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Project Gotham Racing 4

The track conditions are horrendous tonight. It's a thunderstorm out there. You're flying down the straight, trying to catch up with the race leader when you see a bolt of lightning strike the track ahead of you. The light illuminates the huge puddle of water that's right where you would have started braking for the next corner. Do you hit the brakes hard and hope you slow down enough? Maybe you ease off the throttle and turn in? Or maybe you just flick it in and hit the e-brake and hope for......................

NBA Live 08

The first year of the rebuilding phase of the NBA Live franchise is here. Taking the gameplay back to the basics, EA attempted to set a working foundation for a fully-featured game that hopes to quickly best the NBA 2k series. Does NBA Live 08 manage to sink the shot or clank off the backboard?

What’s new here in NBA Live 08 mainly deals with the gameplay itself, making it more intuitive than it’s been before. The game really feels good to play this......................

NBA Live 08

Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

The Legend of Zelda is highly regarded as one of the most quality-driven franchises in all of gaming. But when The Wind Waker was released on the GameCube platform it drew skepticism due to its toon-shaded graphics, making Link look "kiddy.” Even with all the skeptics, Nintendo was still able to make one hell of a game. Twilight Princess, the game's follow-up, didn't use the same visual system Wind Waker did, and that somehow left fans of Wind Waker empty inside. Would they ever get......................

The Chosen: Well of Souls

Diablo was a cult classic which, in its incarnation into Diablo 2 at a later date, quickly gained widespread popularity as an action RPG and redefine said genre. Many clones attempted to copy Diablo 2's style of play over the years, with Titan Quest meeting some success as it attempted to increase the complexity of the genre – more skills, trees, leveling options, classes, and the like. But is complexity always a good thing? Rebelmind seems to think not, as their new title “The......................

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened

So many Sherlock Holmes games have been made at this point that one must wonder what idea will be explored next to inject some new life into the genre of “mystery adventure” games. Frogwares attempts to come to our rescue with a new title, published by our friends at CDV – Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened. But is taking Sherlock to an entirely 3D and first-person environment a good idea, and does the game ride to the rescue or trip in its attempt to? The answer to both of these......................

Monster Hunter Freedom 2

The latest installment in Capcom’s Monster Hunter action role playing series may just be what hungry and loyal owners of the PSP system have been waiting for. It’s a different kind of role playing game though. There are no love triangles or jaw dropping plot twists. The game’s simply filled with well over a 100 hours of farming, crafting and hack and slash game play. Also, there are plenty of beautiful environments, talking cats and big nasty monsters. Like the past games, you......................

World in Conflict

Hype for Massive Entertainment's World in Conflict has been relatively minimal compared to many other games this year. Despite this, World in Conflict manages to be one of the biggest surprises this year, but it’s one of the best games to be released this year to date. Fans of Ground Control I and II, the previous two projects from Massive Entertainment, could have told you to keep your eyes on World in Conflict far sooner, considering how good those games were; however, even among......................

Sonic Rush Adventure

Everybody's favorite blue hedgehog, Sonic, has been losing some steam because of all the mediocre adventure games coming out lately on the consoles. While he may no longer be Sega's marquee character to the hardcore gamers, he definitely still has some lasting appeal. Thankfully, that lasting appeal might have done wonders, because Sonic Rush Adventure on the Nintendo DS is one of the better Sonic games to come out in a while.

Sonic Rush Adventure is actually a......................

Halo 3

Hype, excitement, brand merchandising, and millions of people waiting anxiously for their pre-orders. Countless others hoping the game fails. And through the forum battles of it all, Bungie promising they’ve made the best game they ever have. This is the Halo 3 phenomenon. And after milking the game for all it's worth, what were we left with? A messy narrative, mixed bag of graphics, mostly superb audio, and fully satisfying multiplayer. After you finally finish the fight, you’ll......................

skate

For years now, anyone who's wanted a skateboarding game to play has only had the Tony Hawk series to choose from. While Neversoft's games were never bad, the series has started to feel a little long in the tooth. EA saw an opportunity to get into this genre of game by doing something a little different. The result is EA Black Box's skate, a game that changes everything up, from the controls to the physics.

EA has gone with a new control mechanic for skate. The left......................

Heavenly Sword

The long-awaited PlayStation 3 game is finally here to up the bar on what you should expect from a game’s presentation. Throw in God of War-like gameplay and you’ve got a recipe for a game that should be a nice start to the rest of Sony’s lineup for the fall.

Heavenly Sword doesn’t feature much of a unique story, but it doesn’t matter once you see the amount of work that’s been put into the presentation. To add to the......................

Eternal Sonata

Eternal Sonata is a wonderfully magnificent game full of intrigue, splendor, and tons of classical music. While other RPG’s on the Xbox 360 have failed to illuminate their stories, characters, or battle systems, tri-Crescendo have perfected a masterpiece that exemplifies the best that the Xbox 360 has to offer. There are a few small quirks, but the overall experience will leave a much deserved lasting expression on you.

As the story begins, we find Polish......................

Two Worlds

Two Worlds is a poor man’s Oblivion. For all of the features it has for itself and all of the freedom and gameplay mechanics it offers, not one ever feels original or fresh. Two Worlds is a mess on all ends, with technical issues plaguing every move and gameplay that feels old and dated. It is a wonder how a game that so blatantly rips off Oblivion can be so broken in the process.

Two Worlds is set in the land of Antaloor amidst a battle between man and orc.......................

Two Worlds

Medal of Honor Airborne

EA’s Medal of Honor series has always been a well-selling series, proving some great games and some merely “ok” games. Taking yet another approach to the WWII FPS subgenre, the series returns with Medal of Honor: Airborne. With gameplay that isn’t 100% linear due to your choice of landing position, it is in no way a bad game, but just feels so restrictive and old, making the jump not as exciting as it looks.

You are put into the shoes of......................

Medal of Honor Airborne

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08

Tiger Woods 08 is back on the Wii just a short six months after Tiger Woods 07 made its rounds this past spring. The series made a good impression on Wii gamers, showing the potential the series has with the Wii motion controls, but has Tiger Woods 08 really improved much at all or is it in need of a full year’s reworking for next year?

The main feature of Tiger Woods 08 comes from the motion controls that attempt to simulate a real golf swing in order to......................

Stranglehold

John Woo Presents Stranglehold is a story about love, betrayal, and revenge. Oh, and it’s also about firing as many bullets into as many objects—living or inanimate—as possible. While the story is a typical cop drama, Stranglehold promises each firefight to be more epic than the last one, even if the total package will only last you barely over eight hours.

In Stranglehold, you assume the persona of Hong Kong detective Inspector Tequila, whose......................

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo has had quite an eventful history. Despite humble beginnings as an arcade cult-hit, things got a little crazy once it hit consoles. Supply did not even begin to meet demand between the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation releases, and eventually, copies were going for upwards of $100 on eBay. Demand was satisfied somewhat with the release of Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo Advance just a few years ago, and then its inclusion in the PSP's Capcom Puzzle World, but......................