Video Game Review: Just Dance 2015

If you’ve never played a Just Dance game before, the concept is simple: follow the moves being shown on the screen to the best of your ability and get scored for it. In that way it’s comparable to Guitar Hero or Rock Band, though here you’re actually performing the actions and not pressing coloured buttons on a guitar-shaped controller. As you’d suspect, the game skews young with lots of pop tracks, but it’s easy enough to be accessible to most ages.

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Video Game Review: Halo: The Master Chief Collection

While every system has its signature characters, none are more inseparable than Microsoft and the Master Chief — hell, it named the Windows phone’s personal assistant Cortana. Thus, the arrival of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, highlighted by Halo 2 Anniversary, on the Xbox One is a landmark moment that brings all four of the Chief’s adventures onto one console and sets the table for next year’s Halo 5: Guardians. Cue the Gregorian chants, it’s Halo time.

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Video Game Review: Shadow Warrior

There’s definitely an old-school vibe to Shadow Warrior, and the game gets you in the mood by showing gameplay footage during the initial load screen. From waves of enemies to health kits, this is a far cry from modern FPS games, and some will certainly appreciate that. This is augmented by a power system with RPG-style advancements, which allows for partial healing, super weapons charging and more.

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Video Game Review: NBA Live ’15

If you’ve played a sports title of any variety in the past several years you should have a pretty good idea of what awaits you in NBA Live ’15. Dynasty puts you in the GM’s seat, providing decision making power over all aspects of personnel (trades, free agency and the draft) as well as some coaching input in the form of minutes distribution. Trade logic is decent, though it doesn’t feel like it’s weighing salary enough as we were routinely able to dump bad contracts.

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Video Game Review: Sunset Overdrive

As previously alluded to, the story of Sunset Overdrive is played almost entirely for laughs. Nothing is taken seriously, and the game delights in pointing out how it’s following industry clichés. That approach keeps things feeling light as the challenge elevates — even deaths are treated as mere momentary setbacks accompanied by silly respawn animations. If you string too many story missions together, however, it loses its impact as the humour gets repetitious.

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Video Game Review: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

On the new-gen systems the game is an incredible experience, creating a beautiful world despite the desolate and unsettling nature of the story. Tragedy and vengeance haven’t looked this attractive in a long time. The cut scenes and gameplay blend so flawlessly together that it isn’t immediately discernible whether or not the scenes are pre-rendered or not. Some very impressive work was done to accomplish some cool transformation effects that we’ve never seen done so well before.

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Video Game Review: Tenkai Knights: Brave Battle

If we had to describe Tenkai Knights: Brave Battle in one sentence, we would call it Super Smash Bros. with Lego Power Rangers, but without the magic that made each of them great. Seriously, the resemblance between every character on Quarton, the planet on which the battles take place, and the Lego figurines is borderline plagiarist.

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