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Anthem BioWare game
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Anthem Review

Gary Smith

It's hard to believe it's only been a month since BioWare and EA released the heavily hyped Anthem on PC, Xbox One and PS4. It's a game that had a lot of fanfare behind it and was poised to be the next big thing from BioWare. It's an open-world looter shooter stepping in to compete against the likes of Destiny, The Division 2, and Warframe. It was to be the "cinematic" looter shooter with a story. Fast paced gameplay, unique builds that would matter, and loot you'd want to chase... these were…

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Book of Demons
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Book of Demons Review

Gary Smith

Book of Demons is the first installment of developer Thing Trunk's series Return 2 Games, which is creating a "Paperverse" of games inspired by the "early golden days" of PC gaming. Return 2 Games is planned to be made up of seven Books where the game world is a pop-up book, paper style. Book of Demons kickstarts the series with a tribute to and parody of a true PC gaming classic, Diablo. Like Diablo, Book of Demons is a hack and slash ARPG and shares a similar theme. Here, you'll make your way…

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Chronus ARc
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Chronus Arc Review

Gary Smith

Chronus Arc is an old-school style JRPG from Hit-Point and KEMCO that first released on mobile devices all the way back in 2013. In 2015, it came to Nintendo's 3DS, and now here towards the end of 2018 KEMCO has brought it to Xbox One, PS4 and PS Vita, with the game also coming to PC and Nintendo Switch this year as well. So it'll be on everything by the end of the year. Chronus Arc is all about the nostalgia card. It looks like a Super Nintendo era Final Fantasy game, albeit one spruced up with…

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Call of Cthulhu
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Call of Cthulhu Review

Gary Smith

Wayback in February 1928, the pulp magazine Weird Tales featured a short story from H.P. Lovecraft titled "The Call of Cthulhu." In the 90 years since then, Cthulhu has been expanded on and the Cthulhu Mythos have transitioned to essentially every form of entertainment. In 1981, Chaosium released the first edition of the Call of Cthulhu pen-and-paper RPG. Seven editions later and with multiple scenarios and supplements, it remains a popular choice for fans of tabletop RPG's. Cyanide Studios'…

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Destiny 2 Forsaken Review
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Destiny 2 Forsaken Review

Gary Smith

It has been over one and a half months since Destiny 2's first big expansion, Forsaken, released. I don't even want to guess about how much time I've put into the game during this time, but suffice to say it has been A LOT. I've gotten two of my characters to 600 (and my third is very close), I've completed the raid a couple of times, and I've solo'd the Shattered Throne dungeon. I've seen all that Forsaken has to offer, including the first post-Forsaken in-game event, Festival of the Lost. It's…

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RBI Baseball '18
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RBI Baseball ’18 Review

Gary Smith

It's time once again for baseball season, and that means PlayStation owners can pick up MLB The Show and everyone else is stuck with RBI Baseball for their MLB gaming fix. Of course RBI Baseball is on PS4 as well, and that's the version this review is based on. I've reviewed every single one of these games. Last year was the shortest game review I ever wrote; it was essentially the exact same game as the 2016 version. Here's what I said about the game last year: "If you’ve ever played an RBI…

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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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Destiny 2
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Destiny 2 Review

Gary Smith1 Comment

Destiny 2 has been out for over a month, and I feel like it's the time for me to finally get this full review out even if it is "late" (although the PC version doesn't release for another week). I came into Destiny 2 as a hardcore, dedicated Destiny player with over 2,500 hours logged in the first game. It's because of my love of the game, or franchise, that this review will be the longest one we have ever published and will tackle the game from different perspectives and dive deep into…

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Spellspire
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Spellspire Review

Gary Smith

Finnish based developers 10tons Ltd. are back again with their latest game on console, Spellspire. Like practically every 10tons game, Spellspire offers up fun when you just have a little bit of time to game and can't really get into a 45 minute mission in a "bigger game." That's one thing I love about games made by 10tons, you can spend a lot of time playing them but have it be spread out over short chunks of time. Slow and steady progress without spending time trying to rush to get to a save…

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Seasons After Fall
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Seasons After Fall Review

