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Awais Khan

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The Grand Theft Auto franchise has been around for more than two decades. During this time, the franchise rose to the top with the memorable games it produced.

Two of the highlighting games are GTA 4 and GTA 5, and they are also compared too much in terms of realism, story, and fun elements. Regardless of which game is better, it’s no surprise that GTA 5 was the more successful one.

GTA 5 Is More Inclined Towards The Fun Element

The success of GTA 5 lies in many things, one of which is the game’s focus on fun instead of realism. The toned-down realism gave birth to more enjoyable driving and other things that make the game fun.

Compared to GTA 4, the driving is less realistic but for the greater good. Driving a car in GTA 4 gives you a bit of a simulation effect, as the car handling is complex.

In GTA 5, handling has been made very easy, removing the simulation effect from the driving and ultimately making it less realistic.

As a result, the player is less likely to accidentally hit other cars, building corners, and street lights while driving, which makes a huge difference and makes driving less frustrating.

Many players would prefer the driving in GTA 4 for realism, but if we consider the casual and non-casual gamers combined, the correct type of driving to include in your game would be the one anyone can enjoy.

Another thing that makes driving in GTA 5 less realistic and more fun is the ability to control the movement of your vehicle while airborne. This can never be done in real life, but including this feature has boosted the driving experience.

GTA 5 Has More Side Activities, Vehicles, And Some Extra Features

GTA 5 also has many more fun activities, like tennis, sky diving, hunting, racing, triathlons, golf, darts, tons of side missions, and more, compared to GTA 4. GTA 4 also had some excellent activities, like bowling, snooker, and arcade games, but these activities were fewer.

These activities may not play a massive role in making GTA 5 more successful than GTA 4, but these small elements make the game replayable for longer. Moreover, the mini-games or side activities in GTA 5 are a lot more fun. I found bowling in GTA 4 boring.

In GTA 5, you can also go underwater via a submarine or swimming, which is impossible in the prequel. The underwater world also has some side missions that explore different ocean areas. There’s also a lot more variety of vehicles in GTA 5. Speaking of which, the lack of airplanes in GTA 4 is also disappointing.

The Successor Comes With A Much Vast Map

The map is another thing that highly differentiates the two games. GTA 4’s map is mainly based on deep city vibes containing buildings, and that’s pretty much it. On the other hand, in GTA 5, you get a city, beaches, mountains, and deserts.

Not only are they part of the map, but you can also do several activities in these areas of the maps. There are trails for bike riding in the mountains, off-road races in the desert, cycling and triathlons on the beaches, and more.

In GTA 4, the city has been made well as a representation of New York City, but all you can do is roam in it with little to do. In short, GTA 5 has a more vast map.

The Online Support For GTA 5 Is A Game Changer

Out of everything we have discussed so far, the one thing that played the most significant role in making GTA 5 successful over its predecessor is the game’s online mode, GTA Online.

If Rockstar hadn’t provided an online mode for the game, GTA 5 would have never reached its current level. GTA Online contains tons of extra content apart from the base game, including multiplayer heists, races, missions, and more that have kept the players grinding this game for over a decade.

GTA 4’s online mode never received this much attention from Rockstar, which is one reason it falls so far behind GTA 5’s success. The fantastic story and attention to detail were some departments where GTA 4 thrived.

Still, Rockstar’s altered approach, prioritizing” fun” in the series sequel, attracted more players and made it more successful.

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Moiz Banoori

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2K has made its presence known over the years with its development projects in sports games. They may not be the best in this niche, but they surely have significantly made an impact by producing some of the best installments in the NBA and WWE and one installment in the Mafia series.

They have also gotten terrible reviews in some of their installments, but one thing they have been the most unique and great at is their creation suite, especially in their WWE 2K franchise.

WWE 2K Games Offer An Amazing Creation Suite

Since the franchise’s start, 2K has added top-notch features to its community creations department. Now, almost a decade after the franchise’s release, the creation suite is at the point where it’s difficult to distinguish between in-game content and custom content, thanks to the awesome features provided by 2K.

Because of these creation features, the WWE 2K creation community began, where hundreds of creators contribute by providing their custom content.

The creation suite lets you create custom wrestlers, rings, arenas, title belts, Money In The Bank briefcases, entrances, and more. The custom wrestlers are the most impressive content that can be created using this suite.

