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This game was a pleasant surprise and it turned out to be far better than I expected (I haven't played the original game). It looks like a horror game but it is far more than that because of its interesting story delivered in a cinematic way, which kept me going until the end.

Half-Blood fixed plenty of issues from the previous game and the gameplay feels a lot smoother. However, the honest Harry Potter fans will not like this game just as they were not happy with the previous one for the obvious reason: a horrible delivery of an originally amazing story.

After first three Harry Potter games, which I thought are more on a bad than a good side, this one is definitely the worst. I honestly don't think it could have been worse than this. It has a disappointing gameplay and bad system with levels. I do not even to mention the story. I am surprised that I even played this one till the end.

Maybe the best of the first three Harry Potter games. Butchering of the story continues but it is fairly fun to play.

The City That Never Sleeps contains a DLC package with three stories: The Heist, Turf Wars and Silver Lining. These DLCs will keep you busy a bit more in the Spider-man world but they will not bring anything new. It is still the same gameplay and the same missions with reskinned enemies (and there is nothing wrong or bad with that). You will meet some new characters in stories that are cheesy as the main story. It is worth playing if you are really into Spider-man and superheroes.

Taking a wizarding world of Harry Potter and putting it in a third person shoot-them-all game? Well… yes, they really did that. This is the worst Harry Potter game and one of the worst video games I have ever played. Uncreative rubbish.

Post-apocalyptic-zombie story of Days Gone is packed in the open world game that is not a masterpiece but it has solid acting and a good gameplay and very nice visual presentation that will keep you inside until the end. Days Gone borrows a lot of ideas from other games; for example, stealth gameplay will remind everybody of The Last of Us. Then there are some often seen side missions such as taking in enemy camps, which are included in so many games. Still, Days Gone is fun to play and side missions are quite interesting because every set of side missions is a parallel story of some side character and not some repetitive button masher. It is quite a shame that there is no sequel in plan because this game really screams for it.

The Ezio trilogy (Assassin's Creed II, Brotherhood and Revelations) is a must have for every fan of the earlier Assassin's Creed games. The PS4 version runs smoothly and it still looks good even though the last Ezio game was originally published ten years ago. Next to the three games, there are two short films, which together with the three games make a nice collection. However, the films do not look so nice (low resolution) and the first one has horrible audio quality.

This game has been introduced as a separate game but it feels much more like a DLC to the original game. It is still fun to play and it runs slightly smoother than the original game. The biggest problem is: bugs. I have encountered so many bugs from freezing screen to game crashes and blue error screen. The more I progressed in the game the more problems I encountered. In the end, I could have not completed the game because it kept crashing constantly during one of the combats and it prevented me from proceeding. It is obvious that the game was supposed to be really nice and fun to play but in the end it really is a huge disappointment and a waste of money.

This is a good looking game that makes you really feel like a Spider-man. The gameplay is very similar to the Batman Arkham trilogy; it is good and very fun to play. Instead of being an Arkham Knight gliding in a dark Gotham City, you swing here as a Spider-man around a mostly bright and sunny New York City, which is an open world packed with main story missions and a lot of side quests, which are mostly very fun to play (they get slowly boring and repetitive at the end, especially if you are a 100% completionist). The only thing that prevents this game from being great and excellent is a story that is very, very, very cheesy for the most part. Apart from that, Marvel's Spider-man is a must play for every superhero fan.

A Thief's End is probably the best Uncharted game. A good gameplay combined with a good narrative with flashbacks from Drake's past makes this game a grand finale of the series.

The game continues in the manner of the first one with a few new things such as little combat situations. It is cute and spooky and also a bit harder than the first one. The story is modest but interesting enough even though I found the end predictable.

If you like games like Limbo or Inside you are going to like this one a lot. A spooky, sweet experience!

This collection includes the first three games from the Uncharted series and it is a must have for every fan of the series.

Rime continues in a manner of, as I say, ambiental games such as Journey, for example. It is an emotional game without any words, full of music and imagination.

