15 BEST ACTION GAMES OF 2017

1.



RESIDENT EVIL Vll: Biohazard


Resident Evil Vll takes some big risks whilst some succeed et al. fall through this new person combat the formula wisely remembers that its survival horror adventure and not action that creates the series memorable. With one of the creepiest single settings in a Resident Evil games since the Spencer estate and an enticingly bizarre mystery to unravel it's the most fun I've had with the series in years.

The atmosphere in Resident Evil 7 is the strongest the series has seen in a long time and that's owed entirely to the eerie dovey plantation. This is resident evil within the tradition of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre with all the gruesome imagery dilapidated old shacks and cannibalistic horrors that accompany it. Sometimes that makes for an interesting backdrop especially as you begin to trace the Baker family's descent into savagery and the way it's manifested in their domestic life. Other times it relies too heavily on overplayed horror tropes about rural America and begins to border on the cartoonish. But it never fails to deliver a strong sense of place that makes frequent exploration and backtracking work without wearing out its welcome. The settings only real failing are its puzzles which were disappointingly rare and far too simple.

The Baker families like unstoppable tyrants with unpleasant personalities are among the first enemies you'll encounter and they're by far the most interesting. While that's meant is a compliment to the characters and the unpredictable encounters and boss fights they produce it isn't good news for the rest of Resident Evil 7. Throughout my roughly 10 hour journey just about the only other enemy type I encountered where these creatures called the Molden. While visually repulsive and threatening enough to cause more than a couple of tense combat encounters. They lost their ability to shock me very quickly especially because the scenarios in which you encounter them are also similar. most of Resident Evil's tension comes from finding yourself in tough situations and struggling to adapt since it's all about scavenging for items and conserving what little ammo and resources you do have. I'm happy to see that core Resident Evil idea make a comeback in seven but being forced to change at my survival tactics in the face of new unpredictable enemies and situations would have made the experience a lot scarier.

Despite the shift of first-person Resident Evil 7 feels more like an adventure game than a first-person shooter which is a welcome return to what the series was in the 90s. Thanks to a compelling pace that ensured I always knew what I needed to do next most of my time wandering hallways collecting keys and unlocking secret passageways around the Dolby property felt well spent. Especially as the central mystery unraveled around me with each file and phone call I received. The story does eventually tie into the existing lore in a way that I found rewarding to uncover as a longtime fan. The tangential relationship gives Resident Evil 7 the feeling of a reboot while still allowing it to function comfortably as a sequel. It all culminates in a mostly satisfying conclusion that leaves just enough unanswered questions for a follow-up. There are also so many of exciting and amazing  references to classic Resident Evil throughout the game. things like cress doors a weight-based puzzle to obtain the shotgun, themed keys, safe rooms, item boxes and more while it was nice to see many of these things at first they occasionally fell out of place or oversimplified shallow nods to a bygone era rather than a confident continuation of the very elements this series invented.

My Resident Evil 7 experience was almost positive with and without the VR version of the game. There were only a handful of sequences that I felt were designed specifically to take advantage of VR s unique capabilities. But I never felt like I was missing out on anything substantial when playing in 2d. VR makes the Resident Evil experience very different but it is not necessarily the superior option. The one area where VR does improve the gameplay experience is combat because you move your crosshair by looking around VR makes landing headshots on enemies much easier than it is on a gamepad.

Resident Evil Vll grounds itself in elements that made the first great while still indulging during a risky new shift a la mode that both helps and hurts the beloved formula in equal measure. But it's also the closest the numbered sequel has come to Resident Evil slow but thrilling and Atmospheric adventure game roots in a long time, a welcome return that I truly hope to see more of in the future.



Minimum System Requirements
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Processor : AMD FX-6300 or Intel Core i5-4460, @2.70GHz or better
RAM: 8 GB RAM.
Graphics : AMD Radeon R7 260x @2GB or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 @2GB
OS: WINDOWS 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (64-BIT Required)
Store: 24 GB available space.




2.


 CALL OF DUTY : WWII


Call of Duty's return to World War 2 is amazingly a fast-paced condition on the classic setting. It provides a good campaign, a great new mode multiplayer and a creepier dense version of zombies. However, each part of Call of Duty World War 2 suffers from inconsistencies and minor flaws that hold it back from being a landmark in the series. Still, it's a solid Call of Duty game and I've enjoyed the many hours I've already poured into it.

World War 2 s campaign features a personal feeling but typical war story. It follows Private Daniels through expected pivotal moments like d-day and the liberation of Paris. Over the six-hour campaign I slowly but surely found empathy for Daniels and his squad. I appreciate that tension between characters drove much of the drama instead of some Nazi super villain. Unfortunately some of the big action heavy moments feel at odds with what World War 2 tries to do with its sombre tone. Daniel's isn't the only star of the campaign world war two sets them aside for specialty missions that feature more variety and other interesting characters. They help highlight the work of soldiers and resistance groups other than white American men in World War II. World War 2 weaponry is effective but well warned coming across a rare a rifle with attached bull grenade launcher or shotgun with incendiary shells felt like a treat. Sniping missions on the other hand or not, the sniper cover fire tasks you're assigned are often tedious as are the few stealth missions. Still it felt good to be a little vulnerable without exosuits and drums. I instead got to rely on my teammates for things like enemy call-outs and artillery strikes. Teamwork is a nice substitution for technology.

World war two's multiplayer maybe sent a time without high-tech super weapons will still die fast respond fast and kill fast. It’s as satisfying to cycle as it's always been especially when you do less dying and more killing and the World War 2 setting does provide for interesting new player classes called divisions and a new standout mode. In World War 2 s new multiplayer mode or teams take on three to four hugely fun tasks on either an offensive or defensive team. Excluding Operation Neptune which feels like a far lesser version of the campaign's d-day mission. it's a great addition and I hope we see several new maps for it in the future on the other hand hardpoint mode didn't make a good transition into World War 2. The generally smaller maps mean that spawns and moving hard point spots are at odds with each other which lead to too many opportunities for spawn killing. This thankfully didn't happen much in the other modes.

Many of the 9 basic multiplayer maps feel too similar in design however they're small long mostly feature three lanes and generally favored automatic rifles and SMGs. my favorite of the maps Gustav cannon is one of the few open and large Maps. Pointe du Hoc and flak tower or other maps that specifically make great use of the World War 2 setting. Headquarters an in-game hub much like destiny 2's hour is a great new space to test weapons and generally relax between matches. it's refreshing to see people of all races and at least two genders hanging out in headquarters thanks to world war ii s customization options and i'm sure it would have helped the younger me feel less like an outlier multiplayer. divisions are a whole new level exists 'm on top of the character and weapon levels and they've turned out to be a good addition that helped further tailor loadouts to your individual play style. Every division rank gives you a unique perk in addition to your chosen basic training perk, orders, contracts, random match bonuses and earning rank levels can all reward supply drops or loot crates. While supply drop rewards are mostly cosmetic I did unlock rare weapon skins that have a 10 to 15% soldier rank XP bonus per kill. Though they're also unlockable through other means.

This iteration of the beloved four player co-op zombie’s mode pulls back the sameness of infinite warfare zombies in space land theme park in favor of a much creepier setting and well active characters. Like previous versions naughty zombies is a dense puzzle that's a ton of fun to crack with friends while fighting zombies. It’s a little tenser but with even more upgrade systems and one time used consumables. It can be easier than usual to survive nazi zombies grilling waves of undead as long as you have a team with Mike's. Frantically jumping and wasting bullets while shooting at objectives is not a good way to communicate.

Whether you're crawling through the trenches in the campaign's d-day landing fighting on the competitive battlefields are laughing off gruesome undead soldier’s heads and nazi zombies Call of Duty World War 2 offers a surprisingly fast-paced and fun World War two experience. The campaign have a more personal story while the new war multiplayer mode reduce a number of my frustrations with a generally small multiplayer maps of all the parts though nazi zombies may be a standout with its wonderfully creepy setting and puzzle like tasks. It’s mostly what you'd expect from an excellent Call of Duty game and a mishap for a spot within the lineup of top Call of Duty games.



