Plague Inc.: Evolved (Early Access)

 

Genre: Strategy, simulation

Developer: Ndemic Creations

Release Date: 20. Feb. 2014

EXTERMINATE!!!EXTERMINATE!!!EXTERMINATE!!!

Who wouldn't dream about destroying humanity? Who isn't affraid that someday a new virus appears that wipes us out? Well in this game you can create your own pathogen, mutate it and spread it so it kills everyone on Earth.

This game was developed from the earlier mobile game, Plague Inc, and adds a couple new features. Create a pandemic that started from a single little bacteria or fungus or virus, choose whatever you would like and mutate it into a serial killer. One person doesn't wash hands, next one already infected and so on. It's a simple simulation, if not played on harder difficulties it's not too challangeing.
WARNING! The games content is not full, still early access, but it is stable, and they are planning in the next weeks to add multiplayer.

The overall look is beautiful and detailed, 3D models of the viruses, pretty pictures of cities, many diagrams ad graphs, nice color scheme. So name your epidemic and the apocalypse can begin.

There are three ways you can customize it, collecting evolution points and using them to mutate symptoms, resistances and other aspects which help you make it spread faster, make it more lethal and slow down the cure. Yor only "enemy" is the CDC, where they are developing the cure. It is your job to be faster than them if you don't want any nasty remaining humans to survive.Spread it continentally, through water and air, infect those rats and flies.

I think it will be worth to wait for all the components, just hope a Unicorn virus doesn't attack us till then.

Final Score:

6/10

Gone Home Review

Genre: Simulation, Exploration, Interactive story

Fullbright Company, 2013

Trailer

At first I was excited to play this game. I'm a big fan of exploration games, although most of them are horror games, which I don't always have the mood for. So I was looking forward to this game, how cool I can explore a house, find out a story... But after 5 minutes playing the game I was pretty disappointed. This game is nowhere close to exciting, innovative, or any good aspect.

Bad :
- Boring, simple story
- Bad graphics
- Boring puzzles

Good:
- The exploration style is good

The Graphics

Compared to nowadays games, this game looks pretty crappy. There are many decorations, and stuff in the house, but non of them look anything special. It's like the designers didn't even try. Just took a simple house and made it into 3D, undetailed, boring scenes.Maybe they wanted a realistic environment, but this is nothing I call realistic.

The gameplay

The game doesn't need much time, maybe 3 hours max. You just go around the house, with some little puzzles to solve, but not much brain activity needed for them, grab a couple of objects, read some notes, and that's it. You beat th game. If you just want to look around a house and several objects from a families life (a pretty boring life), then this is your game. The only good thing in this game is the exploration itself. If it would have been with more interesting items, and story this could have been a good game.

The story

Many people say this game is so great because it is so emotional, and has a sad, dark story. But I think this is just a simple story of an everyday family. When I saw that the father is a writer, I thought hey maybe there is something interesting about him, or his books, but not even that.

The mood

Those flickering lights, the sounds of tht thunder... It makes you feel like you are playing a horror game. It just doesn't go with the story. Maybe if the story took place in a warm sunset, that would have made tha game more enjoyable. The horrorific elements have nothing to do with this game. There are too kinds of music, the rock music from the tapes, an element what I finally liked, and the ambient background music.

Final Verdict

This game seems like a quick toss off of a couple elements, but not put enough thought into it. This could have been a great game, maybe with a better, more interesting story. I don't say there has to be supernaural, fantasy, or horror elements, but if none of these is present you need a pretty good story for a video game. And this one is not. I don't know why it got such big scores on IGN and Metacritic. This game doesn't deserve to be between games like Bioshock Infinite, and get even higher than so much better games. 

Final score

3/10

The Sims 4 First Official Gameplay Trailer

Genre: Life simulation

Publisher: EA Games

Everybody likes messing with the little people in the Sims games. In 2014 will come the next game (which I can't wait for)

Character creation

I always had trouble with sliders, this new way of sculpting them, like you can sculpt clay, looks really great. Much simpler than with the sliders, this looks so much better than in the other Sims.
+ you can customize their movement.
I would like to see more about new clothes, maybe accesories. I hope there will be lots and lots of them, maybe alien and zombie skin... (I bet there will be an expansion for stuff like this)

Emotions

This is quite new, I can't wait to play with their emotions (I like playing God in games). Also like the voodoo doll revenge.
+ the environment affects them more than before.

Building

Big + that you can move rooms. I had sometimes trouble with building a room and then wanting to relocate it but didn't had the mood to rebuild the whole room. Always planned to build huge houses with interesting architecture, but maybe in this one I will already do it.

This game looks really promising. I like that characters aren't too realistic, I think that would have ruined the game. I can't wait for more gameplay, and the game.

This trailer made me to reinstall Sims 3...