Wolfenstein: The Old Blood PS4 Review

History of Wolfenstein Series:-

In 1981, it was all started with the first World War II game called Castle Wolfenstein for Apple II, DOS, Atari 400/800 and C64, which both developed and published by Muse Software. It is stealth based action-adventure shooter set in World War II, which involves the player's main mission is to find the secret war plans and escape from the Castle of Wolfenstein. The game had becoming so popular in 80's and they later released the 1984 sequel called Beyond Castle Wolfenstein for Apple II, Atari 8-bit, DOS and C64 with same gameplay and appearence. 

In 1992, Id Software and Apogee Software brought the FPS game called Wolfenstein 3D for DOS, which the game was inspired by the Muse Software's popular game, such as Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein. They also made the prequel called Spear of Destiny was released the same year as the first game. It is the straightforward FPS game, which allowing players to move, turn, open doors & secrets, collecting items & weapons, and shooting Nazi's solders. Wolfenstein 3D was commercial success, which made the FPS genre so popular in early 90's becoming the granddaddy of FPS and it is considered to be a greatest FPS game in history. With the success of Wolfenstein 3D, Id Software later released a another successful FPS game, such as Doom in 1993 and Quake in 1996.

In 2001, the publisher Activision and the both developer teams Gray Matter Interactive & Nerve Software made the reboot to early FPS classic Wolfenstein 3D called Return to Castle Wolfenstein for PC and later released for Xbox & PS2 in 2003, which features story presentation, newer gameplay mechanics and online multiplayer for both PC & Xbox only. It received positive reviews from critics, which the game has praised for single player campaign and online multiplayer. The 2009 sequel called Wolfenstein for PC, X360 and PS3, which developed by Raven Software and Published by Activision. It received so much average reviews from the critics said the game aren't good as the 2001 game Return to Castle Wolfenstein, which the 2009 game didn't live up with fans reputation and making it forgetable FPS game. 

In 2014, the publisher Betheada Softworks and developer team Machine Games made a 2014 sequel called Wolfenstein: New Order for PC, PS3, PS4, X360, and XBONE. It took a lot of improvements from the 2009 sequel, which includes better combat gameplay, newer concept for presentation and detailed graphics. It received much better reviews than the 2009 game, which praised with combat mechanics, overall presentation and the game concept that made the game just right for the fans of the series. They later released the 2015 prequel called The Old Blood for a same console platforms as the 2014 game, except PS3 and X360 version.  It did have a positive reviews from the critics, but they prefer the New Order a lot better for both gameplay and presentation.   

And that is the history of the Wolfenstein series, so let's move on to my review.

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood PS4 Review:-

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is a action-adventure FPS game for PC, PS4 and XBONE, which developed by Machine Games and published by Betheada Softworks.

I really enjoyed playing the classic Wolfenstein 3D on my old PC in the 90's and at the year later in 2000's, I wasn't able to complete the Return to Castle Wolfenstein on my brother's original Xbox, which is quite shame for me, so I decided to give a try with 2009 sequel for my PS3 and I just got bored playing it doesn't mean the game is actually bad because it does have some positive aspects of the game and then I'm finally give another chance with getting The Old Blood for my PS4 and see if this game are actually did better than what I expected from the previous game.

Looks like the game actually done a decent job with overall game's concept is looking lot different from the previous title and I like the gameplay mechanics and atmosphere a lot because the developers did a great job by putting a efforts with the levels, combat system and it has well challenged campaign goals that made the game much enjoyable to play, while the story and characters did have awesome protagonist William B.J Blazkowicz is still the kick ass video game characters from the classic Wolfenstein 3D, but the other characters in the game are quite forgettable and the story in the game are kinda sounds below average for not having enough stronger plot of the game, but to be honest, it's rather sounds more interesting than the storyplot on 2009 sequel. 

So, lets start the review.

Presentation

This game takes place in year 1946 before the event of the Wolfenstein: The New Order. It's starts with agents William B.J Blazkowicz and his partner Richard Wesley on the mission at the newly built Castle Wolfenstein to obtain the Nazi's top secret folder containing locations of Nazi's General from the Nazi's castle commender. 

The story in the game sounds kinda passable, but it does sounds bit better than the story on the 2009 sequel. This story kinda didn't have much of the interesting storyplot to make it sounds good because it is basically focused on the actions rather than the important plotlines in the game, even the cutscenes are quite short too because it lasted for a minute before you start the mission. I do like the actions in the game that gives the game some atmosphere to make it look more intense FPS action packed.  

I like how the game's concepts does look good on the futuristic World War II set with interesting building, levels and types of the enemies are quite amazed for the series. I say the main protagonist William B.J Blazkowicz is still an awesome video game character has cool personality, tough guys type of character, and it has great depth of has appearances that made him looked way different from the previous game, while the other characters in the game aren't so memorable due to unappealing character's model and lacked of character's depth in the game. 

Overall, it has kick ass protagonist, interesting game's concepts and has atmosphere, but I think the story and other characters needs a better job in the game.

Gameplay

It is the single player mode, which has campaign and challenge mode. 

The gameplay is pretty good with game controls. The character's movement is moving really smoother and the camera controls has balanced sensitivity to make the character easier to look around in the game. Your character can able to jump, crouch, sprint, and climbing on the wall with pipes feels very responsive and playable without any controls issues in the game. 

