Titanfall 2 PS4 Review

Titanfall 2 is a First-Person Shooter for PS4, XBONE, and PC, which was developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts. It is sequel to 2014's game Titanfall and one of the first game being released for Sony's console such as PS4, since the original game.

Back in 2014 where the first original game was released for XBONE, X360 and PC, which has received mostly positive reviews from the critics which praised for innovation gameplay, character's balance, and fast-paced player mobility. It also won over 60 awards at its E3 2013 reveal through media outlets and considered the game a successful evolution for the first-person shooter genre. With the success of the first game, they made a sequel for the 2016's release which featuring a single-player campaign, and overhauled the progression system and made subtle changes to the multiplayer to make the game fairer to players. It's a shame that the game did not sold well at the release, due to being released on the period between the launch of EA's own hugely popular Battlefield 1 and Activision's Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, but it still gained positive overall for it's single-player campaign, multiplayer battles and delivering free downloadable content of the game.

So far, my thoughts on the game was really satisfying overall with impressive single-player campaign that fills up with fast-paced action shooter, wicked levels with great platforming design, the variety of weapons loadouts, and awesome gameplay with the mix of mecha-style Titan and on-foot Pilot. The online multiplayer is better than was before with great multiplayer matches, cool classes and of course the free updates and DLC for the multiplayer with more maps, weapons and skins which is a fantastic edition to this game without having a microtransactions bullshit like the other's EA past titles. Despite the positives, I felt the story were quite average due to lack of in-depth plot and being a five-hours length of the single-player made which is aren't that bad, but should have been done better if they add more campaign levels and deliver enough storyline to make it quite appropriate way to impress the players.

So without go further do, lets start the review.


Presentation       

The game takes place in The Frontier, a region of star systems far removed from the Core Systems where Earth is located. It's starts off with Jack Cooper, who is class three rifleman, aspires to become a Titan Pilot for the Militia and is receiving off-the-books training from Captain Tai Lastimosa to prepare for his candidacy. After done with his training session, he and his team goes off to mission by battling with IMC team. After being knocked in conscious, he discovers a wounded soldier named Lastimosa and his Vanguard-class Titan named BT-7274, as Lastimosa began to transfer a control of BT to Cooper while slowly dies in cold-blood. BT and Cooper has set off to complete Lastiomosa's mission and continues to battle against IMC to save their planet.

I finding the story was not that great, but more likely being above the average due to lack of in-depth story which they should have been better off adding more background story of the characters to elaborate enough for the plot. I liked the appearances of the whole pilot characters which has their look, but the issue is that they doesn't have their personality to express the emotions in the game. The only character that I liked in the game was mostly Titans including BT is kinda awesome is because his voice reminds me of Optimus Prime from Transformers franchise and had a cool character's concept that made him more appealing in this game. The only part that made the story half interesting was the great partnership between BT and Cooper to get know each other as a team which adds the similar vibe from the buddy cop film such as Lethal Weapon and Beverly Hills Cop.

The game has unique looking Sci-Fi settings of the game's presentation are very well designed and presented at the same time to add the overall atmosphere. There are bunch of spaceships, labs room, and many scenery in the whole game which fits well for the level concepts. It filled many with explosions and destruction for it's game's action which they doing excellent job on whole single-player campaign.

Overall, slight average story, but has decent character's appearances and game's Sci-Fi settings.



Gameplay

The game features eight single-player campaign levels and eleven online multiplayer matches. You take control of Jack Cooper as a on-foot pilot which has ability to use weapons, wallrun and using gadgets, while controlling BT has the variety of using the weapon loadouts. Your main mission is to complete the each objectives while battling against the IMC soldiers. Each of the weapons is quite well balanced, so there are also two types of weapons such as primary and secondary options. The assault rifle has different kinds of accuracy and fire rate depending what rifle you picked, but it's perfect for the long-range shot, while the sub-machine guns has better use of recoil and damage. The best of all was the light machine guns that gives steady fire rate with good damage output and the shotgun has close-range, but much more damage with wide spread shot. The pistols are pretty basic weapons with the use of semi or full automatically, but the best ones are the smart pistols which fires the whole enemies by locking onto them in short range scan. It also featured different kinds of mods which improves your weapon's skills and the sights which helps the player for the use of aiming precision. The pilot can perform their unique movements such as double-jumping, sliding and wallrun which allows you to run along the walls, but you can also jump on another walls while wallrunning which is useful for the platforming level design.

You can also take control of BT by embarking him, so this titan has different variety of loadouts such as the Ion is designed to use splitter rifle and laser shot, the Scorch employs thermite and fire to burn through clustered targets and heavily wooded areas, the Northstar are make use of the plasma railgun and the flight, the Brute employing a quad Rocket and vortex shield, the Ronin combining with a shotgun and broadsword to wreak havoc among enemy lines, the Tone has 40mm tracker cannon with missile barrages to deal heavy damage, the Legion employs a large rotary cannon and aggressive sustained counterfire to deal an unrelenting field of fire upon potential enemies and finally the Monarch who wields the XO16A2 Chaingun. The titan can also perform their heavier attacks by using the different kinds of core, depending which loadouts you're selecting, giving a wicked damage to the enemy's titans and soldiers.

So far, I'm very impressed with the pliot's weapons which is very balanced and responsive especially with the smart pistols are by far the most innovative weapons of Titanfall franchise and I also liked the platforming style of gameplay where I can able to run along the walls and jumping one and another side of the buildings which gives me more satisfaction of the level design with amazing obstacles and easier to find the paths. Controlling the titan is definitely the biggest highlight of the game which offers great mecha-style combat and cool weapon loadouts that made easier to control and fight against the enemies at the same time. Despite the whole single-player campaign is really fun overall with filled with action-packed shooter, the game is quite short in five hours long, but I wish they should have add more enough levels to progress more storyline and extending the campaign's length of the game. The online multiplayer is really damn fun with the eleven game modes to play against the players through online matches, so you got pilot vs. pilot which is a standard team deathmatch mode without titans, while titan brawl is a another team deathmatch mode which you get to play as titans instead of pilot, but you can also play as both through attrition mode. You can also enjoy another modes such as free for all, capture the flag, bounty hunt and all others. You will be rewarded with experience points, after the match, which unlocks several of the perks, skins, weapons and abilities for your player's classes, so you can able to customise your own player's appearances and weapons which adds the improvement of your player's abilities. So far, it's quite addicting to play that you will spent time playing through the demanding matches which keeps the player so entertained with fantastic multiplayer maps and style of gameplay.     

