Cthulhu Saves The World

A turn based fantasy rpg with tons of humor and comic relief which walks in the shoes of the old school rpgs. Cthulhu loses his cosmic powers and to regain them - and destroy the world - he must save the world. So begins a quest to kill all evil on earth, gather a party, level up, regain the powers and destroy the world. 

The action is pixeled top view with retro graphics a la FF or Pokemon. The battles are fast and the controls easy. The party members tend to say epic lines in every possible moment, a fact that makes the game hilarious. There is no rating as this gem costs less than a dollar. Just get it. 

D&D Next playtest session

Games aren't only electricity powered ones. Last night we had a test session for the latest rules package of Wizard's of the Coast D&D Next. So, the rules were simple yet confusing, some good and some bad. You still get the whole idea but the Ranks are not there, instead of Ranks you roll a d6 (+d20 +modifier). Also, some normal things are new feats, such as charge and flank.

Another thing to consider is the advantage/disadvantage. Instead of getting +2 or -2 when the conditions are easy or hard, you roll an extra d20. If you have advantage you keep the higher etc. Not exactly bad but weird. The playtest will go until the next summer so there will be many fixes and tweaks. Stay tuned!

e3 2013 recap

Microsoft started with the new MGS wich looked nice, showed a new 360 version and then RYSE Son of Rome which is pretty neat. Followed by the eye candy Forza 5 and finished with the Halo 5 trailer. No talk of drm, tv or anything.

Then there was EA with a shooter version of Plants Vs Zombies and 5" of Star Wars. Sports, Dragon Age, Battlefield and then Mirror's Edge 2!

Bioware managed to keep the level down with mediocre games but saved the day with Watch Dogs and The Division.

Sony was last, 399$ and used games support but multiplayer is now part of the Plus subscription plan. AC Black Flag was pretty unplayable on the live gameplay, as was Destiny which looked awesome either way. Of course Quantic Dream was the protagonist with two games (well, a game and a tech demo) and The Order 1886 seemed very interesting.

Until the next year....

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State of Decay

State of Decay is all what The Walking Dead Survival Instinct wanted to be, and more. It's all about survival in a rotten world infested with zombie. You must be sneaky, stealthy, caring and fast to survive. Managing the team is one of the top priorities as morale plays a major part of the game. 

The graphics are a bit bad and the collisions too but it's not a big problem. The game catches either way the feeling of anxiety and pressure that the survivors have and doesn't let go. Play it by all means.

Story 6/10 Gameplay 10/10 Technical 7/10 Overall 8/10

Halo 4

The game that all Halo fans expected to be a failure, Halo 4, is awesome! Master Chief is again ain arms to bring down the Prometheans and their leader, the Forerunner Didact. Cortana is again among the most valuable assets and the battle is, once more, epic.

343 did a great job and delivers a top-notch game. The graphics are splendid, the sound exact. Every new enemy feels like a real threat, they form tactics, they sacrifice themselves for victory. Also, the multiplayer part is maybe even better than Halo 3's. This game will never leave you disappointed.

Story 9/10 Gameplay 10/10 Technical 10/10 Overall 10/10

Remember Me

Set in 2084, Neo-Paris is governed by Memorise, the company behind Sensen. Sensen is a system that digitizes memories which later people can share, trade, pay-to-get or get addicted to. Nilin get her memory almost formated and then joins the Errorists to get it back and destroy Memorise - her former employer. 

The game is a platformer action and reminds a bit of Tomb Raider. Nilin jumps over ledges, fights hand-to-hand with various enemies and explores a little. The fight, despite the lack of counter-attacks, is nice and has over 50.000 combos. Technically, the enviroments and models are awesome. The l8ip sync is somewhat out of sync though.

Story 10/10 Gameplay 7/10 Technical 8/10 Overall 8/10

RE: Revelations giveaway

Are you aware of our first giveaway? A Resident Evil Revelations steam key waits. Head to the facebook page to learn what to do. 

Resident Evil Revelations

The last game of the series is a great comeback of what Resident Evil used to mean back in the day. Jill and -new kid on the block- Parker embark on Queen Zenobia to find Chris and -new again- Jessica who search for the terrorist group Veltro. Veltro has T-Abyss virus. 

