Recent reviews by JP

Choose the black pawn, watch a 5 minute cutscene, spam 'e' for a few more minutes, then ESC, Q, and get on with your life.

Youre welcome.

So many other well-written reviews that detail how crappy Civ 6 is, so no need for me to repeat. Save your money, get Civ 5 expansions. Just all-around frustrating, and that's just from playing the free demo!

So glad I didn't buy it.

Easily the best game I've played in the last five years or more. It combines so many features and mechanics from other games I like: fighting like the Batman series, climbing and maneuvering like Batman and Assassain's Creed, an in-combat abilities wheel like Crysis 2, and it has a feature that lets you see and interact with other people's memories, like the feature in the Division, except before that game. Memory remixing is the highlight of the game - I just wish there was more of it. Make sure to explore every glitch and possible outcome!

If you've been an armorer or are an expert in any of these weapons, the disassembly may seem absurd in that you'd only take it down that far to repair or replace a component. Way further than one would consider "complete disassembly."

Doing it with the mouse takes way longer than in real life also.

That said, it's a fun time-waster, and I'll even learn something about other weapons. And vehicles, and mammals.

Are you like me and frikkin' LOVED the original Max Payne?

Do you find yourself not able to play for more than two minutes at a time, and wish it could have had way more cutscenes?

Then Max Payne 3 is for you. 10-15 minute cut scenes (most that you cannot skip), interrupted by 2-3 minutes of game play, that may or may not save.

I've been watching this game for two days now (maybe a total of 20 minutes actually playing it), and while I love the Max Payne franchise, this game is seriously pi$$ing me off. I understand there's a fantastic storyline, but I don't want to sit through 10-15 minutes of a cinematic cut scenes after every two mintes of actual play.

If you want to replay a level because you missed a golden gun part, or a clue, then you have to watch the same 20+ minutes of cut scenes all over again. Hitting enter gives a message "still loading." If the scene is short - say 10-20 seconds, then it lets you bypass it. If not, you're sitting there for the duration.

The auto save most definitely does not work. After playing all day to level 7, I cannot load anything after level 3. I now read on the forums that because i replayed the level to get a gold gun component, anything I did after that was not saved. Lots of compalints about that.

So now I'm left with the decision to sit here and watch another hour or more of cut scenes to pick-up where I left off, or just let it go.

Max, I love you, but Rockstar Games made you unplayable and unenjoyable. Glad it was a bargain bin sale when I bought it.

This is the second Hasbro game on sale this week that blows.

I've not played on anything else other than difficulty level hard, and from what I can tell, the game becomes harder only in that the other AIs cooperate in trading. I just had two AI trade Connecticut Ave (giving the other the monopoly) for States Ave (no opportunity to build) one-for-one. Nothing to sweeten the deal, just an even trade.

Had the same thing happen in a previous game when AI traded Boardwalk for Marvin Gardens + $2. Gave both the chance to build. WTF?

With the cards, AI-drawn cards generally earn them money or properties, while player-drawn cards seem to cost money every time.

Best advice is to get a minimum of one of each color early. When someone owns ONE of a color you don't, trade for money and keep it. if they get two, they'll never give you one for anything other than a rediculous amount of cash, or something on which they can build. Otherwise the AI will trade-f#ck you.

The only thing religious on Christmas in my family is our love of Monopoly with NO house rules, and the crap I'm seeing with the AI here is so absurd, even the worst players in real life wouldn't do. I'm no sore loser, but it takes the fun out of it completely.

Why would Hasbro put out a port that doesn't even include the original rules or options for the board game? No way to randomly be assigned territories, them place your armies one at a time as you wish. AI is the worst of any online Risk I've seen. Drisk for Android is better. All they do is take a territorry and leave 1 army, then swap back and forth amassing 60+ armies that they then do nothing with until their continent bonus gets broken.

I agree that $3.99 was $3 overpriced.