Overall, it has innovative combat gameplay, impressive campaign mode, and great multiplayer matches.



Graphics

The graphics in the game is pretty decent overall. The game filled with great environments of levels regarding the concepts of level design and the use of lighting effects is quite so good on the whole game. It has cool looking Sci-Fi setup of the building and the objects with well detailed textures which is stunningly impressive and the backgrounds of the levels has nice looking scenery too add more atmosphere and the animation of the characters is generally well made without any issues with their A.I systems. The frame-rate is quite stable runs on 60 per-frame seconds without any of slow-downs during the in-game, so I'm very glad that the developers did managed to implement the game properly.

Overall, it has great level environments, well made animation, and stable frame-rate.   



Music and Sounds

The original music was composed by Stephen Barton, a composer behind original 2014's Titanfall, did a excellent job for most of the soundtrack because it's has Harry Gregson-Williams style of movie-like orchestrated music which really suited the game well for its in-game mission and the presentations. The sound effects are really well done with great exploding sounds and background noises are definitely has magnificent use of sound work, but I finding the voice acting for whole human characters is kinda sounds generic that did not suited their voice preferences, except BT is by far has the better voice over in the game.

Overall, it has excellent soundtrack and impressive sound effects, but most of the human characters in the game needs a professional voice work for improvements.



Special Features

This game providing several updates and free downloadable content for the game's release offers new maps, co-op mode, and skins which is a right decision for development team to make players more satisfied with the game's package.

Overall, having nice updates and free downloadable content is worth getting it.




Advantages

Great Sci-Fi's presentation

Innovative combat gameplay

Impressive campaign mode

Addicting online matches

Decent Graphics

Excellent soundtrack

Free DLC


Disadvantages

Average story

Long installation times

Short-length campaign


Final Verdict

                
Presentation 7/10 - slight average story, but has decent character's appearances and game's Sci-Fi settings.

Gameplay 8.5/10 - innovative combat gameplay, impressive campaign mode, and great multiplayer matches.

Graphics 8/10 -  great level environments, well made animation, and stable frame-rate.

Music and sounds 8/10 - excellent soundtrack and impressive sound effects.

Special features 8/10 - nice updates and free downloadable content.


Overall 8.5/10 - This sequel is definitely a finest FPS title that is worth playing on your gaming system. I'm satisfied with the single-player action that brings the players with the mixed of mecha-style combat, innovative weapons, and wicked missions. I also enjoyed playing competitive online matches against the players with addicting game modes, fully-customisable player's perks, and great multiplayer maps which brings the whole excitement for FPS fans to experience a modern shooter genres. It's definitely a less than £10 cheap price for the great title to pick up and play. 



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Top 5 Football Games

Yes it's nearly World Cup 2018 this month, we all know football theses days are the most popular sports activity where we all go out and play football with friends on the playgrounds, stadiums, parks, clubs, homes and other public places. It is also popularised with sports TV and live stadiums where everyone starts watching the latest matches through friendly matches, premier leagues and of course cup matches which made live football becoming the most watched sports TV in around the world. The success of football has spread with many of merchandises, t-shirts, and of course video game based on football.

Playing football on video game can be really fun back in days because it giving us many of childhood nostalgia due to excellent champion modes, great multiplayer matches, and addicting gameplay style with the use of skills and tactics that made the game so much entertaining to play. I've played several of football titles from the past from 90's to 2000's and I decided to make my 5 favourites football games that I really love playing the most and give reasons to recommended to all gamers out there who loves playing type of sports games. These are my top 5 Football games. 



5 - Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Wii)

 



















Konami was known for earlier football titles from the mid-90's such as International Superstar Soccer series which regarded as being the greatest football games titles in 90's and being a great rivalry to other successful football franchises such as EA's FIFA series. Due to success of the franchise has created their own spin-offs called Pro Evolution Soccer which is a football game series had been a best-selling video game franchises that sold over more than 100 million copies worldwide.

I was a fan of this franchise back in days when I first owned a Nintendo Wii console in 2007, a year before the release of the PES 2008 for Wii in 2008. It's one of the very first PES game being released for Nintendo home consoles that featured the ability of motions controls allowing to control players with the use of Wii remote and nunchunk controller. I finding this version as being one of the best of all consoles platforms regarding with Wii's controls that are easier to play as you use the Wii remote to point cursor at the screen for passing and shooting mechanics, and using nunchunk controller for controlling players that made the game quite playable. This game also added master league mode and online matches is a great edition to the Wii version, so I highly recommended to all Wii owners to pick this game up for super cheap price under £1.



4 - Rocket League (PC, PS4, XBONE, Switch)

        


















Rocket League is a vehicular soccer games for PC, PS4, XBONE and Switch, which both developed and published by Psyonix. It is a sequel to Psyonix's 2008 game called Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars for PS3 (via PS Store).

It was first released in 2015 for PS4 and PC, while it was later released the XBONE in 2016 and Switch in 2017. It gained over 18 millions players and sold over 6 million sales after the releases is due to offering titles as free downloadable game for PS Plus members on release date to market the game and it had becoming most popular sport titles for modern gaming.

Rocket League is a fantastic arcade style sports game where you get to play as vehicular players to complete the match against their opponent, so it is a soccer game with vehicles that really got me attention to play because it features excellent gameplay style where you can perform amazing trickstyle to learn and it has playable futuristic sports stadium with addictive game modes to play through exhibition, seasons and online play. You can also customise your own vehicles to make it look edgy, cool and stylish for your own choices. It has arcade style controls, realistic graphics, and more excellent content in the game to keep the game up to date.   

This is definitely must play for the fans of the genres.



3 - Neo Geo Cup 98: The Road To The Victory (Neo Geo)

To all the Neo Geo fans out there, SNK just made their own football titles for the arcade system in 1998 which is Neo Geo Cup 98: The Road To The Victory. It is a re-release version of Super Sidekicks 3 under the licence of FIFA World Cup 1998.

