DYNASTY WARRIORS 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition
Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition Review
Nostalgia Goggles Factor: Very Low.
Bug Factor: Very Low.
Crash Factor: Very Low.
Replay Factor: Intrinsic.
A crowd-control, hack’n slash game based on a Chinese novel, set in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. DW8XL contains an enormous amount of content and repetitive gameplay.
As I have played and reviewed DW3 recently, I will be doing some comparisons between these two games. Like many other reviewers have pointed out, “Complete Edition” is a lie, as is evident from glancing at the DLC section and you should not be playing this game with a keyboard.
– Real player with 749.3 hrs in game
Read More: Best Historical Hack and Slash Games.
-sigh- Where do I begin?
Well, I gotta start by saying, if you’re looking to get into the Warriors/Musou games, this would be the ideal title to start with. Easily the best title in the series (at least since DW5).
For those new to the series, Dynasty Warriors (a.k.a. Shin Sangoku Musō) is, basically, a hack-n'-slash based on era of the Three Kingdoms of China, and the romanticized novel of the same name. In its stages, there are thousands of enemies of various calibers to mow down. You got your peons that go down in a few hits, your commanders that are a little tougher, your generic named officers that are a threat, and other playable characters that have the same abilities you do. You have a more-or-less equal amount of allies on your side, and how they fight is determined by your side’s overall morale, which itself is determined by your performace. Each character has their own string of combinations, but I’ll get into that in the next paragraph.
– Real player with 681.6 hrs in game
Museum of War
Сходил в музей
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Museum of War is a resounding achievement in world building, environment, and engaging gameplay with occasional problems throughout.
Its incredible recreation of ancient Greece is something I’ll want to go back to long after I’ve finished its main story, and its excellent systems mesh together in a way that’s hard to beat. While there are definite rough edges, Museum of War sets a new bar for slasher games and holds its own in the eternal debate over the best hack and slash games ever.
When I look back on all the fun I’ve had, all the complaints feel minor. Museum of War is beautiful, and it effortlessly ties action, stealth and hand to hand combat together into one cohesive game that, even after 0.2 hours, I want to keep playing.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Child of Lothian
The beautiful culture and atmosphere of 18th century Edinburgh disappearing beneath the shadows of witch hunters looming in the streets. Hushed whispers appearing in every corner and suspicious gazes of townspeople falling upon their neighbours as friends become enemies. What is your role to play as a child, in the 18th-century witch trials?
AGAINST ALL ODDS
The world around you feels intimidatingly large and crowded. It sometimes just feels like all the odds and people are against you. Yet you learned to survive the harsh conditions of the streets of Edinburgh. Hide and disguise yourself to escape the witch hunters and steal items from others to survive.
CHOOSE YOUR PATH
Choose to engage in dialogue to find the information you need to complete quests or decide to pickpocket, eavesdrop and steal to reach your goals. The choice is all yours.
YOUR SHELTER IS YOUR SAFE SPACE
The only home you’ve got where you can take a breather and feel comfortable, sleep to venture in the dark of the night or at day- and plan out your next moves for the dangers you’ll encounter once on the streets of witch-hunter invaded streets of Edinburgh.
Stealth Mechanics
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Pickpocketing
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Stealing
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Hiding
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Disguising yourself
Traversal
- Free roam
AI Behaviour
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Advanced stealth guards AI
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Reputation system for NPC’s: Communciation between NPC’s on player behaviour
Camera
- Cinematic camera during dialogues
Narrative
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Dialogue
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Environmental storytelling
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Immersive UI
Systems
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Quest system
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Inventory system
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Day / night system
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LiBER
What will happen if an ordinary student falls into the hands of an ancient book with the texts of a forgotten civilization, capable of transporting the reader through space and time? Find out about it in Liber - a 3-d person action adventure, where fragments of past eras are mixed like a kaleidoscope!
In Liber, you have to try on the faces of two completely different heroes who find themselves in an unfamiliar environment. What adventures and challenges lie ahead? Will they be able to find a common language with each other? How will the incident affect them? Will they be able to find their way back?
Let’s find it out!
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Unique among games setting of the hitmen;
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Lots of ways to interact with the world;
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Deep plot and colorful characters;
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Integrated combat system - hand-to-hand combat, fencing, shooting;
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Variability in the passage of sections of the game;
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Large locations, different in visual and mechanics;
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High-quality and detailed picture created with UE4.
Liber is developed by the independent Russian studio Olkon Games.
Into The Valley
Pro.
interesting game
Even tho i did not expect too much from it, i was actually amazingly pleased.
