Greg from Idaho

Great game. Has fun and interesting mechanics that not many other games use in combination. Also really neat that it was designed for actual soldiers to train.

Finally a first person shooter that actually takes skill.

This is my favorite Star Wars game for a few reasons, which I'll list at the end of the main review. You play as Cal Kestis, a Jedi Padawan who survived Order 66. 4 years have passed since Order 66, and Cal is working in a ship scrapyard on Bracca. He uses the Force to save his friend Prauf from dying, but a droid spots him doing it, and sends Inquisitors to kill him. He escapes the Inquisitors, and meets up with Cere Junda, who explains to him that they can rebuild the Jedi Order if they find a Jedi holocron that has a list of Force sensitive children. Long story short, you travel to multiple planets searching for it, meeting new and old charaters. The gameplay is very fun, but is for the most part the same as any other melee combat game, but with some unique twists. For one, you have multiple Force powers, such as Force slow, pull, and push, which can be utilized in combat. There is tons of exploration. You can explore 5 worlds: Kashyyyk, Zeffo, Dathomir, Ilum, and Bogano. They all have a unique environment with different forms of plant life, wildlife, and biomes. For example, Kashyyyk is a forested world, while Zeffo is a cold mountainous region. You can find cosmetic items in chests, which can be used to customize Cal, your ship, your lightsaber, and BD-1 - your droid companion. The main story offers about 20 hours of gameplay, but exploration could offer up to 60 hours. Now for the things I really enjoy about the game: For one, it adds some interesting things to the lore, such as more wildlife. Another is that it doesn't contradict anything (unlike a certain trilogy). And lastly, the graphics and animations are absolutely phenomenal. I think it's also worth mentioning that the water physics and effects are some of the best I've ever seen. The only thing I have a minor gripe with is that frames can drop pretty low sometimes on console, but besides that, it's a great game, and I highly recommend it to anyone who's a fan of Star Wars and/or fighting games.

Great game, horrible community. GTA Online is actually really fun, but you're constantly getting killed by moronic 12 year olds who think it's CoD. It's not as much of a grind as people say it is, because as long as you get businesses first before buying cars, you can get money very quickly. I'm easily able to get up to 600k a day if I grind enough, but it can get a bit tedious. It's overall an extremely fun game (especially with friends), but it's just the CoD kids that ruin it.

My favorite racing game as of mid 2020. Forza Horizon 3 is a big open world racing game, filled with races, diverse environments, and Drivatars to race. It takes place in Australia, with environments such as the outback, rainforests, and urban sprawls. There are hundreds of cars to choose from, all varying in price and class. The cars handle extremely well, due to this being a simulator, but it may take time to get used to if you play Need For Speed or Grand Theft Auto games. Once you get the hang of it, it's really fun to drive around and full off crazy drifts. There are multiple things to change in the settings to make your experience as fun as possible. You can make it a hyper-realistic driving simulator by turning on tire wear, manual gear shifting, and turning of traction control, or have it be a casual racing game. One issue I do have with the game is the lack of customization. There are tons of liveries and paint jobs to put on your cars, but there isn't much in the way of modifying the bodykit. It's nothing like the Midnight Club or Need For Speed games. You can only put on a few different bumpers, spoilers, and hoods for the most part. One thing that is neat, though, is that these customizations actually affect car handling/stats. Besides that, I really don't have any complaints. It's overall a really solid racing game that any car fan would really enjoy.

Extremely fun game. A few things I want to mention before I start the main review: to make the most of the game, you need to download levels from the Steam workshop, because the main game doesn't have too many levels. Another thing is that the game has voxel graphics (Minecraft graphics if you don't know what that means). For the main review now. It's a fighting game with simple mechanics, but what makes it fun is the amount of weapons you can use and the body damage system. You can use pretty much anything to attack people, from a shotgun to a soup ladle. The voxel graphics allow for an extremely good body damage system. If you hit someone with something, you will take away a small chunk of the body. You can keep hitting away until you get to the bone, and in the case of the head, you can dig all the way to someone's brain. Like I said, the fighting mechanics are simple, with only a few things. You can kick, punch/swing weapon, and do a heavy punch/weapon attack, but it's so fun simply because of the amount of weapons you can use, and the fact that you can literally dig to to someone's brain with a spoon. I also have to mention that the developers and community are amazing. The developers really support community creators, by always adding new weapons, and even allowing for people to create custom textures on people.