Minimum System Requirements
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OS: Windows 7 64-Bit or later.
CPU: Intel Core i3 3225 or equivalent.
RAM: 8 GB RAM.
HDD: 25 GB HD space.
Video: NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 660 @ 2 GB / GTX 1050 or AMD Radeon™ HD 7850 @ 2GB.
DirectX: Version 11.0 compatible video card or equivalent.
Network: Broadband Internet connection.
Sound Card: DirectX 11.0 or Compatible.



3.


NieR : Automata


Nier: Automata is a role-playing pc game from action and adventure genera.The game is published by Square Enix and developed by PlatinumGames for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4. the sport was released in Japan in February 2017, and worldwide the subsequent month. Nier: Automata may be a sequel to the 2010 computer game Nier, a spin-off of the Drakengard series.The story follows the battles of a combat android, her companion, and a fugitive prototype. Gameplay combines role-playing elements with action-based combat and mixed genre gameplay almost like that of Nier.

The story is predicated around themes almost like Yoko's earlier works, like people's impulse to kill, while also incorporating issues like confronting prejudice and escaping difficult situations. The goal was to form a Nier game faithful the spirit of the first , while simultaneously crafting a far better combat system.

There are very few games if any quite like Niar automata part hacking Slash, part shoot-'em-up and part RPG. This beautiful multi-genre game delivers 30 plus hours of fantastically fun action, remarkable locations and a story so weird, I'm not likely to forget it anytime soon.

Nier automata takes place in a sad but visually stunning futuristic dystopia where humanity has fled to the moon after an extraterrestrial invasion. Leaving behind a military of androids bots to fight the aliens more primitive but prolific machines. Nier striking art design an enormous sense of scale are mesmerizing to look at especially on the PlayStation 4 Pro and in 1080p. I did encounter a few hiccups that knocked the framerate below 60 frames per second and witnessed a fair share of textures popping in but I was too enchanted with the amazing soundtrack to really even notice. The story that takes place against this melancholy backdrop is somewhat hit or miss. As combat unit to be your job is to fight the alien machines and bring an end to the war. Which results in you slowly unraveling the truth behind the long conflict. How this entertaining if nonsensical story unfolds is bonkers to say the least. But it does so in a mostly good way it's just too bad I felt a disconnect from the utterly humorless to be in her Android counterparts all of whom you get to control at different times throughout the game. Their personal dramas take a little too long to unravel which made it harder to emotionally invest in their fates by the time things got really interesting.

I didn't feel much of a rapport with the heroes but I definitely enjoyed embodying them as I Everett Leslie surfed sand dunes in the desert and shimmied up the concrete remains of office buildings to take in the view. There’s a nice bit of parkouring in automata made enjoyable by silky smooth controls and a compliant camera. These same controls are also what make automata it's hilariously maniacal combat so fun. You can seamlessly and simultaneously use multiple buttons to dodge, jump, shoot and slash your way through hostile bits of rust and iron and steel without having to stop and catch your breath and it feels great.

Though Nier automata is described as an action RPG it's really a kitchen sink kind of affair in between the large chunks of feel-good hack-and-slash you'll launch a fireworks display worth of projectiles at flying enemies shoot-'em-up style do some light hacking and write an animal or two. the ever evolving gameplay makes for a thrilling rollercoaster ride and I mean that literally in one of the craziest action sequences I've played in a long time I actually fought atop a moving roller coaster.

With so many amusing ways to engage alien robots it's important to change your Android schematics quickly and often especially on higher difficulty modes. that's easy thanks to both a flexible customization system that allows you to swap out upgradeable plug-in ships on the fly or use consumable buffs and debuffs when you need a leg up in battle. taking the difficulty up meant raising the possibility of losing valuable items if I fell in battle but if I ever found myself cornered I could always hop online and recruit a is controlling the broken remains of other players to fight alongside me or scavenge them for useful items and if that didn't work. I could use a special move that allowed a character to do things like self-destruct or go berserk. Which doesn't result in death but does severely deplete their health unconventional battle tactics yep but they're sure effective not to mention fun. most of my time was spent hunting down machines gathering materials to upgrade both my weapons and the AI pod that acts as both a guide and a turret gun or looking for interesting story clues in the many side quests. But money-making activities like fishing and hunting are also available and I'm happy to report that the original Niers ridiculous animal riding mechanic complete with drifting capabilities returns. These aren't particularly crucial or deep features but they lend a sense of normality and humanity to a terribly abnormal world and that makes them endearing.

Nier automata may be a crazy, beautiful and highly entertaining journey filled with nutty ideas and awesome gameplay it's going to not include the foremost sensible story or compelling characters but its frenzied combat including beautiful visuals and a shocking soundtrack make it an excessive amount of fun to pass up.



Minimum System Requirements
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CPU: Intel Core i3 2100 or AMD A8-6500RAM: 4 GB
OS: Windows 7,8,8.1 ,10 (64bit-required)
VIDEO CARD: AMD Radeon R9 270X @2GB or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 @2GB
Storage: 50 GB



4.


Mass Effect: Andromeda

Seeking out new life and new civilizations to shoot and have sex with Mass Effect Andromeda creatively sidesteps the storytelling limitations of Mass Effect three's ending. By launching a gaggle of pioneers into an entire new galaxy what they find there's a huge and sometimes exciting action role-playing game that kept me engaged. But after the outstanding trilogy that created this universe it's a disappointing following.

There's an immediate sense of mystery as the human colony ship encounters a massive world ruining space anomaly at a hostile new alien race led by a threatening villain. But it's bizarre that Bioware went to the trouble of shipping us 2.5 million light-years away to introduce only two new alien races over more than 50 hours of campaign and major side missions and only one local joins your crew. Andromeda also re-added some major plot ideas from the first trilogy which includes another long dead civilization that's left highly advanced technology lying around. The major worlds you explore are almost all distinct from each other and most are huge granted the majority of that is empty space and there's a fair amount of repeated structures and enemy encounters populating them. But they often have unique hazards and tooling around in the Nomad is a little more interesting than simply holding down the gas button thanks to jump Jets and a simple gear ship for going up hill. there's a lot of filler in the form of MMO style fetch and kill quests too, plus scanning uninhabited planets for resources as TD as a task as it's been in any of the original trilogy but at least it's over quickly and the spaceflight scenes between them are gorgeous.
Each explorable world is home to alien monoliths that have to be activated to make the planet hospitable to colonists and whenever you see one you know there's going to be some puzzle. they don't force you to think outside the box but as someone who enjoys Sudoku number puzzles I found these to be a nice break from the action. I could do without the jumping puzzles though.

 I'm Ryder the human Pathfinder unlike Shepherd who could barely step over an ankle hi obstacle the new customizable protagonist Ryder is fantastically mobile. Just listen to that supremely satisfying jump jet that bolts you over nearly anything. Combined with the jet dash move it's easy to get comfortable running out to flank enemies giving combat a much more energetic pace compared to hunkering down behind cover. I'm still not entirely comfortable with the automatic over system though I'm never 100% certain it will work as I expect. This radically different class system is almost ridiculously open. you're limited to equipping any three of the diverse selection of abilities at any time but you can swap out your configuration and even your class profile right in the middle of a fight. That flexibility is cool but it makes those choices feel more like working around a UI limitation than a meaningful character decision and it's strange that you can swap out your powers at will but not the guns in your inventory.

Your crew is a fairly generic band of mass effect humans and aliens. There’s nothing really wrong with them and most have deep backstories to dive into but none struck me as memorable stars like Gareth Talley or Morden PB is probably the best of the cast thanks to her quirky humor and bickering with her fellow asari Alexi. but the rest seemed to conflict-free to be all that interesting everyone getting along for the most part is a little bit boring regardless of how flirty and naked.

