Recent reviews by Blacklightsky

I'm doing my part.

Revive the railgun, arc thrower, quasar, eruptor, dominator, flamethrower, and all the other fun weapons that actually made the experience fun. It's a PvE game- not the top PvP GoTY.

SWAT 5. Buy the game. Literally changing the standards for EA releases. Fantastic gunplay, great environments, and a great time with friends. AI could use some work, and they're still adding more maps, weapons, and other items in. No good reason to not get this game!

Spent the extra capital to support a dev team who definitely deserve it. The game itself is phenomenal, even in its current state, especially when you consider that this is still an early access product. This game completely triumphs over recent shooter and tactical releases, and is essentially setting a new standard for early access. I wish some other EA games I've played have been as competent and polished as this!

Interstellar Marines: An interesting title, for sure... It's a game that's been plagued with a development process way too long to be majorly healthy, however. This doesn't mean it's a bad game in the slightest. Me and some of my friends who play this, are ADDICTED to this game with it's tactical nature and how it runs so smooth, yet has such intense gameplay. All they need? More devs. Speed things up a little bit more. That game looks stunning, and works SO well! It just needs more time and dedication. I say, buy this game. See where it goes! Once you start? You may not be able to stop!

Arma III. Oh, Arma III. How it has both tortured me, and saved me. It's got a small (and arguably, dying) community supporting it, but you've got to look into it. Arma III is one of my most played games ever, and I'm actually proud to say that. A3 can provide a unique realisim experience that some other games cannot- sure, there's glitched and bugs that happen. (Some that've been a thing for a long while and never fixed!) And yet, I always come back to it. I've played A3 for years, and enjoyed every hour of gameplay it has offered to me, to various communities I've been a part of. Ranging from the more Casual spectrum of play, to even the most realistic and intense milsim side of it. MILSIM groups, are the reason why I think this game excels.

Now, to really start. The Vanilla experience. How is it? Well, it's short, but sweet. It shows off most of the features ArmA 3 has within a unique environment, as well as a decently entertaining story line. You follow the story of Kerry- a U.S. Soldier who's part of NATO, stationed on an Island called Stratis, part of an Island Nation. The story line is intriguing, though has its own share of downsides to it. However, this Vanilla experience to A3 is a phenominal attempt at trying to offer a unique perspective from the BLUFOR side, and with Zeus, the Editor, and an equally unique player base, you can join Communities. Milsim or Realsim groups. They can offer you THE A3 experience, the most entertaining aspect of this all, if you ask me. They can do Operations, have their own unique story lines via the editor and zeus, and can utilize all the fun toys that the Arma game space currently provides.

However...

Arma really prides itself in its player base, and its modding community. Without either of these, I cannot see A3 being as popular as it is. The modding community is large and diverse, introducing the Russian Armed Forces, and United States Armed Forces through RHS, including quite a large (and growing!) selection of equipment and vehicles from real life. You have OPTRE, which prides itself as being a Halo mod- one that can reasonably sustain itself with the unique world and game space arma offers to try and be unique and creative with whatever you want. You have the UNSUNG Vietnam mod, introducing tons of assets, maps, and other such items from the Vietnam war. You even have mods that let you play in Mass Effect, Star Wars, the Gulf War, or seemingly play in MGS.

All in all, I would have to say- Arma 3, is perhaps THE ideal Military Sandbox game you could possibly ask for, and I would say, look proudly towards Arma 4, and that this game is truly one of a kind.

This is perhaps one of the most interesting games I've ever played- The only limit to your Space Program, is how many Planets you can get to before bed! (And of course, Who could forget about Jeb?)

This is a very fun game.
It was very enjoyable to play.
The singleplayer is a bit wierd, like how I would spend 5 hours doing stuff then go off then later come back and it would not save.
I would rate it a 7/10

-UPDATE-
Multiplayer is a bit better, and is quite fun with my friends. Love the mod support!
7/10

Space Engineers... Oh boy, Space Engineers. A fantastic game on paper and mostly in execution. It's a unique experience, for sure. It's fun, entertaining, though there's still So. Many. Issues. That they've been trying to fix since forever ago. And while they're still working hard on it, their PR team likes to try and silence comments that are against the game in an attempt to control every bit of information you see about it.

==============Pros===============
-Open world space experience
-It has planets!
-Build your own small and large ships, ranging from probes and rovers to capital ships.
-Lots of PvE and PvP Opportunities
-Quite a large modding community
-Positive community

===============Cons===============
-You need a pretty strong computer to run it, though it's getting better
-Multiplayer still needs to be updated and modernized- still lots of problems, though they ARE making steps to fix this issue.