This is another game that has been sitting unplayed in my library for way too long even though I was quite enthusiastic about it when it was first released. It’s just a matter of it being known for being a very difficult game that would require considerable investment and too many titles competing for my time. The difficult part is certainly right. A couple of days after starting to play, my band of mercenaries was wiped out to the last man. I had to experiment with a few more restarts at lowered difficulty levels in order to understand how it works before committing to it for real at normal difficulty.
This was a free game on Epic and I never considered buying it myself. But maybe I should have since this is a game by Remedy and I’ve always been a fan of their story-telling. Since I’m also a fan of the SCP website and the game is very obviously inspired by it, that’s even more reason to appreciate the setting. Many will know as being one of the first games to implement DLSS and ray-tracing. Even though my GPU technically supports the technology, the resolution looked so low to me that I just stuck with the older rendering methods.
Picked a nice puzzle game to change up the pace a bit and of course it’s a programming game. As I understand the people who made this achieved some success with games like Human Resource Machine on mobile platforms and this is a sequel with an expanded scope and a similar office-type setting. There’s a backstory about how the world is ruled by robots and the humans are drones who need to be given precise instructions to get them to do anything with cutscenes and everything. It’s a little amusing but it’s not a great story and not really relevant.
As with films, we’re at the point where we need to add the year of release to video games to disambiguate between games with the same title. I’ve played many of Grid series of games over the years but I don’t have the kind of passion I have for rally games when it comes to circuit racing. However this is also the first time I have played a Grid game with my racing wheel and in fact only the second game I’ve played with the wheel at all.
This game is based on a British television series. It seems like a rather popular one and the final season is set to air soon but I’ve never watched it. I only bought this because I’m always curious about quirky little games and I liked the setting. The name itself refers to a family of gangsters based in Birmingham, England, set just after the end of the First World War. The gameplay is somewhat similar to Shadow Tactics, in that you need to coordinate a team to get through each level.
I am of course way late in playing this and the reason is that I completely forgot that I even owned this. I have this on the GOG platform and never even bothered to install the GOG Galaxy client. I’ve never played the legendary first game either but of course know a bit about its history and how the Fallout series is kind of its bastard stepchild. This was kind of an old-fashioned game even back in 2014 but I found that I rather like it that way.
The Grand Theft Auto series only really blew up when Rockstar made the change to a fully 3D world with an over-the-shoulder third-person-view with the third game of the series. But before that the first two games used a top-down view and that is what this game is doing. It’s basically a GTA clone using that top-down view using of course a modern engine and graphics. I myself have never played those versions of GTA so I thought I’d give this a shot.