Gary Smith2 Comments

Seasons After Fall is a 2D platforming puzzle game for PS4, Xbox One, and PC from French developer Swing Swing Submarine and published by Focus Home Interactive. In it, you play a spirit that possesses a wild fox and set off on an adventure through a forest. You have the power to manipulate the four seasons, changing them on the fly to complete puzzles. If nothing else, Seasons After Fall is an absolutely beautiful game graphically speaking with its hand-painted forest setting that changes on…

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Sniper Ghost Warrior 3
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Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 Review

Gary Smith4 Comments

CI Games released their first Sniper Ghost Warrior game back in 2010 and followed it up with a sequel in 2013. I didn't play the first one, but I did the second one. It wasn't particularly good. Now some four years later, and after a few delays, CI Games has released the third entry into the Sniper Ghost Warrior franchise and the good news is that it's certainly better than its predecessor. I applaud CI Games for taking a step and making an effort to make this a "full AAA production." You always…

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Valhalla Hills
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Valhalla Hills: Definitive Edition Review

Gary Smith

Valhalla Hills is strategy/city-building game developed by Funatics that first released on Steam Early Access back in August 2015. On April 25, 2017 the game came to PS4 and Xbox One in the form of Valhalla Hills: Definitive Edition, which includes the based game and the two DLC packs (Sand of the Damned and Fire Mountains) plus an exclusive map type called The Dwarf Cave. In Valhalla Hills you play as the Norse god Leko, the youngest son of Odin. Odin has exiled you, banished you down to Midgar…

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RBI Baseball 17
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R.B.I. Baseball ’17 Review

Gary Smith

I've reviewed each of the R.B.I. games since MLB brought the series back in 2014. At this point, I'm not sure a review is necessary anymore. I feel like I should just copy and paste what I wrote last year, because it's the same game with an updated roster. There's no new modes and no new ways to play. I also can't tell where any of the issues were fixed, and the game certainly doesn't look any better. In fact, the only difference here is that this year's game doesn't have online multiplayer…

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Vikings: Wolves of Midgard
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Vikings – Wolves of Midgard Review

Gary Smith

Vikings: Wolves of Midgard is an action-RPG developed by Games Farm, a studio from Slovak Republic best known for the Air Conflict series as well as the ARPG Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms. Vikings has drawn a lot of early comparisons to Diablo, and for good reason. Of course Diablo isn't the only game in this particular genre, but it is the biggest name on the block. Here we have that established formula set in some classic Norse mythology. "Diablo with Vikings" is how some have described it. Now…

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Stardew Valley
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Stardew Valley Review

Gary Smith

Stardew Valley hits all the right notes and checks all the right boxes as a feature rich farming based RPG. If it can be done better, I'd certainly like to see it, but no one person could make a better game for this genre than Eric Barone has done. I'd say it's the peak, the Harvest Moon game many of us always wanted.

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Neverwinter PS4
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Neverwinter Review

Gary Smith

Neverwinter is a free-to-play MMORPG that released on PS4 over a month ago, but has been available on PC for three years and Xbox One for a over a year. This review is based on the PS4 version, and it's completely free in that you don't even need PlayStation Plus to play the game. Since its release, I've put A LOT of time into the game. I wouldn't do that if I didn't enjoy it. And while it is a free-to-play game, it no longer is to me. I've put $60 into the game, so it's basically a brand new…

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RBI Baseball '16 Review
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R.B.I. Baseball ’16 Review

Gary Smith

It's kinda hard to review R.B.I. Baseball '16, the third entry in the series resurrected by MLB Advanced Media back in 2014. And the reason it's hard is because I've already reviewed it, last year. In fact, I've reviewed both 2014 and 2015. The 2014 version was a solid foundation of old school video game baseball. The 2015 version made some significant upgrades to add to that already solid foundation. This year's game feels exactly like last year's game. And to be honest, that's okay with me…

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Review: Rise of The Tomb Raider

Eric W.2 Comments

The Tomb Raider reboot of 2013 was my dark horse game of the year, as it was for many other people. It was impressive and it struck a nice balance on gameplay and challenges that drew in many new fans to the series, including myself. I had always respected this series and I had tried out several of the earlier games, but the twitch gameplay and some other aspects were extremely frustrating. Now comes the highly anticipated sequel to the reboot and I can guarantee you this is a game that people…

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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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