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 Rating: 59/100

Rating: 40/100                                              
+ OK graphics.
+ Varied and challenging tracks.
+ Good semi-arcade handling.
+ Clean user interface.
+ Nice repair system.
+ WRC license.

- Most car engines sound like a blender.
- Can barely hear the sound of tires on road.
- Can barely hear the sound of DOWN gear shift. Even if you go from 6th to 2nd gear in 1 second, there's just silence.
- Some corners have weird reset-on-track spots.
- Lack of a proper "TV/spectator camera" in replays -- the broadcast view lasts no more than 3 seconds before it changes to some other random angle.
- Some awful textures.
- Strange and annoying frame rate inconsistency. The fps count says 60, but the whole scenery seem to move at 20fps.
- Unbelievably buggy menus -- framerate limit and some controller buttons rebinding just don't register.
- Sometimes the co-driver keeps completely silent... No pacenotes during an ENTIRE stage is a real game breaking issue for a rally game.
- Poor wheel support (no DFGT or G25? Seriously?)
- No semi-automatic shift -- a feature EVERY other racing game offers.
- No v-sync for DirectX 11.
- Loading times during car selection -- Playstation 1 limitations, we meet again

Rating: 79/100                                                        
I like it.

The stage design is good, the handling is decent, the graphics are average and the audio is mediocre.

The handling is quite forgiving and easy to get the hang of, but there's room to better yourself through practice.

There are 65 different stages ranging from 2 to 12 km spread across 13 locations.

The stage design itself is quite good, but the road surfaces themselves could use more bumps and camber changes.

The visuals aren't too impressive, but there are a lot of nice visual details around and being able to choose time of day and weather for any track is great. The car models and damage look pretty good too.

The audio isn't too impressive either and while the co-driver is functional, they sound pretty robotic.

They have handled the service-park repairs well, with partial repairs being an option and some components being completely replaced.

Overall I thoroughly enjoy the game and would recommend it if you're a fan of the WRC and Rally games.

I think WRC 5 is a commendable effort by Kylotonn and I look forward to the sequel should they make one, this game is a solid foundation for the next.


Critic Reviews

Critic		Score
Eurogamer	WRC 5 is not a spiritual successor of the first Colin McRae Rally games or a milestone for the genre, but still a solid racer with solid driving model and a decent-looking tracks.	70/100
Vandal Online	WRC 5 is a good driving game we're sure the fans of the competition will enjoy, but it seriously needs to improve its technical side to become a better experience.	68/100
GameWatcher	WRC 5 is a completely competent, inoffensive racing game, but it lacks the features that have become standard in the genre. Whether you’re a fan of simulation or arcade-style racers, there are many better alternatives out there.	65/100

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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII - PC Reviews and more

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 Rating: 82/100

Rating: 90/100                                                                                    
Recommended! Very good port!
1080p and 60FPS with upgraded graphic - new lighting, realistic DOF effect and anisotropic filtering.
But interface texture has drawn for 720p resolution.

I have beat a half of this game and i want to say this game is very intresting. I like new battle system, but it a little worse than battle system in XIII and XIII-2, because Lightning in only one playable charcter in LR:FFXIII.
And i like game story too, i very glad to meet all of main characters from XIII and XIII-2 again.


Rating: 80/100                                                             
It is clear that the extra time they put into the pc port of this game was worth it.

The graphics settings are much greater than the two prior iterations, however at least in the first hour of gameplay, there have not been any bugs or glitches. The game runs at a consistant 60 fps on maxed out 1080p settings on my GTX 970.

So far, it seems that holding off and waiting for the pc release of this game was certainly worth it!


Rating: 75/100                                              
pro(s) :
- battle system has much improvement from previous Final Fantasy XIII games and a lot more interesting
- 60 fps Lightning is something you just want to see all day
- Nova Crystalia is beautiful place to explore, especially the wildlands
- Dual audio option (English and Japanesse)

con(s)
- sometimes, there are graphic lag/extreme fps drop for a few second right when you enter a section of a region, (dunno if it just me, I'll be happy if anyone comes up with a solution)
- the default keyboard bindings are confusing (it can be changed latter in game tho.)


