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Developed exclusively for the PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) system, God of War® III is the final installment of the multi-million unit-selling trilogy. Developed by Sony Computer Entertainment’s Santa Monica Studios, God of War III will bring epic battles to life with stunning graphics and an elaborate plot that puts Kratos at the center of carnage and destruction as he seeks revenge against the Gods who have betrayed him.

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MotoGP 09/10 takes the series in an exciting new direction rewarding players for their racing style and skill on the track. Gamers will get all the riders, tracks and teams from the official 2009 MotoGP season AND free downloadable content from the 2010 season as it unfolds. The free update means gamers will be able to play the most up to date MotoGP season content earlier than ever before.

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Behold disciples of Nod, for the end is soon upon us. Electronic Arts' award-winning and best-selling Tiberium saga is coming to a powerful conclusion with Command & Conquer 4 Tiberian Twilight, which will introduce a multitude of innovations to the classic fast and fluid Command & Conquer gameplay, while retaining the core compulsions that fans have come to love over the series' history.

It is the year 2062 and humanity is at the brink of extinction. Tiberium, the mysterious, alien crystalline structure that has infested Earth for decades and served as the primary reason for years of relentless conflict between the Global Defense Initiative (GDI) and the Brotherhood of Nod, is close to rendering the planet uninhabitable. Mankind is on the verge of extinction when Kane, Nod's prophetic leader, emerges from seclusion to deliver GDI the message that he has developed a system that could control Tiberium and harness its power. But he cannot build this "Tiberium Control Network" without GDI's cooperation. Thus, the two opposing factions – GDI and Nod – inevitably find themselves in desperation for the same cause: to stop Tiberium from extinguishing mankind.

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In the latest gameplay series we learn of the hardships and struggles of life in the early 20th century on the frontier. The video tours you through life in the rapidly expanding town of Blackwater in the North, to the forts across the frontier of New Austin, to the towns of a Mexico rocked by revolution in the border territories of Nuevo Paraiso.

Activities in the game shown in this trailer are herding cattle, collecting bounties, gambling, drinking, protecting ranches and hunting. After killing animals in the game you can sell the skin for other useful goods. The animals in Red Dead Redemption’s gaming environment are quite vast from various horses, cattle, buffalos, deer’s and my personal favourite bears to name a few.

The physics showcased in the game especially the muscles of the horses is absolutely magnificent. The realism in this game is second to none; Rockstar has spent a lot of development time and money into creating an epic experience for players. I can honestly say hands down that anyone in possession of this game come 21th May will be a proud owner of the finest Wild West sandbox adventure.

Watch and discover the people, places and activities that populate the vast and beautiful world of Red Dead Redemption.

In this trailer Rockstar Explores the Women of Red Dead Redemption of different classes and beliefs. You’ve got women willing to fight wars and make history and then you’ve got those who consider themselves to be saints. John Marston meets many women in his travels in a time where men made history and women did too.

It’s interesting to see Rockstar’s perception of women in the Wild West. Many would have jumped to the conclusion of all women being courtezans in that era. Rockstar has definitely done its research and shown us that there was more to the women of the Wild West than meets the eye.

With the law it’s never simple in Red Dead Redemption, you either abide by them or live to suffer the consequences. Striking a balance between greedy yet crooked lawmen and those enforcing the law for a good cause is a desperate struggle. The law has never been on the side of Rockstar’s leading video game characters and John Marston is the newest addition embracing its wrath. Unfortunately Red Dead Redemption won’t be hitting shelves for April 30th 2010. Instead it will be released on 18th May 2010 in NTSC territories and 21st May 2010 in PAL territories. As with any delay it can only mean a better experience and polished game in the hand of players when it’s released. So don’t fret if you think your pre-orders are in jeopardy.

White Knight Chronicles finally comes to the western shores after a just over a year of waiting and while it isn’t Level-5’s best game to date, nor an essential Role-Playing Game that PS3 owners must own, it’s still a very good game from the company known for their epic RPG's.

