Alessandro Caluri
Dying Light: The Beast stands out as a determined return to the series’ intense and grim atmosphere, featuring a more streamlined direction and a less elaborate narrative than in the past. The gameplay experience highlights parkour, visceral combat, and survival tension, all enhanced by a new rural setting and mechanics that emphasize both cooperative play and competitive dynamics. The introduction of “beastly” abilities and the revamped progression system add depth to multiplayer sessions, reaffirming co-op as one of the core pillars of the gameplay offering. From a technical standpoint, some issues persist, such as mission structure limitations and occasional bugs, while the storytelling takes a direct approach that favors adrenaline over complex plot-building. Overall, Dying Light: The Beast doesn’t rewrite the formula but solidifies what fans already love, with design choices that reward action, exploration, and teamwork, offering an effective reinterpretation of the series’ foundation.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Mafia: Terra Madre is a game that dares to step off the series’ usual tracks, setting aside the sprawling open world in favor of a more intimate narrative, deeply rooted in a meticulously recreated historical context. The early-1900s Sicilian setting, the Sicilian-language voice acting, and the attention to cultural detail breathe authenticity into the experience and give the game a strong identity. However, that same identity is where some friction emerges. The semi-open map structure, dotted with invisible walls, restricts exploratory freedom, while the scarcity of points of interest dampens the desire to wander, despite the presence of collectibles and hidden items that provide tangible bonuses to the character. The gameplay alternates intense moments — weighty melee clashes and grounded shootouts — with slower stretches, but these latter phases can at times slide into monotony, imparting a pronounced sense of “heaviness.” Ultimately, Terra Madre rewards those seeking an atmospheric tale and a carefully crafted historical reconstruction, but it may leave fans of the series’ freer, more frenetic action somewhat perplexed. It’s a game that doesn’t aim to please everyone, yet it leaves a mark on those willing to accept its rhythm and its rules.
Review in Italian | Read full review
With Assassin's Creed Valhalla Ubisoft has undoubtedly touched substantial improvements from previous titles. Unlike its predecessors, Valhalla focuses a lot on history but even more on the return to the Creed, which finally reappears after several years of absences. The assassins are back and with them the ancestral struggle against the Order.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The latest DLC of 2020 is really good from the point of view of the main missions, but fallacious on various other aspects. The side quests are many, but also quite repetitive.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The Ancient Gods is a real extension of the base game. Some of the uncertainties, especially related to the narrative arc, have been swept away. The narrative is more linear and solid, although quite short at this time.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Doodle God: Evolution is a game that has landed on PlayStation 4 but has several years behind it. The gameplay is immediate, even essential, allowing anyone to be able to easily turn it on and play.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Without doubt it is one of the remakes made. The title has not only improved from a graphic and technical point of view, but has also supplanted those slow and unrealistic behaviors of some characters in the story.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Since the renovations have been very small, it is a title that we feel strongly to recommend only to those who are really fans of the NBA. Those who have the 2K20 and are not a great basketball fan, but an occasional player, could also opt not to buy it.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Project Cars 3 is a title that inherits all the good things of its predecessors, thus not betraying the fan base that buys it - and loves it - precisely for its more simulative side. The addition of some help to facilitate new players should not be misleading: they are aimed only at the newest ones, or who in any case prefer a much less demanding level of challenge.
Review in Italian | Read full review
It's a very interesting game that will be unrivaled. The main focus was on realism, starting from the graphics to get to the controls. Graphically the title is excelled with very interesting visual details.
Review in Italian | Read full review
A Total War Saga: Troy is a title that shows ups and downs. Without a doubt it's a better spin-off than the previous one (Thrones of Britannia), thanks to a breathtaking setting with attention to detail. The Homeric victory is infact much more interesting than the classical one. Troy relies heavily on some mechanics but then takes inexplicable steps backwards.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Spellforce 3 is a hybrid title, with two very different mechanics that have been merged and whose final result looks really nice. The best part is the RPG that manages to maintain an original imprint thanks to a valid exploration system.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Carcassone is one of several successful board games that have been reproduced in the PC version. The PC version, although it can never replicate the charm of the real board game, has certain advantages, such as being able to play even without the need to meet at least three people.
Review in Italian | Read full review
It's Quiz Time! it's a very interesting multiplatform game. The title is valid and, at the moment, it could really be one of the best of its kind. We hope that, over time, they will continue to support it.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The episode three of Batman: The Enemy Within seems a real link to the first chapter of the saga, using some themes and characters that have fallen into oblivion and which now come back with force.
Review in Italian | Read full review
It is a real interactive film that owes its narration to the choices we make, following our reasoning and our feelings. Unlike other titles in Hidden Agenda the choices heavily affect the game mechanics, turning the story into something always different than previously played.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Pokémon Ultrasun and Ultramoon are ultimately a bit more than a 2.0 version of the previous chapters, just released a year ago. Particularly interesting it's that you can review in action Lugia, Ho-Oh, Moltres, Zekrom and so on. Ultrasun and Ultramoon are far from being a farewell, apparently rather like a pleasant and enticing flirtatious goodbye.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Football Manager 2018 does not show anything extremely revolutionary or new, trying rather to start from what was good in the past. Compared with the beta, many problems have been eliminated, but there is still some annoying. Ultimately Football Manager 2018 is a very good title even though there hasn't been the leap of quality that we would have expected.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The series of Assassin's Creed has decided to stop for a year after the release of Syndicate, to regroup and find a way to lessen the criticism received. The role-playing footprint is marked and appreciable with the leveling and the equipment's enhancement system that allows the gaming aspect to vary greatly.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The new nemesis system guarantees great challenges against ferocious orcs. A great game that will take us in the depths of Mordor.
Review in Italian | Read full review