Recent reviews by JM@PT

Spelunky is a masterpiece of pain, a classic 2d rogue-like platformer that has random generated levels with endless replay-ability and a lot of quirk to be had.

You will find in this fantastic world a huge variety of level themes, such as forest, mines, ice caves, underwater, and also several hidden worlds, each with their own unique type of enemies, items and playable characters to rescue. Through this process you will be committing murder, theft, kidnapping..., collecting secrets to uncover, lore (even if it doesn't all make sense), there is a lot more to the game than meets the eye.

Its also easy to pick up and play for short sessions, or dive in to get as far as possible.

If you're looking for a game that will challenge you, or where you and your friends can die in the most hilarious of ways, this one I highly recommend.
seriously, the experience specially in coop, "♥♥♥♥ " and "why" are my most used words while playing it.

The challenge this game creates throughout the crime-filled adventure is what has brought me back the most, time and time again, the constant failure is what drove me to play and become better.
In the end, it becomes a game of not making it to the end, but doing well through the levels; finishing with style and prowess.

Interesting Pay2win game

Alien Isolation is a first person stealth horror game
while i don't necessarily think it's a scary game, maybe because i played so many that i find them hard to be "horror" but it does an excellent job in this aspect.

The environments are designed so well, the visuals\lighting, sounds, voice acting and the story is superb, everything stays true and loyal to the atmosphere and aesthetics of the first aliem movie.

The story is huge but here is a glimpse

you will play as Amanda Ripley(daughter of Alien protagonist Ellen Ripley) with the objective to find the flight recorder from her mothers vanished ship the Nostromo that is located in the sevastopo station.
Upon arrival at sevastopol she finds that the station is damaged and largely deserted, its inhabitants reduced to small bands of frightened, paranoid looters hoarding scavenged resources who react violently to anyone outside their group. all due to a "monster" that is loose aboard...

Gameplay

The space station is divided into multiple sections, each section is composed of a set of rooms and corridors separated by doors, some doors will require a keycard or a numbered entry code, while others need to be cut with a plasma torch or hacked using an electronic device and of course stealth tactics in order to survive against the alien and other threats.
you will be able use a motion tracker to detect their movements, craft several items like emps, noisemakers, molotovs and pipe bombs by collecting schematics and different kind of materials throughout the game to be used as distraction, weapons to deal with some threats if necessary because you will have limited health and ammunition also most of these weapons will attract the alien.
the game has several save terminals spread along the areas some between levels so you have to be careful because if you die you will rollback like 10-15min.

Length
It took me around 23hours to complete

Pros
the storyline
level design
atmosphere\sounds and soundtracks (Headphones are a must)
execellent graphics and visual effects with good performance
unpredictable alien AI behaviour. you have to adapt and change to outsmart it


Cons
some issues with the AI in nightmare difficulty(i dont recommend this mode, if you want more challenge theres plenty mods out there)
Somewhat linear storyline. Although you can choose many different paths/options, the story sticks to a script. It would have been nice to have more control over the story.
DLCs are just minigames but they are almost for free so..
unbalanced flamethrower ammo in the last hours of the game, it felt overpowered because the ammo was too common
some unnecessary levels(just to extend the time of the game(
you can't pick up weapons from survivors(scripted), they re only usefull against humans anyway.



Final verdict
I enjoyed this game from start to finish, its simply a quality game.
the gameplay and plot are well done.
it has some minor problems related to item balance(you problably wont notice). the first hours of the game is bit boring until the alien shows up. it has many puzzles but with the length of the game they can be repetitive and too much stealth require in some levels that can lead to frustration and annoyance

i will give a 8.5/10

Is this game for everyone? maybe not.it requires patience, this isnt fast paced fighting the alien face to face, the game can be frustrating for some...
you might find the experience too much to handle

if you like sci-fi \ horror or you're an Alien film fan, you will enjoy this game.

that ragdoll tho..

Pillzz everywhere.


