Recent reviews by Doogy

An engaging and immersive sandbox sim for aspiring detectives who also happen to be kleptomaniacs. Each game puts you in a randomly generated city full of buildings to explore and citizens who will go about their daily lives. Sometimes a citizen decides to murder another citizen. That's life in this dreary city. It is up to you to investigate the crime scene, gather clues including but not limited to all the personal details of the victim, any fingerprints and footprints near the body, the victim's emails, and while you're at it, the victim doesn't need all that loose change lying around anymore. Perhaps you've discovered an unknown set of fingerprints on a bloody knife that was lying next to the victim. Time to check where the victim works so you can break into their workplace and see if anyone there matches those fingerprints. Or perhaps there was no fingerprints but a bullet lodged inside the victim. Then you'd better check the sales records of the local gun shop to see who purchased a matching gun recently, and pay them a visit. There are numerous ways to solve a crime like that. And as mentioned earlier, you don't have to stick to the law to get answers. Expect to perform a lot of B&Es, trespassing, theft, and even battery as you search for clues locked away in places some citizens don't want you to go. But that's okay. If there's a locked door in your way, you can pick it. If you can't pick it, you can barge your way in. If you can't barge your way in, you can crawl through the vent system. If you can't crawl through the vent system, you can knock on the door and ask nicely if they'll let you in for a bit. If they tell you to bugger off, then out comes the truncheon. It's okay, they'll get over those new head lumps.

In this dreary city of sin, everywhere is accessible to you. Every building, every room, every nook and cranny. And everyone has secrets they'd rather you not know. Skeletons in their closets they'd rather you not find. But find them you shall. By any means possible to find the truth.

Want some tips? I got you covered:

- You can get almost every piece of info on someone using just their name. Use any of the "micro crunchers" in the City Hall building to access the Gov Database, search their name, and it'll tell you who they are, what they look like, where they live, where they work, what their fingerprint is, what their favourite flavour of crisps is, etc

- If you only have a photo of someone, try asking other citizens if they know them.

- Each building has a security room somewhere on its premises that has rosters of every citizen living/working there.

- It's even possible to learn the phone numbers of each citizen, allowing you to call any of them from any phone in the city. Most phones will come with a directory that has everyone's phone number and address. And each building's basement will have a locked cabinet somewhere that can reveal phone call history for that building.

Great freaking game...if you stick to Singleplayer. Horrible rage-inducing mess if you try multiplayer.

Play for the story mode and you will see why this game is an all-time classic. Play for the online mode
and you will either be grinding your goolies off for enough money just for a cheap apartment or paying
out the arse to get anything remotely useful and cool. All the while you're at the mercy of several children
who are always going after you with their expensive toys so they can gank you again and again for funsies.

Story mode, you'll be planning and executing very engaging heists. Online mode, you'll be coughing up
in-game and real money left and right, paying for vehicles and then the insurance costs for said vehicles
because every time you go outside your garage, some tosser with a double-digit IQ and a modding tool that
he downloaded from some Russian website spawns several explosions directly on you. Then when you respawn,
he'll teleport you to some far-off location, surround you with fences and spawn a UFO on you.

Grand Theft Auto V: Proof that there is a contest to produce the most genetically repressed child.

You want to know why CS:GO is so popular and enjoyable?
It's because it knows what you want.
You want a game that offers thrilling, intense seat-of-your-pants action and you want to jump straight in to the gameplay.
CS:GO provides.
It also provides some bonus extras, such as customiseable weapon skins, an offline mode that pits you against CPU bots, a training and weapons course that includes a MOUT run, several real-world weapons to choose and use, several inspired maps to run around in, and of course everyone's favourite, hundreds of thousands of underage kids who will scream at you in every language under the sun just because you know how to "no-scope" better than they do.

The graphics of CS:GO have been compared to Call of Duty's Modern Warfare series, the system requirements are surprisingly flexible, the sound design is spot on, and the game offers Steam Workshop support, meaning there are a near-infinite number of new maps you will be able to have access to.

In short, it's quick, it looks nice, and you get to shoot that annoying kid's character* and teabag the crap out of him until he cries for his mommy.

* Note: I do not condone shooting annoying kids. I do condone shooting annoying kids in a video game where it is harmless and fun, provided the annoying kid can develop the ability to laugh at himself. Spoiler: he probably can't.

What can be said about Team Fortress 2?
It began as a modification for id Software's Quake, then converted to the Half-Life mod Team Fortress Classic.
TF2 took everything its predecessors did and perfected them.
A lot of multiplayer shoot-em-up games offer classes and map modes, but TF2 does its best to differentiate its classes and make each one unique, instead of having each as a faceless soldier wearing slightly different uniforms with slightly different weapons for each.
Valve has even gone so far as to make backgrounds and personalities for each class, as you can see in their "Meet the Team" videos.
Now you have a unique class picked out, you need some weapons. What weapons? Hundreds of them! They drop as loot every so often for you to collect and use. And not just weapons, but hats! Funny hats to make your class that much more unique. And if you don't want your loot of weapons and hats, then you can trade 'em to someone else!
But arguably the best thing about this game is it's free. Completely, 100% free. Download it, get some training and offline practice under your belt, and jump right in.
You have the possibility of playing versus human opponents, versus computer-controlled bots, or working with human players against bots.
So what are you doing still reading this? Get this game now. It's a free full game that despite being over half a decade old, is still addictive and exciting. You've got nothing to lose. Windows, Macs, Linux, it doesn't matter what computer you have.

We look forward to seeing you in the Badlands!

If you've got the patience and the imagination, this software is a must-have. Like it claims, it is very user-friendly and it is very easy to jump right in and start building a game with it. If you get tired of the stock graphics, there are hundreds of user-created content you can get your hands on all over the web; or if you're skilled enough, make yourself. Many hours I have sunk into this and I have learned a lot.