Forza Motorsport 3 Review

October 8, 2009 – Sony’s Gran Turismo may still sit in the pole position among racing sims for many, but Microsoft is making a hard charge with Forza Motorsport 3. Developer Turn 10 has adopted a new philosophy for Forza 3: Make it accessible. The result is a hardcore simulation racing title that can also be enjoyed by the most casual of fans. The career mode is easy to get into but offers an immense challenge; you can auto-tune every car or dive into a rich set of tuning options; and driving can be toggled between a simple point-and-go system and the most physics-driven sim every created.

Forza Motorsport 3 – Corvette Gameplay

Forza Motorsport 3 – Ferrari Silverstone Gameplay

Forza Motorsport 3 – Laguna Seca Comparison

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Left 4 Dead 2

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Amazon to sell PSN digital content

Sony Computer Entertainment America and Amazon US are joining hands to sell codes redeemable for games and game-related content through Sony’s US PlayStation Network. The deal allows customers to purchase “digital access codes” through Amazon’s video game store, then redeem those codes while logged into the PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Portable’s PlayStation Store, thus unlocking the relevant piece of digital content for immediate download.

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Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes Review

LucasArts’ Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes is a 3-D adventure that takes place, as the title implies, during the Clone Wars. With Obi-Wan Kenobi initially away on business, Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, visit the planet Ryloth to crush what’s left of the droid army. A legion of clone troopers back them up, and LucasArts breaks up the levels between troopers and Jedi, allowing two players (offline or through Xbox Live/PlayStation Network) to team up and destroy tons of bad guys using lightsabers, Force powers and conventional weapons like blasters, Thermal Detonators and rocket launchers. To that we say, bravo.

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Dead Rising 2 – PC – Preview

When there is no more room in Hell, the dead will hit the casinos.

The mall-zombie, snarky social-commentary conceit for Capcom’s original Dead Rising… well, we had seen it before, hadn’t we? Like, literally seen it, on movie screens (twice, in fact—once in George Romero’s original Dawn of the Dead, and once in the remake). The blatant ‘inspiration’ provided by the films didn’t make the game any less entertaining, of course—in fact, I would argue that the blaring homage only made the game’s entertainment factor that much higher—but you can really only get away with something like that once. Everybody knew there would be a Dead Rising 2, but the question was: “Where do we go from here?”