Benjamin Allen

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I'd sum it up by saying it's a beautiful mix of the Souls mechanics and the deterministic story of Dishonored 1. Lies of P is a beautiful, rich game that scratches the Souls itch but, unlike other Souls-like games, carves its own unique path. Its world is just as brutal as the Souls games and just as tragic but in a completely unique way similar to Dishonored. I got this game on PC to play between game releases but I find myself playing for hours and hours. If you're getting it on PC, the PC port (if its even a port) is absolutely gorgeous. It seems to be optimized extremely well and the performance is amazing even with good graphics. I didn't even need to touch the graphics settings and I have a mid-budget PC. Lies of P deserves its 5 stars.

Unique. Addictive. Realistic in every way. Unlike any other show ever aired on television. I will sorely miss it when it's over/ There's so much to say about Mr. Robot. The only show to ever depict hackers and hacking realistically, and they depict depression, mania, addiction, and every other theme they touch unlike any other show. The soundtrack is diverse and somehow manages to amplify the story. There's imagery, suspense, reveals, twists... it's just a complete masterpiece. The show makes you feel a complete range of emotions. Suspense. Shock. Extreme lows and extreme highs. Empathy, apathy, happiness, sadness, everything. It's just absolutely incredible.

Best sci-fi show since Battlestar Galactica, with 2-3 times the budget. Stunning visuals and graphics. Space immersion like no other sci-fi show ever made: the little details and "rules" that the producers put into their zero gravity scenes is unbelievable; the soundtrack is perfect; there is so much worldbuilding (literally) that the show even created a real language for the colonists living on space stations. The Expanse trailblazed new rules for the sci-fi genre like all revolutionary sci-fi shows do. There is a reason planes flew over Seattle with "Save the Expanse!" banners when SyFy cancelled it, and Jeff Bezos was such a fan that it was a no-brainer!

Note: This game needs a LOT of work, and Rebellion needs to seriously consider getting back to the basics and listening to their players. They always used to be prompt with support tickets in SE3 & 4, now there are rampant reports of them being completely ignored. This game is just not fun to play, and I'm on PC, while half the bugs are on console. Didn't even make it through the first level before I quit. Karl pops out of cover for no reason. In a stealth sniping game. Noise radius of rifles is grossly inaccurate. Got heard by enemies 300-400 meters away with a rifle rated for 96 meters. Vehicles, especially gunboats, are now bullet sponges. When trying to hide an enemy body, Karl strolls along like he *wants* to get spotted. Why would I hide a body and stand up straight as possible and make a huge *THUD* noise when hiding it? Sound masks are few and far between and now must now be created purely through sabotaging equipment. As a result a common complaint is that their pistol and knife get used often when the rifle hasn't even left its sling. SE4 basically eased you into the game, making gradually harder and harder missions. The first map is damn near impossible not to get spotted. Constant invisible walls often force you to walk on roads with frequent traffic. Apparently non-lethal takedowns of Nazis gives you more XP than lethal ones. In a war. That the Allies are desperately trying to put to an end. Against Nazis. The game takes it further by making a point to humanize the enemies much, much more than it did in the original. If there is a game that should encourage taking out as many enemies as possible, this is it. This isn't Hitman where the ideal goal is to make it look like nothing ever happened and the only death is the target. It's to leave a silent trail of death in your wake without being seen. Many other bugs reported such as getting stuck in walls, stuck in reload animations, guns getting stuck in the ground, bullet drops and travel that often have you aiming 4 inches away and below the enemy (on the first level). Zeroing your rifle isn't even mentioned unless you go looking for it. TL;DR: I'd give this a 3/10. It's playable, the graphics are good, and they put some effort to make it not SE4 DLC, but it did more harm than good.

There is a LOT Designated Survivor gets wrong. For a show about politics and FBI investigations, the show writers seem to either have little knowledge about both of those areas (for example, the process of passing a simple bill in Congress in the show is completely wrong), or they are too lazy to be realistically accurate, and they hope the viewer is too. There are a lot of "oh come on" moments, and many seqscenes are a lot more predictable than the writers think. The entire investigation into the biggest fictional terrorist attack on the U.S. in American history is headed by... two FBI agents at any given time (no joint task force, not even a task force, just two agents at a time. and one doesn't even technically work for the FBI anymore). The first half of the first season can almost be summed up by a few words: "Designated Survivor: Stuff goes wrong. Then more stuff. Then yet more stuff." But the show gets enough right to make you want to watch the next episode. The politics in Designated Survivor are a welcome change to the real state of D.C. It is refreshing to see an Independent, compassionate, non-partisan president after watching the news of the real state of government affairs all day. If you can get through the catastrophe after catastrophe of the first half of season 1, which is a big ask seeing as there are 20 episodes and only two seasons, it gets better. For a fictional government put in place after a horrific terrorist attack that wipes out the capital, it is a WELCOME change to watch grown-ups in the White House and on the Hill. If you can suspend your criticism and disbelief, you'll find yourself cheering for the president and his staff. If you are a stickler for political accuracy and realistic FBI investigations, this is not the show for you. If you like a break from the current state of politics, and can get past the inaccuracies and occasional forehead slapping moments, give it a watch.

