The Metal Gear Solid series is known for its fantastic, cinematic cutscenes and thrilling, tension-filled gameplay. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes showcases both of these aspects of the series in their full glory.
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Have you ever looked at Scrat from the Ice Age movies and wondered what it would be like to run around, scrounging for nuts, all while trying to save your hide from enemies who aren’t particularly fond of you?
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A lot of the hype surrounding the Xbox One was centered on the new Kinect, one that claimed to be more capable, more accurate and more dynamic than the first version of the device. With such anticipation, a lot of gamers were waiting to see what exactly the new Kinect was capable of.
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Super Dead Rising 3 was a curious game. On the one hand, it embraced the new wave of grittier, darker zombie games, while still trying to instill it with the wacky humor that is a trademark of the series.
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Salem is a curious place. There is an increasing number of ghosts who populate it, but they have more pleasant (well, relatively) existences than the residents of this troubled city in Massachusetts.
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Resident Evil has become a survival horror benchmark. With a franchise as popular as it is, there are bound to be some inconsistent entries in there. As a fan of the genre or the franchise, you would be totally justified in having your reservations about Resident Evil: Revelations 2.
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A lighthouse, rain and a husky monologue, all framed together in wide angle. If you’re thinking that this describes a scene in every romantic coming-of-age move ever made, you would be right.
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Rhythm games are a bit of a curious breed. While they’re great fun to play, they’re very tricky to design. The Rock Band series of games upped the ante by adding more songs and features to each sequel.
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Some of the greatest movies of all time are prison films – The Shawshank Redemption, Cool Hand Luke, The Green Mile, The Great Escape and several others. There’s a reason prison stories appeal to us, other than the fact that they depict an incredibly harsh reality in intriguing and emotionally affecting ways.
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Two characters stand on a barren wasteland. An intense staredown. Gradually, the screen and the ground begins to shake. Debris starts to float up into the air as the two characters charge up their attacks. They growl and grunt and shout.
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In today’s day and age, across all platforms, it’s fair to say that there are probably too many first-person shooter games. More precisely, there are so many of them around that it is hard to get excited about an FPS game anymore.
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Video games might truly be the future of narrative storytelling. Until virtual reality becomes sufficiently advanced to the point where we can live inside the universe of our favorite films, games are our best bet.
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State of Decay sets it up well – your friend isn’t long for this world. You decide it has to be done, so you drive him up to the nearest home you can find. The neighborhood has been ravaged by the zombie plague.
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In space, no one can hear you scream. It’s a vast, infinite cosmos filled with staggering, mind-boggling things that are unfathomable to our brains. What’s beyond the furthest discovered reaches of the universe? There’s more of it.
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Put on your helmets and prepare for battle. Halo 5: Guardians is finally here. It takes a lot of risks and in a game about intergalactic warfare, Halo 5 boldly goes where no Halo game has ever gone before. Some of the chances it takes don’t always pay off, but when you’re fighting through massive islands, mowing down enemies and warping through black holes, it’s tough not to crack a smile.
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Whatever else you might feel about the Assassin’s Creed Chronicles games, you have to admit that they look really cool. The China chapter featured gorgeous, paintbrush-like graphics, and Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India has a quiet beauty of its own. Colorful patterns and intricate textures abound.
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Among the many games that use revisionist history plots, Wolfenstein has always been one of the most interesting. As one of the games that pioneered the entire FPS genre, the Wolfenstein series of games has long played with the idea of Nazi oppression, the human capacity for extreme violence and blended it with just fun shooting action.