The combat mechanics has great choices of the weaponary, such as pistols, shotgun, assault rifle, heavy machineguns, sniper rifle, and pistol like rocket launcher. The rifles and machine guns are perfect for shooting range which you can able to shoot the enemies on far distance, while the powerful weapons does give a higher damage to the enemies. The pistols and melee attacks are great for close combat when you're near close to the enemies. You can also use dual-wield, which gives a double damage at the enemies. You can also throw grenades or knife at the enemies as well and you can hide behind the objects as the cover system, which saves you from preventing damage from the enemy's attack. You can also grab health pack and armour or helmet somewhere in the level, which allow to increases your health and armour.   

You can able to unlock different kinds of perks by completing the tasks, which gives the character's ability to increases your overall health & armor, more ammunition on each weapons, and carrying heavy machineguns can be added on your weapons selection, which is sounds pretty cool to add more variety of gameplay.

I love how the game does have mixed between action and stealth that makes the game more unique. I really enjoyed doing stealth combat because I like sneaking up on the enemies without getting caught by the Nazi's commander calling for backup, which makes the game well challenged and never gets really bored to play. 

The problem is the single player campaign is rather have short length, which makes the game easier to complete by 1 or 2 days, but you get to enjoy playing the challenge mode where you have to shoot every Nazi's solders in order to get higher score, which I kinda had a fun playing on different challenge maps. 

Overall, It has decent controls, great combat mechanics, adding more perks, and it has more variety of gameplay that made this game well played.

Graphics

The graphics in the game does have some impressive character's design with well figured details on the characters, the level design does have some quality looking environment with greater details on the building and stages. It has nice visuals on the lighting effects, backgrounds, and some of the amazing special effects, which has very gory content in the game. The animations runs very well in the game including the cutscenes and the physics that puts the graphic's overall looked decent for modern FPS games.

It's not the best graphics so far, but it does look actually good for next-gen gaming, which is just right for the eight generation era. 

Overall, it has impressive character's design, great level design, nice visuals, and well made animations. 

Music and Sounds

Mick Gordon did a splendid job on music. It has World War II feel to the game with more atmospheric sounds that fits well in the game. It has really good sound effects for sound's environment noises, realistic background sounds, and it has superb sound works in the game.

The voice acting sounds really amazing on the main protagonist and other characters, which has nice accents and well professional tone of voice that fits well on the characters.

Overall, it has atmospheric music, good sound effects, and amazing voice acting.

Special Features

This game have challenge mode, unlocking variables of items (such as concept art, character models and bios, notes, and golds), trophy support and chapter select.

Advantages

Decent gameplay

Impressive graphics

Awesome music and sounds

Kick ass protagonist   

Interesting game's concepts 

Enjoyable challenge mode

Disadvantages

Short-length campaign

Forgettable different characters

Mixed bag storyplot

Final Verdict 

Presentation 6.7/10 - It has kick ass protagonist, interesting game's concepts and has atmosphere, but I think the story and other characters needs a better job in the game.

Gameplay 8/10 - It has decent controls, great combat mechanics, adding more perks, and it has more variety of gameplay.

Graphics 8/10 - It has impressive character's design, great level design, nice visuals, and well made animations.

Music and Sounds 8.5/10 - It has atmospheric music, good sound effects, and amazing voice acting.

Special Features 7/10 - It has challenge mode, unlocking variables of items, trophy support, and chapter select.

Overall 7.6/10 - I really enjoyed playing Wolfenstein: The Old Blood that makes a good improvement with surprisingly gameplay aspects did have an offer for players to enjoy the campaign. It has decent mission, cool weapons, and exciting action packed shooter that made the game so much better than what I expected from the 2009 sequel. Despite having awesome main character, good gameplay, nice graphics, and wonderful music and sounds, the story and other characters in the game are the weakest in the game, even the campaign is quite too short, but I did like the game after all, so that means I might considered to give a try with the game called Wolfenstein: The New Order to see if this could be a better game.

I highly recommended to the fans of the series should able to buy this in cheaper price.

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Shovel Knight PS4 Review

Shovel Knight is a 2D Side-Scrolling platform game for PS4, PC, Wii U, 3DS, and various of console platforms, which both developed and published by Yacht Club Games. 

I love playing those classic 8-bit games, back in days, like Megaman, Castlevania, Contra, Ninja Gaiden, and Ducktales are really awesome NES games from 80's. In now of days, Shovel Knight really got me attention with kick ass 8-bit graphics, fantastic soundtrack, memorable characters, and very unique gameplay that made this game so amazing by Indie developers knows how to make a really impressive 8-bit games for modern consoles. I've brought this game as physical copy because it comes with digital soundtrack, cool looking NES style manual book and of course the expansion called "Plague of Shadows" was included on disc rather than just updating patches, which is sounds nice to keep on the disc version. 

Shovel Knight is definitely one of my favourite 2D platformer game for modern days gaming that made the 8-bit classic fans so amazed with this game's overall, so lets start the review.

Presentation

It all start with Shovel Knight and Shield Knight started having adventures themselves across the world, while ending up at the Tower of Fate, a cursed amulet uses the magic to take over Shield Knight and leaves Shovel Knight outside of the tower causing him to give up the adventures. During his absence, the evil Enchantress and her Order of No Quarter began to spread her dark power to seal across the land and she has unsealed her Tower of Fate. Shovel Knight began to his new adventure to save his land, and find and rescue Shield Knight by battling against the members of Order of No Quarter.

