Utomik Review

<p>For years my friends and I used to point at <em>GameFly<&sol;em> and say &&num;8220&semi;If only we could have something like Netflix for video games&excl;&&num;8221&semi; In theory <em>GameFly<&sol;em> is a neat service but having to wait for a week or two to receive a game and almost never being able to play the newest games even though you&&num;8217&semi;ve had them at the top of your queue for months&period; It just wasn&&num;8217&semi;t a good enough&period; <em>Utomik<&sol;em> seeks to change that though and be the on demand video game service you can rely on and with almost no wait times&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Utomik<&sol;em> works by providing over five hundred games &lpar;with a list that continues to grow every month&excl;&rpar; to users who pay a small subscription fee&period; Once you&&num;8217&semi;re signed up or enjoying a free trial you&&num;8217&semi;re able to play as many games as you want from their list of available games&period; <em>Utomik<&sol;em> starts by downloading a small portion of it to your computer and then you&&num;8217&semi;re able to start playing while it finishes the download&period; In my experience I was able to play most games after just a few minutes of downloading&period; This will of course vary depending on game size and your Internet speed but it&&num;8217&semi;s a great idea and it works pretty well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The cost of entry is extremely low as well&period; There are two different plans at this time and they both provide a pretty good value&period; The first plan is for one person and it&&num;8217&semi;s &dollar;5&period;99 USD a month and the other plan is for up to four people and only costs &dollar;9&period;99<em> <&sol;em>USD a month&excl; I played with it on a one month free trial from <em>Utomik<&sol;em> for the purpose of reviewing their service and can say with certainty that this will not only be a great service for me to gift to family but it will also be something myself and a few friends enjoy on the family plan&period; You just can&&num;8217&semi;t beat unlimited access to over 500 games for four people for only ten bucks a month&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a deal that&&num;8217&semi;s too good to pass up&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now I will say that out of the five hundred plus games that only about 25-30 percent are of extremely high quality that will cause people to sign up on an impulse but they key thing to remember is that you&&num;8217&semi;re still getting a great deal and that <em>Utomik<&sol;em> is continuing to add more new games every month&period; Just last month in they ended up adding Deep Silver as one of their newest partners&comma; which added a lot of great games to the service&period; And of course as the subscriber base grows so will the list of available games as <em>Utomik<&sol;em> makes more money and is able to use that to pull in more publisher deals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;7jAhndUEEhE<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There are some extremely high quality games that are currently available that you could start playing right now and on a free trial no less&period; Some of my favorite games include <em>Saints Row&colon; The Third<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Star Wars&colon; Knights of the Old Republic II&colon; The Sith Lords<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Star Wars Battlefront<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Star Wars Dark Forces<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Borderlands<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Darksiders<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Mini Metro<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Hell Yeah&excl; Wrath of the Dead Rabbit<&sol;em>&comma; and <em>Dead Island Riptide<&sol;em>&period; There are plenty of other great games available to play too&period; I just wanted to list off a few of my favorites and remind people of the price to show how much a great deal this service already is&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The user interface works well enough but it can feel a bit clunky at times so I am looking forward to seeing that evolve and improve over time&period; The game library does have a higher quantity to quality ratio at the moment but <em>Utomik<&sol;em> has a big focus and goal ahead of them that includes improving the service by convincing more and more publishers to join and that&&num;8217&semi;s already enough to convince me to remain a paying member&period; <em>Utomik<&sol;em> may not be perfect but we&&num;8217&semi;re already off to a great start for what I&&num;8217&semi;ve wished for since the early era of Netflix&period; Playstation Now may boast a much higher level of quality but <em>Utomik<&sol;em> doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have any streaming&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;re downloading everything you play so across the few dozen highly rated games you&&num;8217&semi;re going to have a much better experience&period; <em>Utomik<&sol;em>&&num;8216&semi;s off to a great start and I&&num;8217&semi;m happy to be a part of their base of subscribers and encourage anyone reading to at least sign up for a free trial and see if it&&num;8217&semi;s a good fit&period; Now if you&&num;8217&semi;ll excuse me&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m off to play some more <em>Star Wars Dark Forces<&sol;em> and <em>Dead Island Riptide<&sol;em>&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>A one month free trial was provided by Utomik for the purposes of this review&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;