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FIFA 12 Review

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Since FIFA 09 EA Sports long running football franchise has been on a continual upward trend making just enough changes and improvements each year to warrant fans shelling out once again. With FIFA 12 now out have EA Sports continued the trend or just milked a few more gallons from the proverbial cash cow?
While there [...]

Brink Review

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It’s no secret that my “love” of first person shooters is not what it once was. My issue surprisingly is not the number of shooters but rather the unwillingness to embrace new ideas and most FPS titles not learning from the infuriating oversights of their peers. As a result when a game promises to be [...]

Portal 2 Review – Like trying to define the word “The”

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Now for those of you that have not played the original Portal and do not want the story spoiled you may want to scroll straight down to the closing comments as by the nature of describing Portal 2 spoilers are inevitable.
It’s funny what a short tagged on concept to a gaming bundle can turn into. [...]

Limbo review by LilJo

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Review by LilJo
I downloaded Limbo from the Arcade section on Xbox Live for 1200 points.
It’s a single player, 2D platform puzzle game developed by Playdead Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios.
The game itself is very simple, the main character is an unnamed boy who’s actions are run, jump, push, pull and climb. All that [...]

Dead Rising 2 Review

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The 4 year wait is finally over as Dead Rising 2 has finally arrived under a new dev team and minus everybody’s favourite photo journalist Frank West. How does it stack up against the original? What new features are there to play with? Is it still as hard? Well read on and all shall be [...]

Splinter Cell Conviction review

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My history with the Splinter Cell series is far from glorious after being wowed by how amazing the original was I picked it up and hit a virtual brick wall. While I love stealthy games I’ve always been more of an arcadey stealth fan with games such as Metal Gear Solid and Tenchu. Despite failing [...]

Ghostbusters review on Xbox 360

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“Retro” review Call of Duty World at War

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Activision have gone back to their Call of Duty roots. After the modern warfare of CoD 4 the series returns to World War 2 to cover the US assault of the Pacific Islands and the Russians push from their homeland all the way into the heart of Berlin.
After the success of CoD 4 many had [...]