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No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle Published Date: Jun 4, 2010WARNING: Reader discretion advised. This review contains high-level digression, and extreme artsy-fartsy concepts. If you just want to know what the game is like, please scroll down to the indicated level, to avoid fancy language and possible coma. Between the precious few who give a shit,...
Genre: Action Platform: Wii
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Nier Published Date: May 2, 2010It takes a long time to do anything in Nier, a very long time indeed. That’s its primary problem, but there are other things to consider on the road to that final thought. The Japanese Role Playing Game is a busy genre indeed, and although Square Enix has certainly been publishing its l...
Genre: JRPG Platform: Xbox 360
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New Super Mario Bros Wii Published Date: Nov 24, 2009So 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,...
Genre: Platformer Platform: Wii
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Need for Speed Shift Published Date: Sep 22, 2009The 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...
Genre: Racing Platform: Xbox 360
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Ninja Blade Published Date: Apr 18, 2009Let’s face it, when you go looking for a game like Ninja Blade, you’re not going to expect huge amounts of originality. Some new twists on old themes and a game that is solidly entertaining is what we’re after here. This is exactly what you get in the latest release by From Software, th...
Genre: Third-Person Action Platform: Xbox 360
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Need for Speed Undercover Published Date: Nov 29, 2008When the last Need for Speed title landed, it made a complete arse of everything that went before by putting it on the track and away from the roads. The problem was acknowledged by teh developers, who came out some months later and said that they’d made a mistake and were going to rectify it. ...
Genre: Puzzle Compilation Platform: Xbox 360
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NHL 09 Published Date: Nov 12, 2008With autumn fully upon the northern hemisphere and winter just a stone’s throw away, the advent of the NHL hockey season is in full frenzy. EA’s latest installment in the NHL series is an all-around well put together game incorporating all the traditional elements EA Sport’s fans have come to...
Genre: Sports Simulation Platform: PlayStation 3
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NBA Live 09 All Play Published Date: Oct 20, 2008You needn’t be a Dick Vitale or a Marv Albert to know that NBA basketball is a precision sport in which hundreds, if not thousands, of nanosecond decisions are made on the fly by men who’ve spent most of their lives honing those very skills. Of course this is less true of, say, NCAA basketball, ...
Genre: Sports Platform: Wii
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NCAA Football 09 All-Play Published Date: Aug 27, 2008In America, college sports work in large part because players are competing for more than just a moment of glory and the eventually threadbare mythological memories told ad nauseam to eyeball-rolling teenagers. With its shoddy promises of pro-sports glory—maybe even you are the next Michael Jordan...
Genre: Sports Platform: Wii
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Naruto Ultimate Ninja Heroes 2: The Phan Published Date: Jul 20, 2008It’s time for a Manga explosion sports fans, over enthusiastic ninja style! The blonde haired, psychotic and mildly infectious ‘super ninja in training’, Naruto, is here to carelessly run into the fray and save his beloved village from another sinister plot. Being a Naruto fan I am very keen t...
Genre: Fighting Platform: Sony PSP
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