Video Game Review: FIFA ’12

/ David Cooper, Video Game Reviews

The most significant alteration to the control scheme is “tactical defending” — it’s optional in single player, but mandatory online. Tactical defending forces more manual control over defenders, and while implementation is simple enough (the game starts off with a tutorial explaining how it works), it’ll certainly change the play style of seasoned veterans. It also shifts the balance to being more attack-heavy than ever before (more on this later).

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Book Review: How Fantasy Sports Explains the World

/ Book review, James Morris

From that point on I noticed that each chapter was a story from the author’s perspective, with a Fantasy fact or opinion seemingly thrown in to keep with the theme of the book. I honestly couldn’t tell you what Chapter Two was about and Chapter Three had little to do with who Jesus would draft, contrary to what the chapter’s title suggested. That was when the book really just became a blur as chapter after chapter had precious few paragraphs about Fantasy sports out of the roughly 20 pages each chapter comprised.

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Video Game Review: Orcs Must Die!

/ Video Game Reviews

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: Splinter Cell Trilogy

/ Mike Chen, Video Game Reviews

Sam Fisher is best known for his glowing tri-focal goggles, and while you won’t always use these, you’ll certainly constantly see them (which begs the question, if Sam is totally hidden in the dark, why can’t the enemy see the three glowing lights?). Goggle functionality — night vision, thermal vision, and EMF detection — is controlled using the directional pad, with different options based on individual games, as well as your mission-specific gear.

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The Wire Troll: Jonesing for Jacoby

/ Buck Davidson, Football, The Wire Troll

Yes, seriously. McNabb is off to a slow start this season, and has fallen out of whatever Fantasy favour he enjoyed at the beginning of the season. He did post decent numbers last week, though, and more of the same could be in store as he faces the porous Arizona pass defense, which has surrendered an average of 282 passing yards per game. Don’t look to McNabb to be much more than a one-week pickup, but if your regular signal-caller is on a bye the veteran could be worth a look.

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Video Game Review: Supremacy MMA

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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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