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I've had this one on my backlog for a while now, and I have no idea why I haven't played it before now, because DAMN Okay, so its a Zombie apocalypse/ City Builder type game. It takes Google Maps data to create your play area..... I started a map, with my house as the HQ, and it has been amazing so far. You can create any location in the world. The game uses the map data to sort out how difficult of a time you will have. Cities obviously are the worst locations. The maps are not perfect, in that it assumes the sizes of the houses based off of google footprint. So in my case it has my house slightly smaller than it actually is, because the google map image isn't current. (See the screenshots below) You can dismantle houses for resources, and you find settlers all over the place. There is a story, that I won't spoil because I think I am about a third of the way through it, I could be wrong there though. I am way to busy farming resources to build a fortress to worry about other survivors in DC and Baltimore. Two gripes people have about the game: Zombies can cross any body of water, so can your squads. The Dev's did this for pathing reasons, as the game is still in Early Access, and I guess trying to differentiate water on a google map is hard when importing data. IDK, it doesn't' phase me, I just build more walls Radio transmissions are frequent, and can't be ignored. You have to choose an option, but luckily it does pause the game for you. That being said if you don't choose an option quickly the npc's will get grumpy. So the screenshots I am attaching are of my play area. The "Star" is my house, the HQ, the rest are shelters, and warehouses I am setting up, along with some build orders, etc. I zoomed really far out for these so you could see the street names and more of the play area.

First Person mode and Third Person mode confirmed and you can flip between the two during the game. Sounds like a really interesting take. You do find the later games do really well with the newer generation of RE followers. They love First Person. Us oldies may enjoy the nostalgia of some third person in certain areas.

This game has now come out of early access and 1.0 is live. They have bicycles now too 🤪

This does look like they've gone down an interesting road. I think Siege unfortunately suffers from what many existing live service games have - ability to be a really good game...but only when you've learned all the characters and the maps, otherwise its a steep curve to get success. I'd like to give it a go though and its a good thing some of the options are free to play too!

That as a tech demo is probably something we have all been waiting to see on a PS5 since it launched. I think most people will need to at least try this game out to see and feel how it plays. I've started to try and play Witcher 3 but I must admit that the controls do feel clunky so hopefully that will be updated to feel more inline with most other games that are currently out.

It's free now too!

Should be good! Now give us a Code Veronica remake and that’ll keep me happy for the next few years

Ok, it's actually just Rainbow 6 with brand new visuals etc

@TheMuggySpud will deffo play this I'm sure. I know Hector, Rob and Josh from the States still do too. I'd probably have to organise a night to be free as I don't think its just a pick up and play for an hour mode. Siege has never been that!

Tell you what @phil bottle, I'll let you try it first and then you can tell me how frustrating but fun this could be 😅 I don't think its a bad call that the other survival games are adding a little more support in the UI, storage or even objective based elements. I know how brutal DayZ was for us and I can see me absolutely raging at this for bleeding to death by tripping on a stick no doubt. Having said that, they do have bikes, soooo......🤣

Hitman 3 (2021)

Okay..... Edinburgh might have been a mistake..... apparently the scots really like to turn zombie. I've never seen hordes this big in game before.

Changed over to Edinburgh to build and it forced me to use the Castle.... Oh No! whatever will I do with massive stone walls and insanely huge buildings to use as shelter and warehouses... Honestly I am loving this game, let me know if you all have places you want me to check out

Visually the game is one of the best, I just couldn't get into the "story", or the gameplay loop

An update recently stopped me playing for a bit as I had a decision to make. To take advantage of the update properly it meant wiping my character and all my progress. This was a tough decision but I finally did it today. Back to being a level 1 with my hideout barren of anything except candles to light it 😅

I'm still alive well just barley if last night's run is anything to go by. Last week I ran a total of 66km on the weekend was 42km and thats working a total of 18 hours. Got home a little late got my hydration bag chucked a lucozade some nuts a energy bar and my lights just I'm case in got dark. All went ok with the run it was the after math about 1 hour after it felt like something broke inside of me something left me was an emotional wreck then couldn't sleep so did some research as it happens it's quite common in some runners.

These games always get discounted early on - usually after 4 weeks the 'premium' edition reduces to that of the base game price and then a month or so after that you can usually get 33% off the standard. By the time the football season starts you can grab it for half price and then it's 75% off going into the new year. It's a great purchase after Christmas although the game is on its last legs at that stage but it's still great value. EA just bank on people to buy into it within the first month when things are fresh and everyone is playing. I'll probably grab this for under a tenner next January just for the single player.

I watched the trailer for this the at the weekend and I have to say I think thisblooks really good. I've really enjoyed the last couple of resi evil games and think this will definitely be one I can delve into 🙂

I do believe there is a remake of code Veronica on its way.