After seeing all the announcement videos for this game, I expected much more than what I experienced once I played the game. Visually, the game was not as impressive as it looked to me in the trailers. It does not have bad graphics, it is quite a pretty looking game but it has actually a better artistic design than the actual graphic design, which we experience in the final product. The game has a very nice Japanese atmosphere and colourful landscapes and fields full of dancing flowers to ride through. But, where the game disappoints are animations. Lip syncing is not that brilliant and horse movements and walking/running animations do not really look good. The world tries to be pretty and exciting and it certainly is for the most part but at the same time it feels deserted and dead with some very similar occasional small events and quests that you can run into. I know, I said it too many times but Red Dead Redemption II showed a very nice and creative way to make a lively world full of interesting side events that almost never get old. In this sense, Ghost of Tsushima is far from that. One of many great things about this game are loading times. The game loads very, very fast. Fast travel is done in only a few seconds. Another nice thing is navigation through the open world. Once you mark your destination on the map you can close the map and while riding a horse you will notice the wind blow in the grass or between the trees that actually points in the direction of your destination. If you are lost you can use the touchpad to make the wind start blowing again. A really nice little thing. All in all, I did expect more but I have to say that Ghost of Tsushima is fun to play and observing it as a whole thing - it is a fine game. It puts you in the shoes of a samurai on his quest to reclaim his homeland from invaders. The game has RPG elements, a skill tree, and plenty of different movements and skills to master and use in countless combats and duels across the land of Tshushima. The story itself is nothing special. Another quest of revenge we all saw far too many times, unfortunately. Still, I enjoyed playing.

A charming and emotional game that offers something a bit different in gaming’s world. Rain’s focus is on storytelling and has a relatively simple gameplay based on hiding and avoiding bad creatures, which is interesting because your character turns invisible once he is not exposed to the rain. Most of the time you will be running throughout a silent and rainy empty city and solving quite simple environmental puzzles. The game has a great atmosphere and a nice soundtrack. It reminded me why I like old Ico so much. The only weak point of Rain is the resolution of the story, which is somehow predictable and not as well tailored as the rest of it.

This game is so boring and pointless. It has some nice things such as usage of force to take and throw random things around you and use it agains your enemies but... in this game you just go and continuously fight enemies that jump on you. If you are only into smashing something all the time this would be a game for you.

Silence is a pretty simple, childish point and click adventure game. Childish might be a deal breaker for some but I found a lot of charm in it. The story is fairly interesting but the writing and dialogues are not that great and too often the game wants to be funny but fails at it most of the time. If you generally like point and click games and you like fairy tales, you might give this one a chance.

For some, Soma is a horror game. For some not. I would say that Soma is definitely a very creepy game and for that you can blame an excellent sound design. Luckily, you can reduce the tension by choosing an easy mode, which prevents enemies from killing you. I thought that it would kill the game experience but it actually does not. It makes the enemies less frustrating but not less creepy. Technically, it is probably an average game; it does not have the best graphics in the world, it does not have the best stealth/combat system… but it has pretty tough puzzles to solve and plenty of them are in the areas with the enemies that you cannot kill but only sneak around them, which makes this game very hard and at the edge of being a bit frustrating. On the contrary, it has an interesting story to follow, which actually is the only thing that kept me going even though I often felt overwhelmed by the general tension and creepiness. Soma is a good game but somehow at the same time not. The beginning and the end made a lot of sense but in between there are levels that felt as if they were put in so that you make yourself busy doing something to fill in time. Making the game shorter might have been a better path for this kind of story.