Rating: 86/100                                                                          
+ Stuning Soundtrack that will harbour nostalgia for old Final Fantasy fans as well as fans of the first two XIII games.

+ Beautifully designed world, each area feels alive and has a unique design.

+ Battles are excitingly frantic and challenging, featuring real time strategy.

+ The Story is beautifully deep, and unapologetically eccentric.

+ Solid port, game runs at mostly 60 frame per second with occasional drops into the 40s.

+ The new advanced lighting and graphic options for this version look gorgeous, it truly looks like a remaster at times.


- Has to be online to play. ( Who cares though right? Just get a dongle if you want to play on the go. )


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Legends of Callasia is a simultaneous turn-based single and multiplayer fantasy world conquest strategy game with no hotseat waiting. Choose from a wide range of heroes – The Hundred Kingdoms, The Faeborne, The Revenant – and conquer lands through single player campaigns, or battle against friends through online multiplayer in board game-style maps. Use cards against your enemies or boost your armies and rule the world!

Features:

Classic fantasy world conquest strategy game with simple, intuitive controls
Endless strategies through wide range of heroes, units, maps, and more
Auto-resolve battle mode with two attack phases: missile and melee
Single player campaigns: follow the war of the races across the lands
Turn-based multiplayer game with simultaneous plan and resolution cycle: ranked and casual play, friend finder, rankings, leaderboards, and no hotseat waiting
Pay once and play: no free to play, no ads, no pay to win


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Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition Reviews and Images

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 Rating: 88/100

Rating: 90/100                                                                           
This game is the very best of its genre. If you like CRPGs like Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment, Neverwinter Nights, you are going to like Divinity: Original Sin. The Enhanced Edition made it even better than the acclaimed original version, improving the game in literally every aspect. I must warn people who are not familiar with these kind of games, there is a lot of dialogs, thankfully every single dialog in the game is voiced. My only complaint is the inventory management, you will find yourself struggling with the chaotic inventory box very often.

Rating: 90/100                                                                          
I just can say: woah. Enhanced version its really kickass (was really disappointed with first edition). Lots of role playing and fun. Ill try to say my honest opinion with this one,

Pros:
Nice fights, really fun and versatile.
Role playing is kickass, you can alter quest such in a massive way.
Interesting maps, really invites you to discover entire maps and keeps you with mystery through them.
Intuitive quests, not for lazy minded people.
Leveling is fun, you can spend a bunch of time thinking what to invest, that's kinda cool imo.
Enhanced edition improves almost everything, the improve in graphics, effects, optimization its really mindblowing compared with the last year one. Pretty solid.

Cons:
Not best story or dialogues (its kinda weird, but that weird thing maybe keeps you interested).
Voice acting isnt the best (sometimes its annoying to hear npc speech's)
Difficulty: not friendly (old fashioned way, you can encounter high lvl mobs that only warns you not to keep going that way lol).


Rating: 85/100                                                           
Everyone at the first sight consider it's a Diablo like RPG but it's totally different. I'd rather treat it like 2.5D skyrim or wildhunt.
If you have no patience to explore the world, this game is not for you!
The battle is full of fun with strategy.
For most AAA RPGs in 2014 and 2015, they told you to do something/get some stuff/from A to B, then to C. But for this game, you need to decide which way you should do to complete B, because the result of B will influence A and C.
For example, a goblin tells you to murder an orc woman, bring her necklace back. You can kill the goblin, and tell the truth to the orc woman, you can kill the orc woman, and bring the necklace to goblin, you can also say hello to the orc woman, steal her necklace to the goblin and promise you have killed the woman! If you really kill the woman then another quest you need to get some knowledge and ideas to make a show at the town will be influenced...
So, it all depends on your choice! You can give the quest keys to the npc and after finish the quest, steal from them to open the treasure chest, if you find a drunk legion solder and search his inventory, there must be a mug with beer! You can make tomato sauce with tomato and hammer! This game has so much amazing details to explore...Lot's of puzzles and jokes.


