Hi guys! Today I will talk about Max Payne 3. As always, the review will have three parts, firstly I will talk about the storyline, then about the gameplay, afterward, I will talk about the visuals and finally, I will tell you my personal thoughts and give you a rating for the game from 0-10 (10 being the best).

Storyline

I know Max Payne 3 is an old game but I have been hearing good things about it and I thought I should try it out.

I can’t say that I felt anything from the story of the game. It felt pretty average, it was there to give you a reason for all this shooting and killing and I can say it did its job. The inner thoughts of Max throughout the story were enjoyable and I have to say it’s something that I haven’t seen in another video game I have at least to this extent.

The only problem I have with the game and how it handled the storytelling is that there were too many cutscenes and too many times I lost control of the character to watch the cutscenes and that for me was annoying.

Gameplay

The main ability that you will use throughout the game is the slow motion. When you jump the game goes into slow motion and it gives you time to shoot every enemy that you can while you are in slow motion.

You can say this is something that shows that the game was ahead of its time since it’s a very unique mechanic that you don’t see often. Personally, the only other game that I remember that had something similar to this is Quantum Break.

The negative thing is that this game mechanic is the only thing you will use for the entirety of the game. There are no other abilities you unlock, no other gear or weapons. Just this game mechanic. Some may say that’s enough, but for me it got old halfway through the game.

I believe the game needed something more for you to use while you fight enemies. Many people will disagree with me on this, but nevertheless this is my review and I have to say my honest opinion.

As for the weapons that you get to use. There is enough variety in the weapons department, but most of the time I used the same kinds of weapons because they were the most efficient for my playstyle.

Now let’s talk about the difficulty. I played it on hard mode since that was the hardest difficulty you could choose at your first playthrough. There are 2 other difficulty settings that unlock after you beat the game at hard mode. Those are the Hardcore mode and the Old School mode. I never played on those settings. I just finished the game on hard mode.

I have to say hard was challenging at times and I guess Hardcore and Old School modes will give you an even more challenging experience. I believe those of you that are hardcore gamers will find what you are looking for in terms of challenge in this game.

Visuals

Max Payne 3 has very good graphics even by today’s standards. I played the game on the highest settings possible and I have to say it looked pretty good. The environment looks solid, and you fight in some interesting locations. As for the customization, the game has none. You basically play with the clothes you are given from start to finish.

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Final Thoughts

Max Payne 3 is a unique game that was ahead of its time and has a unique feature that you won’t easily find somewhere else. That said it has some flows. As I said this unique feature with the slow-motion is the only thing that you will use to fight enemies.

There are no other abilities, so you will play the 10-hour story mode doing the same thing over and over again.

For me that’s not enough, you might have a different opinion and if that’s the case then good for you, I hope you enjoy the game more than me. Currently, the base game is sold for 20 dollars/euro on steam.

I don’t recommend the game at this price, I would recommend that you wait for the sale of at least 50% if not more. It’s a good game but it’s old enough that it shows on the gameplay.

Final Verdict

Storyline: 8.2

Gameplay: 8.0

Visuals: 8.0

General Rating: 8.0

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A game that is frequently compared to Minecraft, Don’t Starve is an action-adventure survival game with a mix of roguelike. The game was released in 2013 and received numerous updates since then.

Besides Don’t Starve, this review will cover Don’t Starve Together, i.e. its multiplayer version.

Is the game really worth it, or is it just another Minecraft clone?

This review will be split into storyline, gameplay, visuals, and finally, the personal thoughts section. Without further ado:

Storyline

The storyline is quite enigmatic at best and is fully accessed by finding a specific gate in the overworld.

Through that, you will play the game’s campaign mode, which has 5 stages, each with different requirements to fulfill.

By playing and finishing it, you find out what this world is, who the antagonist is, and why you are there, but not much else.

Gameplay

Being a survival game, your main goal is to survive. But that is harder than it sounds.

I will talk about the Reign of Giants version in this review, not Shipwrecked, as it more closely resembles the original game. I might add the other expansions at some point of course.

