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Arkham City Impressions I spent a few hours with Arkham City this evening. I have to say that I can definitely see where all the positive hype is coming from. As I discussed in the preview article, Arkham Asylum was a bit of a surprise. There wasn’t much to complain
Hearing the Call The Call of Juarez features a spiritual-successor storyline to the original games. One of the main characters, and if we’re honest the focal point of the game, is Ben McCall, ancient ancestor to the Reverend Ray McCall, gun-toting preacher from the previous two games. That’s kind of
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Two quick blurbs for ya today. Prince of Persia (the newest version Forgotten Sands) and James Bond Bloodstone both for the PS3. Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands Thoughts Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands is the newest entry in the Prince of Persia series and yet another reboot for it as
Brink made a promise upon it initial debut to reinvent or at the least reinvigorate the first person shooter. Early media gave us glimpses of highly stylized characters and an interesting mixture of traditional shooting mechanics with free-running (parkour) mixed in for good measure. Most people were touting the game
Every time I see or hear anything remotely like “has just been revoked” I automatically think of the end of Lethal Weapon 2 after Riggs has been shot, and the South African d-bag claims diplomatic immunity. BLAM! “It’s just been revoked”. Hell yeah, Sgt. Murtaugh! That was Lethal Weapon 2,
Killzone History I came to the series late. In fact, I never played the first entry. I remember it receiving much hype. I was almost 100% a PC gamer at the time and didn’t by a PS2 until very late in the cycle. As some of you may have read
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Star Wars the Force Unleashed II isn’t in the budget right now, and I don’t know anyone who has put in the purchase yet, so I can’t comment first-hand on the game. However, I think I end up being glad that this wasn’t the pre-order purchase that I was hoping
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Head on over to Associated Content for article entitles “Dead Rising 2 Review – Zombie Killing for Fun & Profit“. I go over the basics of the story and gameplay and my thoughts and recommendation. AC had me do a scoring system for Dead Rising 2 which turned out to
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**** UPDATE, Full Mafia II Review – “Family” is Thicker Than Blood has been published, check it out! **** Play the Mafia 2 Demo yesterday through steam. Actually I played it several times. The first time I just went through the demo mission, the second time I used my fully
***UPDATED*** Check out the Mafia 2 Pre-Order / Preview. With Pre-Order difference and an link article previewing the game. This is an update of a previous post Mafia Game Review – City of Lost Heaven, one of my favorite games. I have been prepping a Mafia 2 Preview and hope
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A Deathspank review for the Playstation 3 Deathspank is a new downloadable only game from Hothead Studios and Ron Gilbert, one of the original creators Maniac Mansion and the Monkey Island series. For a discussion of one of the best games of all time, and my favorite, Monkey Island 2,
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Originally this was part of a 2 game post along with Betrayal at Krondor. I have split them up for readability, as so that as I post specific game favorites and can devote more content to that specific games. So without further ado, here is another of my favorite games,