Recent reviews by ex0

„Fus Ro Dah!”

Personally I think that this is the most successful open-world RPG sandbox out there. The story is amazing and the posibillities are endless.

After you get into the game, your time will get eaten by the game, because the main story and the side-line questlines are huge and awesome. It's not go there, kill that, pick up that, bring that, and so on. There are various amazing and interesting guilds you can join - for instance the Thieves, the Nightingale, the Dark Brotherhood or one of the two huge, main guilds - The Stormcloaks or the Imperials. The map is huge and beautiful, the game is challenging and fun, the more you play, the more fun it is! The crafting is epic - you can smith, enchant or even brew potions and more!

The graphics are amazing and with todays modding capabilities you're able to boost it up even up a level. Workshop is also one amazing thing for downloading more fanbase made content, that will double or maybe triple the game time.
The controls are easy to understand and comfort, you'll have no trouble to get into the game at all. The gameplay itself is amazing and heavily depends on what "class" do you play. If you are using magic, bows, swords or shields it's still awesome and entertaining.

The DLCs are also great, they will add to the game time even more and will bring a lot of new content to explore.

What are you waiting for? If you don't own this game just buy it and go play! It's a masterpiece and every RPG fan should play it!

I personally love predecessors of Counter-Strike more, especially Source. Counter-Strike 1.6 will be the best for ever, although it has some unperfections, for instance the so-called backgrip and wallbanging. But the recoil, gameplay and everything was better and the skill degree was more noticeable.

So, let's go back to Global Offensive itself.
The game has better graphics than older titles of Counter-Strike, although for the minimal requirements cost, the graphics is not so well whatever and lowest settings looks almost the same as maxed out. The most noticeable difference is shading and shadows, that's most of all. I personaly dislike the Global Offensive hand models and their animations, but the models of the weapons are nice and maps are somewhat upgraded Source maps. One factor which I dislike the most is skins in the game - you don't have to get them, but If you want a nice skin you can put more than 300 Euros in the game, just to get a damn knife. That is about ten times the price of the game! That's insane and dumb. Recoil is somewhat weird If you're new to the game, but you'll get used to it.

The big part of this game is the competetive matchmaking! That's what Counter-Strike was missing the most! Are you tired of public servers? Did you want to play something seriously? You couldn't because "clanwars" and public cups were too hard or you couldn't find any? Don't worry. This game has the competetive matchmaking, which will try to find teammates and enemies in the same skill group category, beginning with Silver 1, trough Gold Nova, Guardian, Eagle ranks to Supreme Master First Class, ending with The Global Elite. If you play more ocasionally and don't want to play too much and don't play so well, you'll get a lower rank and play with people that you can actually win to, or lose to! It depends all on how you play.

Another awesome part of the game is the new variety of official game-modes. Do you remember the unoficiall gungames? No more, you can play official Arms Race mode! Deathmatch is also a game mode now! Also demolition, something between Arms Race and defuse missions with only one plant point! And the usual "casual" games (public games, that's how people prefer to call it), where you can just relax and play for fun, without having to care about losing and getting de-moted!

This game is not the best from the Counter-Strike series, that's clear, but It's really worth the price! With a sale going on you can get it really cheap and you'll find yourself alot of fun playing with friends or you can even meet some new in the matchmaking!

I recommend this game to everyone - the matchmaking will make you play with people around the same skill level, so you don't have to worry about being bad or being too good! On a scale from 1 to 10 I would give this game 7.5. It's still pretty much the same Counter-Strike, just in a new coat with few additions.

„The limit is your creativity.”

Best sandbox you can get. Endless posibilities. Creativity is that limits what you can build up.

„Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman. Rise and shine.”

It's nearly ten years since this game went out, yet it's still flawless.
Gordon Freeman, our main character is the character we remember from Half-Life 1's Black Mesa. Full of action, head bumping - of course, headcrabs are back! Many puzzles that player has to accomplish to continue in the campaign, there is huge amount of content.

The main story should take around 10 hours if you know what you're doing, If you're really new, I think it may go up to like 15 hours and if you play the game for fifth time, it shouldn't be a problem to finish it in about 6 hours.

Are you afraid of buying this game, finishing it once and never ever playing it again? Don't! If you play the game again, it's still the same, it's still awesome as you played it for the first time. I personally have finished it already about five times. And if you get really tired of Gordon and his friends --- There are tons of mods for this game that you can play, that will multiply your playtime by five times!

I suggest this game for everyone who played Half-Life 1 and even for those who did not. It's really worth those few euros.