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Get ready to plunge back into the wastelands, Fallout: New Vegas is here. Does it live up to the high standards Fallout 3 set two years ago?
Farming fun for gamers with a green thumb.
Four Spider-Men are better than one.
NHL 2K11
6.5/10
65
Sadly the Wii will have to wait for its day in the sun as NHL 2K11 has some annoying aspects to its core hockey, despite putting Wii MotionPlus to decent use in-game.
The American West has made actors famous and writers rich. It has inspired childhood playground games and grizzled country singers alike. Its stories of heroes and bandits, gold rushes and simple homesteaders have been fictionalized and romanticized to the point that they're known the world over. And yet, videogame makers have either ignored the setting or attempted to squeeze it into existing game conventions. That has all changed now that Rockstar, the group made famous for its Grand Theft Aut
Heavy Rain
9/10
90
Heavy Rain is a hell of an experience. Its controversial control scheme actually works really well in allowing the fantastic story to dictate how events play out, and many of the game's scenes will keep you on the edge of your seat.
BioShock 2
9.1/10
91
Take a moment to consider how bizarre this game world really is. It's set in an underwater sprawl of surface-style skyscrapers, a city called Rapture. Filling the pressurized space is a society founded by an industrialist named Andrew Ryan with the notion that there'd be no limits on what the individual could accomplish. It was all a spectacular failure as the civilization that developed on the ocean floor turned to genetic modification. Gradually their sanity was devoured by their unrestricted
Wield the power of the Omnitrix.
Spielberg wouldn't invite you to this park.
Inkheart
4.5/10
45
A game about great novels shouldn't be this poorly written.
Is this professional bull riding game a bucking good time?
Is this professional bull riding game a bucking good time?
BioShock
9.4/10
94
Last year, 2K Games released a dark and compelling tale for Xbox 360 and PC owners set beneath the sea in the halls of an underwater city known as Rapture. Initially a utopian experiment for artists and scientists, the machinations of Rapture's citizens twisted the city into a nightmarish state of nature – one that you unfortunately find yourself trapped in. For a while, Bioshock appeared as though the first person shooter wouldn't ever see the light of day on the PS3, but thankfully, 2K Games t
An action game without buttons?
This UMD should've been redshirted.
Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials series is certainly off to a painful start. The award winning book's film adaptation has been greeted with some less than favorable reviews. The movie can take solace in the fact that as bad as it is, it's not the worst adaptation of the book, an honor firmly held by video games. Thanks to the A2M developed The Golden Compass for the Nintendo DS, literature fans can be even more frustrated at the half-baked rehashing of a once great novel.
A championship season or a rebuilding year?
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Portal
8.2/10
82
When students from DigiPen showed off their student project Narbacular Drop to a room full of Valve personell, they probably didn't expect that they would not only be hired, but given a budget to expand that idea into something as special as we see with Portal. It's quirky, clever, polished, and presented with a spark of a subtly evil humor that it's hard not to enjoy the quick romp through Aperture Laboratories. The problem is that it is so quick. Players wanting to get their money's worth will
There's trouble in Eastern Europe. The Delta Force is called in, inserting a three-man team into the field to thwart a terrorist threat bent on creating instability in the region. You control that three-man team, which includes a point man, a sniper, and a bomb-diffusing engineer that also has the ability to heal teammates and call down air strikes.