They are part of that is because the writing is so inconsistent there are some respectable quests and excellent morally great questions where both options have compelling logic and terrible consequences. But also cheesy jokes and stilted conversations at least the voice acting is almost universally strong enough that I quickly stopped noticing the subpar human facial animations. On that note Mass Effect Andromeda is more than a little rough in the technical sense on PlayStation 4 and Xbox one it's prone to major framerate drops and hitches regardless of what's happening on screen. There’s also very noticeable in distracting texture pop-in during conversations. The companions are also a bit disappointing in combat your control over them is limited to two commands stand into place or attack a thing and you can't pause the action to place them tactically. That’s just not enough control to reliably coordinator bility combos so you're pretty much on your own. You can't equip them with gear either. Mass Effect 3 is wave-based co-op multiplayer mode returns which allows you and three teammates to make better use of the power combos to take down enemies and reach objectives quickly. It’s simple but more entertaining than you'd expect and the rewards it doles out and random card packs keeps things interesting by making you make the most of the gear you have available.

Mass Effect Andromeda is a fully action role-playing game. It has couple of remarkable moments thourgh out the game that recapture the high points of the landmark trilogy that came before it and its energetic combat and fantastic sound effects create a potent sci-fi atmosphere. But without consistently strong writing or a breakout star in its cast to carry it through the long hours and empty spaces disappointments like the lack of new races, major performance problems and no companion customization and bugs take their toll.




Minimum System Requirements :

OS:Windows 7,8,8.1,10 (64-Bit required)
PROCESSOR: Intel Core i5 3570 or AMD FX-6350.
MEMORY: 8 GB RAM.
Graphics : AMD Radeon 7850 @2GB or NVIDIA GTX 660 @2GB,
Storage: 55 GB of free space.
DIRECTX: DirectX 11.




5.


FOR HONOR

For Honor's combat is the kind I always wanted but never thought I'd actually get to play. It is a third person action game but it hides a very complex strategical fighting game in side in it. Mixing team-based and solo modes all built on the most flexible and technically complete melee fighting system I have ever experienced.

Above all else for honor lives and dies on it’s fighting an elegant directional attacking and blocking system that's easy to grasp but demanding to master. You guard incoming attacks to the right left or top and attempt to retaliate where there's an opening. It sounds simple right well it isn’t. each of the 12 heroes divided evenly across three factions of knights, Vikings, samurai have deep unique moveset that all play out through a complex web of dodges, Terry's, guard break, counters light and heavy attacks combo chains Saints recovery unblockable attacks uninterruptible attacks stuns throws environmental kills and of course grizzly execution. That intricacy is on full display in the 1v1 duel and to v2 brawl mode. But some of the nuance gets lost when you crank it up to the larger for V for Dominion, elimination and skirmish mode where two teams battle over control points or just try to murder each other. here the delicate balance of the combat often gives way too messy brawls and when once he loses a player there are hard pressed to stop a snowball of multiple enemies beating on them though. It is possible and honestly exhilarating to overcome three-on-one battles with skillful use of the revenge mechanic to even the odds. The team with the greater numbers almost always win and facilitating all this is for Honor's usually consistent netcode that in my experience only occasionally gives a noticeable advantage to any one player. While the peer-to-peer structure does demand host migration when the wrong player drops or I join into a losing game competent bots step in to fill the shoes of m.i.a players.

For Honor's multiplayer isn't a game to dip in and out of it requires commitment and a hefty portion of patience to learn each of the heroes and progressing them into these greatly armor-clad fighters of your dreams takes so much of your patience because the in-game currency steal is rewarded sparsely after each completed match. I'll admit to buying a steel packer a shortcut for some sweet fiery wings on my lob ringer. But there's nothing in for honor that can't be bought by just spending time grinding. The other side of progression is hero leveling where experience is slowly earned by completing matches and the daily and bi-weekly objective contracts. both sides of progression are stingy but the end result is it's unlikely two heroes will ever look exactly alike and it's a much needed little tangible reward in a game where the real progression comes from the intangible progress of getting better with a particular hero.

For Honor's single-player campaign is forgive the building of a double-edged sword. I enjoyed the opportunity to try out most of the heroes against AI opponents but I don't see it as worth a second playthrough once finished. On one side the story is largely nonsensical with characters that are totally forgettable on the other the gameplay strings together the same walk-on and fight experience found in multiplayer against mostly docile AI with the exception to the boss encounters. but the settings but see Gina for riding a horse scaling the walls shooting a ballista, fighting an elephant or just taking out armies of soldiers with well-timed abilities helps to mix up the roughly five to eight hour campaign into an enjoyable distraction from the multiplayer. There are frustratingly hidden objectives to find within each mission to pad out the time but the added difficulty levels including the hardest realistic mode which removes the lock-on HUD adds some small degree of challenge.

For honor had some roughness in its bright shiny armor like pretty easy campaign, the prudent economy and therefore the snowballing victories in team modes but it's hard to be mad at. it too long once I considered that the melee combat system is second to none and it is a joy to find out take your licks and learn some more. I could feel myself becoming a far better warrior with this deep, flexible and complete fighting system the more I play for honor the more I would like to play for honor and I hope you be soft doubles down on support because it's truly something special.


For Honor is basically a hack and slash fighting game.Released worldwide on 14,FEB , 2017.The game is published and developed by Ubisoft for   PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows and Xbox One.In this  game you are allowed to play as of historical types of warriors and soldiers, including vikings, knights and samurai within a antique setting a third-person perspective.

Reviews of the game was mostly +tive, with criticism generally on the multiplayer matchmaking and a lot of technical problems to it.This game got some -tive also been criticized for excessive micro-transactions.



Minimum System Requirements :

OS: Windows 7,8,8.1,10 (64-bit Required)
CPU:: Intel Core i3-550. | AMD Phenom II X4 955 or equivalent.
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX660 / GTX750ti / GTX950 / GTX1050 @2GB or AMD Radeon HD6970 / HD7870 / R9 270 / R9 370 / RX460 with @2GB
RAM: 4GB.







6.


PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS


Player unknown’s battlegrounds didn't invent the last person standing formula that's made it one among the foremost massively successful PC games in history. But over the course of a 9 month long early access copy it turned it into something special. The Battle Royale style deathmatch forgoes the fluff and time investment of most hardcore survival Sims in favour of fast accessible action as 100 players fight to the death within a shrinking forcefield. The result's a decent focused no frills experience that's as exciting because it is unpredictable and where no two games are ever alike.

PUBG wastes no time putting you right within the middle of the action as you and up to 99 other players parachute on to at least one of its sprawling Maps. a part of the genius of every matches arc is how heavily it weighs every move you create and it begins with the critical decision of where to land. The moments after hitting the bottom involve a mad scramble for weapons and kit because the killing begins right from the get-go. Backpacks for holding more equipment, protective gear, medical items, melee weapons and an honest mixture of firearms are in good supply. But finding good loot is merely half the battle the opposite half is wick. As players outsmart, one another in deadly games of cat and mouse. Skilled or lucky survivors are forced into ever closer proximity within the confines of a deadly shrinking force field until only one player or team is left alive. Victory is an exhilarating reward matched only by the suspense that emerges from the battle to realize it. But albeit you die early jumping into a replacement game is usually quick and straightforward. The deadly field and occasional airstrikes marked with red on the mini-map at a uniform sense of purpose that drives you towards conflict until the ultimate standoff. With a randomized Center whenever and two unique Maps there's always many variety on the battlefield.

The abundance of trees on the forested Island of Erangle provides many cover even for groups of 4, while the sparser rockier desert of Miramar makes moving across open areas on foot and in vehicles far more dangerous. Some areas in Miramar feel more isolated than even the foremost secluded spots and Erangle. But the range of elevations and more interesting city layouts that observe use of the handy new vaulting system quite structure for it. many loot in even the littlest buildings ensures looking for a weapon isn't a frustrating task which not only keeps the playing field balanced and fun for everybody but ripe for all kinds of thrilling confrontations. You would possibly end up involved during a frantic shootout within the woods on either end of a deadly hunt across a dense City or holed up in an attic listening for the slightest creak or scrape of an approaching player. The utilization of sound to create tension and provide you with a warning to nearby enemies is one among the ways pub G forces you to remain attentive and tactical instead of treating every sort of a fast-paced shooter. Play long enough or use the awesome replay feature to watch skilled players and you'll learn the subtleties that tip each other player has been during a place before you. An open door or a strangely dense or sparse pile of mismatched loot are telltale signs. Of these layers merge to create a shooter that's invested in creating smart nuanced survival and understands how even the littlest moments of your story contribute to the larger adventure.

