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Review: Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit

Lapping the field
Predator versus prey — that's what Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is all about.

By: MITCH KRPATA | December 14, 2010

Review: Donkey Kong Country Returns

Monkey shines
Donkey Kong Country returns in style

By: MITCH KRPATA | December 07, 2010

Review: Dance Central

Harmonix busts a move
These are trying times for Harmonix.

By: MITCH KRPATA | November 23, 2010

Review: Rock Band 3

Keys open doors
Adding a keyboard to Rock Band 3 was the most logical move for Harmonix.

By: MITCH KRPATA | November 09, 2010

Review: Medal of Honor misses the target

Fog of war
Could this be, at long last, the video game that deals frankly with the morass of war? Don't kid yourself.

By: MITCH KRPATA | October 31, 2010

Review: NBA Jam

Baller status update
Maybe NBA Jam wasn't the best game of all time, but when it appeared in arcades back in 1993, it acquired a pop-culture cachet that most games couldn't dream of.

By: MITCH KRPATA | October 19, 2010

Review: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

Shadow falls
I couldn't play Castlevania: Lords of Shadow for five minutes without wanting to punch somebody involved in its creation.

By: MITCH KRPATA | October 13, 2010

Review: Metroid: Other M

Mutiny on the bounty hunter
The best in-game storytelling I’ve seen occurs at the climax of Super Metroid .

By: MITCH KRPATA | September 14, 2010

Fall Games Preview: Worlds in motion

Fall video games bust a move
This November marks the fifth anniversary of Microsoft's Xbox 360 console, and four years since the launch of Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii. Yet there's no Xbox 720, PlayStation 4, or Super Wii anywhere in sight.

By: MITCH KRPATA | September 14, 2010

Review: Mafia II

Just when you think you're in, Mafia II pushes you back out
Thanks to Goodfellas , The Sopranos , and, oh yeah, The Godfather , the life of a wiseguy has been pretty well deromanticized in popular culture. Credit Mafia II , then, with the difficult task of deconstructing the genre even farther.

By: MITCH KRPATA | September 07, 2010

Review: Hydro Thunder: Hurricane

Hurricane Force: riding a high tide
Another summer, another wave of critically acclaimed downloadable games.

By: MITCH KRPATA | September 01, 2010

Review: Limbo

How low can you go?
"A masterpiece." "Close to perfect." "Genius." "Essential, must-play experience." All these quotes appear on the Metacritic page for a game called Limbo . I'd sure like to play that game. There must have been some kind of mix-up with what I downloaded.

By: MITCH KRPATA | August 04, 2010

Review: DeathSpank

Ron Gilbert flogs the funny bone
"I run into these contrived situations a lot," admits the eponymous hero of DeathSpank , shortly after accepting his zillionth bizarre task from a complete stranger.

By: MITCH KRPATA | July 27, 2010

Review: Crackdown 2

Power struggle
It's the curse of the sequel. Crackdown 2 isn't a radical departure from its predecessor. But it feels like a letdown.

By: MITCH KRPATA | July 13, 2010

Review: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

The latest Metal Gear Solid sends mixed signals
For a couple of hours, I was enjoying the latest iteration of the long-running Metal Gear Solid series, which is called Peace Walker . Unlike the massive, bloated, self-important Metal Gear Solid 4 , this portable installment felt lean and mean.

By: MITCH KRPATA | July 02, 2010

Review: Red Dead Redemption

Grand Theft Oater?
The land doesn't care. Not about the storms that blow across its plains. Not about the animals that stalk one another through its grasses. And certainly not about the men who occasionally appear over the horizon and try to build a civilization on its sands.

By: MITCH KRPATA | June 21, 2010