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3.75/5 | Ghost Squad | A port of the arcade shooter, Ghost Squad lacks the meatiness of The Umbrella Chronicles but it still has its moments. |
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3.5/5 | Cooking Mama 2: Dinner With Friends | The good news is that sequel is just as fun and improves upon the franchise's recipe in every way. |
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4.75/5 | Mass Effect | Strap yourselves in and break out the Tang: GamePro is blasting off to explore the magical world of Mass Effect! |
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4.5/5 | WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2008 | WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008 surpasses the 2007 version while still remaining true to the spirit of the sport. |
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5/5 | Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction | It's fitting that the first installment of the Ratchet & Clank series on the PS3 is called Future, because in many ways it sets the bar for all future PS3 games. |
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4.25/5 | Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles | As the title suggests, The Umbrella Chronicles chronicles the story of the Umbrella Corporation's downfall by revisiting key events from past Resident Evil titles, such as the adventures of Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield from the original. |
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4/5 | Dementium: The Ward | From the moment I woke in my bed at Redmoor Hospital, I had no doubts that I was trapped in Dementium: The Ward with many sleepless evenings ahead, clutching my DS under the covers. |
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3.75/5 | Killzone: Liberation | Guerilla's cult-hit Killzone returns, and this time the gritty post-apocalyptic bullet storm takes place on the PSP, dumping the first-person perspective of the original for a pseudo-isometric view. |
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4.5/5 | Silent Hill Origins | I dread new Silent Hill games as much as I look forward to them. |
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3.5/5 | Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games | It only takes a few minutes of playing Mario & Sonic at the Olympics to understand that this isn't so much a game as it is a marketing tool to promote the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. |
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3.25/5 | Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker | In Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker, you play as a young man with an enormous chip on his shoulder--though it's understandable considering that in his case, being grounded means being hurled in a dungeon for ten days. |
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4.75/5 | Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock | It's hard being the king. Just ask the Guitar Hero franchise. It's currently sitting on the rhythm game throne and yet, all anyone can talk about is the new kid on the block, Rock Band. |
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4/5 | Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation | Like a deck of cards, Namco Bandai has been shuffling its games among next-generation consoles in hopes of a winning hand. |
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4.75/5 | Company of Heroes | So it came as some surprise when Relic announced their next game would be set in the most excessively used backdrop in the genre - the Second World War. |
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5/5 | Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare | Infinity Ward brings the critically acclaimed Call of Duty franchise out of the World War II trenches with a modernized update that does just about everything right! Get ready to enter the fray with GamePro's review of Call of Duty 4! |
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2/5 | You Are Empty | Hey, remember when Quake and Duke Nukem were considered the cutting edge of gaming? Then say hello to You Are Empty, a first-person shooter that's about ten years behind the times. |
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4.25/5 | Tony Hawk's Proving Ground | Old Dog, Old Tricks |
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3/5 | Hellgate: London | What's unfortunate about Hellgate is that it's neither as fun nor as memorable as its spiritual predecessor. |
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4/5 | Folklore | It's hard not to be mesmerized by the visual elements of Folklore |
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4.25/5 | Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of The Lions | Yes, the name is familiar but don't confuse Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions as just a port of the old Playstation game. |
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5/5 | The Orange Box | You want to talk about getting your money's worth? Take a look at The Orange Box: not only do you get Half-Life 2 and the two episodes, you also get Portal and Team Fortress 2. For first-person shooter fans, it doesn't get much better than this. |
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3/5 | Soul Nomad & The World Eaters | I play a lot of RPG titles but Soul Nomad takes the prize for having the zaniest lines of dialogue I've ever encountered. |
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3.75/5 | Project Gotham Racing 4 | With automotive monsters like Forza Motorsport 2 and DiRT nicely filling their respective niches, you might wonder what there is left to do with the racing genre. |
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3.25/5 | Dragon Blade: Wrath of Fire | While Dragon Blade: Wrath of Fire may at first seem like the Wii Remote-flailing equivalent of a hack 'n slash button-mashing extravaganza, if given the chance you might find that there's quite a bit of finesse |
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3.75/5 | Race Driver: Create & Race | Right out of the box, Race Driver: Create and Race has fairly simple controls and not a whole lot of variety to catch the eye. |
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4.5/5 | Heavenly Sword | Before I start, here's a quick disclaimer: I am going to reference God of War in this review--a lot. |
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2.5/5 | Warriors Orochi | Prepare yourself for a feast of mashed buttons as Warriors Orochi dishes out a heap of hack-and-slash action. |
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4/5 | Eternal Sonata | An Easy Lesson To Swallow |
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3.5/5 | Namco Museum DS | There seems to be no end to Namco Museums, but this one is the first for DS, so let's see what it has to offer. |
