Recently I started watching Walking Dead, so I actually loaded up Dying Light and tried it. I was not prepared for how fantastic this game is! The graphics are amazing, but I do experience stuttering from time to time. That may be because I only have 8g of RAM and its a huge open world with amazing graphical detail. The character models are good, but it's the environmental detail where this game really looks amazing. Even after lowering the settings and disabling some to make up for my lack of RAM. The sound is clear and immersive from the moans and screams of the undead, to bottles being rolled around as they shamble through the streets, the sound and graphics make a highly immersive experience. The immersion and atmosphere creates a sense of immersion and tension that I havent experienced from a game in years. Just exploring the island and surviving is fun, but there are interesting missions and many Easter Eggs for the player to find. It creates a feeling of an apocolypse on the island, so you only meet a handful of living people even in a city. Some went bad in order to survive, some try to keep to themself, and some have just went completely insane. The game itself is an open world, first person game with RPG elements and parkour similar to the AC series. It seems like an odd mix, but it makes a very fun experience. There is a day/night cycle that creates constant tension, especially earlier to mid game. At night you only have a small flashlight to see, so youre constantly checking your back. The zombies get stronger, faster, and more aggressive at night. In addition there are much more powerful and mobile enemies that come out at night. You can find a safe zone and sleep to make it day again, but XP is significantly increased at night as well as the quality of drops and items you may find. In addition to a standard story, there are many side stories to find. The bottom line is this is an excellent game that is well worth even full price.
I own this on Steam and now I own it here too. This is by far one of my favorite games of all time. It is a real time 4X strategy game. You create an empire from a list of races. You specify their various traits and government types, which adds various bonuses. You select what their ships look like, the types of weapons and propulsion, and select their planet type. From then its on expanding, exploring,exterminating, and the fourth X that Im forgetting. You develop your planet, placing various food production, science labs, and resources. Build a space station and also customize it and customize the vrious classes of ships. You go about exploring star systems and planets, developing your culture and technology through research, explore anomolies, conduct science and engineering projects, and interacting with friendly and hostile species through diplomacy or war. It is a complicated game, but it is not difficult to learn and get in to. Its a 4X game that anyone can get in to. The graphics are amazing and make you feel like youre actually exploring a galaxy. From the details of black holes, to planets, right down to little asteroids. It is a very beautiful 3D game and you can zoom right in to see every detail. The sound is equally amazing ad immersive. On top of all of that, there are a bunch of great mods available. I cant recommend this game enough!
I own this on Steam and now I own it here too. This is by far one of my favorite games of all time. It is a real time 4X strategy game. You create an empire from a list of races. You specify their various traits and government types, which adds various bonuses. You select what their ships look like, the types of weapons and propulsion, and select their planet type. From then its on expanding, exploring,exterminating, and the fourth X that Im forgetting. You develop your planet, placing various food production, science labs, and resources. Build a space station and also customize it and customize the vrious classes of ships. You go about exploring star systems and planets, developing your culture and technology through research, explore anomolies, conduct science and engineering projects, and interacting with friendly and hostile species through diplomacy or war. It is a complicated game, but it is not difficult to learn and get in to. Its a 4X game that anyone can get in to. The graphics are amazing and make you feel like youre actually exploring a galaxy. From the details of black holes, to planets, right down to little asteroids. It is a very beautiful 3D game and you can zoom right in to see every detail. The sound is equally amazing ad immersive. On top of all of that, there are a bunch of great mods available. I cant recommend this game enough!
I first was exposed to this game when I got it for PS3 on sale. I played XCom games since the mid 90s and loved the 60s era idea. I loved it on PS3 and later purchased it from Steam. This is now my third copy of this game. This is a 3rd person, squad-based, tactical shooter. It is an alternate timeline to XCom Enemy Unknown and Within. You play an agent of The Bureau, which was created with XCom to deal with an alien invasion. You are an FBI agent recruited by XCom as the alien invasion begins. You get to upgrade your character and your squad as you go, just the way you do in Enemy Unknown. The underground base is slowly developed throughout the game and you can visit each of the different areas of the base. You collect different weapons and equipment to use yourself or distribute to your squad mates. In the base is a map, which shows various missions available outside the main quest. You can either choose to take the missions, or send some of your squad to deal with it. If you choose to send your squad, they could be injured or killed, they will be unavailable for a set time until the mission is completed, and you will gain a reward for them completing it. You can then go on missions with other squad members while the other squad is taking care of the other mission. It really adds a layer of strategy and makes it more interesting than your typical shooter. The missions themselves are pretty linear, having you follow a certain path to your objectives. You control your character in 3rd person like a typical shooter with the ability to switch weapons, aim, and take cover the way you would expect from a shooter. You typically have two or three (I haven't played it in a while) other squad members with you, which you have to strategically choose based on their skills. You may have room for, or need a medic if you know you're facing a lot of resistence. Engineers can hack aliend technology or may be needed to difuse a bomb. You then have a soldier and sniper class. You face the various aliens that you find in Enemy Unknown and Within, but there are additional aliens and vehicles you face in this game. There is typically some sort of boss at the end of each stage, which they have different ways to kill. The story is the typical XCom alien invasion story, but they go into more detail about each different type of alien and their plan for humanity. The story itself is interesting and fun, and will keep you playing on to find out what happens next. I don't know why this game had some average to low reviews, but I loved each version of it I played and it is a game I go back to and play over pretty often. I highly recommend this game, especially at the price it is being offered on GoG. If you are a fan of sci fi, shooters, tactical shooters, or strategy, this game will not disappoint you!
