With June now upon us, it’s again the time of year where the entire game industry goes absolutely bonkers as they descend upon Los Angeles to announce their biggest and boldest plans for the rest of the year. More than ever this year the weeks leading up to the event,...
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I’ve always been intrigued by the concept of the fighting genre. Many fighting games haves got rave reviews over the years, which has always made me feel like I was missing out. So when _Dead or Alive 4_ came out a couple of years ago, I got it, thinking that...
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I’ve always had a soft spot for the _Command and Conquer_ series, with each release marking the highlight of my year. The first article I ever wrote for The Boar was a first impression of _Red Alert 3_ so it seems fitting for me to take a look at its...
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_Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X_ is the latest in a long line of games to have the infamous Clancy name associated with it, but it is the first combat flight simulator to do so. It appears that Ubisoft wants every genre to have some sort of Tom Clancy game available: _Rainbow Six_...
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Let me start by saying that Killzone 2 is one of the best games I have ever played and is up there with the Halo franchise in terms of fast-paced First Person Shooter action. It continues the struggle of the I.S.A (in other words, the human race) against the Helghast...
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It seems like a rather strange time for a Lord of the Rings game to be coming out. I hadn’t even heard about it until two days before it was released even though I check online games publications far too often. It looks like there wasn’t any hype at all...
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The first Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War re-invented the real-time strategy genre, making what was becoming a stale and dull game type into something fun again. It reduced the scale of the battles to a more intermediate level, with detailed models and some stunning visual effects this made for a...
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I didn’t care about Prince of Persia at all until I started seeing reviews for it appear on the net. Although I’d played previous games in the series (I’m pretty sure there’s been another game with exactly the same name) I’d never really got into them. Maybe it was the...
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Far Cry 2 is supposedly the sequel to the 2004 multiple award winning game Far Cry, but, apart from the scale of the environments and that they’re both first-person shooters, the name is all they’ve got in common.
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Will Brierley and Nathan Wong show how your console is much more than just a disc drive.
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Red Alert 3 is the eighth game (excluding expansion packs) to bear the Command and Conquer title. Considering that the gameplay is effectively the same as all the previous versions, it amazes me that it is still so much fun. The Command and Conquer series defined the real time strategy...
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