The storyplot is pretty sounds straightforward with simple storytelling and some decent dialogues that made the story presentation sounds very interesting indeed. I also love the cutscenes where the part between Shovel Knight and villain are started talking before the fight begins. The textbox on top of the screen is also pretty good for having conversation with different people in the towns where you can find useful information and the stuff you want to purchase. 

Shovel Knight is one of the coolest video game characters because he looks awesome with dressing up as Knight Armor and using his Shovel as weapons that made the character concepts looks amazing. I also like the boss characters, such as Enchantress because her character pretty reminds me of darkest Disney villain called "Maleficent" from Sleeping Beauty. I also like the rest of the members of Order of No Quarter as well because they are just good as the members of Maverick from Megaman series. It is sounds surprising to see Kratos from God of War for Playstation versions and Zitz, Rash and Pimple from Battletoads for Xbox One Version as the exclusive boss battles, while the Nintendo versions didn't offer the boss battles which is shame, but it includes the unlockable co-op modes for Wii U version and Street Pass for 3DS version.  

Overall, I love the presentation by far the best in the game.

Gameplay

Your main goal is to complete each stages by fighting each level and battling with the boss characters.

The gameplay style is just like from Megaman and Castlevania for NES. The Shovel Knight has the basic attacks with his Shovel to attack the enemy and digging up treasures to collect gold. You can bounce up enemies by using jumping attack which is similar to pogo sticks from Ducktales. You can purchase the secondary items with limited magic. Some items, such as gloves which can punch through dirt blocks, lockets that made player invisible, anchor that throws at the enemies, war horn that uses huge vibration to kill whole enemies, and there's plenty useful magic relics that gives the player ability more easier to play during the gameplay. You can upgrades your limited health and magic from the town which increases your character's health slot and limited capacity of magic which making your player's health last long and able to use more magic attacks. You can also purchase new armor and weapons that gives the player's new skills. You can find secrets in the level where the treasure box been left which you can gain more golds and items.

While the game is quite hard, you still have a unlimited lives, but it is annoying that you could also lose couple of your gold when you lose life, but you can also get the gold back that left on the same stage that you just got killed.              

I like the challenge of the game that gives me experience to enjoy the game, but the thing that I don't like about is the lack of checkpoint for some level because if you lose the life at the half of the stage then you had to start the level all the way back to start, but you can able to complete the stages once you get used to with the game. 

The controls of the game is very playable because it's just like playing a classic NES games. It has very responsive character's movement, great range of attacks and selecting quick items on inventory screen. The levels are very unique that gives a player to enjoy a boss battles and avoiding the hazardous objects that makes the game even fun to play.

Overall, the gameplay has fantastic controls, excellent variety of items attack, great choices of upgrades and exciting levels with epic boss fights that made the game so enjoyable.

Graphics

It is the NES style graphics with awesome character's design because each of the characters are looking amazing in 8-bit game giving more advanced looking animation,  it has very colorful stages with nicely details on the skies, buildings, and environments that made the level design look pretty amazing, it has great background effects that made the background animation look more it feels like it's moving when the players moves across the level.

It is one of the best looking 8-bit graphics in indie's gaming that made the NES look awesome. The developers did really good job on this game with outstanding graphics overall. 

Music and Sounds

I got to love this badass 8-bit soundtrack, so it is the best video game soundtrack I ever heard because it's just sounds good as the other classics game like Megaman did have really kickass music. Jake Kaufman (a same composer did composed Ducktales: Remastered) did a brilliant job with the soundtrack that gives the game more intense and excitement. He did get help from Japanese composer Manami Matsumae was very known for some of the game from the past like Megaman, U.N Squadron, and Final Fight. I also love the sound effects in the game because it gives more classic feel to the game. 

Overall, It has the best music in the game and the sound effects are freaking awesome.

Special Features

The game comes with free expansion called "Plague of Shadows" which you get to play as Plague Knight through the campaign, but the game expansion is also included on game disc, while the digital version is required to update patch. You get to have a exclusive boss battles with Kratos from God of War for the Playstation version. The physical copy of the game comes with digital soundtrack which you can get it from the website that says on the label and you also get a really cool looking manual book as well. This game does have cross-save features which you can able to share your save data between PS4, PS3, and PSVita which is sounds cool. 

Advantages 

Fantastic gameplay

8-bit style graphics

Best soundtrack ever

Physical version comes with free expansion, digital soundtrack, and manual book.

Exclusive boss battles

Excellent presentation         

   

Disadvantages

Lack of checkpoint for some level

Losing bit of gold

Bit frustrating level


Final Verdict


Presentation 10/10 - Superb storytelling and memorable characters.

Gameplay 9.5/10 - Fantastic controls, excellent variety of items attack, great choices of upgrades and exciting levels with epic boss fights.

Graphics 10/10 - Amazing animation, colorful stages, great background effects, and awesome character's design.

Music and Sounds 10/10 - Best music in the game and awesome sound effects.

Special Features 10/10 - Free expansion, digital soundtrack, manual book, exclusive boss battles and cross-save features.


