Game Reviews
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Published Date: Sep 24, 2008As anyone who’s read my recent reviews will know, nothing rankles me more than a release that fails to do what it promised through all the hype (we’re looking at you Haze, Too Human...). So when something lands on my desk that has been talked about for over a year, it’s hard not...
Genre: Action Adventure Platform: Xbox 360
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Infinite Undiscovery Published Date: Sep 24, 2008I’ve never enjoyed the Final Fantasy games, probably because I didn’t play the earlier instalments and it’s hard to pick up a series half way through, especially when it was already up to III ir IV. Having played Infinite Undiscovery for a few days I’m now pretty certain I’ll check out th...
Genre: RPG Platform: Xbox 360
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Too Human Published Date: Sep 24, 2008First of all, Silicon Knights were the fine people behind the Knights of the Old Republic games and did they deliver? Yes they did. And so, people expect things from them now, but in a tale not unlike like that of Haze on the PS3, the end product fails to live up to the hype. Initial impressions ...
Genre: Fighting RPG Platform: Xbox 360
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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 Published Date: Sep 24, 2008Ah, EA, what would we do without you? When I was a kid the only annuals I knew were the Beano, but thanks to you I’ve now got a list longer then my arm of games you rehash and send out again, to be lapped up by the masses. At least, then, it’s good you manage do it some of it well. Playin...
Genre: Sports Platform: Xbox 360
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Soul Calibur IV Published Date: Sep 24, 2008Now that we’re a decade on we can see how the popularity grew – from its inception as an arcade game in 1996 (then called Soul Edge) through to the rapid port to the original PlayStation, taking advantage and being on the forefront of the impending console-boom. The port was more than the arcad...
Genre: Fighting Platform: Xbox 360
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Universe at War: Earth Assault Published Date: Sep 24, 2008Real Time Strategy games on consoles aren’t normally the best fare, particularly if you’re handy with a keyboard and mouse and used to being able to create control groups of a variety of different vehicles and troops. Maybe I should rephrase that: consoles aren’t the best platforms for RTS ga...
Genre: Real-Time Strategy Platform: Xbox 360
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Don King presents Prizefighter Published Date: Aug 2, 2008It’s probably fair to say that the glory days of boxing have passed us by; when as a kid I’d stay up until 4am to see Tyson hammer someone around the ring. The failure of boxing to capture the imagination of the masses also might have something to do with the rise of UFC and mixed martial arts ...
Genre: Sports Platform: Xbox 360
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian Published Date: Jul 25, 2008I’m as shocked as the next man, believe me, but after struggling to enjoy the opening level of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian on the PS3 I abandoned it to the play-when-I’ve-nothing-else-to-review basket. Lo and behold but the PR machine must have foreseen this because the very...
Genre: Action Adventure Platform: Xbox 360
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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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Unreal Tournament III Published Date: Jul 22, 2008It’s been a four year wait for Unreal Tournament III (actually the 4th Unreal Tournament game and the 8th Unreal game, but the first using the Unreal 3 engine) to be ported onto Xbox 360. The series has been the staple diet of PC users for quite some time, and the Unreal engine has been used for m...
Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Xbox 360
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