Game Reviews
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Fallout 3 Published Date: Nov 13, 2008Taking something old and making it new again is never an easy thing, if you’ve ever watched a documentary on rebuilding hot rods or classic cars. It’s not just enough to have the bones of something great, you need to have a team that can make the magic happen. Fallout 3 demanded that ...
Genre: Action RPG Platform: Xbox 360
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NHL 09 Published Date: Nov 12, 2008With autumn fully upon the northern hemisphere and winter just a stone’s throw away, the advent of the NHL hockey season is in full frenzy. EA’s latest installment in the NHL series is an all-around well put together game incorporating all the traditional elements EA Sport’s fans have come to...
Genre: Sports Simulation Platform: PlayStation 3
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Dead Space Published Date: Nov 6, 2008I don’t know if I’m really in the right frame of mind to write this review. I don’t know, to tell you the truth, if this is all real, or some kind of terrible dream. My vision is blurred, my hands are shaky, I feel dizzy, uneasy, and what’s that smell? Oh, I see, I’ve shit myself. Again. I...
Genre: First person horror Platform: Xbox 360
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Spiderman: Web of Shadows Published Date: Nov 6, 2008This years superhero movies saw new life being breathed into a genre that has been hanging by a noose for the last few years. Spiderman: Web of Shadows makes a valiant attempt to do the same for gamers but unfortunately it’s a case of the crawler hitting the wall. If there is one thing the expl...
Genre: Action Platform: PlayStation 3
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Pro Evolution Soccer 09 Published Date: Nov 4, 2008I have a long history with football games – I even played in the inaugural FIFA Interactive World Cup on the Irish team, flown to London to compete in the Northern European finals – and while I have little experience in the Pro Evo series, I’ve always been fascinated. Because the PS3...
Genre: Sports Platform: PlayStation 3
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Fable II Published Date: Nov 3, 2008Video games are strange things, because while they can certainly whisk gamers off to another world for a few hours of fantasy in a distant, fictitious land, their very existence is the opposite of that ideal. Whether it is scripted gameplay, an ordered approach to progression through a title, or pa...
Genre: RPG Platform: Xbox 360
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Midnight Club: Los Angeles Published Date: Nov 3, 2008There is no doubt at all about the popularity of racing games on consoles – Gran Turismo, Forza, Project Gotham – but the other side of the spectrum, the ones based on roads, hasn’t fared so well of late. Need for Speed shot itself in the foot by taking itself off the roads for...
Genre: Racing Platform: Xbox 360
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World of Goo Published Date: Oct 31, 2008Simplicity in puzzling is key. This, of course, is different from ease. One simultaneously wants to understand a puzzle’s objective without, however, knowing exactly how that objective will be met. Thus classic puzzle games like Tetris found ready-made audiences everywhere they turned, until tryin...
Genre: Platform: Wii
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Far Cry 2 Published Date: Oct 28, 2008Far Cry is an unusual series. It’s unusual because it has two separate groups of followers – those that bumped into it in an overcrowded bar filled with all shapes and sizes of FPSs, was impressed by its stunning beauty but never saw it again. Then there are the console friends, who hav...
Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Xbox 360
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Spore Creatures Published Date: Oct 27, 2008Most games, these days, are released on multiple SKUs. SKU, for those that don’t know, is the frightfully dull industry-acronym for Stock Keeping Units, which for normal people means ‘how many platforms it comes out on’. Going multi-SKU makes good economic sense for the publisher and developer...
Genre: Strategy Platform: Nintendo DS
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