Overall 9.5/10 - Shovel Knight is a outstanding game, it is one of the best indie game I've ever played. It offers really cool presentation, fantastic gameplay, classic 8-bit style graphics, excelllent music and it comes with nice bonus features exclusivity for consoles. Yacht Club Games did a fabulous job with 8-bit game that made the fans of classic 8-bit games so proud with this game comes with the offer. I had a fun playing this game and I hope the developer team will make another sequel in the future will sounds an awesome idea. For those who wants to get a physical copy of the game, it's available on 3 console platforms like PS4, Wii U and 3DS, but while the rest of the console platforms like PC, PSVita, PS3 and XBONE are only available on digital releases. This is definitely must buy for hardcore classic gamers.

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Killzone: Mercenary PSVita Review

It's been for awhile that I haven't made a review any of the game for the handheld console since 2012, so I decided to get a new game for PSVita because I haven't played any new PSVita games for long time just right before my brother decided to give me his PSVita instead, so I can enjoy any games titles for handheld system. Okay then, lets move on to Killzone: Mercenary for PSVita.

Killzone: Mercenary is a FPS Game for PSVita, which developed by Guerrilla Cambridge and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.

I did really enjoy playing Killzone 2 and 3 for PS3, and Killzone: Shadow Fall for PS4 are quite amazing game with excellent campaign, great atmospheres and has really kick ass online multiplayer battle that made the game so awesome for Sony's console platforms.

So what can I say about this game? I say this game deserves more better FPS game than other 2 disappointing FPS games for PSVita, such as Resistance: Burning Skies and Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified which have received negative responses from video game critics. Does Killzone: Mercenary doing well on the PSVita standards? looks like the developer can handle the game really well that pushes the hardware limits, which allowing the game's overall to run better on PSVita system. The game offers really good single-player campaign, great botszone training and decent online multiplayer that the game shows so much potential to become a impressive PSVita game titles.

It really amazed me to see this game have received most positive reviews from video game critics that they are impressed with gameplay, graphics and both of single and multiplayer modes.

So let start the review.


Presentation

The game is set between Killzone 2 and 3. The events takes place in interstellar war. It's starts with Arran Danner, was hired by ISA, teaming up with his boss Anders Benoit and Ivanov arriving in the Vektan City and their mission is to rescue ISA Admiral Alex Grey from Helghast Solders.

The story in the game is kinda okay for some dialogue and the main plot of the game, but it doesn't sound good as the story from previous Killzone games. The presentation does have some great cinematic feel at the part before the mission starts. The characters in the game are still weak just like the rest of the ISA members, but the helghast solders are still looked better than the rest of the ISA solders because they are aggressive and more sinister looking that made the villain looked badass in the game.

Overall, it's not that bad for storyplot, but they could have done better job than that. The presentation does have some nice cinematic cutscenes and of course I perfer the helghast solders more better as villain characters. I say it's quite bit of mixed bag overall.


Gameplay

The single-player campaign has 9 levels to complete. You get to play as Danner to complete the objectives in the game. The gameplay is very playable for PSVita system. The controls feels much smoother and precised for chraracter's movement and the aiming controls is easier to target at the enemies without any sluggish sensitivity because it keeps the movement and the aiming of the dual stick a steady balanced which makes the game becoming playable during the gameplay. The motion sensor is also used for aiming as well, but I find the motion sensor control quite stiff to move around, but you can also turn off the motion sensor on the option menu if you prefer to control the aim with right stick is more easier to aim at the enemies instead. The touchscreen is very responsive for using grenades throw, changing weapons, using plant bomb by rotating on touchscreen, and using melee attack for QTE is kinda cool for FPS handheld game. The rear touch-pad is also used for sprinting, but you can also press the crouch button while pushing left stick forward and you can also zoom in/out by using rear touch-pad feels which feels bit harder to get used too, but that's okay for the PSVita game once you get hang with the touch controls.
The weapons has really good selection of the choices. You have machine guns for mid-range attack, shotgun for close combat, sniper rifles for long-distances, pistols for secondary attack, and rocket and grenades launcher for explosives attack. You also can use different gadgets, such as protective shield, remote control drones and camouflage devices are very useful for the players. You can purchase the weapons and items from Blackjack's dealer which gives you choice to choose any weapons, armours, equipments, and devices to select from.
This game has quite challenging missions, great combat systems, smoother controls and impressive weapons choices to choose from.
I also enjoy battling with the players on online multiplayer with decent matches and levels, but it wasn't just big as the Killzone 2 and 3, but still quite a fun multiplayer game and you get to battling with computer players on botzone mode as well are quite sounds cool to enjoy the game, but you need to download botzone training DLC from PS Store in order to play botzone mode is sounds quite unfair compared with Killzone 2, 3, and Shadow Fall on the home consoles that you don't have to download DLC in order to play botzone mode because it's already been featured in the game.

Overall, this game has great campaign, decent botzones and online multiplayer, and impressive gameplay aspects.


Graphics

The graphics is look outstanding for PSVita titles. It is one of the best graphics overall ever made that shows what the PSVita is capable of using superb animation, realistic looking character models, impressive visual effects with nicely dynamic lighting, and the whole game design is absolutely far perfect to the next-gen gaming that made the game looked beautiful and amazing to see how much the effort that the developers team have putted in the game system. The game runs really well without any slow downs and it has no graphical issues at all. I also loved the bit of blood and gore in the game where the enemies gets head blowned up with shotgun or sniper rifle and getting stabbed and sliced with the knife does have some amazing blood effects in the game.

