An RTS, a shooter and a free-roaming action adventure
3. Starcraft 2"The long wait for the arrival of Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty has been worth it. Alongside a compelling single player campaign that features and improves on the trademark fast-paced, hard-hitting, tightly balanced competitive real-time strategy gameplay of the original, is the brilliant multiplayer support with a host of new competitive features and matchmaking utilities, as well as full map-making and scripting tools to ensure that fans can keep the game alive for a long time to come."
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4. Battlefield Bad Company 2
"There are some brilliant moments in Bad Company 2, but there are also times where it feels like a run-of-the-mill shooter, particularly early on. There are plenty of highlights though in the single player campaign, which took us about 8 hours to complete, and some enjoyable missions and locations to fight across. It's a massive shame there isn't a co-op mode, because that would have elevated our score a bit higher, but overall it's an action-packed weekend's worth of action and a fitting and enjoyable campaign to get you warmed up for multiplayer, which is really where the game excels."
HEXUS.gaming score - 85%
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5. Red Dead Redemption
"You shouldn't need any encouragement to play Red Dead Redemption; it's a brilliant game both offline and online. The Wild West was always going to make a great backdrop for video games, but as Call of Juarez and Gun has proven in the past it’s a hard genre to master, until now that is. What Rockstar has created with Red Dead Redemption is game that will thrill fans of the Wild West with its true-grit, attention to detail, stunning visuals and mass variety. Quite simply put: this is the best Wild West game ever. "
HEXUS.gaming score - 92%
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