Tag Archives: Game Review

Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions (PS4), Game Review

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions is a twin-stick shooting game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. Geometry Wars started out life as a mini-game upon the release of Project Gotham Racing 2 on November 17th 2003 and was accessible via the in-game garage, which due to the positive reception it received from players was spun off into its own game called Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved and has since continued as its own successful series of games. Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions was developed by Lucid Games who rose from the ashes of the unfortunately disbanded Bizarre Creations that had developed the Project Gotham Racing series and began the Geometry Wars series as well as some excellent titles through the years such as Formula One, Formula 1 ’97, Metropolis Street Racer, Fur Fighters, The Club, Blur and James Bond 007: Blood Stone, therefore proving Bizarre Creation’s and Lucid Games’ pedigree as excellent games developers and one of the best Liverpool based developers of all-time in the videogames industry.

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(2463 words, 3 images, estimated 9:51 mins reading time)

Don’t Die, Mr. Robot (PS Vita), Game Review:

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Don’t Die, Mr. Robot is an arcade game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS Vita. Infinite State Games tend to develop fun games such as 2012’s Shepherd: Mars Needs Sheep and 2013’s Frutorious that both have concepts just as unique as Don’t Die, Mr. Robot.

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(1391 words, 3 images, estimated 5:34 mins reading time)

Styx: Master Of Shadows (PS4), Game Review:

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5 out of 10

Styx: Master of Shadows is a third-person stealth based action adventure game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4.  The game is a spin-off of the RPG game Of Orcs and Men which was released in 2012 having also been developed by Cyanide Studio as well as another fantasy inspired game in the form of Blood Bowl which pits a variety of species from humans to orcs, elves, dwarves and more in a no-holds barred game of American Football in huge stadiums.

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(2410 words, 3 images, estimated 9:38 mins reading time)

The Last Tinker: City of Colors (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9 out of 10

The Last Tinker: City of Colors is a platform game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. The game has an ambition to rekindle the classic and much loved 3D platforming genre that was synonymous, but can it fully realize what it sets out to achieve?

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(2175 words, 3 images, estimated 8:42 mins reading time)

The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season (PS4), Game Review.

Game Review: The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season (PS4)

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9 out of 10

The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season is a third-person episodic adventure game available from retail stores and for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4, PS3 and PS Vita. The Walking Dead began life in 2003 as a comic book series by Robert Kirkman and has since saw that success transcend to television with a series based upon the story of the comics that sees Rick Grimes, his family, friends and group of survivors attempt to come to terms with an apocalyptic breakout of zombies, referred to as walkers. The success of the television series has also transcended to the videogame adaptation that saw The Walking Dead win over ninety Game of the Year awards with mass critical acclaim from the gaming media across the world.

The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season (PS4), Game Review. full post

(3229 words, 3 images, estimated 12:55 mins reading time)

Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5 /10

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is a first-person shooter game available from retail stores and for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. The Call of Duty series originated on October 29th 2003 with the release of the very first version of the game on Windows in which the Call of Duty brand has since spanned numerous consoles and become one of the most successful and highest grossing entertainment franchises of all time as proved by the close to 200,000,000 units sold across all eleven major entries into the Call of Duty series between the original in 2003 through the story arcs of Modern Warfare trilogy and Black Ops games to Call of Duty: Ghosts in 2013 and Advanced Warfare having already sold millions itself with many spin-offs along the way too, alongside the billions of hours of online multiplayer gameplay logged throughout the series. The major question entering Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare must be if the new iteration brings anything new to the table to genuinely reinvent the series.

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(4375 words, 4 images, estimated 17:30 mins reading time)

Lone Survivor: The Director’s Cut. (PS4) Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9 out of 10

Lone Survivor: The Director’s Cut is a psychological survival horror adventure game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. The sub-title of the game is rather appropriate as this is an extended version of the cult indie game by Jasper Byrne, which was originally released in Europe on March 27th 2012 and America on April 23rd 2012 for the P.C., Mac and Linux with PS3 and Vita releases following on September 24th 2013.

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(2423 words, 3 images, estimated 9:42 mins reading time)

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9 out of 10

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is a third-person shooter game available from retail stores and for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. Plants vs. Zombies originated as a tower defence game released for Windows on May 5th 2009 before being ported to a range of platforms including PS3 and PS Vita. It must be appreciated that after two successful Plants vs. Zombies games; PopCap have attempted to spin the franchise off in a new direction as a third-person shooter, but is it a risk that has paid off?

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(3349 words, 2 images, estimated 13:24 mins reading time)

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9.5 out of 10

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is a third-person and first-person detective adventure game available from retail stores and for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. The game is based upon the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes who was created by the Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with the character evolving in his status ever since the original novel A Study in Scarlet was published in 1887 and The Sign of the Four in 1890 with serialisations and short stories following until the second set of stories came to a climax in 1927. Since the original incarnation of Sherlock Holmes there have been numerous theatre productions, television and film adaptations from across the world with videogames being another popular form of adaptation.

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(3074 words, 4 images, estimated 12:18 mins reading time)

Destiny (PS4), Game Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Destiny is a hybrid of an open world first-person shooter and role playing game in an online connected world available from retail stores and for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4. The new release naturally had a lot of high expectations with it being a partnership between the publisher Activision who own the behemoth first-person shooter franchise Call of Duty and developed by Bungie who was responsible for the success of Halo. However, can Destiny live up to such a high level of anticipation from all of the publicity it has generated over the last year and a half since the big reveal on February 17th 2013 via the video documentary titled Pathways Out of Darkness: A Destiny ViDoc and at the reveal of the PlayStation 4 at PlayStation Meeting on February 20th 2013 which has resulted in it becoming the most pre-ordered new franchise to date in the history of videogames?

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(5207 words, 4 images, estimated 20:50 mins reading time)