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Football Manager 2008 - PC

19 October 2007, 09:04

Why is Football Manager one of the UK's best loved franchises? Don’t they just involve shuffling through dozens of spreadsheets and reams of text and then simply watching a graphically ...

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Stranglehold - PC

17 October 2007, 13:33

It's a third person shooter heavily influenced by John Woo's Harboiled and even stars Chow Yun Fat... so there's as much slow-motion, zoomed in, white doves fluttering, machine gun action ...

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Carnival Games - Wii

17 October 2007, 09:29

Designed for families and children of all ages, Carnival Games hopes to bring home all the excitement and fanfare of a day at the carnival. Try out your skills at ...

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Ratatouille - Xbox 360, PS2

15 October 2007, 15:33

Well, the movie of Ratatouille has raked it in at the box office and had a great critical reception, so surely THQ will do Pixar proud and at least throw ...

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Colin McRae DiRT - PS3

12 October 2007, 11:31

Why are we doing a separate PS3 review? Well simply put, the PS3 version of Colin McRae DiRT is possibly one of the finest rally games you’ll ever see until ...

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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 - Xbox 360

11 October 2007, 11:06

So what's changed from last year? Well, there's GamerNet, a new game mode, a few tweaks here and there, and my personal favourite, the addition of trans-gender face mapping. Read ...

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FIFA 08 - Xbox 360

9 October 2007, 15:26

It's time for the annual battle between the two big soccer franchises! I've had a love/hate relationship with FIFA 08 since it landed on my desk. But, finally I've come ...

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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 - PC

8 October 2007, 10:33

Tiger Woods was one of the very first game reviews I ever wrote for HEXUS. Back then it was a part-time thing which happily has progressed into a full-time career. ...

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Stranglehold - Xbox 360/PS3

5 October 2007, 12:52

Stranglehold is Chinese Director John Woo's first collaboration on a videogame and his flamboyant trademarks have been splattered over every inch of this blisteringly fast shooter.

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Super Paper Mario - Wii

4 October 2007, 11:11

Nintendo have gone and done it again with what has to be one the most innovative games this year. Sure, Super Paper Mario is a side-scrolling 2D game but with ...

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Jam Sessions - Nintendo DS

3 October 2007, 09:42

Jam Sessions could be the ideal way to woo a lady on a first date, but a word of warning, under no circumstances should you play James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" ...

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Halo 3 - Xbox 360

2 October 2007, 08:45

For three years Intense pressure has unenviably been on Bungie to deliver the ultimate first person shooter with Halo 3. The time has now come to judge and critisise their ...

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Freshly - Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland

26 September 2007, 10:58

It's so damn tediously laborious that you’ll want to put the game down, go outside and watch the grass grow, just for a bit of excitement. But am I being ...

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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 - DS

21 September 2007, 14:36

Tiger Woods is back on the DS and this time around Electronic Arts have rewritten the game from the ground up and pushed the DS graphics abilities... but has all ...

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Two Worlds - Xbox 360

21 September 2007, 08:54

Like most RPGs, there's a huge amount of freedom in Two Worlds as you visit high, snow-covered mountains in the north, Dwarven foothills, green plains, rocky mountains in the south, ...

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World in Conflict - PC

20 September 2007, 10:13

Simply put, Massive Entertainment's World in Conflict could quite possibly be the best RTS game we've ever seen.

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Medal of Honor: Airborne- Xbox 360

13 September 2007, 08:47

Medal of Honor: Airborne doesn't reinvent the first person shooter genre, like they'd like us believe, but it does look and feel so much fresher than the last game in ...

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Medal of Honor: Airborne - PC

12 September 2007, 11:53

Medal of Honor: Airborne is the latest in the series but this time gives the player far more freedom with objectives that can be completed in any order and pretty ...

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Fatal Inertia - Xbox 360

31 August 2007, 09:38

Set in the 23rd Century Fatal Inertia mixes street racing, demolition derbies and rallying with a futuristic setting where machines no longer need wheels and the laws of physics govern ...

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The Evil Days of Luckless John - PC

15 August 2007, 15:37

The Evil Days of Luckless John is a game title that reveals nothing about the graphical adventure that lies behind it, but nevertheless is a name that demands further investigation. ...

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Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix - PS3, Xbox 360, Wii

14 August 2007, 09:00

I've tried to fight it, for fear of ridicule from Potter-hating friends, but for the sake of this review I'll have to come clean; I'm a Harry Potter fan. I've ...

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Netgear XE104 Powerline Ethernet Switch

6 August 2007, 11:39

Powerline is Netgear’s version of network using the electrical wiring in your home. We take their 4-port Powerline switch, the XE104, to task and see if it can match up ...

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Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword

23 July 2007, 09:43

Sid Meir’s Civilization IV can easily lay claim to being the best Civ game in the series, covering some 6000 years of human history in a single, epic game. With ...

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WolfKing Timber Wolf

11 July 2007, 09:44

This time around we’re having a look at the Warrior’s big brother, the Timber Wolf… so think along the lines of a normal keyboard but with a Warrior sprouting out ...

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WolfKing Warrior

10 July 2007, 11:12

We take the WolfKing Warrior and put it through its paces, working hard until my poor little wrist was sore… shooters, flight sims and even BETA games software were used ...

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Scarface: The World is Yours - Wii

5 July 2007, 13:14

The 1980's drug fuelled world of Miami is brought back to life in Scarface: The World is Yours on Wii. Knee-cap enemies, deal cocaine and ruthlessly climb your way to ...

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Monster Madness: Battle For Suburbia - Xbox 360

3 July 2007, 00:18

Monster Madness: Battle of Suburbia is a 3D top-down, hack 'n slash monster slaying fest with cartoon-styled colourful graphics, a hefty portion of tongue-in-cheek humour and a heart-thumping pace that ...

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The Darkness - Xbox 360

26 June 2007, 12:49

With Chronicles of Riddick, Starbreeze created a visually unique looking game and pushed the capabilities of the Xbox hardware to its limits and I'm glad to tell you that they've ...

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