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More shovelware from the low budget publisher.

The latest title from publisher Storm City Games, Monkey Madness: Island Escape, falls in line with their previous work. It's typical DS shovelware, featuring low budget presentation, one-dimensional gameplay, and is in general, a title that serves little purpose in being on the market.

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If Project Gotham Racing and Mario Kart had a baby, you'd get Blur.

Bizarre Creations is a developer of many talents, responsible for a wide-variety of games all in different genres. While they have done quite a bit, they seem to have stuck with the racing genre longer than any other, mostly through their Project Gotham Racing Series. Now that they have been freed from further development of those titles since acquisition by Activision Blizzard, they have had the opportunity to create something in that vein, but fresh and new at the same time. Blur is the result of those efforts, and it is something that will undoubtedly be compelling for fans of arcade-style racing games.

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Vicarious Visions delivers beautiful graphics and some underwhelming gameplay.

These days I'm always impressed by what can be accomplished on the relatively underpowered DS hardware. Vicarious Visions has always managed to be quite good at maxing out the system's graphical capabilities for the games they deliver. Transformers: War for Cybertron is a great example of some impressive system pushing graphical work. Unfortunately for Vicarious Visions, the accompanying gameplay, though a decent attempt given the subject matter at hand,is not quite as compelling

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The combo-pack offers up two standalone stories, as well as an expanded multiplayer mode.

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City is the physical compilation of the two separate expansion packs for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony. Each episode is completely unique, following a different story and a different set of characters through Liberty City. Though not directly linked to Grand Theft Auto IV, the stories will occasionally wind through the going-ons of Niko, but only as a peripheral occurrence, and clearly only as fan service. Those familiar with the gameplay and style of Grand Theft AUto IV will already know what they should expect from Episodes From Liberty City.

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Don't be fooled, this isn't just GTA in the Wild West.

The Wild West is one time and setting that is completely underused in modern gaming. Though the period seems to have everything you'd want in a game - guns, lawlessness, character-worthy people, and an interesting setting, developers seem to have largely neglected it. Red Dead Redemption proves testament to just how great the setting is and just how to make a game that capitalizes on all of the features it has to offer.

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