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LEGO The Lord of the Rings
Company: Traveller’s Tale Games
Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Playstation Vita, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, 3DS, Wii (Reviewed on Xbox 360)
Genre: Action-Adventure
Rating: Everyone 10+
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Let’s start off this review with the very first thing that I thought of when I heard that “The Lord of the Rings” was being turned into LEGOs…Lego Legolas! Ok, not that I got that off of my chest I can point out that I have been a fan of the LEGO video games since the very first Star Wars ones way back when. The big name LEGO games aren’t the most challenging games in the world, but ever since I saw an animated LEGO Millennium Falcon with a LEGO Chewbacca hanging out with LEGO Han Solo I was sold. Their humor is fun for both young and old and since I have a major case of OCD in regards to collecting things in life and in video games, the overabundance of collectibles in the LEGO games always manages to keep me entertained for hours on end.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Company: 2K Games
Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC (Reviewed on Xbox 360)
Genre: Strategy
Rating: Mature
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When I first heard about XCOM: Enemy Unknown I was both skeptical and hesitant. For one I’m not much of a fan of turn-based strategy games and I am not familiar with the original XCOM game that came out for PCs way back in 1994. With well over a dozen hours logged into Enemy Unknown, I can say that I was surprised at how fun and challenging the game was without being a gruelingly difficult game…which it surely can be with the higher difficulty levels.
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NBA 2K13
Company: 2K Games
Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii, PC (Reviewed on Xbox 360)
Genre: Sports
Rating: Everyone
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Another year and another stellar installment of the NBA 2K franchise. This year’s edition gets the added flair of some involvement from hip-hop superpower Jay-Z, labeled as Executive Producer as well as the addition of the 1992 and 2012 Olympic teams. Is that enough to outshine 2K12 and its classic superstar modes or will 2K13 leave you wishing that P-Diddy were Executive Producer so that you could listen to that one song from the Godzilla soundtrack over and over again?
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Borderlands 2
Company: 2K Games
Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC (Reviewed on Xbox 360)
Rating: Mature
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After releasing the evil alien creature named “The Destroyer” from the vault in the first Borderlands, Borderlands 2 picks up five years later. The four main protagonists from the first game (Lilith, Roland, Mordecai and Brick) have scattered across the Borderlands leaving tales of daring adventures and unlimited wealth to spread like wildfire throughout the galaxy.
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Spec Ops: The Line
Company: 2K Games
Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC (Reviewed on Xbox 360)
Rating: Mature
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What would you do if the people that you were entrusted to save were actually your enemies? Dubai has been destroyed in a cataclysmic sandstorm and the only hope for the survivors is the Delta Recon Team. Their mission…get into the city by any means possible, locate survivors and radio for Evac. Simple enough right? Not by a longshot.
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The Darkness II (Limited Edition)
Company: 2K Games
Platforms: Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC (Reviewed on Xbox 360)
Genre: First-Person Shooter
Rating: Mature
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What would you do if you had near-limitless demon powers and abilities? What if you could never die? Would you sell your soul for those powers? What if it cost you the soul of someone you loved? Those are the questions that haunt Jackie Estacado every day of his life.
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NBA 2K12
Company: 2K Sports
Platform: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Playstation 2, Wii (reviewed on Xbox 360)
Genre: Sports
Rating: Everyone
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Currently, the NBA season is on hiatus. Players want more money. Owners want more money. Fans just want more basketball. With the real sport in limbo, and EA’s god-awful game missing this year, the 2K franchise is all that gamers and basketball fans have. Do you know what? That’s all we need.
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X-Men Destiny
Company: Activision
Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3 (reviewed on Xbox 360)
Genre: Action RPG/Brawler
Rating: Teen
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“Some destinies are chosen. Fight alongside or against the X-Men based on the choices you make.” That’s the tagline on the box of X-Men Destiny. For the first time that I can recall in comic book video games you can take to the street and go up against the X-Men as the Brotherhood. Of course, I sided with the X-men but just having the opportunity to choose your side and thus your destiny is a unique selling point for this game.
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Duke Nukem Forever
Company: Gearbox Software/2K Games
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Shooter
Rating: Mature
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Duke Nukem is a very polarizing character. You either love him or hate him. There are no in betweens. Duke Nukem stands for just about everything I can’t stand and represents the kind of people that I despise. So why do I love him so? Why do I find his beer-guzzling womanizing ways so humorous? Honestly, I really don’t know and I really don’t care. He is a character in a video game and he is one of the most tongue-in-cheek characters in all of video games. If you take him serious (you probably get a boner playing Call of Doody), then that’s your problem.
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Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
Company: Capcom
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Fighting
Rating: Teen
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It’s been well over a decade since the worlds of Marvel and Capcom have teamed up to pit its stars against each other in an epic battle to save the universe once again. Hell, I was still in high school while I was playing Marvel vs. Capcom 2 in the arcade!
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Mafia II
Company: 2K Games
Platform: XBOX 360
Genre: Action
Rating: M
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Coming off the heels of watching “Public Enemies” a month ago, I was eagerly awaiting 2K Games release of “Mafia II” for the 360. I quickly downloaded the demo when it was first available, and it had an interesting enough hook that made me anxious to play the full game, regardless of not having played the first game.
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Company: Electronic Arts
Platform: XBOX 360
Genre: Action
Rating: T
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When I first got my copy of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra for the XBOX 360, I was excited to get back into a world I hadn’t immersed myself into in about 20 years. I really had no intention of seeing the movie in the theaters, what with how expensive tickets are nowadays, so this was to be the closest I was going to get.
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