Weekly Gaming: Life is Strange Episode 4: Dark Room (PC)
Hi all! This week I managed to play the latest episode in Life is Strange’s great campaign. Being the fourth episode of five, you won’t be surprised to learn that many mysteries are coming to an end, all whilst others are popping up. If you wanna give the review a read, hit up the link below: http://www.vgchartz.com/article/260439/life-is-strange-episode-4-dark-room-pc/ Thanks for visiting! -Dan
Weekly Gaming: Beyond Eyes (Xbox One)
Hi all! So this week I went out of my way and decided to buy the game I raved about when I first set my eyes on it back in March, Beyond Eyes! The game was unfortunately a big disappointment, but if you want to read my thoughts on the game, click below: http://www.vgchartz.com/article/260380/beyond-eyes-xbox-one/ Hope you’re all well! -Dan
Weekly Gaming: Volume (PS4)
Hi all! So this week I managed to get a review copy of Volume, and set about reviewing it over the course of an entire night. It’s a fantastic stealth game that really brings the genre down to its core essentials, emitting things we take for granted like graphics and sound. Overall, a great game, but with some nuisances, like the voice acting and music. As always, if you wanna give my review a read, click the link below: http://www.vgchartz.com/article/260707/volume-ps4/ Thanks for visiting! -Dan
Weekly Gaming: Gears of War: Ultimate Edition (Xbox One) Review
Hi all! So this week I managed to get a review copy of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, and proceeded to play the hell out of it! As you can see from my review, it was OK, but was fairly dated and with no context with the graphics, I just couldn’t help but feel I was playing the same game again. http://www.vgchartz.com/article/260682/gears-of-war-ultimate-edition-xbox-one/ As always, thank you for your support! -Dan
Weekly Gaming: Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
Hi all, This week I look at The Chinese Room’s latest “walking simulator”; Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. Whilst I enjoyed the story, the game was literally a walking simulator, and had nothing else worth mentioning apart from the lush graphics. If you wanna give the review a read, you can check it out below: http://www.vgchartz.com/article/260562/everybodys-gone-to-the-rapture-ps4/ As always, thanks for your support, and see you next week! -Dan
Weekly Gaming: Metrico (Vita) Review
I was sceptical about playing Metrico at first, I mean, a game where you mess with bar charts and pie charts? BORING. But after reading Eurogamers review of the game many months ago, I decided maybe it was worth actually looking past the boring exterior and seeing if Metrico was worth it’s time. Well first off, I have to advise to seriously ignore the setting and the premise of Metrico, as it sounds boring on paper but makes for some excellent and amazing puzzles to overcome. The premise is simple: certain bars or platforms in the world will move or resize depending on how you move your player or interact with the environment. One of the most basic forms of puzzles in the game revolves around your players movement across a surface: move right whilst touching the floor and one bar may increase in size, whilst moving left will decrease…
Weekly Gaming: Tales from the Borderlands Episode 2 (Xbox One) Review
“Yeah yeah we know, it’s been a while” episode 2 starts by saying. And it has really has been ages. I bought the season pass at Christmas, well after the first episode had already been released, so it really has been at least 5 months since the series started. What was supposed to take a few months between episodes has weirdly taken a lot longer in Tales from the Borderlands, Especially compared to the Game of Thrones series and Life is Strange, which have been pushing out new episodes every few months. So was the wait worth it? Well, for the most part yes, with the vast majority of the episode being extremely enjoyable to progress through, with so much happening that it feels like its own game in its own right. There’s plenty of action, plenty of humour, and enough character progression that you really feel like you’re getting…
Weekly Gaming: Call of Duty Advanced Warfare (PS4) Review
It’s been years since I’ve played a call of Duty game. That’s not to say I don’t like them, far from it in fact, I spent hundreds of hours playing Call of Duty 4 and World at War with friends whilst at uni. The problem is, in subsequent years since I fell in love with the series, not much has really changed in the way it’s played out. I found my time in COD Modern Warfare 2 mediocre at best and only entertaining because me and a work colleague brought it at midnight on release day and managed to finish it within a day. COD Modern Warfare 3 didn’t fare much better, as I only played it purely to finish the story, and purely to see how to game turned out considering all the controversy that happened around infinity ward’s directors. I picked up Advanced Warfare as it’s genuinely one…