Valhalla continues in the manner of Origins and Odyssey. If you liked those two games, you will probably like this one too. Only, next to the main and usual side quests you have now your own settlement that you can build and develop and always return to. It is a nice new thing but far from a settlement (or a camp) that you have in Red Dead Redemption II, for example. Upgrading houses and buildings in your settlement opens a few side quests but apart from that there is nothing much to do there. Speaking of the story… nothing special here. You are a Viking, who is looking for allies in order to conquer England. The world is huge and you play partly in Norway and the largest part of the game you will be in England. In every region you have a couple of main quests before you get yourself an ally. It was all fairly interesting but after finishing a couple of regions I felt like I was in an endless tunnel with no light to announce the end (the moment I was finished with one region, another one would open… and then another one… and another one…). After I finished the game, I wondered why the title was “Assassin's Creed” because the game (a story at least) had so little to do with an Assassin’s Creed. The main character is a Viking (he is not an Assassin), who only meets a few Assassins on the way but there is nothing more that connects this game or story with Assassin's Creed. Except the gameplay, of course. When I started playing, I was surprised by the graphics, which are not bad but I have seen much better looking games from the previous year. Before I started Valhalla, I played The Last of Us Part II after which Valhalla looked almost like a previous generation game. The animation is mostly average; lip synching is bad for the most part and voice expressions that you hear usually do not match face expressions that you see on the screen. One of the main issues: the game is way too long. It took me 149 hours to complete the game with all side quests and find all treasures and chests. This would have been a really cool and fun game if it would have been 40 or 50 hours long. But 149 hours… There must be a moment to stop and finish something but no… Ubisoft rather opens another region on the map and another set of the same missions. After 149 hours, everything that was good about this game turned out bad and boring at the end. Within a huge world you will find plenty of nice landscapes but also an awful lot of copy-pasting, which is already a long tradition for Ubisoft. There are so many identical buildings, houses, churches, so many identical puzzles… It is all cool at the beginning but to complete the game you will have to do those cool things so often that at the end, you will not find them cool anymore. Side quests (called “world events”) are generally short events that will take few minutes to solve and they are a bit more interesting compared to the previous games (if you ignore the fact that there are again far too many of them and some of them are quite ****). There are less armors and weapons in this game, which some people will hate but I found it better, less confusing and you definitely spend less time browsing the menu. The combat is not the best in the world but it unfortunately ages fast and gets boring because of the game’s huge length. My playthrough was really, really buggy and bugs appeared far too often and interrupted the gameplay flow. One of the most frequent bugs was that after a longer horse ride your character and horse would freeze while entering a city or a village. There is probably no game without bugs but this game has too many of them.. Missing textures are also a big issue in this game. Textures of the roads or nearby houses would are often like in a PS1 video game. I personally think that this is unacceptable especially when developers wave all the time with phrases such as “next generation experience”. This was far from that. It feels that half of the game are loading screens. Even when you only wanted to talk with some pedestrians on the street there was a black loading screen! Fast travel was senseless in most of the cases unless you wanted to skip a very big distance (sometimes it was faster to ride a horse than to use the fast travel option). I always used fast travel when I needed to go to the toilet. All in all, I enjoyed the first 15 or 20 hours of the game but later I could not get rid of an “unfinished” feel that followed me through the whole game surely because Ubisoft continues a tradition of publishing new Assassin's Creed games far too often. It is not surprising that there are always so many issues because one year is obviously not enough for a huge open world game like this (if you want a great game at the end, I mean…). Ubisoft also continues a tradition of horrible writing, bad acting, copy-pasting as if the only goal is to make the longest game with a largest world possible with thousands of side quests in it.

This game was recommended to me as the game that has a good story. After I finished it, all I can say is that it has a better story than most of the shooter games, which usually do not have anything you could call a story. It is a decent shooter game but nothing beyond average.

The first Assassin’s Creed game is very far from a great game but it is a great start of the franchise. When the game was released, I was amazed by the size of the world and cities but soon after, I saw that the world is pretty dead; a lot of “copy-pasted” people that do or say the same things all the time. The game has a rather simple plot and the biggest problem is the gameplay. The idea is great and combat can be pretty challenging sometimes but all in all, this game is the ultimate winner of repetitive gameplay! It will make you do the same things for around 12 hours. In every new city district you enter, you will find completely the same side quests and after only a few hours of playing, I was asking myself: “Didn’t I do this already 100 times?”. It is worth mentioning that jumping controls can be a nightmare sometimes and you can end up on a totally wrong side or worse, in the water, which will cause the last checkpoint loading screen (protagonist is a tough warrior but for some reason he cannot swim). The good thing about this game is that it is just a bit of a boring prologue to a few much better Assassin’s Creed games (II, Brotherhood…).

If you enjoyed Arkham Asylum and Arkham City for PS3, it is worth getting the full package, Return to Arkham for PS4. There are small visual improvements and all the extra content is there. The first game, Arkham Asylum, is a bigger visual improvement but Arkham City has a decent amount of glitches and bugs. Luckily, all of them are easily solved by reloading your last checkpoint. It is not a perfect game but it is the best Batman game I have played.

This is a nice and very good looking open-world game with RPG elements. You play as a girl who lives in a wild world inhabited by different human tribes and full of dinosaur-looking machines. You are discovering the past of the world that once belonged to a different civilisation. The story is not really a masterpiece but it is a fairly interesting story about another, sort of, post-apocalyptic world. Combat and exploration is pretty balanced and I never got tired of any of it. The only thing that lacks creativity is melee combat; it just does not look that great as firing arrows, which you will mostly be doing. Higher difficulty can give you a pretty challenging combat and if you are into exploring the world and following the main quest without having stressy fights all the time - the developers took care about it too. Weak spots in this game are side quests. They are typical RPG side quests (go there and kill 5 things, then go there and stealth kill another 5 things). Some of those quests will reveal more background to certain parts of the main story but most of them can be totally skipped. Another weak spot are face animations of side characters. They are not that good as face animations of the main characters. Here and there you will spot the same faces (there was some “copy-paste” work…). All in all, this is indeed a nice adventure game that might become a great franchise.

