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Mar 21, 2007

Sacred Rings

PC Review

Remember Myst? Of course you do. The program changed the course of PC gaming forever, with its gorgeous static graphics, mind bending puzzles, and decently twisted characters. It also spawned loads of clones after it hit big back in 1995. The Sacred Rings can best be described as one of those clones, just 15 years late. Outside of the fact that you can actually scroll the camera around each of the static screens in the game, you'd be forgiven for mixing this up for one of the aforementioned ...
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Apr 12, 2007

Safari Photo Africa: Wild Earth

PC Review

How do you make children enjoy, rather than feel insulted by, edutainment games? Well, getting them to take photos of elephant poo and urinating rhinos is not a bad start. This Animal Planet-branded FPPS (first-person photography shooter) will make your child a better person in three ways: 1) education about the animal kingdom, such as why male lions are chauvinist pigs, 2) a vague sense of how photography works, and 3) a grasp of how to navigate an open 3D environment using the WADS keys and ...
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May 2, 2008

Saga

PC Review

Often, an unremarkable game can inspire the most conversation. Though a score of 8 was the height of our passion for Dawn of War: Soulstorm, we spent drunken, ranting hours discussing it. How, we asked, can an RTS come up with a truly satisfying metagame to link its single-player skirmishes together?Even if it’s got a bucket load of its own problems, MMORTS Saga is a fascinating answer to that question. ...

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Nov 3, 2004

The Saga of Ryzom

PC Review

First impressions count. Sorry, Ryzom, but it's true. Within the first 15 minutes of play, I'd had one character disappear in the middle of a conversation, breaking the tutorial, encountered animals with names like biguglymonster_2b, and had been assigned a starter quest that involved - no joke - delivering a package to a nearby village, two kilometres away... within five minutes. Not that I got there. I was too busy being beaten up by giant crabs. Also, my head kept disappearing, and I was ...
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Aug 29, 2006

Saints Row

360 Review

Aside from the formula for Coca-Cola, no pop culture secret has been more difficult to replicate than Grand Theft Auto's recipe for open-ended videogaming thuggery. A few have had moderate RC Cola-level acceptance, but most have been Crystal Pepsi-sized failures. Finally, however, we have a winner. Saints Row is the Pepsi to GTA's Coke. Emulating GTA with near-perfect precision - a subversive, satirical sense of humor is the only thing lacking - Saints Row drops your custom-created anti-hero ...
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Oct 24, 2006

Sam & Max Episode 1: Culture Shock

PC Review

It took 13 years, a high-profile cancellation and a corporate schism that ended with the formation of developer Telltale Games, but bizarre crimefighting team Sam & Max have finally returned to computer screens. In Sam & Max Episode 1: Culture Shock, the dog-and-rabbit detective duo hit the pavement in their festering New York neighborhood, this time to shut down an incredibly chintzy world-domination plot. Like 1993's Sam & Max Hit the Road (and Telltale's earlier Bone games), Culture Shock ...
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Jan 8, 2007

Sam & Max Episode 2: Situation: Comedy

PC Review

The first episode of a series is rarely the best, so it wasn't too surprising that the point-and-click adventure Sam & Max: Episode 1: Culture Shock - while fun overall - was short, meandering and packed with uneven humor. We knew it'd get better, though, and with Episode 2: Situation: Comedy, it has. The writing is tighter, there's much more to do and the humor has edged closer to the inspired lunacy of the Sam & Max comic books. In short, the series is really starting to get off the ...
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Jan 10, 2008

Sam & Max Episode 202: Moai Better Blues

PC Review

Jan 10, 2008 Two episodes in, the second "season" of Sam & Max is already blowing the first six-game series out of the water. In fact, it's not a stretch to say that Episode 202: Moai Better Blues is the best game so far in the demented point-and-click series about a dog detective and his gruesome rabbit sidekick. It's certainly the funniest by a wide margin, being the first episode to actually make us laugh out loud more than once. And considering what a bunch of jaded humor snobs we are, ...
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Feb 12, 2008

Sam & Max Episode 203: Night of the Raving Dead

PC Review

Zombies can improve anything - anything - and the Sam & Max series is no exception. As the second season's third episode opens, the walking dead have swarmed Sam and Max's run-down neighborhood - and strangely, that's a good thing. Frankly, the addition of a few shambling corpses makes the place livelier than it's ever been, threat of brain-eating or no. ...

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Mar 14, 2008

Sam & Max Episode 204: Chariots of the Dogs

PC Review

PC - Sam & Max Episode 204: Chariots of the Dogs - Sam & Max Episode 204: Chariots of the Dogs

Episodic gaming’s dynamic detecting duo travel through time and space (and the local convenience store) in Chariots of the Dogs, the latest installment of their series' second "season". A substantial improvement from the lackadaisical content of episodes two and three, Chariots never quite reaches the awesomeness of season two opener Ice Station Santa, but it does offer some solid yuks and a head-scratcher or two. As with all the ...
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