One of the most useful tools in the reviewer’s arsenal is that of comparison; the ability to draw on past experiences and previous games in order to give context to the title at hand. Although some of the underlying hack
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The main issue with Enslaved: Odyssey To The West is that it’s likely to split gamers right down the middle. The bulk of your enjoyment from Ninja Theory’s latest will be derived on what you look for in a game.
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I like to Move it, Move it...
Sony's entry into the motion-control market, the PlayStation Move, launched last week. We put it through its paces by testing out the raft of demos that accompanied it on the PSN Store. Is Sony's offering now the go-to piece of kit for motion-controlled enthusiasts?
Meet Pinhead. He is the colourful, slightly deranged fruits of my first Modnation Racers labour. Initially built in the free demo available to all on the PSN Store, the full game of ModNation Racers recognised that I’d already used their
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Pixel-perfect plagiarism.
Three hours in and I can make two sweeping assertions about 3D Dot Game Heroes: 1. It has the Worst Game Title In The World… Ever and 2. It is the Most Meticulous The Legend Of Zelda (NES) Clone… Ever.
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Perhaps it can be chalked up to the 100+ hours of driving tanks and ‘pwning noobz’ in the exemplary multiplayer modes, but when I finally got around to sitting through Battlefield: Bad Company 2’s singleplayer campaign, I found it straightforward,
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Judging by a price tag of £22.70 on UK retailer Amazon (at the time of writing) for the full retail version of Super Street Fighter IV, you could be forgiven for thinking Capcom are trying to pre-empt and diffuse consumer
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As readers of my over-verbose discourse on all things videogames will testify, I am rarely lost for words. BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger leaves me lost for words. A snapshot of Japanese insanity, conched in a beat ‘em up whose mechanics I
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I can say, with absolute conviction, that Final Fantasy XIII has the finest-looking CG hairstyles of any videogame, ever. Any, more useful, assertions of the merits of Square Enix’s latest instalment in a long, long series may have to wait
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It’s frustrating that my first thoughts in returning to Heavy Rain with the included DLC, The Taxidermist (for those that snapped up the Special Edition) after only a week was how difficult controlling Madison is. No sooner had she stepped
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