This is an underrated game. It does not give you the perfect third person shooter combat and it gives you a small portion of exploration, which is a shame because the areas, streets and your surroundings look so good. It is one of the best looking games I have played and if you do not mind a very linear approach and a cinematic experience, something like an interactive film, this is a must play.

Some people might be dissapponted because the game is almost completely linear and the combat is simple. For me, collectibles are the problem. They are really boring and they try to distract you to spend more time playing but at the end, they just interrupt the story flow. All in all, a good Batman game.

What can I say... Just like the previous Sherlock game, a bug occurred and I could not progress the game but only start from the beginning. A real shame, because I found it interesting, at least the first few hours.

I tried all Sherlock Holmes games and this is the first one that did not freeze or had bugs that would prevent you from progressing. However, this game offers a few nice puzzles but apart from that it offers a pretty average experience, sometimes even lower than average. Acting is rather poor as well as writing and the plot. Visually, it will be called "outdated" for many players. If you are a fan of a point and click games you might still be able to enjoy it.

This game was full of glitches. I managed to play it for two, three hours and right after starting to like it, a bug happened and prevented me from progressing further. This is simply unacceptable.

Just like I felt after playing Journey, this is a game that can give you a lot in only a few hours and without any spoken word. The only downside is platforming, which is not that great and can lead to countless jumps into the pit that might break the flow of a really nice story.

At first sight, this game can look like an average game. For some, it might be completely boring. However, if you are creative and dedicated to it, it can be very beautiful. You play as a boy with unnatural painting powers and you can draw a lot of things pretty much everywhere in the small town where everything happens. The more creative you are, the more colourful and interesting your surroundings will become. The less creative you are, your experience will be nothing more than a boring, fast walkthrough. The gameplay is very simple; you are running around a small town and drawing all over the houses. There is a bit of combat later in the game but it is very simple and definitely not the accent in this game. Nice music and stop-motion inspired graphics makes this a nice, short game. It is a shame that the story does not really shine here but… for some younger gamers it might be cool. Concrete Genie is not a masterpiece. It is not a “must play” either but it is a game to check out if you want to take a break, relax and play something a bit different.

This is one of the best games I have ever played. It isn't long. It will take you a little bit over one hour to complete your Journey or maybe you could stretch it to three hours if you want to observe every single corner of the world. It has no text or any speech at all, yet, it deliveres a beautiful story accompanied by a nice orchestral music. It is a must play for every adventurer who wants to slow down, take a deep breath and dive into something truly peaceful.

Shadow of War offers a bit better gameplay than the previous game, Shadow of Mordor. At the beginning, I thought that it is better than the Shadow of Mordor but at the end… it is not. Maybe it is even worse. Apart from smaller graphic improvements and a bit better gameplay there is not much more to see here. There is again the same setup; you are in Mordor surrounded by Orcs and 99% of the time you will just fight them endlessly. Unlike the Shadow of Mordor, this game offers you three difficulty settings. One of them is an easy mode that should let you go through the battles more easily so you can have your focus on the story. The problem is, there is no story worth focusing on there. Just like the Shadow of Mordor, this game is a fan-fiction thing and it is on the edge of being completely stupid. It is inspired by the characters and places from Tolkien's Middle-Earth but there is nothing special about it. I do believe, whithout spoiling anything, that the fans of Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings will be completely disappointed after experiencing this "story". People who enjoy endless battles and spend days conquering forts and such things will naturally enjoy this game because it does have a good and challenging gameplay. Some others, like me, will be bored after twenty hours of that kind of gameplay, which at the end is based on going here and killing 30 Orcs and then going there and killing 20 Orcs.

