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Review: Red Dead Redemption
Score: Meh
Difficulty played on: Normal
Time to beat: Around 35 hours with most side-quests
Loved the most: Dynamic and organic world that was fun to explore. Treasure maps.
Hated the most: Uninspired mission design, shallow mechanics, and extreme length left me wishing for the end half-way through.
Review: Alan Wake
"Wake up, Alan. You slept past your release date."
Score: Mediocre
Difficulty played on: Normal
Time to beat: About 10 hours
Loved the most: Spectacular soundtrack.
Hated the most: The tedious repetition which burdens a game where everything looks and feels the same. Author: Cody
Review: Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening
Score: Good
Difficulty played on: Normal
Time to beat: A little over 20 hours with almost all side-quests.
Loved the most: Loot. Sweet, sweet loot.
Hated the most: Way too easy.
Review: Splinter Cell: Conviction
Score: Meh
Difficulty played on: Normal
Time to beat: About 7 hours
Loved the most: Co-op.
Hated the most: Pretty much everything about the single-player campaign.
Review: Perfect Dark (XBLA)
Score: Good
Difficulty played on: Special Agent (middle difficulty)
Time to beat: Around 10 hours
Loved the most: The fact that this game is still innovative 10 years after its initial release. The music was superb too.
Hated the most: The online multiplayer component is completely mishandled and underwhelming.
Review: BioShock 2
Score: Meh
Difficulty played on: Normal
Time to beat: About 12 hours
Loved the most: The fantastic sound design.
Hated the most: Sophia Lamb and her pathetic story.
Review: Mass Effect 2
Score: Great
Difficulty played on: Veteran (step above normal, with Hardcore and Insanity outranking it)
Time to beat: About 40 hours including all side-quests
Loved the most: The epic scope of the story provided by the ability to import your Mass Effect 1 save.
Hated the most: Tedious and pointless mini-games that only serve to kill the great pace of the game.
Review: Dragon Age: Origins (Xbox 360)
Score: Superb
Time to beat: Approximately 65 hours while completing almost all side-quests
Loved the most: Exclusion of morality meter allowed me to actually role-play.
Hated the most: The interface is too clunky and many game-play elements seem out of date.
Review: Assassin’s Creed II
Ezio, doing his best Vamp impression.
Score: Good
Time to beat: About 25 hours with a fair amount of side-questing
Loved the most: Awesome platforming of the Assassin’s Tombs.
Hated the most: A general lack of innovation from the first game to this one. Author: Cody
Review: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Score: Great
Difficulty played on: Hardened
Time to beat: 5-6 hours
Loved the most: Special-Ops mode.
Hated the most: Ridiculous and muddled story with plot holes the size of Texas.
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