I started played and it kept me hooked for a while
The take is quite uniqe as the setting and all
Cons
A little lagish sometimes given that i have a quite good pc
I hate the right click mouse control. if you could add like a mouse centered movement where i dont have to right click to move the image it would be awesome.
I actually recommend it. its not a bad game given that it came from a single man team development but there are many ways that you can actually improve this game. I recommend buying it as its a quite nice small game and it will keep u occupied for a while. i’m planning on finishing the story soon.
– Real player with 49.7 hrs in game
A unique environment with unfamiliar enemy types and some really tough combat!
– Real player with 9.1 hrs in game
Gladiator: about to die
It will take a bit of work to get the game to where it needs to be, but great potential and fun so far :)
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Gold Rush! Classic
Classic Sierra Adventure Games;
So, that intro from the beginning makes me sigh from the inside. These games (for me) are memories of growing up and sitting on my father’s knee and learning about computers…(the next step involved constructing my own PC from scratch, but that’s a different story for a different time)
Sierra INVENTED the adventure genre as far as I’m concerned, and “Gold Rush” is not only an excellent example of a classic adventure game, it is also the benchmark for self-involved concepts as well as being true to life history.
– Real player with 195.7 hrs in game
This game can be super annoying if you don’t know what to expect. Part of it is the primitive mechanics. It’s not like today’s point and click game where you click on a location and the character will move there. You have to use your arrow keys to direct every step of the movement. You also have to instruct the character what to do. Encountering another character will not automatically trigger conversation. You have to tell your character to ‘talk’ by typing this in. If you don’t type in the correct series of words, this will also halt your progress. And last but not least, there is potential to fall into a big hole in this game. Let’s say you did not pick up a certain something on level one, well if you don’t have it at level 10, you can forget finishing this game … Still, there is a lot of charm to this game with its graphics and story plot. I recommend it on sale. I would also like to play the updated anniversary edition.
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
Rectifying Zion
Rectifying Zion is based on historical events from around 450BC, Israel. In a time when the city of Jerusalem was being rebuilt and its people were returning after a period of exile.
As player you will be faced with moral challenges and need to make choices that will ultimately direct the outcome of the game as you try to rebuild the city.
Rectifying Zion is an open world role playing game that allows the player to roam around a large open world based on Israel, including Jerusalem and the temple, as well as other smaller cities, villages and farms.
Ryse: Son of Rome
fun game that holds up today even though it was just a “tech demo” when release. decent story, solid graphics, and mediocre gameplay. plays like a simpler version of the batman arkham series. the only downside is that campaign is very short (4-6hrs) and the combat is repetitive. still, worth checking out since it plays like an extended action movie.
– Real player with 60.8 hrs in game
Contrary to what the game’s title might leave you believing, the protag’s name is not actually Ryse, but it’s actually Marius. Some characters do tell him to rise from time to time when he’s being a lazy slacker falling asleep in the middle of a war, and the subtitles use an i instead of a y, but that’s just semantics. I’d also consider the “Son of Rome” part to be a little inaccurate since a city can’t conceive people. Although people can be conceived inside cities, and Marius’s daddy-o, Leontius sure laid down the pipe on his wife Septima. And we have confirmation that he did so at least twice since Marius has a sister! I might be going a little off track here, so let’s get down to the game itself.
– Real player with 21.8 hrs in game
ARIDA: Backland’s Awakening
[8/10]
Review in english first, portuguese below
Análise em inglês primeiro, e em português abaixo
JOGADO TOTALMENTE NO LINUX - PLAYED COMPLETELY ON LINUX
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Árida is a very regionalist game about the worst period of drought in northeastern Brazil in the region known as “Caatinga” (blacklands). It is a short semi-linear exploration and survival game, with cartoonish aesthetics that resemble drawings from that place and age (“literatura de cordel”) in sharp contrast against the looming sense of dread that permeates the entire game - you see death everywhere, the Sun quickly exhausts your thirst and hunger bars, specially at noon.
– Real player with 12.3 hrs in game
Esse jogo brasileiro de sucesso se passa nos arredores de Canudos, na Bahia. É um jogo de sobrevivência e de ficção que retrata esse contexto histórico em que muitos brasileiros do sertão nordestino acabam migrando na época de seca intensa de terra árida para sobreviver. Com a protagonista não é diferente, e com ela você experiencia um pouco de como essas pessoas lutam para sobreviver a esse ambiente e você encara junto com ela a jornada de ir até Canudos encontrar seus pais e buscar uma vida nova.
– Real player with 6.4 hrs in game