For some, this game can be pretty frustrating. It certainly was for me as I quit it two times. However, whenever I felt that some game was too hard, that actually meant (in most of my cases) that I was playing it wrong. This game has a specific system and if you do not understand it and do not follow that code the game will feel abnormally hard. It took me a few hours to get how it actually works and then, the gameplay felt good. Still very challenging (difficulty setting does not exist) but good. Shadow of Mordor felt something like a Tolkien-fan-fiction thing. You are a man of Gondor who is on his quest of revenge in the land of Mordor and the story is far below average, which degrades this game and leaves you only with a good, challenging gameplay, which I would describe as a mixture of Batman Arkham series (but harder) and Assassin's Creed (moving and jumping around). The gameplay is based on finding information, locating and defeating Orcs and finally, dominating their armies. You first start with lower ranks and slowly go up to the Warchiefs, the strongest Orcs. Every Orc has its own strengths and vulnerabilities and that is what makes this gameplay not just another completely boring button masher. Even though you are doing the same things from the beginning to the end of the game (you are only fighting, you are in Mordor and surrounded by Orcs almost the whole time), I was never bored even after more than 20 hours of gameplay. Shadow of Mordor is not a bad game but it is far from a great game. However, I see a big potential here and I think that at some point in the future we might see one great Middle-Earth game.

It is difficult to give an overall opinion about this one since there are three games included. Legend is a shorter, average experience, while Anniversary I found the worst of all three due to a really uninteresting and thin story (I was bored far before the end). Underworld is probably the best of all three games. It definitely looks the best. The most common thing for all three of them are bad jumping controls. I spent quite a lot of time trying to jump and land where I intended to. Underworld is the worst when it comes to jumping and it has strange camera movements that made me almost sick a few times. A nice little surprise was a little extra chapter at Croft Manor as a part of Legend and Anniversary games. It is just like a puzzle game that will take you about 30 minutes to complete. If you are into puzzles do not miss this. Anniversary Croft Manor is really nice. Generally, this Trilogy is fairly good but nothing beyond average.

It has been a while since I saw a decent game published by EA Games. Fallen Order has a story full of predictable cliche things in it. Dialogues and acting is way too cheesy. On the other side, the atmosphere and music, which is heavily influenced by the original music written for the old trilogy, brings that nice star-wars-feel that every Star War fan will enjoy. Despite the thin story, it was fun to play.

Good and at the same time average game with nicely designed cutscenes. It is a bit too long. The last two chapters deliver pretty similar level designs and puzzles that I felt I have done already too many times.

This is probably one of the weakest Assassin's Creed games but it is worth going through if you are fan of the franchise.

Liberation deliveres thin story, poor acting but it is fun to play for the most part.

This game has so many bugs and glitches that I couldn't even finished it. Visually it looks as a PS3 title but it is fairly interesting RPG. However, there were countless glitches that prevented me finishing few side quests and the game crashed do many times too, which really ruined entire experience.

