Weekly Gaming: The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 4 (PC) SPOILERS!!!
After enjoying Episode 3 last week, I was looking forward to getting my teeth into episode 4, with the shit storm 3 left us with. For those of you who haven’t played, Episode 3 finished with the group managing to escape from the superstore and start making their way through the hoard of zombies disguised as zombies themselves with Zombie guts all over them. You finally come across radia? who has been bitten by a zombie, and its your choice whether to cut her arm off or to kill the zombie biting her. As I’ve been playing this season through as fairly heartless and logical, I went for her arm, ensuring she wouldn’t get infected and would at least live to see another day. Episode 4 begins with telling you whether your decision was meaningless and stupid regardless, just to ensure you have fights and tension later on with the…
Weekly Gaming: The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 3 (PC) SPOILERS!!!
With Episode 2 of the second season of Walking Dead not really gripping me, I was looking forward to jumping into episode 3 to see what would become of the group of characters being slaves in a supermarket, considering how angry and psychotic one of the characters behaved at the end of the last episode. This was certainly going to be a better episode if not purely for the fact the season has to make a lot of plot points to tie it all up nicely within the next 2 episodes, so with more characters, more deaths and more decisions, I was hoping for the best. The episode starts out by introducing you to a few new characters at a new place: a superstore that has been barricaded and held up. We’re told the group currently occupying the place has done such a good job of holding up that they…
Weekly Gaming: The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 2 (PC) SPOILERS!!!
After playing through Episode 1 of The Walking Dead’s new season, It was time to jump straight into episode 2 to ensure I got to know my new group all the more better than our initial encounter. I wouldn’t recommend playing The Walking Dead straight through from start to finish, but playing a day between each episode seems to be the best experience. The episode starts out from the offset with your decision from the previous episode taking full effect. You’re being chased down with your choice of character that you saved whilst zombies make their way towards you. Clementine and Nick (I saved the guy that hadn’t been bitten), manage to find a shack that they can hold up in, and so starts the next 2 hours of character building, where not much actually happens in the scheme of losing characters or making big decisions, but instead you get…
Weekly Gaming: The Sims 4 (PC)
Hi all! This week I took a look at The Sims 4 by EA, the latest in their long line of Sims sequels. I had mixed feelings about it, and even disliked a lot of the changes that had been made, but read the review to find out my true feelings. Edit: Apologies, I seem to have forgotten to include the link to my review, here it is: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/91954/the-sims-4-pc As for Twixel, this week I’ve been working on a new touch method for iOS and Android, and have been implementing a new credits screen. I’m also hoping to have a trailer and poster ready for next weeks Eurogamer, considering it would have been a year since I attended it last. I’ll be writing up quite a few articles for Eurogamer next week, so look out over at GamrReview.com to see everything I write. Thanks again for your continued support, Dan
Weekly Gaming: The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 1 (PC) SPOILERS!!!
I loved The Walking Dead Season 1. It was a masterclass in how to narrate a game, and how to build a world to make you feel that your decisions and your progress in the game actually shaped and formed the world you encompassed. Many agreed, with the original winning many awards and having a hand in Telltale games being able to grab franchises such as Borderlands and Game of Thrones, ensuring their dominance of the story telling adventure game genre was theirs and theirs alone. Season 2 is a return to their routes, the series that got them on the map, and is certainly one of the most anticipated games to release for a while. The game starts you out from the offset as clementine, you won’t be controlling anyone else this season, so you best get used to being a small child in this frightening and gruesome world. You’re with…
Weekly Gaming: Sniper Elite 3 (PC)
Hi all, For this week, I managed to get a review copy of Sniper Elite 3 from Rebellion Studios, and so proceeded to review the hell out of it! The review can be found below: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/91805/sniper-elite-3-pc As for my game, well I’m now working on some posters, and in the next week I’ll be beta testing it with some friends, family and strangers at some events, so here’s to hoping I can get some constructive criticism and expand on it before I decide to take the plunge and release the game. That’s all for this week though, Dan
Bioshock Infinite: Burial At Sea DLC Part 2 (SPOILERS ALERT!)
