Title: Spore
Genre: Simulation/Strategy
Graphics: 3/5
Music: 2.5/5
Sound: 2.5/5

Strong Suits:
☠ High level of freedom and customization
☠ Multiple paths to choose and ways to play
☠ A lot to do in the final stage
☠ Highly replayable

Weak Points:
☠ The game can be completed rather quickly
☠ The cell stage is all together to short
☠ Although different paths are available, the game is pretty linear.
☠ A lot of parts/builds don’t really matter/affect your gameplay.

Comments:
Spore is from a different time in games. A time I love dearly. Spore is not for everyone, but if you enjoyed it in the past, or like sciency type games (SimEarth, The Creatures Series, SimAnt, ETC.) then you are going to love playing Spore.


Follow your own species, from a single cell floating in the primordial soup, all the way to a dominant species present all over different star systems across the galaxy. Play with Ecology, Terraform planets to your liking, or simply wage an endless war, Spore really makes the galaxy your playground. I love this game, and if it had just a bit more depth it would be a perfect game.


P.S.: Steam should definitely add Steam achievements for Spore, there is already an achievement system present in the game.

Overall Score: 4/5

Title: BeamNG.drive
Genre: Driving Simulation
Graphics: 5/5
Music: N/A
Sound: 4.5/5

Strong Suits:
☠ Insanely realistic wrecks
☠ Great car customization
☠ Active and awesome community support (Mods)

Weak Points:
☠ Very little in the way of campaign/story mode
☠ Little to no interior customization
☠ No working radio/No Music

Comments:

So, lets get this out of the way first: BeamNG.drive (in its current state) is not a game, but a true blue driving sim. If you are looking for a "video game" driving game you will probably not enjoy this, but if you enjoy: driving simulations, cars in general, or wrecks, then you will probably like this game.

There are some short campaigns and some scenarios that do add some narrative, and the AI controls allows for endless possibilities with a little imagination. Driving feels great, and you can do all of it here, from Sunday cruising, rock crawling, destruction derbies, and classic racing BeamNG.drive has it all. My only real complaint here is that there is no in game radio. I would love some built in radio stations, or even a way to add my own music/internet radio into the game, it honestly feels missing. With that being said, as far as I am aware this is the most realistic driving sim currently available.
I highly recommend it.

Overall Score: 4.5/5

Title: Postal 4: No Regerts
Genre: Action/Adventure, FPS, Shooter
Graphics: 3/5
Music: 4/5
Sound: 3/5

Strong Suits:
☠ Great gun models and sounds
☠ Classic Postal chaos
☠ Amazingly good cinematics (shockingly good in contrast to the rest)
☠ Good power-ups and items with some items returning from old games and some new
☠ Large map with lots of freedom of where you go

Weak Points:
☠ Visual bugs
☠ Near constant crashing
☠ Bosses not spawning or spawning in the wrong place
☠ Unexplainable bugs constantly
☠ Some weapon boxes will not return your gear, forcing you to get everything again
☠ Some doors will de-spawn or disappear forcing you to be trapped forever
☠ Some bugs can make the game unplayable forcing a total restart
☠ Most store and house interiors are totally barren

Comments: In its current state I cannot recommend this, not even as an early access title.
It has really good roots and definite potential but it is in a very poor state currently.

If you liked Postal 2, then what this game is supposed/going to be will be good for you, but in its current state, it's nearly unplayable. I couldn't even complete the game due to the door in the mall disappearing after I finished the errand there, even no clip and teleport cheats cannot get me out of the mall.

The map is huge and you can go into almost every house and business, which sounds cool till you realize that most of them are totally barren. Just a house asset that is totally empty. The ones that aren't empty are hit or miss if there will be stuff no clipping through walls, or if it will actually look like an interior.

Another side note, not a huge deal, but all the gun animations and reloads are great, but when you reload the shotgun, the shells just kinda spawn in your palm. Like I said, not a big deal, just lazy.

It honestly makes me pretty sad. I wish that I would have waited because I do believe that this will eventually be a good Postal game, but right now, it's nothing more than a pretty empty romp around that gets annoying and frustrating due to its bugs and lack of stability. My suggestion is to wait till it is more complete, I got this on sale and I am still disappointed.

The only way I recommend this is if you are a hardcore Postal fan who wants to support the devs despite progress. With that being said even then I would be wary seeing as they have OK'd another game to be made by another dev team.

Overall Score: 1.5/5