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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 Dangerous Hunts 2009 (Review)

Jan 15, 2009

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. ...

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 ...

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 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

[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, ...

Call of Duty: World at War (Review)

Nov 11, 2008

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. ...

Call of Juarez (Review)

Jun 11, 2007

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 ...

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (Review)

Jun 30, 2009

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. ...

Carcassonne - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

Jun 27, 2007

With the launch of Catan a few weeks back, Microsoft showed off a new side of Xbox Live Arcade; a side where mature, thoughtful board game fans are more than welcome. That being said, however, Catan definitely isnt a jump-in-and-swim kind of experience. Its an awesome game that takes more than a little getting used to before you really know how to play properly. Carcassonne is the second game to follow the mature tabletop theme. This virtual adaptation of the popular, strategic German board ...

Cars (Review)

Jan 22, 2007

Imagine a game like Need for Speed Underground 2, in which you can drive around in a freely explorable city, racing other drivers or just messing around as you see fit. Now, imagine it with talking cars, a tiny desert town and nearly every hint of crime or violence removed, and you'll have a good idea of what to expect from Cars. While it ties in with the Pixar movie, Cars picks up where the film left off, with cherry-red racetrack star Lightning McQueen settling into the town of Radiator ...

Cars Mater-National (Review)

Nov 1, 2007

Nov 1, 2007 As the second adaptation of a now-sixteen-month-old Disney/Pixar CG animated film, Cars: Mater-National absolutely screams cash-in. But considering the quality of the original release and the pristine pedigree of Rainbow Studios, we remained optimistic that Mater-National would prove to be an evolutionary upgrade over its very solid predecessor. It's not - it's a total cash-in. In fact, Cars: Mater-National is one of the more blatant retreads we've seen in some time, as the core ...

Cars Race-O-Rama (Review)

Nov 11, 2009

We honestly presumed, when embarking on this third outing for perhaps the most charmless Pixar franchise of them all, that it wasn’t THQ’s fault. There is, insane though it sounds, a new Cars movie in production, and of course a tie-in videogame is a must (even if we were already charmed quite enough by the first one, thank you very much). ...

Castle Crashers - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

Sep 23, 2008

Once again The Behemoth prove that the finer details of game design escape them. Before you run off to your favourite forums to talk about this MASSIVE INJUSTICE (all in caps) and tell everyone what jerks we are, just wait one moment: even though Castle Crashers is a good game – it’s just not a game that in any way justifies the production length or the utterly stupefying degree of hype. ...

Castlevania Symphony of the Night - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

Mar 22, 2007

If you read nothing else in this review, just know this: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is one of the greatest games ever made, and its yours for 10 bucks. Now go buy it. It was originally released on the PlayStation in 1997 and was the first of the “Metroidvania” games in the series, the one that set the stage for all of the handheld installments to follow. Rather than simply running left to right, whipping one undead baddie after another, Symphony charges you - as Draculas ...

Catan - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

May 2, 2007

If you're not familiar with the Settlers of Catan board game, the level of involvement Catan requires may be a little off-putting at first. There are tiles with pictures, numbers and dots; several different types of game pieces; two different sets of cards; and dice all being used at once throughout the game. It may appear complex (and even chaotic) at first, but learning the basic gameplay proves to be surprisingly easy. ...

Centipede & Millipede - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

May 2, 2007

Paperboy and these two 'pede games have something in common - they just don't translate perfectly to a home console. The track ball controller setup found on the original Centipede and Millipede arcade cabinets allowed for sometimes frustrating, but very precise control over the little weapon floating around the bottom of the playing field. And while the analog sticks in contemporary game controllers emulate the feel of said track ball better than ever, they're still not perfect. That's not to ...

Chessmaster LIVE - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

Feb 5, 2008

Board and card games have proven pretty popular on Xbox Live Arcade, so it’s a bit surprising that we haven’t seen more of them. The latest board game to join the party is one of the most widely-known, and one of the hardest to master.And that might be the biggest thing working against Chessmaster Live - chess simply isn’t that easy to play, to the point that a lot of people just aren’t interested in investing the time ...

Chromehounds (Review)

Aug 8, 2006

Tuesday 8 August 2006 Screwing the lids on bottles of pop, bomb disposal and putting little boxes in bigger boxes: there are many jobs that we rely on robots to do for us, tasks too dull, dangerous or repetitive for fleshy humans to bother with.But look! Here comes Chromehounds to show us exactly how dull things can get and how boring it can be when you've got metal skin and cameras for eyes. It should be great. It should be 60-foot towering titans blasting buildings and tearing across a ...