Life-like Character Creation

Using the image importing feature, you can create a walking image of a real-life wrestler in the game. To utilize this feature, you must get a clear headshot photo of the wrestler you want to create in the game. Then, you will have to run a facial scan of that image.

After that, you will have to upload that image on the WWE 2K website, log in with the same 2K account in the game through which you uploaded the picture, and download the image.

After getting the image, you have to go to the facial department of your creation model and paste the image on the face of the custom model, which makes it look so real and almost like the developers themselves made it. This feature is probably the best in the game.

It is a lengthy process and may take some practice to get good at, but the community creators have gotten hold of it and created realistic-looking models for years. Not only wrestlers but also creators have made realistic-looking models of many celebrities, athletes, and fictional characters.

You may have seen some funny and hilarious-looking videos of random superheroes from Marvel or DC fighting each other in WWE 2K games. Thanks to this terrific feature, most character models are made using the in-game tools without mods.

You can further customize your models by giving them custom body sizes where you can adjust each part of the body. You can also create custom attires for your models and provide them with custom hairstyles for a unique touch.

Custom Arenas With Tons Of Customizations

Apart from the custom wrestlers/models, the ring and the arenas where the matches occur are also highly customizable. The custom arena option may not have as many elements to choose from, but there are still enough to let the community creators shine in this department.

You can select how you want the stage to look with different LCD boards, lighting, and prop options. The entrance ramp is also customizable with various design and lighting options.

The ringside area also comes with many options where you can change the appearance of the barricades, announce tables, steel posts, turnbuckles, ropes, and the ring canvas. There is also an option to add different logos, in-game images, and custom images to several parts of the arena.

Advanced Entrance Creation

The entrance section also offers many options. You can change your wrestler’s entrance motion, the music they come out to, the lightning style, the pyro, and the videos on the LCD screen. You can also select a set of predefined templates and make some changes.

Creating a custom entrance video for your wrestler is also possible. This video plays on the big LCD screen on the stage during the wrestler’s entrance. There is also an option to combine parts of different entrance motions to make a totally new entrance.

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Survival games keep players hooked due to the critical thinking required in the genre. To survive, you must always look for your resources and find new ways to tackle challenging situations.

Things become more interesting if these survival scenarios are applied in an open-world environment, where you must be aware of your surroundings, especially when traveling across the map from one point to another, like in Days Gone.

Rich Open-World

Days Gone is a game with an open-world environment full of survival scenarios. Fans savor it for what it is, and it is one of the most acclaimed zombie games. However, for several reasons, many also view it as a negative entry in the survival and zombie genre. Despite the mixed reviews, it has left a mark.

Days Gone’s open-world environment is what a zombie apocalypse should look like. Different kinds of zombies wander across the map looking for flesh and blood, and they get even more dangerous at night. In addition to the zombies, there are enemy traps and camps set by human enemies.

Whenever you leave your resting place, you are most likely to encounter at least one of these two types of predators. To make things more interesting, the game makes you a responsible person and takes care of several things to survive.

Looking After Your Bike Is Essential

To travel across the map, Deacon(the protagonist) uses a bike that needs to be refilled as its gas tank runs out of fuel.

At the start of the game, fuel can be hard to find. Almost every gas station is swarmed up with zombies, and they have set up their nests there. The only way to find fuel is if you stumble upon a fuel can lying around somewhere, or you can also refill it at an allied camp or your safe point.

The gas stations swarmed up with zombies can be cleared, and when it is, you can use that gas station to refill the fuel tank. However, with limited supplies and no upgrades at the start of the game, it’s hard to clear the hordes of zombies.

You may have to use other ways to get fuel. Moreover, the fuel tank has a limited capacity initially, so you can’t go long distances without refilling.

Apart from the fuel, the bike’s health must also be cared for. Whenever your bike is involved in an accident, it loses health. If the health reaches zero, your bike won’t start. To be sure that never happens, you always need to carry scrap that can be used to fix the bike.

Like the fuel can, scraps can also be found randomly at a camp or under the hood of a broken car. If you don’t have enough scraps to fix your bike, you can also go to a nearby camp, and the camp’s mechanic can fetch and fix the bike for a small price.

Although I don’t enjoy forced traveling in open-world games, I must admit that these details make the traveling so thrilling.

