Game Reviews
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Dark Sector Published Date: May 19, 2008In Dark Sector, you play Hayden Tenno, a Special Forces operative sent into a former Soviet state to blow up a compound where biological weapons are being created. He becomes infected, and as the virus spreads throughout his body, he develops more and more amazing abilities. And just as I’ve gloss...
Genre: Third-Person Action Adventure Platform: Xbox 360
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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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Army of Two Published Date: May 19, 2008When 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...
Genre: Shooter Platform: Xbox 360
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Football Manager 08 Published Date: May 13, 2008Football management games have a pretty small target market, mainly because while many people have some of the following traits: obsessive, football fan, spreadsheet hero, willingness to spend entire days in one room with a flickering screen – not many have them all. Well, lucky for SI Games th...
Genre: Sports Simulation Platform: Xbox 360
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Iron Man Published Date: May 11, 2008“Iron Man: the official videogame of the movie” hit the game-stores with a soft, wet, thud on May 2. Given the long awaited arrival of GTA IV, just three days earlier, it’s not surprising that Iron Man didn’t really cause much of a stir upon its release. I’d like to say it’s a shame that...
Genre: Action Adventure Platform: Xbox 360
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Grand Theft Auto IV Published Date: May 9, 2008If you have just woken up from a coma recently or were hiding in a sensory deprivation chamber out on some remote mountain top you may have missed GTA IV’s world-wide release for Xbox 360 and PS3, at midnight on April 29th. Such is the scale and appeal of this game that if you were not spending yo...
Genre: Third-Person Action RPG Platform: Xbox 360
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Viking: Battle for Asgard Published Date: May 5, 2008Before playing any game, I like to read the blurb on the back cover, just to get an idea what the creators saw as the fruits of their efforts. Viking, the battle for Asgard, offers you the chance to “control every vicious blow of your sword and axe and drench the battlefield with the blood of your...
Genre: Action Adventure Platform: Xbox 360
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Frontlines: Fuel of War Published Date: Apr 17, 2008While most of the world acts like nothing’s happening as the global oil supplies dwindle, Frontlines: Fuel of War bucks the trend and shows us what life might be like when it gets worse. A lot worse. Because humans do what they do best when that happens – obliterate each other for the last pre...
Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Xbox 360
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Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 Published Date: Apr 8, 2008When something great happens, you can be sure there’s someone counting the profits somewhere. Ask Sylvester Stallone what happened when Rocky was a smash hit. Well the streets of Vegas are again the scene for some underworld action, so it’s off with Rainbow to clean up the mess. Tom Clancy’...
Genre: First-Person Action Platform: Xbox 360
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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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