Ozzy0071

Fallout 4 is an amazing game. This is not the type of game that comes out every year, and you can tell how much effort and work has gone into creating it. The world is beautifully detailed. The character creator is one of the best from any game that I have played. The story is intriguing. I cannot think of one bad thing to say about this game. Your character is the only survivor of Vault 111, in Boston (called "the Commonwealth"), after a nuclear holocaust. The new character creator is very powerful and very fun to use. This is one game that, when you picture in your mind what you would like your character to look like, you can actually make it. Even if you are not happy with your design, there are a few opportunities to change it before you get into the main game, and you can get facial reconstruction surgery at any point you like. The gameplay is comparable to any purely FPS game, and is actually a lot more fun. The crafting system is literally the best crafting system from any game, and using a workshop to build settlements can be considered a game in itself. You can literally spend hours building whatever you like. There are endless possibilities. The game soundtrack is amongst my favourites. It is tense, powerful and captivating. Even the soundtrack playing at the main menu is beautiful. I just wish you could buy a CD of the soundtrack like you could with the first Mass Effect game. 10/10. Great game. There is always something to do, somewhere to go and something to find. You will never be bored.

The best DLC for this game, and the best DLC I have ever played from any game, by far. It is hilarious, and it is heartbreaking. It brings back all your favourite characters for one last goodbye from BioWare. And it delivers.

Still the best game ever made. No matter how much time passes, Mass Effect 2 is absolutely phenomenal. I love this game to pieces. I have played it easily seventy times, and own it on the PS3 and the PC. It never gets old. It never gets boring. It is fantastic. This is how video games are supposed to be. Beautifully crafted, with wonderful characters and even better writing. No game I have ever played even comes close to the emotional connection I have had with this game, and this series in general.

This is a good game, don't get me wrong. But it could have been so much better. It could have been a lot, lot better. The graphics are great. The explosions are beautiful. The gameplay is great. The story is completely and utterly lacking, but somehow I don't mind that. But what I do mind is the progression system. The inclusion of Gear Mods in the game is a brilliant idea. The ability to get extra grappling hooks, have your C4 turn into rocket boosters and have things like nitrous and turbo jump are great. But what isn't great - in fact, what is awful about this system is how you unlock them. In Just Cause 2, challenges were optional. They were just a bit of fun to pass the time and earn money. But if you want to get the most out of Just Cause 3, and have the very most fun you can out of the game, you need to complete the challenges. Fair enough, you might say. Many games have similar systems. Challenges are rated by "gears" which act like a star rating depending on your performance. Again, fair enough. But it is impossible to get five gears without the mods on things like races. So to unlock the mods, you need to complete the challenges - and you can't get five gears in a challenge without using the mods. It has gone down the same road as Grand Theft Auto V did with the GTA Online racing - to unlock things to make your car go faster, you had to win races. But you could not win races without things to make your car go faster. The entire system is flawed. "So what?" you might ask, "You can just keep earning three gears in a race every time you do it." No. You can't. Once you have gained five gears from a race - replaying it will gain you nothing. Even to gain the ability to zoom on a weapon, you need to complete some of these challenges. They completely ruin the game. They restrict you in a game which prides itself on allowing you to be free. It is possible to complete all of the challenges... eventually. You unlock challenges by liberating towns and the like. So to unlock these mods, you need to do everything necessary to liberate a particular location, attempt the challenge - get perhaps three stars due to a lack of the gear mods - then go liberate another location, and find another challenge of the same type, and gain three stars again, liberate another location, etc. Speaking of unnecessary restrictions, there is the "Rebel Drop" system. While it is a welcome improvement over what Just Cause 2 had to offer - again, it is seriously flawed. Rebel Drops allow you to have a package dropped in by a plane. In said package, you can choose a one-handed weapon, a two-handed weapon, a "special" weapon (a rocket launcher, for example), and a vehicle of your choice (after you have unlocked them by taking cars to a garage in liberated towns - or by liberating military bases (which unlocks the better vehicles like fighter jets)). Sounds pretty cool, right? And most of the time, it is. But they have restricted it in two ways. The first is common sense. You need to collect beacons, which act as flares - so you can show the plane where to drop your package. You can carry up to one of these at a time, for a start, at least. The second way makes no sense at all. For example - in a very real situation - you find yourself stuck on the top of a mountain in the game, and realise you have no "Fast Travel Flares" left, and if you head in the direction you want to go - a military base will fire nukes at you, even after it has been liberated. So you use one of your beacons and call in a helicopter. But your Rebel Drop beacon lands in a slightly uneven location, and when the helicopter lands it slides away and crashes. If you were just limited in the first way, it would be no problem. After being able to carry more beacons (which is unlocked by completing challenges), you could just call in another one, right? No. Because you have to wait for above twenty minutes before your favourite helicopter to unlock again. Even with DLC vehicles, still above twenty minutes. And to half the time between the unlock time, you need to do challenges - and spend time unlocking gear mods - one to half the time for cars, one to half the time for air vehicles, and one to half the time for boats. You can eradicate the time completely - but that requires even more challenge grinding. I wanted to love this game so very much. Just Cause 2 remains one of my favourite games ever. While technically superior in every way, Just Cause 3 just doesn't work for me. I feel more restricted than I was in previous games, even though I am supposed to be less restricted with the abolishment of money (which was the system they used in Just Cause 2 to purchase vehicles from the black market in a similar way that Rebel Drops work). This game could have been so much better. It has good ideas, and it is very fun to play, but the flaws in the game are very prominent and very, very hard to ignore. And don't get me started on the online leaderboards.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]