Project Cars By Oliver Staley

                                 Project Cars

    It's a discovery when all the years playing games you come across a genre that really pulls your player out and gets you going, I dabbled with this and Drive Club a long time ago but when I got into Project Cars it dawned on me that progression though the tiers is so rewarding you start of in go karts and then move up to super karts after that your in the big cars with real horse power and the more I played it the more I realized what an amazing driving game this is, I might along with open world games have found my new breed of game Drive Club is more for kicks and drifting round corners but Project Cars sticks closely to circuit racing and it really is a joy to play, you can fiddle around with game to make it easy or ludicrously hard I kept things simple and kept things to a easy pace for me to progress through the game with. But I suppose you hardcore gamer's will ramp things up and make it a hardened challenge. The controls are very responsive and you can tinker with that as well and I think every aspect of your car from suspension to exhaust pipes. but tearing across a track like Brands Hatch and pipping the other 20 cars to become first and holding your position through five laps is a lot of fun indeed, this is for professional racers if you looking for arcade action across  the tarmac then go for Drive Club but I'm a professional gamer so I'm sticking to the real race world of circuits from across the world, this is for the players indeed.

Review By Oliver Staley

9 (Amazing)

Diablo III Rise Of The Necromancer & Patch 2.6.0 By Oliver Staley

 

     Diablo III  Rise Of The Necromancer & Patch 2.6.0

    After months of speculation the rise of the necromancer and patch 2.6.0 has finally arrived the patch is big in itself you get three new areas to explore and new monsters are thrown in there as well plus there's a new rift challenge game to play, where you have to beat another players personal best I truthfully haven't touched on that part of the patch yet but I can tell you that there's new areas to grind I've played one of them and it's called the shrouded moors and you can find it in act two's world it's certainly got atmosphere and you get two different levels to play in and there's a challenge at the end of the area, I witnessed a couple of the new monsters there as well there kinder cool. I want to do a review for the challenge rifts it's just I got to find the time, well on to the most important addition to Diablo been the new class set the necromancer I've played him and unlocked a few of his skills and he's dope really cool the best move I've tried is a skill that lets you explode the fallen's corpses and annihilates dozens of enemies in the process, he's a swift mover and definitely and bold new step forwards for Diablo where it's a game that people on forums and such are saying is the format getting boring ? Hell no it's just begun we're only into season 11 and we're getting excellent patches every year that keep making playing fresh and exciting I can come back to you guys when I've reached level 70 and got a build that works well remember with this new expansion players have to collect set pieces and legendary items so it's opened up the game to players with all new things to loot for and when you find a build that does some serious damage then your playing again with a whole new class, well that's all I can tell you for now but everything's good for now in the world of Diablo think of it when Blizzard dropped the crusader class on us you've got to build a new class from scratch using skills and items and gear that's going to make you rift like you never rifted before, enjoy the new way to play Diablo, here's the necromancer.

Review By Oliver Staley

9 (Excellent)

Horizon Zero Dawn By Oliver Staley

  Horizon Zero Dawn

    Horizon Zero Dawn was a mixed bag for me when I saw early press releases of it I liked the way Guerrilla had brought a huge game into the fray with dinosaurs coated with mechanical parts as the worlds gone a bit wipe out and the worlds been taken over by tribes trying to survive, your cast as a outcast called Aloy who was shunned by any tribe who sees her, but the story is a story of discovering what's going on with her origin and messages from the past which show her looking like her mother, at one point the story states that the womb of the mountain gave birth to her, making things even more intriguing, but the story's well driven taking you to all kinds of beautiful locations Horizon Zero Dawn and the engine it's running on shows what a great machine PS4 is. Some of the landscape's in the game are remarkable. I'm only 11% into the game and already I've seen a huge amount so this really is going to be a task discovering the whole land, not that I'm bothered I could traverse the world of Zero Dawn for days, Your probably wondering what the dinosaurs were about well a cult and a plan devised back in the living world produced a program that created these dinosaurs and they started reproducing and multiplying and a lady tried to prevent the world from this disaster and now Aloy's looking for what the lady knew so she can stop the destruction. That's how much I know of the story so far you see I've restarted my campaign because I wanted to complete a side quest which had you collecting power cells and one of the them could only be obtained during a early mission which I couldn't return to because of the gate to mothers watch been constantly closed after I'd finished the mission and there was no way of reentering the camp where the mountain was which held the power cell I so needed for a exciting side mission where after collecting six cells you can get your mitts on a powerful amour set. Horizon Zero Dawn is close to been on par with other great open world games there's nothing stopping it from been the next Skyrim or GTA V it really is grand with loads of side quests and an enticing campaign, another classic. 

Review By Oliver Staley

9 (Brilliant)

The Legend Of Zelda Breath Of The Wild By Oliver Staley

     The Legend Of  Zelda Breath Of The Wild


    It's here March 3rd I've just got a new Nintendo Switch and the masterpiece Zelda BOTW, so I load it up and we're given lovely pastel colors and a wake up call from a voice explaining I've been asleep for 100 years so it's time to wake up out of my suspended sleep and reach out to Hyrule and see what the situation is this time, well you've guessed Ganon's back and controlling Hyrule Castle and I've just got to the bottom of a valley and greeted a old man in robes explaining that he wants me to go to four shrines and do there tests so of I go to see if I can beat each trail and the old man promised me a Paraglider if I succeed in each of the four shrines, I easily achieve this and return to the old man after a talk he asks me to do more for me to gain his Paraglider, that's how the game goes a favor for a favor especially with side quests, the surroundings are apparently five times the size of Skyrim and there's plenty to see or participate in. The core objective of Zelda is to defeat the four divine beasts and then they'll help you reclaim Hyrule, I've so far defeated the dungeon and boss of one beast in Zora's Domain and now I've got three more before I can help Zelda who's keeping Ganon at bay with her powers, the game's a relaxed affair where defeating enemies and collecting up the goods they've dropped, thing is there doesn't seem to be anyone who can repair your weapons and they break quite quickly which means looking for more enemies to take there weapons off. You've waited three to four years for the first open-world Zelda game and it really is a masterpiece you love exploring finding side quests visiting villages and discovering secrets. Excellent first outing for the new Nintendo Switch, Brilliant.

