Marchelo1988

The game is absolutely stunning. Overall, a huge improvement over Forza Horizon 4. Mexico was a clever decision by the devs as a map, since it offers a hell of a lot of landscape and climate variety, jaw dropping ancient ruins and a world of opportunities in combining all elements. The ammount of things to do in the game is at times overwhelming, but delivers in making you lose track of time doing small thing after small thing while driving to get to an event. The downside, for me, is that all the seasons, events and quests get a bit confusing and at some point get me burn out. But it's always an absolute joy to come back, especially if you can crank the graphics to the absolute max.

Assassin's Creed Origins is an immersive experience that renovated the AC formula and gameplay to expand in the open world-ness of the series and deliver a strong game with a good story and decent side quests. There is a good ammount of repetition in the open world nature of things, but yet it is enjoyable to beat the 30th camp of thieves and kill your 50th crocodile. Besides, the world is stunningly beautiful and offers a unique opportunity to live in the Egyptian era of Cleopatra.

An absolute wonder of an expansion. Although they don't add much new gameplay content per se, the four afterlife worlds are a marble to explore and experiencie, and the main pharaoh battles are trully challenging and fun.

It's fine, it expands on the main game but it doesn't add much to it other than more nice sightseeing. Worth playing if you're a fan.

What can be said of GTA Vice City about 18 years after its release? Not much about gameplay, art style or story that hasn't been said. I guess the best that can I can say is that this game was a staple of my delevopement as a gamer in my teenage years and up to my thirties remains as a reference that I wouldn't mind too much replaying. At least a bit, because, yes, it's undeniable that those graphics got outdated pretty fast.

On the bright side, the graphics are nice and clean, and for the first time in the Pokémon saga you can see some mons in the overworld, which mimics the trend started by Pokémon Go, hence it's called Let's Go, I guess? However, aside from that, the adaptation from the first gens is kinda lazy. Although it is nice to see your buddies follow you around, the whole game feels shallow. Green, Red, Blue and Yellow were tough games, especially while levelling up, and Let's Go makes it just... super easy. So much easy that's almost boring. Got it. Beat it and forget it. However, as a plus for many players, this one actually features chaining for shiny hunting and with Pokémon Home you can transfer them to the new gen games, which is nice.

Fall Out is set to be a short-lived mainstream surprise. It captured a lot of attention with its super simple but good fun gameplay set for for a great multiplayer experiencie, with up to 60 players at once, which is a lot! However, despite being fun and nicely unpretentious, it is undeniably repetitive, and while it poses a good incentive for a quick refreshing play at times, I believe it will fade out fast, because it doesn't have much more to offer than Risk, Monopoly or any other classic board game.

Being a free to play (with microtransactions) game intended to be able to be run in many computers for friends to play it in different builts, the graphics are not the best but that can be absolutely forgiven. It developed into a pay-to-win, but surely delivered many hours of fun with friends (even If I **** at shooters) with its non-conventional gameplay tactics that allowed for different playing styles and approeaches. And even if it's not a remarkable game, I believe that's a compliment for any shooter.

Okay, let's get first off the table that the gameplay is not the best and the graphics were not edgy for 2012, but this is hands down one of the best shooters ever made. Because, let's face it, shooters usually struggle to implement its mechanics into a great story. Spec Ops: The Line not only does that but inmerses you into a unique environment and a breath-taking story that let's you asking yourself fundamental questions of life, as the game wants to. If you are the kind of player that can let aside the less polished aspects of gameplay and graphics, this game is trully a must play.

If you combine impressive graphics (for 2002), a compelling story, a great open world environment (It has to be taken into account that this one was released prior to the ground-breaking GTA Vice City), good gameplay and diverse missions (from shooting to stealth to driving), you get one of the greatest games of the decade.

I've seen music websites write re-visited reviews of iconic albums years in the time because they had been mistreated in their time, and maybe this should be done with online services videogames too. If it is the case, Pokémon Go surely deserves it. The server errors have been long gone and the bugs are scarce at this point, in january 2021. The fact that almost five years later the game retains a HUGE playerbase tells you it is, if not a, per se, masterpiece, a tremendous success. The main mechanics have not changed, but the game now has lots of features, including the long-demanded trading and PvP, plus mega evolutions, daily tasks, and discovery missions. Sure, it has microtransactions, but I belive this is a legit monetisation method in free to play games, contrary to in 60-dollar games. Of course in the experience makes an impact the fact that the game has been able to form local communities and anyone who has made new friends while playing it will probably tell you that, despite some milor flaws (I have to mention an inconsistent anti-cheat enforcement) Pokémon Go is already a remarkable and iconic game in the franchise.

Dead Space captivated me like no other horror survival shooter had been able to in the past. As a disclaimer, I'll say I'm not a fan of the subgenre, although I've tried games such as Metro 2033. This one, though, wow. Probably to say I'm not a fan of the subgenre tells you as much as you need to know to try this one if you haven't. I played it in 2015 and the graphichs, come on, I could no tell the game was 7 years old at the time. The plot, the environment, the quality of the bosses. It is as remarkable as it gets. The leviathan remains in my nightmares years later.

FIFA 98 retains a cult following even more than 20 years later. And that's a lot to say. Personally, it is the only FIFA I have replayed, specifically back in 2008 or 2010. The futsal scenario was particularly unique, and the ability to tackle the keeper and get a straight red card -that was quickly disabled the following years- has been a community fun-favorite for decades now.

FIFA 15 marked a significant progress in terms of graphics and gameplay. Although with familiar flaws, the re-do and new Frostbite engine showed and everythihg felt improved. To me, it was a huge step forward although it maybe marked a start in the worsening of pace inclination that sent kinda slow star players into ostracy in Ultimate Team, such as Toni Kroos or Sergio Busquets.