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Bayonetta Demo
Sheila Khosla |
Although it's a slightly inferior port of a game built for the Xbox 360, I downloaded the Bayonetta "First Climax" demo from the Japanese Playstation Store. The result? I came.
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Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles
Gabriella Tato |
Resident Evil and first person shooting is a combination that has historically produced less than favorable results (See Resident Evil: Survivor). Umbrella Chronicles improves upon previous spin-offs and provides plenty of replay value in the form of unlockables and an improved co-op mode.
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Five Reasons Why You Should Play Mass Effect
Sheila Khosla |
Earlier this week, Sheila & the SPACE/CTV crew checked out the launch party for Mass Effect, BioWare's ambitious role-playing game. Mass Effect not only pushes the Xbox 360 to the limit but it redefines our standards for character interaction and development within a game.
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Super Mario Galaxy
Sheila Khosla |
Shake, tilt, shoot... whoohoo! I refuse to classify Super Mario Galaxy as a platform game. The clever gameplay and controls are out of this world. Even if it has a thick helping of straight-up platforming stages, I say the game deserves its own new genre.
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Granado Espada 2.0
Sheila Khosla |
Community Manager Hrin Danielle Kuek tells us everything we ever wanted to know about the latest Granado Espada client. Also in an exclusive interview, Hrin will address beta tester concerns and show us what else is in store for the MMORPG's English premiere.
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Kingdom Hearts 2
Katherine Liu |
Perhaps the hardest game one can be assigned to review is Kingdom Hearts. When you?re in your mid twenties like me, attending graduate school, thinking about marriage the last thing you want to write about is a morality tale involving an overgrown mouse and a duck with a sailor shirt.
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Drakengard 2
Mary Huang |
As one of the few original RPG titles published by Square-Enix at its release, Drakengard took flight with a roar, anticipation riding high on its wings. Today, interest seems to have faded with barely a whimper. Now its sequel has swept onto the stage. Will it be love ? or will it be ambivalence?
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Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song
Sheila Khosla |
Artwork for the SaGa series always has an unmistakable otherworldly touch. Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song's instruction book depicts timeless watercolor works by Tomomi Kobayashi. So where is all that beautiful art in the game?
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Dragon Quest VIII
Sheila Khosla |
Dragon Quest VIII takes several old and new concepts, blending them into a game that's not without its flaws. The crisp cel-shaded graphics by developing studio Level-5 paint the illusion of a perfectly modernized RPG.
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Final Fantasy XII Demo
Sheila Khosla |
It's about damn time. The Japanese FF12 demo was last seen during E3 over a year ago, after which FF12 inexplicably disappeared off the American map. Now packaged with Dragon Quest VIII is an English version of the demo with the Japanese voices.
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Resident Evil 4
Sheila Khosla |
Resident Evil 4 does away with all preconceived notions of the Survival Horror genre. Fast moving, intelligent enemies who can adapt to your every move replace the series' staple of slow moving zombies. The action varies from careful sniping to in-your-face, and the way you choose to deal with any encounter is up to you.
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Castlevania: Curse of Darkness
Sheila Khosla |
Curse of Darkness is the sequel to the much loved Castlevania III and is the second 3D Castlevania game released by Konami for the Playstation 2. Despite having the building blocks for an excellent Castlevania game – Ayami Kojima's artwork and Michiru Yamane's music – Curse of Darkness failed to meet the high expectations that its marketing campaign had built up.
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Granado Espada
Sheila Khosla |
The Korean market is constantly flooded by cookie cutter MMORPGs and it was Kim Hakkyu's dream to evolve the genre by developing a new MMORPG geared to fire interest in even the most fickle of offline RPG players. FLAREgamer is here to give readers the first and only english preview of this highly anticipated import game.
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Shadow Hearts: Covenant
Mary Huang |
In the world of Shadow Hearts: Covenant, history and mythology meet and make one really crazy baby. Mary explores the latest title in the best series you’ve never played.
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FFXI: Chains of Promathia
Sheila Khosla |
Still doubting XI's ability to be a part of the Final Fantasy series? Most people believed that a game being online meant that good a story can't be conveyed. The XI myth is finally busted.
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Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Mary Huang |
Even diehard fans of the series joked that the game title indicated how long we’d have to wait for it to come to North America. But finally, Star Ocean: Till the End of Time has arrived, in a shiny Director’s Cut edition, no less. It didn’t take Mary long to remember just why we were willing to wait almost three years for this.
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Mario Party 5
Sheila Khosla |
It's been five games, they've been fun. Nintendo finally realizes that players are getting tired of the same old formula and that it's got to go.
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.hack//series
Mary Huang |
It first burst onto the scene with its ambitious goal of revolutionizing the RPG world. It's been nearly a year since the first .hack game was released, and now it's three down and one to go. Did it spread like a virus or is it just a fad soon to be erased? The journey so far ...
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Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Deborah |
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance has been highly anticipated since word got out about it, and words flew. Constantly. As much as I myself loved FFT - and quite a few friends - we had apprehensions about FFTA. Were they unfounded, or did Square Enix pull through for us?
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Tenchu 3: Wrath of Heaven
Ashley |
Wrath of Heaven is the third installment of Activision’s stealth action series Tenchu. Announced last year, this reviewer has eagerly awaited its commercial unveiling...
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Final Fantasy X2
Sheila Khosla |
Sheila's take on Square's slap it up and call it a day game. Did she get around to fully finishing the game? No. Does that make her review any less valid? With this game? Hell no!
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