Xbox Games

Red Dead Redemption – Hands On

“It’s the sheer ambition that bleeds from Red Dead, an almost overwhelming amount of detail” January was a strange month for gaming. Snowed in, people inevitably spent a lot of time on their consoles, and (Bayonetta aside) probably sunk a lot of time into some fairly middling games. Stuff like Darksiders...

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Supreme Commander 2 – Preview

“Supreme Commander 2 lets you deploy troops in the most ludicrously enormous battles ever conceived” The perennial discussion point with console RTS games? The controls. It’s an argument that’ll never go away, and even though modern consoles have the grunt to run the sorts of algorithms and equations necessary to chart...

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Dante’s Inferno – Review

“This is the best God of War clone ever made, and by some distance” To be honest, it doesn’t even try to hide it. Dante’s Inferno is the most flagrant God of War clone ever conceived, and it doesn’t appear that Visceral Games even cares. Why pretend? It steals every idea...

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BioShock 2 – Review

“BioShock 2’s morality is hazier than the original – nothing is black and white” After reaching BioShock 2’s dizzying climax, it seems mad that this sequel had its vocal share of detractors. The shift in development team – more in name than personnel – coupled with the inclusion of multiplayer spelled...

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Splinter Cell Conviction – Preview

“Getting through Splinter Cell Conviction’s six-hour co-operative campaign is going to take patience, planning and an instinct for fast, reactive stealth.” Thank the good lord Ubisoft that Splinter Cell Conviction’s first draft was shelved. The ‘emo Sam’, the open Assassin’s Creed-style crowd, the cellphone… it felt like a franchise losing its...

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