Recent reviews by ICS

Interesting story and aesthetics but not too much to my taste to craft everything and such.

Very good game, but on some missions (with the avatar characters only) the difficulty is up the roof way to the heaven even on easiest difficulty setting. Still 23 hours of best gaming ive had for years.

Hitman series never gets old. Even though its the same pattern over the years, the missions get way more interesting and complicated. Though some missions are made in same maps, just persons change. I know its very hard to design a big map with everything working and such so i understand that.

Anyway, its a great game for sane people.

Pros: Fun to play, exciting.

Cons: Crashes a lot, eats memory like a pig, lags like hell at times. Damn annoying that weapons dont stay loaded when you drop the same weapon to the ground. Also, having single fire as default is NOT a good design choice. Changing it to autofire is better, because you assume its on autofire when you pick it up.

EDIT 27th of June 2018:

Crashing has reduced, due to getting more memory. However, the hit detection of players has gone to crap. Theres too much blood spatter, and no damage to players. You even have time to go behind rocks, woods and such and then second later you're downed by a bullet.

All the anticheat solutions are slowing this game down as well as server performance which has gone really down, especially on the round starts. The more powerfull machine you have, the better you seem to be recovering from the lag itself as the anticheat runs on players PC and causes delay.

The sanhok pass is just a money drain, couple of free items and many other good ones that you cannot even keep those good items they give you to try on. There is no actual content to satisfy the 9,99€ pricetag.

I no longer recommend this game, untill these issues have been fixed.

Not the best game in Hitman series. There isn't as many missions as you would assume, based on the previous games count. Graphics are nice and levels are designed to look good but the mission side is more weak. Not too many ways to complete contracts without killing anyone.

Gameplay is what it is due to controls. Unlogical to me when you have scissors, saw, knife, katana, whatever in hand and hitman wont hit anyone by pressing mouse1 or mouse2 but instead Q. The fighting is ridiculous due to aswd combination. I know from muscle memory that those are great on moving but NOT for fighting.

Also creating or playing online contracts is somewhat hard. I tried creating a contract and got disconnected after 5 mins from the hitman servers. My own connection was fine and i do not seem to be only one with this problem. In previous hitman game, there was no issues with this.

I assume they are going to sell us 2nd season with same amount of level, but the price is double compared to what you woudl have received in the past with the game. If you get it, get it from sale like i did.

Stay away, even if you liked previous games.

I played first episode, all was fine. The beginning was odd but thankfully it got better. Then i tried to start EP2 and all i get is indefinite loading screen. Loading cursor spins on lower right corner and screen is blank, nothing happens. This is the end for me for this game. Game has been loading all this time i've typed this review and still it's not loading. I tried restarting game many times but still nothing.

Other cons:

Whose bright idea was to force v-sync on? Because i missed things due to it slowing down key presses aka input from the keyboard.

Another idiotic thing is to move stuff that was in previous games, such as percentage on what you did vs others behind telltale network account. No, i dont want to create an account for that. Give me those freely and not just 4 option summary.

With dual screen monitor setup, game does not lock your mouse on the game screen. it slides to the other monitor. Very annoying at times when you need to move your mouse to do things at the edge of the screen or yank the mouse as the game tells you to.

This looks like a pretty good game visually but the gameplay is not what youi expect it to be. As a PC player, you feel sort of limited in combats. Once you attack someone, it's very hard to combat against 2 other enemies coming at you. I feel like this is dumbed down for the console pads - on pc, you kind of can do faster movement and react at spesific enemies more easily. Or atleast you should be.

Anyone who has played Witcher 3 knows what i'm talking about when it comes to battling multiple enemies at the same time. You can easily swap a target but in Ryse, that is slower and not always working like the way you wanted it to be. You can't always stop the guys coming behind you, no matter how fast you are trying to move against them from current enemy. It could be worse though, like in "Remember me" game where controls were hideous.

But, it's still worth the 4,99e i paid for it on the Christmas sale.

One of the best games i've played in a long time. Very much taking all of your time if you let it. 5/5 and can recommend.

Turok is an excellent game originally developed for Nintendo 64. There was also a PC port and i guess this Steam version originates from that one. Graphics are still from 1997 but the game is not. It has several visual improvements, such as less foggy feeling and less laggy gameplay. It's also more brighter.

Downsides of this port are the steep price of it and there's several fun bugs missing, such as the grenade launcher shot against dead enemies. In the N64 version, even though they were dead, they were still screaming when you shot them while they flew in the air. As for the grenade launcher, thats a very deadly weapon, against yourself. Even if you think you are outside of the grenade explosion radius, you are still inside it. I do not remember grenade doing this much damage on yourself.

The later levels are just pipes you run in, the jungle levels are the best ones. You can even explode a tree off against enemy. The enemies have basic health count, there are no headshots. This game also uses very rare death animations that really no game besides goldeneye on N64 had.

Good game, get it if you can get it under 10€, do not get it with the current price, unless you are really old timer.

Good game, lots of explosions and mayhem. Kind of short on main story but hey it's only a small standalone DLC anyway. Still, worth playing.

What i didn't like in it:
- playing on 144Hz monitor while framerate is capped at 60fps, it causes VERY ANNOYING lagging feeling. If you have 144 monitor, i'd reconsider buying or atleast forcing 60Hz on to your monitor.