The game features several of the playable teams from Europe, Asia, Africa, and America are aimed to complete with 6 tournaments modes to become a World Cup champion. It also have exhibition modes where you can battle with computer or 2 player through friendly matches. The gameplay is pretty simple to play, so instead of using 4-buttons, it only uses straightforward 3-buttons control that are used for shooting, passing, slide kick, and tackle which worked fluidly well during the matches. It also involves great penalty shootouts and cool quick time events that adds the fun factor of the game. Despite the fluid gameplay, the graphics in the whole game is stunningly amazing with detailed football fields, colourful environments and cool player's animation that made the game look absolutely gorgeous for the Neo Geo system titles.

It is not very easy to own every Neo Geo consoles and games library for everyone due to ridiculously price cost from the online retail stores, unless you're rich video game collectors out there or alternatively try owning the game through emulators. Neo Geo Cup 98: The Road To The Victory is a genuinely solid arcade-sports titles for the Neo Geo library.



2 - Mario Strikers Charged Football (Wii)

           



















Imagine combining Mario franchise with sports genres which turned into Mario Sports series. Back in days where have games like Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, and Mario Superstars Baseball, but there's one of the game that I really enjoyed the most on the Wii is definitely Mario Strikers Charged Football. It is a sports video game, which was developed by Next Level Games and published by Nintendo, and it is a sequel to 2005's game Super Mario Strikers for Gamecube. It is one of the first game features Nintendo Wi-Fi connection through online matches and tournaments. The game has improved over the predecessor with multiple gameplay modes and better overall controls. It featured favourite playable rosters and sidekicks such as Mario, Luigi, Peach, Wario, DK, Yoshi, and more.

What really made the game fun is the Striker Cup mode allows the player to compete in matches against the computer to gain rewards, Striker Challenges is where the player has to complete the objectives through seasons, and Domination Mode in which the player faces an opponent of the player's choosing which adds the nice edition of the game. The gameplay is quite similar to the predecessor, but ability to use Wii's controller such as the Wii Remote is used for tackling players and pointing the cursor at the screen for deflecting the ball during the Mega Strike sequences. So far, the game is brutally fun with tons of playable roster and stadiums to choose, it has great power-ups items to impede the opponents, and the skillshot allowing sidekicks to perform really awesome special shot while the captains can perform mega strike up to 6 whomping shot which makes the game quite epic to play which is perfect for online matches and 2-player modes.

If you're into with these kind of sports titles, then it is worth owning for your Wii collection.



1 - SEGA Worldwide Soccer 97

   

















SEGA had several of the football titles from the past such as Virtua Striker, World Championship Soccer and SEGA Soccer Slam. There's one of the football game that caught my attention in my childhood days which is SEGA Worldwide Soccer 97 for the SEGA Saturn, which was created by SEGA Sports. It is sequel to Victory Goal as one of the debut titles of the console, which had an unsuccessful performance critically and commercially, but this game does a better job than the predecessor. During the release of the game, it has met with critical acclaim from the critics calling it best soccer games ever released regarding with smooth player animation, simply easier to learn controls and has the realistic soccer elements that made the game a finest SEGA Saturn's sports titles.

It featured playable international teams and league, several of game modes such as play-off and tournament, exhibition and championship mode, and introducing create a player featuring edit a name of players. What made me liked the game the most is the quality controls of Saturn's gameplay due to reliable players movements and great shooting and passing mechanics makes it very easy to learn, and the graphics in the whole game are by far the best looking sports game for Saturn's titles. The whole soundtrack was made by Jun Senoue, a composer behind Sonic Adventure series, did a fabulous job with the use of hard rock style of original music that fits really well on both game's presentation and in-game matches. So far, I really enjoyed most of the games mode especially with playing on 2-Player matches with friends and family. SEGA Worldwide Soccer 97 are definitely my top favourite football games of all times and for those who are looking for best sports game for the Saturn then this is must own sports game for SEGA Saturn owners.     




Honorable Mention:

International Superstar Soccer 64
Sensible Soccer
Virtua Striker
Captain Tsubasa: Get in the tommorrow
World Cup Italia 90
SEGA Soccer Slam




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Top 5 Namco Games

Oh yes Namco, one of the greatest video game company that we all loved from the past.  It was well known for their successful franchises from the 80's to 2000's era such as Dig Dug, Galaxian, Xevious, Ridge Racer, Soul Cailbur, Time Crisis, Tales, Ace Combat, Tekken and of course Pac-Man. The company has later renamed their brand title to Bandai Namco, due to agreements between Namco and Bandai has accepted their partnership in 2006.      

The reason why I've liked Namco is because I grew up playing those arcade titles and other different franchises in my childhood days, so I decided to make my own 5 favourite games that I really enjoyed playing the most and made my childhood quite memorable. 

Here is my Top 5 Namco Games

5 - Ridge Racer (PS1)

It's Ridge Racer, RIDGEEEEE RACER!!!

It is a 1993 racing game was first released in arcade system and it is a main rivalry to SEGA's arcade racing titles such as Daytona USA. It's one of the first racing that utilised the 3D polygons graphics that runs on the arcade hardware called Namco System 22 which shows the demonstration of the 3D racing game itself and it is also introducing the drift mechanics which gives driving controls a smoother racing experience for the arcade-style gameplay. The PS1 version was released later in 1994 as a launch titles which received acclaimed reception from the critics praising the game for the graphics, sounds and gameplay. The success of the game has spread with numerous of the sequels.

The PS1 version is the most faithful ports that runs really well on the Sony's 32-bit system powerhouse, due to technical hardware achievements that took 8 months for game's developers to get it done by the winter release in 1994. It features 4 original tracks from the arcade and 8 additional cars to choose from. It has top-notch arcade gameplay with excellent drifting controls, stunning 3D graphics for the early PS1 game and it has catchy in-game tunes that really made Ridge Racer being the best racing games for the system. 