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Critic		Score
CGMagazine	Divinity: Original Sin is one of my favourite RPGs in recent memory.	80/100
The Escapist	Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition offers a well-written story, in-depth character development and tactical combat that will be more than enough to please most tactical fans.	90/100
AttackoftheFanboy	It’s a grand adventure that rewards those who are patient enough to wade through some of the less polished aspects with incredibly rich dialogue, a huge world to affect and explore and much more besides.	90/100

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Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below - Reviews and Images

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 Rating: 52/100

Rating: 10/100           
An excessively close-up camera makes this game nauseatingly unplayable. Additionally, by necessarily shifting a major portion of the player's attention span toward relentless basic camera manipulation, less of that finite resource is available to focus on more potentially enjoyable and strategic game mechanics, such as anticipating dodgeable/blockable attacks. This arguably has the indirect effect of strongly encouraging frantic button mashing.

I am baffled that the developers overlooked such a blatant design flaw, particularly when juxtaposed with Hyrule Warriors—a comparatively superb game which one might have forgiven for such a decision, in light of the constraints of vastly inferior hardware. I would have gladly accepted diminished graphical detail in exchange for a wider field of view, and have no doubt that this would have felt like an entirely different game—one worthy of the Dragon Quest moniker.

Rating: 87/100                                                                                        
If you like hack n' slash games, and Dragon Quest games, this is a very solid game. Old school mixed perfectly with new school. Two big thumbs up!!

Rating: 60/100                                
Its ok, it gets boring fairly quickly. Its like if you combined dynasty warriors with secret of mana. The voice actors do not match the characters artwork style, and its almost impossible to do. The English voice acting is so terrible I quickly turned it to Japanese, and even then the voices do not match the characters/art style. I would say it would be better to have silent characters, for this. It is incredibly repetitive as well, which is never a good thing. All in all its an ok game, but it is not worth anything close to 60 dollars. I would say 20 to 30 at most.

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Cobalt - PC Game

TRUTH BE told, we are starting to feel a little sorry for Cobalt. Perhaps Oxeye Game Studio thought that having Mojang attached would help push this action-oriented side-scrolling game out a little faster, but in spite of that it’s now subject to another delay. Although it had a strong showing at the  likes of Gamescom, you won’t be doing battle with your buddies until February 2016 – we can only hope the final product lives up to the three-year wait.

Mobile Gaming Continues to Grow

Believe it or not but mobile was slower to take off in the gambling sector than many had predicted as many of the early gaming aps delivering very little in the way of unique usability or brand identity.  Choice was poor and let’s face it the experience of playing on your mobile was pretty poor and it was no wonder that there were no great numbers rushing to play on their phones or tablets.

Mobile gambling was tipped to take off several times over the past decade but it wasn't really until the launch of the iPhone back in 2007 that operators such as Paddy Power Casino amongst others began to take advantage of the channel with revenues and new users multiplying through their mobile operations.

Now you can find excellent mobile casinos with some unique games, bonuses and promotions up for grabs, and with the broad availability of 4G, Wi-Fi connectivity and sophisticated large screen smartphones and tablets coming down in price the opportunity is open to more of the general public to access their favourite games through their mobile devices.

Over the last couple of years or so the growth of having a bet or wager using a mobile device has grown beyond many expectations with some betting operators reporting up to a 150% growth in their own mobile gambling services in just the last twelve months.  In fact, Paddy Power has announced up to a 50% increase on their sportsbook turnover from punters using mobile devices. 

This growth has surprised some in the mobile betting and casino industry and with certain US states set to regulate the use of mobile casinos the growth of remote real money gaming services is sure to increase even more.

Along with the advancement of the mobile devices goes the advancement of online apps and games, in fact many good quality online casinos offer free games to play besides free money to play with for simply signing up with the site.

Software developers have certainly stepped to the mark and now provide an enormous collection of mobile games.  These developers include names like Playtech, Gamesys, and Cryptologic amongst others and games include classic casino games, plus excellent slots games like Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and other great offering such as Texas Hold’em.

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