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It’s zombies. You can mod it with Workshop stuff so you can make your apocalypse Halo-themed, or pony themed, or just meme-themed.

10/10.

The PSN Migration requirement has been reversed. I will still recommend this game conditionally, but it might not recover to its pre-fiasco state.

is a third-person extraction shooter where you play as an elite soldier and spread managed democracy in a perpetual interplanetary war against insectoid aliens and killer commie robots. Upgrade your armour, weaponry, and ship mechanics to get an edge on the scourge.

Even at lower settings, the graphics in this game rock. Unfortunately lower-end systems will need to make concessions to play at good frame rates, and your GPU will turn your system into an electric space heater at higher settings.

If you like Warhammer 40,000 games, you'll like HELLDIVERS 2. Hope you like inputting cheat codes in GTA, because that is exactly what you're going to be doing to summon support, revive fallen teammates, and activate mission-specific terminals. Fighting the Terminids is very fun. Fighting the Automatons is dangerous and you will die. Teamwork is a requirement. Going solo is a suicide run on harder difficulties.

Nice ambient sounds and even greater music during bug breaches and bot drops. Really helps to tense up the missions when the going is tough, and also to help sell the power fantasy of the Helldivers. And that main theme... So good as you're dropping in.

Blood and gore and guts and gibs. This is not for children. The satirical theming could also be taken seriously by the media illiterate.

Anything from the most recent few generations will run this game. It'll run on a Steam Deck, but a Rich Boi-level PC is definitely recommended. (Check my profile to see what I'm running.)

70.47 GiB is workable but less than 10% of a terabyte, so as far as storage requirements go, just unsub from some big Gmod addons or SteamVR Home maps.

Either you or the squad host gets to set the difficulty for missions. Fighting Terminids is easier than fighting Automatons, and the requirements for mission completion will become harder with higher difficulties. You will unlock higher difficulty options by playing on those difficulties with others. Tactics and team coordination are required. Hopefully you can communicate well with your squadmates.

Playing the game gives you in-game currency! You don't need to buy Super Credits, as you'll earn them slowly through gameplay and also as rewards through Battle Passes. Playing on higher difficulties will give you better credits for upgrades. You will need to collect Super Samples to upgrade your ship's components during endgame. These will help even the odds further.

The game's intro and tutorial give just enough info for you to work off of, but I'll summarize it here: Super Earth is a planet that is ruled by the Federation, a global Managed Democracy. One hundred years after the First Intergalactic War (HELLDIVERS (2015)) the Terminids repopulated and the Automaton Collective arose from the Cyborgs. You are a Helldiver, one of the Federation's "mightiest, bravest, most obedient heroes," and your duty is to deploy onto hostile-controlled planets and Spread Managed Democracy by destroying their forces and completing missions.

This is a multiplayer service game. Prepare to sink some serious hours into this.

The reputation of this game was destroyed by Sony during the PSN Account Migration Requirement incident. It’s still worth playing, but don’t give all your money to Sony. You could also just burn it all at that point.

Random crashing from time to time. Sometimes I got stuck on ship menus due to keybind weirdness, but this was fixed with changing from “press” to “tap.”

The score has been cut down by ⅘ from 9.8/10 due to the May 2 PSN account migration situation and how it was handled by Sony.

This review's formatting is partly based on Vojtěch Struhár's Steam Review Template.

I purchased this game in 2022, back when the Steam download gave you the Traveler tier so that way you didn't have to wait for energy to regenerate. Knowing what LLMs could do, the folks at Latitude made an excellent front end for a virtual dungeon master. I've been following the project since its inception as "AI Dungeon 2" and for me to have been able to help with its development in even such a minuscule way.

Anyway, this Steam version of AI Dungeon was essentially just an app wrapper for the aidungeon.com website[aidungeon.com] and also added the "Traveler" tier to your account, which adds enhanced generation speed, longer context length, and the ability to adjust the AI model's parameters. These bonuses are no longer accessible to new users without a recurring subscription, which adds not only these same features but also access to other LLMs.

I only got this to generate smut without time restrictions. 10/10

is a legend of its time, and a perennial classic game. This review covers the enhanced source port, and not the classic 1993 release.

