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Carcassonne - Tiles & Tactics

not worth it

I'm a great fan of the analogue Carcassonne series, but even purchasing this digital copy for $5 I must say I felt robbed. It bothers me a great deal that the game doesn't offer any options what so ever in terms of customizing your game (in a physical copy you'd be able to decide what tiles to include in the session or for how many turns you want to play, number of players or whatever, but here there's almost nothing. My main consern though is that the game always remind you of what expansions there are out there that you don't have, including "buy now" options in-game. So buying this game is just a demo filled with adverts for extra payment options to expand your game. It doesn't give any impression to be the (arguably) full game in itself that it well is. Now for a somewhat strange remark: This digital copy does nothing to help the feeling of randomness when pulling new tiles. By this I mean that an analogue copy would have every individual tile, while anonymous, still respresenting itself. All tiles randomly selected into a number of determined orders. This way, stacking the analogue tiles into two or more seperate draw piles would offer a choice for the player, rendering an illusion of less randomness. Here, in the digital copy, I'm not even conviced the tiles are randomly sorted in a determined order, but I think that they are actually "randomly" selected upon every draw phase. Now, I have no proof of this but, I also think that this "random" generator works with some help; I can't help but feeling that I pull bonuses in Mario Kart. When I'm doing well already I'm being punished by the AI and when I'm doing bad the AI tries to boost my game, knowing what I'm waiting for and what I need, so I think it's mathematically balancing the game which in turn actually diminishes the need for me to make any plans what so ever to my moves. Mathematically, this wouldn't even matter, but this digital game doesn't really entangled my concentration as I feel it could have.

56 gamers found this review helpful
Outcast 1.1

A true life-experience to play

This game is a life-experience. This game might have the best musics, acting and one of the absolutely best stories ever told in a game. The atmosphere catches you very quickly (I recommend giving it a little while if the brief little training island won't have you caught yet). You won't even realize when you're hooked, only that you won't be able to drop the story down, like an enchanting book. Travelling to each of the different "worlds" on this planet you'll start to really feel for the NPC:s there, each of them telling you their own story while weaving the whole scope together for you. This is truly an awe-inspiring gaming universe, and Cutter is one of the greatest heroes out there. In my eyes, Superman can go home. Never have I been more "inside" the gaming world as I were in Outcast. I cannot emphazise enough how well the atmosphere really grabs hold of the player. When this game was new, I remember a hell trying to install it, having to send for a patch from the gaming studios. I have yet to comment on the GoG-release and how well it may work, but I bet it should work well. This is, rarely mentioned but widely percieved, one of the absolutely best games ever, and I'm one to say that it really may be 'it'.

3 gamers found this review helpful
Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire

Simply perfect!

This game is perfect! It plays out as a sort-of mix between 'Rainbow Six', 'Commandos' and 'Splinter Cell', and I'd even stretch as to call it a sort-of predecessor to OP: Flashpoint. Though this is H&D: a series well mentioning on its' own. Sadly, it's been too far since it was continued. H&D2 offers epic scenarios where you control four soldiers during ww2, each with different stats and each of them learning what you practice during each mission. A character firing a lot might increase shooting, a character sneaking around and picking a lot of locks may increase in just those skills instead. During the missions you'll need to capture important people, reach objectives, blow things up, hold areas and sometimes stay alive. During most of the missions, however, losing a squad member does not mean "game over", only you loose that character from the remainder of the game. So you'd better not have them killed. And you won't be able to replace his slot in the squad until the scenario is completed. You never really know what might come up between the missions in a scenario, so you'd also better make sure to gear up for a spectrum of situations and make sure you pack your backpack sensefully. There are lots of guns with great feeling to them (oh, the BAR in this game, it's historically good!) and while it doesn't seem to actually help, chosing your uniforms adds much to the fun. This game truly gives lots of amazing play-time as it plays out in a wide range of environments; Norways winter, the African desert, Central-european cities and, well, yes even in Burma, just to mention a few. Also, the game offers a just as wide range of playabiliy; you could main most missions as the stealthy one, timely infiltrating up close with the knife, or sniping afar, suppressing with an MG or just running and gunning using subs with heaps of ammunition clips. A good strategy, I'd say, is often cruicial to succeed. All nostalgia aside, this game still holds up excellently. It's a must-try.

5 gamers found this review helpful
Hidden & Dangerous Action Pack

Nostalgia aside

Man, this is one of my absolute favourite series. But this is one hell of a glitchy game. When this first came out, I'd still have rated it 5/5 despite all the glitches or pure bad-lucks (as to hitting auto-save instead of auto-load) with all the map restarts. But given that it is rather glitchy and the AI is truly poor, I have to be fair now, I'd like to give it more than 3 stars. I still have tons of fun with this game yet. However: unless you're looking for a nostalgic treat knowing you will also play H&D2 I would totally recommend skipping straight to H&D2, That is a true original.

44 gamers found this review helpful
No Man's Sky

Despite the vastness it fails to impress

From almost a complete day of gaming I find it that the game lacks a lot from what one might expect from any gameplay or screenshot. It somehow manages to lure you to invest more time and to keep making guesses as to what the game might expect from the player. There are not hints to anything. While I can't seem to manage to play with my joystick or throttle, the flight controls by keyboard tells me that it still wouldn't live up. The ship isn't fully controllable. I can't fly as close to ground as I'd like, the feel to the piloting holds much to wish for and there's a key for auto-landing rendering any piloting to simply be all about rotating the ship towards desired direction and waiting... The only thing that interupts you from your tranquilizing boredom are the "achievement unlocked" that appear all at random. However, much unlike the yet-so-annoying-Microsoft-achievements, these add a longer sound, a whole-screen centered text and a wide-screen cutscene layer that keeps you rather crippled from playing. I fear this is what eventually will have me killed: to get one of them achievements at the wrong time and it'll tell me that I've walked for 15km, preventing me to reload my blaster and refill life-sustaining systems, which can anly be done through the inventory screen. It's really quite repetative, and while I wander around alone thinking about how to start trading with A.I. atleast, it strikes me that all of us could just as well be playing this game entirely offline and we wouldn't notice. Since the graphics holds no excuse to all that gaming power it requires, I wonder if they're not just using it all to mine bitcoins for themselves(?). Textures are poor, gameplay (the little gameplay spent aside from inventory menus) is truly slow but most of all: seeing all the various "life forms" does not make the game any less repetitative. The one star that I give, above the minimum one star, is for the awesome idea behind this: they created a universe, yet unfolding.

4 gamers found this review helpful