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4.7 stars

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inFamous: Entertaining escapism at its best. 0

  Cole McGrath, whose name sounds like he just released his newest hit single in Nashville entitled "My Darlin' Left Me For A Beer," acquired godlike electrical powers when an explosion ripped through Empire City after a strange package he was delivering detonated. One would think that, considering the distinctively bomb-looking nature of the package, such a shipment might have raised some eyebrows, but times must have been hard in Empire City (after all, gas is listed as being $8.59 a gallon...

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Demon's Souls makes every other modern game seem laughably easy. 0

Since their very beginning, video games have been full of "one dude against the world" scenarios, but very few have captured the feeling of what it would truly be like to be the only hope in a world darkened by sorcery and evil quite like Demon's Souls. Such a journey would seem hopeless, frightening, and bereft of any joy or diversion. And it would be hard. Demon's Souls drives home the necessary lesson that no matter how uber your gear is or how experienced you are, a pickaxe rammed in your ba...

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God of War III successfully refines elements that work. 0

 When the frail John Keats wrote "A thing of beauty is a joy forever," his thoughts were undoubtedly more directed at nightingales and Grecian urns and not toward the graphic slaughter of virtually the entire pantheon of Greek gods. Yet, in this (we're told) final chapter of the tale of Kratos of Sparta, Santa Monica Studios has somehow taken the tale of an incorrigible single-minded bastard who rips off heads by the dozen and disembowels centaurs and titans and turned it into one of the most ri...

1 out of 2 found this review helpful.