Since the official sale thread is moving so fast, especially when new sales are up, I thought it'd be an idea to have a thread where people can post their impressions of games that are on daily, flash, community or just general sale, so that we have one place where people can go for impressions, reviews and recommendations.
Feel free to post your impressions of one or more of the games on sale if you've played them, here's an example format:
Game Name - Time played (estimated) - Some text about the game, your experience when playing it, your thoughts after playing it, and whether or not you'd recommend it to someone who was interested in the game.
Score: (optional)
Game Name 2 and so on...
To start us off...
Dead Island - Time played: 16 hours - I should preface this by saying it's a while since I've played the game, so these impressions are from memory of what the game was like back when I did.
Dead Island has a lot of mixed impressions both on here and within the gaming community in general. I'd preordered it, and having read about the many bugs there were on release (the game is thankfully in a much better state now), I went into this one with low expectations.
I was pleasantly surprised. The combat is very satisfying and feels extremely well done, and there's even an analog mode when you play with a controller for added precision, which I didn't get chance to try yet. You can target body parts with your melee weapons or guns (mostly melee weapons), and injuring these affects how the enemies will try and attack you. For example, chopping off one of a Thug's arms will see him try and hit you with the other arm - chop off both arms, and he'll try to headbutt you. Chop off his legs instead, and he'll crawl along, unable to do much damage.
Along the way you complete various quests for people on the island, and find loot in the form of better weapons and blueprints, which allow you to collect items to make even more powerful weapons. I've seen comparisons to Borderlands be made, and that's actually a very good comparison - to me, Dead Island does seem like Borderlands with a heavy focus on melee weapons.
I enjoyed what I played of it, and I do want to go back and play it some more one day, although with the size of my backlog now, and more games to be added during this sale, I don't know when that will be.
Score: 7/10
Post away
Feel free to post your impressions of one or more of the games on sale if you've played them, here's an example format:
Game Name - Time played (estimated) - Some text about the game, your experience when playing it, your thoughts after playing it, and whether or not you'd recommend it to someone who was interested in the game.
Score: (optional)
Game Name 2 and so on...
To start us off...
Dead Island - Time played: 16 hours - I should preface this by saying it's a while since I've played the game, so these impressions are from memory of what the game was like back when I did.
Dead Island has a lot of mixed impressions both on here and within the gaming community in general. I'd preordered it, and having read about the many bugs there were on release (the game is thankfully in a much better state now), I went into this one with low expectations.
I was pleasantly surprised. The combat is very satisfying and feels extremely well done, and there's even an analog mode when you play with a controller for added precision, which I didn't get chance to try yet. You can target body parts with your melee weapons or guns (mostly melee weapons), and injuring these affects how the enemies will try and attack you. For example, chopping off one of a Thug's arms will see him try and hit you with the other arm - chop off both arms, and he'll try to headbutt you. Chop off his legs instead, and he'll crawl along, unable to do much damage.
Along the way you complete various quests for people on the island, and find loot in the form of better weapons and blueprints, which allow you to collect items to make even more powerful weapons. I've seen comparisons to Borderlands be made, and that's actually a very good comparison - to me, Dead Island does seem like Borderlands with a heavy focus on melee weapons.
I enjoyed what I played of it, and I do want to go back and play it some more one day, although with the size of my backlog now, and more games to be added during this sale, I don't know when that will be.
Score: 7/10
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