Weekly Gaming: Tachyon Project (Xbone) Review
Hey all, Hope everyone’s well! Last week I was at Develop conference, so please by all means check out my articles over at VGChartz.com! Regardless, this week I look at Tachyon Project, a game by Eclipse Studios. I enjoyed it, and found it a love letter to Geometry Wars: http://www.vgchartz.com/article/259958/tachyon-project-xbox-one/ As always, thanks for visiting, and thanks for all your support 🙂 -Dan
Game of Thrones: Episode 3 (PS4) Review
Telltales Game of Thrones Series has been very weird since it’s inception many months ago. In the first episode, the character you get to know and think is the main one is killed within a few hours, jarring you from the games pretence instantly. The second episode then goes about causing you more and more grievances without any of it being your fault and all of it being out of your control. The series just keeps on getting shittier for the remaining family of the Forresters, and in Episode 3, that doesn’t look to change at all. First things first, you start the game out as the long lost brother of the Forresters, Asher, whilst he’s still out in the desert. It’s here that you find him outrunning guards (like he was in the previous episode), only to happen across a dead end. Finding a cave, you come across one…
Weekly Gaming: Battlefield 4 (PC)
Given that the game come out back in 2013, I’ve been meaning to get my hands on EA’s latest and greatest for a while now, but given the amount of negative press the game received upon it’s release I decided to postpone it’s purchase until things quietened down. Given that the game was 35 on disk at Amazon recently, I decided to take the plunge, after my initial impressions of the game when it was free were timid, £5 seemed like the perfect price. I wasn’t too impressed with the original Battlefield 3 many years ago, so how has time aged this product? Well for starters, graphically, not a whole bunch. The game looks absolutely stunning at times, with the main characters detailed to such a degree that you can see the individual fibres in their hats and clothing. But this is all trickery, because for the vast majority of…
Weekly Gaming: Monument Valley DLC Forgotten Shores (Android)
Having loved the original monument valley when I played it a year ago on this very blog and with my new android phone, I had been wanting to buy the DLC for ages, but had never gotten around to actually downloading it due to time constraints. So, with my blog backlogged with content until August (yep, I’m that ahead of time in regards to weekly gaming), I decided to take the plunge and buy the £1.49 Haddon to the game I loved so much this time last year. So what’s been brought back to the fray, and what’s new in this £1.49 expansion? One of the first things that will be apparent the second you start up the DLC is the increased difficulty of the game, something many won’t be accustomed to considering the relative ease many were able to complete the original with. For starters, one of the first…
Weekly Gaming: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (PC)
Dear readers of caesoose.com, I have a confession to make. I have only ever completed 1 Metal Gear game in my life. I know this may sound insane considering there are many of you that know how much I love games/franchises that have a rich and deep backstory, I’ve just never gotten around to actually playing the games. Growing up, I was beholden to my parents to buy new games for the family, so if something wasn’t bought, something wasn’t played. Even when Metal Gear Solid HD collection became available for free on PS+ for my vita, I still didn’t play the games, as these days, I just don’t have the time (that, and I still have bad memories of not knowing what the original game meant when it told me to look at the back of the CD case, meaning I spent an hour pressing up once on the…
Weekly Gaming: The Silent Age (PC)
Hi all! So this week I introduce to you The Silent Age, a point and click adventure game that concentrates on time travel as an extension to the puzzles, with a fantastic story that’s sure to captivate. If you’d like to give the review a read, please by all means click the link below: http://www.vgchartz.com/article/259456/the-silent-age-pc/ As always, thanks for reading and supporting me! -Dan
Weekly Gaming: Project CARS (PS4)
Hi all! Welcome back for another weekly gaming feature! I’m glad I’ve kept this going for 30 months now, mental long time but is great for improving my writing and keeping me going. Anyway! This week I take a look at Slightly Mad Studio’ latest Simulator, Project CARS. Here’s a hint on how I felt: I genuinely loved the game, a far cry from how I usually feel about racing simulators. http://www.vgchartz.com/article/259221/project-cars-ps4/ Anyway, please by all means let me know your thoughts on the piece if you have any, my ears (and eyes!) are always open. Thanks as always, -Dan