Fallout 76 Is Not Good, Sadly

This is a rough review to write – I absolutely love Fallout games and almost everything about this game but unfortunately Fallout 76 is pretty shit.

Overall	5.5/10	Total game score

Price		$59.99

QUALITY	6.5/10	Overall quality score
Performance	7/10	Runs well even on low-end PC’s
Controls	8/10	Changeable bindings and fluid controls
Graphics	5/10	Same engine for the past 10 years so graphics are old and outdated

GAME PLAY	4.5/10	Overall game play score
Difficulty	6/10	Enemies’ ability to scale cause some serious difficulty and maybe one of the few positives
Content	4/10	A lot of basic stuff missing and map is extremely empty
Immersion	5/10	Lore issues and constant bugs can be extremely immersion breaking
Story	4/10	Story is hard to find at times and often just brings you to different locations until you reach the nuclear silos

DESIGN	5.5/10	Overall design score
Sound	8/10	For the most part the music fits the general atmosphere. Includes old school music and intense fight songs
Interface	5/10	Clean for the most part, but if you get too many quests the side of the screen becomes a huge cluster
Mapping	4/10	Open world with few locations in it except for some major cities and buildings

Fallout 76 is the newest release in the Fallout franchise. The catch with this new game is that it’s technically the first MMO allowing up to 24 players in the map at the same time. This means friends (up to 4) can group up and explore the wasteland together. Initially this sounds like a fantastic new experiential adventure where you can kill mutants and death claws until you begin to start exploring and realize the map is completely empty for the most part. With few major landmarks that are worth visiting, you show up to a location, look around for five minutes, kill a few random mutants or ghouls, pick up some slightly better loot, then rinse and repeat. Compared to the rest of the fallout series there was always NPC’s to talk to and missions to complete or receive.

With Bethesda’s very interesting idea to avoid having NPC’s drastically change the entire game, it makes the game feel completely lifeless except for a few robots and computers that talk to you. The one bonus is that other players who act like NPCs will give you quests to clear out caves or towns in return for caps, weapons, or equipment. The music is back in all its fantastic glory through the nostalgic jams of the 50’s. This by far is the best part about the game and shows that at its core it’s still a Fallout game simply tweaked to incorporate group experience and seems rushed to be published, so there’s not a lot to explore. In terms of weapons and gear, there is still a metric fuck ton of variables that can all be fully customized with the same sort of mods as seen previously in Fallout 4. One new feature in FO76 is the “build anywhere system” as seen in Fallout 4 but just expanded to include more items and better utilities such as better snapping and better customizability. As I previously stated in the beginning of this review, I love this game – but it hurts to say that it’s shit due to rushing product release and failing to put enough effort into making content and quests.

Black Ops 4 Releases $30 Hammer

Activison releases a $30 hammer melee weapon for Blackops 4, has this gone on too long?

I’ve always been a huge fan of the call of duty game’s but the recent few have really fallen off with less content and more predatory business practices that try and gouge the consumer with micro transactions that can have massive game play advantages to the people who can afford them.

Activision loves those sweet sweet micro transactions and why wouldn’t they? after you make a giant AAA title sell it for $60 you can keep making money off of it by selling tiny red dots, skins that look like garbage, and now a hammer for $30.

The new melee weapon to come to BLOPS 4 is the hangman a sledgehammer with a giant head, the hangman is now apart of the triple take package which comes with ten levels of the battle pass and ten loot boxes all for the price of $30. This raises the question how far can anti-consumer practices take you? Activision has constantly been under fire a few months after the release when they brought micro transactions to the game after all of the reviews had already been published with outrageous prices and a battle pass that took the word grind to a whole new level or if you don’t want to grind buy some COD points and buy your way to the top of the tier list.

Deep Rock Galactic, Dwarfs, Drinking And Spiders

Overall	8/10	Total game score

QUALITY	8.5/10	Overall quality score
Performance	9/10	Runs fantastic
Controls	8/10	Controls are great except for the mouse, LMB is shoot but RMB is mine so when shooting you might accidentally pull out a pickaxe and take some damage
Graphics	9/10	Graphics are Borderlands like so they look good no matter what your rig is

GAME PLAY	7/10	Overall game play score
Difficulty	10/10	With a brand new difficulty each match can drastically change from a slight hiccup to constant death
Content	9/10	Constant very full updates that add new weapons, skills, maps, and enemies
Immersion	7/10	Enemies feel realistic with the environment and everything fits well with the overall theme of the game
Story	2/10	Some hints at a story from time to time from voice lines but no main missions or actual story

