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To begin with, my specs;
I5 4690 @ 3.5ghz
Geforce GTX 960 2GB
8GB DDR3
5400rpm HDD

After initially loading into a lobby, I instantly noticed framerate issues, sound and player model lag. PUBG recommended I put my graphics towards the medium/low end of the spectrum, which is fair as my computer specs lean towards the “minimum” side of things. Instantly, when all the players were loaded into the plane, the framerate dropped below 30. My game froze for a solid 15 seconds before I realised I had ejected out of the plane and was plummeting towards the Earth. When I landed, my game continued to freeze, as the textures loaded from potato quality, to the actual quality I expected. A very disappointing result, which was further backed up by continuous frame drops and even the game crashed when I attempted to open my inventory. Fast forward three games, I still had the same issues of textures not loading and continuous framerate drops.

It is important to understand that this game is poorly optimised for low-end PC's. A game should not freeze for +- 2 minutes while waiting for textures to load, while constantly getting "Network lag". Pretty poor performance and very annoyed, but an enjoyable game when it decides to work.

Aside from my technical issues, the gameplay itself is sound. I thoroughly enjoyed one game, making it to top 10 when I got two-tapped with a pistol outside of the zone and died by the gas. While there were a variety of guns and various items, I certainly noticed a lack of attachments for weapons. This is probably just my bad luck ha ha ha (It cost me a game). Regardless of my issues, PUBG is a very exciting and thrilling game, well worth the full price of 30USD.

~~~ 22/10/18

still a buggy and poorly optimized game. kinda fun lol

edit almost 2 years later 30-5-20

game has been killed in oceania due to their ignorance. adding bots to this game is the worst thing thats ever happened. what a shame as this game was fire when it came out.

rip

This game is so good. Went from 15 min to 256 hours from a glitch.


10/10. Would make me look like a lowlife again.

Lmao.

Asked for gold from Russia, they declined. I dropped a nuke on Moscow in disgust - all 16 countries declared war on me.

10/10.

Dishonored is a first person stealth action game were you play as Corvo Attano. He is the bodyguard of the Empress of the Isles but you are framed for her murder and now have to become an assassin to seek revenge and save her daughter who was kidnapped in the process.

You are freed from prison by the Loyalists who are a resistance group that seek to take the city of Dunwall back. Your first night out you are visited by a mysterious character called The Outsider while you sleep. He burns his mark on your hand and imbues you with special powers to help you through your missions.

I was just enjoying the campaign so much, till I got to the point where the Loyalists betrayed me and decided to poison Corvo. But you are then saved by Sam the good ol' boatman who only uses half the poison. I killed Sam in the final mission because he was a tad ♥♥♥♥♥♥ because he was ordering me off his bat. But still, hes a good lad. R.I.P Sam who once tried to poison me.


These missions can be completed in a variety of ways. You can sneak through all the levels without killing anyone or go ahead and kill them all. Why not try a little of both if you feel like it. The only thing is the more you kill the more chaos will ensue. With more chaos you’ll see more rats and more plagued citizens. There are also small side missions you can complete to earn other goodies to help you out.

Your weapons consist of a small sword, a crossbow, or your bare hands which can silently take out your enemies or help you in moments of confrontation. Another thing you can do is peek through keyholes to see what may be on the other side which can help you choose how you will accomplish things. You are also given a choice of ten supernatural powers which five are active and five are passive. You will need to find runes to unlock more powers or upgrade them. There are also 40 different bone charms to help enhance your powers or abilities.

The supporting cast were well voiced and had many likable and unlikable characters. Everyone was well voiced which always helps add to the immersion. The story was pretty good but I just never really understood what the whole purpose of the Outsider was. I’m not sure if I missed something in the end but I felt all he really did was give you some powers and then never explain why. I also felt a there really wasn’t much to see since most of the game was basically in one area.

The main con for this game is some of the scenes played on easy difficulty are just so damn hard and I've spent at least an hour on one scene attempting to get through.

Overall Dishonored was a great game to play and would love to see a sequel perhaps that may explain more about the Outsider. Maybe even add more missions to flesh the game out some more just not ones that make it feel like it’s just filler. If you haven’t played Dishonored yet then now is the time since the game can be picked up for cheap and it’s worth the money. If there was a sequal, I would happily pay full price for him, I would just hope that sequel would have more of the Outsider in it, so he wasn't a ghostly figure who gave you powers.

