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Fitness Boxing 3: Your Personal Trainer sets out to offer gamers boxing workouts for their busy lives. It’s a fairly basic game but does give you a companionship if you’re on-the-go and seeking a quick workout with your handheld games console. There’s little new in this game, it treads previous ground from other titles, but it is neatly put together and will appeal to a limited audience.
The game plays well enough, just like the Paper Marios before, with a near top-down viewpoint for the puzzle sections. And the visual style is a little different, more cartoony than many of the recent Mario efforts. The brothers are as cute together as ever and their joint fighting is a highlight.
The overall package is extensive and both games play well, top drawn speedster stuff for platform gaming fans.
The gameplay itself and choices made to affect the branching storyline are a little too subtle and rarely taxing. It’s really there to aid the storytelling and build out the lore, like an interactive movie. As such there can be long stretches where the story slows or gets bogged down and it feels a little chore-like to keep grinding on.
If you’re new to the Horizon franchise, or if you’re so into it that you’re dying to play the first game again at its very very best, then it is worth a revisit.
This is an excellent first-person shooter with best-in-class multiplayer, a stunning story mode and over-the-top, enjoyable zombie smashing. Gaming gun action has never felt so good.
The graphics are colourful but not particularly outstanding for the big consoles. And the audio is a bit cheesy, particularly with the spoken chatter, but does the job well enough. But this reworking of a PC hit makes it a highly approachable, massive role-play action title that is as welcoming to new players as it is MMO experts hell-bent on sinking hundreds of hours of gameplay in. The fighting is fun and the world building is extensive. Well worth a look.
It’s all light hearted fun aimed at connecting people both in local co-op and online. It looks great and is packed full of Nintendo character. And there’s a lot of bang here for your buck.
Silent Hill 2 is a modern looking title with nostalgic gameplay at its heart. Those who loved the original will immensely enjoy stepping back into this dead town. But modern gamers who have no association with the history could likely find it a bit bland compared to today’s more speedy, interactive games.
It’s a joy to play, looks great and an excellently crafted mashup of gaming ideas to deliver a fresh-feeling new Zelda.