DESIGN	9/10	Overall design score
Sound	9/10	The music changes depending on if you are simply just mining or a swarm is coming, this drastically changes how the games atmosphere impacts the player
Interface	9/10	Small and compact UI allows for full sight of the game with access to equipment
Mapping	9/10	Each map is very different with caves and randomization that cause good matches every time

Deep Rock Galactic is an early access game that’s been out for over a year now, The game gets constant updates that add new weapons, enemies and maps that drastically change the game every time the player gets on to squash some bugs I’ve been playing this game since its release and it never ceases to give pure enjoyment and the worst horror, there are now five levels of difficulty that range from one person playing that has never touched a controller/ keyboard and mouse, then theirs difficulty five which is like getting shot in the back of the head being on fire while drowning with a knife in your back, in other words its pure hell, enemies pour through every crevice and cave possible you and four friends have to try and complete your objective which changes depending on the mission you and your friends want to die on after you jump in the drop pod get locked in for mining, shooting, and terror.

Rainbow Six Siege Review

Overall	7/10	Total game score

QUALITY	7.5/10	Overall quality score
Performance	9/10	Even on lower end PC’s you will still get good frames and minimal lag
Controls	9/10	Controls are simple and follow suite of most FPS
Graphics	5/10	Could use improvement

GAME PLAY	5.5/10	Overall game play score
Difficulty	8/10	Difficulty can change from match to match depending on the team and operators they pick
Content	10/10	Constant updates add new operators and maps
Immersion	3/10	logistically it makes no sense for any of these people to be fighting each other
Story	1/10	No story except for one mission that is hidden behind many others

DESIGN	8/10	Overall design score
Sound	7/10	Atmosphere and music does it fit?
Interface	9/10
Mapping	9/10	Maps are all relatively the same size they vary from Close quarters combat and long rooms with corridors

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is a standalone game that tried to capitalize on CS:GO being the biggest and most loved type of game, a round based tactical shooter where landing shots and making a strategy are the best option a team has to win. Siege started with 20 operators (plus a recruit charecter which had no specialization), now as of the latest update there are 46 different operators to play as, they all have different gadgets, weapons, and niches to master that will give any player a tough time to figure out all of the ins and outs to a couple let alone all 46. Ubisoft has done a fantastic job at adding huge content updates that each add 2-4 operators and a map that completely change up the meta of the game to make sure no one gets bored and always has to watch every corner of an ever growing threat from every angle of a new or old map.

Each map is meticulously made to create a well balanced match every match, from being able to shoot through and blow up walls, climb up buildings to get better viewpoints, or fortifying optimal positions to hold the perfect angle and set a trap for the other team, with no one side being severely over powered each round and match will depend on what operators and tactics your team use to try and overpower the enemy, whether you pick someone who can blow open walls, shoot grenades into a room, or be able to throw cameras so your team can see more of the map, something can always be done to gain an advantage on your enemy.

Battlefield V, WWII With Women And Missing Content

Overall	7.5/10	Total game score

QUALITY	8.5/10	Overall quality score
Performance	8/10	Even on lower end PC’s you will get good frames and limited lag
Controls	10/10	Changeable key binds and full joystick support
Graphics	8/10	Looks very nice at maxed out settings, Quality drastically dips after leaving any setting other then max

GAME PLAY	6.5/10	Overall game play score
Difficulty	5/10	Not hard at all, sniping made a lot easier, time to kill decreased to include the COD crowd
Content	7/10	Could use a lot more weapons and vehicles. Not many factions at all missing America, Russia and Japan
Immersion	9/10	Weapons are all time period friendly same with maps vehicles and uniforms
Story	5/10	Four story missions that are mildy interesting and take about 1-4 hours a piece

DESIGN	7.5/10	Overall design score
Sound	9/10	Music fits extremely well and there is a slight variation of the classic battlefield intro song
Interface	7/10	UI is relatively clean with not a lot of clutter except for the chat box and kill feed but both are customizable
Mapping	7/10	Maps are partially free roam with a lot of variation but there are not many upon release, there is a promise of more in the future

