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I’m really bad at card games and tend to avoid them. The last one I played was Pokémon Trading Card Game (2000) on my Game Boy Colour. But I’m a massive fan of animals. So a turn-based bird game was something I couldn’t miss. Maybe this time things will be different. Well it turns out I still suck at card games. But I’m still happy that I brought Wingspan. It is a truly beautiful game with interesting mechanics. There’s also a card collecting section with knowledge about the birds you use with each game you play. You can tell a lot of hard work went into this project.

From the moving bird animations and the art itself. Wingspan is a pleasing and relaxing experience. I do like the music too but it can get a bit repetitive after a while. I would also like more offline content instead of just battling the AI for no rewards or any kind of progression. And I should state that I have not played the multiplayer due to my low skill level of board games, therefor I cannot make a judgement on that front just yet. From other reviews I have read it appears to be problematic at best. What I can say is if you love birds, wildlife or card based games, then you’ll love Wingspan.

Not to mention the achievement icons look so adorable. ❤️

The game I was ridiculed for owning on my PlayStation back in high school. Even still I didn't regret buying Flower back then and I still don't now. It's a short game for sure but it is a joy to play and quite relaxing too. Not to mention the price is more than reasonable for what you’re getting. I do wonder what Flower 2 would look like if it was ever made. I'm sure just like Flower it would be beautiful no matter what system you played it on.

The final level was rage inducing but I still had a blast. Completed under three hours so you might want to get it on sale. But there's still some replayability and fun to be had after completing the story. Have fun being in the system. <3

Aside from a few bugs and the achievements not working for me, three weeks after release I should add. State of Decay 2 is a joyful but challenging experience worth playing. I do wish it was a bit more story driven and allowed you to stay on for after game stuff. Instead you restart with the same three people (if you want too) and play the other maps. If anything it's worth playing the first game for the story and subtle differences in the gameplay itself. However I do like the new look and outfits for this game, so there's that.

This game has been amazing for me since it was released in 2016. But now it's time to move onto HITMAN 2. To think back in 2017 there was a chance that season 2 was going to be callanced, the Hitman franchise forever dead due to Square Enix dropping IO Interactive. But now it's back and I can't wait to play it!

Thanks HITMAN™ for all the good times. You were worth every £ spent.

Game Engine: Unity

Game Type: Racing / Simcade

NASCAR 08 (PS2) was the last NASCAR game I played and loved. Ten years later, hungry for a racing game of this kind I thought I would give this one a try. Now being developed by different developers I was a little taken back by what Heat 2 lacked. Now I never played Heat Evolution but I know enough that it was a bad game. Now Heat 2 isn’t a bad game unlike its predecessor, far from it. It’s pretty good but not fantastic and nothing like what came before during the time of EA version of NASCAR games. Still the graphics are pretty awesome on PC and I love the core gameplay itself.

But why is the game lacking so many basic things. Why can’t I look back? Why do I have to press Y or triangle every race to get the behind view HUD to appear? Why did my game crash just as I had only three laps left? How did I survive that pile-up? Now this game does have its issues but it is starting to grow on me. It tries to add depth towards its career mode by having rivals, tweets and video messages from other drivers on the field. You can now earn your way through the different series and it feels just like the previous games in the past which feels good! You can even customise a base car already given to you from any of the three series and use it in career mode once you’ve got a contract from one of the teams.

But I can’t recommended this game, at least not until a sale. This game has too many issues and I hope a patch can fix most of them. If the issues are fixed I will change this review to a recommend. But I feel it will take a few more attempts before they get the perfect formulae right. Monster Games have worked hard and there is care put into this game but I have a feeling using a different engine (Unreal Engine) and focusing on some much needed features would benefit the next Heat game. This will do me for now and maybe I might change this review later on, but a part of me still thinks this game could have been so much better.

Final Score: 6.8

Pros

• Includes NASCAR National Series: Monster Energy, Xfinity, and Camping World Trucks.
• Basic Paint Booth for your car which can be used in career mode.
• Custom Winning Anthems which plays after you win a race.
• Great Music
• Great Menu
• Great Gameplay
• Improving cars depends on how well you do in each race for your team. Do good and you
gain momentum, which helps improve the car's performance for the next race.
• Night Tracks look great!
• Spotter is good and useful! (Suck it Jeff) <-- F1 2016 reference.

Cons

• No Caution Replays: What Happened, Why are we stopping?
• No Photo Mode
• No Native View to look around the car.
• No Online Rank System.
• No Red Flags
• No Terminal Damage for you or the A.I drivers. You can still drive your car after having a
major wreck. Performance will be bad but there is no way of ending a race with a DNF.
• The game has crashed for me multiple amount of times. For example clicking on schedule in
career mode quits the game. (During Intro Season) I’ve yet dared to press it again.
• Lack of TV presentation. I want to feel like I'm watching the real thing while playing it. (See
NASCAR 15/F1 2016)
• Sometimes the menu can be sluggish and slow, for example like selecting the multiplayer menu.
• Missing driver images when selecting the driver/car you want to play as.
• No Flashbacks (If this isn’t a sim, which I would love it to try to be. Than why no flashbacks?)
• No Create Your Own Teams (So far…)
• No Buying Other Teams / Hiring Divers

Informational / Miscellaneous

• Your Steam ID is your racing name for both offline and online races.
• You can create your own racing driver, both male and female. But it's hard to customise with
the NASCAR baseball
cap blocking the view.
• When you pause the game the American flag still moves when everything else is frozen still.
You can see it when you’re driving towards the chequered flag.
• A few users have had problems setting up their game while using a wheel such as the
Logitech G920, G27 and the
Thrustmaster Ferrari F430. Playing on Xbox or PlayStation 4 controllers work fine.
• Bystanders / Patrons look PS1 tier of graphics. However other racing games suffer this same fate so I won’t list this as a con.

My Computer Specifications

OS: Windows 7
Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz
Graphics Card: HIS Radeon R9 280x IceQ X²
RAM: 8GB
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87-HD3

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Updates

16th September 2017

Lowered the score from a 7.1 to a 6.8.

Review Completed On:

15th September 2017 – 22:38:00

I hope this review was helpful. Have a good day! While I have just posted this review an update for NASCAR Heat 2 has just arrived. I shall update this review once I’ve played the patched version of this game and see if I need to make any changes. Well done Monster Games! Just in time.

A fun little shooter to play for whatever your reasons for wanting to play it. I'm already looking forward to Destructive Creations next project.