Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine
Imagine if old GTA games, Chip’s Challenge, and Oceans 11 all stumbled into a blender owned by a Lego man.
Boy what a mess that would be. Thankfully, Monaco is ‘not’ a mess, but rather, a stealth heist game in which you and up to three other thieves band together to plunder the money of a variety of facilities in and around Monte Carlo, everything ranging from Casinos to Hospitals to High Security Prisons, being represented.
The game’s two virtues are its deceptive level of gameplay depth, and its humorous design aesthetic. It’s the personality hidden behind the neon pixels that at first attracts one to this game–the perplexingly simple yet expressive character designs go along with the frantic piano ragtime and silly french NPC voices, to be extremely memorable. You’ll laugh as your little colorful lego thief pees in a toilet, wiggles their hands to hack a PC hollywood style, or hugs a wall and takes deep, ragged breaths after being shot–to the accompaniment of bloodied footprints left in their step. And as your little Mr. Pink dies from that one guard who peaks just inside your hiding place to bop you with a wrench, they explode into a neon pink colored skeleton, and the music thuds to an abrupt halt–only for the music to pick up again where it left off, once your fellow criminals put your guts back in (to the sound of hilarious squishing noises).
– Real player with 2575.5 hrs in game
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Probably one of the best co-op (local or online) games out there. The stealth mechanics manage to fit well with the generally arcadey feel, as the guards aren’t super perceptive, so they can be avoided if you’re careful (and sometimes if you aren’t!). Stealth playthroughs, especially in singleplayer, are satisfying and tense. However, Monaco is just as fun when you don’t try to be stealthy, as you can get into crazy and action-filled situations as you’re forced to escape oncoming guards after you trip an alarm or get caught. The AI can be punishing, though, and some enemies, such as shotgun toting Gendarme, are not to be taken lightly. Multiplayer tends to lean towards the more wild approach unless you’re working in a two-man crew or everyone is trying to stay on the down-low. You’re given the pick of (once you unlock all of them) eight thieves, each with their own unique abilities, all of which are useful. This is another reason why the game shines in multiplayer, because each thief can tackle different situations that others would have trouble with. There’s also a good number of equipments which provide the player with some tool that can get help them get the job done, like smoke bombs, shotguns, C4, and EMPs. Monaco has a ton of standard campaign levels with unique settings and good variety, and there’s also hundreds of user-made levels, some of which are almost as good as the standard ones. The level editor itself is fairly easy to use once you understand the basics, and there are a couple of really extensive guides on the community page which can help get you started. It’s also got a sweet noir style piano soundtrack by Austin Wintory, the guy who made the Journey soundtrack.
– Real player with 761.7 hrs in game
Clandestine
Clandestine is one of the most underrated stealth games I’ve ever played.
I’ll start with what I don’t like: out of all the things to randomly place they chose collectables you’ll need to upgrade your armory.
The game is coded in Unity, so the facial animations are questionable, and the animations overall are very stiff and the collision detection on the environment isn’t great.
The AI is competent, but not particularly complex since guards won’t notice doors opened or trace left by the player.
– Real player with 61.8 hrs in game
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The quick recap
because who has the time to read my soliloquy
Clandestine is a genius and unforgiving stealth game in which mistakes are lethal. The only way to avoid the mistakes is to have a good friend in the van monitoring you and planning ahead of time. This is a stealth game where non-lethal playthrough is rewarding because the non-lethal options are numerous and cool, whereas the guns are pretty much all the same and do the same thing without much skill needed. No advanced objective requires a kill. You will succeed or fail based on your preparation, co-ordination and skill alone. Exploration is rewarded but not capital.
– Real player with 31.1 hrs in game
Styx: Shards of Darkness
Ah, yes. Styx. You know, I’ve never actually finished the original. Got about halfway, then lost interest. So this game already did better in that regard, since I’ve not only gotten all achievements but actually enjoyed it enough to keep playing after. So what can you, a potential buyer expect?
Let’s get the obvious things out of the way first. It’s a stealth game. Not a stealth-action game like Dishonored. Pure stealth, which means that you’re not meant to fight fair. The combat system is very basic as a result, and on the highest two difficulties it’s outright disabled. If you get caught, you either flee or turn invisible.
– Real player with 106.3 hrs in game
Read More: Best Stealth Assassin Games.
After almost 75 hours of play, it’d be hard for me to say I didn’t get my money’s worth, but while I had a blast (most of the time) playing Styx: Shards of Darkness, I think it was frequently in spite of the game rather than because of it.
Shards of Darkness is a stealth-focused, third-person action game with some great, sprawling maps that often had many paths to your objectives. The main character, a chatty, 4th-wall-breaking goblin named Styx, has a ton of unlockable skills and tools up his sleeve that offer a lot of replayability, despite most of those maps being reused two or three times. The game is at its best when it drops you into a level with all your tricks and leaves you to yourself to find your way. Unfortunately, it also suffers from some hyper-annoying bugs and poor design that will account for the vast majority of your deaths and reloads.
