100+ Christmas Mockups, Icons, Graphics & Resources

Christmas is on the way! Whether you’re designing festive party flyers, looking for Christmas mockups, or a holiday icon set, we have a great collection for you today!

We’ve pulled together a fantastic collection of Christmas flyers and templates, mock-ups, icons, vectors, and much more. Some of them are completely free, some cost a few dollars, but all of them will get you in the festive spirit.

Have fun looking through this selection of resources, and we hope you find a few that help out with your holiday design work!

12 Christmas & Happy New Year Card Templates

12 Christmas & Happy New Year Card Templates

Looking for a simple Christmas card template to print out a few greeting cards at home? Then this template pack is for you. It includes 12 different Christmas and Happy New Year cards with beautiful designs. Available in AI, EPS, and JPG formats.

Vintage Christmas Party Flyer Templates

Vintage Christmas Party Flyer Templates

Spread the word about your cool Christmas party with this party flyer template. It features a classic vintage design that you can easily customize with Photoshop to add your own details and change colors.

Christmas Background Mockup Templates

Christmas Background Mockup

This is a simple Christmas-themed background mockup you can use to showcase various products. There are 9 different backgrounds included in this bundle in high-resolution.

Christmas Frame Mockup Template

Christmas Frame Mockup Template

A set of minimal and modern photo frame mockups with Christmas decorations. It includes 6 mockups based on real photos. Available in fully layered PSD files with smart objects.

Free Christmas Gift Box Mockup

Free Christmas Box Mockup

This is a simple and free mockup template you can use to showcase Christmas gifts or create mockup scenes for product promotions. It includes 2 gift box designs.

Christmas Sale Gift Voucher Template

Christmas Sale Gift Voucher Template

Easily create professional Christmas-themed gift voucher designs for your holiday promotions using this template. The template is fully customizable and you can edit it using Photoshop to change fonts, colors, and details.

Vintage Christmas Card Templates

Vintage Christmas Card Templates

A set of Christmas card templates featuring vintage designs. The minimalist design of these templates makes them perfect for both business and personal use. There are 5 card templates in the bundle.

Christmas Promotion Mockup Template

Christmas Promotion Mockup Template

This is a Christmas mockup you can use for various purposes, including social media promotions, posters, flyers, and more. You can easily edit the text and change colors using Photoshop.

Christmas-Themed iPhone Mockup Template

Christmas-Themed iPhone Mockup Template

If you’re promoting an app, website, or products from an online store, this bundle of iPhone mockups will be quite useful for Holiday promotions. It includes 5 Christmas-themed mockups in PSD format.

27 Free Christmas 3D Icons

27 Free Christmas 3D Icons

A collection of free Christmas icons for you to use with your promotions. This pack includes 27 cute icons with 3D-like designs. The icons are available in PNG format.

Creative Christmas Mockup

Creative Christmas Mockup

This is a bundle of 10 creative Christmas mockup scenes you can use to showcase various Christmas greeting card designs, postcards, posters, and much more. All of the mockups are available in PSD files featuring smart objects.

Modern Christmas Card Template

Modern Christmas Card Template

A modern Christmas card template for designing stylish greeting cards. This template comes in both A4 and A5 sizes in Photoshop file format. You can also easily edit the template to change colors and text as well.

Hand Drawn Christmas Cards Collection

Hand Drawn Christmas Cards Collection

This is a bundle of creative Christmas card templates that feature hand-drawn illustrations and designs. The pack includes 6 unique card designs and the templates are available in Illustrator AI and EPS file formats.

Christmas Gold Picture Frame Mockup

Christmas Gold Picture Frame Mockup

Use this set of Christmas mockups to showcase your various photos and designs. This gold picture frame mockup comes in 3 different styles featuring smart objects for easily placing your designs in the frame.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Card Templates

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Card Templates

This collection of templates include greeting card and flyer designs for both Christmas and New Year celebrations. The templates are available in AI and EPS file formats as well.

6 Christmas Patterns

6 Christmas Patterns

The creative patterns in this pack are perfect for designing various Christmas-themed designs such as backgrounds for greeting cards, websites, postcards, and even for wrapping paper.

A4 Brown Christmas Mockup

A4 Brown Christmas Mockup

An elegant Christmas card and flyer mockup featuring a natural background setting. This mockup comes in 3 styles and it supports all kinds of A4 size designs.

Cute Minimal Christmas Card Set

Cute Minimal Christmas Card Set

A collection of cute and adorable Christmas card templates featuring minimal designs and creative illustrations. These templates are available in 4 different designs as well as in PSD, AI, and EPS file formats.

Kids Celebrating Christmas Vector Illustration

Kids Celebrating Christmas Vector Illustration

You can use this cute illustration of kids celebrating Christmas to design greeting cards, website headers, promotional graphics, and much more. It’s available in AI and EPS file formats.

30 Christmas Day Icons

30 Christmas Day Icons

A set of 30 creative icon designs featuring various elements related to the Christmas. The icons are available in both outline and fill versions and come in AI, EPS, and SVG file formats.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Banners

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Banners

This is a collection of vector banners you can use to design different types of Christmas and New Year’s creations, promotions, and branding materials. The pack includes 5 gorgeous designs in AI, EPS, PDF, and JPG formats.

Christmas Wreath Creator

Christmas Wreath Creator

With this unique graphics pack, you’ll be able to create your own stylish Christmas wreaths by yourself. It comes with 22 wreaths, 2 bows, and 3 ribbons, all as separate elements you can drag around to create beautiful Christmas wreaths.

Christmas Vector Elements Toolkit

Christmas Vector Elements Toolkit

A Christmas design toolkit for designing creative Christmas designs. This bundle comes with more than 100 elements you can use to create your own beautiful Christmas cards, banners, posters, and flyers. It also includes 4 premade Christmas card templates.

Christmas Scene Creator

Christmas Scene Creator

This is a collection of isolated Christmas-themed elements you can use to create your own unique Christmas scenes for various designs projects. The bundle includes 32 Christmas elements, 5 premade PSD scenes, and 6 backgrounds.

Hand Drawn Santa Claus Illustrations

Hand Drawn Santa Clause Illustrations

A collection of cute and adorable Santa Claus illustrations you can use to design unique Christmas cards, banners, and flyers. It includes 13 different Santa illustrations with various poses in PNG and AI file formats.

Watercolor Christmas Florals Collection

Watercolor Christmas Florals Collection

A beautiful collection of Christmas florals featuring watercolor designs. All of the illustrations in this pack are hand-drawn to add a more authentic look to your Christmas cards, posters, and banner designs.

Christmas Overlays, Cliparts, & Graphics Bundle

Christmas Overlays, Cliparts, & Graphics Bundle

Another big bundle of Christmas graphics. It includes many creative photo overlays, Christmas photos, cliparts, lettering, and lots of isolated objects for crafting unique Christmas designs.