Essentially, (almost) everything in this game is hostile. Day or night, autumn or winter or spring or summer, it doesn’t matter.

The most hostile thing is Charlie. Charlie is basically the antagonist’s right hand (and the main antagonist in the multiplayer version).

Her only purpose in-game is to instakill you in the night. If the night comes and you don’t have a valid light source nearby, you will die from Charlie.

Generally, your first goal should be to forage grass tufts and twigs in order to build your first tools.

Then, using an axe, you cut some trees to have wood for a fire at night.

Generally, though, you will want to explore and fill out your map, foraging while you do. Eventually, you will find a good enough position (there aren’t many requirements for a position) to build a base.

In your base, using gold that you must find, as well as some other items, whether base or refined, you will build basic structures that allow you to discover newer, more advanced recipes for newer, more advanced weapons, tools, and miscellaneous things.

These are the extreme basics. The game gets far more complicated. Let’s start with survival.

Having a base helps nothing with surviving (other than being able to have better equipment). Any hostile mob can just waltz in your base and kill you. So you have to be very, very careful.

Besides not getting killed by mobs, you also have to sustain your hunger and sanity.

Hunger is pretty straightforward. With an empty stomach, you lose health. Most basic foods don’t fill you up that much, but you’ll build a crock pot, and through experience (and by experience I mean the Don’t Starve wiki), you’ll find the best recipes.

Food goes rotten after a while of not being eaten, but you can preserve it longer if you store it in a freezer.

You can also create various farms of most edible things in order to have a constant form of food and not need to scavenge the already limited resources.

Sanity is something that you will usually want high. As it lowers, you start hearing and seeing things and shadows, the lower it gets, the more corporeal they become.

After a point, the shadow creatures will be able to hurt you, and you hurt them.

While your goal is to survive, a lot of times you will need to kill them as they give you an item that is essential to start building magic items and weapons.

The sanity is heightened or lowered by various acts within the game. Most of them make sense in the real world.

For example, picking flowers and sleeping well raises sanity while digging graves and staying up at night lowers it. There are many things that you will have to learn.

Every character’s sanity is a bit different, as some characters are scared more or less easy, and others can raise sanity using unconventional ways.

Now about the seasons. The game always starts in autumn, which is by far the easiest season. It then cycles to winter -> spring -> summer -> autumn until you die.

The rule is that seasons last a specific amount of time depending on your expansion.

Each season (besides autumn, I guess) has something for which you must prepare, lest you die in a few days into the season.

Winter is extremely cold and each night lasts way longer. You must have prepared a lot of heat sources for when traveling (except if you want to spend the whole season by your campfire), and warm clothes. Not preparing correctly will result in death by frostbite.

During the winter, food is preserved much longer, but farms never grow anything.

Spring is full of rains and thunders, and, not only you must build a lightning rod, you must also build umbrellas and other clothes to keep you dry.

Becoming wet is mostly just a nuisance, but it could become deadly as you could freeze.

Of course, due to constant rain, sanity drops rapidly during the spring.

Summer is practically hell on earth. The only good thing is how long days are.

In summer, you must do the opposite of winter. You must find a way to stay cool (you even have endothermic fires instead of the usual fire pit). Failing to do so will result in death by overheating.

Not only that, but food spoils much faster. At least farms grow food much faster as well.

Every season has its own seasonal giant too. They are hostile mobs, but super tanky and very hard to beat, and extremely dangerous. Killing one grant you unique items.

The map generally has a lot of different areas, each with its own danger and things to look out for.

The game is definitely not beginner-friendly, and it will take you a lot of attempts to find out what you must do and why.

Each character has very unique strengths and weaknesses that you must take into account while playing.

The most frustrating thing by far is that death is permanent (except in very rare cases). You can be trying for hours and maybe days, only to lose all progress because you died while not paying attention. Then you must repeat the whole process from the start, which becomes tedious fast.

Fortunately, that is not the case for multiplayer, as there is a (relatively easy to build) item that revives your fallen friend at the cost of Max HP (which can also be fixed).

The combat is very weird. If you have a melee weapon, you can left-click something to automatically attack it once. Repeat until one of you dies.

