Xbox One Reviews – Phenixx Gaming

PGA Tour 2K23 (XBO) – Review

Keiran McEwen — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:00:43 +0000

It is difficult to explain, but how you can have a Golf-simulation game that doesn’t feature St Andrews? That is like having an Indy Car game without the Indy 500, Nascar without the Brickyard 400 or its replacement, or even F1 without Monaco and/or Monza. I get that it isn’t featured in the current iteration of the tour but for a place that has played host to The Open 30 times…

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Fallen Legion: Revenants (XBO) Review

Edward Harding — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:00:21 +0000

Fallen Legion: Revenants is the sequel to the two-part collection Fallen Legion: Rise to Glory published by NIS America. I enjoyed the original game’s unique, fast-paced combat system and was excited to see how the gameplay would expand in the sequel. Unfortunately, although Fallen Legion: Revenants improves some aspects of the original formula it also takes many steps backward.

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Gas Station Simulator (XBO) – Review

Keiran McEwen — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:00:35 +0000

Winding from Chicago to Los Angeles, the perfect place for your gas station is on the mother road of western expansion amid the late-mid 20th Century. I’ve waxed poetic about the roads that sing with music across the US in my American Truck Sim review, so I won’t bore you with that again. Instead, I’ll talk about when I took up the position of being one of those characters in a gas station on the…

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Construction Simulator (XBO) Review

Keiran McEwen — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 17:00:10 +0000

The only thing that has calloused my hands over the years has been musical instruments, lots and lots of instruments. I’m dyslexic, I wouldn’t even know how to spell the words hard labor… ignore that. There are only two things I’ve made with my hands, a birdhouse and a piggy bank, and both are wonky and rough. So when it came to starting my own construction company in Construction Simulator…

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Fallen Legion: Rise to Glory (XBO) Review

Edward Harding — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 15:00:26 +0000

I’ve played a lot of JRPGs in my time, so I thought I knew exactly what kind of experience awaited me when diving into the Fallen Legion game series. However, throughout my time with the game I was continuously surprised. Fallen Legion: Rise to Glory does follow many pre-established conventions of the genre but offers exciting gameplay tweaks that ensure for a truly unique experience.

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You Suck At Parking (Xbox One) – Review

Keiran McEwen — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:00:41 +0000

Let’s make some rules: When everyone else is parking straight and there are clear indications of those spots, you have no legal right to take up two spaces. Let’s also say that if you have two garages and two cars, you either at the very least park those two cars in front of those garages or I get to call you very rude words. If it isn’t clear just yet, the parking around my way is a nightmare.

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PowerWash Simulator (XBO) – Review

Keiran McEwen — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 19:00:25 +0000

I believe when most people think of simulators for mundane tasks, they think of the crap that slopped out during the Steam Greenlight period for YouTubers to point at and chuckle. Or they consider things like Euro and American Truck Simulator. Of course, the “Simulator” name has been attached to lots of games, including the 1988 April Fools game from British computer magazine Your Sinclair with…

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Road 96 (Xbox One) Review

Aaron Schäfer — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 19:00:05 +0000

I’m a huge fan of narrative-focused games, so when Road 96 was announced, I knew it would be my kind of game. Additionally, with its somewhat recent addition to Xbox Game Pass, I went ahead and played it. I finished the game within a couple of days. The game kept me hooked from start to finish, and it was overall a really fun experience. The game has you playing as different teens each going on…

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Just Cause 4 (XBO) – Review

Keiran McEwen — Mon, 23 May 2022 19:00:51 +0000

The Just Cause series is a strange beast within the world of video games. As I’ll soon describe for a video, it is often a sandbox crammed into being a game first instead of a game built around that sandbox. I think that like most people, I got pulled in by that demo back on the PS3 for the second game. He has guns, a parachute, some grappling hooks, and a number of things painted red that go boom…

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Fallout 4 (Xbox One) – Review

Keiran McEwen — Wed, 11 May 2022 19:00:05 +0000

Next to Final Fantasy, Dark Souls, and the Deus Ex franchise, Fallout has some of the most ridiculous and occasionally downright toxic fans. Say you appreciate 2008’s Fallout 3, and you’ll be told you are wrong. Say you enjoy Fallout 4, and people behave like you stabbed their kids. However, say you don’t like New Vegas, and they act like you pressed the button in October 2077.

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