Two Point Hospital – Theme Hospital 2.0?

It has been quite a while… for both of us… but back to gaming with a re-imaging of an old classic. Cast back to 1997 when Theme Hospital was released, along came crazy illnesses, silly treatments and a comedic humour. Skip forwards to 2018 and here is Two Point Hospital, brought to us all as a spiritual sequel to the original Theme Hospital. The team that has come together includes several names who brought us the original back in the late 90’s while working at Bullfrog.  While under a new name, they’re at it again.

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Vermintide Review – Rats in the Belfry

Disclaimer: The keys for this review were provided by the developer, Fatshark Games.

Well this one took me longer than expected as I wanted to get a decent play through of the release version of Vermintide, and unfortunately a weekend with intermittent internet coupled with the recent patches to the game (and some downtime of the central servers) hampered that for me.

Never fear however, connectivity has been restored and I’ve been able to get in some rat bashing to give me a decent perspective on Fatsharks Warhammer: The End Times – Vermintide.

If you haven’t done so already, you can read Kris thoughts on the Vermintide beta here, and my thoughts here, then on top of that my first thoughts on the launch can be found here.

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Animal Gods – PC

Animal Gods is a fully illustrated, top-down, 2D action RPG where players adopt the role of Thistle, a young priest and hunter from an ancient age who sets out to find and release the fallen Animal Gods and stop an occult leader.  We received a copy of the game from the developers, Still Games, for this review.

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Reverse Crawl – PC

Reverse Crawl is a dungeon crawl where the player leads minions in tactical turn-based combat, through a dynamic campaign with a branching storyline.  We received a copy of the game from the developer, Nerdook, for this review.

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Assault Android Cactus

Assault Android Cactus is an arcade style twin-stick shooter by indie developer Witch Beam, released for PC on the 23rd September.

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Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut – Wii U

Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut is the new version of the original indie physics puzzle game Q.U.B.E., released on Steam in December 2011, containing more challenges, an expanded story and new levels including the Against the Qlock time trials.  It has been released on PC and more recently Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and finally to the Wii U.  We received a copy of the game for Wii U for this review.

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Blues and Bullets – Episode 1

Blues and Bullets is an episodic alternate-history noir adventure developed by A Crowd of Monsters, featuring an ex-detective who is drawn into a new case by his old nemesis..

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Kyn

Kyn is a fast-paced role-playing strategy game set in a world of Viking mythology and magic, with six playable characters with highly customisable stats and abilities as well as a deep crafting and loot system.  Kyn has been developed by two-man team Tangrin, and published by Versus Evil.

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Magic: The Gathering Commander 2013

Magic: The Gathering Commander 2013 consists of five decks: Power Hungry, Nature of the Beast, Mind Seize, Evasive Maneuvres and Eternal Bargain, which we were given for review.  Each deck contains 100 cards and three oversized, foil commander cards – the normal versions of these cards are included within the 100 cards.  The pack also comes with a Magic “learn to play” guide, and a strategy insert with rules for the commander.

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Girl Fight

Girl Fight is an arcade-style 3D fighting game featuring a cast of femme fatales, available on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live for £9.99.

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