Overall, the graphics has superb animation, realistic looking character models, impressive visual effects, some blood and gore effects, and the perfect game design.


Music and Sounds

Killzone always have the best epic orchestral soundtrack in whole series that made the game more like the war theme movie that really fits to the game. The sound effects on the PSVita is very high quality indeed. It has great background noise, louder gun shooting effects, very atmospheric sound work, and the voice acting sounds not that bad at all for characters in the game.

Overall, I like the epic music and high quality sound effects in the game.


Special Features   

The game does have some DLC content to download from PS Store, it has trophy support, collecting valor cards, and unlocking more perks, such as weapons, armour, items, and equipments for multiplayer.



Advantages

Impressive gameplay

Touchscreen controls

Outstanding graphics

Epic music and sounds

Great single-player campaign

Decent online multiplayer/botzones battles

Helghast solders are awesome villains

Collecting valor cards in multiplayer battles


Disadvantages

Story aren't good as the previous Killzone games

ISA solders are quite weak in the game

Motion sensor control feels stiff for aiming

Botzones are required to download from PS Store in order to play


Final Verdict


Presentation 6.2/10 - An okay storyplot and nice cinematic cutscenes, but bit of mixed bag characters.

Gameplay 8/10 -  Great campaign, decent botzones and online multiplayer, and impressive gameplay aspects.

Graphics 10/10 - superb animation, realistic looking character models, impressive visual effects, some blood and gore effects, and the perfect game design.

Music and Sounds 9/10 - Epic music and high quality sound effects in the game.

Special Features 7/10 - DLC Content, trophy support, collecting valor cards, and unlocking more perks.


Overall 8.5/10 - Killzone: Mercenary is a proper high quality FPS game for PSVita titles. I'm glad that the Guerrilla Cambridge knows how to handle the PSVita's hardware system, which allowing the game's overall to step up in the right direction. The gameplay is playable, the graphics is looked amazing, and both of the campaign and multiplayer is fun and addictive. This is how you make a really good FPS game for handheld consoles which will satisfying the FPS fans to enjoy the game's overall. It is shame that the other FPS games titles for PSVita are absolute disaster that fails to impress the PSVita owners, but if you want to get a high quality FPS game like this game for PSVita, get this game and it will surprise you because Killzone: Mercenaries is such an awesome game.

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My 10 Christmas Wish List

Okay, it's nearly the day of Christmas. It is the wonderful winter season holidays that everyone celebrating during the Christmas day. We have Santa Claus giving a nice presents that the people deserve to have the best gifts, everyone started to decorates some Christmas themes around the houses and trees, building a snowman outside of the house, and getting the whole family together with lovely Christmas dinner is what the Christmas is about.

Okay then, today I'm going to make my 10 Christmas Wish List that I'm considered to get it for Christmas holiday, but it is not my top 10 because these are the Wish List that gives me a choice to choose which ones that I'm going to get it for this Christmas. 

So lets start with the first ones:-

1 - Shovel Knight 

I love playing classic 8-bit video games. Shovel Knight is the 2D platformer game that you're playing as the blue knight with shovel. The game is pretty similar with classics like Megaman, Castlevania and Ducktales for NES. This game does have really interesting levels, cool main quest, awesome 8-bit graphics, kick ass 8-bit soundtrack and it feels like old school 8-bit classics that made me getting this game for PS4. It is also Available on 3DS, Wii U, PC and the various of available console platforms.

2 - Killzone: Mercenary

Killzone is an awesome FPS series by Guerrilla Games. I had a fun time playing Killzone 2 and 3 for PS3 and I also did enjoy Killzone: Shadow Fall for PS4. It has really great gameplay, fantastic graphics and epic online multiplayer battle that keeps the series so intense and refreshing. I decided to get this game for PS Vita is because I haven't played the PS Vita for long time since 3 years ago just right before my brother stopped playing PS Vita anymore because he got bored of getting used with playing handheld console, so he decided to give his PS Vita to me instead. I hopefully I'm able to get a games for this handheld console, so I can enjoy any PS Vita game titles.   

3 - Fallout 4 

Before I'm going to talk about this game, I haven't played any of the previous Fallout games before I've started to watch the trailer footage of Fallout 4 that got me really attention, especially all the gamers and fans got really hyped to look forward to see a sequel. I know the Fallout is one of the Bethesda's biggest Strategy to Action RPG series that has bigger open-world depth, story presentation, free to explore, interesting gameplay mechanics, whole soundtrack and character creation that the game was known for. This is my third choice of the game that I'm considered to get it on Christmas.

4 - Project Zero 2: Wii Edition

This is the horror game for Nintendo Wii. It is the most wanted games that I wanted to play on Wii. Project Zero 2: Wii Edition is a japanese psychological horror game that involves young girls visiting at the lost village before one person got lost in the forest. This game has really different horror elements, such as ghost, sacrifices and rituals. It is remade from Project Zero 2: Crimson Butterfly (AKA Fatal Frame: Crimson Butterfly in US) originally for PS2 and Xbox which the Wii version have ability to use Wii motion controller for gameplay purposes. I've never played the Project Zero games, so this is why I want to give a try with this game for Nintendo Wii.     

5 - Blast Corps

I remember playing this game back in old school days where my brother had Nintendo 64. I had a fun playing Blast Corps on My Nintendo 64 just right before my brother had to return the game back to the game store to get another N64 game Yoshi's Story. The reason why I want to get this game back is because I really missed this game a lot, so it would have been awesome to keep this game as my N64 games collection. I really enjoying breaking buildings with vehicles and mechs, and it has very challenging missions with puzzle elements that made the game so much fun to play.   

