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Mass Effect 2. what is there to say about Mass Effect 2 that hasn’t already been said? Game of the year in January, amazing, incredibly personal yadda yadda yadda.
Although a bit redundant, this is my review for the second part of Bioware’s Sci-fi epic.
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Ryu Hayabusa. Dante. Kratos. All men who are well known for their third-person brutality as they literally rip apart their enemies into pieces.
With Bayonetta, a new challenger appears to enter the hack-n-slash fray.
But is this femme fatale all looks and no substance?
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Ubisofts’ Assassins Creed plunged players in the role of Altair, an angsty Middle Easterner who’s just trying to get by. Paying the insurance on his horse, constantly buying those pesky throwing knives (seriously, I went through those things like candy) and of course trying to thwart a pseudo-religious conspiracy in which the Knight Templars are [...]
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Borderlands. What can I say about Borderlands?
Imagine Diablo: scores of baddies throwing themselves upon you, with only your inventory and stash of potions to fend them off.
Now hold that image, except place yourself in a backwater mining colony on the planet Pandora (aka a Mad Max-inspired post-apocalyptic wasteland), and replace the hordes of skeletons, goat-men, [...]
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Bayonetta is a new third person action game brought to you guys from Sega. One plays as a witch, with guns on the heels of her stilettos as she kills waves after waves of angels to reap their halo’s. The game isn’t slated to release until next year, but guess who got early access to [...]
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In the latest trailer for Left 4 Dead 2, the game promises “More zombies, more friends, better apocalypse.”
The L4D2 demo was released for Xbox LIVE Gold members yesterday and co-editor David Sydionco and our friend Bryan McClaren and I were able to play together. Does the game re-ignite the signature sense of murderous camaraderie the [...]
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Since Tim Schafer’s masterpiece, Psychonauts, Double Fine began working on a new project. As I obsessively read the previews, I was excited about all the aspects of the game. Jack Black voicing the main character? Awesome. A world designed after an entire genre of music? Sweet. An RTS aspect? Ummmm…
So does Brutal Legend deserve a [...]
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They say when you intentionally enter the jaws of madness; you will be consumed by it forever.
And nothing says “madness” better than an Asylum filled with the most deranged psychopaths that only writers at DC comics could come up with. I’m talking of course about Arkham Asylum.
Rocksteady delivered what is supposed to be, not only [...]
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Fallout 3 has taken you too many places; a video game within a video game, a slave-powered Pittsburg, a giant mobile tank base, and Maryland. Now it takes you where no Vault Dweller has ever gone before, space!
With the newest and last of the Fallout 3 DLC, you board the Mothership Zeta to face, what [...]
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“Meow! It’s the boobie lady” is what the cat-like Tao, one of the 12 characters in Arc Systems new fighting game yells before a fight with Litchi.
The creators of the long-running Guilty Gear series returns with BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger.
But does this 2-D anime fighter hold its own in a world dominated with 3-D fighters?
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