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FIFA 11: THE NEW LEAGUE CHAMPION

FIFA has been on top form for years now.

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I feel the need, the need for speed...

THE Need For Speed series lost its arcade crown to the Burnout games a whole console generation ago.

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James Bond 007: Blood Stone

THANKS to financial woes at MGM there won’t be a new James Bond movie this year. Filming is due to start shortly, but so much work goes into a blockbuster these days that the next Bond adventure won’t...

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Dead Space 2

IF YOU'RE a nervous type I advise you to walk on by - there's nothing to see in Dead Space 2. At least, there's nothing that won't give you nightmares.

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Brink

DESIGNING a first-person shooter is a thankless task these days. We’ve had so many in the past ten years it’s tempting to believe there’s nothing new to be had from the genre.

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LA Noire

THE Sega Mega-CD was the first games console to claim its software could place a player in a virtual world that was indistinguishable from a film.

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Cars 2

DESIGNING a film tie-in is a thankless task. If it’s a kids cartoon, you’ll inevitably end up with a 3-D platform adventure and every critic will compare it (unfavourably) to the classic Mario 64.

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Need For Speed: Most Wanted

RACING fans will have sweaty palms at the prospect of a game that combines the crash mayhem of Burnout with the superb asphalt action that has made the NFS series such a success.

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Football Manager 2013

THESE are the games you can lose your life to. The annual release of the new Football Manager generally signals the signing off of a week’s holiday by FM veterans to allow it to consume them, while...

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Game Of The Week: Assassin’s Creed III

IF there’s a game that has perfected the art of tying time travel into relentless action adventures, it’s Assassin’s Creed.

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Flying higher

Bioshock Infinite,  Platform: PS3, £34.99 

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Silent Hill: Homecoming

WHEN soldier Alex Shepherd returns home to Shepherd's Glen, he enters a nightmare world where decisions made by his ancestors have apparently opened the gates of hell.

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Prince Of Persia

A RE-INVENTION of a classic early title, Prince of Persia, has split the gaming community down the middle.

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Rise Of The Argonauts

FOR me, Jason and the Argonauts brings back memories of giant gold statues, fighting skeletons and a dodgy bloke playing King Neptune from the film of the same name enlivened by Ray Harryhausen's...

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Lord Of The Rings: Conquest

PANDEMIC, the team behind Lord of the Rings - Conquest, had a tough task juggling the demands of To lkein's books with the expectations of people who have only seen the films.

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Skate 2

Publisher: Electronic Arts Formats: PS3, X Box 360 Price: £49.99

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House Of The Dead: Overkill

ANYONE who thinks the Nintendo Wii is strictly for kids will get a rude awakening - in more ways than one - if they ignore the 18+certificate attached to this gory shoot 'em up.

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Nerf: N-Strike

ON-RAILS shoot 'em ups are obviously a bit like buses: you wait ages for one to turn up, then two arrive at once.

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Pirates Hunt For Blackbeard's Booty

THE Xbox has its shoot 'em ups, the PS3 has its racers, but Nintendo pretty much has the family audience demographic boxed off.

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Halo Wars

THE Halo universe is ideally suited to a strategic action game, with its epic worlds at war storyline and back story rich in detail.

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