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Dead age is one of quite a few zombie games released in the last few years which sees you gathering a group, improving a base/town and improving your teams equipment as you face greater challenges and attempt to survive or escape to safety. There are various locations to explore. Each one has 20 zones with progressively harder enemies. There are a decent variety here, including zombies, wild animals, other unfriendly groups of survivors (referred to as punks) as well as soldiers. Fights are fought out in turn based fashion much like in Final Fantasy 7 (as the developers mention in the steam page). You can attack with either melee or ranged weapon, use one of your combat skills or use an item from your inventory. After each battle you get semi-random loot such as armor, ammo, food or medical supplies or a random event where you can choose how to act to potentially get rewards as well. Many of these have a chance to succeed based on which skills you have upgraded on your...

As with the other AAA games where you can find 1000s of reviews online about I'm going to keep this one short and just give a few thoughts on this one. Call of Duty: World of War is an impressive technical accomplishment. Dozens of men and vehicles will act pretty intelligently and you really feel part of the action. The graphics are also very good- seeing a head and limbs being blown off from close range is very impressive. There are also a number of different guns to use. But is it any fun?   I would say yes and no. There are two stories being followed. I found the American missions through the islands of Asia pretty boring. The fighting through the ruined streets and buildings of Europe was better. The best ones were those that switched things up a bit. In one Russian mission you need to focus entirely on sniping. In another you are controlling a tank. There was only one American mission which was a bit different- in it you control turrets on a plane trying to rescue sol...

Banner Saga combines a choose your own adventure style visual novel with tactical battles. The story has a Viking legend setting and the story alternates between you controlling two caravans containing various heroes as well as a number of Varl, fighters and other men. One of the caravans sees Varl (Giant humanoids) accompanying the human prince to the Varl capital to make an alliance against the monstrous dredge who are moving south to threaten all as they had done in the past. You are introduced to a lot of characters very quickly and I feel this takes a bit away from building a connection with them. The second caravan is a more personal story. Here we meet a hunter, Rook and his daughter who find dredge close to and later attacking their home town. They lead survivors across the continent in search of a safe place to resettle. While travelling various semi-random events will occur and you will have to choose how to respond to them. Some will lead to possible losses or the gai...

Like last year when I started with Alien vs Predator I've gone with another FPS to kick things off. Alpha Protocol sees you play a spy for a shadowy government agency. You are sent to look into links between arms companies and terrorist organisations. I'm sure it will surprise no one to find you will be betrayed and end up fighting for your life against that very agency. Taking inspiration from Deus Ex, Alpha protocol has some RPG elements and as you gain xp you can gain levels in various weapons skills such as shotguns and rifles as well as engineering and hacking. You will also be able to improve your weapons as you make money during missions. The graphics are not too bad but the levels are not very well designed. The outdoor locations are particularly linear and the enemy ai is not very smart. The only real challenge is the poor controls with the camera moving erratically from time to time. The minigames for hacking computer systems, turning off alarms an...

Wolf Among Us is another one in the Telltale games series of  adventure games. It is set in the world of the Fables graphic novels in which characters from famous fairy tales live among us in the "real" world. You play BBB or the big bad wolf who is a detective. You are trying to get to the bottom of a series of murders which occur during the game. You will meet characters such as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Snow White and the Little Mermaid as you travel to various locations to uncover clues. The game plays out much like Game of Thrones and The Walking dead with  a lot of dialogue, some fights which rely on quick time events and exploration where you look for and combine various items. I enjoyed the sombre atmosphere and the choices you you have to make of which locations to search and who to talk to gives a reason to replay certain sections.  The game is overpriced at $25 dollars but worthwhile to buy on sale or as part of the Telltale games bundle. ...

I haven't played any sports games as part of this series- mainly because there's no real "finishing" them. You would have to set your on target for what is considered completing PES or Football manager or a NBA or MLB game. But Virtua Tennis has a 1 season world tour mode so that makes life easier. In it you move around a board game like map, using movement tickets to choose where to stop. There are training minigames, practice matches, various levels of tournaments as well as other events to boost your fame (which is basically your score you are trying to maximise. These all use up your energy so every once in a while you need to stop at hotels Training sessions give you points towards specific styles you can unlock and also improve your maximum condition which is important so you can play more matches and do more events without resting. They also give you some money to buy additional movement tickets, recovery tickets, agents which boost your fame gain an...

This is the second of the Panzer general type games I played in the A-Z challenge. The first one was Frontline- Road to Moscow. This is a mobile game port and their aren't that many missions. Like Panzer general it's a turn based hex strategy where you have a certain number of turns to capture strategic locations (usually cities or towns) You play as either the Germans or Russians. In most you are searching for weakpoints so you can break through the lines, surround enemies if possible and then head for the objectives. In others it is a bit more open and you must rush to objectives but making sure you don't get flanked and cut off yourself. In the campaign you get points after each mission depending on how well you did. You can use these points in later missions to requisition additional units. I think the best thing about it is the supply system. If you are out of supply range then your units become less effective. After 3 turns they are comple...