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It's hard to put this game into words. I guess the only thing to say is wtf.

Definitely worth a play through

Good Story
Good Gameplay
9/10

A fun little adventure with the added novelty of most of it being voice based (The voice controls work mostly okay too!).
Well worth the small asking price for a few hours entertainment.

You know what you're getting into with Company of Heroes, if you enjoyed either of the first two then you should get this one, yes there's a few bugs but it doesn't detract from the overall experience.

Probably the best Call of Duty so far.

Go into this expecting a solid open world game and not metal gear and you won't come away dissapointed.

Book One
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The long awaited 3rd chapter of The Longest Journey series has arrived albeit in the somewhat unfortunate episodic format.

The majority of the first 'book' (Episode) in Dreamfall: Chapters is played as Zoe Castillo, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey's protagonist and the game does a reasonably good job of recalling some of the finer moments from the previous game, however during the 8 years since, you'd be easily forgiven for being confused after the games opening cutscene and it's not till about an hour in that the game starts to fill in some of the blanks. This could have been avoided by the promised Journey: Graphic Novel which was due to be released beforehand to recap the previous games stories - sadly this was nowhere in sight for those who backed the game on kickstarter in the $75 and above tiers which has left a somewhat bitter taste in my mouth and ruined some of the experience for me as I was not able to go back and play the first two games before playing chapters.

Moving on from this - chapters has started a whole new story in the TLJ universe and one that I'm ready to get involved in, the first episode is clearly aimed at laying the ground work and some will be dissapointed by the fact that half of this episode is spent running around the same environment completing quests that will clearly become big story beats in the future. After a few quests in the main area the game began to feel a little stale and almost like the developer needed to provide filler by making you run around a lot to lengthen the episode. I'm hoping that this doesn't become a common sight as the games remaining episodes are released.

One feature that is new to the TLJ series is The Walking Dead style choices where RedThreadGames promise that choices made throughout the game will have consequnces in future endeavors, it's not yet clear if they'll pull this off as well as TellTale(The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us) but it's certainly something I'm excited to see as the episodes get released.

In terms of puzzles, Dreamfall: Chapters contains everything you'd expect from an adventure game of this type, from inventory based puzzles (Combine everything!) to puzzles based purely on a piece of dialogue you had with someone an hour ago. I didn't find myself ever getting frustrated with any of them and they all made logical sense unlike some of the series early work(Fans will remember a certain rubber duck puzzle) however some may rightly criticise them for being a bit too easy, which is slightly alarming considering this was the main complaint fans had with Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

Overall if I had to be honest with myself as a massive fan of the previous games, it's really difficult to recommend Dreamfall Chapters as an episodic game and personally I'd wait for the full series to be released, however if you can't wait to continue the story then by all means Book One is still a solid game with solid mechanics that you'd expect from this kind of adventure game and I've come away with a definite interest in seeing how the story develops going forward.

Metro: Last Light is the sequel to the popular Metro 2033, a post-apocalyptic themed first person shooter with stealth and survival horror elements. Unlike its predecessor however, Metro: Last Light does not follow any novel written by Dmitry Glukhovsky although he did work with 4A Games during development.

You start the game as Artyom who you might remember was the protaganist from the first game, your mission is to find and capture a 'Dark One' to help end the war on humanity, during this mission you'll spend the majority of your time in the dark tunnels of the metro where the gameplay is tense and keeps you on the edge of your seat with amazing sound design making your heartbeat race with every twist and turn.

The rest of the time is spent on the surface where radiation is at its highest and gas masks must be worn, this is where you'll encounter most of this games monstrositys (Other than the Russians) and see it's most breathtaking sights with a graphical engine that is one of the best I've seen in years.

Unfortunately this is where I lost my love for the game, I found myself constantly running out of filters for my gas mask and having to use it for seconds at a time which meant that I had to run through some of the games best areas and had no time to take it in. After taking my gas mask on and off about 100 times I began to feel tedium in large amounts.

Then there's the boss fights, despite conserving all my ammo as much as possible throughout the game I found that the boss fights used every single bit of ammo I had stored, then after the fight I found myself with no ammo facing a horde of enemies which I could not beat with just my knife, I had to reload my last chapter. Not good.

Still, you could do far worse than Metro: Last Light, the sights and sounds will blow you away and the story is a 6 hour epic with a solid ending that I think everyone should experience at least once.

Score: 3/5

Hack and Slash gaming at its worst.

Overall it's easy enough to recommend The Darkness II for it's unique combat, however, don't expect to be blown away by the story which takes around 5 hours to complete.

8/10