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Sequel to one of the best zombie games and valve games to date. Perfect music with scary enemies, gorgeous graphic style and exciting gameplay.

It's not often that a sequel beats it's original, but Half-Life 2 did it. This game defined the genre for decades to come, with stunning graphics, physics, story, soundtrack. It's innovative, captivating, dark, action-packed. It's support for modding spawned tenths if not hundreds of mods, a lot of which have further defined different genres, such as team fortress 2, counter strike source.

Best grab this while it's on discount. All Halo games in one perfectly remastered package, all multiplayer connected to each other, the ultimate Master Chief Story.

Edit: 11.1.2022
After playing the game for roughly 370 hours, I can say that while the campaign still rocks, the multiplayer live-service is nearing a disaster. There hasn't been any kind of patch and the problems are starting to mount. The poor netcode, hit reg and desync make any kind of higher-tier ranked gameplay unbearable. The amount of times you die because the game wouldn't register your last-hit on the opponent is starting to increase. The amount of maps and mods haven't increased since the community made a strong demand for a slayer playlist to be added, to which 343 responded by villainizing their customers and ended up making excuses. The playlist was suddenly added after a strong backlash.

As far as a live-service game goes, it's done very poorly and after while, you will get annoyed and bored, while the games overpriced ingame store works and will try to milk you of your money for badly done and packaged customization items.

Giving it a negative review for now.
Get the campaign, dodge the multiplayer for some time.

Red Orchestra 2 is an award winning sequel to the award winning entry to the series, Red Orchestra OstFront 41-42. The game is a semi-realistic FPS set in WW2 between the Germans and Soviets. The principal gameplay mechanic is a free-floating weapon aiming without a crosshair where you have to use ironsights at all times unless in serious need. You'll get oneshot often and exploded under a flurry of grenades, but it's a lot of fun when you are finally adjusted and can drop a guy from far distance.

Rising Storm is originally a community mod that received official support from Tripwire and was integrated into the game. The only difference being that it's set in the Pacific, including everything you might fight plus a flamethrowing, which is plain scary.

Final rating would be 85/100, with points being taken for often clunky mechanics, old-ish graphics and the fact that the game uses punkbuster. Would recommend.

The only game where a peasant with a maul can wreck you from a 900° ollie on a pavise.

I used to play a lot of M&B back in the day and enjoyed this type of game very much.

Although this game is in "early access", it already has enough content, new UI and mechanics to sustain a very prolonged gameplay where you learn something new each time you start the game up.

I haven't encountered game-breaking bugs except for the "snowballing" effect that has as of 1.0.5 been mostly if not completely fixed. The community behind the game is really into Bannerlord and there are tons of bug reports and useful feedback being submitted to the point of Devs pumping out a patch every 1-3 days.

If you enjoy M&B, enjoy trading, politics, crafting (smithing FTW), large fights or simply empire building, this is a game for you.

4,8/5

I have invested 120$ into this game over the course of the last two years. If I had to pick a disappointment of the year, I'd balance on the edge of this and No Man's Sky.

Majority of the goals that have been set out simply aren't in the game, original team members have left (or have been fired, forced out or disgusted) and the list sadly goes on and on.

I wouldn't recommend the game in it's stage right now.

Do not buy this game, however tempted you are.

The "War" series began with War of the Roses, a very detailed, in some aspects an unbalanced game, but that is to be expected from such a game, where you're able to pick a class in classic medieval setting and go on and wreck peasants.

War of the Vikings is, however, a non-game. It's the ultimate shallow of an arcade-ish game.

The game looks very nice, but that is it. There are 'perks' that don't really do anything, a skilled player can dominate whole game playing as any class. Compared to War of the Roses, the armor and weapons, types and the quality of the armor/weapons actually meant something, while War of the Vikings is just a cash grab.

- All items are cosmetic, they do not add anything, the whole grind is just for you to open cosmetic crap that has no value.
- Not to mention that all servers are dominated by IG clan, who go around ruining all the fun when they please.
- Game had numerous bugs, crash issues, laggy lags and ultimate BS that could never possibly happen (we're talking about stuff defying physical laws etc.)

But the biggest blow surely was the debacle of 'Valhalla' edition. As we know, nowadays people have very low customer conscience, they do not respect the money they have, so a lot of people just decided it was okay to blow around 160€ on an edition that promised BS. They blew 160€ on stuff like 'instant unlock' or items and bunch of 'rare items' that made other people jealous until they were forced by their weak will to buy this edition.

The game edition also promised 'all future content unlocked' but how are you supposed to know if the actual worth of the released content will ever, and I mean ever, match the total of money you paid for the supposed 'future content'?

TL:DR this game is an expensive, shallow, buggy, laggy, arcadish rip-off of a non-gaming abortion experiment made by inexperienced man-children from Fatshark (fat as in they have fat pockets from all the money), because Paradox needed another ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cash grab. Do I need to say more? If I could return this game, I would.

Another great game in the Total War series. The medieval Japan period makes for an awesome game setting and the historically accurate units, armor, music and art makes it even more awesome! I give this game 10/10