I’ve been around video games for a long time, and that experience has demonstrated to me that there are really only two routes a game can take to reach great success. It can either present truly original and groundbreaking ideas, in which case its flaws can be forgiven, or it can take existing ideas and [...]

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Before I start talking about Prince of Persia, it’s only fair to mention that I am a colossal fan of the older titles. Sands of Time sits firmly in my top three Best Games Ever Made, and while Warrior Within and Two Thrones drifted away from that level of stunning achievement, they’re still good enough [...]

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I’ve been a big fan of racing games for a long time. I spent many happy hours in high school running my friends into the supernaturally solid shrubs and lampposts featured in Top Gear. Indeed it was the arcade version of Race Drivin’ that taught me how to use a manual transmission, and I’ve preferred [...]

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You know that stuck-up prick who thinks that your enjoyment of the Need For Speed series makes you an uncultured asshole? The one who tries to convince you that you should play Gran Turismo, even though you don’t consider Gran Turismo a game because in your definition of game the word “fun” appears somewhere?
I’m that [...]

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Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest franchises in gaming today. The original GTA created a new genre of game almost single-handedly, and in so doing established itself as both a powerful force in gaming and a lightning rod for controversy. People like to point at GTA as representing the most antisocial aspects of [...]

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Most game reviews involve a fairly lengthy process of playing the game enough to develop a very complete picture of all its strengths and weaknesses. For this reason, professional game reviewers are frequently compelled to spend a lot of time playing games they don’t really like just so that they can write a review of [...]

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Dark Sector was originally announced nearly four years ago, and the visuals and combat mechanics it showed off back then really had people excited. If Digital Extremes had managed to get their game out in 2006, it would have been one of the best games released that year. Sadly, the two year delay means that [...]

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If you’ve somehow managed to miss out on the previous Devil May Cry titles, the essential idea of the games is something like this:
“So there’s this guy, right, he’s like, SO BADASS. No, more badass than that. Like, the most badass guy you can imagine, only with this awesome sword, that’s got, like [...]

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So, here it is at last. A lot of people have been biting their nails over this title for a long time. The team behind Assassin’s Creed is the same team responsible for Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, which even now still ranks high on many lists of The Best Games Ever Made. Between [...]

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There are few franchises in PC gaming more successful than the one bearing the lambda logo. The original Half-Life still reigns as the best selling First Person Shooter for PCs of all time, and for good reason. Half-Life was the first really successful fusion of the FPS and exploration/puzzle genres, and even today there are [...]

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