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Cabela's Alaskan Adventures (Review)

Feb 23, 2007

The Sikh temple massacre level in Hitman 2. Hot Coffee. Weve seen it all on PS2, yet no one game has quite elected the same level of disbelief and horror as Cabelas Alaskan Adventures, which encourages you whip out a rifle and fatally wound a lady caribou by shooting her right in front of her ...

Cabela's Alaskan Adventures (Review)

Feb 23, 2007

The Sikh temple massacre level in Hitman 2. Hot Coffee. Urinating in Conker. Weve seen it all on Xbox, yet no one game has quite elected the same level of disbelief and horror as Cabelas Alaskan Adventures, which encourages you whip out a rifle and fatally wound a lady caribou by shooting her right in front of her ...

Cabela's Trophy Bucks (Review)

Jul 11, 2008

Three confessions: we enjoy hunting sims, we’re rather partial to venison, and we once killed a real deer (accidentally. With a Ford Escort). In theory we’re the best chance Cabela’s Trophy Bucks has of getting a decent score around here. In theory.

The trouble is we’re also not a complete idiot happy to spend hard-earned moolah on a game with all the depth and allure of a cow-pie. Truly, this is the worst ...

Cabela's Trophy Bucks (Review)

Oct 19, 2007

Oct 19, 2007 If the thought of getting up early, intentionally smelling like buck urine and sitting in one spot for hours waiting for something to shoot isn't entirely foreign, then Cabela's Trophy Bucks might seem interesting to you. Seem interesting. In this single-player, single mode, first-person shooting game, you are plopped in the middle of a prime hunting spot right as the best game (in this case, animals) are passing through or where the best fowl have decided to nest. In each of the ...

Cabela's Trophy Bucks (Review)

Oct 19, 2007

Caesar IV (Review)

Oct 10, 2006

Managing the Roman Empire is no easy task, but somebody's got to do it. And in Caesar IV that somebody is you. After an eight year hiatus, the classic city-building franchise is back, in all of its micro-managing glory. Limitations on city size and esthetic requirements are the two biggest obstacles (outside of the economy) that any budding governor is going to face. Just as in real life, real estate in Caesar IV is a limited resource and how well you plan out your city can easily make or ...

Cake Mania (Review)

Apr 17, 2007

There's a line of people out the door, you're running three ovens and frosting stations, the cupcakes are still in the microwave, and the guy in the pink bunny costume is melting down because you mistakenly gave him a red-frosted, egg-shaped cake instead of the round, chocolate one with the sailboat. If only his favorite TV show was on... This is a completely typical scenario in Cake Mania, a cute little bargain-priced title in which you play a baker's granddaughter determined to save the ...

Call of Duty 2 (Review)

Oct 20, 2006

You've been through the hell of World War II before in first-person shooters like Medal of Honor and Brothers in Arms. But beating back Hitler's blitzkrieg has never been as shell-shockingly chaotic and intense and indeed heavily scripted, as it is in Call of Duty 2. You'll alternately fight in the American, British and Russian armies, each experience complete with fanatically historic weaponry and badly accented English. You'll regularly attempt heroic assaults against impossible odds, ...

Call of Duty 2 (Review)

Feb 25, 2006

Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (Review)

Feb 28, 2006

When gazing out over the smoking, cratered expanse of World War II shooters, it takes a really special title to snare your interest. Call of Duty 2: Big Red One takes a fairly competent perspective on the genre, but, despite some stirring segments through Italy, these tattered soldiers could have used a little more time in training. CoD2:BRO centers around the exploits of the First Infantry Division (the legendary "Fighting First"), so you ship-out to the war's European hotspots, facing ...

Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (Review)

Feb 27, 2006

When gazing out over the smoking, cratered expanse of World War II shooters, it takes a special title to snare your interest. Call of Duty 2: Big Red One takes a competent perspective on the genre, but, despite some stirring segments through Italy, these tattered soldiers could have used a bit more time in ...

Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (Review)

Feb 23, 2006

Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (Review)

Feb 15, 2006

There are times while playing Call of Duty 2 that you'd be forgiven for thinking the apocalypse was happening around you. Scampering across a Sicilian beach, you'll be ducking, diving and weaving as seemingly everyone in the world takes pot-shots at your ass. Explosions batter your ears and flames can be seen all around. Call of Duty 2, even more so than its prequel, is built around a structure of some rather excellent first-person-shooty bits, which then lead into some of the most ...

Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (Review)

Jan 31, 2006

When gazing out over the smoking expanse of World War II shooters, it takes a really special title to catch your interest. Call of Duty 2: Big Red One takes a fairly competent bayonnette stab at it, but these soldiers could have used a little more time in ...

Call of Duty 3 (Review)

Nov 22, 2006

The first-person shooter has hardly been the bread and butter of any Nintendo box (blah blah Goldeneye) but when the Wii remote was first unveiled, one of the big questions was how it would fare in a straight-up action game. With Metroid delayed, this port of Call of Duty 3 is our first glimpse of the remote in the FPS wild. It's a pretty impressive beast. The good news, both for Nintendo and for fans, is that the remote works quite well as a stand-in for the barrel of your gun, with precision ...

Call of Duty 3 (Review)

Nov 15, 2006

Youre past the hard part - youve somehow managed to secure a PS3. Now, what to play on it? After Resistance, your best bet might just be a sequel. Fortunately, that sequel is Call of Duty 3, which repeats its successful formula of strikingly realistic graphics and dramatically scripted action, but adds enough new features this time around to make it worth your re-enlisting. Call of Duty 3 is still the same straight-arrow scripted game-on-rails it was back when we were playing Call of Duty 2 ...

Call of Duty 3 (Review)

Nov 10, 2006

Last year around this time, we were frothing at the mouth over Call of Duty 2. But now, a year older and a little wiser, we expect more out of our Xbox 360 than some jazzy-looking smoke bombs. Fortunately, Call of Duty 3 adds just enough new features to bring us back for more. Call of Duty 3 is still the same straight-arrow, scripted, game-on-rails its predecessor was but developer Treyarch has refined this new iteration to such an extent that you'll barely notice the lack of freedom. You'll ...

Call of Duty 3 (Review)

Nov 8, 2006

Last year around this time, we were frothing at the mouth over Call of Duty 2. But now, a year older and a little wiser, we expect more out of our Xbox 360 than some jazzy looking smoke bombs. Fortunately, Call of Duty 3 adds just enough new features to bring us back for ...

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Review)

Nov 5, 2007

Nov 5, 2007 [Editor's Note, Nov 9, 2007: We've changed this game's score from the original 9 up to a 10. The reason is simple: the more we play the game, especially against real people online, the more we grow to love it and the less we mind its few faults. It's still not perfect or even particularly evolved from the first three CoD games, but it's nonetheless one of the most finely-tuned, expertly crafted games we've ever played, and we would be wrong not to give it our highest ...

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Review)

Nov 5, 2007

[Editor's Note, Nov 9, 2007: We've changed this game's score from the original 9 up to a 10. The reason is simple: the more we play the game, especially against real people online, the more we grow to love it and the less we mind its few faults. It's still not perfect or even particularly evolved from the first three CoD games, but it's nonetheless one of the most finely-tuned, expertly crafted games we've ever played, and we would be wrong not to give it our highest recommendation.] Nov 5, ...