4 - Time Crisis (Arcade)

               

It's really fun to play video games that uses the light gun controller to point and shoot at bunch of bad guys. Time Crisis is a rail-shooter arcade game was released in 1995, a same year as the release of SEGA's Virtua Cop 2. It's one of the first rail-shooter game that introduces a cover system which lets the player uses the foot pedal to hide behind the objects without taking damage from the enemy's projectiles. The game gains much positive overall from the critics for its gameplay innovation that adds the overall experiences of light gun shooter genres. It was later released for the PS1 in 1997 and still continuing to spawn the sequels for its franchises. 

I was really surprising to see how awesome the Time Crisis is when playing on the arcade cabinet which increases my overall arcade experience. The arcade machine is well built with cool looking artwork on the side of the game cabinet, the metallic textures of foot pedal, it has nice larger screen and well designed gun controller. The game features 3 mission levels where the player must complete each area in a certain amount of time. What really made Time Crisis so great is the use of the cover system which I can able to hide, reload and shoot at the enemies with the gun controller and foot pedal is definitely fun to play on the arcade system and it has 3 action packed levels with epic boss battles that keeps the player well entertained. The playability of gun controller and foot pedal is very responsive and accurate making the gameplay more playable and fun which makes Time Crisis a such unique light gun shooter. 

3 - Tekken 3 (PS1)

            

Back in early 90's when the Namco made the first 3D fighting game called Tekken was released for the Arcade in 1994, a year after the release of SEGA's Virtua Fighter. After porting to PS1 version in 1995 which received positive reception and becoming the best-selling fighting series for the Playstation consoles. The success of the first game has spread numerous of sequels, spin-offs, crossovers, and different types of media through to this popular fighting game franchise. The best titles on the series goes to Tekken 3 for the PS1 is a third installiment in the series, which considered being one of the greatest games of all time sold more than 8.5 million copies sold worldwide.

This game offers a largely new cast of characters such as Jin Kazama, Ling Xiaoyu, Julia Chang and Hwoarang with a total of 23 characters, and included a new beat'em up mode called Tekken Force, as well as the bonus Tekken Ball mode exclusivity for the PS1 version. The game still maintains the same core fighting system and concept as its predecessors with improved fighting controls and smoother gameplay which handles the game really well for the Playstation fighting game titles. As much I loved the fighting gameplay mechanics, cool game modes and cast of memorable fighting rosters, the graphics is just good as the arcade version regarding the hardware limitations of PS1 systems and catchy original soundtrack that fits perfectly for this game. Tekken 3 is definitely being the arcade perfect for the PS1 owners to experience a 3D fighting game masterpiece.      

     

2 - Soul Calibur (Dreamcast)

Welcome back to the stage of history.

Namco bought the legendary 3D fighting game for the SEGA Dreamcast called Soul Calibur is a Weapon-Based fighting game was first released for the arcade in 1999 and then was later released for SEGA Dreamcast as part of the launch title in 1999. It was widely regarded as one of the best fighting game ever released as well as being the greatest game of all time that made Soul Calibur a huge landmark of Weapon-Based fighting genre. The success of the game spawns with sequels and spin-offs. 

The game was known for innovations to the fighting gameplay that include a heavy emphasis on weapons and a unique eight-way movement system. The Dreamcast version offers improved graphics and extra features such as new game modes, new costumes, and the inclusion of an extra character which brings the newer experience to the fighting game title. It has solid gameplay mechanics with great fighting style and responsive controls which made the fighting game much easier to learn and play. The graphics is far more superior to its original arcade counterpart with smoother framerate, crystal-cleared animation, great character models and glossy special effects which proves that the game shows off the Dreamcast's system powerhouse. I highly recommended to pick this game up for the Dreamcast owners or alternately you can also get it for the X360 via Xbox Live Store. 

1 - Pac-Man (Arcade)

    

            

Yes everyone, I've purposely put original Pac-Man arcade on my number 1 list. During the golden age of arcade games, they brought their very first arcade game in the early 80's called Pac-Man is a maze game where you get to play as Pac-Man to collect all the pills as possible while being chased by the ghosts. The game went becoming huge success during the release as being one of the best-selling and the most famous arcade in history which makes Pac-Man an international popular culture icon in gaming industry. The success of the game has spread with numerous of Pac-Man titles, appearances, merchandise and other media.

The game is highly addicted with simple gameplay where you have to clear out the pills without getting touched by the ghosts, but the power pills are always comes in handy to deal with these ghosts. The more you collect the pills, the highest score you could get which adds the fun arcade experience. It has colourful graphics of the characters design and well drawned maze-like level design that made the game more appealing and lets not forget the most memorable sound effects in gaming history. Pac-Man still remains to be a lovable video game mascots that Namco has ever bought to gaming worlds. 





Honorable Mentions:

Tales of Symphonia
Dark Souls
Dig Dug
Galaga
Splatterhouse 3
Klonoa 




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Shenmue 1 & 2 HD Remaster Announced

Yes everyone it's true, I've heard that SEGA has finally announced these masterpiece are coming to PS4, XBONE and PC as the HD Remaster. The dream has finally come true. 

We all know Shenmue series had becoming one of the best open-world game ever made which was created by Yu Suzuki, a well known creator behind his work of the arcade classics from the past such as Space Harrier, After Burner, Outrun, Hang-On and of course Virtua Fighter. During the sixth generation console era, SEGA AM2 has bought their very first open-world adventure game for SEGA Dreamcast called Shenmue which was released in the year 1999. The game was really known for cinematic story presentation, memorable characters, large exploration of open-world areas, great combination of quick-time events and brawling gameplay, and beautifully made graphics that shows the SEGA Dreamcast's system powerhouse. While the game did not sold well which leads to commercial failure, it gained cult following which received acclaimed praise by critics and fans calling it a greatest game ever made and also credited for pioneering the genres. They also made the sequel for the SEGA Dreamcast called Shenmue 2 was released in 2001 and later for original Xbox version in 2002 has received same praise as the first one, but sold poorly compared with the first game which causes the further games in the series entered a period of development hell lasting over a decade. In the year 2015, after Yu Suzuki has the rights to license Shenmue series from SEGA, he finally announced the another sequel Shenmue 3 for PS4 and PC which makes the huge return of the series and the game was funded through Kickstarter gains over $6.3 million from over 69,000 backers which becoming the most funded Kickstarter video game campaign and the sixth most funded Kickstarter campaign of all time.

