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It's coming home, it's coming home, football's coming home. This June sees the
biggest sporting event the world has ever seen taking place in the land of the
rising sun, the FIFA World Cup. And the Rising Sun is just where I'll be watching
it. The ...
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"TELL ME WHERE THE GAMEPLAY IS!"
As a reviewer, being asked to take a look at playable adaptation of any high profile non-gaming IP immediately induces a feeling of caution. After all, you're dealing with a franchise beloved by millions, depen ...
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Stop it now, this is getting silly. John Cleese and Michael Palin together
with nary a dead parrot between them. Daz finds out more.
There aren't many British films that have been overly successful in past times,
particularly in America. John Clee ...
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Jonny Austin's been playing Ace Combat 4: Distant Thunder for the last couple
of days. Now he won't even acknowledge us unless we address him as 'Goose'...
Ace Combat 4: Distant Thunder is the latest in a series known for striking
the perfect ba ...
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Jock is playing with the boys.
I promised myself I wouldn’t mention Top Gun in this review, but that seems impossible. If I don’t reference the number one 80’s jet-fest what does that leave me with? Iron Eagle is what, and ...
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Our correspondent Jonny Austin reports on Advance Wars
from behind enemy lines.
Like most of our designer's 'discreetly packaged' DVD collection, hand-held,
turn-based strategy titles are something of a niche product. Advance Wars is
the title t ...
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Slash 'n' spray
From the start, Afro Samurai has all the right pop culture boxes ticked. It's based on an ultra-cool manga and anime series, the latter co-produced by Samuel L. Jackson, who also voices the eponymous character in the game convers ...
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So many extreme sports games are coming out at the moment... How on earth
can you tell which ones are worth your time, money and attention? Read our reviews
of course!
Another week, another extreme sports title. Once again, the gamer i ...
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Like so many other cult phenomena, Manga is an exclusive club that you're
either into whole heartedly, or you avoid all contact with. This year marks
the tenth anniversary of Manga and the occasion is marked with a double disc
feature packed relea ...
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Scot is reminded of the good old days.
Gentle readers, I've hit a snag. I've become… jaded. Over the past
few months, fewer and fewer videogames have been blowing me away. I've
even started to turn to my ever-growing back-catalogue of in ...
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Have you ever wondered what it's like to be an Alien? Or a Predator? Our Jay has,
sometimes we think he thinks of nothing else, what with all his dribbling, drooling
and ceiling-climbing behaviour - but now he knows and soon, so shall you!
When
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You Carnby Serious!
It's strange for the series that created the Survival Horror genre, but Alone in the Dark, much like its amnesiac main character, is searching for identity. Seven years after The New Nightmare, Eden Games have gone to great l ...
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Richard Ingram checks out American Conquest from the creators of Cossacks. We wonder if so much blood would have been lost fighting over America if they'd have known how it would turn out?
In the past trying to accurately re-create a series of h ...
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Get yourself in the school dinner queue for a double helping of pie as American
Pie 1 and 2 are released in a double disc set. But is this a veritable feast
of a pie or just some stale leftovers from a long since devoured meal?
American Pie
Amer ...
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CJRavey gets his head around moving from SSX to Amped on the
Xbox, and finds a confidently impressive snowboarding experience.
Extreme sports-lag can be a terrible thing. It’s the sensation of moving
from one control system to another, and t ...
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Angel, the spin off from Buffy The Vampire Slayer gets its first DVD release
in a feature packed six DVD box-set. How does it compare to its parent series,
and what sort of treatment has the DVD received from the good people at Fox?
The first s ...
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As Angel season three currently dominates our airwaves in what is Angel's darkest
and best season to date, season two is released on DVD to remind us of what went
before.
Season two was the last to feature the Buffy crossover episodes before the
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The urban jungle
Unless you're a true Animal Crossing mastermind you may not realise this is actually the forth game in the ultra-cute series. The N64 original stayed in Japan, while its GameCube follow-up took so long to reach Europe that it di ...
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Mark walks on the Wild side... sort of
It's a little like The Sims, but infinitely more
happy.
There's not a lot of point to Animal Crossing: Wild World. And, though that hardly
sounds like a selling point, it is, in fact, one of the game ...