Ease is a skill that can easily be overcome. One might seem easy to make a game like Journey where the landscapes are empty, mechanics reduced to two actions, a story told without any words. However, today’s RiME adventure puzzle is an example of how simplicity itself is not a recipe for success. Sometimes the simplicity of a game-giving substance never leaves a lazy impression during gameplay. However, when I say RiME is lukewarm compared to the competition, it should be stressed that competition is not always available on…
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I have never driven fast cars on inaccessible terrains so I can not say if DiRT 4 is an authentic relay simulation. But since he held me at the very edge of the chair in absolutely every race, I can say he faithfully passed at least a fraction of the feeling in that scary driving. Do you know the funny habit when people like to tilt and move the controller while driving a virtual car in the game? I did not think I would do it because I had…
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The Walking Dead franchise feeds on continuity. In comics and TV series, that is still the story of Riccio Grimes, 14 years after the first issue and seven years after the first episode. Creating characters in the world without perspective is what keeps fans together. They are not “walkers” nor is it the mystery of zombie apocalypse. There are a bunch of other franchisees with zombies, and TWD is no closer to explaining how a pandemic occurred than it was at the very beginning. I think it’s important to…
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The seventh sequel to the ever-present Tekken series may be the first one we cover in the newer HCL portal, but that does not mean that none of us know what to do with that Japanese tabac. With that in mind, I will not be overwhelmed by some technical tricks that have been an integral part of Tekken’s experience since the beginning. They have not undergone drastic changes anyway in the last twenty-one years, so let’s start with something “new”. One of the most important points Tekken 7 promoted…
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When in 2013 Blizzard dumped Diablo 3 on the consoles, we got a definite proof of how the genre of hack’n’slash RPGs can be as good quality and fun as we play it on our computer portals. This happened much earlier, even with the first Diablo, but the difference between the first and the third part somehow improved the point that the action mask could work on the consoles. The one who played this title on the consoles must remember how much the possibility of dodging the balls saved…
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The horror scene of the asymmetric multiplayer was popularized last year by Dead By Daylight, and it seems we can expect a few more similar games soon. The first candidate for us is Friday the 13: The Game, which is trying a very similar thing, but with a few important differences and the essence of the movie classic. People who watched at least one of thousands of “Friday Night 13” apples know that Jason Voorhees is an unstoppable machine that can not be solved. On this matter, Friday the…
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Prey stems from school so-called. A ‘immersive sim’ design that gave her ideas some of the most impressive games. Classic examples of such games would be serials such as System Shock, BioShock, Deus Ex, Thief, and Stalker that share some of the features. An open world is limited, but very dense and detailed with clear rules and deep simulation through physics and mechanics at player disposal. In addition, the story of such games is mostly made to interpret the player through exploration and conjunction, which makes each move unique….
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I remember the day I spent a school year living with a cousin whose geek collage dominated the then Nintendo 64 console. Since I was in the PlayStation Camp, Nintendo 64 literally could not think of the disgusting controller design and generally boring games (because the cousin for some reason had no Nintendo games). However, we had a game that has been having fun for almost all of the year and I still remember the N64 as a fun platform. It was NBA Jam 2000 – an arcade basketball…
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War has been a part of humanity for thousands of years. They were still wandering at the time of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans who, besides mysterious history, left generations of dominant domination and glory to future generations. Arab conquest of Egypt, Peloponnesian wars, Norman conquest of England, Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, Operation Barbarossa, Homeland War … all this is the wars that triggered certain nations with the intent to expand their territory to the detriment of the other people and to establish their own power in the…
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Outlast 2 is, by all human concepts, the image and the opportunity of hell. With this play of connection to Dante’s hell in divine comedy, you will find surprisingly many similarities in the order of levels, parts of the story, etc. Of course this is by no means a coincidence – as opposed to the first part, the couple deals with religious themes He hates extreme motives – martyrdom, infanticide, sects, apocalypse and even pedophilia in priestly circles – these are just some of the motifs that Outlast 2…
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