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  • Colin McRae DiRT 2
    Published Date: Sep 29, 2009

    The Colin McRae games have always been good value, combining everything from great visuals, engaging handling and a wide variety of vehicles and locations right down to the superb menu system from DiRT. This year the whole thing gets a welcome paint job and a fitting nod to the late McRae hi...
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    Genre: Racing Platform: Xbox 360
    8.8
  • Majesty 2
    Published Date: Sep 27, 2009

    The first Majesty was a sleeper hit for the PC. Coming out in 2000, the fantasy game looked a little dated even when compared to titles that preceded it like Homeworld and Deus Ex. However, slightly below-par graphics couldn’t detract from some well-implemented ideas and addictive game mech...
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    Genre: Real-Time Strategy Platform: PC
    7.6
  • Order of War
    Published Date: Sep 23, 2009

    Finding something new to say about World War II is a real challenge, but that isn’t to say people shouldn’t try. Recently, the fine movie Days of Glory showed the war from the perspective of French colonial troops, fighting for the freedom of a country that considered them second-class ci...
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    Genre: Real-Time Strategy Platform: PC
    7.9
  • Need for Speed Shift
    Published Date: Sep 22, 2009

    The Need for Speed series is one that has scaled the peaks of greatness and plumbed the depths of utter mediocrity. A few years ago the brand was synonymous with success, but EA didn’t so much give up that crown as suffer some form of Britney Spears-like meltdown and fall apart. The publisher th...
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    Genre: Racing Platform: Xbox 360
    8.7
  • IL2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey
    Published Date: Sep 16, 2009

    As a general rule of thumb, flying games are much better suited to the PC platform than console, resulting in a pretty small amount of flying games being made for playing on the living room TV. Despite not having the same sort of level of input options available to its PC counterparts, [i]IL2 Sturm...
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    Genre: Flight Action Platform: Xbox 360
    8.6
  • Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
    Published Date: Sep 15, 2009

    Sacred 2 has had a later release in Australia than in other regions so we were late getting our hands on a copy, and when we did, it was for the PS3. Playing through to level 18 proved an increasingly difficult path, but not because the game challenged me with its content, but with its deliv...
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    Genre: Third-Person Adventure Platform: PlayStation 3
    5.4
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
    Published Date: Sep 4, 2009

    Every year there lands a smattering of superhero games onto the general marketplace, and most of them are there for a reason, primarily because there’s a movie out but also because all of them attempt to offer something else, the chance to feel like you’re controlling a piece of comic history. ...
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    Genre: Third-Person Action Platform: Xbox 360
    9.4
  • Wolfenstein
    Published Date: Aug 19, 2009

    Wolfenstein is a strange creature, being one of the first true first person shooters in the world and one that’s not been left in the dark, courtesy of a couple of remakes and tweaks. Part of this is because the game has kept a core following of multiplayer fans through the years, and the ...
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    Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Xbox 360
    8.6
  • Ashes Cricket 2009
    Published Date: Aug 18, 2009

    The problem with sports games is that they struggle to recreate the intensity and passion of the real life event, with the result being a stilted and hollow experience, unless you’ve had the benefit of making the same game for a decade, over and over. Considering cricket, to a non-fan, has neithe...
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    Genre: Sports Simulation Platform: Xbox 360
    6.8
  • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
    Published Date: Jul 30, 2009

    You know the drill. Big movie comes out, big game follows, game heads straight to bargain bin. It’s as proven a formula as Infinity Ward + CoD > Treyarch + CoD. And once again it happens, as Harry Potter and company ignore the bulk of the latest movie to run incessantly around Hogwarts collecti...
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    Genre: Third-Person Action Platform: Xbox 360
    4.4
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