The review of the game that follows will include minor spoilers that will not ruin your game experience because I will not discuss the story plot or anything in detail. The first thing bothered me was that the game had somehow a lazy introduction. I expected to be **** in the game within few minutes just like I was when I played the first game. With the Part II that did not happen at all. The game starts with lazy (some cheesy too) dialogs and the main characters (Joel and Ellie) felt surprisingly dead somehow. Within the first two hours of the game the story makes a sudden, very rush jump and I felt a bit shocked and had a lot of question marks in my head. Now, I am not one of those fans that can only accept the story with the happily-ever-after ending. I am fine with anything, the good or the bad, it does not matter how disgusting it is IF it serves the good and high quality story. I honestly hoped for the next twenty hours to get to see the justification for the terrible event from the beginning of the game but I did not get it. Very soon I realised that Naughty Dog threw some lies and few truths through the marketing and trailers for this game. The truth is that this game is indeed about the hate and revenge, an infinite circles of revenge by the few main characters and it tries to make players question what and who is good and who or what is bad. The only problem is that this game does it in a really cheap way. Part II also introduces not deeply developed new forgettable characters and some of those were kind of supposed to put a big shadow on the main characters that were represented as positive in the first game. Developers tried to do it by showing you the story (that has so many holes, way too many) from different perspectives (Ellie is not the only playable character). Generally, I do not have anything against that idea because if we look at Joel and his acts at the end of the first game, he is not really the bad guy but he certainly is not the good guy and a moral example either. I actually expected to see more about Joel in the Part II, especially about his life between the day of his daughter's death and the day when he met Ellie for the first time. I always thought that these twenty years of Joel's life could reveal something that will indeed make me question what is good and what is evil (even though I always saw Joel as a positive character despite everything). However, in the Part II there was nothing about that. I am not quite sure what Naughty Dog wanted to do with this story. They basically turned everything upside down and put me in a situation to do stuff in the game that I really did not want to. As if the only goal was to make a player feel terrible. They succeeded at the end, the only thing is that I felt terrible because this was not the quality of the story that I have seen in the first game. It is far from it. The reason why it was hard for me to get an opinion about this game is the fact that there are things in it that I enjoyed very much. The game looks fantastic. Wherever you go walking and exploring everything looks so good until the last detail. The landscapes, areas, sounds, colours… The exploration parts in the game are now giving something like a semi-open world feel. Similar to the Uncharted: Lost Legacy that has one big area that you can explore by a car but in this game those areas are much bigger. For example, there is a part of Seattle where you can really spend two, three hours exploring, checking buildings for supplies and find stories about people that used to live there. If you are not up to such things you can avoid it all and proceed to the next area but you might probably miss some hidden weapons and such stuff. The game offers some sort of puzzles here and there but they are too simple and obvious. The gameplay is basically the same as it is in the first game. There are some new weapons to use and craft. There are also few new types of enemies and some of those are not naive at all. Speaking of enemies and combat, Part II does it significantly better than the first game. Infected are scarier and human enemy AI is much, much better. If you play on harder modes enemies can be really tricky. They hear you better and they really seek for you. Once they spot you can try to hide but not for long because they will seek for you even in the grass or under the cars. Enemies generally communicate with each other and they will often call names of their friends to check on them or scream when their friend has been shot. This makes enemy AI probably the best I have seen, especially on harder modes. It is also worth mentioning that this is the most accessible game I have ever seen. It has a big optional menu where you can set almost every aspect ****. It even has options for people with damaged hearing or sight. So, can good graphic, visual design, animations and gameplay save a game with a thin story? Hardly.

Left Behind is a DLC that you should play after completing The Last of Us in order to avoid spoilers. In this game you control Ellie and go through a short event from the first game that was not actually shown. While playing, you will go through a few flashback memories of Ellie that will reveal a bit more about her past and her time before the events of the first game. The gameplay mechanic is completely the same as in The Last of Us: you will encounter infected and armed people that you will either fight or seek for a way to avoid them. The only difference is that you control Ellie, who is much smaller and weaker than Joel. The game is short, it is just a small additional part to the main game. I took me around two hours to complete it. You might even be able to stretch it to three if you really want to explore every corner of it.

Left Behind is a DLC that you should play after completing The Last of Us in order to avoid spoilers. In this game you control Ellie and go through a short event from the first game that was not actually shown. While playing, you will go through a few flashback memories of Ellie that will reveal a bit more about her past and her time before the events of the first game. The gameplay mechanic is completely the same as in The Last of Us: you will encounter infected and armed people that you will either fight or seek for a way to avoid them. The only difference is that you control Ellie, who is much smaller and weaker than Joel. The game is short, it is just a small additional part to the main game. I took me around two hours to complete it. You might even be able to stretch it to three if you really want to explore every corner of it.

I have never been a fan of games with horror zombie apocalypse topics. I played some of them such as The Evil Within games, tried one Resident Evil game and few others. The common thing for all those games (in my opinion) was that they are very successful in making you scared and uncomfortable but when it comes to the storylines - they were all so thin and weak, sometimes even pointless. I am fine with gore and fear but if that is the only point in the game then I do not find it really interesting. I have been avoiding playing The Last of Us because I thought it is just another zombie game but when I finally started playing I saw after two hours of gameplay that this game is completely different. This is the first game with such topic (zombie outbreak) that I liked and it definitely is the best game with zombies and one of the best games that I have ever played and that is because it only uses the zombie apocalypse as an atmosphere in which context lies a story about Joel, the adult and Ellie, fourteen year old girl, who are on their journey through the country. The game puts an accent on the story and does not have a gameplay based on infinite shooting at zombies, or how they call them in the game, infected. It is far from that but the gameplay is far from a piece of cake and it should also satisfy gamers who are into action and shooting, especially if they select harder difficulty modes. I played both PS3 and PS4 version of this game and visually it is one of the best looking games for PS3. Even in 2020, 7 years after it was released, this game still looks very nice being put next to some other good looking PS4 titles. The PS4 remastered version has a little visual improvements such as full HD resolution and more fps. Speaking ****, The Last of Us does not bring many innovations - it rather improves some stuff that we already saw in third person action-adventure games. The gameplay perfectly combines exploration and combat with cutscenes without overdoing each of those. You can play this game in many ways. You can be aggressive and shoot everything at your sight but you can also sneak and be quiet. There are many ways of passing through the areas and for the most part you can really choose if you want to assassinate your enemies or find a way around. Through the game you will find different sorts of weapons and there is a crafting system allowing you to make improvised bombs and melee weapons. Another part **** is walking and exploration followed by interesting dialogs. The Last of Us has a very fine acting, one of the best I saw in video games, which an emotional story of this game certainly needs, a story that most of the players would breathlessly follow until the end.