White Christmas – Scene Creator

White Christmas - Scene Creator

If you’re planning on updating your website and social media page covers with a creative Christmas-themed design or even creating a unique scene to showcase your products, this bundle will come in handy. It includes 30 different Christmas elements that you can rearrange however you like to create beautiful Christmas scenes.

Merry Christmas – Handdrawn Lettering Objects

Merry Christmas - Handdrawn Lettering Objects

This is a collection of unique Christmas-themed objects. It comes with a total of 43 items in EPS, SVG, and PNG formats. You can use them to create unique greeting cards, packaging designs, flyers, and much more.

Santa Claus – Christmas Vector Collection

Santa Claus - Christmas Vector Collection

Looking for a cute Santa Claus to include in your new advertisements, promotions, and designs? With this pack of vector illustrations, you’ll have plenty of choices.

Christmas Mock Up Photos Collection

Christmas Mock Up Photos Collection

This bundle includes 21 unique mockup templates for Christmas-themed items, such as packaging, greeting cards, and much more. The templates are available in easily customizable PSD files.

Merry Christmas Backgrounds

Merry Christmas Backgrounds

A beautiful and a customizable Christmas background you can use to create a website header, social media cover, and product showcase. The background is available in an Illustrator file you can edit to change colors and text.

Christmas Outline Icons Pack

Christmas Outline Icons Pack

This is a pack of Christmas icons featuring 25 colorful icons with many common Christmas items. You can use it to create unique greeting cards, social media posts, ads, promotions, and more.

85 Hand-Dawn Christmas Elements & Wreaths

85 Hand-Dawn Christmas Elements & Wreaths

This massive bundle of Christmas elements includes lots of useful items you can use to create greeting cards, posters, flyers, and more. It comes with 85 customizable Christmas wreaths, illustrations, and tons of other items.

6 Vector Christmas Backgrounds

6 Vector Christmas Backgrounds

A collection of vector background textures for customizing your Christmas-themed designs. This pack includes 6 unique backgrounds with hand-drawn designs.

Christmas and New Year’s Greeting Cards Collection

Christmas and New Year’s Greeting Cards Collection

This bundle comes with 72 unique greeting card templates for creating cards for both Christmas and New Year’s. The templates are available in high-resolution and can be customized using Illustrator.

52 Christmas Overlays & Vector Set

52 Christmas Overlays & Vector Set

Another bundle full of hand-drawn Christmas overlays and vector elements. This pack 13 unique designs in 4 different color schemes. All of the designs are available in editable AI, EPS, and PSD file formats.

Christmas Sales Banner Collection

Christmas Sales Banner Collection

Working on a promotional banner for a Christmas sale? Then you can download this pack of sales banner templates to quickly design a promotional advertisement for your business. It includes 6 different template designs.

Christmas Sharp Badges

Christmas Sharp Badges

A collection of colorful and creative Christmas badges. These will come in handy when designing greeting cards, social media posts, and many other types of promotional material.

Christmas Social Media Posts

Christmas Social Media Posts

No need to hire designers to create Christmas-themed posts for your social media promotions, simply use these templates. This bundle includes 20 editable templates for creating different kinds of posts for Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

X-Mas Seamless Patterns Set

Xmas Seamless Patterns Set

This collection of patterns include 12 seamless patterns featuring Christmas-themed designs. These are ideal for creating backgrounds for greeting cards, posters, flyers, and packaging.

75 Christmas Cliparts

75 Christmas Cliparts

A bundle of creative Christmas cliparts featuring many different types of designs and illustrations. It includes 75 cliparts in vector format you can use with both print and digital designs.

Christmas Cards Mega Set

No need to go shopping for Christmas cards or New Year’s cards. With this massive pack of Christmas cards templates, you can print your own unique cards to send to your friends and family. It includes 78 Christmas and New Year’s greeting cards templates.

Christmas Vibes – 33 Elements and Graphics

This is a special bundle full of various Christmas themed elements including different types of graphics and illustrations. As a bonus, you will also get 2 beautiful print-ready Christmas greeting card templates as well.

Christmas Santa Claus Flyer

Are you working on promoting a special Christmas event? This cool flyer template will help you with the marketing process. You can easily edit and customize this A4 sized template to design a flyer to promote your holiday events.

50 Flat Christmas Icons

Whether you’re designing graphics for a website, social media posts, flyers, or greeting cards, this pack of Christmas icons has got 50 beautiful graphics that will add a great festive look to your designs.

Christmas Flyer Template

Another Christmas flyer template for promoting events, parties, and concerts. It includes both Photoshop and Illustrator formats, which allows you to freely edit and customize the template to your preference.

48 Christmas Doodles

Easily design your own flyers, greeting cards, and social media posts using these gorgeous Christmas doodles. This pack comes with 48 unique vector doodles you can use with your designs.

Retro Christmas Flyer Template

Another Christmas flyer that features a trendy retro design. It’s perfect for promoting holiday sales, concerts, parties, and various other events. The flyer template comes to you in both Illustrator and Photoshop file formats.

Christmas Graphics Bundle Gold Edition

This one is a mixed bundle of Christmas resources. This special pack includes 32 Christmas icons, 13 Christmas labels, 8 postcard templates, 10 patterns, 15 handwritten Christmas inscriptions, and more.

Vintage Christmas Kit

This bundle of Christmas illustrations features a vintage and a retro look. You can use them to design greeting cards, social media posts, and more with a classical design. It includes 17 different elements and 2 Christmas themed backgrounds.

Christmas Patterns & Illustrations

A set of 6 unique Christmas patterns and illustrations for crafting festive website headers, social media posts, and greeting cards. The files are available in JPG, PNG, and EPS formats.

Christmas Character Creator

This is a fun pack of elements that allows you to create your own Christmas themed characters. You can create Santas, reindeers, elves and more by combining different elements from the pack.

66 Christmas Patterns & Graphics

Another mixed pack of Christmas themed patterns and graphics. You can use these to design greeting cards, website backgrounds, flyers, and more.

Christmas Vibes Flyer Template

This Christmas flyer template is perfect for promoting your holiday parties, DJ events, dance events, and more. The PSD format templates can be easily customized to change colors and rearrange elements as well.

100 Christmas Doodle Icons

A big pack of 100 doodle style Christmas elements. You can use these to style your websites, design greeting cards, flyers, and do much more. The icons are available in EPS, PNG, AI, and SVG file formats.

Christmas Bundle

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This is a massive bundle that includes dozens of Christmas cards, text effects, Christmas photo cards, elements, and holiday flyer templates worth of $78, all in a 500mb pack for just $19.

Rustic Christmas Megapack

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With over 125 Christmas elements and 16 background patterns, this pack will provide you with everything you need to craft all sorts of Christmas related designs.

Christmas & New Year Flyer Bundle

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This 5-in-1 flyer bundle comes with five beautiful Christmas flyer designs and a new year flyer design, all in 4×6 size.