This show is absolutely fantastic, and season 2 is even better than season 1. The high-budget production is amazing, the special effects and sound effects are incredible, and every minute feels like a ride. Each episode is absolutely addicting and makes me click "Next Episode" faster than any other show I've ever watched. Every single negative review I have read are just people mad that it's not "the old Star Trek" or that it's "too politically progressive." The 28% audience review rating on Rotten Tomatoes is proof that the show is being review-bombed. It borders on pathetic. Is it really that hard to believe that a society 350 years in the future that can travel to the opposite end of the universe in a moment is a little more politically progressive than 2018? Give me a break.

Peaky Blinders has it all: crime, violence, intrigue, strategy, history, politics, and more, and it blends them all into a fascinating and gripping story flawlessly. It hooks you from the first minute of the first episode. Peaky Blinders are about self-admitted "bad men" (and women), but as their fellow Small Heath neighbors say, "they're our bad men". Peaky Blinders is the most underrated show on television, period. There is a reason Tom Hardy called it one of his favorite roles, even as a TV title, and even as a minor character. That's saying something. If you liked Boardwalk Empire, you'll absolutely love Peaky Blinders. Peaky Blinders is one of the few shows I can rewatch over and over again, and it's just as good every time. Peaky Blinders truly has something for everyone, and it's the only show I've ever seen that has you learning history and British politics while getting your dose of violence and sex in your TV programs.

I bought this because I got it at a very low price. I don't know what all the other reviewers are talking about, this is the laziest copy & paste Far Cry clone I've seen for everything except graphics. Far Cry 5 at least had this creepiness to it that made you feel like you were liberating real people from a real madman. It feels like they spent their whole budget on Giancarlo Esposito, an Emmy-award winning villain, one of the best in history IMO, and they just pasted the rest of the FC5 template on to it because that was their whole budget for marketing purposes. You have the potential to have an actual, modern, guerilla fighting Far Cry. You have a Russian spy who supposedly retired as an arms dealer. What do you get for it? Skills/armor bonuses from collecting charms. Charms. Upgrading your sneakers gives you more armor/skills too? WHY? Sewing together a few leather pads now stops bullets? Why not just use actual weapons and body armor? The weapons were so ridiculous (You do get an FAL but that's the most realistic weapon there is in the game IIRC) that I quit after an hour. It felt like the Narco Road Wildlands DLC meets Just Cause, except without any Wildlands. The plot to start the game was so transparent it was cringe. And to make it all worse, you can't shoot the speakers out this time around. You have to listen to his 3 or 4 lines ad nauseum. Once I saw the full weapon/armor/skill tree line-up I was out. This FC has a smaller weapon selection than any other Far Cry there is, aside from Primal (actually I think even Primal had more weapon variety). They could have had every modern weapon they want with no pretext for it this time (or if you want to assume this is a fictional remake of the Cuban Revolution, older guns, but still, just pick any gun that existed back then). No razor boomerangs that somehow come back to you like in Primal, an actual rifle. So easy to do. Upgrade it with mods or materials or barrel quality. Charms and tennis shoes should have nothing to do with this. This game could have wrote itself (not that all Far Cry and even Ubi games don't already) but I can't remember the last time I quit playing a game after I bought it that I would quality for a refund if it was actually on Steam because it felt like a mash of every Ubi game ever made except they spent all their money on Giancarlo Esposito and graphics and then just ran out of cash. If this isn't the final nail on the Far Cry franchise, they need to do what they did with Origins and Odyssey and remove the cookie-cutter template aspect of it and make a new RPG from scratch in the same franchise or it's going to die. A Far Cry game is a Far Cry game, but while this was the most relevant and modern and on point politically FC, they had the best villain on TV as their star voice actor, and they had an actual decent premise to go with the whole FC formula for this one, it felt like an arcade game with just really good graphics. TL:DR: This should have been the easiest FC to make amazing, there was no need to make fantasy weapons/armor this time around, and the whole FC concept fits perfectly with a guerilla revolution, and they still screwed it up. I really can't see anyone buying FC6 after this, just as people had enough of Assassin's Creed after Black Flag couldn't be topped, and Ubi had to go back to the drawing board and actually make a new game for Origins and especially Odyssey. Ubi, for god's sake, all of your games are the same. If it wasn't clear by now, it's clear now. Wildlands and Odyssey were the best things you did. Stop trying to re-milk the franchise again. Go back to the drawing board.