DCS World

If there is one thing you should take away from reading this, it's that this is an excellent simulator. Some people may not like DCS World because of how unnecessarily complicated and hard to control it is. If this were a game I would agree whole-heartedly with said people and would immediately give DCS World a big F. However, this is not a game in the technical sense, this is a simulator, and every simulator I have ever used has been very complex and hard to use. Because of the fact that DCS World is more simulator than game it is more realistic than most games and is harder to control and has a lot more little details that need your attention. While it may be excellent at simulating you crashing, it has a few flaws that still need to be looked into. First of all, it takes forever to load, enough said. Second, while this game is "Free-to-play" on steam, yet all but one of the aircraft are Pay-to-play. Third, the tutorial in this game relies on your ability to go through very small loops at very high speeds, which, for a inexperienced player like me, was nigh impossible. Since I could not get through those hoops, I could not easily figure out how to do anything. I thought that the point of a tutorial was to help you, not hinder you. There are not many problems with this simulator, it was actually kinda fun almost knocking my pilot out with massive G-Force and doing constant barrel rolls while missing every single enemy. So, while this may not be a casual game, it feels very rewarding and is very fun to mess around with.

War of the Roses

I'm... I'm really not sure what to think about this game. First thing to know about War of the Roses is the fact that it has technical issues right off the get-go. When I tried to play this game it had some problem with fullscreen and I had to restart it; when I re-opened it I could not see anything but a black screen and ended up having to reinstall the entire thing. Also, I have a half-decent computer, and the framerate is choppy on the lowest settings. Once we get past all the technical issues we get to gameplay; I'm not really sure what they were trying to do here, but it seems half done. You have to charge every swing, which wouldn't be such a bad thing, if it worked, and you weren't in the middle of combat. Also, blocking does not block, I learned this very fast. If you block the enemy can just hammer at you since it takes forever to put down your shield/weapon and then takes ANOTHER forever just to swing your sword. I like how you can execute enemies, and how if you are being executed it puts you into 1st person mode; in fact, I think that's the best part of the game. And that's about all there is to it, even if you kill someone it's not very rewarding, because some random enemy is going to come around some corner and kill you after you kill their buddy. On top of all this, the game never really explains anything to you, you have to figure it out be looking it up or by dying and dying again. I don't want to sound like a hater, and this game has a lot of potential, but they have not done anything good with it yet and I would not suggest this game.