Recent reviews by Dan

It's good

I mean it's the first good Star Wars game in over ten years so there is no reason not to buy it

The game is ok, but lacking. It has a bunch of performance issues and a couple bugs. I played it for two hours and after I logged off the game updated and now I can't play it since it black screens on launch. I can't recommend it until they fix the issues.

Edit: I managed to fix the crash issue I just have to wait a while before it fixes itself

Mount and Blade: Warband Is a third person "open world" game. I say "Open world" Because you are not walking around freely around the world like in The Witcher 3. It's more an overhead view where you look down on your little character walking around the world. When you meet an enemy or enter a town you get to a little map where you can walk around in third person.

Gameplay: The gameplay may seem basic at first and it is, but it is extremely easy to get sucked up into this game. You pretty much run around with your little army killing any enemies you find. The combat system is pretty simple where you have directional attacks and blocks to defeat your enemy. You can also command your army to a certain extent where you can ask them to form lines give them certain attack orders or just make them charge.

Bugs: There are a few bugs with item names and quests

Story: You are put in the continent of Calradia a fictional world resembling medieval Europe. You can coose to swear fealty to a king or kickstart your own kingdom. The story is your own and all the factions have their own military units with pros and conns.

Mods: What makes this game interesting for many is the modding scene you can mod the game into everything from a survival zombie game to westeros. There are a lot of mods and it is fully supported by the devs.

Multiplayer: The multiplayer is what keeps a lot of people interested. You can join sieges deathmatches to full on battles and free for all. There are also clans for those who are interested. The multiplayer function supports mods as well.

Verdict: The game is addicting and if the singleplayer is not for you there is always the multiplayer. My biggest problem with the game is that sieges are not that great and after you level up your character a few levels you turn into an unstopable killing machine were 1v50 turns into a cakewalk, if you have a horse.

Ryse: Son of Rome is a third person hack and slash game where you take the place of a roman soldier out for revenge.
The game has beautiful graphics and solid mechanics. The setting which is personally my favorite part of the game is of course in Roman times. The game from Rome to England looks beautiful with at times fun level design and interesting architecture.

Gameplay: The gameplay is as I said solid. Everything from the mechanics to the finnisher is spot on and satisfying. Only problem I have about it is that it's get boring and repedetive towards the end of the game. Meaning it could use some expanding. Still the game has moments where gameplay change arranging from ordering arrow strikes to having soldiers pushing forward in a testudo formation. I feel this was not utilised enough and most of it only happened once or twice.

Graphics: The game looks beautiful especially the lighting and is well optimised for PC. Thinking this is a console game from 2014 it is quite impressive and you see that it was made to show off Xbox one's graphical capabillities.

Animations: For me animations is important to a game especially games in third person. And I can say everything from the face animations to the executions look great.

Bugs: Not found any there may be some don't know

Story: The story is a basic revenge tale and most of the characters are uninteresting and two dimentional. The protagonist Titus is boring and I never felt motivated to help him same with his soldier buddies. Only characters I enjoyed were the Emperor and his son.
Multiplayer: There is some arena gamemode that looks fun, but I have no friends and nobody is playing it so yeah.
Verdict: Mechanically this is a solid game to bad it could not make the combat system a little deeper and use more of the action sequences. The graphics in the game are stunning. The story is bad, but this is not a game you play for story.

In the second installment of the Dishonored series you play as either Corvo or his daughter Emily. The game starts quite a few years after the original game. You can almost guess Emily looses the throne and eithe she or Corvo (Depending on who you choose) is exiled. You go to Karnaca, to you know assassinate people or not depends on what you want really.
The good:
1. Still has the Karma system where you can choose the fate of your targets
2. Better level design with more elevation and alternate routes
3. World feel more alive with more sidequest and people walking around Karnakka
4. Great music.
5. Emily is a fresh breath of air if you are sick or did not like Corvo and Daud's playstyle.
6. Karnaca is just fantastic.
7. Art style is great in my opinion.
8. Great at show not tell, using grafitty level and character design instead of just telling you everything
9. The protagonist voice overs are both helpfull and interesting.
The bad:
1. Some people had problems on pc with framerates and similar things.
2. The story structure is still the same.
3. Some characters feel underdeveloped.
4. Sometimes I feel I have to read the in game books to understand whats going on in the world.
5. Not that much to do in the world other than assassinations, some more sidequests would be nice.
6. The villain kinda ruin everything you did in Dauds story. It's also not that well explained how she got out of the painting.

Verdict: The game is great, one of the best first person stealth games since the original Thief games. It does everything Dishonored did just better. There is also a lot of replayabillity because you can finnish good and bad endings for both Corvo and Emily. To bad some people do not get to enjoy it because of the framerate issues, personally I run it on a Nvidia 980 graphics card and I've had no problems with it.

The best fallout game to this date!