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mini-game the system | VG247's The Best Games Ever Podcast – Ep.3: Best game with a mini-game better than the main game
This one is going to cause some arguments. What defines a mini-game?
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Without Starfield and Redfall, and no other first-party games announced for 2022, what can be done?
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Bethesd'oh | Xbox and Bethesda should never have dated Starfield 17 months from release
Putting a date on it that early gave the impression that the release date would be hit. It now won’t be.
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Xbox has no games? | Xbox is losing momentum as PS5 and Switch come out swinging
Sony is rolling out the big guns and timed exclusives, Nintendo has a stellar first-party release schedule, and Xbox has… Starfield in November.
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Reputation sullied? | Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection deserves to be on PS5 – but the PS5 and the Collection deserved better
Uncharted 4 and Lost Legacy are top notch action adventure games, but little here makes them feel like proper PS5 games.
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Dying Light 2 has received some flack over its 500 hours to complete claim, but that’s because we’ve become weary of bloat.
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Spend some time in this highly interactive tech demo and you'll be excited for what current-gen consoles are capable of, visually.
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Chef's kiss mechanics in a game that loses its fizz before the end.
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FXXK | Xbox 20th Anniversary: How Xbox made me the most important person in games media to ever exist
The original Xbox launched in Europe some months later, but I simply had to play Halo as soon as possible, even with a broken console.
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playing god | Jurassic World Evolution 2 lets you try to fix the movies' many flaws
Be better than the people in the films in the neat Chaos Theory mode.
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With Forza Horizon 5, Halo Infinite, and a superb Game Pass catalogue, Xbox wipes the floor with Sony's holiday offering.
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Why is filling a room with stuff so damn compulsive?
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No es una reseña | Forza Horizon 5: Rushing to review would be a crime with a game this beautiful and chill
I'm taking my time to see the sights, but that means I'm not making much progress.
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Retro hotness | Demon Turf is a deceptively deep 3D platformer that N64 fans should love
If you're after pure gameplay depth and challenge, don't ignore this retro-inspired gem.
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You can finally play Crysis (all of them) well, which is actually pretty great.
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Golf without the stress and with added exploration.
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EA Sports FC surely can't be what FIFA is going to be called in the future.
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We take a quick look at AWE Interactive's unique take on the FPS and rhythm genre, BPM.
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Not my vibe | Jett: The Far Shore review impressions - This game really doesn't want me to like it
Sometimes the thing you want to like ends up being the opposite of what you wanted.
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remedy your mistake | Alan Wake Remastered review - It's made me realise I was right to love the original so much
As a long-time Alan Wake fan it's been hard seeing the game get so much hate over the years.
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The brand's plastic track pieces ultimately work against this fun arcade racer.
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new neuer | FIFA 22 seems to have made goalkeepers good again - apart from when they're not
It's early days, but the people between the posts are behaving like pros for once.
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Update: It took 1,386 days from Bayonetta 3's Switch announcement to get some proper news
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Good and nice | Kena: Bridge of Spirits lets its visuals do most of the hard work
Beneath the movie-like appearance, Kena is a fairly simple action adventure game.
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Four hours in and the combat just isn't doing it for me.
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Lord of the rings? | Is Sonic Colors: Ultimate a good game or just a good 3D Sonic game?
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