Following on from my Burial at Sea review last week, I decided to play through the entirety of the second piece of DLC due to the fact I’ve purchased it all well after their original release date (The advantages of Steams summer sale and late purchases you see). Please be warned, this review will contain spoilers, so if you have yet to play the DLC or are planning on purchasing it and don’t want the plot points spoiled, look away for now and come back next week. So the game starts off with you playing as Elizabeth, walking around the beautifully created Paris talking and meeting different passers-by as you explore the streets. Eventually, you chase Emily, the main girl Booker was chasing in part 1 of the DLC, and finally wake up to find yourself looking into your dead fathers eyes. Looking up, you find a group of gang…
Weekly Gaming: Infinity Runner (PC)
Hi all, For this weeks review, I managed to get a copy of Wales interactive’s Infinity Runner, a game all about running as fast as possible through a spaceship whilst also transforming into a werewolf and killing guards. If you want to read it, take a look at the link below: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/91789/infinity-runner-pc My game is also coming along nicely, with a new tutorial level for the first time you boot the game up, along with the 360 controller now working 100% across the whole game. Lots still needs to be done, but it’s getting there, slowly but surely. Until next week, Dan
Weekly Gaming: 4PM (PC)
Hi all, So another week has come and gone, and yet again I have another review for you over at GamrReview.com. You can read it at the following address: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/91773/4pm-pc A few updates about my game. I’m currently in talks with a fantastic artist who I’ve met at a few conventions now for a really good soundtrack. I should have more details soon, but either way I’m extremely excited. This week I’ll be reconfiguring the collision detection system, as it seems I have a few bugs to work out (like the fact the cube moves BEFORE the collision detection system says it can or not). I’ll be cracking on with that all weekend, so hopefully by this time next week my game should finally feel how it will in the end. I’m also hoping within the next two weeks to make a tutorial level for the first time you ever…
Weekly Gaming: Bioshock Infinite: Burial At Sea DLC Part 1
Bioshock Infinite was one of my favourite games of last year, given its fantastic story and fairly unique setting. Ken Levine is a genius when it comes to setting up these lavish cities, where your imagination becomes a reality, and so it was a welcome piece of news that the first true piece of DLC for Infinite would take place in Rapture, a place we all find so dear considering how much Bioshock imprinted on gaming culture forever. The problem is, as much as rapture is so loved, Infinite opened the doors to the Bioshock potentially going anywhere, much like assassins creed 1 opened the door for the series to go to any culture in history and stake its mark, Infinite was full of potential, so its a shame that they decided to squander this potential by returning to an already visited location. The game starts out with you taking…
Weekly Gaming: Tropico 5 (PC)
Hi all! This week, I take a look at Tropico 5 for PC, a game series I’ve always been interested in, but never taken the plunge into. To read this weeks review, click the link below, where I’ve done it on behalf of GamrReview.com: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/91643/tropico-5-pc I’ve also been updating my game Twixel more so than usual, with 5 new obstacles, a whole new level, and a collision detection system that now actually works! If you wanna give it a go, click the link below: Twixel As always, stay cool peoples, and by all means get in touch! Dan
Weekly Gaming: Among the Sleep (PC)
Hi all! As I said last week, I’ve been making a few reviews over at GamrReview.com, so this weeks latest is Among the Sleep, which I Kickstarted a while ago. The game was alright, but failed to capitalise on such a unique and brilliant concept due to it’s length and depth. The review can be read at: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/91533/among-the-sleep-pc Hope you enjoy it! Dan p.s. I’ll be putting up a few posts about my game in the coming weeks, here’s to hoping I can get it finished soon!
Weekly Gaming: Transistor (PC)
Hi all, So for the previous two weeks I was actually on holiday travelling the length of my little country: the UK. Unfortunately, this left me little time to work on anything at all, so coming off of holiday I was able to work on getting through Transistor for the PC. The review has been edited, and is currently up over at GamrReview.com, so if you fancy taking a look, click the link below: http://www.gamrreview.com/review/91524/transistor-pc I’ll be doing this for the following weeks as I have quite a few games that I need to review for that site, from Among the Sleep, to Tropico 5. Rest assured that I’ll be back to my usual Friday, 10am posts before long, but for now, I’ll have to consolidate my reviews over there. Thanks for your support, Dan
Weekly Gaming: Octodad: Dadliest Catch (PC)
When Octodad was announced and shown off around the time of the PS4 announcements, I couldn’t have been more excited at the chance to play it. Here was a platform holder like Sony, bowing their head to an indie studio, and making way for a company that wouldn’t have been given the time of day 5 years ago. The Game looked goofy, fun, and all around a brilliantly unique game that I couldn’t wait to play for all of its ideals. Octodad was unfortunately delayed for the PS4, and as I haven’t got around to buying a PS4 just yet (my PC is more powerful than both the PS4 and Xbox One, and there just hasn’t been unique games yet) I decided to get the game on my PC. Did Octodad live up to my huge expectations? or was I just living a dream as to whats possible with indie…
Weekly Gaming: Hearthstone, Heroes of Warcraft (PC, iPad)
Given my love of Magic: The Gathering, I was surprised I didn’t happen upon Hearthstone sooner. The Free to Play World of Warcraft card game seems to be an exact replica of Magic, but at the same time adds its own uniqueness to the formula. With its recent release on the iPad, I decided to give the game a go, firstly for the amount podcasts have been talking about it, and secondly as its free and I needed an excuse to use my iPad. The game starts out by slowly introducing you to the games mechanics via some tutorial matches which will make you actively partake in the game before setting off and versing other players. Here, you’ll learn that every turn you take gives you 1 more mana than the last which you can use to summon minions or cast spells. The objective of the match is to…