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3.25/5 | Digimon World: Dusk | The prevailing sentiment is that if you play one Pokemon, you've played them all; and if you've played Pokemon, you've played Digimon. |
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3.25/5 | Digimon World: Dawn | The prevailing sentiment is that if you play one Pokemon, you've played them all; and if you've played Pokemon, you've played Digimon. |
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2.75/5 | Fatal Inertia | Ever since the WipeOut series petered out on home consoles, fans of futuristic hover-racing have had to content themselves with top-drawer simulations of current technology. Fatal Inertia clearly aims to end that drought. |
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4.5/5 | Drawn to Life | Been looking for a little bit different way to play God, maybe using a little more of your artistic talent? |
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4/5 | Monster Hunter Freedom 2 | The Monster Hunter series has yet to really catch on in America. In Japan its various iterations have sold millions of copies, yet the same games are barely a blip on the edges of American gamers' radar. |
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4.25/5 | Metroid Prime 3: Corruption | Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is, for the most part, Nintendo's first established franchise to really utilize the Wii's motion-sensing strengths. |
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4/5 | Brave Story: New Traveler | This brave new RPG from developers XSeed Games is, at first glance, perhaps not so brave as it's wrought with many of the same RPG cliches and repetitive gameplay that inflict countless other titles. |
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3/5 | GrimGrimoire | When we heard the concept behind Grim Grimoire, a PS2 real-time strategy game done in a 2D side-scrolling world, we were seriously intrigued. |
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4.75/5 | Ninja Gaiden Sigma | Thankfully, I get a second stab at it with the release of Ninja Gaiden Sigma for the PS3. And man, was it worth the wait. |
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1.75/5 | Vampire Rain | Lots of effort goes into the creation of mediocre games, but man-hours of labor alone are no substitute for loving craftsmanship. |
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5/5 | BioShock | This neo-horror shooter will make your blood run cold, and it's one of the best games of the year. |
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3.5/5 | Atelier Iris 3 ~Grand Fantasm~ | But while this may be an endearing quality in elderly family members, it isn't so great in an RPG. |
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3.25/5 | Valhalla Knights | With the miserable lack of RPGs on the PSP, Valhalla Knights has appeared from the mists with promises of great graphics and enough nuanced hacking and slashing to satisfy any RPGer. |
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4.25/5 | Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters | As a longtime R&C fan, the wait for my favorite Lombax and robot duo to hit the PSP has been a painful one. |
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5/5 | Mario Strikers Charged | Hey Nintendo, thanks for nothing. As if my friends weren't already spending too much time sitting on my couch and eating up all my food, you just had to go and send me Mario Strikers Charged, didn't you? |
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3.25/5 | Shadowrun | Read our first-ever cross-platform review of Shadowrun, the new online shooter that enables PC players to battle Xbox 360 players over Xbox Live. |
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4.5/5 | Forza Motorsport 2 | The American obsession with automobiles might seem odd to those who consider it to be just a simple utilitarian vessel, but to those who appreciate mechanical power and artful bodywork, cars get the blood flowing. |
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2.25/5 | Rampage: Total Destruction | Twenty years later, the formula hasn't changed a bit. |
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5/5 | Halo 3 | There's no denying it: Halo 3 is the biggest videogame in history. |
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2.25/5 | 300: March to Glory | Given a choice, I would have preferred that the developers drew upon Frank Miller's original graphic novel for the game's inspiration, rather than the movie- |
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3/5 | Etrian Odyssey | For the classic RPG fan, Atlus's Etrian Odyssey for the Nintendo DS is everything you could hope for and then some. For the rest of us, it's a cartographer's worst nightmare. |
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4.25/5 | Infernal | Infernal has been available in Europe for a while, but it arrived in our offices with such little fanfare that I initially mistook it for a budget title from some upstart publisher. |
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2.75/5 | Touch The Dead | Despite the name, the game has nothing to do with an erotic attraction to corpses. |
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3.75/5 | Beautiful Katamari | Beautiful Katamari, which is the first title in the franchise to appear on anything other than a Sony branded console, retains the uniquely goofy nature of the original game, from the King's barely coherent trademark ramblings, to the upbeat soundtrack, a |
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4.5/5 | Clive Barker's Jericho | Clive Barker's Jericho is an interesting game that's dripping with atmosphere and style. |
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3.25/5 | Aedis Eclipse: Generation of Chaos | Aedis Eclipse 2: Generation of Chaos had some lofty goals for strategy RPG fans |
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4.5/5 | Mortal Kombat: Armageddon | Your one stop shop for all your Mortal Kombat needs. |
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4/5 | Pokemon Diamond | My ears rang with the call, Unicyclist Mary wants to battle, and I realized I'd been playing too much Pokemon. |
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4.5/5 | World in Conflict | The most imaginative RTS since last year's Company of Heroes, World of Conflict (WIC) arrives with one hell of a bang, offering up some of the most explosive real-time experiences I've ever seen. |
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4.5/5 | Enemy Territory: Quake Wars | I really hope that Quake Wars sells a ton of copies. With Halo 3 already in people's grasp when the game releases, it's possible that it'll be ignored, which is too bad because it's such a blast to play. |
