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Assassin's Creed III Review
Assassin’s Creed III’s methodical world-building and wealth of clever gameplay systems are impressive, even if they don’t always confidently click together with all the other moving parts.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown Review
Firaxis honors the XCOM name with turn-based strategy that shepherds players as expertly as it punishes, confidently balancing the micro and the macro all the while.
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Rock Band Blitz Review
Harmonix builds on its collective knowledge of rhythm games for a downloadable experience that offers something old and something new.
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Max Payne 3 Review
Rockstar Games modernizes and makes Max Payne its own, creating something grittier and more grounded in reality, if not quite as singular.
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Grand Slam Tennis 2 Review
EA Sports’ first earnest shot at tennis is competent, familiar, and wholly inessential.
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Mario Kart 7 Review
Confident execution of a familiar formula makes for a fun multiplayer experience, when the circumstances are right.
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Assassin's Creed: Revelations Review
The laws of diminishing returns have started to affect Assassin’s Creed, and while Revelations doesn’t quite live up to the promise of its subtitle, there’s still plenty to like about what may be Ezio Auditore’s final adventure.
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The House of the Dead: OVERKILL Review
Snappy support for the PlayStation Move makes it easier to appreciate the loving grindhouse aesthetics stitched over this otherwise familiar light-gun shooter.
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Dance Central 2 Review
Harmonix makes its original standard-setting dancing game all but obsolete with a little more structure, a few new features, and a fresh playlist of danceable new songs.
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Just Dance 3 Review
A terrific, varied soundtrack, plus some conceptually interesting new community features get marginalized by gameplay that is demanding and indifferent in equal measure.
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Spider-Man: Edge of Time Review
Save for some occasionally witty banter, this generally generic brawler is too concerned with the window-dressing of time-travel to capitalize on Spider-Man’s character, abilities, or mythology.
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X-Men: Destiny Review
As mediocre as it is half-finished, X-Men: Destiny’s rare glimpses of something better make it all the more disappointing.
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Burnout CRASH! Review
Pure vehicular mayhem should be a lot more fun than it is in Burnout Crash.
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The Gunstringer Review
Twisted Pixel’s plucky, “let’s put on a show!” can-do attitude has never been as prominent as it is in The Gunstringer.
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Fruit Ninja Kinect Review
From your fingertip to all four limbs, Fruit Ninja Kinect offers simple, satisfying, smoothie-making fun that capitalizes on Kinect’s strengths.
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Puzzle Agent 2 Review
Puzzle Agent 2 takes the low-key weirdness of the original in fittingly strange new directions, but the puzzles themselves lack bite and variety.
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F.E.A.R. 3 Review
After the previous games' high standards for chilling atmosphere and cinematic intensity, it's hard not to be disappointed by the common FPS trappings of FEAR 3.
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Child of Eden Review
Child of Eden is Tetsuya Mizuguchi's most fully realized lightspeed bioluminescent cyberspace techno-synthetic neon air sculpture. That it's also a video game seems beside the point.
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Alice: Madness Returns Review
Like its predecessor, Alice: Madness Returns is a game whose considerable dark artistic visions ease much of the gameplay's burden--but not all of it.
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Portal 2 Review
Valve falls further down its own rabbit hole with this expansive sequel that retains the cynical heart of the original Portal, while blowing out the scale on virtually every aspect of the execution.
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You Don't Know Jack Review
It’s not built to last, but Jellyvision’s revival of one of video games’ smartest, funniest trivia series is pitch-perfect.
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Disney Epic Mickey Review
Epic Mickey's brief moments of cleverness and knowing affection for obscure Disneyana are mired by clunky, perfunctory platforming and a general lack of followthrough.
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PowerGig: Rise of the SixString Review
It's too little and far, far too late for this shoddy, low-rent rhythm game also-ran.
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Pac-Man Championship Edition DX Review
This is the fastest, loudest, most overwhelming, most viscerally pleasurable Pac-Man experience available on the market today without a prescription.
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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Review
Ubisoft's distinctive murder adventure series gets better and better with this continuation of Assassin's Creed II.
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Game Dev Story Review
It runs out of steam before it finds some semblance of a conclusion, but this twee, oddly knowing take of the game development process can be curiously engrossing and hard to put down.
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Vanquish Review
An enthusiasm for accelerated popcorn sci-fi action makes this latest ride from PlatinumGames, however brief, an exhilarating one.
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Rock Band 3 Review
Harmonix brings the thrill back to rhythm games with a title that reminds you why your living room is cluttered with plastic controllers in the first place.
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Wii Party Review
Nintendo elevates the oft-maligned party game with a simple combination of character and craft.
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Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock Review
The underlying formula and a handful of good songs still provide some bright moments, but Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock feels all too obligatory to be very exciting.
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Sid Meier's Civilization V Review
Firaxis offers a hardcore turn-based strategy experience that nearly anyone can approach, without sacrificing any of its wildly addictive appeal.
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Shank Review
Few games share Shank's violent enthusiasm, even if it can't carry the whole experience.
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Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Review
It would seem that a change of perspective is all Lara Croft needed to revitalize her tomb-raiding antics.
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Sin & Punishment: Star Successor Review
Treasure gets playful with this dizzying shooter sequel that's both accessible and challenging.
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Green Day: Rock Band Review
Green Day: Rock Band makes good on the promises implicit in the title, but it requires an appreciation of both Green Day and Rock Band to really enjoy.
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Blur Review
Bizarre Creations has found a game worthy of the developer's namesake in Blur, a game that finds something fun in the peculiar pairing of weighty, quietly technical real-world racing and over-the-top kart combat.
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Super Mario Galaxy 2 Review
Super Mario Galaxy 2 sees both Nintendo and Mario himself in top form, delivering an adventure that's as consistently exciting and inventive as ever.
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Split/Second Review
Split/Second's high-gloss mayhem is best-in-class, though it peaks early, and the chaos can overwhelm the actual racing.
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3D Dot Game Heroes Review
An oddly reverent homage to the original Legend of Zelda, 3D Dot Game Heroes is enthusiastically nostalgic fun with a unique graphical twist.
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Sam & Max Episode 301: The Penal Zone Review
Telltale sets up its third season with some slick presentation, a few new gameplay tricks, and enough lightly absurdist, self-aware gags to keep the adventure brisk.
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