Holiday & Christmas bundle

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Featuring 18 stunning character illustrations, 30 floral elements, 10 festive borders, 26 decorative goodies, and much more, the Holiday & Christmas bundle will definitely bring out the joy in your designs.

Christmas Set

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This pack includes plenty of beautiful Christmas icons and elements, which you can use to design all sorts of Christmas themed banners, cards, and more.

Merry Christmas greetings & doodles

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In addition to 50 adorable doodles, this Christmas pack includes 13 greeting card templates, 3 patterns, and an Advent calendar.

Polar Bears, Christmas illustrations

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Polar bears make everything look adorable. This bundle features 8 cute polar bear characters, 12 greeting cards, 3 patterns, 7 labels, and more.

Christmas & New Year’s Icons

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This pack comes with 75 Christmas and 55 New Year’s icons, all hand-drawn. Each icon in the bundle is available in 4 different graphic styles.

Christmas Illustrations toolkit

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This cute Christmas bundle includes 16 character illustrations featuring a Dog, Santa, Bear, Penguin, and more. It also includes 40 Christmas items, 10 hand-drawn decorative elements, and many others.

Hand-drawn Christmas Tree elements

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This hand-drawn pack includes over 30 different Christmas tree elements, shapes, and icons in vector and PNG formats.

Christmas Characters Set

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Create your own unique Christmas story with this creative Christmas characters set, which comes with over 30 different elements.

Noël Christmas Collection

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Noël Christmas Collection takes an interesting approach to Christmas design. Instead of the predictable Red-colored Christmas designs, this collection adds a whimsical look to all of its 180 items.

Christmas Birds & Flowers Vectors

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This set features 58 different Christmas clipart elements including a cardinal bird, a chickadee bird, poinsettias, flowers, leaves, a pine cone, and a whole lot more.

Hand Drawn Christmas Quotes in Shapes

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These stylish Christmas quotes will fit in nicely with your Christmas card designs or flyer designs. The pack contains 5 hand-drawn quotes in shapes.

Christmas Wreath & Frame Collection

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This pack includes 25 designs of Christmas wreath and frames. Perfect for designing Christmas related invitations, newsletters, cards, and stationery.

Watercolor Christmas Clipart

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In this bundle, you’ll get over 100 Christmas elements, 5 Christmas card designs, and 2 seamless patterns, all in one affordable pack.

Christmas cards set

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No need to design your own Christmas cards. This pack includes 20 card templates for both Christmas and New Year.

Hand Drawn Christmas Badges

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White Christmas Badges

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Merry Christmas Poster

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Dark Blue Christmas Background

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Retro Christmas Badges

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Hand Painted Christmas Tree

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Watercolor Christmas Card

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Christmas Card with Red Ribbon

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Retro Christmas Party Label

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Cute Christmas Party Flyer

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Green Christmas Background with Baubles

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Christmas Card in Watercolor Style

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Boxing Day Sales Labels

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Striped Christmas Flyer

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Christmas Greeting Card with Garlands

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Christmas Party Invitation Template

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Christmas party invitation with ribbons, stars and flowers. Two different color variations included – beige and green.

Christmas Party Invitation Flyer

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You can use this template for your home party or club party to invite friends, relatives and other people. Easy to edit the text and font.

Big Christmas Medallion Collection

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This big collection is all you need to make all of your Christmas and winter holidays stationery. A total of 113 + 2 hand painted watercolor elements, patterns and backgrounds – all in co-ordinating colors and high quality.

Christmas Party Flyer

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The PSD file is very well organized in folders and layers. You can modify everything very easyily. Changing the color style, pictures and the typo is no problem. The main folders that will require most customization are highlighted in different colors.

Christmas Party Flyer Template

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This Christmas party flyer template is very modern PSD (Photoshop) flyer that will give the perfect promotion for your upcoming event or nightclub party coming up on Holidays of Christmas and New Year. All elements are in separate layers and text is editable.

Christmas Design Elements Kit

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Cute doodle Christmas design kit. The elements are very easy to combine and will help you in making your own designs.

Seamless Christmas Patterns

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Perfect for making invites, invitation cards, and much more. The pack includes 6 PNG files (1000 x 1000 px) with transparent background so you can easily pick your own color to match with your project. The design is for your personal use or small crafts business.

Christmas Holiday Vintage Florals

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Our Christmas Holiday Floral Clipart set includes 40 PNG files with transparent backgrounds, 40 JPG files with white backgrounds and 1 Adobe Illustrator vector file containing all 40 images in vector format. The PNGs and JPGs are 300DPI and approximately 10 inches at their widest point.

Watercolour Christmas Set

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A beautiful set of Christmas Holiday watercolor designs, background and patterns to decorate your holiday projects! Use them in personal craft or in small business as a part of your own creative composition. Product contains ZIP folder with high quality PNG and JPEG clip art pictures.

Retro Christmas Illustrations

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Authentic, 1940s and 1950s Christmas illustrations scanned in high resolution. Carefully checked for copyright, thoroughly restored and ready for you to use for all kinds of personal and commercial design projects.

Christmas-Holiday Photo Overlays

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Christmas and holiday overlays with hand drawn and textured greetings and distressed textures.

Christmas Seamless Patterns

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18 Christmas digital papers in red and white colors. Each pattern is seamless and can be tiled seamlessly in any directions. JPG files at high resolution with 300 DPI. Vector files can be resized without losing quality and can be recolored easily.

Christmas Eve Digital Papers

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Twelve beautifully designed digital papers, saved as 300 DPI, 12 x 12 inches JPEG. You can use these backgrounds for your next Christmas based design projects.

Christmas Watercolors Based Elements

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50 elements (JPG on white background, 300 dpi). 20 different individual branches (12 branches of pine, 2 holly, mistletoe bush 1, 2 bumps, 3 branches with red berries + some red berries). 2 glasses of mulled wine (+ 2 empty glass glasses). Spicy ingredients for mulled wine (2 apples, ginger, cloves, anise, 3 orange slices50, vanilla, cinnamon). Sweets (biscuits in the shape of stars, cookies with chocolate, marshmallows, candy stick, cookies).

Christmas Vector Elements

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This pack is filled with icons, labels and many design elements based on Christmas format. All elements are organized by layers. It’s easy to hide or move any element.

Christmas Wreaths Clipart

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Hand painted wreaths and other floral elements are the perfect illustration for your Christmas cards, Christmas tags and other your Holiday ideas.

Christmas Lights Decorations Set

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Set of 11 vector brushes festive strands of Christmas lights makes it quick and easy to customize your holiday projects. These can be used on illustrations, cards and almost any similar design formats.

Licorice Christmas Watercolor Kit

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This set includes 37 high-quality elements, that will be very helpful in creating gift cards, apparel prints, posters, presentations and so much more.

Christmas Flyers Bundle

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These beautiful Christmas flyer templates are very easy to customise. All of the elements are isolated on different layers and the text is fully editable for each flyer and facebook cover. So you can use the fonts we suggest or use your own if you wish.

