Recent reviews by Ahmeni

It's awesome in its own strange way.

You can build and fly planes in this game. You can build and fly rockets. You can build space stations, bases on other planets. You can fly things manually, with keyboard, joystick or pad, but you can install an autopilot mod for planes too and you can calculate desired ascend profile and orbit and use MechJeb to fly the rocket for you. You can plot your course from orbit by yourself or you can use various mods that calculate that for you. The game lets you play anyway you want.
You will design you vessels yourself. Not the grindy crafting thing so popular in other games recently. You just build it and launch it. And there comes some kind of grind I find very fun. At the beginning your planes won't lift off, won't steer well and will crash. Your rockets will topple or fly too fast in dense atmosphere and disintegrate. You will revert to design and improve, launch, crash and revert again. Until you succeed with a sense of great satisfaction. This makes for very fun mix of watching things blow up in many interesting ways and making things work the way you want. And there are always bigger and more complex things to build. Always more complicated missions to plan. It really never gets boring.
Kerbal Space Program models orbital mechanics very well, you will learn real knowledge here if you don't know how those things work already (does lowering your speed to overtake another orbital object sound strange to you?). With FAR mod you'll get realistic aerodynamic model and learn some things about real aerodynamics too.
My only complaint is that with all mods I have game can occupy up to 12GB of RAM and starting the game takes over 5 minutes and shutting down half of that.

Very good short films. I only wish combat in The Division looked like that instead of bullet sponges. Maybe Ubisoft should switch to action movie business.

A great film about early history of gaming industry. Not sure if my son would find it interesting, but everyone who knows what Atari 2600 is should see it.

One molerat kills 18 of my best men so I get a reason to spend real money.

Somehow this game never gets old. It's slow, it's hard, it has clunky interface and ugly graphics compared to modern standards. Yet I always somehow get back to it. I play it roughly once a year.
I never played it in it's original times, because until late '90 I owned only 15-years old Commodore 64. But I came in contact with XCOM universe soon after X-COM Apocalypse came out in 1997 and I got my first PC a year later. I played Apocalypse for around 2 years until I became friends with a man who played original UFO Defense on Amiga all the time since original release in 1994 and he convinced me to it. It was like he said, rough, somewhat archaic, but very challenging and pleasant. Since then I played Win95 version, then I went to DOS version on DOSBox because of the mods. I had to buy it on Steam right after it came out (actually I bought X-COM Complete Pack). I got and played a remake for a while, which is a very good game too, but somehow I'm still drawn to original. Now I'm playing OpenXcom, so the time played on Steam doesn't reflect my playtime a slightest bit. Rough estimate is 300h on Win version, around 1200h on DOSBox, 86h here on Steam and around 100h in OpenXcom.
If you ever played this game in past times, know that it didn't lost it's charm, even though interface is irritating today (but only until you get used to it after a few hours).
If you never played it, you should give it a try, but be warned, it's a kind that beats you more often than gets beaten. And random failures can hurt a lot. I'd call it a very realistic in that regard. If you have tendency to ragequit, it will make you break your mouse. And your keyboard. And your monitor. Maybe even your desk.
A 'love-or-hate' kind of game. Definitely a historic title.

This game feels like unfinished Civ5 mod. I played it on free weekends and I think I may buy it eventually, but not for the current pice (which is 40 EUR). Maybe it will shine when they haul out all expansions, but in current state I'd buy it only in bundle or on 90% sale.

This is the most refined version of Counter-Strike, with all goods and bads.
With skins and cases you can make or spend substantial amounts of steam wallet money, depending on your approach. After each game you have a chance to receive a weapon skin or case, just like in DOTA2 or TF2. Skins also add some visual flavour to he game, allowing you to have and show off a personal armory. Stattrak weapons allow you to boast how good you are with certain weapon. At the same time, a 60 EUR M4 is only as effective as it's stock version, so there's no pay 2 win.
Periodically, there's an "Operation" taking place. It requires buying a pass, but this can repay itself in a few weeks, because operation participants have chance of additional drop of operation case, which can be priced quite high on steam market.
Operation gives you limited time (for a duration of operation which usually spans a few months) access to additional map pool, competitive scorecard of operation matches and with most recent Operation Breakout a missions were introduced.
Missions are dropped just like skins and require you to do a certain task - win 16 rounds on certain map, get kills with certain weapons etc. Reward is a weapon skin and upgrading your operation bagde from bronze to silver to gold after a certain number of missions were completed (in previous operations badge was upgraded for wins on operation maps).
You can decorate your weapons with stickers bought on market or dropping from sticker containers (note that containers and cases opening require a key to be bought). During ESL finals special stickers could be obtained and used for wagers before being put on weapons.

Pros:
- If you played and liked any previous CS, this is the best one.
- With this game you can actually earn nice steam wallet money to buy ingame toys or other games! But only if you really like the game and play it much. In 400h of game time I was able to buy 3 stattrak guns, 3 operation passes, 2 case keys and 8 other games with money earned from just playing.
- Game requires thinking and teamplay in addition to common fps skill.
- Winning a hard match is very satisfying. Losing a hard match doesn't feel like tragedy.
- Unlike Starcraft for example, a bad start in match doesn't mean you almost can't win. I'm not an exceptional player, but I won a few matches from 8:14 to 16:14 and once or twice I won 1 vs 5 clutches.
- There are other more casual game modes if you're too tired or have no time for full competetive match. Arms race makes a nice form of weapon training too.
- Game and maps are frequently updated for better experience and balance.

Cons:
- Community is often horrible. Prepare yourself to be called a noob, shout at, offended in all languages (Russian being most popular for some reason). You can block in-game communication to any player though.
- There are some very frustraded people who can vote kick you out of the game if you don't perform well. Being kicked in 20th round of game you put half an hour of hard effort into can be very sour experience. Don't be a jerk and don't vote for kick if you don't see a reason, even if other 3 voted yes.
- If you don't have a team or at least a few friends to play with, and play only with random strangers, it's near impossible to get above silver rank, because in one match you'll play with good people, in the other all your teammates may be noobs or morons. Just don't bother with rank much.
- At some times there are problems with game servers and strange things happen, like everybody suiciding, quantum bullets, 400+ latency for everyone etc. It's not too frequent though.
- Some map updates are just bad, like recent infamous Overpass update, but those get fixed in next update.
- Bullet spray pattern know from previous CS games is still present, making some kills seem very unfair. You must get used to the fact that sometimes you'll get killed by SMG headshot on long distance due to just luck. You'll also get killed by blind fire though the doors, walls, crates, smoke. Personally, I don't find it very frustrating.

Personal rating: 9/10
Special recommendation: my most played Steam game currently.

P.S. Trading stuff on market makes a nice metagame itself ;)

I don't know if this movie will help mundanes understand that esport IS a sport as much as motorsports or chess, but I am going to show this to my colleagues at work who don't get it why I preferred IEM over Olympics and see.
It surely shows that being pro gamer is not "money for nothing and a chicks for free".
If you ever watched any tournament, you definetely should watch this.
If not, hey, it's free, so if you have 70 minutes of spare time, give it a try.
Oh, and a very important bottom-line:
This is a _real_ documentary.

If you want to feel like Neo in Matrix Reloaded - this is the game for you!