And now SEGA has finally revealed the HD remasters of Shenmue 1 & 2 for PS4, XBONE and PC in 2018 release. After I've read the gaming article and watching the actual trailers online, I'm very appreciated with the fantastic news from SEGA has finally listened to their fans and giving us what we want for the HD release. I grew up playing these two games in my childhood age as being my favourite Dreamcast game of all time that bought up my happiness and joyful. Going back to topic, the HD version of these two games will feature maybe some possibly graphical enhancements, full screen resolution, updated user-interface, two spoken language options and choice between modern and classic controls. The console version will be available both physically and digitally, while PC version will be released via Steam. I'm excited to see these two games getting a re-release in this year and I hopefully going to get it on my PS4 on the release to play these childhood games again.

SEGA, I wanted to say thank you so much for bringing the greatest Dreamcast classics to the modern consoles and PCs, I hopefully the fans will be very happy to see such breaking news.   

It is time for me to look for sailors again.


If you want to check out the news about the Shenmue 1 & 2 HD remaster, here's the link down below:

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2018/04/14/shenmue-1-and-2-being-re-released-on-ps4-xbox-one-and-pc

You can also check out the actual trailer down below:

                      




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Axiom Verge PS4 Review

Axiom Verge is a 2D Platform Adventure game for PS4, PS Vita, Wii U, XBONE, Switch and PC, which was developed and published by Thomas Happ Games, while the physical release was distributed by Bad Land Games.

Yes it's another indie games titles for the modern game consoles and PCs, so I'm a huge fan of the Metroidvania type of games, which was popularised by the likes of 90's gaming classics such as Super Metroid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night are the biggest pioneers of the video game genres. The success of the Metroidvania genres has spread with many of the similar games such as Shantae, Cave Story, and Shadow Complex. There's one of the game that caught my attention was Axiom Verge which borrows the similar elements from the classic Metroid series. I was really surprised with the dark Sci-Fi presentation, unique level designs, amazing exploration and epic 2D gameplay with great boss battles and cool upgrades which made the game quite fun to play. It is perfect for the fan of the genre should be very surprised to see how this game turns out to be really amazing for the classic 8-bit style game.

So without go further do, lets start the review.



Presentation

The game takes place in New Mexico, 2003. The story starts out the scientist named Trace, who works at the laboratory, began to start the experiment until he was knocked out by exploding building due to faulty valve. After the accidental incident, he was awoken in the alien world of Sudra where he was assisted by the war-machine named Elsenova had given him quest to stop the mad scientist named Athetos, who destroyed the Sudrans long ago, and restore the power back to Elsenova. 

The story in the game seems to be quite basic for the 8-bit style type of game. It has well detailed imagery with nicely made 8-bit sprites for the cutscene design and quite straighforward story writing for the part of the story dialogue in the game which makes easier to describe what's going on in the story that involves accidental experiment that causes the main protagonist woken up in wrong dimension which made the whole overall presentation keeps ongoing progress. I really liked the setting of the dark Sci-Fi themes on the level concepts which pretty reminds me of classic Metroid series does adds up to the 8-bit nostalgia of the game. The game has cool looking enemies sprites in each areas, while the main boss in the game are also looked quite amazing for it's design. The main protagonist is kinda look like Hugh Jackman with large wacky hair and long sideburns which definitely suits him well in the game. I finding this character quite interesting for his concepts and personality which adds up the positively of the character in the game.


Overall, it has straightforward story, dark Sci-Fi settings, and impressive characters.



Gameplay

This game features single-player campaign and speedrun mode. You take control of Trace who been woken up in high-tech area, so you are focusing on the action and exploration of the each areas that  features over 60 items and power-ups to collect and defeat many boss as can.

Trace starts off with basic weapon called "Axiom Disruptor" which fires the long range shot. You can obtain more weapons in each areas such as "Nova" which fires large projectile, while firing again causes it to detonate and the "Kilver" that fires the short-range burst of electricity. There are some of the cool weapons that are very easier to kill enemies faster such as "Voranj" that shoots large energy bolts, the "Lighting Gun" that shoots strong electric on nearest target, the "Reflector" that shoots projectiles reflect off the walls, the "Multi-Disruptor" that fires 3-way projectiles at a time and there are plenty of more awesome weapons that allows player to easily kill many of the enemies which works really well in the game. The upgrades are used for improving character's tools and abilities which allows player to perform useful thing in the game such as "Field Disruptor" that allows player to jump higher, while the "Grapple" that allows you to swing from the rocks it latches onto, the "Lab Coat" that lets you teleport across against the wall, while "Trenchcoat" are slightly better than the "Lab Coat" that you can able to teleport in any direction. There are couple of great upgrades such as "Laser Drill" which helps the player breaking the rock objects, the "Remote Drone" which lets player fire to launch the drone, so it is useful to access the smaller paths of the levels. Using the "Address Disruptor" or "Address Bomb" which allows to de-corrupt the weaker blocks to open up the new area of the game. You can also improve the character's power-ups by collecting enough nodes which increases the health bar, size and range of weapon projectiles, and the weapon and item damage that makes the player even stronger.

Controlling Trace is actually pretty outstanding for the player's movement. Holding on the lock-on button allows you to shoot in any direction while standing still is quite responsive in which is easier to keep the player still without making any of movement. I really liked some of the stunning upgrades like "Remote Drone" and "Grapple" which heavily borrows the similar elements from the NES game such as Bionic Commando and Blaster Master. The weapons in the game are quite impressive with greater use of damage and range which adds up variety of the game. Despite the outstanding controls for combat gameplay and character's movements, the exploration in whole levels are absolutely fantastic which keeps me playing the game due to finding cool secrets, collecting notes, and discovering new areas that offers positively for the Metroidvania type of game. You can also use the map screen to know where you on and where you heading to visit which helps the player to navigate whereabouts in the levels. I got to admit the boss battles are quite fun to play, but quite frustrating at the same times that adds up the challenge of the game which is excellent. Sometimes the problem in the game was the player's weaker health points in which most of the enemies in the game can easily give heavier projectiles damage to the player that can cause a frustration for player in the game, so you need to be really careful when playing this game in each areas. You can also go for the speedrun mode which the players have to beat the speedrun timing by completing the whole game in short time as possible which is quite good for walkthrough challenge to see which are the best players can able to beat the time record.


