Gaming

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  God of War II

  PS2

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007

  Remember having to plod through Greek mythology back in grade school? You knew it was kinda awesome — vengeful gods, gratuitous sex and ple...

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  Super Paper Mario

  Wii

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007

  Maybe they should have called it Super Meta Mario. After all, few games have ever deconstructed their medium more — and I don’t mean by mer...

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  Crackdown

  Xbox 360

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007

  Ask the Scottish creator of Crackdown about Grand Theft Auto and he’ll probably get pissed (despite having developed the original top-down...

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  Just Cause

  Multi-platform

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007

  The box art may emulate that famous Che Guevera photo, but cribbing the title of Just Cause from the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama proves th...

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  Bully

  PS2

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007

  On the heels of their overblown "hot coffee” pixel-sex scandal, Grand Theft Auto-makers Rockstar Games tried to keep their boarding school...

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  Valkrye Profile 2: Silmeria

  PS2

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007

  Technically a prequel, Valkrye Profile 2 is a role-playing game set several hundred years before the two-dimensional (hence the "profile")...

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  Prey

  Xbox 360 / PC

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007

  During the mid-’90s, when Quake and Duke Nukem ruled the gaming world, a first-person shooter was announced called Prey. A mere 11 years la...

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  Lord of the Rings: Battle For Middle Earth II

  Xbox 360

  PUBLISHED Jun 19, 2007

  As enjoyable as the Lord of the Rings games were, those hack’n’slash titles hewed too closely to the film’s familiar narrative. Not only do...