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  • Bayonetta
    Published Date: Jan 10, 2010

    So Bayonetta has finally arrived, after months and months of anticipated groaning from the mainstream gaming press. Rarely has a game raised under-collar temperatures so much, and fans of skintight black suits and lollipops will be thrilled. The basic story is this: you play as Bayonetta,...
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    Genre: Third-Person Action Platform: Xbox 360
    8.5
  • The Saboteur
    Published Date: Jan 5, 2010

    I’ve always wondered why video game characters from Ireland are thin on the ground. That’s because I happen to be Irish, and I think the foul mouthed, drunken stereotype would suit gaming well, at least occasionally. It also happens that I’m right, because playing as protagonist Sean Devlin ...
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    Genre: Third-Person Action Platform: Xbox 360
    8.5
  • King Arthur
    Published Date: Dec 21, 2009

    The world of Arthurian legends has long been fertile ground for fiction. While some have turned the story and setting into little more than a soap opera, other interpretations have used the tales of the “Once and Future King” as a means of exploring ancient Britain, in particular the morality, m...
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    Genre: RPG Platform: PC
    8.1
  • Red Dead Redemption - preview
    Published Date: Dec 19, 2009

    Note: This was written from a hands-off preview Rockstar walked us through, it is not a review of the final product. Gamestats.com has listed this in its reviews section - please be advised that it is a preview only. As a sequel to Red Dead Revolver, released in 2004, [i]Red Dead R...
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    Genre: Third-Person Action Platform: Xbox 360
    10
  • LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Cont
    Published Date: Dec 17, 2009

    There is no denying that Lego games based on successful movies will have an audience. The problem with Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues is that it is essentially a clone of the other Lego games and while evidence exists that Traveller’s Tales made some attempts to enhance the g...
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    Genre: Adventure Platform: PlayStation 3
    6.7
  • Assassin's Creed II
    Published Date: Dec 3, 2009

    When it comes to making a sequel, there’s a list of things that need to be looked at, but perhaps that one word scribbled across the top of the white board in thick black marker is the most important word of all – Improvements. By and large, a sequel that doesn’t improve on some of the predec...
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    Genre: Third-Person Action Platform: Xbox 360
    9.2
  • Left 4 Dead 2
    Published Date: Dec 1, 2009

    When Left 4 Dead was released just about a year ago, we at HellBored praised the AI programming, and relished the simplicity of the game’s premise. We appreciated the tension created by effective lighting and sound effects. We said that there were some issues regarding graphics and variety....
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    Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Xbox 360
    9
  • Rogue Warrior
    Published Date: Dec 1, 2009

    NOTE: This review contains lots of foul language. Most of it is in quotes from the game so we don’t mind that, but it poisoned our minds and we ended up doing it too. This holiday season, things are progressing rather differently than in any year previous. The arrival of [i]Mode...
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    Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Xbox 360
    2.1
  • New Super Mario Bros Wii
    Published Date: Nov 24, 2009

    So there’s a new New Mario. The old New Mario was pretty damn sweet, I reckon, and another new Mario is always a good thing. A lot of people don’t reckon, however, they reckon it’s too cutesy, too the-same-as-the-last-one, too old school. I think we’re about to learn that we’re both right,...
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    Genre: Platformer Platform: Wii
    9.4
  • Modern Warfare 2
    Published Date: Nov 17, 2009

    The pressure of expectation can so often lead to disappointment, when the relentless hype machine sets a bar that reality has a hard time reaching. You could take Too Human, or the Star Wars prequels, as a case in point. As many reviewers tore through Modern Warfare 2 in a bid...
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    Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Xbox 360
    9.3
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