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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Trailer

So did you like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2? Well if you did or did not Bad Company 2 from the makers of Battlefield have launched a pretty awesome game. The style is a little more arcade than realistic, but it is fun as hell with pretty much everything you see able to be destroyed, its an action freaks wet dream.

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Modern PC Gaming

Mass Effect 2

I wish they would go away from this dumbed down choose-your-own-adventure system and go back towards the roots of more intricate RPGs. It’s kind of annoying how they only phrase part of what your response would be in the options. I miss the days of being able to look at 8-9 different responses that were worded out exactly as my character would deliver them. I would look at lines in Fallout 2 or Planescape: Torment and think “hey, that’s really clever, let’s see what happens?!” Now I can just click on the obvious choices and just keep making my guy nicer/more of an asshole. Like, it takes no skill or thought.

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Editorials

What Gamers Want

Everyone loves a good metaphor in a column. You get to say “I get it” and the columnist gets to say “That’s a clever bit of writing”. So, what strained, pureed and mashed line of thought am I going to use to describe the difference between what gamers say they want and what they actually buy? It’s food, of course.

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