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If you’ve ever wondered why movie tie-in games have such a bad reputation, Terminator Salvation can provide an instructive example. Though this third-person shooter is technically sound, it seems to rely entirely on the presumption that you’ll be so jazzed to be playing as characters from the movie that you won’t notice how boring and [...]
Necrovision is not a game that you should judge based solely on its first few hours of play. The early action can be great fun, but some clunky technical issues and frustrating missions don’t show this supernatural first-person shooter at its best. However, about a third of the way through, it leaps a great barrier [...]
On the heels of our big NHL 10 Q&A with producer David Littman last week, information about EA Sports’ next hockey project continues to trickle out. Over at the EA Sports blog, the team has released a couple of producer videos detailing some of the fixes from the previous year’s game and, today, they’re talking [...]
We went hands-on with the latest F.E.A.R. 2 maps, playing head-to-head against the developers of the game. Following last month’s release of the free Toy Soldiers Map Pack, Monolith has just unleashed the first paid-for content for F.E.A.R. 2. The Armored Front map pack contains two new multiplayer maps, both of which have an emphasis [...]
Today, EA dropped the news that Madden NFL 10 will include online co-op play in the latest Madden documentary (see video below for details). And while that’s news by itself, a phrase mentioned by senior designer Ian Cummings during the video drops a tantalizing hint as what’s yet to come in Madden 10. Here’s the [...]
It’s been a good week for the fight fans around GameSpot HQ. On Tuesday we had our GameSpot Community Game Night, featuring THQ’s UFC 2009 Unleashed and today the demo for EA Sports’ upcoming Fight Night Round 4 was released on Xbox Live. I also have preview code in my possession of Fight Night 4 [...]
The glut of downloadable content continues with Burnout Paradise . Hot on the heels of last month’s Cops and Robbers release, Criterion Games has unveiled its latest DLC pack: Big Surf Island. Due for release later this summer, Big Surf Island is a brand-new chunk of real estate for you to zip around like a [...]
PHOTO ESSAY: As a small army of roadies assemble the massive booths for this year’s event, GameSpot snapped some shots of the banner-festooned Los Angeles Convention Center. LOS ANGELES–Once again, the Electronic Entertainment Expo has descended upon the Los Angeles Convention Center. The sprawling building’s several-block-long exterior is now festooned with banners for Sony’s PlayStation [...]
