Metal Wolf Chaos XD
tl;dr: Arcade Armored Core. Fast, furious mech action with a ton of customization, lots of hidden depth, and a focus on old school arcade-style high score chasing and replayability.
Yeah, yeah, President of the United States in a giant robot, blow up America for great justice. If you’re looking at this store page, you already know the bonkers pitch, and you probably know that the tone of the game really is as ridiculous as it sounds. But how does it play?
You control an ultra-agile mech running, jumping, boosting and flying around to complete objectives that are all fundamentally “blow up something or other.” Early levels may have you blow up all the enemy encampments in an area, but later levels can involve racing through a timed sequence to blow up a reactor, or playing hide and seek with a giant spider mech to blow up its power station (and then blow up the mech itself), or fighting against a group of enemy mechs in order to blow them up. Though all this might seem repetitive, the level designs and subtle differences in how you’re expected to blow things up really do give each level a distinct feel, and the sheer act of blowing things up never stops feeling great.
– Real player with 39.8 hrs in game
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A bare-bones re-release and remaster of the game with a few issues (including a locked frame-rate due to its console origins) but aside from that, it should run on a toaster and is perhaps one of the craziest, most nonsensical and downright ridiculous mecha games around, done by From Software nonetheless. The story is pure unadulterated insanity or how Japan views or thinks the US works. Dialogue here is above the proverbial “so bad it’s good”: this is voiced, people SPOKE those lines. You just don’t get this level of madness anymore and I applaud them for it.
– Real player with 36.7 hrs in game
Cold Vengeance
Cold Vengeance is a gun-blazing action-arcade romp through a deliberately polygonal, block-y and hazy look to it that makes it reminiscent of late 90’s 3D action games for the N64, PSX, and Saturn. This retro-flavored and post-apocalyptic appearance in tandem with the forward moving, almost on-rails nature of the shooting bring me back to what I loved most of the era.
An Americana lovechild between Fist of the North Star post-apocalyptic wasteland sensibilities and Sin and Punishment gritty rail-gunning low-poly N64 age badassery, the intuitive weapon combining of the iconic Gunstar Heroes with the forward-pressing level progression of Shock Troopers all wrapped in a hilariously satirical romp rife with action and macho-fueled patriotism that only a post-2016 America could truly be deserving of.
– Real player with 25.5 hrs in game
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Playing Cold Vengeance, you can tell this is likely Renegade Sector’s first foray into 3D games; it’s a notably less polished experience than later titles. The inability to turn around is an interesting constraint, one further explored in other RS games, but here the limited free-aim feels a bit clunky, fighting you at the edges and clipping in confined spaces. One unfortunate close-quarters boss fight in particular brings all of this into sharp relief. It’s frustrating, but thankfully not overly difficult, so it’s not long until we’re back in business running and gunning. Overall, it’s a characteristically fun and no-nonsense game with bright, crisp visuals, interesting level design and satisfying power-up synergies.
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare - Gold Edition
I was going to recommend this game initially, but one month after release and the developers seem to have gone silent on us, no more updates or messages on the steam community. I am going to split this review into two parts, single player and multi player and talk about the pros and cons. Here we go:
The Single-player campaign - Length: 6-7 hours - Difficulty: Average ( I played about 8 hours of it )
So we get another typical cod campaign, the story is great, altho not at the same level as Black Ops 2 was, your choices do not impact the ending, in fact the campaign is preety much all linear. Graphics are the best the franchise has ever seen, and so are the audio effects, also gameplay has been refined to be extremely fast paced and enjoyable. Kevin Spacey’s performance is incredible, at some points the engine is struggling to keep up with his performance, making you wish Sledgehammer would have used live action cutscenes instead of CGI. The campaign is overall a great experience, if not a bit too short, they could have expanded on it and made it longer, it has some plot holes and rushed moments.
– Real player with 18.4 hrs in game
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(TL;DR can be found at the end of the review)
Call of the annual Duty - Underdeveloped Lagfare
I’ve been a huge fan of the Call of Duty franchise when Modern Warfare hit the stores. For years I’ve been playing pretty much nothing else and dumped hundreds, if not thousands of hours into it. I also played Modern Warfare 2 & 3 but it wasn’t the same for obvious reasons. Since then I wanted to buy another CoD that could bring back the nostalgia. Then Advanced Warfare comes along and actually gets a lot of good reviews and I get curios: Another studio, a longer delevopement time and fast dropping prices.
– Real player with 14.7 hrs in game