Overall, it has outstanding controls, great combat gameplay and stunning use of exploration.



Graphics

The whole graphics in the game are fantastic regarding the level design and 8-bit sprites. The levels in the game are somewhat inspired by Metroid series, which has really great use of the particles such as bubbles and rocks objects. It has similar textures and backgrounds of the levels are quite detailed and colorful for the 8-bit styled game. The animation are pretty damn impressive on the character's sprites for most part without making it looked too clunky and clumsy. I also liked the use of the scaling effects during the boss battles where the camera starts zooms in and out at same time which is kinda cool.

Overall, it has fantastic level design, cool textures and backgrounds and impressive character's sprites.



Music and Sounds

Thomas Happ made a catchy original soundtrack in mixed style between the 8-bit and 80's synth music that fits well for the game's atmosphere because it keeps you in action while playing this game that adds up the excitement of the players. I also liked the use of the 8-bit sound effects for gun shooting, background noise and enemy's roar effects are also sounds really good in the game. This is by far one of the best music and sounds in gaming that does the right thing for the indie 8-bit games.

Overall, it has catchy soundtrack and excellent sound effects.



Special Features

This game features speedrun mode, over 60 items and power-ups to collect, and the special Multiverse Edition will include a physical copy of the game, a deluxe booklet with developer commentary and art, a double-sided poster, and a making-of documentary on DVD.

Overall, its a worthy special features for game's collectors.





Advantages

Simple story

Dark Sci-Fi themes

Outstanding gameplay

Great exploration

Fun boss battles

Fantastic graphics

Catchy Soundtrack

Excellent sound effects

                             
Disadvantages

Player's weak health

Frustrating difficulty




Final Verdict


Presentation 9/10 - straightforward story, dark Sci-Fi settings, and impressive characters.

Gameplay 9/10 -  outstanding controls, great combat gameplay and stunning use of exploration.

Graphics 9/10 - fantastic level design, cool textures and backgrounds and impressive character's sprites.

Music and Sounds 9/10 - catchy soundtrack and excellent sound effects.

Special Features 9/10 - worthy special features for game's collectors.


Overall 9/10 - Axiom Verge is by far the most fascinating 2D indie-game that the fans of the Metroidvania genres will able to satisfy this amazing titles. Having a simple presentation, outstanding gameplay, great exploration and fantastic graphics does adds up with the nostalgia of the retro gaming from the past and it is worth for picking this game up for the full price.


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Rabi-Ribi PS4 Review

Rabi-Ribi is a 2D Platform Adventure game for PS4, PS Vita and PC, which was developed by CreSpirit and published by Sekai Project. It's one of the Crowdfunding Indie titles from IndieGoGo that already has raised over $10,000 in year 2015, right just before the game was set released for PC in 2016 which received much positive reception from the critics and fans. It was then later released for Sony consoles in the year 2017 and hopefully coming soon for the Switch version in later future date.

What really made this game so special was that 2D platform Adventure game is combined with 2D Metroidvania gameplay with Bullet Hell elements and the cutie anime bunny girl as the main protagonist in the whole game, so it's sorta like Touhou meets Metroid that really made Rabi-Ribi quite interesting. I was quite surprised with this game that offers many of the positive things about Rabi-Ribi such as wicked gameplay with tons of exploration areas and over 40 intense boss battles, very cute visuals with anime-style animation, cool soundtrack, and it has whole extra content in the game that made the game worth playing. It is considered to be the hardest video game titles on the eighth generation era due to overpowered boss characters and so many attack patterns that made the game quite impossible to beat unless you need to be very professional at this game without having to throw rage quitting so many times, but still it's very fun and entertaining at the same time once you get hang of it with the whole game.

So without go further do, lets start the review.



Presentation

The game starts off with bunny girl creature named Erina who was a normal rabbit that lived in a peaceful life until one day, she found herself in an unknown place and noticed her appearance turned into a human. During her aimless wandering around the island, she meet the cheerful pink haired fairy named Ribbon came to help with her by searching all her missing friends and preventing the cursed magic from harming their peaceful islands.

The game has really weird story about the bunny girl thought she was lived as the real-life rabbit in her lifestyle, but instead as it turns out to be a human form which causing Erina to find out the reason why she's been transformed into the human, so the story in general is kinda mixed overall due to lack of Erina's backstory and below-average storyline which they should have been done better job by putting more effort on plot of the game rather than just making story sounds silly, but to be fair the half of the story in the game is somewhat pretty okay, but it's not that sounds great at the same time which makes a quite harder for western players to understand, maybe just because it's something to do with story writing or language translations on the story dialogue. 
The rest of the characters in the game are all females, so you have all female characters that dressed up as random animal and fairy cosplayer such as Erina the bunny girl, Ribbon the fairy girl, Cocoa the cat girl, Nieve the bear girl, Lilith the bat girl and etc. Most of the characters in the game are quite adorable that adds up nicely for the game's presentation to make them look interesting.

Every each concepts of the level design are looked quite stunning overall. Some levels such as Starting Forrest, Rabi Rabi Ravine, and Spectral Cave are quite colourful and detailed which gives a nice Yoshi's Island vibe to it, while it does share with interesting cool levels in the game like Floating Graveyard, Azure Snow Land, System Interior, and others which is very well done with different kinds of themes in the game.

Overall, it has adorable characters, nice slideshow style and stunning level concepts, but suffered with below-average story.



Gameplay

This game contains 8 main chapters and 2 extra chapters were included in the game. You take control of Erina and her sidekick Ribbon to explore whole area in each levels where you can able to earn items, finding secrets, discovering new areas and talking to random people which is good for exploration. Using the map screen on the pause menu which helps the player to know where you're at and you will be given with the missions, which was added on the diary and the map points, in order for players to complete the certain of the main objectives during the gameplay. You can also fast travel in each levels by using the teleport area which allows you to choose which levels to visit. The player can also use the save points to save the game, so it will let you continue where you left off, but everytime you save the game can also give you a full health which is quite useful. 

