The Last Of Us - Review by Unknown Thursday, July 16, 2015 - 0

So the time finally came and i replaced my aged and now deceased PS3 with a PS4 its taken me a while to get to this point but I'm glad i waited. The first game i played was The Last Of Us: Remastered edition, and boy i wasn't expecting this at all.

Firstly, ill give you a brief idea of what the story is about. The game is set 20 years after an apocalyptic event infection almost wipes humanity as we know it. You play as Joel, who is tasked with escorting the feisty Ellie who is immune to the infection across the now apocalypse ridden United States in a last ditch hope of creating a cure for the infection.

You make your way through the now defunct streets of some of the USA's popular cities, fighting against infected humans, or violent and hostile humans who will do all they can to stop you.

So with that in your mind you would think this would end up being a stroll in the park right? You would be wrong to even think so. This game is by no means a stroll in the park, it will have you jumping without warning and have you running for cover many many times, not only that but you will get your face eaten by a Clicker multiple times, what's a Clicker you say? Sorry, not telling, you can find that out for yourself.

There is no wonder why this game has received such critical acclaim. This was actually released for the PS3 initially and was then rebooted for the PS4 hence the Remastered in the title, and you could tell instantly that this was vastly improved from the PS3.

The graphics are almost life like, smooth and full of detail. Each cut scene feels like you are actually there in the game yourself.

The gameplay hasn't had any major changes, it is still a Third Person Shooter and is an Action Adventure Survival Horror game. It involves gunfights, melee combat and a very fluid cover system. Using the DualShock 4 players can now navigate the menu with the controllers touchpad and can now listen to recordings via the controllers speaker. The DualShock 4’s light bar is also interactive with the game and displays your health going from green to amber to red when taking damage.

Reading up on some other reviews i have to agree with the review on Metacritic which uses a standard scoring system of 0-100. Metacritic calculated a 95 out of 100 review and indicating “universal acclaim” based on around 69 critics. GameRankings scored the game at 96% based on 43 reviews. The Last Of Us Remastered would go on to become one of the PS4’s best selling games and by August 2014 it had shifted 1 Million copies.

Overall, i can see why this game is so popular, its smooth, fluid and highly immersive and will have you literally playing the game for hours on end. Once you start its hard to stop playing this game and stopping abruptly will give you cravings to get back into the action within hours.

By far an incredible re-launch of a popular game for the PS4, with minor tweaks and some great additions this game looks set to be in the top ten of must have games for a long time to come.

GamezAddict Score – 10/10

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Call of Duty Advanced Warfare - Review by Unknown Thursday, July 16, 2015 - 0

I’ve been a fan of the Call of Duty franchise since its debut but i cant help but feel its becoming a bit of a disappointment with the release of every title.

This instalment is billed as a first person military sci-fi war thriller published by Activision. Sledgehammer Games developed the Microsoft Windows, PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game while High Moon Studios developed the versions released for the PS3 and Xbox 360, and Raven Software developed the games Multiplayer and the Exo-Zombies mode. It transpires that this is the final Call of Duty game released for the seventh generation of video game consoles, take that how you will but i suspect we wont be seeing any more Call of Duty titles apart from the new release by Trey Arch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 which has a slated release date for November 2015, after this its any ones guess as to if we will see a new Call of Duty or not.

Take the latest instalment, Call of Duty – Advanced Warfare. Don't get me wrong its a good game but it lacks in so many ways its unreal. I'm a total sod for completing games far too quickly for my own good sometimes and there was no exception to this at all.

I had this game completed on the normal difficulty setting within 2 days, no doubt on the harder difficulties this would have taken me a lot longer but on the normal level i don't expect to finish a game so quickly. And there in lies the problem, Call of Duty’s gameplay is far far too short. By the time you are getting into the game its practically over and done with. What happened to the game taking days nearly weeks to finish i want a game that takes nearly two weeks to complete, i want sub plots and sub stories hell ill even go as far as tertiary stories and plots.

That aside the games mechanics are flawless and certainly in the case of the cut scenes that actually almost pass off as real life. But the game still sticks to the safety of the past and it lets it down. Its the same old story in that a mad man holds America (and the rest of the world) to ransom, but this time the games maker has gone all out and brought in Kevin Spacey to act the lead mad man, Jonathan Irons. Irons is the head of a new and dominating private security firm Atlas. What appears to be an ally at first turns out to be the opposite as you progress through the games 15 missions.

There have been some very good upgrades to this title, the most notable to me was no more Heads Up Display (HUD) instead this time round you get everything in holographic from from the weapon you are currently armed with, which looks great and performs flawlessly. With new weapons added the best of them all has to be the Threat Grenades. Able to lock on to your enemy and then rocket propel themselves forward will have you jaw dropped and giggling like a school girl, however its not enough for me to win me over entirely.

Sadly with the addition of new weaponry and gadgets you only get to use them when the game says you can, and this is where the game comes undone again, in that you are strictly moved through the game and have to stick to the story line to play with new toys. Towards the end of the single player campaign you will get to play in one of what i think is the coolest vehicles iv seen in a long time, the XS1 Goliath or AST. The AST is an advanced manually piloted mechanized suit of advanced armour that you get to see walking around but only get to use at the very end of the game, which again for me causes disappointment in that i only get a short period of time to play with a new toy.

From reading other reviews i can understand entirely why its being scored so high, but for me i don't think it warrants a score any higher than 4 out of five or 7 out of ten, its just the same game reheated and served again with some tweaks to make it look a bit different. For me Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare feels like iv traded in my old 2003 fiesta for a 2013 one, ok you get some new toys to play with but fundamentally its still a Fiesta however you look at it and sadly this is the case with Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

Eye popping graphics and lifelike cut scenes and new toys warrant giving this a try but not one to keep but instead play it until a title comes out that you really want and then trade it in at the earliest opportunity. With the game still sticking to its safe formula it again feels rather bland and boring in that it sticks to the same story line and only allows you to do what you want when the games strict storyline allows you too, making you finish the game in rapid time and leaving you wanting more.

Addiction Score – 6/10

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