Christmas Patterns Pack

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Perfect for making invites, invitation cards, Seasons greetings cards, Christmas cards, party decorations, party favor tags, label stickers, scrapbooking, stationary, gift wrap, packaging, t-shirt, baby clothes, buttons, pendants, holiday gifts, print on fabrics and so much more.

Christmas Hand-Crafted Illustrations Bundle

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You can incorporate these Christmas illustrations into your creations. Included illustrations can be used in and out of the Christmas season, making this set an all-year-round resource.

Christmas Clipart

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This Christmas clipart pack contains 44 separate seamless elements that you can use in your Christmas related designs. All elements come in vector format with 300 DPI.

Christmas Icons and Elements Set

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This set of images can be used for printed paper products, web design, digital or paper scrapbooking, stickers, magnets, or invitations.

Christmas Trees Illustrations

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A collection of mod Christmas trees and snowflakes in red, green, pink, silver, and gold. Pack contains an EPS file and also JPGS and PNG files of each tree.

Christmas Posters

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Christmas Paintings Pack

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You will get tons of watercolor paintings and ready print greeting card designs with this pack. All of them specially painted and scanned in high resolution. And also specially cleaned backgrounds with tablet on Photoshop. You can use with any colored grounds.

Christmas Greeting and Sticker Illustrations

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A Christmas collection of graphic elements. Perfect to create greeting cards, invitation, stickers or other Christmas designs.

Christmas Cats

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Christmas cats for your holiday designs, greeting cards, invitations, web graphics, scrap booking, posters, blogs and banners.

Christmas Border Designs

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Hand drawn Christmas doodle seamless borders for decorative design, cards, winter backgrounds, gift tags and labels.

Christmas Party Flyers

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A Christmas and Winter Party flyer template, with 2 Photoshop layered files. It’s fully editable, and CMYK print ready.

Christmas Baubles

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This set comes with 18 hand drawn Christmas decorative graphic elements. You can use these graphics to create your vintage Christmas cards, invitations, gift tags, gift wraps, cupcake toppers, web graphics, scrap booking and a lot more.

Watercolor Christmas Collection

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Set of watercolor posters on Christmas theme. Watercolor elements different kinds of drawing. On crumpled paper, chalkboard and on kraft. All ilustrations are in vivid and very colorful. Font is located on a separate layer.

Christmas Lights

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Christmas lights on dark background. Pack contains vector set with Ai and PSD format.

Christmas Graphics Set

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Christmas Collection with cute characters and graphic elements. Perfect for create greeting card, invitation, stickers or other your Christmas design. All elements on a white and black background.

Christmas Patterns Pack

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Christmas Kraft Paper in red, green and white holiday designs on kraft paper, Christmas digital background paper with ornaments, reindeer, plaid, snow, snowflakes,Christmas tree and more. This paper has a kraft paper background texture to look like traditional kraft paper.

Beautiful Christmas Background

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Christmas decorations: fur-tree branches, colorful glass balls, a candle, red glittering snowflakes, cinnamon sticks and anise stars on a rough wooden background with a copy space.

Christmas Cards Bundle

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This pack contains Christmas lettering and Christmas cards with horizontal, vertical and square sizes. You can print this cards or use the web version.

Christmas Bundle

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Large collection of Christmas cards, invitations, ornaments, design elements and tags. Since they’re all in vector format you get lots of ornaments, backgrounds, textures etc. that you can play around with to make your own creations.

Hand-drawn Christmas Elements Collection

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Are you ready for Christmas? This package, with a brand new hand-drawn elements, contains everything you need for Christmas design. You can create greeting cards, invitations, party design, decorate blog, and do anything with these elements.

Holiday Christmas Design Bundle

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This grand Christmas design pack contains over hundreds of beautifully designed vectors, flyer designs and over 36 Christmas card designs.

Christmas Ornaments Clipart Pack

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Watercolor Christmas clipart set is a beautiful digital set of 22 watercolor styled Christmas elements, snowflakes, deers, balls, wreaths, twigs and dividers. Perfect for winter holiday invitations, cards, baby and bridal shower invitations, any other winter invitation design, scrapbooking, cardmaking, announcement cards, blogs, logos and photo overlays.

45+ Best Vintage & Retro Photoshop Actions & Effects

Design trends come and go, but there has always been a trend that stood the test of time—vintage and retro-themed designs. Today we’re diving into our favourite vintage Photoshop actions!

No matter how advanced design and technology becomes, there will always be people who appreciate the beauty in classic and retro design. This is why we still see vintage themed posters, greeting cards, banners, and even photographs everywhere.

Photoshop makes it easier than ever to create authentic vintage effects. In this post, we’re featuring a collection of the best retro and vintage Photoshop actions you can use to apply retro effects to your own designs with just a single mouse click.

We’re also featuring tips for vintage and retro designs, with advice on how to use and apply these Photoshop actions.

Top Pick

Vintage Film Photoshop Actions

Vintage Film Photoshop Actions

This is a bundle of vintage film effects that give your photos a unique old vintage film-like look and feel. The effects are inspired by Fujifilm, Agfa, and Kodak film cameras and feature film grain and vintage color tones.

The bundle includes 10 unique Photoshop actions that let you apply the effects with just a few clicks. These are perfect for enhancing outdoor and landscape photos.

Why This Is A Top Pick

What makes these vintage Photoshop actions great is that they create non-destructive effects you can easily customize to your preference using adjustment layers. The actions also work with Photoshop CS4 and newer versions as well.

Retro Wave Photoshop Action

Retro Wave Photoshop Action

Want to transform your ordinary cityscape and landscape photos into neon-glowing retro-futuristic photos? Then be sure to download this Photoshop action. It features a fully editable action that creates effects with separate adjustment layers. You can edit and improve it however you like.

80s Retro Poster Photoshop Action

80s Retro Poster Photoshop Action

Retro design trend is widely used in poster and flyer designs. If you also want to give a retro look to your flyers and posters, this Photoshop action will come in handy. It allows you to instantly give a glowing retro look to your poster designs. And it comes in 3 different color options.

50 Vintage Photoshop Actions

50 Vintage Photoshop Actions

With this massive bundle of Photoshop actions, you’ll have more than enough effects to give classic vintage looks to your portrait and landscape photos. The pack includes 50 actions featuring non-destructive effects with editable adjustments.

Retro Comic Book Photoshop Action Kit

Retro Comic Book Photoshop Action Kit

This action kit comes with all the necessary elements for transforming your photos and graphics to look like pages from a classic comic book. The bundle features 50 retro comic book elements and a few comic book mockups to showcase your designs as well.

Creamy Vintage – Free Photoshop Action

Creamy Vintage - Free Photoshop Action

This free Photoshop action allows you to give your modern photos a smooth vintage look with its very subtle effect. It works with just one click and of course, you can also adjust the effect to your preference.

