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Besides the main campaign to go through you’ve also got the Kleidos Challenges which should keep you busy. These challenges offer a decent distraction from the main story, especially with the four objectives you can try to complete before the waves end. You’ll get things like keeping your focus meter...
There’s also no way to grind out fights for more points so the ones you get from the main and side quests are the only ones you’ll get which means you have to spend them wisely. Investing points in a few poor spots won’t ruin your character, but making...
To its credit, All That Remains does get better as it goes on, and manages to recover from the weak intro, and ultimately ends up grabbing the player with good writing and a believable, immersive storyline and characters. However after such a great first season, the begining of All That...
Unfortunately when the game makes you simply drive the game loses most of it’s magic, and there is a game mode specific to this. Gas Guzzlers strips away the use of weapons and has drivers race for first place. This isn’t enjoyable because the action of the game grinds to...
The story of The Wolf Among Us is based upon an existing comic book fiction, however even if you have not heard of the Fables comic book series you can still enjoy the familiar fairy tale characters living in a gritty New York City. Characters from stories like Snow White...
The constant advertising never stops in this series with SWAP Force going out of its way to remind you to go buy more toys. There are quite a few times where it stops to mention how there are 200+ combinations you can make from the SWAP Force characters and there’s...
The content in Legends is more extensive than the previous game and even includes 40 levels from Origins that have been remastered visually and mechanically to make them feel like they belong in Legends. Unlockable Lum-generating pets and a variety of characters and levels to unlock for a very lengthy...
A Machine for Pigs drops the sprawling mansion of before in favor of 1899 Victorian London. The game smartly opens you up in a familiar feeling mansion then slowly takes you on a ride through the grimy industrial factories and sewers of the era. The scares are also just as...
Unfortunately the game is pretty lacking in content. All there is to do is the story, arcade, and versus modes. There is a pretty damn impressive training mode that slowly takes you through every detail of the game and I highly recommend starting with it if you’re somewhat inexperienced with...
So besides that you’ll also have some sub-missions and a challenge mode to play around with. Sub-missions are short missions that have a solid amount of variety such as having to ride a motorcycle through a city to run over enemies while dodging spike traps or cars and another where...
The singleplayer campaign is fun and all, but it’s really meant as a sort of extended tutorial to ease you into the game before you jump into the real meat of the game which is the multiplayer. You can play with up to four other players in team battles or...
400 Days still contains many of the technical hiccups that plagued season 1 like slowdowns during hectic moments, audio playing out of sync, and those odd cuts during scenes which might be the game pulling the scene meant for the dialog choice you picked.