The problem is that, as you cannot move when attacking, and since the mobs try to attack as well, you must do quite a lot of kiting to battle properly.

Combine this with the fact that every mob has a different attack animation and wind-up time, and you have the recipe for hard.

All in all, the game is pretty complicated from the get-go, and permanent death doesn’t make it much more pleasant than it already is.

However, the game counts score based on the number of days you survived, so I can see why they did it.

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Visuals

The game’s graphics are very cartoonish. That’s not bad at all, it actually helps you have lots of fun while exploring and interacting. The game is actually praised for its graphics.

The cartoonish graphics make the game playable on the worst of PCs, without any fps problem, which further adds to the game’s tally.

The SFX are also nothing short of amazing. Besides the SFX for the game and mobs (which are awesome), every character has a witty line related to their personality when you try to right-click something.

The reason I’m saying this is because when they do, the make a sound effect, and each character has his own specific organ from which the sounds come from.

Personal Thoughts

So the game is frequently compared with Minecraft. The game’s creators have stated that Don’t Starve was heavily inspired by Mojang’s colossus.

But the 2 games are nothing alike. Don’t Starve is far more complicated than Minecraft will ever be.

Sure, you can build a lot of unbelievable contraptions in Minecraft, but the basis is building, you use your brain for the rest.

In Don’t Starve, you must memorize tons of things and make lots of mental notes for every phase of the game.

Minecraft gives you the freedom to do what you want, while Don’t Starve expects you to survive.

While it boils down to personal preference, there is a reason why Minecraft is more popular (besides being more kid-friendly).

Final Verdict

Storyline: 6.5

Gameplay: 7.8

Visuals: 6.5

General Rating: 6.9

That’s it for my review. Di you play Don’t Starve? Do you prefer it more than Minecraft. If you have anything to add, feel free to leave a comment on the comments section down below.

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Hi guys! Today I will talk about The Surge. As always, the review will have four parts, firstly I will talk about the storyline, then about the gameplay, afterward, I will talk about the visuals and finally, I will tell you my personal thoughts and give you a rating for the game from 0-10 (10 being the best).

Storyline

First, let’s talk about the story of The Surge. I am going to be honest with you guys. I didn’t get much of the story of this game at all.

I think the problem was that you learned most of the story through voice recordings that you found throughout the game and while you were listening to the voice recording you were forced to fight with enemies most of the time so it wasn’t easy to focus on what you hear while trying not to die.

Because of that, you might not hear some parts of the story that were important to understand some later parts of the story and so you get confused and can’t understand much of what’s happening.

Personally, I gave up trying to understand the story because of this and just played the game for the challenge of it.

Gameplay

The basic thing you need to know about the story is that you wear some exoskeleton and fight bad guys with exoskeletons like you that after an accident they became zombie-like and lost control of their exoskeletons.

Now for the game mechanics. The Surge brings something new to the table. As you fight enemies you choose to focus on a part of their bodies, for example, the arm and if you bring their health low enough you will be able to perform an execution combo that will kill them and cut of the body part that you chose to focus. Then you will get the gear that was attached to that body part and you will be able to use it yourself. That happens with every part of your gear.

Basically, you collect the gear that you use from your enemies. That is a very interesting concept and the way it is executed forcing you to choose which gear you want from the enemy you are fighting.

You can also upgrade your gear with tech scraps, which are the currency of the game and you get them while killing enemies and you can also find them throughout the game as items pick up.

Now let’s talk about the difficulty of the game. First of all, you can’t change the difficulty. The game has a default difficulty and if its too hard for you then your only choice is to get better.

Personally, I didn’t find the games’ base difficulty to be that hard to manage. When you finish the game, you will unlock new game plus which increases the game’s difficulty.

I didn’t play the game a second time with new game plus because I didn’t feel the need to play the game from the start. For me, one playthrough was enough.

As for the enemies you will face, there are a lot of different types of enemies, so you won’t get bored fighting the same enemies over and over again. There are also tons of items that you can use to fight those enemies and you will surely get to experiment with a lot of builds.

