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Best 5 games of 2012

Best 5 Games of 2012

Looking back on the best 5 games of 2012 – I’ll warn you now, some of them are contentious! Sleeping Dogs At number five it’s Sleeping Dogs. It’s basically a Grand Theft Auto game with slightly less humour but a much better game mechanic. Set in Hong Kong, you’re an undercover agent working for the cops and the Triads but as with most undercover stories, your loyalties are soon tested. With a superb combat system that almost matches those of Arkham City and Asylum, this is definitely worth picking up before GTA V eclipses everything. FIFA 13 At four it’s FIFA 13....

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Top 5 hidden Wii gems

As the Wii nears the end of its life, I take a look back at the top 5 overlooked Wii games that are well worth a play, even today. MadWorld Despite selling about 2 copies, Madworld remains one of the best Wii exclusive titles. With a distinct black and white, Sin City -style game aesthetic, this remains one of the most stylish games ever. Starring as Jack, you must kill your way through the levels in a brutal homage to the ‘Running Man’. Throw in some hilarious over the top kills, fantastic boss battles and buckets of blood, making MadWorld a...

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Best Vita games

The PlayStation Vita release date is next week and Sony kindly sent me a device to try out along with a pack of games I could download onto its 16GB memory card. It’s a decent piece of kit and you name it, it’s got it. It has a large 5 inch OLED touch screen, rear touch pad, gyroscope, GPS, microphone, dual analogue sticks and front and rear cameras and the launch titles all go some way to making sure they use some if not all the functions it has. After a messy start getting the thing to work what with...

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Top 5 Games of 2012

Here are my top 5 games coming up in 2012: BioShock Infinite At number five it’s BioShock Infinite. This time the action’s not sent in the underwater world of Rapture but instead on a giant city in the air called Columbia in 1912. You play as a guy called Booker DeWitt who’s not a French comedian but in fact a disgraced former agent acting as a lone wolf. The gameplay is the familiar mix of first-person shooting and role playing you’ve come to expect with the BioShock games and of course you’ll get some cool abilities to raise the stakes...

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Top 5 games of 2011

The year’s fast coming to an end and what with Christmas stuff already in the shops I thought I’d go one further and look forward to games coming out in the New Year so pay attention as I run down my top five 5 games of 2011. Deus Ex: Human Revolution At number five it’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The third game in the series see you play as Adam Jensen, a security specialist handpicked to oversee the defence of one of America’s most experimental biotechnology firms. Of course things go wrong when a Black Ops team break in and...

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Best Xbox 360 games for Christmas 2010

So we’re once again heading towards Christmas and as usual instead of contemplating how we could perhaps stop killing each other with guns, knives and twenty four hour television. Instead we just want to sit and play video games on our Xbox 360 console. Well as the saying goes; if you can’t beat them, join them. Here are our picks for the best Christmas Xbox 360 games to purchase for yourself or as gifts for others this year. Xbox 360 Slim with Kinect Bundle This probably has to be at the top gift for those with an old Xbox 360...