Vintage Print Photoshop Action

Vintage Print Photoshop Action

With this Photoshop action, you can give your photos a classic vintage look with just a few clicks. The effect is non-destructive and will work with any portrait photo to make them look more amazing. The action works with Photoshop CS4 and higher.

Vintage Text Photoshop Action

Vintage Text Photoshop Action

This is a collection of Photoshop actions designed for transforming your text and shapes with vintage designs. It includes 18 different actions that are perfect for giving your titles and headings a vintage look and feel.

20 Vintage Glow Photoshop Actions

20 Vintage Glow Photoshop Actions

If you’re looking for a Photoshop action to add a subtle vintage effect to your photos, this actions bundle will help. It comes with 20 different actions with simple vintage effects. You can also edit the adjustments to customize the effect.

Retrograde, Retro & Vintage Photoshop Actions

Retrograde, Retro and Vintage Photoshop Actions

A collection of high-quality Photoshop actions that features effects inspired by the 1960s and all the way through to the 80s. These actions are great for designing everything from posters, flyers, album covers, book covers, and much more.

6 Free Vintage Photoshop Actions

6 Free Vintage Photoshop Actions

This collection includes 6 free Photoshop actions that you can use to give your photos a vintage look. There are different effects with various styles. The actions are most suitable for outdoor portrait photos.

Film Noir B&W Photoshop Actions

Film Noir B&W Photoshop Actions

This is a collection of black and white Photoshop actions that creates unique B&W analog film effects. It comes with 6 Photoshop actions made specifically for portrait photos. It will work great with fine art and street photography as well.

Pinhole Halftone Photoshop Actions

Pinhole Halftone Photoshop Actions

Another stylish vintage Photoshop action that features a halftone black and white effect for giving a true vintage look and feel to your portrait and landscape photos. This bundle also comes with 2 sets of actions specially optimized for low resolution and high-resolution images.

18th Century Painting Photoshop Action

18th Century Painting Photoshop Action

This unique Photoshop action allows you to transform your photos and portraits into 18th-century paintings and artworks. The action is completely non-destructive and can be easily edited using adjustment layers as well.

24 Retro Pixel Art Photoshop Actions

24 Retro Pixel Art Photoshop Actions

With these creative Photoshop actions, you can give a retro video game look to your photos by making them look like pixelated 16-bit art. The bundle includes 24 different effects inspired by old-school arcade games and Nintendo games.

30 Free Vintage Photoshop Actions Bundle

30 Free Vintage Photoshop Actions Bundle

This is a massive bundle of free Photoshop actions that includes 30 different effects featuring various retro and vintage tones. The effects work with Photoshop CS3 and higher.

18 Free Vintage Photoshop Actions

18 Free Vintage Photoshop Actions

This bundle includes 18 unique Photoshop actions that add a vintage-themed mood and a color tone to modern photos. It works best with landscape and outdoor photos.

80’s Retro Poster Photoshop Action

80's Retro Poster Photoshop Action

If you’re a fan of the old-school colorful retro designs from the 80’s, this Photoshop action is perfect for you. This action allows you to completely transform your posters and flyer designs to make them look like something out of a retro sci-fi movie from the 80’s. It works with Photoshop CS3 and above.

Pixel Artist – 8-Bit Retro Photoshop Action

Pixel Artist - 8-Bit Retro Photoshop Action

Using this Photoshop action you’ll be able to instantly make your photos and designs look like a screenshot from an 8-bit retro video game. With a single click, the action generates 25 different pixeled solutions to create a unique pixelated effect, with multiple adjustment layers.

Vector Art – Retro Photoshop Action

Vector Art - Retro Photoshop Action

This is a creative Photoshop action that allows you to create a unique retro comic book-like effect using your photos and illustrations. The action actually generates scalable vector graphics from your image to make your design more scalable as well. This makes this action a great method for scaling your low-rez photos.

Halftone – Retro Photoshop Actions

Halftone Photoshop Actions

Halftone is a popular printing technique used back in the day for creating the tone range of the photographs. Of course, these dots were visible when printed and gave the photos a unique comic-like effect. This Photoshop action lets you create that same effect. It comes with 4 variations and 10 duotone colors as well.

Lomographist – Retro Vintage Photoshop Actions

Lomographist - Retro Vintage Photoshop Actions

This Photoshop action creates a unique vintage film-like effect to make your photos look as if they were taken by an old-school Diana or Holga camera. The bundle includes 10 different actions that work with Photoshop CS4 and better.

Faded Films – 75 Film & Retro Effects

Faded Films - 75 Film & Retro Effects

A collection of 75 different Photoshop actions that create various styles of faded film effects. These effects are ideal for creating unique graphic designs, social media posts, and more. It includes 31 film effects, 19 Instagram effects, and 25 SparkleStock Prestalgia faded effects.

30 Free Vintage Photoshop Actions Collection

30 Free Vintage Photoshop Actions Collection

A set of elegant vintage effects you can easily apply to your photos with just one-click. This bundle includes 30 different Photoshop actions, all of which you can download for free.

100 Free Split Tone Photoshop Actions

100 Free Split Tone Photoshop Actions

Split-toning is a popular effect modern photographers use to add an aged look to portrait and landscape photos. This bundle includes 100 different variations of split toning effects you can use with your projects.

Ink Press Type – Vintage Photoshop Action

Ink Press Type - Vintage Photoshop Action

Ink press is a popular printing technique that’s still being used in the print industry. This Photoshop action lets give a similar ink press printed effect to your designs, text, and photos. In addition to the Photoshop action, it also comes with 20 patterns and a sample PSD file.

Animated Retro Vintage Film – Photoshop Actions

Animated Retro Vintage Film - Photoshop Actions

This unique Photoshop action comes with powerful features. It allows you to create video sequences with animated vintage effects using either your photos or video clips. It features 24 color options and includes useful effects like light leaks, camera shakes, and retro film frames.

Papyrum – Vintage Grunge Photoshop Action

Papyrum - Vintage Grunge Photoshop Action

Featuring 20 color presets and options, this Photoshop action helps you create more artistic designs with less effort. With just a single click, this PS action will turn your ordinary photos and sceneries to look like a vintage hand-drawn sketch.

6 Vintage Photoshop Actions

6 Vintage Photoshop Actions

This is a collection of 6 unique Photoshop actions that allows you to instantly give a retro look and feel to your photos. It’s ideal for creating unique portrait photos and for fashion photography.

Toy Camera Photography Photoshop Actions

Toy Camera Photography Actions for Adobe Photoshop

Toy cameras are great at creating unique low-fi photography that truly stands out from the crowd. Even though those cameras are cheap, you don’t need them to create the effect. Use this bundle of Photoshop actions to create those same effects with less effort.

Free Vintage Time Photoshop Actions

Free Vintage Time Photoshop Actions

This is a set of free Photoshop actions that lets you add an old-school color effect to your photos. All of the effects are non-destructive and customizable as well.

