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Lol heck no! it's a Mini PC, running SteamOS, on a hardware level of a Series S, none of that says "threat"! 😁
Most PC gamers already have better rigs and prefer Windows and most console gamers don't want the faff of Proton layers AND also have better hardware already!

It's a niche product that may sell as much as the Steam Deck before it, and if it does sell 4 million I predict Valve will throw a party lol

@ShogunRok great to know thanks!

@ShogunRok thanks for the review! I never knew about this game until now! It looks like exactly the sort of game to cure my beat em up itch I've had since finishing SOR4! Are the different characters varied like in SOR4?

I've seen a few reviews and countless videos of this, mostly seeming to praise it as the 2nd coming of BF. Can someone explain to me why it's so much better? I honestly can't see much difference between this and every other modern BF game..? And with the smaller maps it seems to be going even more towards being a COD twitch shooter.

@Flaming_Kaiser relax dude, just don't buy it if you're that entitled. It was patched and drastically improved yesterday.

@Darude84 this is exactly how I felt about it too. It gave me some serious FF7 Rebirth levels of boring questing vibes.

Thanks for the review. I feel I'm in the minority that found GoT incredibly repetitive and even boring after a time and this looks like more of the same, so I'll give it a miss. I'm glad PS5 has yet another big exclusive though!

I've been playing the EA Play trial of it so far. I hated FC25 with a passion, the FM rip off player roles were clunky to implement and otherwise the game felt very similiar to FC 24.
I have to say, the new Authentic mode does make the game feel and play much more realistically! Players are slower and animations appear more deliberate and realistic too. The biggest change in gameplay though has to be the AI! players are much more aggressive and competent now, especially on defence.

Career mode has a couple of QoL improvements (mainly more info about clubs on initial select screen) and a new addition in the form of challenges (which are frankly more irritating than fun), but otherwise remains identical to FC25. Overall I'd say it just may well be the best FIFA of the past decade, but that's not saying too much, granted! I'm probably going to get this on sale in December though as its not worth full price.

@dimi it's much slower but more realistic and I definitely noticed the much more efficient and aggressive AI.

@Tucanino try the Authentic mode then. Players feels much slower but realistic.

This has a totally average 7 score written all over it.

I admire the reviews that don't go with the mainstream of Metacritic and this is a good examples, thanks. I feared this game would have repetitive combat from viewing gameplay and trailers already, but I'm torn as the atmosphere looks top notch and I love both Silent Hill and J-Horror, so will probably give it a shot when it goes on sale.

@Kierant202 I'm shocked at this after reading little but outrage on youtube comments! I don't generally notice fps drops unless they're massive though and I'm sure once the patches come out soon, it'll be ironed out to a level where I definitely won't notice or care and have alot of fun with it also.

Channels like DF have sadly ruined some of the gaming community and I long for the old days when gamers only cared about having fun and not pixel counting! That said, nothing prepared me for the fps drops in Mafia: The Old Country! lol

All the PC performance and Randy controversy aside, once this gets the forthcoming patch for PS5 performance and FOV slider, this will easily be my GOTY!

I'm encouraged by the pretty solid 60fps reports from gamers and early tech reviewers of the PS5 version so far, but most seem to be fairly early game still so far. I'm waiting for official reviews from the likes of you guys before deciding whether it's worth dropping my 70 squid! 😁

I'm shocked it has an 84 on Metacritic, given the tsunami of tears from PC owners in every youtube comment section and on Steam! 😁
It's not great though to be fair, but I kind of expect most new releases to be awful at launch on PC these days, there's just been so many! I can only hope and pray that the fps drops are acceptable level at least on PS5!

It's a solid 7/10 game, way too many cutscenes of mostly uninteresting characters and alot of the gameplay sequences are recycled from old games in the series (not another car race..?!). I still managed to have fun with it though and it gave me that 'one more play' feel despite its shortcomings. I just wish there was more actual gameplay and what it get was more interesting, like Mafia 1 and 2 were.

Oh goody, another Souls like game..can hardly contain my excitement... 🙄😁

@RPGamer94 most new releases these days have problems on PC it seems!

@awp69 the original was 94% of 20 years ago but standards have moved on. It's still a great, fun game, but there's issues: clunky movement and camera, unreliable cover system, bullet sponge enemies, short campaign, boring online (IMO at least). It performs well and still looks fairly decent; I'm having fun playing it on Xbox via Gamepass currently, but I wouldn't double dip on PS5 for anything above £25.

MGS3 is another recent re-release of a masterpiece. It has aged much better and the fps drops a handful of reviews mention won't be noticed by 99% of gamers anyway.

I still would prefer not to pay full price for what is essentially a game I played decades ago however. I'd rather save the cash for Borderlands 4 next month.

Agree with the review, thanks guys! I played the Steam demo and had some fun, but ultimately controlling an ant during an RTS isn't anywhere near as fun or rasy as I'd hoped..! Graphics look great though!

@Mostik there are spiders in it, but there's also an arachnophobia option. I've not tried it, but presume this replaces them with something a little less scary for folk?

@MomsSpaghetti skip all the awful side quests and it knocks about 20 hours of busy work off the length

@ShogunRok thanks for the review mate! I've waited 11 years I think it is for this game! I'm delighted it's held up to the majestic gameplay of the original and then some!

My only concern though, is the stamina system as infuriating as in the original game?