Review By Oliver Staley

10 (Excellence)

Nioh By Oliver Staley

                                  Nioh


    Nioh starts as a run around the London dungeons as you traverse your way to the top to fight your first boss and at first you go in thinking you've got to batter the Executioner to bits to rid off him but you soon realize it's a tactical approach more so than bare violence of bashing the attack button, So you go back to the top and try again and you realize that Eric The Executioner runs at you and crashes into the wall leaving him open to you to attack him twice then retreat, that seems to work and it does the game kindly stops half way through the fight to show you a cut scene where your companions gauge has filled to unleash a hefty slice to Erick enough for you to win the fight. Then your whisked of to Japan to help put an end to two notorious leaders who want to rule the land. The first level feels like a light tutorial a round a fishing village where enemies hide around corners teaching you that by attacking them will use your Ki gauge which put simply is the same as a stamina bar which means finding time to wait for it too refill. I worked out about halfway through that if you wear light gear then the Ki gauge refills faster so I compromised used a medium build and found lighter weapons which were a lot more effective and got me through the level a lot quicker. The game has a lot of nods to Dark Souls there's this comparison that ends when you realize that Nioh runs a lot faster than Dark Souls and at the end of the day the settings are completely different. But it retains what Dark Souls does so well so if this is the last time we play Dark Souls then thank the heavens for Nioh feeling it's shoes it does a fine job but it's not as solid as Dark Souls so if you like your hack and slash games running at a fast pace then Nioh is definitely for you. Overall it's a great game and has potential and there's leveling to work on and other adjustments you can make to your character William, Dark Souls with a twist.

Review By Oliver Staley

9 (Excellent)

Resident Evil 7 By Oliver Staley

 Resident Evil 7

       I don't know about you but I've felt like I've waited too long for Resident Evil 7 but you know when it's finally arrived when you get presented with a beautiful game that's obviously going too be great, and that's what it is a great game set in no time near any of the other events of Raccoon City, it's a official game set as one of the series sequels and it's in first person and it's bloody scary, The story goes you get a video message from your long lost wife who tell's you to stay away but your instinct tells you she's in danger so you travel to Louisiana and find your self winding up at a plantation house inhabited by the residents known as the Bakers you've got mom pa sun and aunt as the family members but the things I'll inform you about is they'll be segments in the game where you're going to have too face each member as a enemy and there not nice people I can tell you. The graphics are so atmospheric and creepy Capcom's done a fine job of creating a scary house of horrors for you to be terrified off and those puzzles from 1996 are back, everyone thought the series went wayward with 5 & 6 and so Capcom's obviously taken note of how the player wants to feel again. With simplistic puzzles and a great mansion full of secret areas to traverse round. I think it's a clever way off answering the players prayers with a whole new outlook on things it seems too have worked a treat with this inclusion too the series. You'll love some of the locations in the game there timeless as to where you'd love these to be in Resident Evil and not some other game. If only other developers used how first person can be used too great effect like Resi 7 instead of run and gun games like Call Of Duty, there's things you can implement with first person that third person feels your to far away from the scene's message if your looking at it through the persons eyes then your there dealing with the situation. A side from that Resident Evil makes a grand return in another form that you've got to try apparently it's even scarier in VR that's the only way too experience it for it's shock surprises.

Review By Oliver Staley

9 (Brilliant)

Elite Dangerous By Oliver Staley

                                         

    Elite Dangerous

    Elite Dangerous I've been curious to see what the next gen offering was going to be like but I was dubious as to venture down this path due to the fact it remains a online game at all playable hours but I thought I've got access to the net and I'll be brave and play the online solo play and get over all my quires as it was intriguing me no end. Well after spending a few days with Elite I can safely say that everything that the original held is here and the formula hasn't changed get given a mission to deliver some data or a containment of materials. there's nothing more to be said other than do a mission or if you play multiplayer have a dog fight in space but the universe is holding up to 400 billion stars and planets so nothing's ever the same if you like ranking up in the academy and enjoy the feeling of making it to a space station alive and been able to deliver the goods and jetting of to another solar system to run more errands then you've got the classic game of the original but with great graphics and a brilliant atmosphere. On record Elite may look daunting but in practice it isn't you've basically got to place the order travel to your destination and deliver. Some people could spend a life time doing this, I'm slowly getting hooked on the intergalactic market. It has a expansion pack called Horizons which enables you to use transport on the planets surface and collect minerals and other specimens, but we'll look at that in the future. Traveling can be accessed through a galaxy map and have your destinations marked and then given the fastest route to the space station your heading to. There's also unexplored areas that you can discover and find rare materials so there's also that benefit to space travel looking for new things. But the more missions you do the more pulled in you become in the system that's running in the galaxy. There's a huge online multi player following with people helping each other out on missions. There's even one group of players that will come to your aid if you run out of fuel. Overall Elite is a highly addictive game where you'll lose hours trading and travelling in this vast universe, graphically it's top notch stuff with a brilliant score to put you in the mood.

Review By Oliver Staley

9 (Great)