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Oct 12, 2006

Scarface: The World is Yours

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Everyone always knew Tony Montana was one tough hombre - but strong enough to survive the famous attack on his mansion? Last time we saw the Cuban drug lord, he was knee deep in blow and bullets, and his life appeared to be finito. However, in Scarface: The World Is Yours, our antihero has emerged none the worse for wear. He's as bad-ass as ever: a coke-dealing, woman-chasing, f-bomb-dropping son of a bitch hell-bent on reclaiming what he feels is still ...
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Sep 1, 2004

Second Sight

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With TimeSplitters and its sequel, Free Radical's staff seemed to struggle deliberately against the prevailing trends in FPS and action games, trends that they themselves had helped create in their work at Rare on GoldenEye and Perfect Dark. Filmic style, narrative coherence and considered, tactical combat were all eschewed. In their place were frantic, twitchy arcade shooting and a charmingly silly kitchen-sink conceit that could accommodate every spoof and staple they could think of. The ...
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Jun 22, 2007

Serious Sam 2

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All these so-called "authentic" war-themed shooters are fine and dandy, but what if your one of those people who thinks the gritty realism of is a bummer? Step forward square-jawed hero, Sam, for a second outing. With a stash of noisy whack-ass weapons and vehicles, a ridiculous plot thats so thin you could stick a miniskirt on it and call it Kate Moss, and little more to do than frag your way through a near endless succession of ludicrously designed but grin-worthy enemies, Sam is the perfect ...
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Oct 14, 2005

Serious Sam 2

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All these so-called 'authentic' war-themed shooters are fine and all that.But when a member of your family has been dodging real bullets and real grenades on the streets of Basra and has seen men in their troop stretchered into the medical tent with limbs missing and faces burnt beyond all recognition, your appetite for shooting virtual Arabs/Vietnamese/Germans/Japanese does tend to disappear a bit. Not that the likes of Brothers in Arms and the Conflict series aren't decent videogames, but in ...
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Apr 21, 2006

Sid Meier's Pirates!: Live the Life

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This remake of the 1987 PC classic isn't so much one game as an extremely well put together collection of simple but fun minigames. All of the different modes in Sid Meier's Pirates!: Live the Life have completely different gameplay, but with the help of Disney-style pirating (pillaging, but no raping) and swashbuckling they weave together to form a highly entertaining experience. As a young Orlando Bloom-esque character whose family is sold into slavery when your father couldn't pay his ...
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Jun 22, 2007

The Sims 2

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As successful as the Sims 2 juggernaut has been on the PC, the designers of this newly minted console remix probably could've offered a straight port of the same content. After all, if PC players can't avoid an unhealthy obsession with cooking, cleaning, working, dealing with relationships, and decorating the Bed, Bath and Beyond out of their little virtual people's homes, console players would probably develop the same affliction. However, that isn't what happened. While the signature ...
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Jun 22, 2007

Sniper Elite

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Sniping - and were sure lots of you will agree with this - is one of the best activities in modern videogames. A supreme mix of satisfaction, skill and cowardice, youre made to feel like a ninja, but a ninja armed like a small tank. A fair few of you out there probably have PhDs in headshots too. So, what about an entire game dedicated to this most simultaneously tense, irritating and exhilarating of Deathmatch ...
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Feb 17, 2004

Sonic Heroes

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It's been several years since gamers moved on from the 16bit era, but Sega, it seems, is still struggling to find a comfy space for Sonic on today's generation of hardware. His defining characteristics - excessive speed and loop-the-loop abandon - still have no acceptable place in 3D platforming, and Sonic Team still seems hogtied by the idea of making a character move this fast in an environment that's more than just a racetrack.So, Sonic Heroes brings with it the prospect of teamwork - ...
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Mar 7, 2006

Sonic Riders

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What was once a great and respectable franchise has now become a dumping ground for half-baked games. Sonic Riders straps the world-famous, sonic-booming hedgehog onto a hoverboard in the hopes of creating a blow-your-hair-back, thrill-a-minute mix of Mario Kart and snowboarding trickster SSX. It's fast all right. And loud, too. But everything else that matters (control, course layout, decent multiplayer ... you name it) comes up dead last. The various hoverboards, or "Extreme Gear," ...
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Feb 15, 2006

Splinter Cell 3

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It's like a lesson in how great games should be made. The adventures of aging, likable, last-chance super-spy Sam Fisher gripped us from the moment he made his debut over two years ago. As this is the third time we've got behind Splinter Cell's wheel, it was going to take something jaw-dropping to get our attention. Unsurprisingly, that's exactly what we got - visual splendour the like of which you've never seen before on a console. The beauty and authenticity of the environments creates an ...
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