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Paper Cut Mansion

Stunning Visuals But Low Impact Battles

I give extremely high praise for the artwork voice acting and music segments which are impressive they highly compliment each other in all 3 areas, but the area it lacks in is the action which is unfortunately the main and primary part, it's got no real impact in battles the weapons feel drab more like firing a water pistol than pulling the trigger of a powerful weapon, it's oozing with nostalgic character but it wimpers away in a pop rather than hitting with a boom as the weapons sound like party poppers and toys and desperately need a deep and more powerful tone of sound with a noticeable kick back in the characters hands, the violence is too watered down and the game would otherwise be a better game, the greatest injustice here is primarily in it's lower than should be sound FX qualities... if you add powerful and deep hard hitting weapon sounds and add a more gutteral character tone and more monster like growling to the enemies then I think it would course correct it's self in public opinion and become quite popular, as it currently stands it's too light hearted with the enemy audio and weapon sounds basically and it ruins it... it's got no impact as a direct result and this makes it feel very light and toy like instead of punchy and crunchy when your fighting which is a primary aspect of the game.

XEL - Complete Edition

A Gorgeous Game But Feels Shallow

It's a very beautiful game with excellent voice acting yet that's as far as really goes in terms of gameplay it's got a shallow tone it's a pretty basic hack and slash in a futuristic backdrop, but it has no sense of grandios no depth to the story which is pretty average the surroundings ad the landscape are the winner here and the artwork and the voice acting are it's soul achievement not it's story it's self and that's a shame as it falls silently away combining with that ever growing stew of same'y games unfortunately.

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Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico

Aged Excellence

Total Overdose provides a blend of Max Payne and Grand Theft Auto (GTA) games spliced into one and that's probably the best way to describe the game it has the gun fights and jumping action flare of Max Payne and the missions and comedic flare of the GTA games in a Mexico setting. It's very cool very fun and also very dated however you can make it look better using reshade tool and finding the widescreen fix after this it looks much more crisp and modern visually the only downside is the colletion of vehicles then which do all seem on rails the controls are very very old fashioned, any kind of reboot of this game might make for something truly epic though. Don't let the negative drag it down it's a top of the line action comedy game with epic gun fights and chases it's ultra violent and somewhat callous with it's humour to and yet it manages to get you laughing regardless because it's not intentional if you take offence it's meant it jokingly but t's a lot of fun to play. I find the missions easier to get through than I do with the missions in GTA games, which is probably preferable for a lot of people, it's pretty creative with the special weapons those will have you laughing at times to, it all comes together just right to make a fun ride that's an in ya face gameplay style and humor combo, Total Overdose will feel familiar to anyone having played GTA games and or Max Payne games as well. It's an aged game but aged excellence. If I were able to give partial stars I'd rate it at 4.4 out of 5 not 4 out of 5

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Parkan 2

A Vast Explorative Shooter

This one would not run using a secondary drive but for anyone running on their local disk C: drives it's a detailed and very expansive space battle game with cockpit dogfighting and FPS ground battles in an Exo suit. The dev is amazing too.. going above and beyond to try to assist but I had to give up on my end but the dev did not give up providing amazingly detailed assistance so if you want an amazing classic era game with a older graphical tone but still on par with good AAA games of that time then this is something different to most space shooters going for a explroation thematic on ground and in the air, it's quite impressive for it's time and holds up well. If enhanced remastering mods for this came out I should imagine it would be be incredible done right.

Psychonauts

Creativity At It's Best

One of the most intricate and detailed fun and out right creative games in the current history of gaming, it's like playing in an animated movie with an ingenius script and absolutely top production value. Suited to all age groups it's really unique and just like playing in some kind of digital wonderland in game format, both visual and gameplay standards are of the highest bar, all adventure platformers should take notes from this game. because it sets the gold standard for platformers.

XIII

A Shooter That's A Welcomed Change

A pretty different approach to your run of the mill shooters told in a Noir private eye style narrative in a comic strip animated fashion, it has a bit of everything from action to humor to the somewhat cliche script. But it's the creative storytelling method of the gameplay blended into the script that sets it apart. Not only are you the audience the audience of the story your also simultaneously the character in that story to. It's fun and it's packing the punches all the way through start to finish, my advice is to get it mapped to a gamepad/controller and you'll have a lot more fun playing it, it's different and that in this case is a very very good thing it makes it both unique and refreshing.

Shadow Ops: Red Mercury

Not Bad Not Perfect But Entertaining

This is very dated visually un-impressive but it's acceptable just about visually, the gameplay the gunplay etc isn't just your steretypical fare but is excuted with some class some level of effort. There's fun to be had with this one it has some pretty aggressive firefights with enemies just bombarding you, whenever I play it I feel I just want to try again one more time and as I get a little further in each time I begin to appreciate it more and more. This might make a very good remaster if it were to be done right. Don't expect anything new but you will likely feel a little more connected to this than some of the more modern games which are beginning to feel somewhat characterless these days so this one has a fair bit of tradition and charm and a lot of gunplay, it's challenging but fair enough for most to deem acceptable and above all it entertains it achieves what it sets out to do. You'll have to remap to use a gamepad/controller but it is actually worth that time. If I could give partial stars I would not give it 4 out 5 but a score of say 3.9 out of 5

Captain Blood

Like A Parrot Calling Pieces Of Eight

....It just repeats the same thing over and over again when fighting, it's monotony as in "manotony playing this ever again" lol.

Stranglehold

Fight Camera ACTION!!!

It's very much akin to Max Payne with amazing gunplay far better in many respects it's just like playing a a continuous action movie gunfight scene a kill or be killed standoff against seemingly endless waves of enemies and comibining with totally awesome bullet time far superior to many games. Your diving backwards in the air sideways and even on or over obstacles whilst firing off rounds it's something that if they did it with today's high level gpu's could render more akin to an actual feeling of playing in a real movie done right. The game is spectacularly awesome it doesn't hold your hand wither you just go through dying and restarting from checkpoints and taking out the bad guys in massive quantity it must have had some kind of guiness world record once for the highest level of enemies kills in a game? Any way it's kind of a Hollywood blockbuster action movie gunplay meets a touch of The Matrix when jumping and diving around with a big pinch of Max Payne and a little additional touch of swarm shooter game style play and this is it in a nutshell... and it knocks it out of the ball park in accomplishing it's goal as a third person action shooter. It's not gamepad compatible so you will need to map it properly but it is a little bit awkward to do that with the number of buttons that aren't commonly found to match keyboard keys it uses, so just persevere with that and you have an amazing console quality experience as the pay off.

The Saboteur™

A Fun & Creative Modern Great

A WWII GTA game with guns/cars/challenging missions and bond style villains with a respectable graphics quality produced with a sort of noir style of colour paette with period music like Jazz etc and pretty phenomenal voice acting by all involved, what you get is a high dose of adult humour and a large dose of adult violence that feels like your like playing a WWII black comedy movie in game format it's a true masterpiece that should definitely be in any collection. My rating 4.5 out of 5 if I could add partial stars