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Score: 10/10
Time to 100%: 150 hours

Easily, unequivocally, absolutely, undoubtedly, undeniably, one of my favourite games ever, ever, ever - did I mention ever - ever! Here are just some of the many reasons as to why this game is so great:

PROS:

The Leading Man - Something has to be said about our main protagonist - he's an absolute badass reminiscent to that of Solid Snake. From his scar-riddled body to his gruff and gravelly voice every ounce of him oozes cool. I want to be him. Women want him. On initial impressions you might think he will turn out to be a monotone bore, void of personality but this also couldn't be further from the truth. Geralt can always manage to deliver great lines of dialogue from witty quips to interesting introspectives. In truth he is a great leading man.

Game Within A Game - While some games like to add some extra little minigames to their game that can prove to be entertaining for a couple of minutes at best Witcher 3 went the extra mile and added Gwent - a fully fleshed out card game that adds dozens and dozens of hours of extra gameplay. This card game itself is entirely optional within the game, but whole sidequests go unfulfilled should you choose to ignore it - which you really shouldn't - because it's a lot of fun. Northern Realms is best deck!

The Writing - There's always a special place in my heart for games that manage to give a choice of not black and white options - but the all too common and ever uncertain options of grey. You know, the choices that don't have a clear cut good answer or bad answer. The choices which, all to often is going to hurt SOMEONE. Witcher 3 has plenty of these and even goes the extra mile of luring you into a "good" choice only for outcomes to go horribly wrong. It makes me question my choice, makes me feel bad, makes me reload previous saves, makes me love it all the more.

A Good Looker - Straight up this game is GEORGEOUS! There have been plenty of times where I've just stopped in a beautiful glade or mountainpass and just thought "Wow" as I take it all in. Even the cutscenes in the game can be so pretty, the characters even have their intricate little flaws and detals like tiny marks, bumps and cuts on their skin and faces. I can only appreciate the sheer amount of work that went into making a game of this beauty.

The Celtic Influence - Ok this one, well I'm Irish so I can already appreciate the heck out of it. It's blatent celtic cultural influence is just a joy to see and makes me think of a simpler time. Props to the Witcher 3 staff hiring Scottish & Northern Irish voice actors for basically the entire populous of Ard Skellige.

I could also mention other things like how the game does a great job of handling lore of fantasy - delving into a whole host of mytical creatures or how the fighting mechanics of Witcher are a technical joy, having to read up on creatures weaknesses and using useful concoctions in the heat of battle are a must for higher difficulties, but I won't say anymore I can't praise this game enough - PLAY IT.

CONS:

Haha, no.

9/10 - First off, if you haven't played the first game I would suggest you do that, then come back. Go ahead I'll wait, I'm a patient man. This review isn't for you, it's for those who have played the previous game. I will now explain why this game is better than its' predecessor.

PROS
+ Gundam Tanaka.
+ The writing in this is just sublime. Some real gut wrenching moments.
+ Nagito
+ Good music
+ The visuals just look - I don't know - sharper? Maybe it's because the previous game was set in a dully-coloured highschool and this is based on the great big outdoors but it just looks.. crisp, brighter; overall.
+ Did I mention the characters (see previous pros) They are just as much a bunch of fancinating freaks as much as the first game, even more so perhaps.

CONS
- (for completionists) The Monomi and pet mini-games drag on in the later stages of the game and become quite a grindy-chore.

7/10 - This game taught me two things:
1. Getting AIDS means you can never leave your house or go anywhere, ever.
2. Cake farting.

8/10 - I don't normally go for or recommend visual novels, but this would certainly be an exception. It's like Pheonix Wright meets Persona 4 meets.. Saw?! *shrugs* Anyway the premise, 15 students are trapped in the school and the only way to leave is to kill someone and get away with it. Fail and the murderer dies, succeed and everyone else dies instead. The game is packed with interesting twists and turns and the characters are a veritable roster of fasinating freaks. The game is about 40 hours playtime for avid completionists.

So buy it..

7.5/10 - Anime game about girls ripping each others clothes off.
Good character design.
Terrible level design.
Decent storylines.

8/10 - From the makers of Deadly Premonition.

Short, but surreal and wacky as hell.

6/10 - A decent British point and click game, about 3 and a half hours in length. It's nicely voice acted and the story revolves around a reaper that steals people. The ending is quite clever and it's all for the low, low price of FREE.

7/10 - I've showered but I still feel dirty.

7/10 - Where to begin.. Mad Max is an enjoyable game to play without thinking. Turn off your brain and shoot things, punch people, blow things up. Travel from one objective to another. I'll destroy this convoy, I'll blow up this scarecrow, I'll go to this location and pickup the collectibles. Do this repeatedly, this is Mad Max.

The story is decent, but short and few inbetween it's roughly 30 hours of playtime (50 for avid completionists).

The combat is similar to the Batman Arkham series so it's enjoyable enough.

Driving: The car mechanics are poor and clunky; it's overall quite bad. The main enjoyment comes from upgrading both the car and Max, adding stronger attack/defence, weapon capabilities etc.

The environments are bland and filled with nothing most of the time. Sometimes it's pretty to stop at certain locations and admire the sun setting or some mountains in the distance, but the majority of the time there's nothing, just sand and more sand.

Overall the game is fun, yet contains heaps of tedious collectibles and does nothing new to push the open world genre forward. I'd say look into it, if you've exhausted better open world games before it.

8/10 - Traditional Telltale violence and conflict peppered with Borderlands very own distinctive sense of humour. It's a short ride, but you gotta catch it.