Spell – Free Vintage Photoshop Action

Spell - Free Vintage Photoshop Action

Spell is the ideal vintage Photoshop action you can use to add a creative aged look to your outdoor photography. It will work especially well with cityscape photos.

Free Elegant BW Photoshop Actions Set

Free Elegant BW Photoshop Actions Set

An elegant free Photoshop action that lets you create a classic black and white effect for your modern portrait photos. The effects are also fully editable.

Old Painting FX Photoshop Actions

Old Painting FX Photoshop Actions

This Photoshop action lets you create a unique effect that makes your photos look like an old painting. It creates a non-destructive effect and includes 15 different color styles to choose from.

Analog & Retro Photoshop Actions

Analog & Retro Photoshop Actions

A bundle of retro vintage Photoshop actions featuring 10 different effects. These PS actions create unique effects that make your photos and designs look as if they were taken with old analog cameras.

Vintage Art Photoshop Action

Vintage Art Photoshop Action

This Photoshop action does a great job at photo manipulation to create unique artistic effects that completely transforms your photos and designs. It works with Photoshop CS3 and higher.

Vintage Sketch Photoshop Action

Vintage Sketch Photoshop Action

Make your photos look like a hand-drawn sketch art using this unique Photoshop action. This action will work better with landscape sceneries and outdoor photos.

Pinhole Photography Photoshop Actions

Pinhole Photography Ps Actions

Inspired by the old-age camera obscura, this collection of Photoshop actions uses Pinhole color grading techniques to create unique effects that will make your photos stand out from the crowd. It includes 10 different PS actions.

Lomocam – Retro Photo Generator

Lomocam - Retro Photo Generator

In addition to creating stylish retro photo effects, this Photoshop action even generate Polaroid frames for your photos. It includes 31 different film effects and generates editable layers.

Analog Camera Actions for Adobe Photoshop

Analog Camera Actions for Adobe Photoshop

A collection of 24 unique Photoshop actions featuring retro and analog camera effects. This pack also comes with a handbook which teaches you how to use and customize the effects as well.

Orange and Teal Pro Photoshop Actions

Orange and Teal Pro Photoshop Actions

This bundle of Photoshop actions allows you to create stylish and colorful retro-themed effects that will give your designs a Blade Runner vibe. It also includes 16 LUT versions of the effects for using the effects in Adobe Premiere, After Effects, and Affinity Photo.

Piratum – Map Art Photoshop Action

Piratum - Map Art Photoshop Action

A unique Photoshop action that creates a map art like effect with your photos. This will be quite useful for creating book covers and greeting card designs. The action includes 10 color presets and works with Photoshop CS5 and higher.

Retro Style Photoshop Action

retro photoshop action

Here we have a very professional PS Action that converts your photo to a modern retro vintage effect in a few clicks with a powerful result and more possibilities with its additional elements.

Retro Art Photoshop Action

Retro Art Photoshop Action

Create an amazing artistic effect filled with splashes, typography and vintage look. The final result is outstanding with fully editable layers, colors and elements.

50 Retro Film Photoshop Actions

50 Retro Film Photoshop Actions

Introducing the 50 Amazing Photoshop Actions which will allow you to create amazing photos in just a single click! These photoshop actions are very easy to use and can be used by everyone from beginners to pro photographers. Get ready to create magic right in Photoshop!

Photoshop Retro Photo Kit

50 Retro Film Photoshop Actions

Give your pictures a retro feel with this Photoshop kit! It consists of a set of quick actions, light leaks textures and paint roller masks, for an easy customization of your designs.

Retro Photography Photoshop Effect

Retro Photography Photoshop Effect

Every vintage photography is a unique one with all its noise, cracks, faded colors, spots and grain! So no matter how many of these photo effects you have, each of them will help you achieve diverse results.

4 Tips for Vintage & Retro Design

Follow these tips to find the best Photoshop actions to create stylish retro and vintage designs.

1. Choose the Right Design Style

When it comes to retro and vintage designs, there are many different styles and themes you can select from to create different types of designs. For example, the retro designs from the 1980s are very different from the vintage designs from the 1960s.

Vintage Wedding Action for Photoshop

It’s important that you decide on which design theme or era you use for your vintage or retro design before adding any effects. As a result, you’ll also have to pick the right Photoshop actions that match the overall design.

2. Transform Graphics With Effects

80's Retro Poster Photoshop Action

You can also completely transform different types of graphic designs using retro and vintage effects. Whether you’re working on a poster design, flyer design, or even a logo design, adding a touch of retro style can make your designs stand out from the crowd.

3. Adjust the Effects to Preference

When using Photoshop actions to add retro and vintage effects, remember to pick actions that create non-destructive effects.

Vintage Sketch Photoshop Action

These actions create effects with organized layers and adjustment layers, allowing you to easily change the strength, colors, and styles of the effects however you prefer.

4. Pick Photos and Graphics Wisely

Vintage and retro effects aren’t suitable for everything. While a vintage effect can make a modern portrait photo look more elegant it may not work the same for a landscape nature photo.

6 Vintage Photoshop Actions

You should also be aware of the quality and resolution when applying vintage effects to photos. Some effects can actually harm the quality of low-resolution photos.

Chivalry II – PS5 Review

I was standing on the castle battlements, overlooking the fields ahead of me. It was a hot day. The sun had been beating down on me and my men and fatigue had begun to set in. It was only midday and yet I felt that I had been awake for days. My armour was heavy and stifling. The sword at my hand felt as heavy as a tree trunk. But yet, I could not show weakness. Not to my brethren. Not today. The castle gave a perfect viewpoint of any approaching force from miles away but the enemy did not care. They stood there. In formation, in plain sight. The commoners knew that they outnumbered us and the stench of their fear was rancid in my nostrils. Hold fast. Let them be afraid, as I will not falter. I will not falter. I will not…

…A hand on my shoulder from my mother snapped me out of it. “Want some Ice cream?” How could I say no? I love ice cream. 

 Say what you will but growing up in a country full of castles was brilliant for a 10-year-old with a vivid imagination and a love for medieval warfare. Who would have known that a couple of decades later, I would be able to relive that feeling once again? But this time, I am the one hacking off limbs and striking terror into the heart of my foes. I am the one charging head-first into death and glory. I am the one who decides who dies first. Prepare yourself for battle m’lord, Chivalry II has arrived. 

Chivalry II is the second instalment in the Chivalry series from Torn Banner Studios. Their first medieval combat slasher was a massive hit (and a personal favourite of mine). This new outing comes with 8 maps (5 objective and 3 team-deathmatch/free-for-all) all of which support 64 player game modes. The objective maps have you setting up sieges and storming castles whilst the enemy desperately tries to repel your advances. The graphics are a notable step up from the 2012 instalment. The game boasts a 4k UHD feature on PS5 with the Unreal Engine 4 driving the chaos. You can see that the developers have put a lot of work into making the game look as cinematic as possible and the game looks fantastic. I will say that there are some areas that are rough around the edges: NPCs during cutscenes look awkward and clunky and the peasants cheering you on during the tutorial are copy-and-paste but it is all excusable. This game is a perfect example of making things count where they are most important, and the graphics are stunning when it matters. I want to see the fear in my enemies’ eyes when they realise they are about to take a mace to the face. 