You will start off with a basic weapon called Piko Hammer which are used for attacking enemies in close combat range, but it can also drains your SP attacks which prevents you from attacking, so you have to wait until the SP automatically recharge itself. While Ribbon has ability to use magic firing weapon which are used for long range attacks, so you will have MP bar which tells you how much left you have it on your MP everytime you using the Ribbon's charged shot. Ribbon also has different types of firing attacks such as Sunny Beam, Chaos Rod, Explode Staff, Carrot Shooter and others which are used for shooting at different types of enemies in the game. Performing the boost attack allows Ribbon to shoot massive damage at the enemies including boss characters which are also making easier to defeat.

The player are required to earn enough items to make it even more stronger and plays better. For example: the ability items can be found in any of the levels such as carrot bomb that uses for blowing up objects, rabi slippers that allows you to jump higher while air jump can allow you to perform double jump and sliding powder that allows you to slide on the ground which are quite useful for platforming purposes, while Ribbon's items such as Auto Earrings, Plus Necklace and Charge Ring can also improve Ribbon's firing attacks such as rapid fire and charge shot. You can also earn skills items such as Wall Jump, Bunny Strike, Air Dash, Bunny Whirl, Hammer Roll, Hammer Wave, Speed Boost, Soul Heart and Spike Barrier, while the orbs items also reduces the dark places, freely move in underwater and melting ice blocks which adds more variety for both combat gameplay and platforming as well. The player can also earn EN points by attacking all the enemies which you can spend all the upgrades, potions and consumable items from the Miriam's shop. Spending all the upgrades and potions can rewards player's stats and skills allowing to increase the overall levels of health, mana, regen, pack, attacks, skills and orbs, which means your character becoming even stronger and easier to battle against the foes. Collecting badges in the levels which you can able to equip it from the badge menus and performing your buffs/debuffs assets can also improve your player's levels.

So far, I really liked the exploration aspects of the game where I enjoyed exploring around the non-linear levels, which kept me playing in whole hours of fun by finding secrets and earning items. The combat gameplay works pretty accurate overall with responsive hit detection and reliable player's combat weapons.
Depending on game's difficulty, the game gets even harder for later chapter. Each of the boss battles can be very frustrating to play due to overpowered boss health, using enemy's buffs/debuffs assets that weakens your character's powers and too many attack patterns that scatters around which made the game quite impossible to beat, so playing a bullet hell type of game is not very easy for the most of the casual players unless you need to be experienced with bullet hell type of game by practising it more, the better you will become which adds the whole challenge of the game. So far, the boss battles are quite epic to play which I was surprised to see how developers managed to make the game even harder, but entertaining at the same time when I kept dodging their attack patterns without trying to get damaged badly.

The game also features new game plus which you can able to play the whole game again while still retaining the same contents from the previous save, which adds up the nice replay values and you can also enjoy playing two of the game modes such as speedrun mode where you had to beat the whole game faster with best time record as possible and then you will have a boss rush mode where you have to beat every boss characters without having to be defeated.   


Overall, it has great exploration, impressive combat gameplay, intense boss battles and nice replay values.



Graphics

I really liked the mix between the modern 8-bit and 16-bit style of in-game graphics. The character's design is well drawn in 2D sprites giving a cute look of the characters. Each of the whole levels are well built with full of great environments and the use of animation which offers colourful visuals details and parallax effects on backgrounds that made the level design looked amazing for retro type of game. For example: Golden Pyramid has light candles, doors, and gold pillars, while Azure Snow Land has full of trees and snows, but it has the water animation that really moves giving a nice variety of level design. I also liked the use of special effects during the boss battles, the enemy's attack patterns are looking spectacular with sparkly and glowing effects that made the game looked amazing overall.

Overall, it has well drawn characters, great environments, colourful visuals and amazing special effects.



Music and Sounds

The best part of the game was the whole original soundtrack that sounds really wicked overall. The music in the Rabi Rabi Town and Starting Forrest has cheerful tunes that puts everyone into smile, while the other music is sound kinda similar to other video game such as Golden Pyramid stage that has simular vibe as Shantae series and the Cicini's Computer stage which kinda sounds reminds me of 3D bonus stages from Sonic the Hedgehog 2. While the original soundtrack are absolutely sounds fantastic, it has really good use of sound effects for the environment noise and atmospheric sounds that really fits perfectly for the game's presentations and in-game environment.

Overall, it has wicked soundtrack and impressive sound effects.



Special Features

This game has unlockable contents such as gallery mode, speedrun mode, and boss rush mode. The game also have new game plus which allows player to start the game at the beginning while still retaining the same items which adds up the nice replay value. For PC version, they will able to puchase DLC from the steam store such as digital soundtrack, digital artbook, and of course Cicini's Halloween and Is the order a DLC features extra chapters, while Sony's console version will also have Cicini's Halloween and Is the order a DLC included on both physical and digital version of the game.



Advantages

Adorable characters

Great exploration

Impressive gameplay

Amazing graphics

Wicked music

Nice replay value

More special features


Disadvantages

Punishing difficulty

Below-average story




Final Verdict


Presentation 6.5/10 - adorable characters, nice slideshow style and stunning level concepts, but suffered with below-average story.

Gameplay 8/10 - great exploration, impressive combat gameplay, intense boss battles and nice replay values.

Graphics 8/10 - well drawn characters, great environments, colourful visuals and amazing special effects.

Music and Sounds 8.5/10 - wicked soundtrack and impressive sound effects.

Special Features 8/10 - unlockable contents, new game plus and DLC.



Overall 8/10 - Rabi-Ribi is a surprisingly fun 2D Platform Adventure game with great Metroidvania style exploration and insane bullet hell action that made the game quite fun to play. Despite the silliness of the story which is not the main highlight of the game, what really matters the most as long as the quality of gameplay and graphics are turns out to be quite epic which features impressive combat, intense boss battles, great level design and has replay values. This is definitely a hidden gems for most of the video game collectors should be able to pick this game up if you're up with the highest challenge, so good luck with playing this game.         



