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“Smash and Grab” – Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

I can see where the wow factor would have come from in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. In 2001, when Grand Theft Auto III was achieving mind-blowing…

“EA passport” – FIFA World Cup Germany 2006

For all of the attendant pomp and ceremony, the World Cup is just a bunch of football matches, right? That’s the approach EA Sports relied on, with FIFA…

“Old friends” – Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend

If the success of Shadow of the Colossus was the perfect proof-of-concept for games as award-season movie, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend is a good match for a…

“It’s just business” – The Godfather

In the mid-00’s, we were fully in the phase of others working out what they could learn from the success of Grand Theft Auto. Some of this came…

“Stop buying your albums from the supermarket” – FIFA Street 2

In my post on FIFA Street, I talked about MC Harvey’s performance in the game, doing ”quadruple service as commentator, hypeman, provider of advice, and stand-in for the…

“Drop everything that moves” – Black

For all of Medal of Honor’s massive success for a couple of years, and the phenomenon of Halo, in early 2006 we still hadn’t quite reached peak First…

“Shrine of Worship” – Shadow of the Colossus

The Chart-track chart commentaries I have been putting at the end of each post tend not to get involved in matters of quality. From Juiced to Grand Theft…

“Congratulations on the Xbox 360 launch!” – Dead or Alive 4

I remember the first time I saw an HD game. It was after the PS3’s launch in 2007 and it was someone playing Motorstorm on a big screen…