Aztaro Reviews Receiver

Title: Receiver
Platform: PC
Genre: First-Person Shooter [FPS], collect a thon, gun simulation
Online Interactions: To download

Story: You are a receiver, you have just survived the Mind Kill and need to help reshape humanity. You must collect tapes and fight off the kill drones to make it a better world for the rest of the survivors.

Sorry for the short story but there isn't much to it without spoiling it or going into details that you will overall forget after your first encounter with having one of the most realistic gun mechanics in a game to date. This game is all about guns, there's only 3 but the technicality and the realism to them is rather amazing. From something every game does automatically like loading bullets into a clip to drawing back the hammer, this game will indeed inform you about the operation of some handguns. Without me nit-picking everything in it to a joyful look of glee on my face for something that pays attention to so much detail, I'll save you some trouble and shorten it. You have to load your own magazines, advance your own bullets, turn off the safety, lock the hammer and more. The guns are a basic auto loading pistol, a standard 6 shot revolver and a modern automatic pistol with a semi and full auto firing function. With randomly generated worlds and item drops this game will have you playing for hours.

Rating: 57/100

Reason: I personally would rate it higher cause I'm a sucker for attention to detail and realism, this game has both. But with realism comes the annoying part, realism. Some people like the "Call of Duty" gun style where the bullets are sorted and magazined automatically for you, when a flying kill drone is after you, you too would like it too. Also how the aimer isn't locked to the center of the screen, but that can be fixed in the options so no complaining! Lastly, this game is very technical and hard, you have to hit specific spots on the kill drones to kill them. When they are shooting or chasing you down, that's hard, I like it, then again I like Dark Souls but that has nothing to do with it. Also bullets reflect "realisticly", which my problem was I'd shoot a kill drone and have the bullet bounce off the metal and come back and kill me, oh and everything is one hit kill so if you're hit, you have to start from scratch. New gun, new items, no tapes, which can get frustrating when you have a large percentage of tapes and accidentally shoot the wall and have it bounce back and kill you, going from your full auto pistol with 4 full clips worth of ammo to a revolver with only 1 shot, rather frustrating. This is a game for gun fanatics, not Call of Duty and Battlefield nerds, it'll teach you how guns aren't that easy to operate, but it's rather rage inducing.

Update

Ermahgerd I forgot to do this on sunday!

Anyway, no review cause my horrible video card finally died and just got the new one yesterday, reviews will continue

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Aztaro Reviews: Sonic Generations

Title: Sonic Generations
Platform: Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo 3DS and PC
Genre: Fast Paced, collect-a-thon, timed, battle
Online Interactions: Leaderboards and rankings

Story:
Part 1: Sonic was running along when he hears a rather odd sound and a weird thing in the sky, it dissappears and he continues on till he finds out everything is torn a part, meeting a rather odd person too.
Part 2: Sonic is enjoying his birthday party with his friends, just as he's about to start the party some odd entity appears and steals all of his friends and wreaks havoc on the areas around him. after some investigating and a weird deja ja vu moment, he learns his world has been taken a part and mixed with all the other places he's been all his life, going to the old zones, fighting old foes and recollecting his friends with his past life self all in a pursuit to see who could have done this.

I am a Sonic fan [huge sonic fan] and I love this game, it's awesome. I'll probably praise this game to much but I love it, the modern Sonic areas are as fast as I expect Sonic games to be and the 2D parts mixing with 3D are a nice touch just some of them are, pretty challenging. They have a new incentive which personally I love, I'm all about "how it's made" and things like that with unlockable artwork and concept art. You can also get music from a wide variety of Sonic's games, from the Genesis to the Gameboy and even Sonic R. There are also multiple paths in many of the levels both Modern and Classic AND new power-ups for Classic Sonic like a Skateboard or the spike power-up from Sonic Colors. Another thing is they have little mini challenges for both Sonics weither it is a race against a bot, use of a specific skill, a game of skill and more! You can even fight some old friends like Metal Sonic, Shadow and Silver the Hedgehog, there's quite a bit you can do in this game. Before I start fan-boying this game I'll end this review now.

Rating: 88/100

Reason: Great replay value, great graphics and IT'S SONI-wait, no not a reason, it's got more than just running around so non-Sonic fans can do other things. The controls are solid and the PC version can use a controller so you don't have to be bombarded in 3D sections. I'd say more but I feel holding in this much Sonic fan-ness is going to kill me, just go and enjoy this game.