Beside the gear that you use to fight enemies, meaning the weapons and armor, there are also implants that you can equip to your character to give him different stats and abilities. There are a lot of different implants in the game and they severely affect the way you play the game, so choose wisely.

One thing that you should watch out for in this game is the level design. The game uses a level design similar to souls like games, meaning that you have to find the medstations which are your rest point and the place you can upgrade/change gear and when you die you return to the medstation you last visited.

Also, you unlock shortcuts throughout the game that you can use to get back to the medstation faster from an area that normally it would take a lot of time to return to from the medstation through a normal route.

Visuals

The Surge looks good, but the problem for me is that you play 95% of the game in closed places, so you see the same kinds of environments everywhere. The game has a realistic excuse for this, because of the story, but it still gets boring to look at the environment around you. There is nothing visually pleasing about it.

As for the customization, the game has minimal customization, meaning you can change the color of the clothes that you wear, but there aren’t many colors to choose from. 

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Final Thoughts

The Surge is a good experience for those that like challenging, and Hack ‘n’ Slash games, but I wouldn’t recommend paying the full price for it. Wait till it goes on sale. The combat is good with some things that you haven’t seen in other games, and as for the story, for me, they did a poor job in the way they told the story(I explain this further in the gameplay section for those of you that went straight to final thoughts). The visuals are good but nothing special.

Final Verdict

Storyline: 7.8

Gameplay: 8.5

Visuals: 8.5

General Rating: 8.2

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Antichamber is a puzzle game like no other. Designed to break your mind, it will sure make you spend hours trying to solve it.

The game was developed by a single person, a feat that is quite impressive.

This review will have a storyline, gameplay, visuals, and finally, a personal thoughts section. Without further ado:

Storyline

The game doesn’t have any storyline, except maybe the weird ambiguous ending.

Still, there is not much for debate, as there is no dialog nor clues that hint at the existence of a structured story.

Gameplay

Ok, so the gameplay is pretty much… to break the rules of physics.

Unlike the other similar puzzle games, this game doesn’t use core laws of nature like reflection or gravity. Instead, it utilizes paradoxes and creative thinking.

Let’s start from the start.

You begin in a single room with an interactable wall to set your preferences and settings.

There are 2 main walls that matter. The left wall (taking the “settings” wall as a point of reference), which is originally empty, and the right wall, which only has a single square.

Across the “settings” wall is a glass pane that shows a room with 3 doors, 1 of which has an “Exit” sign above it.

The right wall is the main wall. It is essentially your map. You’ll be using it to navigate through the maze. Now, the maze works a bit weird.

First things first, you can exit the maze at any time using the “Esc” key from your keyboard. Doing so will not make you lose progress at all, instead, all your progress will be noted on the map. However, you will lose progress made in that specific puzzle you made if you did not complete it.

Every time you “escape”, you have the choice of returning to any point of the maze in order to re-explore it or take another path (as most intersections have more than 1 choice to take).

Your final purpose is to complete the map.

The left wall keeps the images from the game’s hints. As you explore, you will find many hints scattered. These hints don’t give you the solution, rather, they literally hint towards it.

So, every hint will be stored on the “hint” wall, which you can click to see better.

I mentioned that the game utilizes creative thinking and paradoxes. Time for an explanation.

The maze is not a maze in the traditional sense. You will have to be very creative with your choices.

For example, you might face 2 options of taking the stairs either up, or down, with the correct option being to go back from where you came from.

This is where paradoxes come in. Sometimes, the room you came from won’t exist and will be replaced with a different room, should you go back.

You may find different results and room if you walk, or run.

Heck, you can even teleport to another room simply by looking through some window-like things.

At some point, inside the maze, you will find a “manipulation” gun, which gives you… well, limited manipulation abilities like placing tiny blocks or changing shape sizes.

There are many “manipulation” guns, and I better let you find them on your own.

Generally, this game contains many impossible object geometries and it can be a real brain teaser.

So, once you complete the core set of puzzles, you gain access to the exit door, which will lead you to the final puzzles for you to solve. You know that it’s over when the game’s logo appears, a Möbius strip.

