Within four short hours of gameplay, Portal reminded us of a time when game developers could afford to take chances. By eschewing the run-and-gun mechanic that’s integral to first-person shooters and replacing it with a series of increasingly difficult physics-based puzzles, Valve created the first new game genre in years: the first-person puzzler. This new
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The premise: brilliant. Mutants surround the nuked-out husk of the defunct Chernobyl power plant, where you must travel to do stuff that saves people, and… OK, we weren’t paying attention to the story, but we loved the setting. Unfortunately, no combination of quality settings could get this game to run at launch, especially if you
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See larger image Half-Life 2: Episode One (DVD-ROM) List Price: $19.99 USD New From: $5.00 In Stock Used from: $0.96 In Stock Release date June 1, 2006. Valve’s Half-Life 2: Episode 1 exemplified how a developer can make a player care about an in-game character (Alyx). This expansion pack crams in more depth into its
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See larger image Guild Wars Trilogy (DVD-ROM) List Price: $29.99 USD New From: $29.37 In Stock Used from: $8.90 In Stock Release date September 25, 2008. The original Guild Wars was only released a year ago but is still considered one of the finest role-playing games (RPG) of recent memory. Factions,the next add-on,is less of
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See larger image Law & Order: Criminal Intent (CD-ROM) List Price: $19.99 USD New From: $3.78 In Stock Used from: $9.98 In Stock Release date October 11, 2005. It may have been hanging around the TV schedules forever,but Law &Order and its spin-offs have never taken off on this side of the Atlantic,meaning that any
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Many people claim that thetabloid press fabricates news. In the case of Tabloid Tycoon,they would be right. The objective of this tongue-in-cheek game is to create your own media empire,using all the tricks of the trade to gain the top spot in the competitive world of tabloid publishing. The game works on a turn-based system
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EA’s Fight Night Round 3 for Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Xbox is a boxing game that punches its way into third place with ease. Non-boxing aficionados will be charmed by its sweat-drenched good looks and recoil at the cringe-worthy punishment that can and will be inflicted by challengers in the realistic bouts. Lego Star Wars
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