Speaking of maces to faces, it is worth solidifying what this game is about: medieval combat. The gameplay focuses on large-scale online battles where you can choose one of two factions: The brutal Mason Order or the loyal Agatha Knights (or to simplify it: Red vs Blue). You can then choose one of four classes: Knight, Footman, Vanguard, and Archer. These classes also have sub-class options which allow players to tweak their playstyle. Fancy being a Knight with a shield? Be a Guardian class. A dual-wielding Vanguard? Hello Devastator. This level of customisation sits perfectly with me. Four classes are enough to keep things simple but having the ability to customise each class allows players to go deeper. There is no overwhelming feeling of needing to learn too many classes to even have a chance at surviving. In my first game, I picked the Vanguard and sat pretty on 55 kills by the end of the game. 55 glorious kills for the Mason Order. 

The controls are also a huge part of the game’s allure but can also be the one thing that puts people off. The game is a hack-and-slash slaughterfest but you are the one in control of the hacking and slashing. You have a block, downward swing, side swing, and stab. You can chain these into combos (or use feints to fake attacks), and blocking certain attacks with different timings can trigger parries and ripostes. You can also use the controller to turn your body into your attacks. I mean, how else can you ensure a good blade to flesh ratio has been maintained?  All of this is explained in the tutorial but I can see how a lot of people would find the combat to be difficult to pick up. Especially if they were not used to this style of action gameplay. Still, I loved the original Chivalry and the combat system was a big selling point for me. Chivalry II has built on that system and improved it.

The big question to be asked is: Well, is it fun? Yes, yes, and YES. This game is pure carnage on an epic scale and I love it. The 64 player maps are chaotic without being overwhelmingly large and the game modes do well to guide you along to where the next battle will be taking place. I didn’t find myself getting lost for 5 minutes trying to find people, only to get sniped and having to do it all again. When you die, you respawn with your weapon in hand, already charging back towards the action. It is little things like this that keep the blood pumping and the intensity up. Another huge plus-point on the fun factor is the hardiness of your character and the ability to hold your own against multiple foes. This may be a medieval combat simulator but you do not go down easy. With careful blocking, parrying, and riposting, you can defend yourself when outnumbered and if you’re lucky, even turn the tide. I audibly cheered when I found myself outnumbered 3-1, blocked the first hit, straight into a sword-sweep which decapitated two of my foes and allowed me to follow-up with a stab in the face to the third. It may not happen often but when it does, it is beyond satisfying. Oh and I forgot to say, you can pick up anything and use it as a weapon…even someone else’s limbs! I’ve yet to kill someone with a severed arm or a flaming chicken but when I do it, it will be glorious*

*Nb. I did it whilst writing this review. It was better than I ever could have expected.

Chivalry II is a gaming experience that can be summed up in one word: fun. I admit that I have been falling out of love with online gaming recently. The pressure felt during high-speed, meta-dominated matches eventually end up taking the fun out of it for me. Mistakes are usually punished heavily and you feel a sense of disconnection from your teammates when you end up inadvertently costing people precious ranking spots. I did not feel this with Chivalry. Quite the opposite. It may take a while to get into the combat system but the pure joy you get from swinging a broadsword around a battlefield is unparalleled. Levels of individual skill also become blurred when 64 people are swinging swords, axes, and chickens into each-others bodies. Everything from the graphics to the stellar sound design is there to take you into this world and push you right into the mud and blood. It may not be as polished as other AAA titles and the voice lines can be annoyingly repetitive but when it is this much fun, does it really matter? I certainly think not. So, don your armour, sharpen your sword, and fight…for the Order! 

Yes, I play Mason Order. Don’t like it? Come and find me on the battlefield. I’ll be waiting.

I give this 9 bloodied polearms out of 10

GameRev was provided with a digital download of the game for the purpose of this review.

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 – Review

Perched high up on the cliff edge overlooking the enemy warehouse across the lake, target marked over 2000 metres away, I take aim, set the range of the scope, adjust to factor in wind direction, breath held, trigger pulled…missed. Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 is a stealth-based milsim, and is the 6th edition of a series that began all the way back in 2008. Contracts 2 follows a similar formula to its predecessors but it is certainly the most challenging, with sniper shots ranging almost as long as the game’s title. It boasts one of the most realistic and challenging sniper mechanics I’ve ever played draped in some beautiful visuals, but the story and layout of the game feel somewhat dull and unpolished.

Set in the fictional middle eastern dictatorship of Kuamar who’s newly powerful autocrat has decided to invade a neighbouring country, the world’s response is to send in one man and his sniper. The story itself feels all too common for military shooters, stereotypical evil dictator and his cronies are up to no good again, and your job is to put a bullet in them. After a brief tutorial handholding you through the various mechanics for sniping and the different gadgets to play with, you’re thrown into the action with your first target. From there, the campaign spans a series of individual contracts in which you track down and assassinate members of the evil network, and when you’re not sending bullets into heads from 1000+ metres away, you’ll be interrogating enemy grunts, corrupting communications and sabotaging equipment. To help with this there is a wealth of gadgets at your disposal, a drone to help mark hard to reach targets and hack CCTV camera as well as a range of special bullets which vary in realism, from the standard armour piercing and explosive all the way up to sci-fi style tracker bullets and ones that don’t factor in wind or distance.

With each target to assassinate comes a wide variety of ways to do it, you could go in full guns blazing, locate the target, fire and exit, or you can make use of the environment to get creative. In a style similar to a Hitman game, I was able to lure one of the key targets underneath a shipping container, and will a well-placed shot that squashed him with it. It is kills like these which I found most enjoyable from the game, the big finale moments and the payoff from getting creative allow you to take your targets out in a whole wealth of different ways. Those calculated sniper shots against the target miles in the distance were brilliant and served as the standout high point in Contracts 2, but unfortunately, the rest of the game felt a bit soulless and packed full of filler. After being helicoptered into each new area comes a very rinse and repeat process of sneaking around clusters of enemies, interrogating certain ones to find information on the next target and the occasional up close and personal firefights with your assault rifle and pistol. For the sake of fluidity, the developers had to add something in between sniping from vantage points, but unfortunately, these other elements feel very rushed, even though you play from the first person and have the standard automatic rifle and grenade loadouts it doesn’t feel like a polished FPS, but instead a repetitive, unavoidable mechanic that had me constantly searching for the quickest way to get to the next target.

