Recent reviews by koder

Scrap Mechanic is exactly the sort of game where just you think you've seen it all, then someone comes out with this incredible new device powered by friction with ducks.

The machines you can build in this game are limitless, and with a little imagination you can get hundreds of hours out of this game. Once you start connecting bearings and configuring controllers, you'll find you can easily slip into the rhythm of things, and before you know it you'll be buiding walking robots and transforming houses. It's the perfect balance of simple and technical, sensible and hilarious. Which brings me to my next point.

Multiplayer in Scrap Mechanic is laggy and buggy, but enormously fun. You'll quickly find yourself ramming your car into your friend's half-built motorbike, which will spasm into the air, adopting a variety of whacky positions, before settling back to the ground so you can do it again. Racing is also wildly entertaining, with cars falling over and turning off-course repeatedly if you're not careful. If you buy this game, I highly recommend you get a friend or family member to buy it too.

Overall, Scrap Mechanic is a fabulous game. While it's a little rough around the edges, it's a great experience and an excellent way to learn about moving parts and how to use them to create the machines of your dreams!

10/10 Would watch my friend's bike spasm again.

-Finds surfer in desert
-Finds diver in jungle
-Digs tunnels through water and lava with a drilling machine
-Finds pigs and ostriches on clouds

LEGO Worlds is a neat game. From the start, you are bombarded with lovely graphics and scenery, unlockables left right and center, and a smattering of bricks and building tools.
It's a HUGE step up from the previous LEGO games already, moving its focus from simply featuring LEGO characters and items to a true LEGO game - allowing the player to create, adventure, and discover. When you think about it, it's like buying an infinite supply of a heap of different LEGO bricks, in every different color.
Now, down to the raw facts:

Pros:
-Great scenery and graphics
-Plenty of unlockables
-Goats
-Character customizer
-Tools for large-scale building and terraforming
-Vehicles and weapons to spice up gameplay
-Create anything you can think up
-Well-made and amusing animations

Cons:
-This game is missing the feature it needs most: multiplayer.
-Finding certain characters/vehicles/items can sometimes take hours
-Camera is about as good as a jelly pickaxe. In politics.
-Precise building can often be painful and awkward
-No particularly fast way of getting around, the animals and air vehicles are all slow and the ground vehicles are almost uncontrollable
-The character often climbs bricks when you don't want it to
-There's no way of deleting a vehicle/character that spawned with a set, it always respawns every time the world loads.

To summarise: LEGO Worlds is a fun game, and perfect for the creative type, but if you're not really into building with lego, wait until multiplayer comes out before buying this one.

10/10 great fun at parties

Don't get me wrong, this game is missing a lot of features. Worse still, they seem to take out a whole bunch of features every major update. The bauble and pudding costumes, for example, were absolutely hilarious. Now they're gone and I have a pudding-shaped hole in my heart. Just a few updates ago it seemed the combat was a lot more skill-based, too. I could pull off some ridiculously ridiculous moves, whereas now those moves don't work so it feels a bit more spammy.

That being said, I still can't get past the endearing wobbly-jelly combat and the stupidly hilarious, hilariously stupid situations you can find yourself awkwardly sandwiched between and probably stuck halfway into.

Accept this game for what it is, and you will get no end of enjoyment from it.