The Enhanced port of DOOM has native widescreen and frame interpolation, making it feel smoother than its DOS original counterpart. The game's logic still runs at 35 ticks per second, though, so this is all superficial. Hope you like looking at 256 colours of pixels, because that's all that VGA could handle back in '93. Some assets have been changed, however. For example, instead of a red cross to indicate health and Berserk packs, they now have red and white capsules on them. The symbol had to be changed due to a legal request from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The gameplay here is the basis of pretty much all first-person shooters that came after it. Nothing comes close to the classic DOOM in terms of gameplay, though the original control mappings are a bit clunky. Hell, the default mouse control on the original DOOM is why I prefer the right mouse button as my Use key. Nothing that remapping the key binds can't do, though. Set to WASD by default here, the controls function exactly the way you expect.

MIDI sequences by the legendary Bobby Prince that evoke tracks from heavy metal and hard rock of the '80s, as well as more ambient tracks, and a whole bunch of crunchy library sounds. You cannot get more 1993 than this.

Plenty of blood, gore, and violence. Not as violent as the stuff you get nowadays, though, but still, don't let your kids play this game without your supervision.

It doesn't need to be questioned: A version of DOOM will be made to run on anything. The original DOOM needed a PC that ran DOS with an i386 processor, 4 megs of RAM, a VGA graphics card just to run, and an i486 or better and a Sound Blaster Pro (or compatible sound card) for music and sounds. This source port, however, just needs to be running on at least "A 100% Windows XP/Vista-compatible computer system." That's what they said, not me.

Only needs about a CD's worth of space on your drive, compared to the insanely optimized 12 MB of the original DOS install. Still a good amount given data and storage inflation.

Everything that you earn in DOOM can apply to pretty much every other FPS. Even Quake builds upon what DOOM teaches the player. The game's maps are labyrinthine, but there is a map available to help you if you get lost.

If you want to get 100%, that's on you, though.

You've probably heard the adage from John Carmack that a game's story is as important as that in a porno. "It's expected to be there, but it's not that important." There is a fair bit of lore present in DOOM, but the general gist is this: You're banished by your nation because you have morals, and then Hell literally breaks loose on Mars. Start shooting.

If you're seasoned you can speedrun this game in 20 minutes. If not, the average run goes closer to a few hours.

If you pirated your version of DOOM, do yourself a favour and absolve yourself of that sin. It's only $5. Really, it's not that big of an indulgence.

Unfortunately, much like any game that's rereleased nowadays, there are always going to be some bugs. Thankfully
whatever bugs this engine has are minor enough that I haven't really had any complaints.

DOOM is a legendary game. Buy it now.

This review's formatting is partly based on Vojtěch Struhár's Steam Review Template.

is basically a repackaged version of 1998's Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast) with some new features; an excellent, multi-perspective story which has intertwining interactions with all six main characters.

Improving upon the low-polygon models of Sonic Adventure, the models in DX look okay, but have a weirdly shiny appearance about them. Some world textures are also improved. The game is really good-looking for the standards of 1998. I still prefer the original Dreamcast release's look over this release.

Sonic The Hedgehog had a very good transition into 3D. For many, this was their first 3D Sonic title, myself included. SEGA learned what worked with Sonic when they were developing this game for their Saturn hardware, and from observing what their contemporaries were also doing. The control that the player has is liberating compared to earlier 2D Sonic and contemporary 3D titles of the time, and even rivals modern "Boost Formula" Sonic titles. Compared to its original release, the framerate jump from 30 frames per second to 60 helps immensely with making the game feel smooth. The ability to move the camera with the right analog stick provides a fresh perspective tha the Dreamcast original doesn't have.

The music here is top-notch. Much of it is synthesized, but the portions that include Jun Senoue's amazing, expressive guitar playing are excellent. The main theme "Open Your Heart" by his band Crush 40 is exciting and climactic. We hear a few tracks that seem to be re-arranged from Sonic 3D Blast for SEGA Genesis, too, and they sound excellent.
And let's not forget the voice acting. For many of us, this is the first time we have a voice to associate with modern Sonic: Ryan Drummond. His performance here is amazing, even if the direction is a little strage in places. And for the Japanese, this is the first time that long-standing seiyū Jun'ichi Kanemaru (金丸淳一) portrayed Sonic, with an equally excellent performance. It should be noted, however, that the subtitles for English are only fitting for the English performance. There is a Better Translation mod that fixes this if you prefer the Japanese voice acting.

