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A fun and charming game that captures the festive spirit of Halloween.

Though Halloween has come and gone for this year, the festive XBLA title Costume Quest shouldn't be overlooked. As Double Fine's latest project, Costume Quest is filled with the charm and character that the studio has become famous for creating. Add that to a varied gameplay experience that combines elements from different genres, and gamers have a wonderful gaming experience

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It's frantic and fast-paced, but requires you to appreciate replay value.

Since the inception of Platinum Games, they have done a great job of taking a specific genre and making it completely over-the-top and intense. MadWorld, Bayonetta, and now Vanquish, are all great examples of this. In the case of Vanquish, players are presented with what can best be described as a third-person shooter on steroids. The action is fast-paced and intense, the control fluid, and the strategy layered and complex. What's most impressive about Vanquish is that it manages to merge the concepts of a modern third-person shooter with the classic appeal of an arcade title.

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A short and unenjoyable take on the point-and-click adventure.

Dream Chronicles is an odd point-and-click adventure title, wherein players take the role of Faye, a woman who has just awoken from a horrible nightmare, only to discover that her dream has become reality. Her husband, Fidget, has been captured, her daughter, Lyra, is trapped within a deep sleep, and along her journey Faye discovers that her husband and extended family are actually fairies. The culprit of the chaos is Lilith, the Fairy Queen of Dreams, who has cast a spell upon Faye's home world, Wish Town, which has caused every mortal to fall into a deep sleep. Thus it is up to Faye to crack Lilith's spell, as she travels throughout Wish Town on a strange quest based on unique, yet convoluted puzzles.

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A disappointing game that feels rushed and half completed.

It's really a shame the way Flip's Twisted World worked out. As someone who sorely misses puzzle platformers, I was incredibly excited at the prospect of getting to play a brand new game within my beloved genre. Sadly, it doesn't take long to realize the flaws within Flip's Twisted World, since each is apparent nearly immediately. Between the major issues such as a temperamental camera and constant glitches, lie countless other problems, including rough platforming, boring combat, and a severe lack of direction.

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It's Fallout 3 with a better story.

I guess Ron Perlman wasn’t joking when he said, “War never changes.” At the very least it seems to stay pretty consistent in Fallout: New Vegas, the sequel to Fallout 3 the 2008 video game of the year. Rather than developing the game in-house, as they did with 3, Bethesda Studios turned over the production of the game to Obsidian Entertainment, the spiritual successor to the original creators of the Fallout franchise.

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