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Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Review

Last generation, Ubisoft created a hit when it rekindled the Prince of Persia franchise. Sands of Time struck a chord of awesomeness that carried its way through two further titles. In 2008, the French publisher looked to ride the reboot bandwagon. The company released the plainly titled Prince of Persia, a game set in a world independent of the Sands of Time trilogy. The change in art style and an open-world design failed to generate sales, leading Ubisoft to return to the ideas of its successful trilogy for The Forgotten Sands. Intricate levels, death-defying leaps, close combat and the reversal of time are all available to the Prince, yet his old moves coupled with new powers and abilities fail to fill out the whole package.

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Dragon Age: Leliana’s Song DLC Review

The newest addition to the downloadable content family for Dragon Age: Origins, Leliana’s Song, takes place before the actual Blight and has us following the…

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Limbo Review

In 1929 Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali collaborated on a short film called Un Chien Andalou. It had no story, but was rather a collection…

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Crackdown 2 Review

Sinan Kubba thinks that The Agency needs an overhaul. Crackdown 2 is the smoking of video games: it epitomizes the moral that just because something…

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Red Dead Redemption Review

John Marston is the Clint Eastwood of gaming. Between the spaghetti-western shootouts, cattle rustlin’, family values marred by a troubled past, and the expected frontier…

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Split/Second Review

Unlike many modern day driving games, Split/Second is as subtle as a lightning bolt tearing through a fireworks factory. That’s not to say that careful…

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