Recent reviews by viva

Easily my favorite game of 2015.

The most detailed open world game to grace your screen. It's absolutely gorgeous and you'll often catch yourself just admiring the beautiful city and the reflections of it off the water at night. You'll watch the beautiful yet small amusement park on the pier just watching the lights animate. You'll want to walk around the suburbs looking at the beautiful graffti. It feels like every area of the city has its own story to tell. I have 200+ hours logged and I still love just driving around in the mountains and looking at the city from afar. It's just so beautiful. I can not praise this game's attention to detail enough.

Rockstar managed to turn their reputation around after the god awful GTAIV port with GTAV. It's impeccable. Runs solid, great options and again it's a looker. There are a few bugs with it, mostly related to the raw mouse input which sucks, but otherwise a++.

It's true that the online experience isn't stellar, however I haven't even bothered with public lobbies anyways. It's better experienced with friends rather than trying to deal with people who are going to drive around in their Kuruma and be pricks and shoot at you. Hardly fun. When you stick with friends it becomes a lot more fun and enjoyable. If you don't have friends who own GTAV then it may not be worth your time to bother with the game.

The single player experience is great. A lot of memorable characters such as Lamar who is hilarious. Rockstar continues their trend of dark tone writing but it's a lot brighter than GTAIV's story. I loved Franklin the most but all the characters are great.

This is easily my weakest review but it should come as little surprise to anyone who knows me. I love Grand Theft Auto. It's my favorite series.

Sue me.

Dying Light was one of my favorite games to play this year.

The brutal savage combat, the gore and the parkour system are just extremely remarkable. It feels like a game that was designed and curated by a team with a distinct vision and boy does it feel like it. Slicing a zombie or a bad guy in half is extremely satisfying. It's hard to really explain. I really enjoyed climbing up the skill trees expanding quite a bit of the gameplay. Extremely enjoyable.

I personally enjoyed the story but I've not played a lot of zombie games myself (really just a small handful) but others have said it's rather clichéd. It's up to you to decide if that's a major factor. However on the flipside the side quests are impeccable. They have their own small stories that develop with interesting characters with their own little quirks. I actually enjoyed meeting a lot of the characters and the side quests that weren't always the exact same because of some added magic (Rupert's quests are the best).

The DLC is a harder sell. The free updates they've done are fantastic but the paid stuff is really weak. The Bozak Horde I completed solo to get all the arrows bar the explosive ones. I don't know if I will put in the extra effort to bother with the explosive arrows, frankly. It's just a timed mode with a 3 life limit. It's really not that fun. Supposedly designed for co-op but I didn't want to subject friends to it. The other DLC is just a few skins and I think a few weapons? The skins are okay... nothing great. The weapons aren't that interesting. That being said the last DLC (that's a part of the season pass) is looking to be utterly fantastic. A whole new map. A dune buggy. I'm looking forward to it and it will justify the purchase of the season pass for me (I got the game at 50% off).

On the negative aspects I found that co-op was kind of annoyingly done. The constant confirmation for stuff from the other player (especially them being right there) was rather annoying. Especially just for picking up quests. The dialog in the loading screen is cut off in multiplayer too. I had an achievement bug that I don't think is fixed just yet but I'm not in the second area yet. Which is annoying. The game is also incredibly difficult in single player which didn't deter me too much but can definitely get frustrating for some.

Overall a great experience IMO. Well worth it.

Good night and good luck.

This game is extremely short so I recommend only buying on a big discount. My playtime is 100%ing the game completely (no DLC)

It's an enjoyable little game however. The animations are cute and the gameplay variety is a bit shallow but for the amount of playtime it works just fine.

Developer is very active on the forums helping people with any issues they may have. The game itself is great fun if you enjoy spelling. Been having a lot of fun with it, personally. The new soundtrack is fantastic, IMO. Endless mode is great too!

Highly recommended.