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Fable II See The Future Review: Wear Shades

Slapped with the moniker “See the Future”, the latest Fable II downloadable content takes players back to Albion and lets them do just that: See the future. “See The Future” adds four new quests, 13 new Achievements, new character duds and new hides for your mutt. Fable II‘s hero is given cursed items by Huxter…

By Brian Ashcraft Published May 11, 2009

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Fallout 3 Broken Steel Review: An Epic Postscript

Broken Steel is the last of three announced Xbox 360 and PC-exclusive expansions to Fallout 3, and the one that was most clearly built to be a crowd-pleaser. Broken Steel adds about five hours of new quests to what used to be the end of Fallout 3. It raises Fallout 3’s level cap from 20…

By Stephen Totilo Published May 8, 2009

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Klonoa Review: Do Hew Wahoo?

Namco Bandai‘s Klonoa, the Wii remake of the 1997 PlayStation game Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, is a game from a simpler time, when “platformers” involved actual side-scrolling platform-to-platform jumping as their core mechanic. Such is the case with the 2009 version of Klonoa, which is amazingly simple in its concept, with regular play requiring only…

By Michael McWhertor Published May 7, 2009

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Equilibrio Micro-Review: Tilt and Break

Based on shareware title Fragile Ball, DK Games’ Equilibrio for WiiWare brings maze maneuvering to the Wii with a motion control twist. Using the Wii Remote or the Wii Balance Board, players must tilt and twist the game world to guide a ball to each level’s exit. Like a two-dimensional version of Sega’s Super Monkey…

By Brian Crecente Published May 5, 2009

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine Review: A Pretty Good Start

There’s a new Wolverine movie in theaters, which means it’s time for another developer to take a stab at Marvel’s stabbiest super-hero with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Developer Raven Software isn’t altogether unfamiliar with Wolverine, having played about with him in both the X-Men Legends series and Marvel Ultimate Alliance; but this is the first time…

By Mike Fahey Published May 4, 2009

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Zeno Clash Review: Not One For Your Father (Or Mother)

Indie platformers, we’ve seen. Indie adventure games too. But indie first-person shooters that moonlight as first-person brawlers? That’s fresh. That’s Zeno Clash. You couldn’t login to Steam or go near a PC forum over the past month or so without running into talk about Zeno Clash, a game from tiny Chilean studio ACE Team that’s…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 29, 2009

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Excitebots: Trick Racing Review: ***********

Excitebots: Trick Racing, Nintendo’s sequel to Wii launch racer Excite Truck, makes the tenuous connection to the original Excitebike feel increasingly strained. How we arrived at transforming car-beasts doing mid-air stunts may be beyond explanation. But here we are, racing robotic cars shaped like mice, praying mantises and vampire bats against each other in locations…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 27, 2009

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Demigod Review: Aspiring To Godhood

Supreme Commander developer Gas Powered Games seeks to take online PC strategy games to a higher plane with the release of Demigod. Demigod is an action real-time strategy game with role-playing game elements that obviously takes a great deal of inspiration from the popular Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients. Instead of commanding armies…

By Mike Fahey Published April 22, 2009

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The Godfather II Review: The Don Does No Favors

The open-world crime genre, like real-world crime, is wantonly violent, seductive with promises of easy riches. EA returns to the scene with a sequel that must live up to its predecessor—plus two landmark films. In the video game version of The Godfather II, players once again work their way up the ranks of the Corleone…

By Owen Good Published April 20, 2009

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Company Of Heroes: Tales Of Valor Micro-Review: Unconditional Surrender

Relic are on a mission. A mission to shake up real-time strategy gaming by injecting a little character, a little intimacy to proceedings. So it was with Dawn of War II, and so it is here. But while Dawn of War II’s changes – namely dropping army sizes and increasing RPG elements – worked wonders…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 15, 2009

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Ninja Blade Review: Ninja Tragic

From Software’s Ninja Blade gives Xbox 360 owning wannabe ninjas the opportunity to live vicariously—and cinematically—through protagonist Ken Ogawa, a super ninja tasked with saving futuristic Tokyo from parasite-infected Japanese schoolgirls, yakuza and salarymen. If Ninja Blade looks familiar, that’s because it is so unapologetically derivative, borrowing game design elements wholesale from Japanese action-adventure titles…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 14, 2009

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The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault On Dark Athena Review: Fumbling In The Dark

Darkness falls on Richard B. Riddick once again in The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. Originally planned as a simple current-generation remake of 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, developer Starbreeze changed course during development, creating a whole new chapter in the story of Vin Diesel’s Riddick character. Upon escaping…

By Mike Fahey Published April 10, 2009

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Metal Gear Solid Touch Micro-Review

Kojima Productions brings the epic story of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots to Apple’s iPhone platform with the Metal Gear Solid Touch, a touchscreen controlled shoot ’em up. In Metal Gear Solid Touch, Old Snake’s goal is the same as it was in the PlayStation 3 version: assassinate Liquid Ocelot, taking out…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 9, 2009

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Rhythm Heaven Review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Nintendo’s Rhythm Heaven is the beat-matching Nintendo DS sequel to a Game Boy Advance title that never made it out of Japan—but did somehow manage to get an arcade port. The collection of more than 50 music mini-games is surprisingly deep for a title that relies on two touchscreen mechanics: tapping and flicking. (Okay, there…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 3, 2009

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BattleForge Review: Collectible Card-Time Strategy

What happens when you mix together real-time strategy gameplay with collectible card game sensibilities? BattleForge happens. Developed by EA’s Phenomic, BattleForge is an intriguing mix of real-time strategy and collectible card game on a massively multiplayer online level. Where a standard real-time strategy game has units with various powers and abilities, BattleForge has a set…

By Mike Fahey Published April 2, 2009

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Edge Micro-Review: Elegance, Cubed

Edge, for the iPhone and iPod Touch, may remind you of Marble Madness with its otherdimensional motifs and tactile controls. But is it more than just pushing around a cube where spheres once rolled? Loved Controls: In Edge, you control a block that moves about its gridded environment by “rolling” on its edges in the…

By Owen Good Published April 1, 2009

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geoDefense Micro-Review: All Hands, Battle Stations

Last week gave us geoDefense – tower defense rendered in a Tron-esque, vectorized look and feel. Apple mobile gaming is paying off for good, simple ideas delivered with high production values. Does geoDefense qualify? Loved Challenge: Well, more like “seriously respected” the challenge. geoDefense can get downright frustrating at times, but tower defense, done well,…

By Owen Good Published March 26, 2009

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Patapon 2 Review: A Familiar Beat

The first Patapon was something of a success. The PSP game was a hit with critics and some gamers, but never really set the sales charts on fire. Which was a shame! After all, it was simple, it was cute, it was a first-party game, it was everything the PSP needed to get people remembering…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2009

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MadWorld Review: Simple Jack

Madworld gives Wii owners the opportunity to take out their frustrations on scores of helpless bags of meat and brain dead street scum—no match for a buff bounty hunter with a chainsaw for an arm. The first offering from PlatinumGames, by way of Sega, the stylized black and white (and blood soaked red) brawler puts…

By Michael McWhertor Published March 23, 2009

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Resistance: Retribution Review: More Action Than Shooter

In Resistance: Retribution, gamers return to the world of the Chimera invasion, guiding a disgraced Royal Marine as he fights to save Europe’s last bastion for humanity. The game, set between the PlayStation 3’s Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2, makes another attempt to turn the fast-paced, controller-heavy shooter genre into something enjoyable on…

By Brian Crecente Published March 20, 2009