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Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty (PC/Mac)
Blizzard Entertainment, July 27
By Glenn "9 pylon" Given production@hippopress.com
Blizzard takes a step back from its Massive Multi-player Money-Printing Machine and travels a hojillion years into the future with Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, a worthy sequel to quintessential real-time strategy game Starcraft.
Puzzle Quest 2 (360/DS/iStuffs/PC)
Infinite Interactive
By Glenn "Flameblade" Given production@hippopress.com
Line up gems to bring down hit points in Puzzle Quest 2, the amplified sequel to the darling hybrid puzzle/RPG breakthrough Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords.
Deathspank, (360/PS3)
Hothead Games, July 13 (360) & July 14 (PS3), 2010
By Glenn "The Artifact" Given production@hippopress.com
Ron Gilbert (Maniac Mansion) teams with Voodoo Vince designer Clayton Kauzlaric on Deathspank, a head-shakingly silly action-RPG about a mighty warrior and his purple thong underwear.
Transformers: War for Cybertron (PC/PS3/360)
High Moon Studios, June 2010
By Glenn "Unicron" Given production@hippopress.com
On a distant planet made of explosions and things going whir-ka-chow-kow-cheee and turning into hover cars or something, giant screeching robots fight even gianter screechier robots for control of robot souls, maybe?
Red Dead Redemption (PS3/360)
Rockstar San Diego/Rock Star North, May 18
By Glenn "Ornery Cuss" Given production@hippopress.com
In 1911 New Austin, the fictional amalgam of the Southwestern American states, former outlaw John Marsten is drafted back into a life of bloody frontier violence. Set to track, capture and/or kill his former gang mates by government agents Marsten must give the daily dose of Vitamin Lead to rustlers, bandits and outlaws in Red Dead Redemption, a third-person sandbox-style Western that has made me hate bears more than any other creature on earth.
Super Street Fighter 4 (360/PS3)
Capcom, April 27
By Glenn "Corkscrew Cross" Given production@hippopress.com
Capcom punishes small TVs with a screen-busting roster of fighters in Super Street Fighter 4, its price-slashed upgrade of the 2008 flaming fisticuff engine.
Torchlight (PC)
Oct. 27 download; Jan. 5 retail, Runic Games
By Glenn "Giant Catfish" Given production@hippopress.com
Click-click-click on the dwarven wight and watch your screen go kablooey with fun in Torchlight, a click-and-slash dungeon crawl in the vein of Gauntlet and Diablo.
2009 in video games
What a surprise, everything got louder and shinier
By Glenn "Fat Princess" Given production@hippopress.com
Wii/DS
It was a plateau year at best for Nintendo. With their traditional reliance on franchise titles and a shotgun spread of mediocre games aimed at the “casual gamer,” Nintendo fared well but failed critically. When it comes to the big N, there is really only one standout new title for the Wii: New Super Mario Brothers Wii. With four-player co-op platforming gameplay and the ability to basically have the title play itself, NSMBW is another coat of turtle wax on the classic roadster of gaming. The downloadable WiiWare service offered more original nibblings with Lost Winds: Winter of Melodias, a sequel full of clever Wiimote wind-whipping platforming. The year’s surprise came from on-rails shooter Dead Space Extraction, a prequel to 2008’s excellent cross-platform sci-fi survival horror Dead Space
GTA Chinatown Wars, DS
Rockstar North/Rockstar Leeds, March 20, M
By Glenn "Cluckin Bell" Given production@hippopress.com
A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll, but mostly drug-running, city-spanning mayhem that fits in your pocket.
Killzone 2 (PS3)
Guerilla Games, Feb. 27, M
By Glenn "Invert Y Axis" Given production@hippopress.com
In the lexicon of first-person shooters I’m not very good at, Killzone ranks near the top.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2 (PC)
Relic Entertainment, Feb. 19, M
By Glenn "More Dakka" Given production@hippopress.com
Acclaimed Homeworld devs inject the evolutional mechanics of their critical darling RTS Company of Heroes to the tabletop sci-fi nightmarescape of Warhammer 40k, again, but this time with feeling.
Street Fighter IV (360/PS3)
Capcom, Feb 17, T
By Glenn "Psycho Crusher" Given production@hippopress.com
Don’t believe you can handle high-end fighting games? Sure you can.
Flower, PS3
ThatGameCompany, Feb. 12, E
By Glenn "Stamen" Given production@hippopress.com
The creators of flOw tempt you to drop more hallucinogens and while two hours away playing something soothing and beautiful with Flower.
Reviews (for the most part) by Glenn Given production@hippopress.com
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