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10 € for this? There's zero replay value, no bonus chapter and the game is extremely short. What's worse is that the voice acting is unprofessional and the animation either doesn't exist or is very poor. The puzzle design is okay, but doesn't offer anything challenging or interesting. Just a very average and short game.

The game has great pixel graphics and amazing 16 bit-ish music. The presentation is great and that is truly the strong point of the game. With a price of one dollar what could go wrong? Well, you could make the normal stage a slow drag without any kind of fun and the bosses all kinds of cheap so that getting through the game is really just a test of patience. Yes, some of the bosses need some strategy, but no they aren't really interesting and the amounts of hits they take is just mind numbingly boring. The same with the normal stages. All the blocks need three hits to destroy and you are just hoping that the ever spawning enemies drop the 'dark flames' extra to remove some of the more hard to reach blocks.

Great presentation meets tedious game play. If you don't mind boring game play, this game is surely nice to look at. Presonally I just couldn't get myself to put more time into the game to even get to the final boss.

Elder Scrolls Online is a really mixed bag and you might need to look at it from your expectations to decide if it's worth playing.

First of all I love how the game world scales with your character. In a single player game like Oblivion it was horrible, but in a MMORPG it just takes the grind and throws it (mostly) out of the window. You can go and do any quest at your leasure knowing that the enemies will kick your butt, but only at the amount that you are expected to handle ;) The game is a lot about the abilities and how to combine them and it takes a while to figure it out (as a non MMORPG player...). Once you do get it, the game instantly gets way easier and way more enjoyable.

It is not a story driven game, but at the same time it does offer a lot of good quests. Most of them are fetch quests, but at the same time you can see that the writing and voice acting makes up for a lot of the rather simple quest stages. There are a good amount of really carefully crafted quests and quest lines in the game. The amount of (real) content you get with the base game and no monthly fee is great. For 20 € the 16 'full' zones give you at least 150 hours of actual game play.

The graphics are good, but it doesn't hold up to any recent game and is frankly a bit too demanding for how it looks. That being said there are moments that your jaw will be on the floor, but they aren't very frequent. The music is wonderful and uses themes from other Elder Scrolls games. The way the game ties in with all the Elder Scrolls 'legacy' is one of the reasons why it's a really good way to see more of Tamriel for Elder Scrolls fans.

There is lots to do and there are lots of different ways to play the game. The real world currency 'abuse' in the game is not that bad, but you can clearly see that subscribing is encouraged. If you look for a MMO you might be a bit disappointed and if you look for an Elder Scrolls single player game too, but if you can accept that it tries to sit between those two chairs and has a bit of both then the game really offers a lot to like.

I have to mention Morrowind. It's not bad, but it's certainly not worth 40 €. The zone is bigger than the rest of the standard zones, but it blocks off Red Mountain. Compared to the 20 € base game the double amount of money seems ridiculous for about 10 to 15 hours of content. Not even the new character class and the PVP modes make up for it.

Overall you should really have a look at the game if it's on sale and as an Elder Scrolls fan you should even consider getting it for 20 € right now.

The game constantly crashes in chapter 9 and there is no fix. Really annoying that WB doesn't care to fix the game(s) even if they are buggy as hell on PC. Last Lego game I'll ever buy...

Let's be clear: Not all tables made it from Pinball FX2 to Pinball FX3, but all I had in Pinball FX2 and that are in Pinball FX3 are available for me.

Apart from that and the achievement 'meltdown' (only one achievement per table in FX3 instead of two per table in FX2), there is a lot of new stuff in FX3. You can choose to not use it (so you are in no way forced to play your tables differently if you don't want to), but in my opinion the new unlock and level system just adds a bit more motivation to replay tables more often rather than take away from the experience.

The game with one table is still free, the DLC with more tables are a bit differently packed, but have the same price and overall the update really feels like a proper update. I don't see anything (except for the few tables that couldn't get a license for FX3) to complain about.

Overall it's a really solid pinball game with fairly priced tables. The fact that you actually don't have to buy content again if you had it before speaks for itself in this day and age.

The game could have been a tongue-in-cheek RPG about achievements, but it falls flat on so many levels that it is really painful to play the result.

The game is really repetitive and that's mainly due to the lack of progression. You get to enter three areas that let you 'farm' achievements and they play all the same. You get very quickly that you need to find a spot to farm chests that give you 10 achievements (litterally!) for free. You do that until you have 999 achievements which is mindnumbingly boring. The real kicker is that you occasionally have to fight enemies, but the collision detection (or rather the graphical representation of it) is really bad. So the little bit of interesting game play you could have is spoilt by that.

Overall it offers a bit over an hour of grinding for 1,000 achievements. Asking for 5$ for that is quite something. The game itself is certainly not.

The game isn't bad, but it's way too repetitive for its short length and the asking price.

The graphics and sound in the game have a very specific style and really add to the atmosphere set by the dialogue and the many notes you can find.

The problem that the game has is that it really has only two game mechanics and there's almost no variation to them. You fight... things and you manage a train. The exploration is solid and sometimes even fun, but fighting is very rudimental and the few additional objects thrown in (objects you can throw and objects that explode after a while) don't mix it up enough.

The train bit is really just one of those 'do things in time and plan ahead' management sections. You need to keep your passengers alive and you need to keep the train from falling apart. It's not too hard, but reading the little bits of story thrown in can be problematic and that takes away from the experience.

The story of the game is interesting and the atmosphere is great, but the gameplay just drags on and makes the game more tedious than enjoyable.

The most 'simplistic' Space Invaders clone you'll ever play. Clearly some barely enhanced game making tutorial (if it was enhanced at all...). Stay far away from this 'game'.

200$ just because you aren't happy that Valve didn't get your 'joke' about the achievements? You are a small and very bitter man.

Being greedy as a publisher is one thing, but taking away one of the biggest reasons why people care about your game is just stupid. Maybe the backlash will be big enough to wake you up Take Two, but I somehow doubt it...