The dynamic of exploration and combat changes in fun new ways when grouped up. Playing solo brings certain elements to the formula that getting into with a partner doesn't and therefore the same goes for trios and for player squads. Going alone affords greater freedom and stealth opportunities but a well coordinated team has more potential for pulling off exciting ambushes and vehicular assaults and they are far more survivable because you'll revive a teammate who's been knocked down but not finished off. The choice to play in person only servers also brings a challenging new dimension to matches by eliminating the corner peeking advantages granted by the default third-person camera. The gunplay itself is additionally great firearms feel good to shoe and there is a pleasant range of options for all play styles and while Pubg does retain that military sim stiffness has become synonymous with the genre it's just smoothed out enough to stay combat and movement satisfying and accessible to newcomers. Since the 1.0 launch especially i have never experienced significant performance or rubber-banding issues but it is vital to notice that version 1.0 still hasn't managed to eliminate the hacking problem that's most prevalent in high skill matchmaking games or a couple of existing bugs.

Player unknokwns battle grounds has taken the military sim gameplay popularized by games like ARMA and dayz boiled it right down to its most enjoyable parts and streamlined it into fast pace and accessible rounds of purely hassle-free survival based action. Albeit each game starts an equivalent way it's remarkable ability to desire a replacement tense adventure each and each round has kept me returning for hours on end.



Minimum System Requirements
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OS : 64-bit Windows 7, 8.1, or 10.
CPU: Intel Core i3-4340 or AMD FX-6300.
Graphics : Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 @2GB or AMD Radeon HD 7850 @2GB.
Memory : 6 GB.
Storage : 30 GB.
DirectX : 11.1 compatible video card or equivalent.




7.

 
PREY

Prey launch I had a game breaking bugs on PC that prevented me from recommending it. Now that's been patched and so has this review it's now updated to cover our experiences on all platforms. With a classy setting built to accommodate classic RPG mechanics we do not see often enough in modern games. Pray feels both new and nostalgic at once a wonderfully explorable science-fiction environment proves dense with interactive systems intrigue and ever-present danger and though the combat is only slightly preferable to the weak stealth options. I was a little surprised at how quickly my time played clock seemed to take up toward 40 hours before I reached the end.

The first hours of prey are enticing with a mind-bending psychological opening that foreshadow may be a story more interesting than what the most plot finishes up being. However as I roamed the enormous and fascinatingly anachronistic Space Station I came across countless small stories. Between emails audio logs and thoughtful environmental storytelling. Developer arcane did a fantastic job of making this bizarre place feel lived-in long before I ever met another living human and the surprising mobility you get made me want to turn over every metaphorical rock. which is deviance because some of those objects are actually disguised aliens who will surprise you and try to eat your face those jump scares get old after a while but they were extremely effective at making me paranoid. When I encountered survivors at first I was disappointed at the lack of dialogue options. But then I realized praise approaches more novel you're given a task such as saving someone or killing them and your actions determine your moral positions. Do you save a group of people under attack or leave them for dead, do you kill mind controlled humans or find a way to free them. It’s nice to see actions speak louder than words when it comes to RPG morality and these choices were satisfying and somewhat bluntly recognized in the ending.

Prey follows closely in the footsteps of classic first-person RPGs like System Shock 2 and Deus Ex and put some of their best ideas to good use. There’s complex character development and versatile semi open-world level design that permits you to succeed in objectives by different paths counting on your strengths. It sends you back and forth across the same moderately varied zones repeatedly but often you'll have unlocked a new ability that will let you access new nooks and crannies which keeps them interesting. All that detail goes a long way to compensate for the fact that prey isn't the best looking game out there by a long shot. I appreciate that like in fallout 4 all of the thousands of objects strewn around the map are useful in some way. Everything even the junk can be thrown in the cartoonish recycler stations and broken down into resources which you can then turn into items. So, no matter where you go on the station or even outside in the zero-g environment you're constantly rewarded just for gathering everything you can get your hands on like a space water. Inventory management can be a bit of a pain thanks to a bug that causes common items not automatically stat correctly but the auto sort button helps.

Its biggest weakness is combat fighting aliens and robots is fine but their AI is reactive or curious seeming enough to make them fun to mess with. For instance you would think the ability to turn into any object would let you play hilarious pranks on enemies. but most of the time the joke falls flat because monsters don't act confused by moving pieces of garbage they just want to kill it like they do with everything else and that's about as interesting as stealth gets you can sneak past enemies and lure them around but not much more this isn't anywhere near as stealth focused a game as arcane's other series dishonored. I did have fun messing with the innovative Glu camp but its ability to create staircases is nowhere near as full of possibility as a portal gun or a gravity gun. Other weapons are pretty typical so as soon as I got access to powers like mind control I use it to Jedi mind-trick my way past as much combat as possible. Controls feel good on mouse and keyboard but with a gamepad the first thing you'll want to do is turn off the sensitivity. Load times can trend a little on the long side on consoles though, and we've inconsistently seen some minor input lag on the ps4 that took some time to get used to and if you're a ps4 pro owner unfortunately there aren't currently any enhancements in resolution or framerate. It’s 30 frames on consoles and uncapped on PC where it runs beautifully.

Prays curious alternate history universe intriguing side quests hidden threats and detailed environmental storytelling make this space station a joy to explore. All of that picks up the slack for combat and stealth that does not feel fresh enough to sustain it throughout what are often an extended game.



Minimum System Requirements :

CPU: Intel i5-2400, AMD FX-8320
GPU: GTX 660 2GB, AMD Radeon 7850 2GB
Memory: 8 GB
Windows7,8,8.1,10 (64-bit required)



8.


Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

 
Everything that worked for Wolfenstein the new order is dialed up for round 2 with instantly likable heroes and bone-chilling villains giving emotional context to its bloody uprising against high-tech Nazis Wolfenstein 2 the new Colossus has come to take part in.

It really is incredible how well this story works considering how absurd it is one moment it's ultra-serious and delivering a sickening dose of venomous racism abuse and cold-blooded cruelty and yet the next moment it will transition to scenes of laugh out loud comedy now look and then it's back to BJ blaskowitz dealing with his own mortality. Not that we needed another reason to want to overthrow an alternate reality Third Reich who won world war 2 but it's hugely effective in getting the blood boil. Wolfenstein 2 pulls this off without whiplash thanks to the strength of its characters that are outstandingly written and acted. Browsing scenes featuring VJs internal monologue Grace and her determined but sad eyes and super specialist crazy conspiracy theory rants and literal bathroom humor are all great and delivered with convincing confidence. But it is the villain general Engel who takes the show together with her absolutely mirthful sadism whenever she's on screen. She’s far and away the most remarkable Dangerous game villain since Far Cry 3 as Vas flashbacks to Vijay's relationship with his abusive father are also extraordinarily unsettling. It’s the kind of thing that makes a brutal hatchet melee kill feel justified. all of this goes to show that as long as you have characters who feel complex and human you can get away with just about anything.

