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It's ok if you get this on deep sale. I finished the main story in 11 hours, and there's not a lot of variety in the missions so I can;t recommend it at full price.

It plays fine, a couple of times there was a bug that got me stuck between objects (nothing that a quick reload didn't fix), sometimes it gets a bit trial and error, but overall it's ok.

I think my main problem is the upgrade and currency system. They;re pointless. After the third area I've already unlocked probably the best guns and the necessary upgrades that fit my playstyle. So don't expect to build a very customizable character here.

I'm mostly going to talk about the negatives, but please understand that it's not a bad game. This is a Thumbs Up positive review after all.

So the game lacks tower variety. You only have 4, and they're all offense damage types. So this limits the strategy and combos you can do like no ice slowing/freezing or ground unit summoning towers, or even "cheesy" towers like the harpoon that pulls units from Dungeon Warfare. There's one that can be upgraded to a stun type tower, but it's not enough to add a much needed variety to your builds.

Also, there is one enemy unit that is just so annoying to play against. It has the ability to disable your towers, which is super annoying because 1. they're common enemies, and 2. towers take a sometime to go online again after being disabled.

It's not even a matter of difficulty because there are ways to deal with them, but it's just "unfun". That's the best way to describe that enemy. It's just not fun to play against. Maybe it it was a special boss, or if the spawn rate was reduced?

So why the positive review? Well, it's a passable tower defense. It works and plays in the most basic functional level that you expect it to. If I really had to assign a score, it would be a C+ tier. Which isn't bad, especially for the price. Had this been a little more expensive I probably would have given it a Thumps Down negative score.

Very repetitive. I didn't mind the real time gate keeping progress.

But what little gameplay you can do a day is very boring, uninspired, even tedious.

You search for X amount of things scattered around the map. Find me 7 leaves. Find 5 lost mails. Look for 8 bugs.
Every single day it's like that.

Imagine the dullest fetch quests you've seen from an Ubisoft title. Now build a game around that.

It's sad because I really liked the art style, but a good art style can only carry your game so far.

Minigame simulator

Please protect the Mercy. Really.

If she dies 90% of the time the rest of the team dies too.

I don't care if you are full HP Soldier. Drop your heal bomb - I won't die, no one else die, we win.

She's squishy. I can't survive a Phara shoving rockets down my throat. Drop the heal if you are close, or get into my line of sight if you are far so I can zip away into safety.

I can tell you've never played Mercy with your cluelessness on how easy it is for her to die if the flankers are left unchecked.

I'm thinking of switching to Lucio or Zenyatta because noone in Silver knows how to play with her.

My brother is an "avid amateur chess player". That's how he describes himself when making small talk.

You should see his room. It's full of dumb chess pieces from different sets, like his favorite Gold Pawn. It's not really gold but he claims it is. (Nobody believes him)

So anyway, one time I went to his room and I saw a new addition to his collection. It was a giant paper mache bishop. Like, 3 feet tall. He obviously made it himself because it was crooked and I saw yesterday's news on the Bishop's belly.

But what really attracted me to the giant bishop was its unproportionally small head. The whole thing was like a freaky baby milk bottle.

So approached the artifact, and I bit the tip off.

Unfortunately for me, my brother saw me do it.

Unfortunately for him, I move as quick as a fox.

I was a dancing blur of after image, avoiding every attack he tried to throw at me. I slipped past him and dashed straight to the safety of my dad's room. I locked myself in until the angry beast outside calmed down.

Then I asked myself, "Self, what do I do now?".

So I booted my dad's PC, which I also use for gaming, logged into Steam and saw that CS:GO was on sale.

I bought it. It is an ok game.

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Terrible

~No Single Player campaign

~Kiddie graphics

~Can't call airstrike

~No leveling/ranking system

~No female characters. I smell sexism...

~Can't play multiplayer while offline. Please Valve, not everyone has access to high speed internet

~No iron sights

~Excuse me, but what kind of FPS doesn't have C4?

~Can't pick up a fallen player's weapon. Only ammo.

~Only Dark Cyclops has grenade so he's OP

~Unoriginal game modes like capture the flag, I mean "briefcase"

~IT'S FREE! Ask yourself this- If Team Fortress 2 is such a brilliant game, why is it free? Why isn't anyone paying for it?

~Can't snipe through glass

~Unbalanced classes. For example, the Minigun Master has 300 health while the Erection Man has only 125

~No dog. It's 2014 Valve! Technology has made it possible to include a dog in your game. You have to catch up to the 21st Century.