Tomb Raider Review & Gameplay

 Tomb Raider is an action-adventure platform video game.Published by Square Enix and developed   by Crystal Dynamics. Tomb Raider also includes character progression, skill upgrades,side-quests and craft system, platforming exploration and survival mechanics and a campaign that will last around 12 to 15 hours .

Left, Camilla Luddington shes the face and the
         voice of the rebooted Lara Croft







Let me start straight away with that I think, this is one of the best story driven, well written, very well presented game I have played so far this year, not once did i want to put down my pad, not once did i feel I had lost my connection with any of the character.
I really enjoyed this games even though at one point I wasn't even going to play the game again as I was 36% into the game and I jump into somewhere I don't think I was meant to go and I couldn't get out or start at the last checkpoint as it kept starting me in the area I couldn't get out off, so basically I had to start again from the start, which of course I wasn't too happy about!
The game begins with Lara travelling on the ship called Endurance commanded by Conrad Roth, an old friend of the Croft family and former Royal Marine. Also there Reyes Roths lover, as well as several specialists are on board. Alex, a computer specialist, Johah a fisherman, Samantha, Laras old collage friend and also Dr.Whitman who is a celebrity archaeologist who is desperate to make a big find and escape bankruptcy.

The group are searching for the lost Japanese nation of the yamatai against Dr.Whitmans protests,
the ship follows Lara's advice anyway and enters the Dragon's Triangle, an area renowned for
causing ships to disappear. when the ship got struck by a violent storm and splits in two, Lara awakens on a beach but is knocked unconscious by an unknown assailant. This is when we start the nail biting edge of your seat roller coaster ride never in my life have I played a character that gets so beaten, banged up, impaled or shot at, the ordeal she has to go through would make anyone loose their mind but not Lara she battles on bruised and bleeding and still she kicks ass to escape the island.
As you can properly tell I fell in love with this game, at first I thought it was just going to be an uncharted clone but I was wrong, it might have used the uncharted template but with a story to match any AAA Hollywood movie with the action that is fast, brutal and combat that is tight.
Overall this game is a must buy .

Verdict  9/10
 

Dead Space 3 Review & Gameplay Footage

**May Contain Spoilers**

Dead space 3 is a third-person shooter survival horror video game, developed by visceral games and published by electronic arts.

You start with an intro explaining about the markers, If you haven't played dead space before, then the markers are a statue of unseen power and there's powerful people who want to harvest this power into unlimited energy. After the intro of Dead Space 3 it follows the Galaxy's unluckiest engineer, Isaac Clarke as he takes up the fight to protect the human race from the mysterious markers and its necrospawn.This begins with Isaac heading off to rescue Ellie, his missing girlfriend who returns from Dead Space 2, Also Isaac is joined by John Carver, the first playable co-op character in the series.

For the first disc of Dead Space 3 it will be the Dead Space that we all know and love. Running through dark long tunnels with a sense of dread as you don't know what will be around the corner. You're low on ammo and life, and on the edge of your seat hoping that the next Nercospawn onslaught isn't going to happen when you're low on life and ammo, which 9 times out of 10 does happen.
You then find yourself running for your life trying to somehow stop with Jedi-like kinesis to impale enemies with their own torn off limbs or other tools like slow-mo, inducting stasis and gravity-manipulation kinesis puts a fresh spin on typical shooter affair. Even if you played the first two games, Dead Space 3's combat is still some of the most unique and satisfying of this console generation.

By Disc 2 you would have crashed on the frozen planet of Tau Volantis, where Isaac must comb the harsh environment for raw materials and scavenged parts. He will then put his engineering skills to test to create and customise weapons and survival tools. The ice planet holds the key to ending the Necromorph plague forever, but first Isaac must overcome avalanches,treacherous ice-climbs,and the violent wilderness. Facing deadlier evolved enemies and the brutal elements at this point it turns into more of an action game rather than a horror, in which true Dead Space die hard fans (me being one of them) it disappoints! Because if i wanted to play an action game i would have played Gears of War or some other third-person shooter.

But as a whole that is my problem with the game as the game looks amazing Visceral Games highly modified Godfather engine handily renders everything in glistening,crystalline clarity.
Also gameplay time if played slowly and methodically, looking for every artifact, hidden items and Peng!, you can spend between 15-20 hours, including all the optional side missions, Once you beat it and then start grinding for overclocked and supercharged weapon parts in new game+, you can run it in 8-10 hours. Same goes for co-op as its a faster play through

Verdict 8/10