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By Jarno Kokko, Jun 16, 2009
The Sims - love it or hate it, it is one of the most popular PC game franchises ever. Every franchise can live on expansion packs only for so long as the PC hardware evolves. It is time for The Sims to get a full makeover. It is time for The Sims 3.
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By Jarno Kokko, May 15, 2009
Most licensed games based on the Marvel Universe have been aimed at kids. X-Men Origins: Wolverine is finally something that is aimed at those who were kids back in the 80s and 90s, during the golden age of X-Men comics. Sure, the story is partially based on the movie but more importantly the game goes beyond the PG-13 rated movie and finally sets Wolverine free - without any unnecessary compromises when it comes to the level of violence. Cue flying limbs, misplaced heads, liberal amounts of blood and many brutal tricks with those adamantium claws!
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By Jarno Kokko, Apr 28, 2009
Demigod plunders the popular Warcraft III scenario Defense of the Ancients for ideas and runs with the concept to offer a new twist on the RTS genre. Individual demigods battle it out on massive arenas, gathering up experience and equipment as they go. Rank and file troops are just distractions to be squished and the action is non-stop. Just one small problem - whoever developed and tested the matchmaking code of this multiplayer-oriented game needs a coat of tar and feathers...
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By Jarno Kokko, Apr 15, 2009
Total War series moves to the 18th century, the age of sail and musket. Improved visuals and proper real time sea battles are the main selling points, but... whatever happened to the quality assurance? Empire: Total War offers an ambitious look at warfare on a global scale in the colonial era, but you'll end up fighting with some bugs as well.
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By Jarno Kokko, Mar 24, 2009
Unlike World of Warcraft and its kind, EVE tosses players into a massive galaxy filled with all kinds of high tech toys, leaving it up to the players to figure out what they want to do with it all. Predictably the EVE universe has turned into a massive battlefield where huge alliances fight it out for control of thousands of star systems. Fancy ruling a galaxy, taxing the spacelanes while going "yarr!", playing the markets for fun and profit or just setting up a honest business? EVE has it all and Apocrypha adds in another 2500 unexplored systems to play in.
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