6 - Starfox 64 (AKA Lylatwars)

Starfox is a excellent rail shooter series by Nintendo. Starfox (AKA Starwing) for SNES is one of the awesome 3D rail shooter on 16 bit era and I also enjoyed Starfox Adventures for Gamecube, so this is why I want to give this game a try on my Nintendo 64. It has memorable characters like Fox Mccloud, Falco Lombardi and Peppy Hare except the retarded ass frog named Slippy Toad, god I hate this dumbass frog. By the way, the gameplay is just like the first game, but adding more better features of the game, such as adding more control scheme, 2 new vehicles, rumble pak feature, and 4-player multiplayer.  

This would be worth for my N64 games collection, if I had a chance to get this game from online store or physical retail store.

7 - Super Bomberman

I'm a huge fan of bomberman series. It is one of the memorable Hudson Soft games in 90's where bunch of bomberman love blowing up each other. It is definitely has the best multiplayer battles in history and it is very addicting and fun to play it on SNES. I remember back in days where my brother rent this game from the rental store and then me and my sister had a fun playing this game with great multiplayer battle mode. The power ups are awesome, the character in the game are cool, and it does have single player story mode as well. I also enjoyed other bomberman games like Bomberman blast, Saturn Bomberman and Mega Bomberman are also kick ass, so this game might be awesome for my SNES collection.  

8 - Puyo Puyo Tetris 

I have played two of the Puyo Puyo games like Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machines (Puyo Puyo games based on Sonic Franchise) and Puyo Pop Fever. They are decent puzzle game by former developer Compile from 90's and currently now developed by Sonic Team. It is like other puzzle games, such as Tetris and Columns, but Puyo Puyo are very unique puzzle game where you have to match 4 beans in right color. I think having crossover game would be an excellent idea to have both Puyo Puyo and Tetris in the game sounds really interesting indeed. This game only released in Japan, but you can get PS Vita, PS4, PS3 and XBONE version from online store, such as Amazon and Ebay, because these version are region free which can be played on UK and US consoles except the Wii U and 3DS are region locked unfortunately.  

9 - Eternal Darkness

  

Eternal Darkness is the psychological horror game exclusivity for Nintendo Gamecube. This game have received universal acclaim reviews upon its release calling it the greatest horror game on the Nintendo console, but the game haven't sold well in 2002, but this game still remains the horror classics. This game has the darkest storyline, scariest atmosphere and unique gameplay. I'm considered to get this game for my Gamecube games collection.     

10 - Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit

I had a hard time to find the decent fighting games based on popular Anime shows that I've grew up watching since my old days. I like Dragon Ball Z as the Anime series with badass characters like Goku, Piccolo, Vegeta, Cell and other bunch of characters, and it does have really awesome fight scenes where they starts beating and shooting dragon ball each other. For video game series, I need to find which Dragon Ball Z games are quite good till I did give a try with the demo version of this game, so I did like the gameplay mechanics on demo version a lot better than other Dragon Ball Z games. I definitely gonna add to my wish list for Christmas.

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Alien Isolation PS4 Review

Alien Isolation is a Sci-Fi Horror game for PS4, PS3, XBONE, X360 and PC, which developed by Creative Assembly and published by SEGA. 

I've enjoyed watching both Sci-Fi movies like the original Alien from 1979 and the sequel called Aliens from 1986 is because it has fantastic atmosphere, scary looking creatures, memorable characters, and superb film set of the movie that made the Alien movies so amazing to watch and it is the best Sci-Fi Horror movies in history. Alien franchises is not just have only the film series, it also has comics, novels, and Video Games. 

For video game series, I have played Alien 3 for SNES and the Alien Trilogy for SEGA Saturn back in my olden days, but I've never played other Alien games until now of days, I'll give Alien Isolation a shot for my PS4 because this game got me attention after I've watched the game trailer which is looking good for Sci-Fi Horror genres which mixed with Stealth and Survival Horror. 

I've heard the game called Aliens Colonial Marines had becoming the worst game on the series due to unfinished project which causes faulty gameplay, poorly made graphics, bad co-op mode, and it doesn't feel close to the film series which the game have lacked horror elements and the presentation didn't match to canon of the film series. Despite with the disappointment, SEGA decided to get Creative Assembly to develop better Alien game to stick with the original root of the film series with original horror elements and better overall presentation. 

What do I think about the Alien Isolation? I say this game are fantastic is because the gameplay mechanics feels much smoother to control and the difficulty of the game gives the player higher challenge and goals. It has brilliant story and characters, outstanding graphics design, and it has the best atmospheric sounds in horror gaming that makes the game worth playing on modern consoles.

Okay then, let's start the review.

Presentation

The game starts with 15 years after the events of the original film from 1979. The story is about Amanda Ripley (daughter of Ellen Ripley of the original 1979 Alien), who works at the Wayland-Yutani as Engineer, was informed by Christopher Samuels have told her about her mother's whereabouts and it is believed that the flight recorder of Nostromo had been discovered by salvage ship. Amanda have accept the offer to work with the teams, so she and her teams attempt spacewalk heading over to station to investigate the disappearance of her mother.