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Visuals

The graphics are whacky. I really mean it when I say it. The game will make you feel like you took psychedelic drugs, with all the colors and the mind games. Other than that, it’s an indie game. The graphics aren’t triple-A, but they aren’t pixel art graphics either.

Personal Thoughts

The game is a roller coaster. And I don’t mean it in a bad way.

Generally speaking, this game will probably surprise you with all its mind bending puzzles. The always colorful environment certainly helps with this.

What’s for sure, the game is not going to take you mere hours to finish, like other more story-driven puzzle games. The game will take you days to finally finish, not out of sheer hardness, but from its stubbornness and content.

I certainly recommend this game to all you puzzle lovers as it will surely give you a challenge.

Final Verdict

Storyline: –

Gameplay: 8.8

Visuals: 6.5

General rating: 7.7/10

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Hi guys! Today I will talk about Control that was made by the developer that also made Quantum Break, the game I reviewed in my previous article.

As always, the review will have four parts, firstly I will talk about the storyline, then about the gameplay, afterward, I will talk about the visuals and finally, I will tell you my personal thoughts and give you a rating for the game from 0-10 (10 being the best).

Storyline

The story of Control unfolds like a mystery series. There are a lot of questions that you will have about what’s going on and I am not sure if by the end of the game you will get the answers to all of those questions.

I personally can’t say that I fully understood the story and what was going on. Even though I didn’t fully understand the story, I liked the story and I have to say it was interesting.

I will not say anything more about the story. I will leave it to you to decide if you like its storytelling or not.

Gameplay

Let’s talk about the game’s mechanics now.

Your character (Jesse) has telekinetic abilities and as you progress through the game you unlock more abilities.

You will be able to throw most of the environment objects to your enemies, you will also be able to fly, control enemies to make them fight for you, you will be able to make a shield that protects you from enemies attacks and you will be able to dodge attacks with a super dash.

You also have a weapon (gun) that has several forms that you unlock with the experience and points you get through playing the game.

You also unlock upgrades to the abilities you have so that they become stronger.

I have to say I liked a lot the telekinetic abilities, but a rarely used all of them.

I mostly used flying, super dash and the ability to telekinetically throw things at your enemies (this last ability does a lot of damage and it’s extremely fun to use).

The environments are destructible to a certain extent and that makes the fighting even more fun.

As for the enemies, I can’t say that there a lot of different types of enemies. You will mostly fight the same kinds of enemies again and again.

I didn’t have a problem with that because of how fun the fighting is in the game.

I have 2 problems with the game.

The first is that you can’t choose the difficulty, meaning that everyone plays with the same difficulty. I didn’t find the game challenging enough.

The only time I had to really put effort was in the second to last story mission.

The second problem is that the game has some performance problems in some areas.

I have a GTX 1070 and an i7-7700, I played the game on high-quality settings and most of the time I had 70 fps but in some areas, I had my frames dropped to 31 fps.

It’s like it was forcibly locked there. It doesn’t happen very often, so it isn’t something that will seriously impact your experience but when it happens it’s annoying.

I played Assassin’s Creed Odyssey on the same PC and never did the game fall below 60 fps, so it’s an optimization problem. I hope they fix it in future patches.

Visuals

Now as for the Graphics. They are very good, but not the best out there. You will not have a problem with them.

The game takes place inside a building but there are some story missions that take place in areas that look amazing. As for the character you play with, there are some outfits that you unlock but out of all of them, I still prefer the default outfit.

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Final Thoughts

Control is an interesting third-person shooter game with a good story and a combat system that you don’t see very often.

I tried to find games where the main character has telekinetic powers but there aren’t many and those that exist are very old, so if you want to play as a character that has telekinetic abilities, this is the game for you.

Control is an enjoyable game that has some problems (as I mentioned above), but those problems aren’t serious and shouldn’t discourage you from giving this game a chance.

Final Verdict

Storyline: 8.4

Gameplay: 8.6

Visuals: 8.8

General Rating: 8.6

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