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Prototype Review: Alex Mercer SMASH!
Anti-hero Alex Mercer takes more than a few cues from The Incredible Hulk as he stalks the streets of New York City in Activision’s free-roaming action adventure, Prototype. Developed by Radical Entertainment, the team behind The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, Prototype follows much the same formula as that Marvel Comics inspired title. Both feature super-powered…
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Zenonia Micro-Review: Unexpectedly Epic
Korean developer Gamevil seeks to pack an epic experience into a tiny space with Zenonia, an action roleplaying game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Zenonia follows a young man named Regret as he searches for answers to the mystery surrounding his birth after the sudden death of the man who raised him. Players start…
By Mike Fahey -
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The Sims 3 Review: Delayed Gratification
After a more than three month delay—and more than four years on from the release of The Sims 2—The Sims 3 is finally here. So let’s get down to reviewing it. There are two types of Sims player: the Second-Life types who enjoy crafting and sharing stuff online and the God-types who look for new…
By AJ Glasser -
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Bionic Commando Review: Grabbing Hands Grab All They Can
Capcom and GRIN spring Nathan “RAD” Spencer from prison, dust off his shiny metal arm, and turn him loose against the forces of evil in Bionic Commando, the sequel to the original NES classic. Much has changed since Nathan Spencer first took on imperialist Nazi forces on a mission to rescue Super Joe. Ten years…
By Mike Fahey -
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Star Trek D-A-C Micro-Review
Riding the warp trail of the smash hit J.J. Abrams movie comes Star Trek D-A-C, a top-down space shooter for Xbox Live Arcade. Lacking the time to create a full-fledged movie tie-in for the new Star Trek film, Naked Sky Entertainment instead decided to create a quick and dirty online shooter set in the Star…
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Peggle iPhone Micro-Review: Touching Balls Never Felt So Good
Peggle is conquering gaming one platform at a time. First it was PC, next Nintendo DS, then Xbox Live Arcade before doubling back to PC via World of Warcraft. Now it’s on the iPhone, and there’s goes all your free time. There’s something powerfully addicting about the part-pachinko, part-puzzle, part-crack downloadable game. Mercifully the short…
By AJ Glasser -
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Top Gun Micro-Review: Affirmative, Ghost Rider
Last year, Days of Thunder quickly asserted itself as a serious arcade racer on the iPhone. Paramount’s back with Top Gun, looking to do the same for combat flyers. Top Gun puts iPhone and iPod Touch owners in the flight suit of a new recruit under the guidance of Maverick and Ice Man—you choose your…
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Burnout Paradise Cops And Robbers Micro-Review
Criterion Games continues to change the face of Burnout Paradise with the release of the Cops and Robbers downloadable content add-on for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Hearkening back to Burnout titles of old, the Cops and Robbers add-on pits two teams of players against each other, both vying for control of a load…
By Mike Fahey -
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Velvet Assassin Review: Lie Back And Think Of England
Velvet Assassin is a stealth action game that’s loosely based on the real-life World War II Allied secret agent, Violette Szabo, who was captured and later executed by the Nazis. That’s not a spoiler, though, because the game has only two things in common with Szabo’s life: the setting and the first name of the…
By AJ Glasser