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Heavy Rain is flawed. Sometimes the game will crash. At others, your characters leg may jut out, Stretch Armstrong style, or their face may collapse in on itself, or even project outwards in a horrible mash of textures. To some, used to the high polish of Call of Duty et al, this will be an unforgivable game breaking fault. But if you allow Heavy Rain these quirks, treating them as no more than a mild irritation, or an amusing gaffe the quality starts to shine through.

It’s certainly not a game for everyone – if you are a trigger happy gamer wanting nothing more than leading an assault on the latest threat to mankind, then pass this game over and pick up Bad Company 2 instead. If you’re in the mood for a little more personal story, then Quantic Dream have delivered the experience you’ve been waiting for.

The developers describe Heavy Rain as less a game, and more an interactive drama. What this boils down to is that the main aim of Heavy Rain is to guide you through a story, and not set up a story as an excuse for the action. The story in this case is of a serial killer, and you play as a private detective, an FBI Agent, a journalist and the father of a kidnapped boy, all of whom are embroiled in the search for the missing child.

To get the best out of the game, you have to be prepared to invest in it. The heartstrings Heavy Rain attempts to pull on mostly at the beginning are parental ones, so it’s likely that anyone with kids will find it easier to relate to Ethan, the father of the kidnapped boy. Speaking as someone who isn’t a parent though, the story is still engaging, and the characters make you care about them, especially if you go in with the knowledge that it is possible for them to die, and in Heavy Rain, there are no restarts.

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Unless you’ve had your head stuck in a box of the plastic bricks for the last five years, you will be well aware of the presence of the series of videogames which has been reducing the heroes of our favourite movies down to tiny plastic figures who possess a considerably higher level of charm and wit than the actors who portray them in the films. I am referring, of course, to the Lego videogame series developed by Traveller’s Tales, which so far has released two (soon to be three) Star Wars titles, two Indiana Jones entries, as well as a Batman game. While the critical responses to some of the more recent of these games have begun to wane in their original enthusiasm, which seemed to peak at the first Indy game, all of the games inhabit an irresistible likeability, particularly when it comes to accessibility for all types of gamers and friendly multiplayer, which has you and a buddy cooperating happily, working in unison to solve charming puzzles instead of trying to blast each other’s heads off with a sniper rifle, which has been the general objective for the most recent cooperative games.

Now Traveller’s Tales next Lego game is on the horizon and it looks to be the best yet. While the main flaw with the series’ latest games has been their persistent inability to improve on the weaker elements of their predecessors, never seeming to even try and fix problems which were present in the first Lego Star Wars which was released five years ago, a lot of effort seems to have gone into this next game. And what could bode better than it being based on one of the most successful franchises in history; Harry Potter?

Focussing on years 1-4 of Harry’s time at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (which makes sense seeing as once Warner Brothers are finished with the series, there will be a total of eight films, allowing TT to make two games, each containing the content of four films), Lego Harry Potter boasts the biggest location ever included in the Lego series, Hogwarts, which apparently will constantly expand as your progress though the game. The latest two non-Lego videogames based on the Harry Potter movies have adopted a sandbox gaming format, where the character is free to roam around the massive virtual campus of the enchanted school. Presuming this game is going to follow the trend set by all the other Lego games, however, it can be assumed that this will have levelled structure. That’s probably for the best, really, as the two games in question were painfully tedious as you walked wearily from one end of the school to another doing boring tasks.

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Set in Feudal Japan you star as an injured Samurai, regaining consciousness on a battlefield surrounded by corpses of other warriors after a bloody battle. From here on in you get to decide how to shape the story in this sedately paced Samurai-sim.

The series, which started on PS2, has always prided itself on the amount of choice it provided to gamers with multiple endings being a key selling point. This time there are over twenty of them.  Players are allowed a degree of freedom in shaping their adventure by selecting from multiple dialogue options, usually based around being nice or nasty.

There’s also an option to draw your sword or apologise to interrupt most cut-scenes. Apologising has you drop to your knees, stopping the scene and the game resuming with the characters you’ve bowed to either disappearing or not reacting at all. Or you can draw your sword to threaten or attack people. This is generally preferable to the poor dialogue or repetitive cutscenes. The main problem is that until you play through a few times and pick up some decent weapons you’ll probably get your ass handed to you in a noodle bowl if you attack the most annoying characters.

