Mathew Delport

I like it and I hate it. Obviously as far as graphics goes, this gets a 10 out of 10, but I'm reviewing this based off of gameplay, and oh boy... The driving is okay, not always enjoyable, a lot of the cars just have atrocious handling that wouldn't be expected in the real life counterpart. For example, I've had the opportunity to take a BMW M4 around a track irl and it handled like a race car, but the one in Gran Turismo? Just terrible. Again this is an example of just one car, it does thus with many. However sometimes the cars are nice to drive, it is a simulator, and not a simcade or arcade racer, so if you're new to the franchise it will take some getting used to, but you'll learn how they handle. Some big cons: Some challenges can me near impossible to complete, especially the drifting ones. Difficulty between circuit experiences are huge, some are easy, some are ridiculously difficult. Money. In game money earned in GT7 is close to nothing. This then diverts players to micro transactions. "But bro why would people buy in game money if they could just earn it over time?", because the cars have insane price tags, that's why. A high income race is an average of 150k credits for a 10-20 min race. Some cars cost up to 20Mil credits, so micro transactions are a necessity if you're desperate to buy the car. Oh, did I mention that some of those lovely cars have a time window and eventually dissappear from the store? Yeah... The menu books. The Cafe is a new addition to the franchise, where you can aquire free cars for completing races, sounds cool right? It is! BUT you need to grind the menu books in order to unlock general facilities within the game, and this can take hours. Think of it as the entire game being one long tutorial. Okay some pros: Again, some cars handle like a dream, making it a really enjoyable experience Customisation of the cars exterior is something we've been missing for a while. Cars can be upgraded with equipment like new brakes, nitrous, air filters and the list goes on The selection of cars isn't fantastic, but it is more than the previous game, so I decided to put this as a pro Overall I'm giving the game a 3/5. It can be awesome, it can be rage inducing. Would I recommend it to peeps? Yes, I would. If you're new to sim racing then it will take a while to get used to. Hope this helps anyone that's thinking of getting it.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint - a game I've been looking forward to for a very long time. I personally love Breakpoint, it is similar to wildlands in some ways but it mostly tries to improve on the wildlands mechanics. We were obviously introduced to a new healing system, bivouacs and environmental interaction such as sliding and prone camo. These are all very interesting and realistic mechanics, but they are still a bit rough. I understand that people are upset with the game for bugs, glitches and a big one being the servers were down post launch. Both the open and closed BETA for this game were extremely broken, I will agree to that. The finished product has been drastically improved on however from then. Users need to understand that implementing so many new and improved mechanics on an open world game as big as Breakpoint is a difficult task. Open world games will FOREVER have bugs and glitches, it's almost part of the experience. I do not like the fact that there are no A.I teammates, as many other people are fussing over. Rumors are heard that they will eventually bring them back, but for now I do agree that is a bummer. Gun realism is much better in Breakpoint, apart from damage. Bullet travel time is still exaggerated, but a lot better than it was in Wildlands. I love that ASR and SNR rounds travel faster than SMG and pistol rounds. What doesn't make sense is that a 9mm MP5 can do double the damage of a 5.56 Tar 21,which is apparently a 9mm in this game too. So that is one thi g that needs to be fixed. Animations of proning, picking up teammates and healing definitely need to be sped up as well. You may say that drones aren't realistic, and of course they aren't that advanced YET, but it was something new for us Ghost Recon fans to experience Dialogue was a big issue in the game. A.I emotion was poorly captured and facial expressions are awful. Jon Bernthal's scenes where very well done, however this was of course with the help of motion capture Character movement takes a while to get used to, most don't typically enjoy the camera movement, but I feel like this will forever remain, so we had might as well get used to it. Breakpoint was a game I couldn't put down once I picked it up. I played through the story in one go. It was a decent length. Some missions were a bit dull, which is expected in open world games. The story line could have been a bit better but I still enjoyed it. Gamers or even real world military that enjoy realism would fall for Breakpoint. It beautifully achieves realistic environments, gun mechanics, character mechanics etc. Many people are getting irritated over the bots being too unintelligent, but Breakpoint is optimized for co-op and EXTREME difficulty. Solo is also a nice challenge. My mates and I play more PvP, which is also very nice (very similar to Wildlands) for the competitive kind. Overall Breakpoint is getting far too much hate. It is an extremely underrated game that although isn't perfect, is very good. It of course needs to be polished and it has the potential to be one of the best games of 2019. We shall see what updates will fix, hopefully the developers will hear our wishes.