I'm surprised, but guessing there will ne alot more digital sales. As for the game, I felt the shere number of awful, tedious side quests and a whole chapter dedicated to a card game dragged it down feom the masterpiece it could have been, like it's prequel was

@VitaminDJ yes

@kendomustdie was it like the C64's "guuuurrrr-brrrrrrrr-dud-uh-dud-uh.."?

@Mince that "rando" is one of the greatest creative minds in gaming history, young man!

Despite not being a fan of most of the AEW product, I am a wrestling fan in general and initial previews looked promising. All I can say now is I agree completely with this review! the gameplay is nowhere near that in No Mercy, career mode is repetitive and even the various matches themselves all get dull after the first couple of attempts. It's a 5 max from me too alas and only conselation is I didn't buy the elite edition!

@Zisssou the gameplay in this isn't fit to lace No Mercy's boots!

@tomassi yes, this is just a special edition of that game for PS5 basically.

@Digit2021 that's about the jist of it I'm not supporting Bethesda after the dull disaster that was Fallout 76. Its a bit hypocritical for us to condemning a company for going the exclusive route when the PlayStation has thrived on them for generations now That said, of course, fluff Bethesda and their money making schemes in this case! A free PS5 update is all I'm (very!) interested in though anyway!

@frankmcma this!! Mods were a cool gimmick to me, what I'm interested in is solid, officially supported 60fps and getting rid of those soul-destroying load times! I presume the PS5 update is out on the 11th too? anyone..?

@marty8370 where did you get yours from? I preordered a 4Tb one from Amazon but have been waiting since 7th August for the status to change from more stock coming soon and I fear the public update will have long come and gone before I get my hands on it!

@rachetmarvel is it not?

Just got this and it's great fun! combat is obviously borrowed from AC, but it feels more responsive and smoother, reminds me a bit of the epic Kingdoms of Amalur! There's been some criticism online (cough Digital Foundry cough), but it plays well and looks great to me! Too much pixel counting analysing going on these days!
I got bored of Valhalla after 2 days, so hoping this holds my interest longer, but combat alone is more fun than Valhalla I gotta say!

@Mezzer can't say I noticed, seems pretty smooth 60fps to me. I guarantee 99% of people wouldn't notice either if they just played the game and didn't watch Digital Foundry videos first..

@Turbodream It's not "soccer", it's...oh nevermind..

@Stonecold you're almost right the exception being that ALL save data, be it PS5 or PS4, has to be contained on the internal drive. My cloud has got up to the rather hefty 13gb of save data total now, which I've xipued all over for convenience but that's basically a PS4 game I could have had on the PS5 drive!

@Cybrshrk backup storage is only a "must have" if your internet is awful and you don't mind waiting staring at a transferring files screen for an hour to play your game.
Also, 1tb of storage for £220 does not equate Xbox storage being better to me! I'm waiting for SSD 2.0 pet to be available, much faster transfer speeds than the Series X external has and can go up to 2tb if I wanna spend big.

@djape What's up with it on PS5? What I miss? It ain't the 'Series X has a 120fps patch for Warzone' thing at least lol

@rjc-32 hmmm, now this is interesting! Thanks, probably the best explanation of VRR I've read on the internet that! lol
My room has alas limited my 4K grandeous plans somewhat, I'm hoping there's decent VRR in smaller TV's lol

I have 835 PS4 and PS5 games in my library apparently, but I may play the majority of them once a year if I'm lucky. I must've spent 20% of my time on my PS4 watching a file transfer screen as I copied games from my external HDD to my internal SSD and back again and I have no intention of doing that again next gen with my PS5 lol

I'm reaching the limits of the small SSD limit on mine now, but I've been deleting games and downloading new ones and redownloading old ones as and when I wanna play them. It's slightly longer than external drive would take but it means I can spend longer on the amazing PS5 patched Borderlands 3 or Godfall and not have to look at another file transferring screen! lol

Whenever Sony unlock the SSD internal port and we get a look at the super fast SSD, I may get one to add a bit of extra storage and hopefully there won't be much waiting around then between games!

@rjc-32 but theyre dropping frames in DMC5 when played in 120hz mode. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I would expect VRR to smooth out the fps to 120fps in such a situation and not the 100fps average we get on Series X? If therefore VRR can only do so much it seems and it's more a hardware issue, then surely VRR isn't going to be essential next gen?

@Flaming_Kaiser yeah I agree, it was nice not to be all "MERICA!" for the entirety of a COD campaign lol That said, the night vision level was amongst the series finest.

This means we're gonna get the usual inbred morons posting "yeah, but <spoilers>" in random YouTube comments

@andreoni79 lol! Modern 'FM' is definitely more a chore than earlier versions and is a HUGE time sink, even in the trimmed down version of the game! I'd recommend finding a copy of FM 2008 if you want depth but faster, more streamlined and ultimately much more fun gameplay. If you want rapid gameplay with less realism, try the FM Touch games on phone/tablet and/or the old Championship Manager game. There's a team that still does stat updates for it at www.champman0102.co.uk

@Anti-Matter you can zoom right in to the people and mascots in the park, though you can't control a person walking round if that's what you mean.
You can ride most of the rides in first person.

@Dodoo I enjoy the campaign and have no interest in the MP too. Previous campaigns have been longer than the more modern games I feel, even Modern Warefare seemed like 12-15 hours!

@Toypop I can't see the vast majority of gamers spending over a grand on a TV either. Now that monitors finally are coming out with decent HDR and some amazing TV's are available on the cheap, paired with the amount of 4K/120fps games being counted on 1 hand over the next 7 years most likely, I just don't see many people seeing VRR as "essential" on console at least.