The story in the game is absolutely sounds just like the Ridley Scott's movie. It has excellent plot of the game between the characters and it has the history audio logs to hear someone's lectures during their past events to hear what was going on before the bad thing going to happen. This game concepts has more 70's Sci-Fi atmosphere feels to keep the game original form to Alien film franchise that made the game look perfect with nicely designed buildings and inside the stations. The cutscenes in the game has really nice style of techniques to keep it look more intense and scary as hell. 

The character Amanda Ripley are quite good as the Signorney Weaver's character from the original 1979 Alien. She has decent personalty and her great character's development to make the main protagonist a excellent successor to Ellen Ripley. Amanda is also mention in the 1986 sequel film Aliens the part where Ellen wanted know what happened to Amanda since her 42 years disappearance.

I say like the types of the enemies, such as Alien is because it is one of the most memorable Sci-Fi monsters in film series. It always gives a players lot of jumpscares due to Alien reacts too fast on humans when Alien hears the sounds of human running steps, gun noises, and caught human in eye are the scariest part of the game. Android robots is also scary as well especially with their eyes glowing red and has hugely disturbing voices in the game.

Overall, the whole presentation has brilliant storyplot, decent characters and it has 70's Sci-Fi feels to Alien franchise.

Gameplay

This game has single player campaign and survival mode. In campaign, you must take control of Amanda Ripley to explore the space station and complete the mission objectives without having to get caught and attacked by the enemies nearby. 

The gameplay has really responsive controls because the character movements moves really smooth during the stealth mechanics, it has nice camera control while looking around the level, and the aiming control feels much accurate for weapon attack. 

For stealth mechanics, you have to move slowly by walking or crouching quietly without disturbing at the enemies nearby. You can able to hide on hiding places where the enemies can't see you somewhere in the levels does help the players to not get killed in action. The weapons are useful in the game where you can attack your enemies with variety of weapons, such as Revolver, Shotgun, Bolt Gun, Flamethrower, Molotov and Pipe Bomb works very well in the game, but try not to do it too much or else Alien will react very quickly if it's nearby to your area, but you can also use motion tracker are very handy for players to know where the Alien's whereabouts in the area. The melee attack is quite handy for stealth gameplay which you can attack the enemy behind with your tool weapon or stun weapon, but the android robot can instantly block your melee attack, unless you can kill them with other weapons instead. You can also use touch or flare in the dark area are much useful in the game. You can also craft items, such as medkit, Molotov, EMP's, Pipe Bomb, and Noisemaker are very useful to craft things that are very handy for players to use items. 

The puzzle solving are really outstanding is because it's gives the player a higher challenge with curtain goals and objectives which keeps the game more fun to play. I like hacking the locked doors, finding key pass or codes, regenerates the power electricity, finding alternative routes, using tools to open the path, and using computer terminal that made the game puts so much efforts to Survival Horror genres. 

It has survival mode which is fun, but way harder to beat the challenge, but it is enjoyable to play with.

Overall, it has well made gameplay controls, superb stealth mechanics, great variety of weapons, crafting items, and outstanding puzzle solving.

Graphics

The graphics in the game is far beyond perfect with the excellent use of graphics engine. The character design looked very real with greater detail of facial expression and balanced body figures to keep the character model looked more realistic. The building design of the levels are much like the 70's Sci-Fi movies settings to make it look more originally to original 1979 film. It has fantastic texture surface around the layouts without any blurred effects and the backgrounds looks more professionally well made, and the special effects of the game is absolutely look gorgeous with visuals and the use of animation that made the game so close to modern days consoles. It is far the best graphics ever made by developers who can able to push so much limits to hardware systems.

Overall, it has realistic character design, original looking level design, fantastic texture, professional looking backgrounds, and gorgeous special effects.

Music and Sounds

It has the most outstanding music and sounds in gaming. The music has well made Sci-Fi ambient noises that fits the mood of the game and it has the best use of atmospheric sounds effects that puts really efforts on creepy background noises, space station sound sequences, and the original Alien roar from 1979 film. I love the sound of motion tracker on my PS4 controller which is cool. The voice acting did a great job on the characters with fitting voices and great plot dialogue in the cutscenes.

Overall, this game has well made ambient sounds, atmospheric sound effects, and great voice acting.

Special Features

This game has 2 DLC chapters, such as Crew Expendable and Last Survivor which you can play as Ellen Ripley and her crew. You can also collect ID tags, playing audio logs, and storing information to your archives. 

Advantages

Fantastic Gameplay

Perfect Graphics

Outstanding Music and sounds

Brilliant Presentation

2 DLC chapters 

Jumpscares

Disadvantages

Enemies can be very dodgy and frustrating in the game

Save points turns red after you save the game, which means you have to wait 1 or 2 mins to turn green.

30 second load times

Final Verdict

Gameplay 9/10 - Well made gameplay controls, superb stealth mechanics, great variety of weapons, crafting items, and outstanding puzzle solving.

Graphics 10/10 - Realistic character design, original looking level design, fantastic texture, professional looking backgrounds, and gorgeous special effects.

Music and Sounds 10/10 - Well made ambient sounds, atmospheric sound effects, and great voice acting.

Special Features 8.9/10 - It has 2 DLC Levels, collecting ID tags, playing audio logs, and storing information to your archives.

