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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It really is as good as everybody says. The main campaign is a pretty generic terrorist-group-nuke-danger sort of scenario, but you don’t mind. It’s the execution that makes the game work.
The production values are through the roof all across the board. The shockwave effects of grenades and explosives going off are so cool that [...]

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I’ll state right off the bat here that I am by no means a lethal villain in Halo3. I tend to make poor decisions under pressure, I’m impatient, and I’m not a very good shot. I’m pretty happy any time I pull a positive Kill/Death ratio, and it’s not likely I’ll ever bother to rank [...]

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Mass effect is a bit of a roller coaster ride. This has been one of the most hyped new releases for the Xbox 360 for the Christmas season, and not without reason. Bioware is one of those developers who specialize in something and execute it with consistent brilliance. However, Mass Effect is their first title [...]

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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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The First Person Shooter has been around for a long time now, and most of them follow a set formula.
From Wolfenstein 3d to Halo 3, the recipe is pretty much the same. You have a neat looking place to wander around in, lots of things that need killing, and a smorgasbord of weapons to [...]

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Never have I played a game that was so hyped to me, but so boring and uninteresting when I played it.
I suppose I should clarify before continuing. I don’t hate Half-Life 2. It was an OK game, in fact it had some great elements. The level design was spectacular. The physics were unheard of. The [...]

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