I have never been a fan of games with horror zombie apocalypse topics. I played some of them such as The Evil Within games, tried one Resident Evil game and few others. The common thing for all those games (in my opinion) was that they are very successful in making you scared and uncomfortable but when it comes to the storylines - they were all so thin and weak, sometimes even pointless. I am fine with gore and fear but if that is the only point in the game then I do not find it really interesting. I have been avoiding playing The Last of Us because I thought it is just another zombie game but when I finally started playing I saw after two hours of gameplay that this game is completely different. This is the first game with such topic (zombie outbreak) that I liked and it definitely is the best game with zombies and one of the best games that I have ever played and that is because it only uses the zombie apocalypse as an atmosphere in which context lies a story about Joel, the adult and Ellie, fourteen year old girl, who are on their journey through the country. The game puts an accent on the story and does not have a gameplay based on infinite shooting at zombies, or how they call them in the game, infected. It is far from that but the gameplay is far from a piece of cake and it should also satisfy gamers who are into action and shooting, especially if they select harder difficulty modes. I played both PS3 and PS4 version of this game and visually it is one of the best looking games for PS3. Even in 2020, 7 years after it was released, this game still looks very nice being put next to some other good looking PS4 titles. The PS4 remastered version has a little visual improvements such as full HD resolution and more fps. Speaking ****, The Last of Us does not bring many innovations - it rather improves some stuff that we already saw in third person action-adventure games. The gameplay perfectly combines exploration and combat with cutscenes without overdoing each of those. You can play this game in many ways. You can be aggressive and shoot everything at your sight but you can also sneak and be quiet. There are many ways of passing through the areas and for the most part you can really choose if you want to assassinate your enemies or find a way around. Through the game you will find different sorts of weapons and there is a crafting system allowing you to make improvised bombs and melee weapons. Another part **** is walking and exploration followed by interesting dialogs. The Last of Us has a very fine acting, one of the best I saw in video games, which an emotional story of this game certainly needs, a story that most of the players would breathlessly follow until the end.

This is a very long, slow and weird game but not in a negative way. It is one of those games that people will either hate or like. This game in any case needs you to be patient and go slow. You play as Sam, who transports and delivers orders from city to city and for the most part he does it on foot. I have seen that many people described this game as a walking simulator and it is something like that, in a way. You will have to take care about the way you carry packages, how many of them you carry… You will have to think about necessary equipment such as ladders, ropes and other things that will be helpful while climbing high mountains; the terrain won't be too friendly for a walker and the game can be quite tricky occasionally. If you are not very careful you can fall easily and brake your cargo. Now, walking won't be the only thing you do in this open world game. Later in the game you will be able to use vehicles and transport bigger amounts of cargo but still, you won't be able to go everywhere by a car. If you dedicate yourself and look for materials and other supplies, you will be able to rebuild roads in this post-apocalyptic world, which will make your driving much faster easier. However, there will still be destinations and locations that will be reachable only on foot. This is something that the game does very well, it challenges you and makes you constantly fight with the nature and terrain. What the games does not too well is the combat. It is not horrible, it is rather… not the best I have experienced in video games. Direct conflicts with guns were always quite hard, especially the aiming. The good thing is that the shooting is for the most part only an optional way to go. You can do almost everything in stealth mode and you can completely avoid most of the enemies. I think that the stealth mode is much better done than the actual combat with fire weapons. Visually, this game looks good. The nature of the world looks maybe too similar but still, I do not see this as an issue. You will walk through sort of green valleys, burnt valleys, climb rock mountains and later in the game see mountains covered in snow. Since it is a post-apocalyptic world hit by a huge disaster it is not really expectable to see colourful beautiful landscapes. The story is pretty weird and I cannot really say much about it without spoiling it. Roughly, it is a post-apocalyptic setting in the almost completely empty world where a strange sort of rain and snowfall called the Timefall, which causes fast aging to everything it touches. The story is fairly interesting but I think it is far from a masterwork.

