Recent reviews by [TBR] AssaultPowerX

its tacticool

(side note: before this game i only played a small amount of the Battlefield 3 campaign back when it was free for all to grab, i never finished that campaign nor any other BF BC campaign)

As far as i remember i think i picked up this game after hearing how good the games campaign and Multiplayer was when i was with friends, it was laying down in my library for months without my touching it once, but lately I’ve got that good “ol’ shoot everything that moves” mindset in games as of late so i thought let’s give this game a shot, and oh boy was i in for a treat. This is my review of Battlefield Bad Company 2!

You take the roll of Private Preston Marlow. 1 of the 4 guys of the squad Bad Company alongside the pyromania Hags, technerd Sweets and retirement-whining sergeant “Sarge” Redford. But before that, we go back in time during WW2 where you are part of a squad for operation Aurora in October 1944 extracting a Japanese scientist with vital information on a mysterious weapon.

The game plays like your traditional First Person Shooter(FPS for short) but with a little twist compared to the other shooters, thanks to DICE’s FROSTBITE engine you play in areas where you can literally DESTROY your surroundings (buildings at least but it’s still amazing) there is a big amount of weapons at your disposal as you progress the game, you got your classic Assault Rifles, LMG’s Snipers and Shotgun with regular and explosive ammunition.

The looks AMAZING, it has aged extremely well and actually stands up pretty good compared to BF3,4 and Hardline and I’ve encountered no bugs or glitches during my playthrough,

The only complaints I got about the game are the personalities of Marlow and Sarge, Marlow is your generic soldier who doesn’t speak outside of cutscenes and Sarge can be a whiny ♥♥♥♥♥ at times when it comes to his retirement.

This game is a definite Must for any shooter fan with one of the best campaigns i've played in a shooter

TL:DR, discovered near the end of the game that I don’t have a stone heart after all while cringing at Zer0’s voice acting in episode 5 9/10 would cry-cringe teeth again with different choices.

As of this review I just finished the game so I decided to make the review instantly after I beat the game instead of a 6 month interval like with my axiom verge review. And a small note that before Tales From the Borderlands I haven’t played a single Telltales game that is like Tales From the Borderlands or The Walking Dead(which I will review somewhere in the future).

You view the story perspective from 2 characters the middle manager from the biggest space company in the galaxy: Hyperion’s own Rhys and the Pandoran con-artist from hollow point: Fiona.
the whole game consists of 5 episodes in which the story will develop in its own way as you make critical choices that actual choices but it all starts with this: Rhys is looking for Fiona to talk out what happened during the story (in which you decide what happens there) and Rhys gets captured by a stranger with a Hyperion shotgun, and while Rhys is getting dragged through the wastelands of the Borderlands of Pandora Rhys tells the stranger (and the player) how it all started.

The presentation is as borderlands as it can be, the presentation in the same way as Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel has been made in terms of art style, the voice-acting is for the most part perfect making the characters feel like they are more than just video game characters, the only issue I have with it is Zer0’s voice-acting. In the first episode Zer0 sum he has the same voice actor as he had back in borderlands 2 (Mike Turner) but in episode 5 he has a noticeable different less husky, more formal-sounding voice.

The Music soundtracks are a blessing to the ears with Jungle – Busy Earnin’ as my personal favorite(I was listening to this song on repeat while making this review) .

In my final conclusion this game is a must play for every borderlands fan just for its fair share of humor, emotional moments and badass moments of complete awesomeness. You most NOT watch this game on YouTube since you most likely will disagree with the choices the Let’s Player will make, so you should rather play this game yourself than watch it.

Have fun with the game and see you all next time

TL;DR: Waited for a year until this game was released and instantly picked it up...... the week after it got released had that urge of exploration that i lost ever since i finished Metroid Prime 2

Axiom Verge, made by only 1 guy: Tom Happ and holy crap Tom, some serious kudos to you for this amazing piece of art,

before i go into the game itself here is a little backstory about myself: i LOVE the orignal 2D and 3D metroid and prime games, heck i even played a bucketload of Metroid Prime Hunters and i enjoyed playing Other M as well(sure it wasnt as good as Metroid Prime or Super Metroid but it its fair share of fun as well) my favorite being of course Super Metroid for its sense of exploration as well as Metroid Fusion for its amazing story and tension. i finished fusion so many times that i litterally broke the game, it wont save anymore. and the exploration is incredible as well as the amazing level design. but enough about Metroid, we are looking at Axiom Verge, while being similar is very different and takes a more original approach to its gameplay mechanics

you play as Trace, a scientist who during an explosion ended up in an unkown world in an egg-like incubator without any recollection of what happend after the explosion, you have to explore the caves and ruins of the planet Sudra,

the gameplay is simple yet incredibly engaging: it starts out like your standard metroid game, you need to explore the enviroment for new pieces of equipment to progress to other places, the first weapon you find is the Axiom Disruptor, the main mechanic that is mainly used in the game is the so called "Glitch Gun" a scan-like weapon were you can change bits and parts of your enviroment so that you can glitch through walls, change enemies and sometimes even change the very fabric of reality.

the level design is one of the weaker points of the game, like the original metroid for the NES you travel to various locations where each of its levels has its own design, but as you move deeper in one area you notice that the assets for the levels feel copy-pasted together and it can become a bit of a bore to look at at times(i had that once when i was stuck in the second area of the game)

The Weapons are one of its strongest points together with the story, there is a HUGE amount of weapons that can be found and utilized in Sudra, and later in the game you see small corridors where trace is to big to walk to, so you think(when you played metroid a lot before) that there would be something like a morph ball, NOPE! instead you get a drone with its one health, damage and attack for small corridors or to scout ahead of areas which is not only very clever to make a safe route to your destination but is also pretty fun to attack with at times, but that is just an extra function for the Axiom Disruptor, the most broken weapon is the Flamethrower pretty much incinerating every-living-thing in your path.

the sound design is also well made, the songs fits the enviroments and gives you the feeling of isolation yet, determined to push ahead to the dangers to come.

but the most challening part of the games are the bosses, in metroid all the bosses are somewhat bigger to fit the levels they are made in, but they arent that huge, BUT in Axiom Verge the bosses are HUGE, and instead of just shooting what moves you actually have to plan carefully what you do agains them and where their weakpoints are and how you approach them.

if you need another reason why you need to play the game, check out plenty of other reviews.

have fun and game on!
-AssaultPowerX

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