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4. Red Dead RedemptionRockstar’s official seal of quality that we’ve become so accustomed to seeing in the spectacular GTA series is stamped all over Red Dead Redemption. The open-ended game world set across the sparsely populated America Frontier of 1910 may be a far cry from the bustling metropolis of the Grand Theft Auto series, but still it feels alive and oozes with an authentic Wild West atmosphere that's polished to a standard we've come to expect from Rocktar’s Advanced Game Engine (RAGE.) This is the best Wild West game you'll ever play.
HEXUS score - 92%
Read the HEXUS.gaming Red Dead Redemption Review - here
3. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
This may be a stop-gap until Assassin's Creed 3 arrives, but Brotherhood is the ultimate Assassin’s Creed game to date. It’s a measure of how great a game is that you have to fish around for something to say that is even remotely negative. Aside from some scenery pop-up, and the fact that we’d like to see the radial weapon wheel use better and bolder symbols for identifying weapons, there really is nothing to say. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is everything we wanted it to be and more. It's not just the most epic, focused and action-packed Assassin’s Creed game yet, but it's one of the finest action adventures of 2010.
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