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  • Aliens vs Predator
    Published Date: Mar 1, 2010

    Twenty years ago Danny Glover, bloody and battered, wandered into a Predator trophy room and viewers glimpsed the Xenomorph skull hanging on the wall, kicking off the cult following that would pit two of Hollywood’s nastiest incarnations against each other. The Alien vs Predator phenomenon has spa...
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    Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PlayStation 3
    6.5
  • Army of Two: The 40th Day
    Published Date: Jan 24, 2010

    There's something about co-op gameplay that I really enjoy, where you can try and employ specific tactics to achieve an objective rather than being called a lolfag every two minutes while half your team teleports across the map because of chronic lag issues. There is something about two or four peo...
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    Genre: Third-Person Action Platform: Xbox 360
    6.9
  • 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
  • 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
  • Afro Samurai
    Published Date: Apr 12, 2009

    Perhaps it’s because I haven’t spent a lot of time on the anime version, or perhaps that I’m just in a strange place where button mashing is a welcome break from the awful control schemes on console RTS games, but I actually enjoyed the reckless mayhem and intensely humorous dialogue Samuel L ...
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    Genre: Third-Person Action Platform: Xbox 360
    7.8
  • Alone in the Dark
    Published Date: Jul 14, 2008

    There is certainly a market out there for people who like their puzzle games, and those that like to solve mysteries. Just the other day I was speaking to a friend who I completed the absolutely superb Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within with, and it was funny how much of not only the game but the spe...
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    Genre: Adventure Platform: Xbox 360
    7.1
  • ATV: Thunder Ridge Riders / Monster Truc
    Published Date: Jun 3, 2008

    The signs were bad from the beginning for ATV Thunder Ridge Riders & Monster Trucks Mayhem, when the translation on the back cover was incorrect (for “cart” read “card”, and for that matter “great” should have read as “horrendous”). Even the fact that two games are packaged for the p...
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    Genre: Racing Platform: Nintendo DS
    1.5
  • Army of Two
    Published Date: May 19, 2008

    When I first read about Army of Two, I had my doubts about how long it would last. I felt that it would be in the bargain bin at the local video game store within only a few short weeks. During its development, I kept a close eye on any new video footage or screenshots that were released, and boy w...
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    Genre: Shooter Platform: Xbox 360
    8.5
  • Advance Wars: Dark Conflict
    Published Date: May 13, 2008

    Here in The West most of us see the Japanese influence in gaming in one of two ways: we either love it or loathe it. Rarely could any of us claim to fully understand it. If you’re one of those in the Loathe It crowd you may want to give this one a miss, for while Advance Wars really is one of the ...
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    Genre: Turn-Based Strategy Platform: Nintendo DS
    8.5
  • Avatar: the Burning Earth
    Published Date: Feb 18, 2008

    Do you have to be between five and 13 to enjoy the Avatar cartoon? The answer is absolutely not! I realise I am quite immature and moderately hyperactive, but I am pushing 30 and I still reckon it is top notch. The big question is one that we usually ask before we play spin off games:is the game any...
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    Genre: Platform: PlayStation 2
    5
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