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Polybius PS4 Review

Polybius is a shoot em ups game for PS4, which was developed and published by Llamasoft, as the game was created by Jeff Minter, who is known for his earlier work such as Tempest 2000 and the spiritual successor TxK. The game's title was taken from the original 1981 arcade game was also called Polybius which was a gaming urban legends in popular culture that inspires the fan-made game and of course the Llamasoft's 2017 game for PS4. Unlike the original game, the creator decided not to reproduce gameplay from the original arcade version, but instead this game was designed for a fast-paced 3D shooter gameplay which shares the elements from multiple other classic games such as Space Harrier and S.T.U.N. Runner was sounds different from the original game, but slightly better overall game in my opinion because this game is actually quite fun due to addicting gameplay, impressive visuals and cool game modes to play, so I wasn't feel regretting pick this game for my PS4 because I'm a fan of the Llamasoft's game titles such as Tempest 2000 and TxK.

So without go further do, lets start the review.



Presentation

As the game starts off with health and safety warnings on the screen to ensure the gamers to fully understand the concerns of the motion sickness before playing the game. The title on the screen has well designed fonts size, but it somewhat has creepy dark blue backgrounds with illusion effects which is looked kinda disturbing for shoot em ups title, but it's still looking cool. As the game starts, each of the level has different kinds of designs depending what level you're on. The beginning of the level has nice checker board mixed with blue and purple on the flat surface, while most of the later levels has cylinder shaped, U shaped, tunnel shaped and many different kinds of shapes are looking spectacular for level design choices. What really made the game looked insane is that where you collect the pills during the gameplay which causing the stages to change colours into random LSD effects which adds up the overall atmosphere of the game, wow talking about being on crack while playing this game. They have the weird random stuff on the levels are bunch of screaming cows, horns, space invaders like aliens, cubes, ships, shattering glass, flagpoles and etc. which adds ups the overall presentation very well done for this type of arcade shooter game.

Overall, it has well presenting levels, atmospheric and weird characters in the game.



Gameplay

This game features classic modes where you had to complete over more than 30 levels, so your goal is to race through the stages until you reached the end of the level. You take control of player's ship by using the left analogue stick to move from left and right side of the level and it has only one basic fire with no special weapons and upgrades, which made the game quite simple to play as you use the basic fire to shoot down the enemies in the level, but your ship will able to go faster by passing through the each horns or collecting the pills which increases the overall speeds of the ship's firing and acceleration. You also need to be careful by dodging the collisions objects and enemy's projectiles nearby before you're accidentally bumped onto the objects or got shot by enemy which causes to lose your shields, but your shields will increase after you beat each levels which is no problem. While your ship becomes faster, it gets really harder for players to evade the hazardous area due to overused collisions objects and enemy's projectiles unless you master at the game by practising it more, the easier it becomes which gives a player worth challenging to play. Talking about the challenge, some of the levels that increasing the fun factor of the game such as run past the flagholes in correct way, shooting all the fried eggs without any miss, complete each levels without damaging shields and make your ship fly in 50 seconds which rewards the player's in-game scores. The player's score can be added to online hi-scores to show the best players out of thousands for worldwide.

There are another two interesting game modes are featured in the game such as pure mode where you start off with first level, but unlike the classic mode which has level selection, you can't able to continue the level where you left off, so your goal is to complete all the levels as possible without losing all the shields and the other one are survival mode which is similar with pure mode, but without increasing the shields after beating the levels. These two modes are actually fun to play which gives a great arcade experience for players to enjoy. So far the game's controls are quite responsive when controlling the player's ship and I didn't have any issue with lags and delays which made the game so playable.

Overall, it has great controls, cool game modes and fast-paced stages.



Graphics

The graphics in the game are very old-skool looking which fits well in the whole game. It very like the Llamasoft's previous titles with cool 3D polygon shaped design for enemy's ships and collisions objects which is well built for classic style arcade titles. Most of the environments are very colourful for level designs choices due to magnificent checker boards on flat surfaces and unique 3D shapes giving a 80's style look of the game and the special effects are very well done with the use of LSD effects and illusion animations. The game was also has Playstation VR compatible which allows you to use VR headset to experience a virtual reality of this game with the use of VR effects that made the whole game looked awesome. If you don't have a Playstation VR, the second options are 3D glasses which is also cool, but I think you should stick with the VR version, if you have one already. 

Overall, it has cool 3D polygon design, colourful environments and impressive special effects.



Music and Sounds

Most of the original soundtrack was made by several of Llamasoft's musicians such as Peter Duggal, Gareth Noyce, Rodger Poker and others. It sounds similar with the previous game such as TxK that uses the early 2000's trance music style which is acceptable for this type of game, but I felt it's not quite entertaining as the soundtrack from the tempest 2000 because I prefer the 90's techno style a lot better in comparison with this original soundtrack, but still it's sounds pretty decent overall. I also liked the song from the music videos called "Less Than" was composed by industrial rock bands Nine Inch Nails which featuring woman playing Polybius.

The game has retro styled sound effects which borrows the elements from the classics Midway's and Taito's arcade titles such as defender and space invaders which are the best part of the game that uses the same sound effects from the olden days gaming. 

Overall, it has decent soundtrack and awesome sound effects.



Special Features

This game featuring two playable game modes, online leaderboards, and trophy supports, but no unlockables features.



Advantages

Well made presentation

Fast-paced gameplay

Cool game modes

Old-Skool Graphics

Decent soundtrack

Retro style sound effects


Disadvantages

Overused collisions objects

Punishing difficulty

Lack of local 2-player modes

No unlockables features




Final Verdict


Presentation 8/10 - Well presenting levels, atmospheric and weird characters.

Gameplay 8/10 - Great controls, cool game modes and fast-paced stages. 

Graphics 8/10 - Cool 3D polygon design, colourful environments and impressive special effects.

Music and Sounds 7.5/10 - Decent soundtrack and awesome sound effects.

Special Features 7/10 - Two playable game modes, online leaderboards, and trophy supports, but no unlockables features.


Overall 8/10 - Polybius is a excellent shoot em ups title for PS4. You'll be amazed with this game that blows your mind with fast paced gameplay, insane special effects and cool game modes because it's challenging, it's entertaining and it's very addicting to play. If you're into with Llamasoft's past titles or type of game like this, then you should download this game from PS Store. I definitely going to look forward seeing the Tempest 2000's sequels in the future is gonna be sounds kick ass.




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