The eleventh installment in the battlefield franchise this one with a lot of controversy, but none of that matters let’s get into a game play review. Overall the game is pretty solid there are a lot of pros helping the rating score, graphics look flawless there are a lot of guns and each new tides of war season adds new vehicles, weapons, and clothing options that incentives people to keep playing and complete objectives to unlock the newest hot piece of loot for your character. Unfortunately game modes for BFV are very lacking with the loss of a fan favorite Rush and a few other modes conquest is the main game mode people play and grand operation which is just a giant amalgamation of maps and game modes sloppily thrown together, it’s still fun but the game loses a lot of points when you get bored of one game mode and only have two other options. Without a single player except for a few missions that are extremely tedious and long a lot of players were disappointed mainly because every battlefield game so far has had a great single player that draws you in then feeds you a story you care about, remember and draw on while playing multiplayer on maps you just watched your platoon die on, with the newest addition of battlefield V the people got four missions that they almost force you to play if you want some cosmetic items to look cooler then everyone else, they are fun missions and only take a few hours to complete but they are very dull at some points where the player just has to follow an NPC to a point kill a few enemies get a piece of paper then head through a city doing the same over and over till the mission end. There are a lot of weapons for each class that feel very different depending on how you use them, what scopes you have on and what specialization are on it.

With a total of nine maps at the moment (more to come in the future) overall each map is different in it’s own way but for the most part only 4 of them are unique in every way which is different from the normal formula of a battlefield game but if EA stays true to there word it shouldn’t matter if we receive many more free maps which they have promised. Overall the gun play feels realistic, maps have a lot of variety between them and levolution is still very present, general game feel fits with the WWII time period, not a lot of game modes three of which are just a slightly different take on other ones or a grouping of a bunch of them plus rush missing as of right now. One huge flaw is that there are a few major factions not in game at the moment that EA has said they will include at a later date that include but are not limited to Russia, Japan, Italy, and most important America with many weapons and vehicles to accompany them, over time I feel the game (content wise) will get a lot better once there is more to do that can keep attention longer. Firestorm is set to release mid to late February the new Battle Royale game in the battlefield universe which could be a giant flop now that the Royale category is completely flooded with games.

The Division 2 Cleaning Up D.C. One Scumbag At A Time

First i have to say I have not fully completed the main campaign but have a total of forty hours, there is a lot to do and often times the story missions are forgotten about

Overall	7.5/10	Total game score

QUALITY	8/10	Overall quality score
Performance	9/10	How well does it run?
Controls	6/10	Easy to control? changeable keybindings?
Graphics	9/10	How good does it look?

GAME PLAY	7.75/10	Overall game play score
Difficulty	9/10	How hard is the game?
Content	7/10	Is there stuff missing?
Immersion	8/10	How well are you kept in the universe?
Story	7/10	Too little? too much? how does it affect game?

DESIGN	7/10	Overall design score
Sound	8/10	Atmosphere and music does it fit?
Interface	8/10	Easy to navigate?
Mapping	5/10	Free roam? linear?

The Division 2 is the second release in the Division series by Ubisoft, this time it takes place in a war torn Washington D.C. you and up to three friends (4 player squads) have to run through a very realistic, detailed D.C. dispatching of four different factions that all vary in fighting tactics, abilities, armor, and weapons. The Division 2 with its multiple different groups to fight also has a extremely big varying map that will take you all across a very large portion of D.C. from the capitol all the way over to Roosevelt Island that is filled with different types of environments.

Along with an very fleshed out A.I. and a detailed map, Division 2 expanded upon its predecessor in terms of loot with more weapons, armor, skills, and most important cosmetics, that range from a park ranger, swat team member, and cowboys, every couple levels you also get credits to open cosmetic crates as well as find items in the world as you would normal loot. One of the major negatives of this game is the map combined with the controls, mainly not being able to navigate to certain areas unless you run a full block just to get around one building and the inability to free jump combined with the vault option not always being there which again makes you have to run halfway round an area just to get down 10ft. One major plus is the new amount of skills in the first game there were twelve skills that were relatively cut and dry but now there are eight base skills with 3-4 variants that drastically change each ability and how each fight can change in moments. The last and maybe one of the biggest changes from the first game which is also one of the most fun is the dark zone,

the dark zone is a PvP area where you have to kill the higher level A.I. get the loot and protect it from other players that are trying to steal it from you, there was a drastic change this time around that could be for better or worse there are now 3 different dark zones, two of them follow the new edition were all stats are normalized meaning if you go in at a low level and fight someone who is max level you will stand a lot better chance against them but the third dark zone follows the old rules, what ever you walk in with is all you got. Overall The Division 2 is a great game that did a lot right and is definitively something to pickup especially with all of the free content to come.