The gameplay in Hero Factory: Invasion From Below is solid but nothing ground breaking. The average story mission has you playing as one of the coloured heroes as they explore the level finding Lego parts so you can upgrade into a Battle Machine, so you can go fight the levels boss. The levels are very small and boring. The only interesting parts of the levels are the enemies but even then they be...
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“Tim Burton’s hellish collecting adventure” would be a phrase that accurately describes Don’t Starve. With the survival genre becoming larger due to the success of Minecraft; many games in the genre have focus on copying the former’s success with little change in execution. Don’t Starve however manages to find its own creative experience: The game is addictive, frustrating, stylish, and entirely a...
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Temple Run 2 plays very much like the original game, with the basic premise being identical to the original Temple Run. You play as an explorer who was raiding a temple , until he was chased by a massive skeleton monkey. You need to control the explorer as he runs away from the massive monkey collecting coins along the way and dodging obstacles. You dodge obstacles by either tilting your device to...
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Injustice: Gods Among Us Community Page I'm glad Netherrealm returned to making a DC heroes fighting game. Their last attempt at a DC heroes fighting game was MK vs DC which was a crossover fighting game between the Mortal Kombat characters and DC heroes. MK vs DC was panned widely by critics and was definitely a subpar entry in Netherrealms fighting game roster. So one could be forgiven for think...
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Counter Strike Global Offensive Community Page The Counter Strike series has much the same origins as Dota. It began as an extremely popular mod and Valve scooped up the developers top help them make more games in the series. In this case Counter Strike was a mod for the original Half Life and has become one of Valves most popular games. All these modes have clear objectives and are fun to play, m...
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The main concept, for those who haven't heard of Day Z, is this. You spawn in a random location and need to gather gear in order to survive the constant onslaught of players and zombies trying to kill you. That's it. However when you die, you lose all of the gear you collected. This means you value your life very much in game and that's where the fun comes in. Heated negotiations with other player...
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The gameplay in Chucks Challenge 3D is as a whole is pretty good. I found some of the puzzles legitimately challenging, leaving me to sit there and ponder over the possible solutions. To the games credit, the puzzles are really good. The bulk of the puzzles revolve around pushing blocks around, which on paper sounds boring and repetitive but Chucks Challenge 3D mixes it up well. The main challeng...
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Since I played the original Chivalry game I've been curious to see what Torn Banner Studios would release next. I was excited when I saw that Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior was on the way. The idea of finally being able to settle the age old dispute of pirates vs ninjas was quite appealing, instead of just playing as the classes from Medieval Warfare. By far the best way to revitalise a game franchi...
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I think that puzzle games have advanced the most over the last few years. From simple games like Tetris to Portal, puzzle games have seen huge advancements. Sure shooters have gotten more advanced, but whole new forms of puzzle games have been created. Ones that incorporate physics and others that bend reality. Gravi is an example of a physics puzzle game, or more accurately a gravity puzzle game....
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Full Bore: The First Dig, the first development of a two part saga, is an impressive development for Whole Hog games. In this puzzle-platformer, the player assumes control of a boar named Fredrick (or by alternative choice: Hildi, a sow) who is forced to work for Gullinbursti’s Full Bore Mining Company after being discovered in his empty vault. The use of digging, one of the games central mechan...
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