Tag: Post Apocalyptic

Miscellaneous Reviews

Kenshi

Casual Goblin

Feudal Japan meets Mad Max featuring special guests the East India Trading Company, robots and the inquisition, all set in the sand blasted ruins of a once technologically advanced world. Encounter humans, hivers (insectoid mutants) and shek (genetically modified fighters who seek death in battle) along with the robots known as skeletons, who definitely didn’t have anything to do with the current dark age. Good: Kenshi is an extremely flexible sandbox, allowing you to play as a samurai, trader, bandit, bounty hunter, archaeologist-salvager, wandering ninja, slaver, slave, skin-stealing robot, bug-man drug-lord, xenophobic zealot and more. You can forge alliances, make … Continue reading Kenshi

Miscellaneous Reviews

Borderlands 2

Casual Goblin

Pandora, a desolate planet littered with the detritus of industry and alien technology, a prime place for a Vault Hunter to make a fortune… you’ll just have to survive bandits, mutants, beasts and an ego-maniacal corporate dictator first! Good: This game has a surreal setting, bringing a strange mixture of the silly and serious that’s tied together by over the top violence. Funnily enough, I actually rather enjoyed the main story thanks to it’s twists and turns, and the characters you meet along the way cut a good balance between bombastic and realistic. This overall style is enhanced by the … Continue reading Borderlands 2

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Killing Floor 2

Casual Goblin

The ZED outbreak has spread, the dead don’t stay dead, get paid dosh to … go spray some lead? You get the general idea. The sequel to Killing Floor provides a fast-paced action shooter requiring tactics, situational awareness and a steady trigger-finger. Good: So, the first thing I’d like to talk about is the general sound design of the game – it’s really, really good. The groans, moans, growls and belches of the ZEDs give you clear audio clues that you can recognise and respond to, and the wet crunch of a decapitating shot is oddly satisfying. The music during … Continue reading Killing Floor 2

Miscellaneous Reviews

Killing Floor

Casual Goblin

Want to run around blowing up the undead for cash and prizes? Want to weld doors shut behind your teammates to ‘help’ them? Want to do it dressed as a cybernetic chicken? Killing Floor might be the game for you. Good: On the face of it, this is a simple (but polished) horde shooter. Zombies (ZEDs) spawn as a wave, you kill them (gaining a cash bounty as you do) and visit an equipment trader between rounds. Difficulty escalates with each wave, with more much more dangerous ZEDs appearing as time goes on, followed by a boss when you reach … Continue reading Killing Floor

Miscellaneous Reviews

7 Days To Die

Casual Goblin

Post apocalyptic settings seem to breed zombies, and 7 Days To Die is no exception. Played solo or with friends, you are a hapless survivor battling the elements, starvation, infection and the undead with whatever you can craft or scrounge. Good: There is an innate difficulty curve to this game but the big selling point is the ‘heat’ system and the blood moon hordes that spawn on the titular seventh day. Covering the heat system first, any and all non-sneaky actions generate ‘heat’ as does the presence of active machinery or gore. Heat decays over time, but generating too much … Continue reading 7 Days To Die

Shadowrun

Shadowrun: Dragonfall

Casual Goblin

Second in the Shadowrun series adapted by Harebrained Schemes, set in Germany with a cast of cyborgs, orks and wizards, Dragonfall is a bleak but fascinating game. Good: Shockingly atmospheric, this game captures the lethal and uncaring nature of the setting. Criminal syndicates, murderous AI’s that can kill you via the internet, Aztec inspired blood mages and even the nightmarish cyberzombie – there’s plenty of ways to die. Some incredible characters are available to support you – everything from a former punk mage to an ex-military sniper or a full body-mod cyborg combat-medic. Not only do they have distinct personalities, … Continue reading Shadowrun: Dragonfall

Shadowrun

Shadowrun: Hong Kong

Casual Goblin

A top-down isometric offering in the world of Shadowrun, a time in our not too distant future where magic has re-emerged, technology and cybernetics are commonly available, crime can pay and megacorps rule the world. Good: A wide variety of options for character creation exist, and as long as you keep semi-focused on one area, you should have no problem in terms of effectiveness. Be a cybernetic-enhanced elf ripping heads off with a length of monofilament wire and style, a human combat mage throwing fireballs and frag grenades with equal aplomb, or an orc rigger commanding a squad of assault … Continue reading Shadowrun: Hong Kong

Miscellaneous Reviews

Review: Fallout 3

Casual Goblin

Fallout 3 lets you wander the post-apocalyptic wastelands of America. Play hero or villain, scientist or savage – the choice is really up to you. Good: The first thing I noticed about Fallout 3 was just how much terrain there was to explore. Even discounting the additional areas added by the DLC included in the GOTY edition, the map is absolutely massive you could spend a huge amount of time just exploring, scrabbling through the wreckage of civilisation for ammo, drugs and food. Of course, there are plenty of stories to discover if you take this approach, even ones that … Continue reading Review: Fallout 3

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Review: Fallout – New Vegas

Casual Goblin

If you’ve never played a Fallout game before, you might be rather taken aback at the mixture of tragedy, dark humour and absurdity laced throughout this series. Set in a sixties vision of the future and seasoned with nuclear war, New Vegas explores the efforts of an insane tycoon trying to keep alive his vision of Los Vegas in the irradiated Mojave desert. Face off against raiders, mutants, cannibals, sinister secret societies and even a madman’s version of the roman legions – or potentially join them… Highs: With a solid cowboy theme, New Vegas can inspire some pretty neat ideas … Continue reading Review: Fallout – New Vegas

Shadowrun

Shadowrun Returns

Casual Goblin

Based on the Shadowrun role-playing game, this turn based, top-down tactical RPG (think of it like a board game) is set in a cyberpunk fantasy world, where orc cyborgs rub shoulders with human neo-shamans under the umbrella of the megacorps. Good: Character creation and development is pretty flexible – you can slash enemies to ribbons as a cyborg troll, command drones as an elf rigger, light enemies on fire as a human mage, or make your own mix and match abomination to taste! The story-line and atmosphere of the game is pretty solid – there’s a decent amount of content, … Continue reading Shadowrun Returns