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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 gets even closer to reality
on 11/20/09 at 9:00 am | I've been playing online team-battles of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox Live. The other day, I heard a teammate say he was a military guy in real life. Then he announced, "Y'all don't even know how much more realistic to war this is than Call of Duty 4." |
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Forza 3 and Tekken 6 are so simplistic, my mind drifts while playing them
on 11/13/09 at 9:00 am | I've got two somewhat disappointing video games this week. Or as I declared on Facebook, "meh." Of the two, the better game is the racing simulator Forza Motorsport 3. It's a pretty good racer for those of you who enjoy car simulators. |
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Ratchet and Borderlands: Good, but not for me
on 11/06/09 at 9:00 am | Just because I don't want to play a certain video game very much doesn't mean I hate it. To the contrary, two new video games are quite good, objectively speaking (they're entertaining and impressive), but simply aren't my cup of coffee. |
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves delivers globe-trotting adventure
on 10/30/09 at 9:00 am | This fall continues to be a very good season for games. The latest, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, is an excellent and addictive action-adventure where you portray an Indiana Jones-styled explorer searching for the lost treasures of Shangri-La, as you follow clues left behind by Marco Polo. |
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Brutal Legend embraces heavy metal while thrashing it
on 10/23/09 at 9:00 am | Brutal Legend is a wondrous, creative video game that feels like Conan the Barbarian meets This Is Spinal Tap. Which means you kill a lot of monsters on a fantasy planet of Nordic ruins, megaliths and Stonehenge replicas -- by playing heavy metal music on your flying-V guitar. |
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NBA 2K10 cheats and scores while NBA Live 10 just steals
on 10/16/09 at 9:00 am | Question: Why do sports games cheat? I mean, here you are in NBA 2K10, playing as the L.A. Lakers, and you're killing, say, the Sacramento Kings in the third quarter. And you should be. You're a better team. |
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Scribblenauts is a gaming revelation
on 10/09/09 at 9:00 am | It's remarkable how little you need to hear about some games to get a feeling for how they play. |
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Microsoft puts the shine back on with Halo ODST
on 10/02/09 at 9:00 am | After the tiresome Halo Wars, Halo ODST turns out to be fun and thoughtful. It's a shooter set in the 26th century, in the sci-fi time before Halo 3. You play as a rookie soldier for most of the game. You walk through city streets, blasting aliens with laser guns, machine guns and shotguns. |
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Wet is grindhouse gritty, part Kill Bill, part Lara Croft
on 09/25/09 at 9:00 am | In Wet, Rubi is just minding her own business as a sexy mercenary, an angry cuss wearing chest-tight leather with an itch to scratch. Then, this big mob guy tells her how much he likes her, and asks if can he hire her for a killing job. |
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The Beatles: Rock Band: All you need is money
on 09/18/09 at 9:00 am | The Beatles: Rock Band will probably be one of the top-grossing titles in video game history, not for the disc alone, but because there's so much money to be made from the peripherals. |
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Batman: Arkham Asylum melds deadpan imagination with fun gameplay
on 09/11/09 at 9:00 am | Batman escorts Joker into Arkham Asylum. Joker escapes. For the rest of the game, you play as Batman as he wends his way through many hours of tracking Joker down. |
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Shoot the Nazis in Wolfenstein
on 09/04/09 at 9:00 am | Middleton's Raven Software made its name developing PC and then next-generation games bearing familiar names, from Star Wars to X-Men and Quake. This year, Raven got its hands on one of the most valued series in gaming and has delivered one of the summer's best games, Wolfenstein. |
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Madden NFL 10 is not a must-buy
on 08/28/09 at 9:00 am | The question I hear the most from readers is, "Do I have to buy the new Madden football game?" They are still playing last year's Madden, and they like it, and they don't want to spend $60 for the new one. |
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G.I. Joe disappoints, but Prototype rules
on 08/21/09 at 9:00 am | The old expression is, "You can't judge a book by its cover." I'd like to amend that cliché today to, "You really, really, really can't judge a video game by its cover. Seriously. I am not kidding." |
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Mildly fun G-Force moves gaming forward with 3-D
