First-person truth about the latest games.

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• Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard (360)
• As a tongue-in-cheek spoof of action video games, Matt Hazard fails. There are some genuinely funny self-referential bits but the developers just didn't take it far enough. It also suffers from some design issues, chief...

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• 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand (360)
• I wanted to start off this review with a cynical quip in the vein of "50 Cent: Blood on the Sand is an idea that must have sounded good on paper," but the more I think about it the more I realize that the only way this g...

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• Star Ocean: The Last Hope
• Constantly forced into the massive shadow of the Final Fantasy franchise, tri-Ace's Star Ocean has never really been able to shine on its own... until now. The fourth installment in the space-faring series, Star Ocean: T...

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• Halo Wars
• After spawning three best-selling first-person shooters, Bungie's futuristic universe is branching out into uncharted territory with the RTS title, Halo Wars. The good news is that Halo Wars masterfully transports the se...

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• Street Fighter IV (360)
• Street Fighter III was a hard sell for both fans of the series and new challengers alike. While the legendary Street Fighter II was a global phenomenon that launched action figures, aniamted shows, and a wonderfully chee...

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• F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (360)
• While it wasn't the best shooter ever created -- that honor belongs to the original Half-Life -- the original F.E.A.R. was a terrific FPS, full of intense action, a sweet slo-mo gimmick and the scariest little girl I've...