Recent reviews by |UKMD| Silvereyes

In Octodad, you play as an Octopus, impersonating himself as a human dad. Rather self-explanatory title. In the game, you can't move around normally, like any other third or first person game. Since you have tentacles instead of limbs, you have to move your "legs" one at a time, as well as your "arms" seperately. The game tasks you with rather dull tasks, such as getting items in a supermarket, mowing the backgarden, or putting burgers onto a barbeque. However, because your limbs are just so hard to move, as you have a habit of your body flinging itself around the place, knocking over everything in your path in your vain attempts to control your Octopus.

In essence, the game is a 3 hour long slapstick adventure. That's not to say however that it's the only humour involved. The voice acting is surprisingly well done, with the long running gag of everyone not seeing through your disguise, to your kid's often insane requests and dreams, such as your daughter wanting to become a unicorn when she is older, not to mention a Supermarket PA who often makes mistakes on the job, to the marine biologists who constantly pick apart the plot of the game.

However, the game has this real kind of Disney-esque humour and heart towards itself, Octodad truly loves his family, and his family loves him back, to his wife and himself actually having a real relationship, even if it is often consciously satarical of suburban family life. Likewise, even the villian is the mad, pamtomine nutcase simply called "The Chef", who hunts Octodad because he is the only one who recognises him, and even then, his motivation isn't really that evil either.

There are a couple of issues with the game, somethings you're forced to go through vents to proceed, which can be very cumbersome, trying to shove all your tentacles into a tight space. Also, the game features marine biologists later on in the game, where if they spot you, they'll recognise you immedietly, but then later on, suddenly they're fooled by your disguise. Also, the game can be completed in just 3 hours, maybe 2 if you're very efficient about it.

However, with it being on sale, and hopefully will return in a flash sale, which is how I got my copy of it, I whole heartily this, due to it's hilarity, it's heart, and just the sheer happiness this game just emulates onto one's self.

One of the best sandbox games ever made in my view. While the story isn't good, the sheer size of the world, with the various enviroments, multiple vehicles, and fantastic stunts you can pull off, while being chased by half an army, gives this game such a breathtaking blockbuster enviroment. Absolutely gorgeous, and pulse racing, fantastic game.

Better than 3, Vice City, and 4. Despite it's age, San Andreas is an absolute blast to play. The amount of vehicles and side activites is astonishing, the world is carefully crafted, the gun place is nice and tight, and Samuel L Jackson is the motherf***ing villian.

This still holds up, and is certainly a landmark of sandbox gaming.

Brutal, bloody, brilliant. Satisfyingly hard, yet fair, with enough gore and '80's tracks to truly get your inner psycho on. An interesting story, and a violent premise, as you slaughter men in their dozens, just because a man on the phone told you too.

It's literally just a single, relatively well designed level, with an immensly stupid and easy boss fight at the end. Only bother with it if you've got a space hour on your hands.