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 ...
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Jan 15, 2009

Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2009

360 Review

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For a game that’s all about stalking wild animals over vast landscapes like Elmer Fudd, Cabela’s 2009 misses the target by a mile. The environments – from the South African Serengeti to the icy mountains of Canada – are unsubtly channeled, so that you never really get the chance to explore any more than the developers want you to. ...

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Oct 19, 2007

Cabela's Trophy Bucks

360 Review

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 ...
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Oct 20, 2006

Call of Duty 2

360 Review

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, ...
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Nov 10, 2006

Call of Duty 3

360 Review

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 ...
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Nov 8, 2006

Call of Duty 3

360 Review

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 ...
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Nov 5, 2007

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

360 Review

[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, ...
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Nov 11, 2008

Call of Duty: World at War

360 Review

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If there’s one word that sums up World at War for us, it’s ‘brutal’. The latest Call of Duty, developed over the last two years by Treyarch – not series creator Infinity Ward – is a brutal slog through a WWII setting unlike any other. You may think you’ve ‘been there’ and ‘done that’ when it comes to this particular global conflict, but after five minutes in either the blood-soaked single player campaign or the frenzied multiplayer you’ll realise that this is far from your average, tired WWII shooter. ...

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Jun 11, 2007

Call of Juarez

360 Review

If the 100th anniversary of the Duke brought a tear to your eye, theres a good chance Call of Juarez has a crusty wanted poster with your mug on it. It wonderfully captures the pristine and burgeoning frontier that provided the backdrop for many a brutal Western endeavor. A first person shooter thats equal parts Deadwood and The Searchers; stagecoaches, saloons and saltier-than-thou dialogue really help Juarez nail its intended time and ...
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Jun 30, 2009

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

360 Review

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After apocalyptic future worlds, there can be few settings less original than the Old West. Chuck in a desert, some dueling and a few authentic guns and you have yourselves a game, right? Well Techland don’t subscribe to that – Bound in Blood, like its predecessor, has ideas coming out the wazoo. ...

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