Video Game Review: Gears of War 3

Exaggerated character models are back and looking smoother than ever. There are a lot of cool little bad ass touches, like scraping the massive butcher blade across the ground during a roadie run, and the weapon-specific executions are brutally satisfying. Explosions have visual impact, and as always there’s a ton of blood and gore to be found. It’s just a very impressive looking game.

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Video Game Review: Orcs Must Die!

When setting traps you just highlight what you want to deploy and aim at a surface. If you’re able to place it there it’ll appear green and give you a red beam that shows its effective range. Each weapon also has an alternative fire mode that is executed by pressing the left trigger — these usually employ area effects but also drain your mana meter. Face buttons handle tasks like jumping and sprinting as well as selling unwanted traps.

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Video Game Review: Supremacy MMA

This issue, which also plagues clinching and ground fighting, is due to the game’s bizarre blocking and parrying systems that constantly offer each player chances to stop their opponent. For instance, if you try to execute a ground transition you’ll hit the button… and then wait while the counter button appears on the screen. If your opponent fails to counter then you’ll make your move. This undermines the flow and results in choppy combat.

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Video Game Review: Driver: San Francisco

In terms of button mapping, there is little to complain about here with accelerating/braking assigned to the triggers and a boost initiated by pushing up on the left analog stick — you can also engage the emergency brake for quick turns and drifting by hitting “B.” Executing the basics feels a bit loose, though, and it seemed too easy for my car to skid out of control (and even harder to get it back under control) when travelling at higher speeds.

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