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This game is way more fun than it has any right to be.

This is an absolute must have for any PC gamer and is regularly on sale for extremely cheap so there is no excuse not to get it. It has standardized benchmarks which gives you a performance score for your hardware that enables you to see if it is running on par with others who have the same hardware configuration and quantify the difference in performance between upgrades and over-clocks. It has robust stability tests which will ferret out any instabilities your graphical hardware might have. It also gives full logs of temperatures, clocks, and loads so you can fully monitor and document exactly what your hardware is doing.

Running graphical benchmarks gives you a score and it is compared to the scores of people who have run it with the same hardware as you have. This allows you to tell if your PC is running as well as it should be. 3DMark gives you an average and top score for your configuration of hardware for you to compare your results with. This is great because when I overclock I have an accurate idea of what I should be shooting for. Then running the same benchmark multiple times between changing your hardware parameters allows you to compare your differing scores and quantify over-clocking gains.

Stress testing allows you to make sure your hardware is running well in the first place assuring that you don't have any bad components. It also allows you to test if your over-clock is game stable by providing various workloads which fully load your GPU.

This has been an absolute staple for me over the years of building and overclocking gaming PCs. I don't know what I would have done without this amazing set of tools which is always being updated for the latest hardware and software advancements.

No matter if you are a casual gamer or a hardware enthusiast you should own this program.

The only thing missing from this suite is a graphical benchmark that simultaneously loads your CPU while it is running; so far only the demos do that. I would like a benchmark which can accurately show me what my CPU/GPU temperatures would be while gaming with a varying loads on my CPU. I understand I can do this by running something like Prime95 in the background but I really think it ought to be built into 3DMark.

9/10

Do you like tower defense? This game is hella awesome! As a TD fan since the OG Starcraft days and heavily during the Warcraft 3 TFT era and onwards I can wholeheartedly say this game is is one of the best TD games of all time. Definitely worth full price. It just keeps getting better and better. This is my first Creeper World game and I was not sure what to expect but a friend of mine gave a hard recommendation so I went for it and I am super glad I did.

I am still going through the campaign although there is a level editor with an online database included as well as a daily mission challenge. The amount of content is almost infinite with these features.

EDIT1: Now the dev has added co-op for 2-4 players which works flawlessly. This game is so damn good it is crazy.

9/10

The mechanics seem decent enough and there is a lot of variation in game-play due to a wide variety of weapons, armour, and abilities which is really nice and the co-op is implemented quite well. The problem is that each mission is like 5-10 minutes long and then you have to look through all your loot and new blueprints for upgrades. It is so tedious because of the extremely short mission length and the reuse of the same tiny maps over and over. I had reasonable expectations for this game while my friend and I were sorely disappointed. This game is just not worth any amount of money and I highly recommend you just get Monster Hunter World instead so you can actually get to play for more than a couple minutes at a time.

Bought this on sale with a friend for co-op and didn't play it for a while (past the two-week refund date). When we finally got around to playing it we found out that when playing co-op only the host is able to pick up items making it so the non-host has to play through all the content over again just to get their items. Absolutely the worst co-op implementation ever. Thoroughly disappointed and we couldn't get a refund.

TL;DR: If you are buying this co-op DO NOT BUY

An absolute blast on its own right and with endless content due to an extremely active mod community - this is a complete no brainer. Think battlefield 2 but infinitely customizable and there is a great multiplayer mod that works perfectly. This is an absolute gem of a game and worth full price any day of the week if you like FPS!

If you liked games like Twisted Metal, Interstate 76, and Vigilante 8 then this is one of the only modern games that can reproduce the feelings of those masterpieces. Grab the gold edition and have a seriously good time.

8/10

I have been looking for a game to scratch the seemingly eternal itch that NFS Underground 2 left me with and NFS Heat is exactly what I have been waiting for. It is excellent!

8/10

This game is excellent. If you like turn based fighting and rogue like games For The King is one of the best (if not the best) game there is in the genre. It heavily reminds me of the glory days of Heroes of Might and Magic and King's Bounty but the difference is you have up to 3 hero characters and no military units under them.

The developers have added an amazing amount of post-launch content for free which shows their love and dedication for the game; it now has five different campaigns you can play where each of them are varied and different from the others. They also have a points system which you gather while playing that enables you unlock more content, including new characters, for your adventures to come which keeps the otherwise very similar experience of running a certain campaign again fresh with new items, useful landmarks, and more!

It also has co-op for up to three players either local or online which really adds another dimension of fun to the game. I highly recommend this title even at full price it is more than worth it.

8.5/10

They tried to get that oculus quest and completely neutered the game. Anything past 1.7 is a total joke. This game is dead to me and my friends now. It is too bad because up until the great fall of 1.8. This game was shaping up to be something truly special. Now it is a bargain bin oculus quest game. Do yourself a favour and skip this game over.