Wolfenstein 2 is roughly 14 our campaign takes full advantage of that to execute a few wild twists and turns that made my jaw drop. Gruesomely murdering Nazis is already extremely satisfying but it's made even moreso thanks to the fast and smooth first-person shooting action and the rewarding deaths who inflict on your enemies. You’re encouraged to do some light stealth to thin out the herd and silently take down officers before they can summon reinforcements but that's entirely optional. If you'd rather go in guns blazing that works too and like before you earn upgrades just for scoring kills with things like headshots or flame damage encouraging you to mix up your playstyle. wolfenstein 2 makes the most of its somewhat standard feeling weapons by letting you mix match and customized blasting away with a machine gun in each hand feels just as great as before letting you sacrifice accuracy for double the firepower and closer mid-range combat. Dual wielding is additionally handy if you would like to be ready to quickly fire a shotgun blast if you blow your cover and therefore the silenced pistol won't get the work done on its own. My biggest annoyance is that without a late-game upgrade you cannot pause the action to modify weapons which will be a careless process. Speaking of upgrades each weapon has three promise enhancements like extra ammo capacity, scopes and other things that change their output in the battle in ways more interesting than simply bumping up the damage output. Upgrade kits are rare so the choices you make feel important.

BJ maybe a buffed out killing machine but he's not a tank. You’ve got to keep moving and play cautiously to stay alive grabbing health and ammo items where you can find them. Unlike the tedious button mashing to pick up every item in the new order. You can grab things by running directly over them in the new Colossus because of BJ's fragility I died quite a bit. Often without knowing exactly what had killed. Me I could have used a kill cam on a gloating enemy so I'd know exactly what to look out for next time. The one problem I constantly had in combat is that BJ's pretty picky about what he'll jump over. I got killed more often than I'd like because I got stuck trying to vault over stuff. Levels are almost all the kind of dreary setting you'd expect from nazi-occupied America. The irradiated remains of New York military facilities and in New Orleans has become a walled-in ghetto are all pretty gloomy but they're dotted with details and readable bits about life in a fascist alternate reality that make exploration worthwhile. It’s the non-combat areas in between that really distinguish them. Walking around a Nazi parade in Roswell New Mexico and listening to SS officers chatting with Ku Klux Klansmen and finding common ground is eerie and chilling and the detail is excellent. The same goes for the submarine that serves as a base for BJ's rebellion which is packed with characters and incidental dialogue. Some of those characters don't look great though.

Wolfenstein 2 the new Colossus is an amazing single-player shooter but what really got me interested were the greatly written characters and the performances of its cast. Vijay and his crew are full of spirit and personality and general angle is as memorable and nemeses as you’re likely to find in games. machinegames has once again turned the well-worn act of mowing down Nazis into something to get excited about.



Minimum System Requirements :

Operating system: Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit OS required).
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1400/AMD FX-8350/Intel Core i5-3570/Intel Core i7-3770 or better.
Memory: 8 GB RAM.
hard disc space: 55 GB free HDD space.
Video: AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB/NVIDIA GTX 770 4GB or better.




9.


 
DESTINY 2


Destiny 2
is a multiplayer game which only run online but not offline mode at all.it is a first-person shooter PC game published by Activision and developed by Bungie .It released for Microsoft Windows October 6, 2017.In this game a player live in a "shared-world" environment with feature of role-playing games. Players assume the role of a Guardian, protectors of Earth's last safe city as they wield an influence called Light to guard the Last City from different alien races. one among these races, the Cabal, lead by their emperor, Dominus Ghaul, infiltrate the Last City and strips all Guardians of their Light. The player sets out on a journey to regain their Light and find how to defeat Ghaul and his Red Legion army and take back the Last City.

Same as the original, activities in Destiny 2 game are both player player versus player (PvP) and versus environment (PvE)  game types. in addition to normal story type missions, In PvE -prospective three-players "strikes" and six-player raids. A free roam patrol mode is additionally available for every planet and features public events also as new activities not featured within the original. These new missions have a pressure on exploration of the planets and interact with the AI characters on the planets; while the Ist Destiny only have NPCs (Non-player Charectors) in social spaces. PvP features objective-based modes, also as traditional deathmatch game modes. All PvP game modes are 4 vs 4 some diffrence from the its prequel ( Destiny I ), which have a 6 vs 6, 3 vs 3 and 2 vs 2 variants.

Destiny 2 succeed where the first failed the foremost it delivers a story driven campaign ok to match its finely tuned first-person shooter gameplay and great looks. Gathering loot and upgrades through missions and activities was my fire team and then finally running the climactic raid together was a blast and every time I thought I was scraping the bottom destiny 2 teased me was more to see and do that was just a few light levels away.

From the opening moments destiny to delivers Dominus golf an excellent antagonist whose cruelty deserves our fury. The campaign is crammed with brilliant cutscenes that give the cast a chance to point out great emotional range and you'll hear the sadness and determination in their voices. That context kept me moving forward through fun missions set in eye catching environments including the exhilarating penultimate mission. While the final boss was underwhelming I was left hungry to learn more about the world of destiny. Thankfully the superb quests and more elaborate strikes add much improved boss encounters and an additional dose of story. The four world maps do a fantastic job of setting the tone too whether it's the milky waterfalls of necess or the overgrown European dead zone each offers a colorful and unique palette to explore as you acquire they're plentiful Luke. Bungie encourages you to take all this in by withholding the fast-moving sparrow for a little too long in order to force you to walk through it the first time. Meanwhile a soaring soundtrack packs pulse-pounding missions before shifting gears to evoke a tinge of sadness.

The first destiny is a strong first-person shooter but subtle touches have made a big difference in destiny 2 when it comes to making moment-to-moment combat more explosive and exciting. Popping an enemy shield with the right damage type or watching the soul of the fallen escape their bodies as you execute a headshot are welcomed bursts of validation. And where there aren't a ton of different weapon types the constant gear drops with game-changing exotic weapons and mods propel your power level higher creating that feeling of growing strength and readiness to take on all challengers.

The Titan warlock and hunter classes have been simplified relative to destiny but each still have distinct abilities that work well together with traditional tank support and dps roles. Figuring out how to use subtle customizations and weapon pairings to make the most out of your chosen build is still a rewarding puzzle to solve. The hunter Todd seems underpowered without certain gear though since the other class’s abilities have a clearer immediate benefit to the team. The biggest change to balance is the smart adjustment to one-hit kill power weapons. In the player versus environment or PvE areas the bright purple ammo packs are in constant supply but in competitive game types it can only be acquired by one player when the power ammo spawns in on its timer leading to more explosive moments and fewer cheap deaths. Thankfully the more standard kinetic and energy weapons feel balanced across the board. Thankfully the superb quests and more elaborate strikes add much improved boss encounters and a further dose of story. Moving away from destiny is one-man army style. That usually works well since many of the pvp maps are well suited for the new 4 versus 4 teams but if you feel a tad too large. This makes it easy and strategic to avoid the other team often causing competitive playlist matches to drag on way too long.

Destiny 2 succeeds in many ways but after around 10 hours of story missions quests and strike missions a few issues started to annoy me. For example, explanations of important systems like its odd gear modifiers or how to get your light level ready for the Leviathan raid are noticeably absent. One of my biggest annoyances is that you're forced to queue for random strikes or crucible modes and there's no penalty for dropping out of an activity you didn't want. On the positive side jumping from planet to planet or mode to mode is snappy and fast but it can leave non fire team members stranded when three people leave the crucible at once.

The Leviathan raid and its smaller endgame cousin the nightfall are the premier PvE events of destiny - and they are designed to stay hardcore destiny players like me returning. The nightfall does this by forcing your three-person fireteam to formulate a plan going in so you can capitalize on the rotating modifiers. There’s a lot of skill and strategy that goes into a nightfall strike especially if you're attempting to complete some of the harder sub quests at the same time making these challenges highly replayable. destiny twos Leviathan rate continues to live up to bungees high standards offering new and buried puzzles and challenging boss battles that require six well-coordinated players to pull off. On like Destiny's previous raids this one dishes out some interesting story revelations too. A few bugs forced us and other raid teams to restart several times and Sully my otherwise amazing experience but Bungie says it's working to address that issue. With all of these engaging activities there are thirty to forty hours of great gameplay waiting for you in destiny 2 before even considering the raid. However, when you approach max light level there are only a few activities to participate in to get raid ready but if destiny 2 evolves as well as bungees roadmap promises there's even more on the way.

Destiny 2 expect to find are there but it does deliver the same kind of highly social gameplay and rewarding loot driven progression that helped the original keep me hooked for hundreds of hours. The main concerns right now are a few bugs and lack of event options but I'll definitely be sticking around to see this big action-packed universe develop over time.



