ShellShock 2: Blood Trails Review
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By Kevin VanOrd,
Posted Feb 20, 2009 5:43 pm PT
Extraordinary online play makes it easy to overlook this strategy sequel’s less-impressive single-player campaign.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II is a fun and fascinating game with a bit of an identity crisis. In one corner you have an explosively intense multiplayer real-time strategy experience, [...]
By Alex Sassoon Coby
UKPosted Feb 17, 2009 6:22 pm PT
Football Manager 2009 may not be a beautiful game, but it’s still compelling in the extreme.
In any great football team, strength comes from stability. Wholesale change doesn’t breed success, but incremental improvements usually do. This is also the case for Football Manager–or Worldwide Soccer [...]
By Luke Anderson
UKPosted Feb 11, 2009 2:58 pm PT
The Ultimate Box brings many improvements to an already impressive game, and it’s one of the best racing games available on the PC.
Burnout Paradise reinvigorated Criterion’s ultra-successful smash-up racing series when it launched this time last year on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and [...]
By Kevin VanOrd,
Posted Feb 10, 2009 6:34 pm PT
This somewhat scary sequel is a solid shooter, but it can’t keep pace with its lauded predecessor.
The image of a pasty-skinned, greasy-haired young girl has become an iconic one in horror films like The Ring, and the original F.E.A.R. introduced a similar figure with [...]
By Steve Hill,
Posted Feb 9, 2009 4:12 pm PT
After years of solitude, the world’s most addictive management game goes multiplayer with great results.
Not content with eating into your leisure time with annual updates of the heinously addictive Football Manager, the online counterpart to developer Sports Interactive’s management game has finally gone live. After [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Feb 3, 2009 6:09 pm PT
An obtuse interface makes MLB Front Office Manager bewildering even to baseball-sim veterans.
Sports management simulations have finally hit the big time. After years of indie obscurity, at least in North America, the genre has finally been hauled into the mainstream by EA Sports and 2K Sports. But [...]