Category: Xbox 360
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Review: Adidas MiCoach (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Adidas MiCoach Genre: Fitness Developer: Chromativity Publisher: 505 Games Release Date: 07/24/12 Alex might be the fitness guru around here, but I’ve been spending the past several months working on a fairly extensive workout plan that’s been paying dividends, so when Alex mentioned we’d received Adidas MiCoach for review, I was interested. Motion-based peripherals might…
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Review: Darksiders II (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Darksiders returns, only this time with more Death.
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Review: Wreckateer (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Wreckateer Publisher: Microsoft Developer: Iron Galaxy Genre: Puzzle Released: 07/25/2012 There has never been a game made for the Kinect that relied on the Kinect for its controls which has had a good control scheme. Even Dance Central gets around this by only having you match movements on screen. Now here we have Wreckateer, a…
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Review: Street Fighter X Tekken Additional Characters Pack (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Street Fighter X Tekken Additional Characters Pack Genre: Fighting Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Release Date: 07/31/12 So, Capcom has finally released the set of characters that were discovered to be hidden on-disc for Street Fighter X Tekken back when the game debuted, some five months ago, for the price of sixteen hundred Microsoft Points, or…
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Review: Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD Genre: Arcade-sports Developer: Robomodo Publisher: Activision Release Date: 7/18/2012 I was a big fan of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater games, however I remember that after the first title came out it seemed like everyone was a fan. If there was a game that was practically a requirement to own…
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Review: Bellator: MMA Onslaught (Xbox 360)
Bellator Genre: Fighting/Sports Developer: Kung Fu Factory Publisher: 345 Games Release Date: 07/04/2012 If you are a fan of Mixed Martial Arts, then you may be familiar with Bellator Fighting Championship. If you are not familiar with the company, Bellator is the 2nd largest MMA organization in the US now that UFC hasn’t either purchased…
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Review: Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor Genre: Mech Combat Developer: From Software Publisher: Capcom Release Date: 06/19/2012 As I mentioned when discussing the demo released on XBLA, I have a soft spot in my heart for the original Steel Battalion. While the game was basically a ridiculously expensive toy, featuring a massive, forty plus button, dual stick…
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Review: Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad Genre: Racing Developer: 2XL Games Publisher: D3Publisher Release Date: 6/27/2012 You might remember Jeremy McGrath as the guy who excelled in the sport of motorcross and brought us a couple of terrible motorcross games with his name in the title for the Playstation and Playstation 2. If you don’t remember this, then…
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Review: DiRT Showdown (Microsoft Xbox360)
DiRT Showdown Genre: Racing Developer: Codemasters Publisher: Codemasters Release Date: 6/12/12 A couple of years ago Codemasters released a game called GRID, a racing game that covered a wide variety of racing style from all over the world. One of the American style races was a demolition derby type of race, and was hands down…
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Review: The Walking Dead: Episode Two Starved For Help (Microsoft Xbox)
The Walking Dead: Episode Two Starved For Help Publisher: Telltale Games Developer: Telltale Games Genre: Adventure Release Date: 06/27/2012 Warning: this is second part of The Walking Dead game. If you have not played the first game, please be aware that there may be potential spoilers of the first episode within this review. I highly…
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Review: Bang Bang Racing (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Bang Bang Racing Developer: Digital Reality Publisher: Digital Reality Genre: Racing Release Date: 6/6/12 Every now and then a racing game will come along that will challenge expectations and will provide hours of exciting moments at a break neck speed. Bang Bang Racing is not that game. Bang Bang Racing is a racing game (surprise!)…
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Review: JAM Live Music Arcade (Microsoft Xbox 360)
JAM Live Music Arcade Genre: Rhythm Developer: Zivix LLS Publisher: 505 Studios Release Date: 05/16/12 Rhythm games, while not part of the most popular genre on the market, generally manage to be some of the most accessible and enjoyable games available, when handled correctly. The Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises, and Dance Dance Revolution…
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Review: Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown (Sony PlayStation 3/ Microsoft Xbox 360)
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Developer: Sega AM2 Published: Sega Genre: Fighting Release Date: 06/05/2012 (PS3), 06/06/2012 (Xbox 360) It has been five years since the vanilla version of Virtua Fighter 5 was released on consoles. Since then there have been two new updates to the game. Virtua Fighter 5R was released in Japanese arcades…
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Review: Max Payne 3 (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Max Payne 3 Developer: Rockstar Publisher: Rockstar Genre: Third Person Shooter Release Date: 05/15/2012 It has been nearly a decade since the last entry in the Max Payne series. To put that into perspective, when Max Payne 2 was released, Facebook had not yet launched, it would be a couple years before Twitter existed, and…
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Review: Dragon’s Lair (Microsoft Xbox 360)
It’s Dragon’s Lair with Kinect controls. Yep.
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Review: Sniper Elite V2 (Microsoft Xbox 360)
How does it feel to be hunted? You tell me….
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Review: Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Ancient Combat delivers two games in one. Is this package for the history books or best to be forgotten?
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Review: The Walking Dead Episode 1: A New Day (Microsoft Xbox 360)
The Walking Dead: Episode 1 A New Day Publisher: Telltale Games Developer: Telltale Games Genre: Adventure Release Date: 04/25/2012 For those unfamiliar with the license this game is based on, a little while back, AMC picked up the rights to broadcast a TV adaptation of the popular zombie comic The Walking Dead. The comic has…
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Review: Birds Of Steel (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Gaijin Entertainment takes us to the sunny South Pacific. Is it worth the trip?
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Review: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings – Enhanced Edition (Microsoft Xbox 360)
How well did The Witcher 2 transition from PC to Xbox 360? Read the ploughing review!