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Feb 2, 2007
360 Preview | Black 2
Remember Black? The whole point of Blacks existence was to faithfully recreate the explosive mayhem of a Bruckheimer flick. But as stunning as it was - one of the smoothest games of the Xbox/PS2 era - it was undermined by the first wave of 360 shooters. Developers Criterion were probably aware that this would happen, judging by the short run-time of the Campaign mode (five missions) and the absence of multiplayer of any kind whatsoever. Black, in other words, was a balls-out advertisment for ...
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Jul 25, 2007
360 Preview | BlackSite: Area 51
BlackSite: Area 51 is an amalgamation of everything we've seen a million times before. It's got aliens invading our planet. It's got beefy soldiers running around and shooting those aliens. It's even got the generic desert landscapes on which such clichéd action invariably unfolds. So why, in a holiday season packed with triple-A marquee shooters, are we still so excited to play it? The answer is buried beneath the game's testosterone-laced surface. Despite all the sci-fi military ...
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Jul 18, 2007
360 Preview | BlackSite: Area 51
Harvey Smith, famed for his work on Deus Ex, sits on the edge of the stage as if about to talk about some new theater production. In fact hes getting comfortable in a Soho cinema and talking to us about BlackSite: Area 51- the Unreal 3.0-powered squad-based shooter and increasingly distant sequel to the inexplicably popular Area 51. Astonishingly, the BlackSite team has opted to have “seamless drop-in drop-out” co-op throughout the single-player game. “At every turn co-op has ...
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Jun 13, 2007
360 Preview | BlackSite: Area 51
Its a breath of fresh air to see a next-gen FPS that doesnt use Modern Historys favorite bad guy - the Nazi - as rifle-fodder in war-torn Europe. What about the war thats been raging ever since little green men invaded our turf in 47? We all believed that Will Smith landed a decisive victory for mankind - as seen in political documentary Independence Day; but it seems the aliens have returned for vengenace in Midways BlackSite: Area 51. BlackSite eschews the camp of the original, going the ...
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Feb 1, 2007
360 Preview | BlackSite: Area 51
BlackSite returns to its wacky alien conspiracies as its starting point and twists them into something ten times worse. The first game had you exploring Area 51 in the aftermath of a viral outbreak that turned scientists into mutants, leading to the discovery of an entire alien colony buried beneath the secret ...
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Jan 26, 2007
360 Preview | BlackSite: Area 51
If you like your science fiction kitschy, you've come to the wrong place. And if you like your alien invasions to involve tin-plated saucers, ray guns and adorable egg-headed extraterrestrials, BlackSite: Area 51 is not the game for you. The aliens here are big, mean and freaky. Seriously, disturbingly freaky. Even after getting hands-on time with the upcoming first person shooter, we're nowhere close to figuring them out. We encountered the first tearing off a car's door, reaching inside with ...
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May 23, 2007
360 Preview | Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII
The mission: Create a fresh and original World War II game. Sounds impossible, right? At this point, fighting Nazis has practically become its own genre. The team behind flight combat actioner Blazing Angels, however, was determined to somehow make the game's sequel a unique and novel experience for players. Their solution? Start making shit up. Forget old-fashioned dogfights. In Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII, you can launch a heat-seeking guided missile at your foe, or blast ...
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Mar 7, 2006
360 Preview | Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
Why don't Top Guns get any love? Crimson Skies and Secret Weapons Over Normandy were a blast, and we demand more. Ubisoft's WWII era flight opera Blazing Angels is primed to deliver the kind of experience that has been sadly lacking on the consoles for the last year. Blazing Angels is all about the squad. Players can employ different pilots for different specialized jobs during missions, giving commands to wingmen with a flick of the d-pad. Your squadron divebombs and snap-turns its way ...
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Aug 6, 2008
360 Preview | Blitz: The League II
360 - Blitz: The League II - Seven ways Blitz: The League II is better than Madden 09

Yes, we know: Madden 09 is fantastic and it’s going to sell four jillion-billion units. We get that. But you know what? It’s not the only football game in town. Like a 90-pound math nerd quietly taking jiu-jitsu so he can send the class bully crashing to the cafeteria floor, Blitz: The League II has spent a long time watching Madden and looking for a blind spot. And it’s found seven. ...

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Jun 6, 2008
360 Preview | Blood Bowl
360 - Blood Bowl - Blood Bowl

You there: do you like Football? Do you like fantasy role-playing? What, really? Both? Well, silence those voices in your head that incessantly cry ‘weirdo!’ and ‘murder animals!’ with the gladsome news that Games Workshop’s 21-year-old Blood Bowl board game is headed to PC and 360 in the second half of the year. ...

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