I loved X-Com since I first played Terror from the Deep on floppy discs in the 90s. It posed a scenario of an alien invasion and how Earth would deal with the threat. It is turn-based tactical strategy gameplay, but you also have base management, squad management, character creation (for your members of your squads), and research. X-Com UFO Defense and Terror from the Deep were true classics, and I never really liked any type of turn-based game just to give you an idea how good they were. XCom: Enemy Unknown was released as a reboot of the series. The series died off about a decade or more prior with some unremarkable titles that tried to continue the formula, cross into the space sim genre, and one to cross into the action genre. The reboot stayed true to the original formula, but re-imagined the story and modernized the game. The first thing is the base management. Your facility is secret and underground, so you can only expand by excavating areas of your underground space. You build different areas such as an engineering area, scientific labs, satellite uplinks, power generators, and more. Different facilities have bonuses when they are adjacent to other facilities, which provides a layer of strategy in your base layout. You have to manage funds and resources (recovered alien technology, corpses, etc..) while building your base, equipping your soldiers, making and deploying satellites, buying defense aircraft, and more. The next layer is squad management. You have a squad of up to six soldiers of four different classes (heavy, assault, medic, and sniper). The soldiers start out at a recruit rank and increase in rank by gaining experience during missions. The class is randomly assigned, so you have to carefully assign soldiers to missions in case one is out for an extended time for an injury, or gets killed. For example, you need at least one medic. If your medic gets seriously injured and it's the only high-ranking medic, you're in trouble for a few missions and may lose other high-ranking soldiers. The soldiers have various equipment that you can upgrade through research throughout the game. You can also customize the look of their gear, the person, and the name. The only thing you can't change about the soldier is their nationality and gender, which is randomly assigned up recruiting them. The tactical turn-based portion of the game are the missions. There is a story to follow, but the missions you get are random. You also don't have to follow the story when you don't want to. You can put off story missions until you're ready for them, but as you advance, so do the invaders and story missions get more difficult as you delay them. You get missions by detecting a UFO via the satellites, sending an aircraft out to shoot it down, and exploring the wreckage, detecting abduction sites, dealing with an alien terrorist situation, or through story missions. Another layer to the strategy is the council that governs XCom. XCom is an international organization, funded by the participating countries. You will lose member nations by allowing the panic level to rise by failing, or passing on missions in their area. You can lower panic by completing missions, or by deploying a satellite over their nation. You have to carefully weigh the bonus of a successful mission with the possible panic increase and loss of a member nation. The graphics and sound are great and still hold up today. While they're not life-like or anything that will really blow you away, they are great for what this game is trying to accomplish and are perfect for keeping you immersed in the experience of running an international shadow agency, fighting against an alien invasion. The controls are perfect, with a keyboard shortcut for each of the control buttons on screen. Enemy Within adds so much new material that it is almost an entirely new game. I can't speak so much for Enemy Within because I played hundreds of hours in Enemy Unknown, but only a handful of hours on Enemy Within. Not because I didn't like it, but because I just moved on by then. I still go back and play it every couple of months, and when I do, it's usually Enemy Within. This is the complete package with each DLC and the expansion. It is all offered for the price of the original base game and DRM free! It is well worth it for any fan of strategy, science fiction, or just gamers that appreciate a high-quality experience built for the fans.
I have this on Steam and am purchasing it here now. I really wish I waited a few more months, but I didn't expect it to come to GoG so soon. BSG Deadlock is a turn based strategy game set it space. It is sort of based on the newest series, but not entirely. It is based on the first Cylon war, so the war you see in the movies of Bill Adama. It does not follow the story of the newest series at all because it takes place decades prior. But, it does follow the lore set in place during the series. The graphics are great and each ship and space station are detailed and look exactly how they were depicted in the series. The sound probably uses much of the assets from the series and the overall package makes you feel like you're a commander in the BSG universe. The controls are easy and it has a pretty good tutorial at the beginning of the campaign. You start out with a mission objective, any intelligence as far as enemy units on the map, and you can place your fleet. When you start, you have a turn for each ship and can set its course in three dimensions. There is a fog of war on the map that does not allow you to see enemy ships until you are in Dradis range. I would highly recommend this game to any BSG fan, fan of TBS, or fan of space fleet combat.
