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Mass Effect 2: Overlord Micro-Review: Shock To The System
Mass Effect 2’s downloadable content to date has been a little hit-and-miss, a mix of free and paid content never really settling into the same confident stride the actual game managed. Overlord, though, is different. Both Firewalker and Kasumi shared the same problem, in that they felt rough, raw and disjointed, never really coming together…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 6, 2010 -
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Crackdown 2 Review: Shoot First, Leap Buildings Later
Crackdown 2 poses a question players have subconsciously been answering since their first contact with a controller or joystick: Would you rather spend your time in a video game jumping? Or shooting? Three years ago with little preceding hype, Microsoft released the marvelous Crackdown, a gameplay-centric game created by Real Time Worlds and overseen by…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 5, 2010 -
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Transformers: Cybertron Adventures Review: Robots In Disgrace
Remember that really great Transformers: War for Cybertron game we reviewed last week? This isn’t it. This is Transformers: Cybertron Adventures, and it is not the Wii version of War for Cybertron. While the story may cover similar ground and contain many of the same characters, Next Level Games’ Cybertron Adventures trades the third-person shooting…
By Mike Fahey Published July 2, 2010 -
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Catalyst DSi Slim Cover Review: Worst Analogy Ever
What is it about CM4’s Catalyst DSi Slim Cover that makes me break out the worst literary comparisons I’ve written since I was into bad goth poetry in high school? The Catalyst DSi Slim Cover is a simple enough thing. You get two pieces of aluminum shaped to fit your Nintendo DSi, covered tightly with…
By Mike Fahey Published June 30, 2010 -
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Napoleon: Total War: The Peninsular Campaign Review: Wellington Party
Lots of people complained that Napoleon: Total War was more of an expansion pack than a full game. Does that make The Peninsular Campaign an expansion pack for an expansion, then? Yes. But that’s not as weird, or as awful as it sounds, as thankfully this time around developers The Creative Assembly have released an…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 29, 2010 -
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Sin & Punishment: Star Successor Review: #1 With A Bullet
Nintendo fires a shot at the hardcore Wii owner with Sin & Punishment: Star Successor, a new shooter from the shooting game masters at Treasure. It’s brutally difficult and a sequel to a relatively obscure Nintendo 64 game, a Wii library anomaly. Nintendo is rarely in the business of publishing serious action games like Sin…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 28, 2010 -
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Joule iPad Stand Review: At What Cost Stability?
In a world where iPads constantly topple over at the merest touch, ElementCASE releases a top-of-the-line solution that will have iPad owners standing at attention, but at what cost? Sure, the iPad is comfortable enough to sit in your hands for extended periods of time, but doesn’t it look lovely upright? And wouldn’t it be…
By Mike Fahey Published June 28, 2010 -
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Kanex XD Review: More Gaming On Your iMac
For the relatively small intersection between 27″ iMac ownership and those hoping to play their PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on that iMac exists the Kanex XD, an HDMI to Mini DisplayPort that I now don’t want to live without. The powered converter performs a seemingly simple task for its $150 USD asking price, taking…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 24, 2010 -
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Transformers: War For Cybertron Review: Now Light Our Darkest Hour
After suffering through two sub-par games based on the live-action films, do Transformers fans finally have the video game worthy of the franchise in War for Cybertron? In 2004, developer Melbourne House and Atari gave us a glimpse at how good a Transformers game could be in the Transformers Armada-based game for the PlayStation 2.…
By Mike Fahey Published June 22, 2010 -
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Magic: The Gathering – Duels Of The Planeswalkers PC Review: I’d Tap That
After a highly-successful run on Xbox Live Arcade, the collectible card game craze visits Steam with the PC version of Magic: the Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers. We didn’t get a chance to squeeze in a review for the original release of Duels of the Planeswalkers on Xbox Live Arcade last year, and that’s…
By Mike Fahey Published June 21, 2010 -
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Sleepmaker Micro-Review: The App That Saved E3
It’s almost axiomatic that the worst snorers I know are also the nicest people. It adds an element of dread to vacations, road trips and working hotel stays one would otherwise look forward to, and it needlessly strains good relationships. I’m reminded of something my comedy friend Kenny said about another buddy of ours, Bruce,…
By Owen Good Published June 19, 2010 -
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Toy Story 3 Movie Review: Childhood’s End
It’s been fifteen years since Pixar Animation Studios ushered in the age of the CGI movie with Toy Story, a candid look at the secret lives of toys. Are we too old for one last trip inside the toy box? Toy Story introduced us to a world of living toys that only desire to be…
By Mike Fahey Published June 18, 2010 -
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The A-Team Movie Review: I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
Forget the A-Team you know and love. This movie is nothing like it. And it’s all the better for it. That’s not a slight against the original! I loved it as a kid, and still love it to this day. But the A-Team TV series was a thing built of the 1980s, for the 1980s.…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 11, 2010 -
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Snoopy Flying Ace Review: Dog Fights
Everyone’s favorite canine aviator, Snoopy, takes to the skies to shoot machine guns, rockets and a whole host of weapons at small children (and the Red Baron!) in airplanes. This is war with the gang from Peanuts. This isn’t the first Snoopy fighter pilot game. Developer Smart Bomb Interactive released Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2010 -
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FixPix Micro-Review: Sizing Up The Competition
I like my iPhone games like I like my women: cheap, easy and good-looking. OK, that last bit is a lie. I’m no Burt Reynolds. Sadly. But that is how I like my iPhone games. All these ill-advised ports of flash games and DS titles are forgetting what the iPhone is. It’s a phone. And…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 8, 2010 -
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X-Scape Review: The Beauty Of The Old Ugly
Can you love shapes and straight lines? Crimson spider robots casting maroon shadows? Pink stripes painted beside tan in tunnels of sky-blue enemies? Fly to an era when game graphics were ugly and the best of that ugliness was beautiful. Your method of time-warp transportation is X-Scape, another downloadable DSi game with a questionable name,…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 4, 2010 -
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Kometen Review: Languid Pools of Gravity
A comet has been born, please take good care of it. That’s the premise for this interesting, artistic iTunes game. You explore a universe of watercolor planets with a space-debris eating comet by swiping and dancing between pools of gravity. There’s no story, no levels. It’s pretty straightforward. It’s hardly a game. Is it worth…
By Brian Crecente Published June 4, 2010 -
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Blur Review: Rainbow Road Kill
Bizarre Creations combines the street racing thrills of its Project Gotham Racing series with the neon glow of its Geometry Wars games, throws in a little WipEout and Mario Kart and winds up with Blur. The realism of real world cars and tracks blends with the explosive audacity of Mario Kart-esque power upsā€”almost every power…
By Michael McWhertor Published June 4, 2010 -
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Backbreaker Review: The Challenger Crashes
Twenty-five years ago saw the last game of the USFL – a league given no shot against the NFL’s monopoly, but beloved to this day for the rebellious challenge it posed. Today, similarly pitted against the Madden monolith, comes Backbreaker Video game or sport, no amount of nostalgia or John Facenda verbiage will by itself…
By Owen Good Published June 2, 2010 -
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Bowmaster Micro Review: Shootin’ Arrows or Shootin’ Errors?
Honestly, if you are going to master something, you might as well master the bow and arrow. Worked for Robin Hood! Bowmaster for the iPhone and iPod Touch has players battle compete with A.I. archers with names like Wilbur the Novice and Albert the Accurate in a shooting range. Using a bow and arrow, the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 2, 2010