Game Reviews
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Beijing 2008 Published Date: Jul 24, 2008When a game hits release that allows players to participate in no less than 38 sports, there are two ways it can go. It can either be a fulfilling representation of the event that captures the hearts of players and completes its reason for existence by fuelling play that features passing the contro...
Genre: Sports Platform: Xbox 360
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Big Beach Sports Published Date: Jul 21, 2008Why do winter-sport games sell best in winter, summer-sport games when the sun is shining? Certainly there is a logic behind this larding of self-same seasonal content—thus Christmas movies at Christmas because, baseball fans asides, few want to see an ancient fat man during the summer. But thereâ...
Genre: Sports Platform: Wii
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Battlefield: Bad Company Published Date: Jul 14, 2008War games are two a penny these days but there are a few of distinguished lineage that stand out: Call of Duty, Medal of Honor (maybe) and Battlefield. The latter made its name on the PC through games like Battlefield 1942 (with multiple expansions), Battlefield Vietnam and Battlefield 2142. It’...
Genre: Battle Platform: Xbox 360
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BlastWorks: Build, Trade, Destroy Published Date: Jul 8, 2008There’s something almost groan-inducing about a game when even its designers are willing to describe it as a “frenetic geometric battle”. Like the terms, say, “limber, sexy octogenarian” or “rowdy vitamin supplement,” such descriptors seem to reveal either a total disregard for the sta...
Genre: Shooter Platform: Wii
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Bully: Scholarship Edition Published Date: Apr 8, 2008I come from an old school of computer gamers, meaning I started my adventures on the Commodore 64 and progressed through the ranks of Atari Lynx, first PCs and all the rest. It also meant I was sort of a geek, so playing Bully: Scholarship Edition brought back all sort of repressed memories for me....
Genre: Third-Person Action RPG Platform: Xbox 360
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Burnout Paradise Published Date: Apr 3, 2008Criterion Games has crashed onto the scene once again with another car crunching classic. Burnout Paradise, the sixth game in the franchise, lives up to its name and has delivered another hit for the developer. Unlike the previous games, Burnout Paradise is a complete recreation of what we have all ...
Genre: Racing Platform: Xbox 360
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Bust-a-Move Bash! Published Date: Jun 11, 2007It’s almost too easy to give updated and re-released puzzle games bad reviews. One hit wonder; you’ve played it once you’ve played it a million times; one-trick pony; a one-off--almost any threadbare cliche will do. And while it’s easy to hate in principle the perpetual haters--those who cel...
Genre: Puzzle Platform: Wii
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Burnout Dominator Published Date: Jun 11, 2007The Burnout arcade series has been around for years, but games in the series have seldom been as good as this one. In the realm of car racing, few games provide as much action and speed as does Burnout Dominator. The variety of modes to choose from and the intensity of the crashes make for a fast p...
Genre: Racing Platform: PlayStation 2
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Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WW2 Published Date: Jun 11, 2007Does anybody remember Red Baron from the early PC days (I mean really early �" we’re talking 286DX and 386 processors)? That game no doubt was a quantum leap in terms of immersiveness, realistic flight physics, and sheer dogfighting fun. Ever since then, newer games grew to look better and ...
Genre: Flight Action Platform: Wii
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Bullet Witch Published Date: Jun 7, 2007The title of this game is a fairly accurate summation of the sort of action that is encountered during gameplay- you play as a witch and you shoot a lot of bullets. Though that sounds fairly bland and simplistic, it is the nature of the game and thus merits the brevity. There are a few meek rays of ...
Genre: Action Platform: Xbox 360
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