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I have to admit, when I put Modern Warfare 2 in for the first time, I rather expected to be underwhelmed. I play a lot of shooters, but I don't consider them to be my favorite kind of game, and yeah, I was probably being a little conceited and therefore resistant to play such a mainstream title so popular with "the bros". Then I saw a dude crash through a second story window to tackle another dude running across a…
I went into this iteration of EA's World War II shooter completely psyched for the new gameplay mechanic of jumping out of airplanes, adding to my normal level of enthusiasm for shooting me some Nazis. It seemed like it could be a fresh take on a really tired out setting. The problem is, it's really not. You'll immediately find that being able to choose your beginning location is usually nothing more than a gimmick,…
It's rare that a game leaves so much to the imagination that most of the story is conceptualized in the mind of the player. This is the case in Shadow of the Colossus. From the makers of the much-heralded Ico for the same platform, comes a game telling (or, for the most part, not telling) the story of a boy attempting to fell 16 colossi in order to revive his fallen love. Shadow of the Colossus takes the concept of…
Here is a game in which breathtaking visuals and perhaps the largest free roaming environment in gaming history supplement, but do not by any means overshadow, an equally vast amount of gameplay content. In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, you take on the role of a citizen of Tamriel. What your character looks like, the skills he or she is proficient in, and how he or she acts, is entirely up to the player. The game…