Probably the most badass shooter out there

Gameplay
Stalker CoP is an open-world RPG survival shooter with 3 large areas Zaton, Yanov and Pripyat, very atmospheric with plenty of side quests that reward exploration.
The beginning of the game is tricky with hardly any equipment or money, there's no tutorials or any kind of help so you need to find your own way to survive, isn't an easy game
The A-life will not give up until you ran out of ammo or eventually die, some will trow objects at you Screenshot and even telekinetically steal your weapon, things appear randomly in the sky or mutants with camouflage Screenshot etc. Human opponents put up a tough fight, they kinda cheat in fog weather or at night even without nightvision scopes equipped, (but mods like Misery fixes that) so playind like CoD will get you killed.
Still includes the emissions and anomalies (detectors needed for finding artifacts Screenshot ) and more customization of armor/weapons over previous stalker games.



Graphics
it features the X-Ray 1.6 engine supports dx11 elements like real time tessellation, shadows, wet surfaces, volumetric smoke and others like SSAO DOF... so in other words it looks good, models and textures are a little outdated but shadows and sun rays are amazing (i recommend to use mods like AtmosFear3 specially designed for sky textures and weather behavior ).
Screenshot


Sound
The background noise of the zone is enchanting. In the distance, the reactor is booming as before, animals roaring in the west, shootout in the East, everything draws exactly the image of the restricted area as you are used to it.



Multiplayer
has Deathmatch and CTF style competitive matches with its multiplayer mode. Mind you, this doesn't exactly represent the highlight of the experience. If you want to get the best out of this game, stick with the main campaign, for what it's worth.


Story
Call of Pripyat - takes place shortly after the events in Shadow of Chernobyl.
Having discovered the open path to the center of The Zone, the government decides to take control of it via "Operation Fairway", in which they plan to thoroughly investigate the territory before dispatching the main military force.
Despite these preparations, the military operation fails, with all five helicopters crashing. In order to determine the cause of the crashes the Ukraine Security Service sends an ex STALKER agent, Major Degtyarev, into The Zone


Bugs/Glitches
It has soooo many and it will crash or make one or two missions almost unplayable. hard save often!
I recommend to instal the community patch.



MODs

MISERY: (for hardcore difficulty) its full concept modification that touches every game aspect including textures, sfx, music, weapons, AI, items, weather, economy and 3 playable USS characters classes to choose from: Assaulter, Recon and Sniper.Each comes with unique attributes like endurance, speed, health, stamina, weapon specializations, starting gear...

AtmosFear: like i said before it tweaks and expands the vanilla weather system to be more realistic and various.

http://www.moddb.com/games/stalker-call-of-pripyat/mods?sort=rating-desc



Overall 8.5/10
It's easily in my top 5
Exploring the hazardous lands and scavenging through abandoned buildings with aggressive wildlife never gets old.
This is a true PC game ( not ported, bad optimized or locked at 30fps and weird controls. not that junk we see today)
If you liked the others stalkers this is a must
or this type of game i recommend Metro series.





sorry about errors/bad spelling, english isn't my main language

well, payday 2 isn't perfect but its an enjoyable co-op game, just needs some more content, improvementes (gunplay & AI), bug fixes..
and its Overpriced

only 6maps RLY?

prepare for a fat dlc wave



Edit: 2years later
looks like i was right, they probably beat EA in dlc releases


Edit: 5months later
what comes after the dlcs? the microtransactions ofc
They have repeatedly broken their promises to the community

Overkill does not deserve your money

Where's epi3 -..

This s probably one of the most amazing FPS i have ever played, yes it has its bugs like "multiple spawns" NPCs without collision,one or two missions broken..The atmosphere is fantastic and unlike any other game out there. it was in development for years and even though they didn't manage to include everything they wanted, what they did is still incredible. this is no Console shooter or port, if you want a simple run and gun don't buy it and play for 20 minutes and complain when unlike Crysis you can't kill everything in 10 seconds with your hitech gun and invincible p0ssy suit.,Gameplay is about doing quests, roaming around the Chernobyl zone, avoiding deadly "anomalies" and radiactive area and battling with bandits, military, mutants and aggressive wildlife.Zone represent area around Chernobyl with forests, plains, city of Pripyat, nuclear plant...The game is mostly FPS but RPG elements are very strong.Models and textures are a bit outdated but light and shadows are very impressive.