Minimum System Requirements :

CPU: Intel 3.4 GHz Core i5-2400 or 3.5 GHz Core i5-7400 and AMD 3.6 GHz Ryzen R5 1600X.
GPU: Nvidia 4 GB GeForce GTX 970 or 6 GB GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD 8 GB Radeon R9 390.
RAM: 8 GB
CPU: Intel 3.5 GHz Core i3-3250 or 3.5 GHz Pentium G4560.
GPU: Nvidia: 2 GB GeForce GTX 660 or 2 GB GTX 1050.
RAM: 6 GB.



10.



STAR WARS : Battlefront II

Almost since the start Star Wars has been a story of redemption from darkness. So in an ironic kind of way battlefront 2 may be a better Star Wars game due to its initial fall to the dark side and subsequent journey back to the sunshine. After over two years of updates and changes EA and dice have redeemed this gorgeous shooter and became one among the simplest multiplayer adaptations of the Star Wars universe so far.

Taking an all battlefront to now have to offer at once is honestly a bit overwhelming. Setting aside the overly safe short and disappointing single-player story there's a wealth of wave based cooperative maps and a litany of online competitive multiplayer modes. Most of them play wonderfully and they all use that classic Star Wars look and feel on an unrivaled scale. Whether you're fighting on the ground with a blaster in your hands, cutting down troops with a lightsaber or dogfighting in space Battlefront 2 is an immensely entertaining ride through a galaxy far far away. crucially dice absolutely nailed the basics take the mechanics of firing a blaster feels just a bit chunky as it should with that signature sound bursting with each shot and even though every weapon shoots similar looking bolts they all feel extremely distinct out of the box and can be customized further. What’s great about battlefront 2 is that it lets you play with all its toys no questions asked. Every character class and playable hero is available from the start and the tedious unlocking grinds from launch have been completely removed. Luke, Vader, Boba, Fett, ray you name them they're all here.

The only things you can buy our cosmetics like new outfits and emotes so there's no hint of pay to win and play. Alternatively you can earn these through loot boxes you can't pay for it's a good fair system and thankfully entirely separate from progression. That makes these boxes exciting to open because the cosmetics don't come at the cost of character upgrades and unlocks. As you level up you unlock new ability cards with passive upgrades such as increased health regeneration speed or a bigger grenade blast radius. They’re designed as ways to refine your playstyle rather than make you dramatically stronger and it's a fulfilling system that rewards sticking with the class without forcing you to. You’ll spend most of your time as battlefronts basic soldier classes but as you play your own in match points that you can eventually spend to spawn as a hero. That can seriously turn the tide these iconic characters are absolute killing machines and when you clash with another hero it's extremely memorable. The list has been growing since launch and now includes everybody from obi-wan and his force push to lesser favorites like General Grievous including his ridiculous saber windmill attack that shreds troopers. Pitting original trilogy Darth Vader against the prequel trilogy Anakin Skywalker hero is far more entertaining than it should be.

Battlefront 2's maps feel like a greatest hits election of the entire Star Wars galaxy from all three movie trilogies plus one offs in the cartoons. The dense greenery of Kashyyyk is a great contrast to the brown wastelands of Geonosis and fighting across Cloud City on vestment is a blast. thanks to the piles of content every mode has an extreme level of map variety and that makes it easy to fall into that just one more game mentality because you'll see something new every time for a long while. The catch is that finding a match is hit or miss depending on the game mode and time of day. It’s not very difficult to queue up for the main modes like capital supremacy and galactic assault, especially on ps4 but smaller modes. Like hero showdown and hero star fighters can take a few minutes of waiting before you can enjoy them. Then there are the even less popular modes like the capture based jet pack, cargo or blast which is just team deathmatch. Those are often complete dead zones with no players thankfully QuickPlay is a reliable fallback that will always drop you in - it's hot but the limited choice cues can occasionally be disappointing all the same. The recently added capital supremacy mode is both one of the busiest and one of the best. It’s similar to the traditional Galactica sauce and then they're both large-scale battles with 40 players fighting over control points but there are some big differences. Here is holding control points in the first phase earned you AI reinforcements and then the winning team boards transport shuttles to try to take over the other team’s capital ship. If they fail the first phase starts over it creates an epic tug of war pushing and pulling across space and the planet's surface the settings in power dynamic are all extremely reminiscent of both the Clone Wars and the massive battles in dices battlefield series.

Whether you're fresh to the battlefield or picking your blaster copy after an extended hiatus Star Wars Battlefront 2 may be a redemption story deserve the Skywalker saga. It’s an enormous broad beautiful shooter that nails the star wars' atmosphere almost everywhere. The campaign remains a touch of a snore and infrequently long queue times and matchmaking and a few of forgettable game modes give the multiplayer a couple of caveats. But highlights like capital supremacy make it stand out and therefore the progression system is fair and rewarding. Overall it is a great package now that is one among the simplest and most thrilling ways to possess an authentic Star Wars gaming experience.



Minimum System Requirements :

OS: 64-bit Windows 7 ,8,8.1,10.
Processor : Intel Core i5 6600K,AMD FX-6350.
Memory: 8GB RAM.
Graphics card : NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 660 2GB,AMD Radeon™ HD 7850 2GB.
DirectX: 11.0 Compatible video card or equivalent.




11.



Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon : Wildlands

Getting things done by any means necessary is what Ghost Recon wildlands is all about. Despite its tactical pedigree as a Tom Clancy universe game your best laid plans will often go comically awry that's when it really begins to shine especially in co-op.

Wildlands version of the South American country of Bolivia is massive it includes more than 20 provinces and each has at least one cartel boss hidden weapons and more. You can roam the whole map from the get-go and it has jungles mountains deserts and more. They all look great and impact how you play with varying amounts of cover and vehicles. Unfortunately vehicles don't control well and you're forced to spend a ton of time using them to cover all the terrain. Choppers in particular take a while to break in also it's common for high priority targets to jump into a vehicle and flee which gets frustrating.

Wildlands main issue is poor mission variety you need to draw the bosses out through missions which are repetitive combination of blowing things up stealing things extracting targets or killing the same three kinds of enemies over and over. These issues might have spelled doom if not for wildlands great sandbox style unpredictability yes you may be on your 10th extraction mission but they play out like different action movie scenes. When things don't go as planned the madness that follows is what saves wildlands.

Weapons come down to personal preference though SMGs and shotguns felt too limited. The loot lust is there but it's more to satisfy your aesthetic goals and not because you need better guns and most of the upgrades and wildlands from weapons to skill trees are incremental. Your sniper scope will sway less you can run further and so on they are useful but not very alluring. Likewise the skill trees are disappointingly short by the end I had almost everything that's fine when you're playing alone and your AI companions are so hands-off that you need to compensate. However, it's a shame to not have to make any choices in coordinate and co-op.

Wildlands is definitely best played in co-op however co-op is also harder. I died way more when playing with real players than I ever did alone. Your AI squad isn't there to support you they're there to enable you they're wonderful at handling tasks but have almost zero initiative. They also allow you to use sync shot to simultaneously take out multiple targets its quick fun and super powerful. The squad also has moments of clairvoyance while they'll spot enemies behind walls plus they can also take a lot of punishment and they almost always revive you when you're down. In coop human players are just as squishy and dumb as you are sync shot still exists but its manual and trades effectiveness for skill and fun. Playing with friends also allows you to use multiple vehicles effectively. Which opens up new options and works to alleviate the repetition problem I mentioned earlier co-op is also drop-in dropout and it works seamlessly. There’s no waiting for someone to spawn in no loading no red tape about what you can or can't do. If someone in your game has a fast travel point or an unlocked mission it's available to anyone and that progress saves when you go back and forth between solo and co-op. it's a slick system that keeps frustration and timee and menus to a minimum.