– Real player with 77.7 hrs in game
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist
Theres a fix for the servers (2021) its on the splinter cell blacklist discord, you need to download the older verison of Uplay, NOT Uplay connect. You need to change the Uplay version file from [whatever #] to 10627
– Real player with 45.3 hrs in game
How To Redeem Deluxe Items In 2021 (If you bought it)
For anybody having trouble redeeming the Deluxe Edition for Splinter Cell Blacklist, follow this guide to get online so you can retrieve the in-game content you purchased. Follow a walkthrough in this video if you don’t want to read and the person explains some of the possible outcomes and fixes when dealing with the deluxe edition although I still recommend reading the possible issue fixes in their Discord server (link should be in the video)
– Real player with 39.1 hrs in game
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction™ Deluxe Edition
all online services dead. ubisoft doesn’t give a sht. Don’t buy this if you want to play coop or pvp, don’t buy any splinter cell but honestly don’t buy anything from ubisoft
– Real player with 195.1 hrs in game
NOTE: As others have pointed out, save your money and skip the Insurgency DLC. You will most likely not be able to activate it and use it, thus proceed at your own risk.
Is Conviction a good game? Yes.
Is Conviction a good Splinter Cell game? No.
The latest instalment in the Splinter Cell series sees Sam Fisher go on a revenge-fuelled rampage, uncovering and thwarting a conspiracy along the way. It represented a major change of direction for the series (partially rectified by Blacklist), in that it was primarily action orientated, and not stealth focused as the previous games were.
– Real player with 13.6 hrs in game
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction™
all online services dead. ubisoft doesn’t give a sht. Don’t buy this if you want to play coop or pvp, don’t buy any splinter cell but honestly don’t buy anything from ubisoft
– Real player with 195.1 hrs in game
NOTE: As others have pointed out, save your money and skip the Insurgency DLC. You will most likely not be able to activate it and use it, thus proceed at your own risk.
Is Conviction a good game? Yes.
Is Conviction a good Splinter Cell game? No.
The latest instalment in the Splinter Cell series sees Sam Fisher go on a revenge-fuelled rampage, uncovering and thwarting a conspiracy along the way. It represented a major change of direction for the series (partially rectified by Blacklist), in that it was primarily action orientated, and not stealth focused as the previous games were.
– Real player with 13.6 hrs in game
Aragami
Masterpiece of stealth
– Real player with 44.1 hrs in game
“…it’s built around a fantastic and incredibly fun core that is unlike anything else out there and I hope to see more DLC, or even a sequel, in the future. It hooked me pretty badly – I just couldn’t get enough. I loved waiting for my moment to strike, then pulling off the perfect execution of teleports and takedowns, only to fade back into the shadows before anybody saw, or even fixing a mistake swiftly by taking out any alerted guards with precise ferocity.”
8/10
Full review at https://darkzero.co.uk/game-reviews/aragami-shadow-edition-pc-review/
– Real player with 27.0 hrs in game
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™
ENGːSitDownː
**Good game.
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+Graphic arts
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+Physics
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+Sound
Evaluation 9/10**
Very beautifully decorated Russian forests. (The feeling is that you yourself run there)
The other cards are also beautiful.
Weapons are certainly not enough, but you can upgrade and inflate the lyule)
If you play with 3 friends fun triples!
I advise you to buy and encourage friends to buy this game!
Since 8,86$ is not so much for such a quality toy.
Multiplayer:
Here things are average.
– Real player with 56.1 hrs in game
With enjoyable game-play, decent graphics, and strong co-operative potential to draw from, Ghost Recon Future Soldier should have been a fantastic game, and the console version is. Unfortunately, Ubisoft has proven once more to care very little for their PC fan base by releasing a game so riddled with bugs, that a huge portion of the player base cannot even play the game, which is just an example of blatant laziness on the part of the developers.
No matter that it is based on an extremely successful franchise and could otherwise be a brilliant game, using the controls is unbearable, let alone all of the left over icons from the Xbox version, inclusion of mouse acceleration and the lack of any real customisation menus. This makes it difficult to want to be able to progress through the game regardless of how good the story or multi-player could be.
– Real player with 40.2 hrs in game
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Chaos Theory®
–-{ Graphics }—
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
—{ Gameplay }—
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It’s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don’t
—{ Audio }—
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I’m now deaf
—{ Audience }—
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
—{ PC Requirements }—
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
—{ Difficulty }—
– Real player with 50.8 hrs in game
The enemy AI is so god damn smart, they can smell Sam Fisher’s stinky farts and instantly find you
– Real player with 23.8 hrs in game
Sniper Elite 3
Sniper Elite 3: Afrika is one of my favorite games, and one of the best sniper games ever made. The main strength of SE3 is the sniper killcam but goes way beyond that (like shooting Hitler in the nuts). The graphics and soundtrack are incredible and immersive, and sometimes you just have to take a moment to appreciate the beauty of your surroundings. Hell, just to have a bright sun in a WWII game instead of the old dark and gloomy European setting cliché is already a great thing. The protagonist is a reminiscent of those old WWII action comics and he really resembles Rick O’Connell from The Mummy (which explains The Strange Brigade, but I digress) and the story is straight to the point.
– Real player with 643.2 hrs in game
I’m right on the Recommend/Not Recommend border with “Sniper Elite 3.” It’s possible that since I came back to it from Sniper Elite 4 (which I loved), I’m noticing the problems with it more than I would if I had just continued the series from Sniper Elite V2 (which I also loved). I’ll start with the positive, though: the graphics are really good, the voice acting is excellent, and the production values are good, too. It took me about 40 hours to complete the campaign on Sniper Elite difficulty with all objectives (and optional objectives) met and all Collectibles found. It then took me about another 20 hours to get the rest of the Achievements for the base game. So, even at the current list price of about $30, the dollar per hour ratio is good. Of course, getting it on sale would be much better.
– Real player with 71.7 hrs in game