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Plugged InReview: Story-driven ‘Need For Speed’ runs out of gas
This game features more plot, dialogue, and writing than any Need For Speed in recent memory. Luckily, it also features some good racing. Your tolerance for the former will determine your enjoyment of the latter.
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Review: 'The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes' is a friendly but frivolous adventure
While it’s got a few clever tricks, this is not the Zelda you’re looking for.
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Review: ‘Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5’ is an unpleasant grind
Even after 15 years, I still have an appetite for these games. I love the kinetic thrill, the improvisation that feels so personal, and I love skateboarding culture. I have room in my heart for this series. But not when it plays like this.
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Review: ‘Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection’ heroically clings to the past
While we’d prefer to be playing Uncharted 4 right about now, playing three excellent PS3 games isn’t a shabby consolation.
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Review: Slick tracks, shiny cars drive excellent ‘Forza Motorsport 6’
Forza 6 turned me into a believer. In part that’s because it’s a big improvement over 2013’s anemic Forza 5, but it’s also because this is simply a gorgeous, detailed, and yes, fun racing game.
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'Pixels' is a lousy movie that sets gamers back 20 years
Pixels opts for the lowest common denominator and, once again, hammers home the wrongheaded notion that people who enjoy games are somehow broken.
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Review: Bloody the heavens again in enhanced ‘God of War III: Remastered’
God of War III has aged well. It look significantly better, and while the new PS4 package is light on the sort of fancy extras you might hope for a remaster, it’s still a god-killing good time.
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Review: Break, build, and dig through dino poop in ‘Lego Jurassic World’
Dinosaurs are once again at the top of the multiplex food chain thanks to Jurassic World ($100 million and counting). And now the Lego video game version is hoping to gobble up your console gaming cash.
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Review: Stylish ‘Wolfenstein: The Old Blood’ could use an infusion
Unlike The New Order, The Old Blood isn’t about storytelling so much as developing new excuses for you to go shoot stuff.