on 08/14/09 at 9:00 am | To me, G-Force is a mildly fun video game based on that movie -- and the game's technology is a step in a bold direction for the video game world at large. |
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New thrills for fanboys of the Wii and King of Fighters
on 08/07/09 at 9:00 am | Wii Sports Resort presents a win-lose scenario for Nintendo. The win: Since Sports Resort is a top-notch game that people can play at parties, it's earning many millions of dollars. |
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Pigskin preview
on 07/31/09 at 9:00 am | Two news stories are revolving around the release of NCAA Football 10 -- neither of which has anything to do with the fact that the new game is pretty good but infuriatingly flawed. |
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No magic in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
on 07/24/09 at 9:00 am | The video game, on the other hand -- despite its nice, big sets and faithfulness to the main characters -- is too simplistic to hold interest (perhaps even for little kids), and not dazzling in any way. |
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New Transformers and Bigs 2 just not my cup of tea
on 07/17/09 at 9:00 am | You may find it hard to believe, but the new baseball game The Bigs 2 is way, way nuttier than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. |
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The sweat factor of EA Sports Active bundle
on 07/10/09 at 9:00 am | Thanks to the interactive Wii, you can lose weight while boxing, jogging and doing deep-knee lunges in video games. So let's take a look at a new slate of sports games that make you sweat, and some that don't. |
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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 demonstrates what video games do best
on 07/03/09 at 9:00 am | It's remarkable that I still get this eager feeling with every swing, even though I've been playing Tiger Woods games for years. It's not like I'm a newbie enraptured for the first time by the series' beauty, intuitive feel and exhilaration. |
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Ghostbusters: The Video Game resurrects a slimy public service
on 06/26/09 at 9:00 am | This game has been, among our gaming classes, one of the most anticipated events of 2009. Why? Because gamers grew up on Ghostbusters. |
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Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings leaves players few choices
on 06/19/09 at 9:00 am | I don't understand why it's so hard to make a great Indiana Jones game. The movies have ranged from very good to classic, and they're perfectly suited to be video game-ized -- all the ingredients for fun, bang, boom. |
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UFC 2009 Undisputed: The good fight
on 06/12/09 at 9:00 am | It's unfathomable how video gamers get riled up over the stupidest stuff. The other day, I was playing UFC 2009 Undisputed online -- against an anonymous kid who sounded 14 -- and he whined that I was kicking him, you know, with my feet. |
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Terminator and Fuel: Making the best of the end of the world
on 06/05/09 at 9:00 am | Our pending apocalypse is all the rage. The question is: Which is your own personal favorite apocalypse? Because every groupthink favors its own final countdown. |
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Swinging across town
on 05/29/09 at 9:00 am | Clearly, video game makers think there's something appealing about Spider-Man. Two new games owe more to Spidey than Tobey Maguire does. |
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Enjoyably idiotic Wii games
on 05/22/09 at 9:00 am | Just the other week, I was ripping into the Nintendo Wii for putting out a bunch of stupid games that are no fun. This week, I'm whipping out a bunch of stupid Wii games that are fun. |
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine is supernatural, but there's no magic in it
on 05/15/09 at 9:00 am | You play as switchblades-for-fingers Wolverine (Hugh Jackman). He regenerates his health, no matter whether someone has just fired 20 bullets into his skull, or whether he's been set afire by a guy who himself is constantly ablaze. |
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Music games give gamers a license to sing loud and proud
on 05/08/09 at 9:00 am | Some years back, I became a rock critic, in addition to working as a video game critic. (It's a hard-knock life.) I started to feel professionally justified to sing along in the car to tunes I was reviewing. Other drivers would look at me funny, but I'd think, "Check it out, sucker, I get paid to do this." |
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Cheap gaming expands with the DS Lite, DSi, PS2, and PSP
on 05/01/09 at 9:00 am | It's time to check in on the three cheapest video game systems -- the Nintendo DS, the PlayStation 2 and the PlayStation Portable. Interesting little things are happening with each. |
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