This game is a massive disappointment. It's not a horrible game, but it's certainly not good. My main issue is that you can never tell if you're online or not. People may or may not just randomly join into your game. My second issue is that the world is really bland. It's like GTA V, where the game is beautiful, but there's not much to do, except in WD 2, there's absolutely nothing to do besides some of the missions. Another huge issue I have is with the characters. They just aren't that likeable. They're trying way too hard to be "hip" and "cool", but it just fails. The issue is that they're just average teenagers trying to be edgy and funny, but they have the sense of humor of a 9 year old. Another problem is the car handling, and just in general physics. The cars can't decide if they want to be light or heavy, and the ragdoll engine just isn't good. There are a few things that I have to praise the game for, though. Of course the graphics are great, and lighting effects look really good, but besides those, the water effects are beautiful, and easily has the best boat wakes of any game. Stealth is also pretty good. It has a few issues, but it overall works great. Another great this is that the game has actual sailing mechanics. The animations are also amazing, especially the parkour ones. They feel so smooth, and just look so good. I also have to say that the songs on the radio have a pretty good selection.

2nd best Mario game, only behind Mario Odyssey. This game is absolutely fantastic. I'll start off by saying that this game has an extremely unique story for a Mario title. It still involves saving Peach from Bowser, but the way you do it is different. Instead of completing a level and moving on, you have to get a certain amount of stars to unlock a Bowser level, where you get a Grand Star, and unlock a new group of galaxies/levels. It basically works like Mario 64, but like I said, the story is different, because not only are you saving Peach, but also Lumas, which are basically living stars. The gameplay is fantastic. A lot of people complain about motion controls on the Wii, so if you're one of those people, you don't need to worry about this game. You use the Nunchuck to move around, and the only thing that uses motion controls is activating spin-jumps, which adds extra height to your jump. All galaxies (which are basically the levels) feel really unique and special. There is so much diversity in the amount of themes to each galaxy. I'll end the review by saying that the soundtrack is incredible. It's nothing like typical Mario music, and it instead goes for a huge orchestral soundtrack that sounds epic. The only game I've played that beats the music in this game is Red Dead Redemption 2.

Really fun! This is one of the first games I ever played, and I still play it every now and again. The story is the same old save Peach from Bowser, and the gameplay is for the most part the same as the original 2D Mario games. It's really the creativity of the level designs and the unique bosses that make this game stand out amongst other 2D Mario titles. Each level feels different, and the game has a really good difficulty curve. It's easily the hardest out of the NSMB games. Like I mentioned earlier, each world has a unique boss at the end of it, and each fight requires a different strategy. I don't know where else to put this in the review, so I guess I'll say it here: the world map works really strangely. You'll skip from world 3 straight to world 5, and from world 6, you'll skip directly to world 8. In order to unlock world 4 and 7, you have to defeat the final boss in world 2 and 5 as mini Mario. Lastly, I'll talk about the music. The music is really catchy, but unfortunately there's only a few songs in the game that'll just be repeated for a bunch of levels. It's not a bad thing, because the music is good, it's just that some more variety would be nice.

Amazing game! The story isn't too good, but it's the game really shines when it comes to gameplay. There are so many different approaches to how you kill a target. You can go in guns blazing, use stealth by taking taking disguises and slowly making your way to the target, or you can REALLY challenge yourself and do everything suit-only, trying not to be spotted by anyone. Another fun thing is checking out the ways you can kill a target. You could just shoot them in the head, or you could follow "opportunities" to get really brutal kills on the target. For example, you could make an AI prototype robot shoot a guy to death, or push a guy off the top of a church bell tower, impaling him on a spike. Opportunities do honestly make the game pretty easy at times, but it's still really fun to follow them. You can also play on Master mode, which bumps up the difficulty a whole lot. I won't get into it, because this review is already really long as it is, so I'll finish it by saying that if you have Hitman 2016, don't worry about needing to buy it again to play it in Hitman 2 with all the new weapons and outfits. You'll be able to download the maps for free into the game.