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Assassin's Creed Origins
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Assassin’s Creed Origins Review

Gary Smith

Assassin’s Creed first released in 2007, and two years later saw its first sequel. After that, fans of the franchise got a new entry every year from 2009 to 2015 with the release of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. With a technically flawed release in 2014 with Unity, many fans began to feel burned out on the series. Thus, 2016 came and went without any major Assassin’s Creed game releasing. In October 2017, ten years after the release of the first game, Assassin’s Creed Origins released and promised…

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Just Cause featured
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Just Cause Review

Gary Smith

Hello everyone and welcome back to yet another way past due edition of The Backlog. As usual, the real world continues to get in the way of things I'd rather be doing, but such is life for most of us. So we're here with the 29th installment of The Backlog, and we're going to be true to the name here. We're going to go back to a game that came out over nine years ago, Just Cause. Being that this game is more on the ancient side, gaming wise that is, we are going to keep things shorter than…

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Just Cause 3
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Just Cause 3 Review

Eric W.

It's all about getting lost and getting crazy in an open world sandbox and being encouraged and rewarded to do it as insanely as you possibly can. How can you not like that?

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Assassin's Creed Syndicate
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Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Review

Eric W.1 Comment

Back when it came out I and many other people considered Black Flag a watershed for the series and rightfully. Simply put: This is the next watershed and if they can continue to crank out games like this at this level of quality the I hope they making these games for as long as they sell because I'll never get tired of something like this. I'll welcome a game like this every year with wide open arms.

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Metal Gear Solid V
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Review

Eric W.

What do you get when you cross the best elements out of a Grand Theft Auto game, the Metal Gear series, stealth games like Splinter Cell,  and for grins an almost MMO lite online mode for a bonus? You get Metal Gear V: The Phantom Pain which is easily in contention for Game of the Year even up against stiff competition like Witcher 3. GRAPHICS: Stunning. Simply stunning. It's becoming a cliche which is a good thing that games like this or Witcher 3 come out that push the envelope and game…

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Sunset Overdrive
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Sunset Overdrive Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

This is a great looking game. Obviously it is a cartoonish style as opposed to more life like games like Watch_Dogs, The Last of Us and countless others, but it is very well done and very colorful. All the scenery is fantastic, from the buildings to the abandoned cars in the streets. I really like the design and the coloring of the OD's, and it seems like the bigger and uglier an OD is, the better the character was drawn. Again, just a great looking game. The sound effects and dialogue for…

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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The Witcher III – Wild Hunt Review

Eric W.

This gaming series has been a frustration for me. Frustrating because I have played and tried each game in this series and did my darnedest to fall in love with the games and just couldn't because some of the gameplay and combat mechanics were not to my liking. I just couldn't get on board and get excited. Until now. The third time really is the charm for me and likely a lot of other people out there judging by the feedback I have been able to gauge since the game came out. The reason this…

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Dying Light
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Not An Official Review: Dying Light

Gary Smith1 Comment

I've had Dying Light since release when I received a digital code to review the game. That was a few weeks ago. I am progressing extremely slowly, but at this point I've seen enough of the game to write the review. However it comes with the caveat that I will not be assigning a score to the game, for two reasons: I haven't completed the campaign or tried the multiplayer, and my problem with the game that has slowed my progression probably isn't an issue for most gamers. I play a lot of video…

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Assassin's Creed Unity
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Assassin’s Creed Unity Review

Eric W.1 Comment

I deliberately held off on doing this review because very few if any outlets have bothered to give this game a fair shake post patches. The bulk of what you see out there is either 1.0 or 1.1 when the game was in a far worse state. As of the date I write this: January 1, 2015, the game is vastly improved and evolved from its launch day form. The problems have been largely fixed. If the game had launched back in November in 1.4 form everything would have been fine past the usual nominal glitches…

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Grand Theft Auto V
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Grand Theft Auto V (PS4) Review

Gary Smith1 Comment

Rockstar wowed the majority of us a year ago when they released Grand Theft Auto V on PS3 and Xbox 360. Even on old hardware, it was an excellent looking game that still looks better than some games released on the new systems. Now that Rockstar has released the game for PS4 and Xbox One, it looks even better. For starters, there's increased detail for everything. Textures are better, overall image quality is greatly improved thanks to anti-aliasing. There's greater draw distance, and even…

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