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Tekken 6 Review: The Lag of Iron Fist
One of the only fighting games I’ve ever bothered to try and deeply understand outside of Street Fighter is Tekken. There’s something about the mechanics, and ability to button tap control each limb, that I love. While Tekken 6 hit Japanese arcades in 2007 and 2008, those of us without a booming arcade scene have…
By Brian Crecente Published October 29, 2009 -
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GTA: The Ballad Of Gay Tony Review: Out With A Bang
Whether played as an appendage to Grand Theft Auto IV or as half of a standalone disc, the latest GTA installment offers a full game’s worth of a series at its most intriguing and sexual, wild in ways not advertised. Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony arrives this week as the final planned…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 28, 2009 -
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DJ Hero Review: You Spin Me Right Round
Into a genre that seems determined to turn our living rooms into plastic instrument wastelands comes DJ Hero, where one turntable is all you’ll ever need. While the Guitar Hero series is all about performing music, DJ Hero is all about perfecting it. Packed together with a plastic facsimile of a turntable, the DJ’s weapon…
By Mike Fahey Published October 27, 2009 -
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Forza Motorsport 3 Review: Definitively Maybe
Turn 10 ups its driving game with Forza Motorsport 3, the self-proclaimed “definitive” racer of this generation, a sim that strives to let the more casual racing fan into the fold with a series of options that are noob-friendly. Sure, it has pretty much everything one would expect from a serious driving game, ensuring that…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 26, 2009 -
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Dungeon Hunter Review: Pocketful of Diablo
Boasting 25 hours of simple, action gaming built around the driving desire to find and collect increasingly powerful weapons and armor, Dungeon Hunter’s biggest surprise may be the platform it’s on. In Dungeon Hunter players take on the role of a prince, playing as mage, fighter or rogue, as he fights his way through dungeons…
By Brian Crecente Published October 24, 2009 -
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Marvel Super Hero Squad Review: This One Is For The Brats
For those of us who can’t handle the grown-up action of Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, THQ delivers Marvel Super Hero Squad, the game of the television show of the toy line. In Marvel Super Hero Squad, tiny cartoon versions of your favorite Marvel heroes and villains race to collect Infinity Fragments in order to either…
By Mike Fahey Published October 23, 2009 -
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Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time Review: The Leap, At Last
The problem with the Ratchet & Clank games being consistently good, annual release after annual release, is that it’s hard for them to seem spectacular. For the first time in a while, a new one does. Since the Ratchet & Clank series launched just back in 2002, Insomniac Games has developed four installments for the…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 22, 2009 -
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Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games Review: Going Through the Motions
There’s something to be said for a game that has Bowser performing a triple Salchow in figure skating or Dr. Eggman sweeping the ice in curling. I’m just not sure what that something is, though. Exciting? Surreal? Blasphemous? Whatever the case, such sights are possible in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, a…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 21, 2009 -
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A Boy And His Blob Review: The Zero Nostalgia Version
WayForward Technologies and Majesco bring us A Boy and His Blob for the Nintendo Wii, a re-creation of the beloved 1989 NES title, which I incidentally have never played. I think it bears noting that I never played the original A Boy and His Blob for two reasons. First, the reader understands why I don’t…
By Mike Fahey Published October 20, 2009 -
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Bakugan Battle Brawlers Review: Almost There
Part marbles, part Pokemon, anime and toy sensation Bakugan Battle Brawlers brings 2008’s Toy of the Year to the console in a game that drops players into the Bakugan world, battling transforming monsters in a race to save the planet. But can a video game capture the essence of a toy made popular by it’s…
By Brian Crecente Published October 20, 2009 -
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Borderlands Review: Guns! Guns! Guns!
Gearbox Software’s Borderlands is part first-person shoot ’em up, part role-playing game, a dusty slog across the planet Pandora in search of the legendary treasures of the Vault. Along the way, from the bus that drops your player off at the nearly deserted town of Fyrestone to the final showdown at the secretive Vault, a…
By Michael McWhertor Published October 19, 2009 -
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Axel & Pixel Micro-Review: A Puzzling Combination
2K Play launches its indie game initiative with Axel & Pixel, a point and click adventure game from Czech studio Silver Wish Games starring a man, his dog, and a giant mutant rat. The aforementioned mutant rat has trapped the artist Axel and his canine companion Pixel in a bizarre dream world and run off…
By Mike Fahey Published October 16, 2009 -
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Zombie Apocalypse Micro-Review: Paint the Town Red
Nonstop carnage is on the menu in Konami’s Zombie Apocalypse, which brings games’ undying affinity for the undead to a top-down, multidirectional shooter. Does it also hold the same appeal when it’s one – or four – against a thousand? Loved Senseless Slaughter: Who wouldn’t want to go up against an undead horde with unlimited…
By Owen Good Published October 16, 2009 -
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Half-Minute Hero Review: A Good Risk
Have you ever had your intelligence insulted or your time wasted by a Japanese role-playing game? This one won’t do either. Half-Minute Hero, XSeed and Marvelous Entertainment’s unusual, experimental role-playing game is smart, sharp, surprisingly long — given its title — and sloppy in a way that somehow doesn’t break the game but instead makes…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 15, 2009 -
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Ju-on: The Grudge Review: Curse Of The Movie Game
I first saw the original Ju-on movie in Japan on Halloween night 2005. I was doing fine up until the part where the TV in this lady’s apartment goes wonky. I didn’t even bother with the American version after that. The Japanese original was scary enough for me, thank you very much. So when I…
By AJ Glasser Published October 14, 2009 -
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Brutal Legend Review: Testing Its Metal
Join roadie Eddie Riggs on a magical journey to free a heavy metal fantasy world from the grips of demonic oppression in Brutal Legend. Brutal Legend is the latest game from Double Fine Productions and Tim Schafer, the man behind Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, and Psychonauts. Eddie Riggs is a roadie who fears that heavy…
By Mike Fahey Published October 13, 2009 -
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Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Review: Boom Headshot!
While Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising touts itself as a tactical squad-based shooter, what really separates this franchise from all of the other gun games is its brutal difficulty and faithful adaptation to real battlefield conditions. In this first-person shooter sequel you command a squad of marines helping to retake the island of Skira from the…
By Brian Crecente Published October 12, 2009