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(Image robbed from RedShell)Art Style: CODEAdding up to ten may sound like s simple thing to do, but when it involves flipping numbers around on a grid then it can get tough. This is where Art Style: CODE comes in and mixes simple addition and puzzle gameplay...8/10Art Style: AQUITEAQUITE is an underwater block-matching game and - as you can probably guess - the object of the game is to match

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It's finally here, the third album from Maxïmo Park. And it reeks of high quality - from the music to the packing itself. It comes in a lovely reddish-brown box with southern constellations and the band and album name embossed in golden writing. Inside are two digipack things, two disks and three booklets; all of which are made of what seems to be extremely fine recycled card/paper. Oh, and mine

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Lyrics for the Maximo Park album Quicken the Heart (with help from others).WraithlikeHere’s a song that finally you can understandA minor statement meant to counteract the blandA list of wraithlike thingsThat quicken the heartJust another song; a faded memoryA raison d’etre for the entire familyI don’t remember it wellI was in love for a spellCopies of Sight and Sound she left lying around on the

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A lot more than I expected. In some ways it's brilliant for the same reasons as Battlestar, yet in some ways it's brilliant because it's completely different. The cast is brilliant, the effects and locations are astonishing (for a TV series) and there's even more parallels (is that the right word?) with things that are happening right now.It expands massively on the world of Galactica, in terms

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A awesome new song by my favourite band, Maximo Park. In fact, I've already preordered the new album. I hope I was quick enough for a signed copy.Maximo Park - WraithlikeThis is available free from Maximo Park's Official Website and is the first track from their next album Quicken The Heart.Lyrics:Here's a song that finally you can understandA minor statetement meant to counteract the blandA

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I think I'll start using this blog for more random and interesting things than just a place for dumping game reviews. Expect to see more posts, more often (unless I never get around to posting anything...in that case sorry for raising your hopes...not that anyone will read this).

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If you haven’t liked any of Sonic’s previous 3D outings then things couldn’t be simpler: Don’t bother with this one. Sure, it’s quite an improvement over them (the Sonic bits, anyway) but you still almost certainly won’t like it. It’s as simple as that.But as this is my review, and I liked most of Sonic’s 3D games (Heroes was meh and 06 was bleh) then I suppose I should talk about why I think

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I hate RPGs. I absolutely hated Oblivion, and I hate all turn-based games with a passion. I also feel as if the 360 is overloaded with shooting games. And as Fallout 3 is described as “Oblivion with guns and the addition of a turn-based-esque shooting system” then it should be obvious that I hate it with a passion. Except I don’t. I love it.You start the game by escaping from your mother’s womb,

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Ahh...Banjo-Kazooie. My favourite game on the Nintendo 64 and quite possibly of all time. Although I have to admit that I never fully completed it and I don't think I've fully played it through since 1999 (it was my cousin's game). That said, the entire game was still stuck in my head. after all those years. And if that isn't the sign of a truly phenomenal game then I don't know what is.Now I

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I feel that I should point out that I've only played Resident Evil 4. It's an awesome game that had a great scary atmosphere and the combat suited it perfectly. It was one of the best-looking games of the last generation. The controls were good on the GameCube but massively improved on the Wii version.Now that the Resident Evil 5 demo is here I have one suggestion to anyone who hasn't yet played

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It seems that after the poor (so far) sales Banjo's latest game he wants to go back to doing what he does best: Taking what Mario did, copying it and then improving it. And so Banjo and Kazooie set out into space do a bit of platforming, play around with the low gravity and generally have a lot of fun. The pair tried out loads of new things while exploring the vastness of space. Banjo learnt that

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I'll be honest: I've been eagerly awaiting ths game since I got an Xbox 360. I still had massive hopes when the vehicles were first announced. When the demo arrived my excitement for Nuts & Bolts was increased to an unhealthy level. To my amazement, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts still managed to pleasantly surprise me.The story begins eight years after the bear and bird's last adventure,

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One mark of a great game is when you can't stop playing, even when you keep failing. Valve's latest shooter, Left 4 Dead, takes this trait and makes it better - it's a different experience each time you try the game.Left 4 Dead follows four survivors in a city infested with thousands of zombies. The missions are simple (in the demo, anyway): Make your way to the next safe room or die trying. You

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I rarely play PC games, but when my housemate got this I just had to give it a go. And I'm glad I did.Lets get the graphics out of the way. For me, the first few chapters didn't look great or run smoothly (my computer is just below the minimum specs). I then decided to sacrifice the resolution. I was able to turn a ton of effects on and it still ran smoothly. From that point on I was wowed a lot

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This is a little bit late - I was distracted by Dead Space.Mirror's Edge is yet another great looking platformer this year, taking it's own style - first person view. The videos looked smooth, way too smooth. I was very concerned about three things: One, that it would suffer from motion sickness; two, first-person platforming has always been cumbersome, even in the Metroid series, and three, that

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Even with the limited parts available in the Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, creating vehicles is still a lot of fun. My only complaint is that you can't seen to assign propellers to a button (perhaps a vehicle that can drive well and fly cased a lot of balance problems...still at least you'll be able to make drivable vehicles with a detachable mini-chopper later on in the game). There's a lot of

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Tomb Raider Legend brought the Tomb Raider gameplay back to standard and made jumping around much smoother and easier. It was a lot of fun, but was a tad short and it was cut up into too many small sections. Anniversary applied the same thing to an old game, but something just didn't feel right about it. Both of these were released on the 360 but they were really last-generation games with slight

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It's the game I've been waiting for since I got my Xbox 360 - the original Banjo-Kazooie is still my favourite game of all time and I loved both Tooie and Gtunty's Revenge (the GBA one). They took what Super Mario 64 invented and then improved upon it in every way. Yesterday the demo of Nuts & Bolts was released and after hours of playing I thought that I should post my thoughts.First of all, am

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I don't know how many people will have heard much about it, and I doubt many of you will have seen it. Drive is a TV show that aired in the US in 2007, and there are no plans to bring it over here or release it on DVD.Basically, it's about a big cross-country road race (which is both secret and illegal). There are a lot of characters, each with their own back stories and twists. Episode time is

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The first half of this TV Miniseries was very good (even if they changed one character's gender and added another one, but the extra one was Dr. Cox's wife so that was fine) and seemed fairly faithful to the plot of the story (even though the mention of a wormhole seemed far-fetched, it did help bring across the suggestion that it may be alien).And then they completely changed pretty much

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When I used to own a Wii and DS (Why don't I have them now? Well, it's a long story, but let's just say I didn't have a choice and I loved both consoles) I wrote a few reviews for a fantastic site called N-Europe. I felt that it may be a good idea to post links to my reviews up on here.Fifa 08 (Wii)Overall, FIFA 08 on the Wii is a decent package but let down by lack of modes (such as the

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An odd review to start off with, but this is the most recent game I completed - I picked it up for a few quid. First off I tried it on Secret Agent (medium). It was pretty terrible and no fun at all. The stealth levels were just stupid as stealth is pretty much impossible. The AI is also extremely annoying. It's not clever - it's just super accurate. For example, there can be people behind some

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Welcome to my new blog. I thought I'd kick start this with a weekly poll (although the first will last a little longer) over there on the right. The first one is on a series of games that I've loved from the very start: Burnout.BurnoutThe original was nice, simple and a lot of fun. It was also probably one of the hardest, especially if you wanted complete survival mode (where one crash meant Game

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