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Gaming 3 out of 5SWAT Target Liberty - PSP review
SWAT always get a bad name in movies, but can they redeem themselves here? We get tactical and find out. SWAT on the PSP follows the original series on the PS2 and sees you tasked with thwarting international terrorist threats in New York City. Penned...
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Gaming 3.5 out of 5Alien vs Predator Requiem - PSP review
Your chance to live out your Alien vs Predator fantasies have come true once again, this time on the PlayStation Portable, but it is worth the bother or is this one franchise where no one will hear your screams of disappointment? We get gaming to find...
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Gaming 4 out of 5F.E.A.R - PS3 review
Okay, so F.E.A.R has been out for some time on the Xbox 360 and the PC, but now PlayStation 3 console gamers get their chance to be scared half to death by a video game. So should you bother? We pick up our controller and find out. If you've played any...
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Gaming 2.5 out of 5Miami Vice - PSP review
Yes, it’s a movie tie-in. Yes, we detest movie tie-ins. Yes, the movie is a bit on the lame side as we’ve previously suspected. But we’ll try not to let all that cloud our judgement. Movie tie-ins generally adopt whatever gaming style is in vogue...
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Gaming 3.5 out of 5Cold Winter - PS2 review
“No tux, no licence, no mercy,” says the back of the box and this tagline pretty much sums up Cold Winter on the PlayStation and Xbox - the latest first person shooter to come from Sierra. Set in a dark world of global espionage, full of international...
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Gaming 4.5 out of 5Counter-Strike: Source review
Every single time I’ve sat down to write this review, I’ve always thought “best research it some more by playing a round or two”. It’s usually 2am by the time I’ve finished, and for the update, 4am. We also make no apologies for having taken...
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Gaming 5 out of 5Half Life 2 - PC review
In Late November 1998, what were you doing? Can you even remember? PC Gamers can. They were finally celebrating the release of Half-Life, that game which had been delayed for at least two years. Developers Valve squeezed every last drop from the original...
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Gaming 3.5 out of 5The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay - Xbox review
It’s film tie-in time again and this time it’s the chaps over at Universal getting in on the action. It’s the usual story - big Hollywood blockbuster with more money than sense is bound to make a good video game surely? When this normally happens...
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Gaming 4.5 out of 5Ground Control 2 review
Most Real Time Strategy games work the same tried and trusted formula, you build a base and harvest or mine the local crops. Once you got the revenue stream you start building men, then machines and then you attack. The original Ground Control from 2000...
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Gaming 1 out of 5The Hobbit - PS2 review
With Lord of the Rings being just about the biggest thing in the entertainment universe at the moment it is of little surprise that The Hobbit, that endearing novel which gave life to all things Middle Earth, has got some more attention. The Hobbit is...
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Gaming 4 out of 5The Simpsons Hit and Run - PS2 review
Now that The Simpsons have been confirmed as America's most popular family (I heard that Homer was running for Governor of California), and probably the most influential programme in the history of the television, it is about time a game appeared that...
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Gaming 4 out of 5Hulk - PS2 review
Some people criticize the recent trend of reproducing old ideas, especially when it comes to superheroes. Hulk, on the PS2, twinned with the summer 2003 release of the movie, could fall into this category, but satisfyingly doesn't. You finally get the...