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2.75/5 | Enchanted Arms | With all the negative press surrounding the launch and all the subsequent media blunders, you'd think the gaming gods would cut the PS3 a break. |
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4.5/5 | Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars | Command & Conquer is perhaps the most recognizable real-time strategy series, and it's always offered absorbing excursions into an alternate reality of high technology and explosive warfare. |
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3.5/5 | Honeycomb Beat | Honeycomb Beat is not the most original game on the market, but with it the tile-flipping puzzle genre has a chill new entry. |
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5/5 | God of War II | Twice as Epic as the Original |
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3.75/5 | TMNT | There was once a time when the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ruled the world. |
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3.25/5 | Wario: Master of Disguise | At first glance, Wario: Master of Disguise seems like a basic platformer in the tradition of Wario's red-capped cousin. |
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4.5/5 | Mario Party 8 | The third-party stuff, while interesting, hasn't exactly set the world on fire and Wii owners have been waiting patiently--or not so patiently--for Nintendo to throw open their front doors, Willy Wonka-style, and introduce us to the next magical first-par |
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3/5 | Silverfall | Imitation has often been called the sincerest form of flattery, but that rule should have been discredited long ago. |
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4.25/5 | The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar | To many people, Lord of the Rings: Shadows of Angmar may seem like just another flavor of fantasy MMO, but in some ways, it's the flavor |
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4.25/5 | Spider-Man 3 | If past history is any indication, Spider-Man 3 should have been a twice cursed game: not only is it a movie-licensed game (strike one), it's also a game based on a comic book (strike two). |
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3.75/5 | The Darkness | The last thing you can say about The Darkness is that it's just like every other first-person shooter. |
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3.5/5 | Calling All Cars | The PlayStation Network has some new downloadable content in the form of "Calling All Cars!" But is it any good? |
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5/5 | Assassin's Creed | Take a leap of faith with Assassin's Creed and you will be rewarded with one of the finest gaming experiences ever created! |
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3.75/5 | Stuntman: Ignition | What red-blooded American male hasn't fantasized about pulling off some insane vehicular stunt for the viewing pleasure of millions? |
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3.5/5 | F.E.A.R. | Our pre-release impressions of the PlayStation 3 port of F.E.A.R. weren't exactly positive, as the alarmingly low-res graphics and uneven framerate left us with a bad taste in our mouths. |
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3/5 | Star Wars: Empire at War | Empire at War isn't just RTS-lite--it's RTS extremely lite. |
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5/5 | Dead or Alive 4 | ... Dead or Alive 4 is still hands-down the best installment in the series yet, and dare we say, maybe one of the best fighting games out there. |
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4/5 | Quake 4 | Quake 4 is more a refinement than an overhaul ... |
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5/5 | F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon (FEAR) | You'll likely be frightened--but you definitely won't be disappointed. |
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3.5/5 | Bet on Soldier: Blood Sport | Bet on Soldier attempts to up the ante on the genre, but instead deals a conservative hand that only FPS fans will want to check. |
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4.5/5 | Dungeon Siege II | Diablo fans, meanwhile, are likely to play Dungeon Seige II once or twice, enjoy it immensely, and then sheepishly slink right back into Diablo II's infernal claws. |
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4.5/5 | Fable: The Lost Chapters | Fable may not be the paradigm-shattering game fans had hoped for, but it's definitely a worthy addition to any fantasy junkie's RPG collection. |
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4.5/5 | Jade Empire | ...the game is still hopelessly engrossing and thoroughly replayable. |
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4.5/5 | World of Warcraft | [...] it's easily the closest MMORPGs have yet come to perfection. |
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3.5/5 | Pacific Fighters | ...the fun of the game won't end at release... |
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4.5/5 | Sid Meier's Pirates! - Live the Life | Pirates! may not have all the frills, but it's got plenty of thrills. |
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5/5 | Halo 2 | This is about as easy an Xbox buying decision as there is: just do it. |
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5/5 | Half-Life 2 | On its own, Half-Life 2 is everything you asked for. And that's only the half of it. |
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4.5/5 | GTA: San Andreas | ...but having to constantly visit fast food joints in order to stave off starvation is simply sloppy game design. |
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4/5 | Far Cry | It’s a solid, challenging jungle assault that perhaps foretells the future with its gorgeous interactive environment, but some lackluster game design keeps it stuck firmly in the rut of the right now. |
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4.5/5 | City of Heroes | With so many EQ-me-toos out there, it’s refreshing to play something new, and to have it be this good is like finding a cooler of lemonade in the middle of the desert. |
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5/5 | Thief: Deadly Shadows | The true wonder of the game isn’t in normal mapping or Havok physics, but rather in the low-tech ways in which the game turns skulking in the dark into tons of fun. |
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4/5 | Painkiller | Painkiller might not be overly smart or innovative, but it’s damn cool, and that just rocks. |
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5/5 | Call of Duty | All told, Call of Duty is spellbinding enough to rank as one of the year’s best games. |
