GameSpy writes: "Millions of years of evolution have led up to this point: Spore has finally wrapped development and will be shipping in early September. Over the past few months we've taken close looks at the early modes of the game, followed by some hands-on time with the tribal phase and the space phase. But during the annual Games Convention in Leipzig Germany, we had the opportunity to sit down undisturbed with the final version, and global conquest via the "civilization" phase of the game was the only thing on our minds.
The civilization phase kicks off once your tribal creatures have gained intelligence and founded a successful culture with a capital city. After a celebratory cut-scene, the camera pulls out to reveal your walled city in all its glory. Moreover, the entire planet is now your playground. The level kicks off with a short tutorial demonstrating how to maneuver around the spherical play space and play with the camera. We found it a little bit disorienting to play across the whole of the globe (it was very easy to get turned around), but after 10 minutes of play finding your way around becomes second nature."
Spiffy:
+Very elegant design with simple gameplay
+Complete customizability
+Cute sense of humor
Iffy:
-At first glance, the civilization mode has only very basic strategy
From Xfire: "Anyone who's played video games for a couple of years has stuck around long enough to stumble across a few weird ones. Some are even quite popular, which is all the more reason why you'll wonder what made the developers think about making such a game and why people are loving it, despite its weirdness anyway. Not all weird video games are head-scratches. Some are actually quite good."
The stick of truth is a must have for any South Park fans. I spent a good afternoon on Goat simulator, a rare real open world. I planned to try hatoful boyfriend since it was free on Ps Plus. Disco Elysium is on my radar since the final cut came out; as soon as there is a discount, i will take it. Like movies, i like weird games too :)
From Xfire: "The four-hour director's cut known as Zack Snyder's Justice League has led to the discussion of movies in the past that might have fared a whole lot better had they been released to be more in line with the original vision of their creators. But, as it turns out, cut content doesn't just happen in movies. In fact, the act of cutting content before the release date happens arguably just as often in video games as it does in cinema."
I can't believe they cut stuff from Skyrim. At release, it was a barebones game with a slight improvement in graphics.
"Now, before we proceed, we'd like to say that Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is one of the best video games ever made. It's not just a fine piece of gaming. It's one of the finest there is"
Really?
MGSV is easily the worst main line MGS game and not just because of cut story content, the open world is bare bones and there's hardly anything to do. It's repetitive, samey and is just lifeless. I appreciate the stealth mechanics, the animations and the way you can go with combat but it's not enough to keep me engaged the full way through.
Kojima should have done a twist and make the main chunk of the game a Metal Gear & Metal Gear 2 remake to bring the story full circle.
Story issues aside, V has amazing gameplay. I'm not sure what you're wanting out of the world in terms of "things to do", it's all the great gameplay the series has always had. Useless filler that other open worlds have like collecting flags and petting horses would have added nothing to that game.
THE TRUTH! I don't even know how that game gets praised. The previous ones were so much better.
While we have witnessed a lot of remakes, remasters and even sequels to games a decade old. There are still some gems that are close to my heart that are lost to me. Here are some classic games that I'd love to either see remakes or remasters of, or even a sequel on new hardware.