I played this one expecting some more experience like Until Dawn (even though I wasn't amazed by that one) but it didn't meet my expectations. Just like Until Dawn, it looks really good, I would even say that character faces have far too much makeup, which was the case with Until Dawn. Every character is so polished that everyone in the game has that “beautiful” baby-face, which to my eyes isn't so beautiful thing to see. In any case, the game really looks like an interactive movie, you make your own choices that decide which way the story goes. The story, however, feels very short and incomplete. If feels like a part of some movie. You jump in in a middle of a police murder case and play until the case is solved. How the case is solved depends on the choices you make while playing. You will probably need around one and a half hour to complete the game. I have played many short games that felt totally complete and were an unbelievable experience (such as Journey), but I couldn't say the same thing for Hidden Agenda. You do not learn almost anything about any of the characters, there's nothing to really dig in to here. It is worth mentioning that you need to install Hidden Agenda app on your smartphone in order to play the game. PS4 controller cannot be used at all. You can also play the game together with your friends. Each of you can take the fate of one story character, which might be more interesting experience.

At first sight this game looks visually unbelievably good. It is obvious that developers wanted to make it look really like an interactive movie but after a while I realised that it has so much makeup on the characters that at the same time it looks somehow totally unreal. Until Dawn is a story driven game where you have to make choices and you can lead the story in many directions. What will happen to your characters in the story is totally up to you. The story itself is a classic horror story so to say and it is a total cliche; a group of young, boring (some of them really stupid) teenagers with a very bad sense for humour spend their holiday at a house in the mountains and there is some mysterious horror that they encounter. We have unfortunately seen this so many times in video games, movies… Observing the story, there is nothing fresh or new there. The gameplay is based on walking around and interacting with things, which feels good in this game that has a stunning graphic. Your choices really have an impact on the story and the ending of it can be with all characters as survivors but your choices could also get them all killed. There is nothing like “game over” in this game so you will have to accept the consequences of your choices. This is the thing that this game does good. If you do not mind an average scenario, the plot and you do not mind typical commercial American hollywood acting, you might like this game. I enjoyed observing Until Dawn technically. You really want to see the these graphics but the story is not something that you I could call great.

This is one of my favourite games and most probably the best open world game I have ever played. I liked it so much that it put a big shadow on the first game, Red Dead Redemption, which I liked as well. The stories of these two games are connected but you can play them separately without ruining your experience. The only reason I would recommend playing Red Dead Redemption first is that it is a game of the previous generation and it is visually very far away from Red Dead Redemption II. Observing graphics, I must say that I have seen better looking games for PS4 but I do not have any problem with that because there are other stuff in this game that are superb. The first one is the story, which is very exciting and it kept me attached to it till the very end. And even after the end there is decent and not so short epilogue to go through. Side missions and side content is very good. It is very seldom that I am satisfied with side missions and side content in open world games but in this game it is well done. You can really lose yourself in the world and accidentally find something that will lead you to some side story. Those side quests were mostly very interesting and I managed to complete a lot of them even though I am not a guy who is crazy about hunting 100% completion. This game has some pretty realistic stuff in its gamplay. For instance, you will have to be careful when climbing mountains because you can fall and hurt yourself very easily. The same is when riding a horse. And you will have to take care of your horse; to feed it, clean it otherwise its behaviour might change and it won't respond to your commands. You will have to take care of yourself es well. You must eat and drink, you are able to lose and gain weight. You have to take care about what you wear because your character can feel warm, cold or hot. For the most of the time you will be a part of the gangster camp and you will have to take care of it as well; to be sure that there's food, medicine and weapons and ammunition for your people. It is all really well done, it is not complicated but I was able to spend hours and hours just living in this world without doing any concrete mission or progressing the main story. What is unbelievably good in this game is that developers had so small amount of copy-paste work done. To make an example, when you aren't on a mission and you are just walking around and listening to what other people speak around, you can really hear so many things, even the whole stories. I think I only twice realised that someone on the street said the same thing that someone else said somewhere else before. You really have no idea what can you find in this game while riding around. Apparently, there is some sort of online campaign too but I haven't played it yet so I cannot comment it.