Grand theft auto IV

GTA IV reinvents the series with a renewed version of Liberty City detailed to the last pothole and rooftop vent. There are now four boroughs to explore plus extra area outside of Liberty City proper With the ability to climb obstacles, drive cars, steer boats and pilot helicopters,the world of GTA is more accessible than before. In this fourth installment of the poMuier series, players take on the role of Niko Bellic, a rough-around-the-edge chap...

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Silent hills 2 - Director's cut

While there are dozens and dozens of other games that come together to populate the survival horror genre, nearly each one takes a different route to scare you. While the Resident Evil games oftentimes choose to use noises and jolts to scare you, games like Fatal Frame use the idea of being surrounded by entities you canít see to send chills down your spine. Silent Hill 2 relies on another method, and thatís through...

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icewind dale 2

Icewind Dale II, unlike previous Infinity Engine games, uses the 3rd Edition D&D rules. This doesn't affect the core gameplay so much as to confuse players who are used to the 2nd Edition rules, but it does allow the player much more freedom to customize his or her characters. Rather than statistics being determined by a roll of the dice, the game uses a much fairer system in which players get a set amount of points to raise their stats with during...

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The magic circle

The Magic Circle casts you as a playtester for a game that has been in development for ages and is still nowhere near completion, something most gamers can easily grok in this age of Kickstarter campaigns and Early Access. What began as a sci-fi game has become a swords and sorcery adventure, and as you progress through the unfinished world you'll find the spines of a pixelated space station poking through the fantasy crust, with long-forgotten...

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Gothic 3

Gothic 3 isn't an exercise in pushing back against the colossus of Oblivion, that RPG that now pretty much defines the fantasy genre in Europe and the U.S. Given the latter's pedigree, that would have been foolish. Instead, Gothic 3 is an attempt to successfully improve on both the ancient fantasy template and its own personal formula. In a sense, that's its own reward: the first two in the series fell in between the pre- and post cracks of Morrowind,...

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Command and conquer red alert 3 Uprising

Uprising, the first expansion to last year's excellent RTS Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, is a curious beast. It's a download only, standalone, entirely single-player experience. That's right, we said entirely single-player experience. Which is a strange choice from developer EA Los Angeles. The best thing about Red Alert 3 was the co-operative campaign - well, that's we we thought anyway. Perhaps the decision to provide four new single-player...

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Guilty gear X2 reload

Fighting games were ubiquitous in video arcades for more than a decade, until the video arcades themselves began to die off. Home console technology surpassed arcades, and so we lost our incentive to play games in public. And though we've since been treated to arcade-perfect home conversions of some truly great fighting games, if you've ever been thrilled to play these games in a competitive environment, then you know it's just not the same to play...

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need for speed - hot pursuit

The concept of Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit could have been dreamed up at a middle-school boy's sleepover party. What if there was a place where both cops and the illegal street racers drove Lamborghinis, Mercedes, Bentleys, Porches and other drool-worthy marques around a gigantic network of roads at supremely high rates of speed? Oh, and wouldn't it be sweet if they could crash into each other and drop spike strips and call in helicopters and run...

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Need for speed - Carbon

After Need for Speed Underground outsold all other games in 2004, the largest independent game publisher in the world adroitly kept the series coming without a hitch. Last year's Most Wanted shipped at Microsoft's Xbox 360 launch and introduced a creative take on story-telling by using filtered customized FMV to give the familiar racer a fresh presentation. The police were back with a ferocious vengeance. And it offered a particularly North-West...

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Lightning returns : Final fantasy VIII

Lightning Returns is the concluding chapter of the Final Fantasy XIII saga and series heroine Lightning’s final battle. Lightning Returns is the concluding chapter of the Final Fantasy XIII saga and series heroine Lightning’s final battle. The grand finale of the trilogy brings a world reborn as well as free character customization and stunning action based battles. The world is sinking into a sea of chaos, and in thirteen days, nothing will remain. Though...

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