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Football manager 2022 review

November 21, 2021November 21, 2021 Richard Armitt 160 Views CM97/98, Football Manager, Management simulator, Soccer Manager, Sports Interactive, strategy, Underdogs

Football Manager 2022 brings me back to one of my most beloved genres. Having spent the best part of 40 years playing these games. All the way from Kevin Toms’ 1987 Football Manager, through my love affair with CM97/98 to here and today. Sports Interactive are way ahead in this game and it shows.

Yes.It’s make believe and even the best of them look like a spreadsheet, a keen eye soon learns where to look. But, once you’re under and engaged with these players it all starts to become important, to you, personally.

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G-Darius HD, Switch review

November 16, 2021November 16, 2021 Richard Armitt 132 Views Classic Arcade, HD, R-Type, Scrolling, Shooter

The 90’s gave birth to some classic families of Arcade Games, and for the time the original G-Darius HD was among one of them. Now iningames.com have brought it back.

The formula is classic Arcade, side-scrolling shooter, Bullet Hell and Boss Fights. What could go wrong? Well, back in the day not a lot, it was challenging and fun with some interesting nuances.

Game Reviews Gaming PC / Mac PS4 PS5 Xbox One Xbox Series S Xbox Series X

Call of Duty Vanguard, PS5 Review

November 15, 2021November 15, 2021 Dylan Burns 155 Views Call of Duty, FPS, Online Shooter, WWII, Zombies

Call of Duty : Vanguard, being the 2021 annual entry to the series Dylan takes us back to WWII to battle latency, with or without Zombies.

Until Vanguard, my relationship with shooters has simmered the last few years. I used to love them. Loved those AA and AAA shooters. I loved CoD 2 – the house-to-house fighting still jostles inside my gaming memories for prime position.

I loved Wolfenstein and Rise of the Triad and Doom and Quake and Singularity and even Timeshift. I’ve enjoyed quite a few Calls of Duty. I even got sent to LA to preview Black Ops 3.

We played MW3 on the morning of my wedding to take our minds off the day. But since then, I’ve just kinda . . . not played many.

Game Reviews Gaming PC / Mac PS5 Xbox Series S Xbox Series X

Guardians of the Galaxy, PS5 Review

November 10, 2021November 11, 2021 Guy 175 Views Action RPG, Marvel, Mass Effect, Sci Fi RPG

I had very little basis to be as hyped as I was for the new Guardians of the Galaxy game.

The E3 trailer looked pretty good, even if Star-Lord was presented as bit of a “dude-bro” and the dev team (of modern Deus Ex fame) have a reasonable pedigree in the AAA space. But I had concerns as the Comic book, super-hero genre is hard to get right.

However…against the odds Eidos Montreal crushed it!

With an absolutely fantastic Marvel game and some of the best characters I have experienced since Mass Effect.

Game Reviews Gaming Microsoft PC / Mac

Age of Empires IV, review

November 7, 2021November 7, 2021 Gerard Campbell 146 Views Age of Empires IV, Historical, Microsoft, Real Time Tactics, real-time strategy

t’s been almost 15 years since the last instalment of Microsoft’s seminal real-time strategy (RTS) game. Man, it’s good to be back playing the newest game in the series, Age of Empires IV. Back in the day, Ensemble Studios was the proud custodian of the Age of Empire mantle but that developer has sadly long since departed.

The reins have now been handed to Canadian development studio Relic Entertainment, an experienced developer with a fine pedigree of RTS games behind it like Homeworld and the Company of Heroes series.

Returning to the medieval age, AOEIV offers eight civilizations (English, Chinese, French, Rus, Roman Empire, Delhi Sultanate, Mongols and Abbasid Dynasty) and a handful of single-player campaigns running from the Norman invasion of Britain in 1066 up to the Russo-Kazan wars of 1552.

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Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts 2, PS5 Review

November 6, 2021November 6, 2021 Guy 186 Views FPS, Ghost Warrior, Open World, Sniper

Another Guest Spot from our resident Rainbow 6 gamer-girl. Nina has taken a break from clearing rooms in CQB, and dipped into some long distance combat with this review of the new Sniper Ghost Warrior.

When I was presented with Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts 2 to play, I admit I was apathetic at best. It was a series I’d never played, from a studio I’d never heard of, tackling a genre I’d never been really interested in. But after sinking 15-20 hours of playtime into this game, I am more than happy to say that (we will just call it “Sniper” going forward) has totally exceeded my expectations.

Gaming Hardware Hardware Reviews PC / Mac PS5 Xbox Series X

EPOS H6PRO

November 6, 2021November 6, 2021 Richard Armitt 161 Views EPOS, H6PRO, Headset, Wired

H6PRO comes in a couple of variants, today we’re looking at the ‘Closed Accoustic Gaming Headset’. EPOS have been delivering quite the range of quality headsets over recent times and the H6PRO is a welcome addition.

In a wireless world it sometimes feels a step backwards going for a wired solution. The EPOS build quality is unmistakable, it’s obvious that the headset is built to last. The H6Pro is solid, light and moving parts all feel spot on.

Game Pass Game Reviews Gaming Microsoft Xbox Series S Xbox Series X

Forza Horizon 5 Review (XSX)

November 4, 2021November 3, 2021 Barrie Clarke 192 Views Forza, Microsoft, Open World, Racing, XBOX

nd the first Forza Motorsport on the original Xbox, it had me hooked. But then in 2012 came the first Forza Horizon on the Xbox 360.

It was the Horizon Series that reeled me in. The freedom and forgiveness that Horizon has over its Motorsport brother is far more to my liking, and driving style. And here we are now in 2021 with the fifth instalment in the Forza Horizon franchise.

Viva Mexico!

Game Reviews Gaming PC / Mac PS5 Switch Console Xbox Series X

Diablo II – Resurrected

October 31, 2021October 31, 2021 Dylan Burns 121 Views Action RPG, Blizzard, Diablo, Diablo II, Loot

Switch code for Diablo II Resurrected because I don’t need to see it in 4k. Also, I don’t need whiz-bang-Direct-38-high-dynamic-apples. I am happy to play a 20-year-old game in my hands, and I like Diablo a lot without being hardcore about it. I regularly peek into Diablo forums and am greeted with gobbledy-gook terms and verbs that mean absolutely nothing to me.

Game Pass Game Reviews Gaming PC / Mac PS5 Xbox One Xbox Series S Xbox Series X

Back 4 Blood Review (XSX)

October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 Barrie Clarke 139 Views Co-Op, Shooter, Zombies

many are calling a spiritual successor in the form of Back 4 Blood. Developer Turtle Rock Studios (renamed as Valve South) are the team behind the Left 4 Dead games and even the format of the game name points towards a sequel to Left 4 Dead.

But thanks to Copyright/Ownership/Politics Turtle Rock Studios in its current form had to create a ‘new’ IP. And so Back 4 Blood is born.

Byte Size Review Gaming PC / Mac PS5 Xbox Series X

Alan Wake Remastered: Have torch, will travel

October 13, 2021October 13, 2021 Gerard Campbell 149 Views Alan Wake, Remedy Entertainment, Survival Horror, Third Person

Alan Wake is not your typical video game hero.

He’s not a former soldier skilled in the art of warfare or a wronged man out for revenge: He’s a writer in a tweed sports jacket with leather elbow pads (over the top of a hoodie) who runs out of puff after he’s sprinted for a few seconds. He’s an every day man.

Alice. He’s hoping to cure the writer’s block that has stifled his creative flow for two years but he quickly finds out that all is not what it seems in this seemingly sleepy town.

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