I played Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor with great gusto, mainly thanks to the excellent and highly addictive Nemesis System that made each encounter intensely personal and competitive. A Troubled Pact For those who haven't played Shadow of Mordor, here's a short recap. Hero of the game is Talion, a ranger from Gondor, who is stationed … Continue reading Ambush! Betrayal! Combat! (Middle-Earth: Shadow of War – Act I)
So, I have been playing Survival missions on Sniper Elite 4 a lot. You know that, if you`re reading my blog. One reason for that is the game itself, of course, but the more important reason is that I have found a load of really cool team mates to play alongside and I really enjoy … Continue reading I need some (female) friends on PSN
The games I start playing and then end up finishing in more or less one really, really long session are rare. The driving factor usually is curiosity. I simply want to find out what happens next. Not necessarily because the story is so gripping, or emotional, as was most recently the case with Hellblade-Senua's Sacrifice. … Continue reading Dishonored: Death of the Outsider or To die or not to die
I was very excited when I first heard about Hellblade-Senua's Sacrifice by Ninja Theory. I was intrigued by the idea, by the setting and so I waited, patiently, until the game was finally released on 8th of August. The concept and story In the beginning, we know very little of Senua. She is a celtic … Continue reading Hellblade- Senua’s Sacrifice – A Journey Through Hell
While waiting for Hellblade-Senua's Sacrifice to download, I decided to play Feist, developed by Bits & Beasts and published by Finji, which is an adventure platformer of exceptional beauty and simplicity. A brutal quest for survival in the name of love Our tiny, furry hero of little words or, rather, squeaks, is out tracking the … Continue reading Feist – The cutest game ever
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 has to be the most bug-ridden game I've played since Assassin's Creed Unity. I didn't count the number of times the frame froze or the game simply crashed, but there were a lot of those moments at the most inopportune of times. I still finished it and here is why. An … Continue reading Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 – Average, annoying and at times quite brillant
I recently played a lot of SNIPER ELITE 4 cooperative maps, like, really a lot. And I can also fairly claim that I have put enough hours into playing the campaign, DLC and survival missions by myself that by now I have truly mastered my primary weapon, which is a Carcano rifle. I am also … Continue reading SNIPER ELITE 4 – Let’s play Coop
Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, which was announced during E3 2017 and coming in September, is the story everyone who played Dishonored 2 saw coming from miles away. You did not even have to have played the two story-DLCs of the first game with assassin Daud as the main protagonist. The clues were just that … Continue reading Give Me More Story (DLC)
Mirror's Edge Catalyst, which was published in 2016, is the first reboot I have played where I have also played the original, Mirror's Edge (2008). Now, while the reboot of TV-franchises and movies over in Hollywood may suggest otherwise, reboots are not a new phenomenon. Usually, reboots serve one specific purpose: to cater to an … Continue reading Are reboots a good thing? With Mirror’s Edge the answer is yes and no
I don't like shooters. That was, for a very long time, something I firmly believed. The main reason for that was not necessarily that I really suck at shooting, which I usually do, but had more to do with the fact that I find picking off targets arcade style incredibly boring. There are a very … Continue reading SNIPER ELITE – A Stealth-Survival-Shooter, I think. And pretty awesome.
I remember browsing through last year's E3-coverage and that there were a few games that caught my eye: Horizon: Zero Dawn was one of them, Vampyr another, but the one game I am really excited about right now is the upcoming sequel to the excellent Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, which is called Middle-earth: Shadow of … Continue reading Horizon Zero Dawn is out – And I don’t really care
I thought the first DLC Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, System Rift, was excellent, but A Criminal Past upped the ante (even without Faridah Malik, who I secretly had hoped to see again). It also leaves some interesting question marks. Now, you really shouldn't play this DLC whithout having finished the main game, but that's been … Continue reading Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – A Criminal Past or The Winner Takes It All
So, in case you were wondering what I've been up to these past few days, I actually did a lot last week and tried a few games I had wanted to try out for ages. Also, I played the For Honor Beta-version. Destiny First, I finally started playing Destiny on my PS3, only to find … Continue reading A very pleasant weekend in games
Dishonored leaves the player a lot of choices, the first and foremost being whether to play it stealthy and (mostly) non-lethal on Low Chaos or to go in guns blazing and with a lot of casualties on High Chaos. Since the level of Chaos affects the world itself, you better choose wisely. I absolutely adore … Continue reading Dishonored 2 – Three Ways to Play
Hey, folks, Welcome to 2017 and welcome to another of my favorite missions! For starters, Deus Ex: Human Revolution remains one of my most favorite games to date and just playing this mission again felt so awesome! Now, why this game? As previously mentioned it is one of my favorites. What I like most are … Continue reading Favorite Mission Three – The mother of infiltration missions in Deus Ex: Human Revolution
There is something comforting in family as well as in familiarity, though more so in family. In Dishonored, Princess Emily Kaldwin's family is somewhat dysfuncional. Her mother, the Empress Jessamine and de facto ruler, is murdered when she is ten and her father, Jessamine's bodyguard and spymaster Corvo Attano, wanted for killing her. Of course, … Continue reading Dishonored 2: The Joys of High and Low Chaos
This is the second of my favorite missions, straight off Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. As I have already elaborated, this game was not quite what I expected. That is not, mind you, a bad thing per se. The story left the player adrift, forced them to find their own approach, their own inspiration and motivation, … Continue reading Favorite Mission Two – Claiming Jurisdiction
I swore to myself that I would be buying only one more game this year. Actually, I already preordered that game, Dishonored 2, which will be released in November. But then, while waiting for the Deus Ex: Mankind Divided DLC System Rift to come out, I bought WATCH_DOGS, an open world action RPG set in … Continue reading How I got hooked on WATCH_DOGS
Pritchard is back! But that is not the only good news about Deus Ex: Mankind Divided's first DLC, System Rift. Hackers beware! I am not sure what it is exactly that Adam Jensen thinks of hackers, but, fact is, he and they don't get along. There's some bad vibes there. Baaad vibes. The very first … Continue reading Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – System Rift DLC
So I promised to publish my first favorite mission somewhere during the first week of October, but unfortunately there was lots to do at work and also, I got totally hooked on Watch Dogs (That story! The hacking! That soundtrack!) and didn't really play anything else these past days. Still, here it is, finally, one of … Continue reading Favorite Mission One – Hopeless Romantic
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