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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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Sep 20, 2006

Samurai Warriors 2

360 Review

Koei is releasing the same game for what seems to be the 97th time in the last four years. The latest installment in the popular Warriors series is Samurai Warriors 2. Based in feudal Japan, this title blends a ridiculous amount of mindless violence, entertaining cutscenes, some truly horrendous voice acting and an upgrade system that's totally wasted. Put it all together and you have a real yawner of a game that's more dirty farm peasant than exalted warlord. Only the most loyal of fans should ...
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Mar 2, 2007

Samurai Warriors 2: Empires

360 Review

Samurai Warriors 2: Empires looks great on paper: based on historical Japanese events, you must lead your feudal clan of soldiers into battle, hacking away at enemies, unleashing devastating special attacks all while devising strategy and executing policy in hopes of guiding your people to ultimate victory and the unification of your beloved Nippon. Sounds awesome, no? Well, Koei must agree because theyve made the same game countless times already under the Dynasty Warriors moniker. As the ...
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Nov 8, 2007

Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action

360 Review

Scene It? You probably have. It's a popular media-based trivia board game that's been available for years in numerous different editions. Even some On Demand cable plans have a free version. So what makes the Xbox 360 version special? Well for one, Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action has all new controllers for that ass. These little plastic pollywogs [bottom right] may not look like much, but remember: they're designed exclusively for this game, and more importantly, to work on an actual game ...
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Aug 15, 2008

Schizoid - Xbox Live Arcade

360 Review

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Sometimes the simple ideas are the best ones, and they really don’t get much more basic than this. Depending on the difficulty you control either one or two ships with the analogue sticks and must swallow enemies of the same colour while dodging the rest. ...

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Sep 13, 2006

Scramble - Xbox Live Arcade

360 Review

Konami's greatest games keep appearing on Xbox Live - and somehow, Scramble showed up too. While games like Time Pilot aged gracefully, this side-scrolling space shooter feels old and inflexible, a crusty gaming battleship dragged out of drydock. All you can do is stare and go, "Wow, that's old." Granted, they gave the old girl a fresh coat of paint - a major improvement, considering the horrifying original color scheme changes flourescent shades every few seconds - but the gameplay underneath ...
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Nov 16, 2007

Screwjumper! - Xbox Live Arcade

360 Review

Nov 16, 2007 There was a game released for the short-lived Nuon system called Freefall 3050 AD. It was about this supercop who apparently jumped down large holes to save the world or something. No one really knows, because the game sucked, so no one bothered playing for more than a few minutes. Screwjumper can best be described as the spiritual successor to that ...
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Jul 15, 2008

Sea Life Safari - Xbox Live Arcade

360 Review

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It’s an underwater fish-photographing on-rails romp. A submariner’s Pokemon Snap, then. While it’s not fun, nor much of a game, it’s something to be enjoyed while kicking back after an evening’s mindless blammo action. ...

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Sep 17, 2007

Sega Rally Revo

360 Review

Oct. 9, 2007 Way back in 1995, Sega Rally Championship's innovation was its varying friction on the different surfaces. It's a gimmick Sega Rally Revo (plain old Sega Rally in the UK) has run with, with a dozen different surfaces, all of which can be torn up, making subsequent laps entirely unlike the first. Like Motorstorm on the PS3, tracks made by the cars remain in the mud - but unlike Motorstorm, those tracks can be dug deep, leaving whopping great trenches all over the place if you rack ...
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Mar 18, 2008

Sega Superstars Tennis

360 Review

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We love Virtua Tennis, but can a pro tennis star summon a group of dancing aliens to distract his opponent? Unlikely. That’s why we love Sega Superstars Tennis. It takes all of VT’s best bits - the simple controls, the ball physics, the minigames - and sprinkles them with Sega magic, turning it into an explosive kaleidoscope of silly fun. Being supersonic hedgehogs and tiny ball-dwelling monkeys will always be more fun than blokes ...
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