The game is stressful, gloomy and beautiful. You have to always look for and conserce ammo or Jill is no more, kill strong bosses and find keys or solutions and workarounds. It's a great game and everyone has to experience the abandonement of the Queen. 

Story 8/10 Gameplay 9/10 Technical 8/10 Overall 8/10

Diablo III

Exactly after a year of it's release, Blizzard's third installation of Diablo is way better than from the game released back in 2012. Diablo 3 follows the steps of one of the available characters: Barbarian, Demon Hunter (can say Amazon), Monk (kills, supports, does-it-all character), Wizard and Witch Doctor (think of Necro). 4 acts, slay through Hell, kill the Lord of Terror. Kill him in Nightmare, Hell, Inferno. Reach level 60. Reach Paragon level 100. Grind and farm. Make it harder with "monster power level" (up to 10 levels). Keep dying. 

Technically the game is perfect. Awesome rotten graphics and sound to mach the feeling that must give and achieves. You surely need a beast machine to get it all as with so many hellspawns on screen and 4 players the tearing is unmissable. It's a hell of a fun to play game, even the farming. There is PvP and there is no pony level.

Story 9/10 Gameplay 10/10 Technical 10/10 Overall 10/10

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Dragon's Dogma came out last year as an experiment of Capcom to test the mechanics of the forthcoming DmC. The game was partialy fail as it had nothing more than a good combat system and lots of stuff to do. Now comes the new retail with the expansion, hd textures and the original japanese dialogues. 

As a classic JRPG, Dragon's Dogma has a shallow storyline that doesn't get much better during the expansion. The graphics are close to what you'd call great and the sound is much nicer in japanese now. The pawn system makes a bit of strategy possible and the grinding is somewhat limited, which is cool.

A respectable game to keep you hooked for a fairly good chunk of time.

Story 4/10 Gameplay 8/10 Technical 8/10 Overall 7/10

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

This new stand-alone/expansion/dlc from Ubisoft really makes a new point on what fun games should be. Sergeant Rex 'Power' Colt fights his way in a 2007 dystopia full of cyborgs, muntants and blood dragons. Full of badass attitude and cheesy jokes that' we'd heard from the Duke it's what it should be to give the feeling of a neon-punk 80s version of the future.

Shooting, giving the finger and being the best make Blood Dragon great. The script is there to provide with a motive to kill so the quests are a bit repetitive. The screen tearing is last-year so technically the game is top-notch. You won't be dissapointed by this 80s VHS masterpiece.

Story 4/10 Gameplay 8/10 Technical 10/10 Overall 8/10

Half-Life 2: Episode Two

So, don't. The story follows the mute Freeman to save Alyx and then close the portal that brings hell on earth. Typical. But this is the good part. The gameplay is saddly bad. There are point's where Freeman is pushed to go somewhere, characters collide to get past him, the levels are bad. Graphically, it's a game of it's age. Sound-wise, music is 100% out of place and sync, effects break your eardrums and in the end not even the hard-battle-tunes are to be remembered. 

Story 7/10 Gameplay 4/10 Technical 5/10 Overall 5/10

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14

Between a great number of golfers and courts, the new installment of PGA Tour manages to save the day from the downfall of EA. The physics are great along with the graphics and closely followed by the sound that loses points only because of the canned speaker quotes. The Legends mode is cool as it follows the history of the sport through some of the most epic shots since 1930.

Story NA Gameplay 8/10 Technical 7/10 Overall 8/10

Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel

EA developed a nice habbit of turning franchises into shit during the last years. One of these titles to have a miserable fate is Army of Two. OK it was never a top-class title but it deserves better than the last installment. 

In the Devil's Cartel we are Alpha and Bravo. New characters with no "bro connection" and bad pun lines to  fill the action. The story is to rescue a hostage from the cartel's army. And there is your motive to shoot everything that moves. 

Gameplay wise, the one thing that manages to keep the title from drowning is the fun to play co-op along with the "Overkill mode" that allows explosive bullets and ininsibility for a short time. The CG is old fashioned and kinda bad and the sound blase. It may give you some hours to kill but nothing more.