My Rating - 9.5/10

Ok. Where do I begin?

Halp?

Well to start off my review I'm going to say that I've been a Tom Clancy fan ever since Conviction and earlier. I had faith in Blacklist and I desire another Splintercell. But first, lets talk about Blacklist...

The Blacklist campaign is basically Sam Fisher working for 4th Echelon (founded by the President) and are working towards taking down the so called Engineers - a terrorist group who launch attacks on American every seven days. As you may have guessed, Sam and a few new other people (Charlie - the technology dude, Briggs - the best agent that came from some random place I can't remember - Helpful right?) are trying to stop these attacks and stop America from basically being destroyed...

The graphics are amazing, especially on high settings. The SMI intergration with the game is amazing and I really like how you can actively choose whether to do Campaign, COOP, or these other missions which I can't remember, so this review is gonna be SO helpful...

But there is one thing I missed sorely in this game - The interrorgation scenes. In Conviction, you could either smash a terrorist head into a toilet, burn their face on a stove or just punch them loads of times. Either way, you somehow beat the answers out of them. But does Blacklist have that? No. :( You just get the choice whether to kill or spare. The gadgets are fun and exciting to use. But you have to buy the game to know what I mean...

I may not have covered all aspects of the game, but I believe these are the most important.
There is so much more to discover in this game and I hope one day, you will be the one discovering...

No rating. Because this game is too good. :)

Playing this game is rather like watching the proverbial train wreck: you'll be horrified, but you can't look away. This is in no way a bad thing. Spec Ops wants to tell a story about soldiers in war. But unlike games such as Call of Duty, it doesn't want you to feel like an awesome, unstoppable killing machine that's fighting terrorism FOR 'MERICA!!!' or whatever; it wants you to see that war is not glamorous, awesome, fun, or desirable. It wants you to see the terrible toll that combat can exact on those who experience it. And above all, it wants you to see that in real conflict, there are no "good guys" and "bad guys," and the world is full of gray areas. War is hell, and anyone who goes in will either join the fortunate dead...or have to live with what they've done to survive.

While I enjoyed the storyline, I felt sad, very sad at parts. The graphics are amazing, worth getting. Because this game tells a story. A sad story about war.


10/10. With sad moments.

I was expecting the typical RPG like Runescape. Cheap, waste of time (Runescape was free) and utter crap. But no, this game ticks all the boxes. The classes to choose from all have there pros and cons. The music adds a sense of harmony and tension to the game, let alone it is beautiful. I personally love the combat skills and the scenary. I would recommend this game to ANYONE. It's amazing, singleplayer and all. Please, please, please do buy it and enjoy yourself!

10/10 and still playing!

Go suck a ♥♥♥♥ if you hate Battlefield and or EA/Dice,

This game is absolutely amazing, the storyling is really gripping, in the way the characters personalities shine so brightly. The storyline is so perfectly written, the Aurora mission at the start, set in WW2, then later in the campaign you find out what ACTUALLY happened, after hearing what happened at the Aurora mission made me feel a little empty inside. It's really amazing. I can't stress that enough.

The humor makes me smile, and it all ties in well with the story. The hippie helicopter pilot is so damn funny. Hippies as pilots - you don't see that very often.

The graphics for this game are definitely not what I expected - meaning that they ticked all the boxes. Compare this to CoD Ghosts, Ghosts looks like a Flappy bird. The sound is intense. The guns are amazingly real - they feel as if you are playing real life. It's a bit like a simulation, its THAT good.

I know now days, EA is starting to decline. They've gotten themselves a reputation of lousy finishes before releasing a new game. Thig game may seem old, but to me, this felt like a 2014 game. For this reason, being BETTER than Battlefield 3/4, this is my favourite game.

Now days, the multipalyer is slack, there are no servers - no one plays. But, when you join an empty game. It's still fun to go round blowing up buildings. So the multiplayer is a downside, but that can't be fixed. This is still I think one of the best shooter games in gaming history.

Please, go buy this game and have fun, because you WILL have fun. 5 hours into the storyline, I sense the storyline is coming to a close. By all means its worth buying.

10/10 - EA, you made a good game - for once.