Contracts 2’s strength comes from that point beyond reaching the vantage point, scanning the area, planning your move and executing the attack feels very rewarding and really felt like I was behind the scope myself, with a great deal of weight behind every minor adjustment or decision. Rather than rushing in to kill the target and get out of there, I was much more inclined to take time and meticulously scan and plan out the method of attack. It’s probably the most fun I’ve had with a sniper rifle in a video game, the mechanics are very realistic and challenging at first, but once you get a hang of adjusting for target distance and wind direction you start to feel like a true sharpshooter. Unfortunately, the other mechanics pale in comparison, the stealth is fairly basic and minimal with clunky enemies that all seem to struggle with hearing, must be from all of the newly acquired fighter jets and helicopters ploughing through the Kuamarian airspace. Movement in general just looks a bit too robotic and very jerky, I thought I was wearing an exo-suit with the way you snap up ledges in the rare bit of climbing you have to do, it put my back out just watching it. The visual layout of the HUD and menus are quite clunky as well, for a game with a pretty simple premise and core mechanics comes a mess of different menus, upgrade screens, HUD options and customisation sections that can be all quite overwhelming until you’ve gotten used to how they all combine together, it feels like this element of the game got the smallest slice of the budget.

Visually Contracts 2’s world and objects are stunning, currently there is only a last-gen (PS4/XBOX One) version but the CryEngine powered graphics holds its own against some of the next-gen optimised games that I’ve played. As expected from a game that requires you to take shots from multiple Kilometres away the render distance stretches for miles too, even without looking through the binoculars or scopes you can see figures as tiny as ants pacing back and forth where the target’s location is, all player and object movements are very fluid as well, thanks to Contracts 2 running at 60fps on PC and next-gen consoles. All of this culminates into an aesthetically marvellous world that really does a great job of adding to the realism and immersion of traversing the rocky and sandy terrain of Kuamar.

Overall, the experience of Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 boils down to a mixed bag. On the one side, there is the adrenaline pumping thrills of hitting a high-stakes shot from thousands of metres away to take out one of the big targets and hightailing it out of there whilst the chaos in the distance ensues, but this is marred from then having to wade through clunky stealth and fps mechanics that leave you trying to rush to the next sniper’s nest. The gunplay with the sniper and the wider process of executing the kill once you get into position doesn’t get old or boring and is probably the most fun I’ve had with a sniper in a video game But I’ve also found these big moments being too infrequent and far apart, it felt almost underutilised. The previous 5 editions to the series follow a trend of having solid sniper mechanics but never breaking into the FPS elite like Call of Duty or Battlefield, and unfortunately Contracts 2 doesn’t deviate from this trend. That’s not to say that this is a bad game or that it should be immediately disregarded, the experience of the sniper alone is enough for me to recommend giving this game a try, but be prepared to see some rough edges along with way.

GameRev was provided with a digital download of the game for the purpose of this review.

Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game – PS4 Review

 The Olympics. Two words that represent thousands of years of epic competition; the best of the best competing for pride and eternal glory. It is every athlete’s dream to be in these hallowed games and let’s face it, while we may not all be Jesse Owens, video games have given us a chance to don our countries’ colours and attempt to win our own piece of gold. Sega’s 2019 Japanese release: Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game has come to western shores just in time for the rescheduled 2020 Olympics. Has it done enough to win gold, or is it going to fall at the final hurdle? 

On your marks…

Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game is simple in its core concept. The game consists of 18 mini-games. All of which represent Olympic sports. You will find:

  • 100m Sprint
  • 110m Hurdle
  • 4x100m Relay
  • Long Jump
  • Hammer Throw
  • 100m Freestyle Swimming
  • 200m Individual Medley Swimming
  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Beach Volleyball
  • Boxing
  • BMX
  • Football/Soccer
  • Judo
  • Rugby 7s
  • Sport Climbing
  • Table Tennis (singles and doubles)
  • Tennis (singles and doubles)

As you can see, the games show an excellent amount of variety and there is enough choice in there to keep even the staunchest Olympic fan satisfied. The controls are also designed for variety and it is refreshing to see that Sega moved away from relying solely on button-bashing to win games. Yes, the 100m sprint is “press x rapidly to win” but other games rely on more timing-based inputs and quick reactions to counter opponents’ swings, serves, and grapples. 

I found myself getting to grips with each event with relative ease but there was something wrong. Once I won the qualifiers, I was struggling to even get in the top 3 of any event; my opponents were doing something that was putting them leagues ahead of me. After some digging, I found out that each event has got a hidden set of controls that greatly enhance your performance. These extra controls give you speed boosts, spin-shots, counter-grapples, drop goals, and base-steals (amongst many others). The game tries to spoon-feed you these extra controls through unlockable “tips” but it requires a game-quit in order to view them in a separate menu. You also need to play the event multiple times in order to unlock all of the tips. This is quite simply a terrible mechanic. You should not have to lose an event hopelessly multiple times in order for someone to say “Oh, by the way…this is how you actually win.” The extra controls are hidden behind an “advanced controls” section but it is not obvious to find early on. Keep all the tips easily accessible (and all unlocked) or scrap them altogether. Don’t hover in the middle like this. 

Get Set…

The true division in this game lies in the fun factor.  Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game boasts a single-player Olympic competition that can also be experienced online.There are no differences in the core gameplay between single-player and online but the overall experience is vastly different. In single-player, the opposing AI either has the skill level of a drunk chimp or the speed, strength, and reflexes of a member of the Justice League. This is made worse by some of the worst team AI that I have ever seen in a video game. If you make a line-break in Rugby, be prepared for the opposing team to run with your player without tackling them and if you play tennis doubles then expect to be regularly hitting the ball into the back of your teammates’ head (no matter how much you try to avoid it). The online element thankfully replaces most of the AI with real humans and it greatly strengthens the experience. You can even set up medleys where you can pick your strongest events to try and win the coveted gold medal for your team. Be wary though, your strongest event may also be your opponents’ top medal-earner. 

…GO!

With all of these stumbles, the game still has enough left in the tank to push through to the qualifiers. There are a number of customisations available for your avatar and I loved being able to compete in the 100m sprint wearing a full suit of armour and bunny-ears. You are able to play against real-life athletes in practice mode and the games have enough variety to keep you entertained until the real games start. 

The addition of couch-coop/competition makes Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game a solid Friday-night-time-spender that shines when played with friends/online but quickly becomes stale when played by yourself. The graphics are reminiscent of other games in the genre (think Wii Sports but with more polish and fewer bobbleheads) but the focus on gameplay leaves the wow factor of the graphics back on the starting blocks. If you are looking for a game that brings out the best of each event and will last you until the next Olympic games then sadly, you will not find it here. Events like the Long Jump, Hammer Throw, and Tennis have enough depth to keep you entertained but inconsistent AI makes other events painful to finish. This is not to say that Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game is not fun. Far from it. It is just more of a sprint than a marathon. Sega has ultimately aimed for bronze and achieved exactly that. I would have just liked to have seen more ambition to hit that gold standard.

I give this 6.5 Usain Bolts out of 10

GameRev was provided with a digital download of the game for the purpose of this review.