Games for ISYS100

With this post, we come to the conclusion of our blog. Throughout the past 2 weeks we have reviewed games from Stardew Valley to FPS's all the way to saving Earth's oceans. Although most have been positive reviews there has been a couple bumps along the road mainly due to developer issues or a lacking player-base to further expand the series. On behalf of the entire writing team (Sam, Shayon and Kevin), we'd like to thank any of those who took the time to read our gaming reviews; all the feedback were greatly appreciated especially with formatting errors we had in the past.  If you have any queries, please contact us via email: samshaykev@gmail.com Don't forget the gamer code:  Eat, Sleep, Game and Repeat. 

Counter Strike Global Offensive or as we all know it as CS:GO is currently in its 6th year running. As the 4th instalment of the Counter Strike series following Counter Strike: Source, Counter Strike Condition Zero and Counter Strike 1.6; CS:GO has been through a lot of ups and downs. Each player has a selection between different pistols, sub-machine guns, rifles, shotguns, tasers, heavy firearms such as machine guns, sniper rifles and a selection of grenades, molotovs, decoys, smoke grenades and flash-bangs .  CS:GO has several modes to allow players different experiences which include:  Casual Mode: A 10 CT (Counter-Terrorist) vs 10 T (Terrorists) on any map selected through a voting system.  Arms Race: Each player starts off with the same weapon and with each kill, your current firearm upgrades to the next tier. However if you die you will be demoted to the tier below.  Demolition: With 2 bomb sites, each team plays by "Arms Race" rules however if ...

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or PUBG was one of the first games to introduce us into the Battle Royale craze, although the hype has seemingly calmed down, it took the world by surprise as it marked a new era of games. So what went wrong? Early this year, the game was at it's peak player count with around 3 million players when suddenly, it plummeted to an average 500k we see today. There are a few reasons to why PUBG has declined rapidly, but the overwhelming reason is due to its competition. PUBG has unfortunately, never addressed many of the issues that exist since its first release. While PUBG releases updates trying to fix these issues, sometimes these updates create more problems and require a patch itself. Meanwhile, it's biggest competitor, Fortnite, continually releases new content that always evolves the game into a different refreshing direction. PUBG has never developed to an extent where the gameplay is refreshing and as a result, players have gotten bored and ...

With only one level on offer, devil daggers is a very simple first person shooter game. But that does not mean it’s not fun. The one hellish level consists of a circular platform where you are expected to run, strafe and blast the hell out of your enemies which consist of flying skulls, demonic snakes and other terrifying runaways from death metal album arts. Things start to get overwhelming really fast as the number of enemies quickly tend to pile up and how long you can survive is the main objective of the game. Once you die, you high score will be accessible for the world to see on a global leader-board. There is no end, only survival. - Shayon

I thoroughly enjoyed my childhood playing the 2D sidescrolling game, Maplestory. With anime-esque chibi graphics and large diverse skills to choose from, the game was unique for its time and became a symbol within the MMORPG genre. Today, the game is not nearly as populated as it was in 2009 and many of its player base has moved on, including myself. Yesterday, Maplestory 2 has released its Free to Play launch, and I have decided to give it a try in hopes of reliving my nostalgia of the first game. After several hours of playing, I found myself not immersed and overall, not impressed with much of the game. Undeniably, the gameplay was embarrassingly underwhelming and uninteresting. Despite this, I wasn't completely disappointed with the whole game. The graphics are nice, colourful and new with a large resemblance to the art of the first game. The character creation menu had very intuitive controls and was extremely easy to customise your character, yet the choices seemed to be l...

Tekken 7. Arguably one of the world's most famous fighting games alongside with the Street Fighter series and the recently release Dragon Ball Fighter Z. In every fighting game there is nothing more important than Combos. Learning massive damage combos is a staple for every player although movement and learning to punish mistakes are just as important. With the recent release of the Season 2 DLC, Lei-Wulong and Anna Williams have been released to the FGC (Fighting Game Community) to enjoy and tinker with, giving the total of 41 unique characters as of today.  If you are a Walking Dead fan, it had been announced at EVO 2018 that the notorious Negan and his  trademark baseball bat; Lucille, will be joining the Tekken 7 roster later this year. 3 mysterious characters have also been confirmed by director Harada Katsuhiro however there has been no information released for now.  Season 2 introduces us to a new mechanic known as "Wall Bounce". With each character...