Keep An Eye Out For Your Inventory

The supplies are also essential for your survival. It would help if you carried rags and sterilizers to prepare bandages to heal your health. Similarly, weapons like pipe bombs and Molotovs can also be created using items like kerosene, rags, bear bottles, scraps, gunpowder, and boxes of nails.

You can also upgrade your melee weapon using such supplies to deal extra damage, like turning a regular baseball bat can be turned into a spiked one using a box of nails.

You also need to preplan your use of supplies and prioritize the things you want to craft because many crafting recipes require the same item. 

Gun ammo must also be spent carefully, as you may only find ammo from enemy(human) weapons after taking them out or at a camp, which will cost you money. But as you earn money doing missions, you can upgrade your guns and ammo capacity to deal extra damage.

The best thing about Days Gone’s survival element is that you need almost every item to survive in the open world. There are enemies and zombie swarms that don’t go down quickly, so you will need to devise different strategies to take them down, which every item in your inventory is essential.

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Five years ago, Splitgate was released in 2019 and has always been a free-to-play, fast-paced game. It has elements of Halo and Quake, with a slight twist, with portals as one of its main elements. To this day, it remains an underrated gem. 

Halo Meets Portal

College Project

Ian Proulx and Nicholas Bagamian were two Stanford University students who combined the elements of the classic Halo 3 and Portal to make a single game from their dorm. Their passion led them to form 1047 Games, and they continued developing it.

They used fast-paced PvP mechanics and gameplay, as in Halo. This includes the jetpack, which you can use to traverse the map easily. It also includes weapons with little to no recoil, which makes shooting rather satisfying. Moreover, it features additional weapons like snipers and rocket launchers as pickups in some maps, which are advantageous for players who obtain them.

Portal

Now, let’s talk about the portal aspect because its mechanics are extremely good. You can place a portal anywhere on the map, and the combination of Halo-inspired combat makes for insane gameplay. 

For instance, you can place one portal at the far end of the map where the enemy team is and place the other portal near you. Similar to Portal, Splitgate has also maintained the see-through design of the portal.

Now, you can see your enemies through the portal and take shots at them while remaining in the comfort of your own team’s place. Similarly, you can make your way to the taller spots from this portal, which you couldn’t reach using your jetpack. 

Gamemodes & Weapons

Classics

It has similar game modes to Halo, such as Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, and King of the Hill. It also has a match dedicated for snipers only and the other for both snipers and shotguns. All of these matches have quick spawns and allow for shorter gaming sessions.

Catch The Ball

There’s also a match dedicated to capturing a football called ‘Splitball.’ Here, you have to obtain the ball that unequips your weapons, and you can only run with that ball. The longer you hold the ball, the more points you make. Your enemy can shoot and take the ball from you.

Competitive Matches

For competitive players, there are matches with scores of up to five points, and each team has to eliminate their opponents. This is similar to Counter-Strike and Valorant except for the bomb-planting scenario. 

The matches get intense, especially when you’re the last man standing, and the enemy team still has three players remaining. Using the portal and the pickup weapons came in handy at that time. But, it can also lead to panic because the team rushes with jetpacks.

Weapons

The weapons are also extremely satisfying to use, and each has its own mechanics. For instance, snipers neither have a lot of recoil nor bullet travel, so you don’t have to precisely line up your crosshair at a certain angle.

Similarly, the melee weapon pushes you toward your enemy a few feet closer if you’re close to your enemy. This makes for John Wick-style gameplay when you shoot one far-away enemy with a sniper and switch to your melee to eliminate the closer enemy.  

Still Underrated?

In terms of graphics and movements, this game doesn’t feel like it’s a free-to-play shooter. It also doesn’t appear to be a five-year-old game, but it looks as good and robust as new. Its sound, visual effects, and fluid mechanics give it a timeless classic feel. 

Despite the immersive gameplay with the combination of portals, this game has always remained underrated. While some even consider it better than Halo Infinite, Splitgate’s player base is on the down low even though it is free-to-play.

Splitagate 2

Now the Splitgate team has announced that Splitgate 2 will be released in 2025, and we expect to see refined mechanics, physics, and gameplay. It would be great if the Splitgate team invested heavily in marketing so that many people would be aware of their game.

With the announcements of the trailers they are making right now, it seems that their next game will be more promising, and it might be well-received than its predecessor.