Overall 9.1/10 - Alien Isolation is the art of Sci-Fi Horror game. SEGA made a great move of having Creative Assembly to develop a better Alien game than what Gearbox Software did with Aliens Colonial Marines have received badly in 2013. It sticks to original root of the series that made the presentation so outstanding, the gameplay is somewhat very playable and enjoying the single player experiences. The graphics is far superior for modern days consoles and it has the best sounds of the game overall.  

It is the best game in the series in my opinion and I highly recommended for all Alien's fans and Survival Horror gaming's fans should must play this game.     

    

   

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Outlast PS4 Digital Download Review

Outlast is a Survival Horror game for PC, PS4 and XBONE, which both developed and published by Red Barrels. It was originally released in September 4th 2013 for PC, while it was later released year after for PS4 and XBONE.

Outlast is the one of the scariest horror games that received such positive reviews from critics praising for creepy atmosphere, horror elements, great presentation and gameplay mechanics.

I say this game really amazed me with such a terrifying jumpscares, gruesome gores spreading everywhere in the game, and it has very disturbing set of the game which made it look well presenting by the development team. I like the gameplay overall, horror environments, well designed graphics and darker ambient sounds are really impressed me to enjoy the game's overall.

Okay then, lets start the review.

Presentation

This game takes place in mountain of Lake County, Colorado. The story is about a reporter named Miles Upshur who has a mission to investigate in Mental Hospital, which involves deadly patient, religious occult rituals and dead corpses which spreads everywhere in any room. 

I say the story in the game is well presented with simple storyline that involves mysteries and evidences during the events especially with recording footage and night vision looked pretty good for horror genre. A lot of enemies look creepy even they surprised you by giving a horrific jumpscares, which I liked the part of the game and the horror elements does have really great setting of the environment, such as gore, blood, rituals, video footage and cannibalism that made the game look disturbing as hell.

I like how the main protagonist does recording videos, making notes, and collecting documents to reveal the truth behind the events that happened in Mental Hospital.

Overall, the presentation is very good indeed that the development team puts the game into the right atmosphere.

Gameplay

This game has 8 chapters in single player mode. Your main goal is to investigate the evidence and survive through the whole level. The gameplay has pretty great controls for console version. The character's movement moves really smooth while walking and looking around in the game, but your character can also run through the rooms, jump off the obstacles, and crouch behind the objects made the gameplay mechanics much playable. Your character can able to do stealth mechanics by hiding inside the locker to avoid getting caught by the enemies nearby and walking slowly while the enemy is not watching you, which gives a game more challenging. You can use camera to record the evidence, but you can also use night vision for darker level and you can reload the batteries to increase the battery life, which is very useful for this game. The puzzle solving is also quite good because it's makes the game so challenging to solve the problems and finding the different areas is great way to explore things, but I find the level design is little too narrow between the rooms made a game bit harder for the players to avoid getting attacked by the enemy nearby and same goes with finding the different rooms while getting chased by the enemy is bit harder because some of the doors are already locked or being blocked by the objects.   

Overall, the gameplay has great controls schemes, amazing stealth movements, and superb puzzle solving makes the game fun, but I'm sure the level design and finding way to escape needs have some improvements, but I love the gameplay overall.

Graphics

The graphics has well made character's design looks pretty decent with very detailed figures and models, and the game's environment has well designed buildings, gardens, and the objects that has good textures on tables, fireplace, and doors. The background effects looks brilliant with skies, ground floor, and many others, while the special effects of the game is very bloody and gruesome, and it has really darkest lighting effects in the whole level especially with night vision has green and black colored screen during the video recordings, which the developers did a fantastic job for the game's graphics overall may looked suitable for modern days consoles.

Overall, the graphics has amazing environment, great character's design and bloody special effects looked awesome in the game.

Music and Sounds

This game has scarier ambient soundtrack that fits very well for the game's presentation and the sound effects has terrifying background noise are sounds perfect with banging locked doors and falling broken objects came out of nowhere which gives the player creeps. The voice acting for the characters is quite sounds good, but the enemies and other mentally people has the best screams for jumpscares purposes keeps the game's atmospheres scary as hell.  

Overall, they did a great job with Music and sounds overall.

Special Features

This game has chapter select, trophy support, archives of notes and document, and the downloadable content level called "Whistleblower" as prequel to this game is nice feature of the game. 

  

Advantages

Great Gameplay

Gorey Graphics

Well made Music and Sounds

Jumpscares

Impressive Presentation

Disadvantages

Narrowed level design

Some of dead end areas

Final Verdict

Presentation 8.7/10 - Impressive story, some horror elements, creepy enemies with jumpscares and overall atmosphere.

Gameplay 8.5/10 - Great controls schemes, amazing stealth movements and superb puzzle solving.

Graphics 8.5/10 - Amazing environment, great character's design and bloody special effects.

Music and Sounds 9.1/10 -  Scarier ambient soundtrack, terrifying background noise and impressive voice acting. 

Special Features 8/10 -  Chapter select, trophy support, archives of notes and document, and the downloadable content level.

Overall 8.5/10 - Outlast is awesome horror game that offers inpressive story, surprising jumpscares, amazing horror elements, creepy environments, gorey graphics, and great gameplay mechanics that keeps the game so entertaining and scary at the same time. I definitely to look forward to see the new sequel comes out in 2016. Overall, this game is must buy for all gaming horror fans out there and this will surprised them to death because it is the scariest game for modern consoles and PCs. 

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