Game Reviews
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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Published Date: Jun 20, 2008Whether you’re a fan of the Metal Gear series or not, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is a defining moment in gaming, because the scope and breadth of the story, and the main players you rotate around, are gloriously well-developed and detailed. From our meeting Snake on the dusty roads ...
Genre: Third-Person Action RPG Platform: PlayStation 3
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Major League Baseball 2K8 Published Date: May 19, 2008This year's version includes a wide variety of new content and game play options that will entice any gamer, whether you are deeply in love with baseball, or like myself, impartial to the sport. From the opening menu, you have the ability to dive right into a multitude of game types. You have the...
Genre: Sports Platform: Xbox 360
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Mario Kart 64 (Virtual Console) Published Date: May 8, 2008If one were to uncover the defining characteristic of the Super Mario Bros. franchise—besides the fratelli themselves, of course—then what would it be? In short, an unflagging willingness to rethink and reinvent everything that has made Mario and Luigi not merely shorthand for videogames but als...
Genre: Racing Action Platform: Wii
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Manhunt 2 Published Date: Feb 18, 2008After being locked up in an insane asylum for six years, it is only reasonable to escape and kill anyone that tries to send you back, right? This premise comes right out of a gory horror flick and into Manhunt 2 developed by Rockstar Games. Manhunt 2 ensures that your dark side will surface as you ...
Genre: Third-Person Action Platform: PlayStation 2
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Mass Effect Published Date: Jan 24, 2008Anything that proclaims to be the next big thing in role playing games almost instantaneously turns me off, because all too often I’ve hoped for it to be the truth, only for it to be a pack of lies. Yes, I’m looking at you Two Words. So while the whole planet has been babbling on about Mass Ef...
Genre: RPG Platform: Xbox 360
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MLB '07 The Show Published Date: Sep 5, 2007Baseball video games are typically quite similar no matter who produces them and what system they are meant for. MLB the Show 07 for Playstation 3, however, throws a few curveballs at the Major League Baseball video game genre. The effect is refreshing, and at times exciting. For the most part, t...
Genre: Sports Platform: PlayStation 3
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Mario Party 8 Published Date: Sep 5, 2007When the first installment of the Mario Party series appeared for the N64 (a looong time ago!), it seemed at first that Nintendo was simply looking for yet another way to capitalize on the successful cast of characters from their older games. But right away, it transpired that wasn’t all that was ...
Genre: Party Platform: Wii
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Metal Slug Anthology Published Date: Jul 23, 2007What makes a good game? A lame, bravado-laden military motif, light on the narrative but heavy on the guns? A franchise concept, subject to instalment after instalment, with only minor additions and improvements year after year? Slow-moving, lumpy, sneering muscleman characters? Or flattened, cartoo...
Genre: Shooter Platform: Wii
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Mario Strikers Charged Published Date: Jul 21, 2007For all of its revolting plebeian hooliganism and yobbish idiocy, football (A.K.A. soccer or the groan-inducing ‘footy’) is a wildly entertaining sport in almost all of its semi-professional forms. Whereas most sports solicit fans for there lowlier divisions and farm clubs about as easily as Dav...
Genre: Sports Platform: Wii
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Medal of Honour: Vanguard Published Date: Jul 21, 2007First, the good news: Vanguard is exclusive Wii content, so the game is, as it were, truly “new.” But is it really? Well, here’s an image to help you get a better sense of this game’s predicament: Think back to every WWII shooter you have ever played… good. Now slap a new name on it, and y...
Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Wii
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