It took me 42 hours and seventeen thousand bullets to see and do everything and Ghost Recon wildlands. This huge wide-open shooter continuously lack in giving the verity in missions and the vehicle physics is not good too but its amazing sandbox style gameplay and a very smooth and fun to play co-op mode kept me replaying this game over and over again for more adventure and madness.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is fully published and developed by Ubisoft. Ireleased worldwide on 7, Mar, 2017, for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows. This game has sort of environments like mountains, forests, deserts and salt flats. Game played from a third-person perspective with an optional person view for gun aiming. Gamers play this game  as a part of the Delta Company, 1st Battalion , 5th top very Special Forces Group, also recognized as to as "Ghosts", a just with in the game dramatically based elite special operations unit of the us Army with the Joint Special Operations Command. It does not contain the futuristic setting used in Future Soldier and Advanced Warfighter, but rather adopts a modern-day setting. As a result to that, the equipment featured within the game is predicated on weapons and kit commonly employed by military forces round the world. However, it features some equipment from the real world, like drones. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is that the first game that offers an amazing open world experience as it has everything from small details to big landscapes in which has every environmental element. Which consists of around 9 differing-different types of things, such as: forests, desert, mountains, salt flats, and also have some new feature such as day-night cycle also as the dynamic weather system .All over action of the game are fantastic and adventurous



Minimum System Requirement :

CPU: Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.5 GHz or equivalent.
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 / GTX 750 Ti / GTX 950 / GTX 1050 (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better) – See supported List*
VRAM: 2GB.
RAM: 6GB.
OS: Windows 7,8,8.1,10(64-bit Required)
Storage: 50GB free space.






12.


SNIPER ELITE 4

You know those elaborate machines that make simple tasks like striking a match more complicated in an unnecessary but fun way. They’re called Rube Goldberg machines and Sniper Elite 4 is the shooter version of that.

Rebellion shooter is complex and being patient can feel silly when running an in shooting often works just fine. However, Sniper Elite 4 isn't just about killing Nazis it's about dismantling them letting you play puppet master is by far its best trick before you pull the trigger you might need to consider holding your breath the pull of gravity and your rifles muzzle velocity and that's just for the standard difficulty for authentic mode you'll also deal with wind direction ammo scarcity and more. It sounds cumbersome but it's fun to experiment and improve within those constraints. You have the tools to go full Dark Knight on these guys once you're comfortable you can set up satisfying kills like dominoes. For example, after killing a Nazi officer I set up a trap moved his body into the open and lured a guard to his death outsmarting the enemy AI in new and interesting ways didn't get old over 14 hours. There’s a side effect to such a wealth of options though the difference between difficulty modes is sharp so your efforts to play smart can feel wasted unless you crank it up. On normal mode if you blow your cover you can just gonna everyone down and unless you're bent on playing like a masochist many of sniper Lefors options become a take-it-or-leave-it affair.

The humdrum World War two stories is spread across eight huge campaign levels and it packs in tons of variety taking you to a remote island or radar facility and other locales. Though they were all over an hour long they didn't drag on each one begins with a few primary objectives Nazis to kill generally and some secondary tasks like destroying a downed plane. Then it lets you put on your grown-up fatigues and go leaving the minutiae of how to get the job done up to you. It prompts you to try new things with mechanics that are unique to each level. One map has a massive railgun that fires at regular intervals and you can sync your shots with it to stay hidden. I spent most of my early time in each mission hiding in foliage tagging everything of note with binoculars. it might sound menial but it's actually fun when you know your prep work matters and when you spend so much time just looking around it's great to see new sights. It’s a shame not as much variety was extended to your weapons themselves with most firearms the differences between them are too small to notice.

Separately four has a handful of great ways to play alongside a friend and it's just as flexible as when you're playing solo. Guns blazing works but splitting up is much more interesting. If you're a part you can take turns making noise and ping-pong enemies back and forth the lack of rules feels like a challenge to experiment. My favorite use of coop and Sniper Elite 4 is survival which is a variant of gears of wars horde mode. Played with up to 4 enemies come at you in 12 waves each more difficult. The action is faster and more focused but it doesn't sacrifice the experimental nature and if the enemy takes control of your supply station the pace of the match dynamically changes from holdout defense to guerrilla warfare offense. Competitive multiplayer is more hit or miss depending on the modes. Sniper Elite 4 works best when you're dealing with enemies of habit which human players aren't but the slower longer range warfare mode is great because it's thrilling to know that even the slightest movement could tip off your location. Control mode is also a highlight because having a highly contested objective area keeps the action followed and fast.

Lots of games claim to let you play how you want to play but Sniper Elite fours missions and mechanics actually delivers. Though, it doesn't always reward your efforts the way it encourages you to stay mindful experiment and improve is a refreshing vote of confidence.



Minimum System Requirements :

OS :Windows 7,8,8.1,10 ( 64-bit Required)
CPU : AMD equivalent or
Intel CPU Core i3-2100.
Memory : 4 GB RAM.

Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2GB)
or AMD Radeon HD 7870 (2GB)




13.

Hellblade : Senua's Sacrifice


Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice uncover sort of a goo-looking, dark, tense visual novel placing the outstandingly raw human performance of its main character front and center on her great journey into the land of the Northman. Her story is one of confusion sadness fear and loss and it's punctuated by moments of beauty and strength that has left a lasting impression on me.

But as impressive as its story is developer ninja Theory's smart design reinforces the sensory nature of the harrowing tale through subtle and intuitive mechanics. It’s vivid and liberal use of audio and visual distortion and trickery to convey the frightening effects of psychosis, hallucinations and delusions are married with the gameplay elements for an experience that rarely ever grapples over whether it's a game or story. For example, there's no HUD in hell-blade yet a course of voices shout panicked advice at senua and terror down. There’s no combat tutorial there's no objective marker or mini-map. Hell-blade is a game that you're not supposed to trust because what you see or hear or feel is rarely truthful and because of that there are moments of terrifying tension that gave me an amount of anxiety and panic that's borderline uncomfortable. Most of the game revolves around sin ewis perception of her environment you'll scour each area lining up beams or trees so the shapes of the world around her take on significance. As new elements are added these puzzles take on new layers of depth and meaning and many of those moments are profoundly rewarding when you uncover something new like a hidden path that can only be seen through a specific portal. Surprisingly combat and hell-blade is more of a palate cleanser than a core element. It punctuates a story with wave-based enemies that block progress until defeated. The simple nature of its design struck me as obligatory for the sake of interactivity rather than necessary for the experience but depth in combat eventually reveals itself near the end of the journey or an enemy variety and difficulty spike and yet like most of hell-blade. Combat is still a tense experience knowing that dying too many times in or out of combat will cause your safe to be deleted and you'll be forced to start from the beginning for real.

Hell-blade is a master class of atmosphere storytelling and the marriage of mechanical and conceptual design. while there are moments that feel shoehorned in to remind us that were playing a video game the care and attention ninja theory have clearly poured into seonhwa and her story are nothing short of amazing. this is a game everyone should play and I'm thankful for the opportunity to have lived inside the mind of sin UO however briefly.


Minimum System Requirements :

CPU : Intel i5 3570K / AMD FX-8350.
OS : Windows 7, 8, 10.
Grapchis Card :AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB or GTX 770 with 2GB VRAM.
Storage : 30 GB Free Space.



14.



Assassin's Creed : Origins

From sliding down the side of a pyramid to hunting a target amidst the madness of a sandstorm to casually walking through beautifully recreated historical settings like the Library of Alexandria Assassin's Creed origins is a story full of secrets worthy of Egypt's lost royal protecta vyek of Silla. It also the series first full-on role-playing game and mixes a delightful sense of discovery with an addictive leveling system.