Story 4/10 Gameplay 5/10 Technical 4/10 Overall 4/10

BioShock Infinite

2K delivers another top-notch fps title that succeds to take the gerne to a whole new level. Mr Booker DeWitt goes to the sky-city Columbia to save little Elizabeth and pay his debt. Taken as the False Shepard he is chased by everyone in Columbia as the Prophet has foreseen the fall of the city if Elizabeth gets away from it.

Gameplay wise, the game is all the things its predecessor was and more. Elizabeth is a major asset as she helps in every possible way, from giving supplies and ammo to picking locks and giving strategy options. There are many ways to kill, excellent views of the city in the clouds, detail to the max and a great score. Maybe game of the year, for sure a great addition to any games collection.

Story 9/10 Gameplay 10/10 Technical 9/10 Overall 9/10

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct

The story follows Daryl's steps, begins from the outbreak of the apocalypse and finishes right where the series first episode begins. It's a prequel if you might say. Gameplay-wise, the system supports the player to go stealthy, distract the horde and sneak past the brain eating walkers. Could be a nice thing but it fails miserably.Not polished, buggy, with boring grapics, bad sound, stupid side quests and plot, improper characters.

All the game revolves around the "get through the country, take backroad/street/highway and micromanage fuel" but nothing of these makes any difference. Any choice you might take to move between missions it's the same. Stop, use the magic compass to find what you need, go to the car, repeat. It all lasts about 5 hours and it's all bad and not-so-much fun. Keep away.

Story 6/10 Gameplay 3/10 Technical 5/10 Overall 4/10

Tomb Raider

Lara Croft makes her comeback in this intense action game. The main aspect of the game is of course the great gameplay that has everything that needs and no less. Lara starts as a little bookwormy girl and through her adventure to save her companions transforms to the great adventirer archaeologist that we know and love. Followed by a nice cast and chased by a vicious sect of followers of a dead godess, miss Croft will have to survive, solve puzzles and kill her way to solve the mystery of the island complex she is jailed inside. 

The graphics are top grade and can even be rated as "next gen". The sound is a notch lower but still awesome. My biggest fear was the controlls, because I always remember past Lara falling into an abyss because the analog stick was 0.01 clicks to the right than it should be. So it was a relief to play without ever killing myself in such a way. 

There is also a leveling system and lots of secret thingies to find and do. This reboot will be maybe game of the year. 

Story 8/10 Gameplay 10/10 Technical 9/10 Overall 10/10

DmC: Devil May Cry

This is the story of Dante. Another reboot for this year and a good one if I may add. DmC is the new chapter of the Devil May Cry series with Dante and Vergil trying to overpower the bad demons and finally kill Mundus. That's the story. End. Of course Dante is a new one, more poser than before, more "raw meat" than before, and this is ok by me and the community that embraced this great title.

If you remember the kind of slow paced gameplay of the previous titles be prepared to lose your mind. Here everything moves 2 times faster, the combos are a lot and generally the game got awefully better during the (re)design it got. Τhere is even a puzzle, it annoyed me but it's simple and fun as Dante makes dumb remarks and questions on how to solve it and Vergil throws puns at his face.

Graphics and sound are awesome. No need to say a bad thing about them. Never breaking, never disappointing.

Story 7/10 Gameplay 9/10 Technical 9/10 Overall 8/10

Far Cry 3

I still remember playing Far Cry Vengeance on my Wii and having a ton of fun using the remote as a weapon of mass destruction. And then Far Cry 3 got out. Don't get me wrong, the game is good! In it's own kind of way. If you ask me, it looks a lot like the bastard child of GTA with Far Cry. 

It's open ended, meaning that there are tons of "off story" things to do and see. This made me a bad impression to be honest. The main story is very short but woth the side quests the game gets some appeal. Enemies are dumb, there is a leveling system, pew pew, end. 

Of course the graphics are out of this world as this is where the developers did their best. Gfx are the sole purpose of this game, they are so good that there is tearing on the consoles. It will stress your pc to the max. The sound is mediocre. 

Story 6/10 Gameplay 8/10 Technical 9/10 Overall 7/10