooter |
[ ] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
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Survival |
[ ] |
Turn Based |
[✓] |
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Resident
Evil 6 |
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79 |
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Release Date: 02-Oct-2012 |
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Save System: Checkpoints |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
[ ] |
Open World |
[ ] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[✓] |
First Person |
[ ] |
Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[✓] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
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Horror |
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Survival |
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Puzzle |
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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.
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The Amazing
Spiderman |
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76 |
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Release Date: 25-Sep-2012 |
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Save System: Checkpoints |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
[✓] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[✓] |
First Person |
[ ] |
Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[ ] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
[ ] |
Survival |
[ ] |
Puzzle |
[ ] |
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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.
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Borderlands
2 |
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90 |
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Release Date: 18-Sep-2012 |
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Save System:
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Nominated for Game of the Year 2012 |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
[✓] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[ ] |
First Person |
[✓] |
Third Person |
[ ] |
Shooter |
[✓] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
[ ] |
Survival |
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Puzzle |
[ ] |
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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.
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I Am Alive |
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64 |
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Release Date: 06-Sep-2012 |
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Save System: Checkpoints
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
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Open World |
[ ] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[✓] |
First Person |
[ ] |
Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[ ] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
[ ] |
Survival |
[✓] |
Puzzle |
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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.
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Transformers: Fall of Cybertron |
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90 |
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Release Date: 21-Aug-2012 |
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Save System: |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
[ ] |
Open World |
[ ] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[ ] |
First Person |
[ ] |
Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[✓] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
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Survival |
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Puzzle |
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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.
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Sleeping
Dogs |
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89 |
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Release Date: 14-Aug-2012 |
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Save System: By visiting your in
game safehouse. |
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
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Racing
(Arcade) |
[ ] |
Open World |
[✓] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[✓] |
First Person |
[ ] |
Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[ ] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
[ ] |
Survival |
[ ] |
Puzzle |
[ ] |
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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.
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Darksiders II |
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88 |
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Release Date: 14-Aug-2012 |
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Save System: Save anytime out of
combat, player location is reset to nearest
checkpoint.
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
[ ] |
Racing
(Arcade) |
[ ] |
Open World |
[✓] |
Fighting/Combat |
[✓] |
Hack N
Slash |
[✓] |
First Person |
[ ] |
Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[ ] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
[ ] |
Survival |
[ ] |
Puzzle |
[✓] |
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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.
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Spec Ops:
The Line |
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85 |
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Release Date: 26-Jun-2012 |
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Save System: Checkpoints |
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Genre
RPG |
[ ] |
Racing
(Simulation) |
[ ] |
Racing
(Arcade) |
[ ] |
Open World |
[ ] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[ ] |
First Person |
[ ] |
Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[✓] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
[ ] |
Survival |
[ ] |
Puzzle |
[ ] |
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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.
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Inversion |
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56 |
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Release Date: 05-Jun-2012 |
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Save System: Checkpoints
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Genre
RPG |
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Racing
(Simulation) |
[ ] |
Racing
(Arcade) |
[ ] |
Open World |
[ ] |
Fighting/Combat |
[ ] |
Action |
[ ] |
First Person |
[ ] |
Third Person |
[✓] |
Shooter |
[✓] |
Wrestling |
[ ] |
Sports |
[ ] |
Stealth |
[ ] |
Horror |
[ ] |
Survival |
[ ] |
Puzzle |
[ ] |
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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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