Mike Thomas

As a history enthusiast I really liked Assassin’s creed origins and odyssey. The landscapes and open world were beautiful and immense. My biggest complaint with those games was the factor of all the repetitiveness. You would have to keep going into an enemy castle or keep killing everyone and then killing the captain or leader over and over. But still, overall they were decent enough fun, especially if you enjoy history. Also what I liked about them they weren’t so nerd level when it came to the rpg factor of those games. There was enough action for someone who maybe doesn’t enjoy all the intricate details of a really immersive and immense rpg style game in the classic sense of an rpg game. All that being said. Although I am only about 20 or so hours into Valhalla, I have to say maybe because my family origin is from the UK and so I am kind of biased to this time period of history? But so far overall, it’s just as stunningly beautiful with its immense open world just like the previous creed games I had mentioned. However, yes there is a bit of some repetitiveness within this game but not nearly as much of the same cut, paste, and copy as the previous versions. I’m really liking Valhalla a bit more than Origins and Odyssey. Time will tell as I progress but I feel they did a great job making you feel more of a connection to whichever main character male or female you choose to play as. Like many have mentioned the level upgrade screen is a bit of a head spin, so like most players I just use the game’s suggested level upgrades when upgrading. I don’t understand all the hate for this creed game? And yes I’m only around 20 hours in so perhaps I will be back to update my review upon completion. But so far it is entertaining enough. Also yes there are some side quests but not nearly as many of useless distracting ones like in Origins and Odyssey where you could get so involved in them you would almost forget to follow the main quests and storyline. I hope this review helped anyone on the fence. Keep in mind you can probably buy this pre owned for around $12 and even being a couple of years old it still is stunningly beautiful and graphically right up there with even some of the most recent 2025 games released today.

I recently re bought this Game. I know it’s older but it has had such great reviews I figured this time around I would really try to get into it. I’ll admit I’m not a geeky rpg kind of guy. But, with that being said I easily beat and got to the highest level ups you could get to in Game’s like assassin’s creed origins and Oddessey. I managed to complete just about every side quest in those games. Is it just me or is the Witcher 3 a bit confusing? I’m just at level 4 and I’m trying to complete more quests in order to level up enough to be able to beat the bocheling quest. Every time I try to locate quests that I need to complete in order to gain more xp and level up it just seems to send me to a fast travel sign post location. I then check the map and it doesn’t really tell you the area you need to go to complete said quests? Am I missing something? There also seems to be way too many items involved in the whole inventory/alchemy area of the game. I have know idea what items to combine in order to upgrade my player via alchemy? Again admittedly I’ve never been a super geeky rpg type of gamer. Am I missing something here? I really want to get into this game, the open world and graphics are immense and with all the praise and great reviews and awards it has to be a really amazing game. I just am a bit confused and feel overwhelmed like I am hitting a brick wall. Any suggestions?

As a lover of tennis it’s a little fun. I bought this for career mode to battle my way up the ranking to try to win at all the majors. Sadly your player becomes tired too quickly. After training, I entered my first career mode tournament. I made it to the finals only to have a pop up tell me that my stamina was too low and an injury would occur. I didn’t want have to forfeit the match so I played anyways and I was able to win the tournament; after which I was told I suffered a minor injury and would have to heal for a month, missing any tournaments during that time. The gameplay is ok except the ball never really goes where you aim. I will have an open court where I could easily hit a winner, I’ll aim towards the open court and unless you hit it perfectly in the green zone the ball will go way out of bounds. Sometimes even if you hit the green zone the ball will still go out of bounds. Totally missed opportunity. They probably couldn’t get the licensing to have lots of former and current great players. It would have been awesome if they had a bunch of all time greats like Boris Becker, Ivan Lendal and Pete Sampras.

Honestly I lasted about 30 minutes in and it is the worst movie that I have ever seen. Nothing but a big advertisement for General Mills food company who makes all the poisonous sugar cereals marketed at kids.

Just finally decided to get this game because it was on sale digitally for like $12. I do like the game. So far I started playing on franchise mode. My biggest annoyance is every time you click to see or change different stats there are these annoying 6-8 second cut scenes. Too many unnecessary cut scenes in the menus. Why can’t these aaa console games figure out how to get mobile phone fast? I understand these are big games that require loading time but not in simple menu changes.

Way too many useless and unnecessary side quests to be able to follow the main story.

I do not get all the praise for this one? First of let me just say I took a decade off from gaming and re entered the console world because Anthony Cumia from Radio and podcasts was raving to Joe rogan about just how far and amazing console games have now become over the past few years. Upon his recommendation I started my re-entry first with huge mega triple A games like red dead 2, last of us 2, and god of war to name a few. I’m a bit of a history buff/lover so the assassins creed games have always intrigued me. Origins is my first one of their series. I have to say this game looks cool but sadly it kind of sucks. First off the game is near impossibly difficult when you are first wandering the desert and come upon any enemies. You have to build up your level which can be most easily done in the larger cities like Alexandria. It took me a few hours before I figured this out and started cooking as far as leveling up goes. The problem however is that there is too much of the same repetitive combat. And the main story is extremely chaotic due to becoming confused by all the endless excessive side quests stories. As for the breathtaking open world game that it is it seems too repetitive in nature to the point where it starts to feel more like a classic arcade style game like a sonic the hedgehog rather than making major decisions in a vast open world go anywhere do almost anything type of game it should have been more like.

I don’t know why people complain about the story saying things like the last of us 1 had a better story. For me this was easily hands down the game of the year for 2020. This game was the pinnacle game to perfectly end the ps4 and give way to the ps5. The graphics and detail are unbelievable, second to none on this one. The game play which some reviewers complained about is fine to me sure, sone of it feels like too much repetitive button pushing, but it more than enough makes up for it with horror movie twists and turns; as well as having a great story! Again this title hands down should be the game of the year for 2020!