Recent reviews by a!bert

Wow - what a refreshing change of pace.

Tooth and Tail is a brilliantly executed spin on the RTS genre. I'm not sure anything with this vision has been made before.

Instead of demanding 150 APM to be played effectively, Tooth and Tail values nuance, strategy, decision-making and micro that is more complex than first appears. To be clear, I'm going to primarily review the multiplayer, although the campaign is great. The campaign is a decent length, a good story, laugh-out-loud funny and impressively challenging.

You control a Commander, that moves with WASD or the stick on your controller. You have access to up to six units, of varying 'tiers' and base defenses. You pick these anew every time you play, so you can experiment as much as possible.

Each player starts with a Gristmill and four farms - out of a maximum eight per mill. They run dry after five minutes, which contributes to the fast-paced gameplay. Most matches are under ten minutes.

It's a race to scout the map and choose your strategy on the fly - each game, the map is randomly generated.

You overwhelm your opponent with a combination of micro, decision-making, and planning. As you play, you develop a feel for economic timings, for whether or not your army can overcome your opponents, as well as understand new micro opportunities.

This game has only just come out, and the playerbase is small, but the developers are imminently going to patch crossplay with PS4 and GoG players, which will add to the multiplayer base.

This game isn't going to replace StarCraft, but it does deserve it's place in the genre and is well-worth picking up if you enjoy RTS's and having a go at. The ladder is forgiving, each game is over quickly so losses don't burn. This game is easy to learn, hard to master.

I highly recommend giving Tooth and Tail a try. It is worth the price.

A very, very enjoyable story-driven single-player game that gave me just under 3 hours of slow-burning, riveting gameplay. Highly recommend.

I mean, it's 79p. Pretend it's a game you'd play in an Arcade because that's pretty much what it is. A quick laugh, for the first 10 minutes, then it becomes extremely monotonous. The boss fights in particular take too long. A humourous game though, and ♥♥♥♥ it, 79p for a laugh is whatever.

It's AudioSurf. It's fun. It's cheap. Buy it for a cheap thrill

It's a fun game to play for a bit, but there isn't really that much replayability. I played it for 6 hours straight on a free weekend and bought it expecting to play it another time but never felt the need to. Worth picking up on the cheap for a quick thrill, much the same as a pint in a pub.

Quite possibly the greatest disappointment of all time, even if you think it's a good price at £4.15 for 2, it isn't. The game is tedious, overly complicated, looks awful and does not give you anywhere near enough satisfaction for your actions because half the time it seems so random.

Come on, it's Battlefield.