I spent 30 hours finishing the main campaign which took me just over half of the expansive and beautiful map. It’s the biggest and most connected ever in an assassin's Creed game featuring multiple cities with the own unique cultures, different gods, politics race, relations and prejudices to uncover. They also distinct in architecture and environment and that make a significant time commitment one that's consistently varied and surprising. refreshingly I discovered new areas organically through the story and free exploration rather than through the series traditional structure of climbing two viewpoints to have them unveiled for you the exploration is made even more impressive by the lack of loading screens with. The exception of some Story cutscenes and if you choose to Fast travel. While the main story is delightfully mystical on its own origins also has the strongest mission design in any Assassin's Creed game to back it up. from collecting clues to solve mysteries two gladiatorial arena fighting - black flag style ship-to-ship combat each series of missions feels like a self-contained story with its own custom-built gameplay and now the highlight of the series is hidden temples which without spoiling anything tie in to Assassin's Creed's overarching sci-fi story in interesting ways.

Of course this being an assassin's Creed game there's a whole lot of parkour and climbing in origins and it's most seamless than ever. The act of climbing feels almost as passive as running and while that does remove some of the challenge that existed in previous games it takes a fair amount of frustration out the door with it. does definitely renewed challenge in the combat though which has been significantly rebuilt having to know when to block when to dodge and when to parry creates a whole lot more floral tension than has existed in previous games and there's a fair amount of enemy variety. You also have the ability to lock on to one specific target at a time which only made stealth segments more precise but swapping between targets unfortunately didn't work reliably while trolling in a larger group. Then there are weapons which vary in type rarity and effect as part of a proper loot system. Once I picked them up and learn their uses I always kept three different bow types handy to swap between and having those kinds of choices always help with boss fights and tougher enemies. It’s a constant decision-making process and the combat is much richer for it.

While unlocking new abilities and story missions generally happens at a smooth pace there's quite lot of grinding to be done. for the foremost part I enjoyed it and there are multiple ways to figure on leveling up but a few of times the recommended level for a replacement main quest mission appeared as several levels above where i used to be once I first unlocked it. This stimmy progress can be a little frustrating especially when you have to do some low-level side quests for smaller awards to level up because you can't find any at your level that said one of my favorite things to do is infiltrate high level fortresses for me the biggest appeal of origins is introduction of the level system is in that optional self-induced challenge.

On the other hand finding a legendary weapon isn't as dramatic as it is in a game like destiny 2. These legendaries are easy to come by and main story quests and their effects just aren't that different to regular weapons. Most just boost your damage so there are no real trades-offs decisions for clothing and mounts are even easier to make since that purely aesthetic and there are limited choices unless you've opted to buy more as part of origins microtransaction system. On the topic of microtransactions maps revealing all of the collectible locations and most of the outfits and mounts are locked behind helix coins which you can only buy with real-world money. things like supplies and money can be purchased too but those easy enough to find in origins is Egypt through hunting or other fun side activities that it had kind of be a waste to spend money on them. As for performance I did have some minor issues with environments pumping in and more bugs in the average Assassin's Creed game but it should be mentioned that Ubisoft says some additional fixes will come in the day one patch.

Assassin's Creed origin is a type of game that gives you a deep dive into a truly stunning realization of ancient Egypt with a rich series of cultures, genuine characters and much more variety in campaign mission system than ever. The combat is challenging and thoughtful and there are enough different weapon types and enough enemy variety to keep you thinking. The RPG elements encourage challenges of their own and even despite a handful of bugs I desperately want to keep playing.


Assassin's Creed Origins is an action game full of adventure.The game is published by Ubisoft and developed by Ubisoft Montreal .It was released worldwide for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Microsoft Windows on October 27, 2017.

The game is based on the culture of Ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic period (48 BC) and describe the key imaginary history of real-world incidents.The in game story tells the origins of the centuries-long ancient wars between the Brotherhood of Assassins, who strongly fight for peace by publicizing  liberty.Origins got so many +tive reviews from users, who appreciate the characters, voice acting,story,reworked gameplay systems, outstandingly generating world of Egypt and therefore the visuals, while on the same time some -tive reviews about a number of the pacing and technical issues. the game has been acclaimed as either the easiest or one of the simplest installments in the assassins creed series by so many critics.



Minimum System Requirements :

OS : Windows 7,8,8.1,10 (64-bit Required)
CPU : AMD FX-6350  or Intel Core i5-2400s ( @ 3.9 GHz  or @ 2.5 GHz ) respectively
Graphics : AMD R9 270  or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
SYSTEM RAM : 6GB
Resolution : 720p or low
Video Preset : Lowest







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DISHONORED 2

No two playthroughs are the same in Dishonored 2 developer arcane has double down on the originals play your wave formula with two separate sets of skills a deep and multifaceted world and a dizzying array of level designs that affect your approach to every new area. Whether you select a stealthy or combat based approach all of your playthroughs is additionally to the wide selection of stories which will be told within dishonored 2’s wonderfully twisted universe.

15 years have gone since the events of the first dishonored and therefore the world of empress of the isles emily kaldwin is once more thrown into disarray when her evil aren't appears with suspicious designs on her throne. Its pedestrian catalyst to your most vital decision in Dishonored 2 will you play as Emily or her father and protect her Corvo attano though their stories play out in much the identical way with well-crafted and low-key dialogue altered to your character. You must choose wisely as it's a choice you would stuck with for the rest of your playthrough. It’s a smart call on our Caine's part as the developer has put a lot of focus on each character's individual skills both can work excellently in either a low chaos or high chaos playthrough despite their different supernatural skill sets. Both have the basic abilities to teleport a short distance choke out enemies and drop knockout enemies a welcome addition for those playing stealthily but beyond that they play very differently. You can use Emily's Domino power for example to take down several enemies at once lethally or non-lethal II or if you're playing as Corvo has been time ability allows for magnificent slow-mo kills or a quick impossible escape. Combine these with other abilities such as Emily's doppelgangers or corvo's possession and you can create some of dishonored 2’s best and most surprising moments.

The southern European kiss city of carnico is not only beautiful but it's dense with secrets and far more vertical than dishonored dunwall there are garden festive main paths, hidden entrances twisting alleyways and tall blood fly infested buildings. While I did notice some popin issues on the PlayStation 4 in open areas and one crash they were no deal-breakers and overall the detail arcane has managed to stuff into Dishonored 2 is astounding the gorgeous painterly art style that made the original so distinctive is in full effect here. The city feels alive too unlike the streets of the originals dunwall where a rat plague explained away their emptiness kanaka is thriving. NPCs beckon you over to give you an optional quest or you might stumble into a conflict in a black market or you'll overhear a couple of blood splattered Whalers discussing the repercussions of something you did a chapter or two ago. This encourages a constant drive to explore you are an assassin but there are always at least two ways to dispense with your mark and one of them can only be unlocked through careful examination of clues during my second playthrough I discovered vital information I breeze pass in my first and I imagine there will still be more to find in my third.

You can't lean too heavily on one approach however, because arcane keeps switching up central mechanics in each chapter that makes each one feel vital and distinct. In the dust district for example, billows of dust will obscure your vision every five minutes or so but it also blocks the guards giving you opportunities to slip by that don't exist on any of the map. Within the clockwork mansion the layout of every floor are often changed using levers allowing quick getaways or access to secret areas. within the Royal Conservatory you want to affect enemies who behave during a very different way than what you have been familiar with . Such uncertain additions to an already complicated world kept me always alert and since virtue is ultimately a binary choice in Dishonored 2 kill fewer NPCs and you will be allow to get a happier ending this focus is very important. Dishonored 2’s broader story is ultimately predictable if you're familiar with the first game. the protagonist standout thanks to their delightfully understated voice work but curiously decided whose biggest can tart is given to meet in foster captain of the ship that serves as your base in between missions keep an eye on her.

With two unique characters to play with themed chapters that keep things interesting and a gorgeous and evocative world that feels alive. Dishonored 2 is a remarkably flexible stealth and action game. Though I would have liked a little bit more ingenuity in its central story it's the stories that I've created on my own that I'll remember every graceful, fumbling and hilarious one of them I feel compelled to create many more in the months to come.


Minimum System Requirements :

CPU : Intel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320 or better.
RAM : 8 GB.
OS : Windows 7,8,8.1,10 (64-bit Required).
Graphics Card : NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB or better.
Storage : 60 GB  Free Space.





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