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There’s nothing better than watching a couple of campers blend in with the ruble of a building as you sabotage it, to blitz with an RPG or a charger. There’s never a dull moment in Bad Company 2, with the Frostbite Engine’s Destruction 2.0 whole buildings and objects in the gaming environment can be destroyed realistically. You’ll spend a lot of time in the campaign shooting and blowing up destructible environments just to admire the realism.

This time around the campaign has taken a turn for a more serious but linear storyline. The Russians have set their keen eyes on a mythical WWII weapon of mass destruction, which in the wrong hands will threaten the world. Preston Marlowe (you the player), Haggard, Sweetwater and Sergeant Redford are sent on a mission to hunt for this weapon before the Russian’s gain possession.

The missions you play throughout the campaign are great fun from vehicle shootouts to avoiding freezing death in the snow trail blazing mountains. Your AI team mates are splendid bullet sponges and rarely take a shot penetrating enough to take a life, leaving it to you to pull the plug on your enemies.

At times when you progress through a mission you can see enemies being spawned right in front of you, generally after a while you start to memorize their positions. There is little incentive for exploration apart from finding the collectable guns placed in every level.

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Games have moved on massively since the days of pixelated, side-scrolling characters running and jumping across the screen. The PlayStation 3 in particular is capable of operating games with massive maps and incredible graphics due to its cell processor and Blu Ray drive. Yet ironically, one of the most popular and globally highest rated games on the PS3 goes back to the foundations of video games; side scrolling. This is, of course, the one and only, ‘Little Big Planet’.

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Look to your left. There’s no use denying it; there sitting beside you is your imaginary friend, right? Tommy... or Trevor...? Yeah. Well it’s time to say goodbye to him I’m afraid, because you’re soon going to be saying hello to Milo, who is a far better buddy then him... sorry Trev. Well, maybe not, but that is essentially what Milo is looking to be at the moment: a friend who is way better than the ones you’ve already got in that he never asks you to lend him money or games which you’ll never see again!

In all truth, Peter Molyneux (Milo’s creator and game designer luminary known for the likes of the Fable series- notice Milo's hobb tshirt- and Black and White) isn’t saying anything much about what exactly Milo is at all, which has led to speculation as to whether or not Milo is going to have a proper storyline to play through or whether he is just going to be a human Tamagotchi or Nintendog. However, Molyneux has claimed that it is the former, with some kind of narrative driving the game on with an adventure some description. So Milo won’t just be a bright kid who you can enjoy an intelligent conversation with for a change, he’s going to also be the lead character in some kind of story.

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Want a way to magnify the stench of BO which fills your room after endless hours of mashing those buttons on your favourite game? Then Project Natal (this a codename, the real name has yet to be announced) should be right up your street as you are now going to be physically, not just mentally, involved in your games, flouncing around the room and leading anyone who happens to pass by your window develop a concern for your sanity.

Well, maybe not. But Microsoft’s upcoming Natal technology is absolutely going to have you on your feet and doing what the hero on screen is, rather than just sitting on your rear end and letting them do all the work. It really does have potential to add a whole new dimension to your Xbox 360 experience, maximizing the outer body fun you can have when playing a quality title.

You’ve most likely heard of this intriguing product and have probably already formed your own opinions on the concept. Lots of people are filled with apprehension, not entirely sure if one of these little cameras will find its way in front of their television sets as enhancers to their gaming experiences. I, myself, am at two minds about this technology, so let’s take a look at what exactly Natal is and can do.

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Bioshock multiplayer probably wasn’t too high up on the list of things we wanted to see included in Bioshock 2 given that it was everything apart from the guns that really made the game (and its sequel) really stand out. Turns out that maybe we should have wanted it all along as it’s turned out very well indeed.

If you’ve heard that the multiplayer takes place before the events of the first game, then you heard correct. However, don’t expect to gain any more particular insight into the fall of Rapture as all it really means is you’ll revisit some familiar locations that have less rubble and destruction than you’ve previously seen. This time though you’re one of the psychotic Splicers.

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