Recent reviews by Sammy Boy

TITLE MISLEADING: You don't actually have to have any friends to play.

It's like GTA and a kung fu movie had an love-child named Sleeping Dogs.

Just as the famous Quentin Tarantino followed his critically acclaimed, violent, bloody, thrill ride that was Pulp Fiction with a elequent, genius, and masterful Jackie Brown, Rockstar Games follows up their bloody masterpiece of Grand Theft Auto with the detailed, astonishing world of a noire style Los Angeles. You are the hot shot Det. Cole Phelps of the LAPD, and nothing is going to come in between you and the scumbags and criminals of L.A. Analyze the slightest facial ticks, pour over every inch of the crime scene, because that one clue, that one hint, that one detail will mean putting the bad guy away for life, or letting him continue to roam the booming and crime infested streets of your city.

Wow. Much style. So blood. Wow.

It's games like these that show there is no formula for creating a good game. The formula lies with the players, not the creators. And if you do it right, like Garry's Mod, the players are the creators.

Seriously underrated game. From the makers of DOOM and the company that brought you Fallout and Elder Scrolls, RAGE is a fantastic merge between Fallout and DOOM. The company was a little ambitious at first, but this is a fantasitic game. I've personally bought it 3 times. Celebrity voice acting mixed with post apocalypitc mutation filled mayhem? Where can you go wrong?

Bloody, violent, and drunk Max is back for the 3rd (and probably final) installment into one of the most influential shooters of all time. All three Max Payne games are extremely well done and take the player on a dark, pain filled journey into the psyche of the deteriorated ex detective. Want to know what it looks like when a man has nothing to lose? Welcome to Max's world. The only thing stopping you is the *click* of an empty gun magazine. Slow motion "Bullet Time" lets you not only carefully aim with precision acuracy but also marvel at the gore spewing from the head of your fallen victims. Dirsturbing? You can always handle it like Max; pop some pills and wash it down with Jack. He won't remember a thing that happens in this game. But trust me, YOU will.

Supprisingly fun FTP. Graphics are great and planes are easy to fly and hard to master. Ground forces such as tanks and jeeps will be added soon. Planes, machineguns, explosions.

This game is spectacular. Easily 2nd best game released in 2012 (behind Borderlands 2). If you aren't sure whether to buy this or not... Just picture yourself running through the jungle, bullets cracking and wizzing by your head, a heard of cattles runs by your side, equally scared of the militia and their storm of machine gun fire. You find a lonely armed jeep on the side of the rode, hop into its .50 cal machine gun, turn around, and light the jungle like its the fourth of f*cking July. 15 minutes later you are armed with a flamethrower, blazing an enemies pot field, all while you are treated to some Skrillex. You can hunt exotic animals among the shadows, siliently take out enemies with your Rambo-esque recurve bow, or you can arm your self with C4, land mines, rocket launchers, machine guns, grenades, cocktail molotovs, and other weapons of destruction and show that island who's God.

Absolutely fantastic reboot. Voice acting for Laura is suberb and makes you cringe when shes pulling steel barb out of her side. Deaths are Dead Space-esque brutal and makes dying a little easier knowing you get to see a gory (and somtimes funny) animation. I was genuinely sad when it was over, but happy now that this new series has just begun. Top 3 of 2013.