Even though Sonic The Hedgehog is a series that was aimed more at kids, this game had a certain edge about it compared to its earlier releases. In contrast to his original form on the Genesis and Saturn, Sonic is now slimmer, more mature, and even cooler than ever before seen. In the West, the scenario finally converged with its Japanese counterpart, bringing Sonic, his friends, and enemies, away from the fictional planet Mobius to our Earth, and interacting with humans. The scenario seems to have more weight now that Sonic and his friends have to save our world now, something that in the West was not previously seen in a Sonic game.

The requirements for the original 2004 release of the game are modest, requiring at minimum a late-90s to early-2000s powerhouse gaming PC that runs Windows 98 (preferably SE) with at least an Intel Pentium 3 or AMD Athlon processor clocked at 600 MHz, 128 megabytes of RAM, 700 megs of storage, a modern sound card, and a DirectX 9.0a compatible video card with at least 16 megs of VRAM. The recommended specs are an NT-based OS such as Windows 2000 or XP, double the megs for RAM, storage, and video memory, and at least an 800 MHz processor. This would've cost as much then as a high-end gaming PC costs now.
The requirements for this modern release are a little more demanding, though. I won't list them here; they can be found a little higher up on the store page before you get to the reviews.
tl;dr: Pretty much anything made since 2008 will run this game really well.

This release only takes up about 2 GB of storage, though it can easily use more if you mod it.

The game has a pretty good difficulty ramp. The early stages are designed to help you get your footing in 3D, though as the game progresses, the levels naturally ramp in difficulty. By the end of all of them, you're expected to have mastered how each character plays. There are also challenges to complete in every level, providing replayability at higher levels, which award Emblems. These are used to unlock emulated 8-bit Sonic games, and Metal Sonic is made available in Trials when you get all 130.

* For Story Mode completion. Emblem Challenges aren't essential unless you want to go for 100% completion.

After a close encounter with an unknown creature made of water, Sonic The Hedgehog and Miles "Tails" Prower once again set off on a quest to recover the Chaos Emeralds before Dr. Eggman (officially named as such in this game!) does the same. On their way, they encounter Knuckles The Echidna, who is trying to recover the shards of the Master Emerald; Amy Rose, who is protecting a bird while being chased by one of Eggman's robots; and two new characters: Big The Cat, a huge purple feline in search of his beloved Froggy; and E-102 "γ" (Gamma,) one of Eggman's "E-Series" robots. All six characters have their own unique stories and gameplay styles. The stories mostly converge in the very end when Sonic faces off against a perfectly transformed version of Chaos, except for poor Gamma. RIP 🫡

The game's story can be completed in a few hours, though 100%ing the game's Emblem challenges can take awhile.

The game is normally about US $7.99 in the USA. Wait for a Sonic series sale to buy a copy of this game.

This game is notoriously buggy, from weird collision checks to camera weirdness. There are more bugs when it comes to movement and collision as compared to the original Dreamcast release, even with the original version being panned for such bugs as well. The camera also has some slight jank, even though it is very close to the original version's. The framerate on some systems isn't consistent, consistently jumping between 60 and 40 FPS, and sometimes dipping even lower. Textures can get weird, too; for example, the end of one of the areas in Casinopolis has a strange texture bug that wasn't present in the original.

Sonic Adventure DX is, for what it's worth, a decent game. It doesn't hold up to modern standards, but what it does provide is a mostly solid game experience that was good for its time and is still good today, in spite of its many flaws.

This review's formatting is partly based on Vojtěch Struhár's Steam Review Template.

The most fun you can have roaming around uninhabitable moons. Don't anger the bees, get mauled by spiders, or find yourself in the maw of whatever lurks in the forests.

Taken over by crypto scammers.

The ultimate benchmark for PCs in 2007. If it could run Crysis, it could run anything made before it, as well as for a few years after.
Unfortunately, I cannot get this release to install on modern machines without modifying the way that the program installs at first launch. The original Crysis application implements SecuROM, so it doesn't function at all on any system that's running Windows 8 and up. I need to use c1loader, an open-source loader replacement, to launch the game. Even still, if you can get it working as I have, it is well worth playing.

Run this program before you jump onto any modern VR purchase, and hope that your wallet has the capacity to cover either the VR setup, and/or any upgrades you might need.

John Madden.