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“Ready for the floor” – FIFA 09

2008 is when the HD versions of the Big Two football games finally overcame the lasting momentum of the PS2 to became the leading versions. As well as…

“Eclipse to Starkiller” – Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

After the Star Wars prequel trilogy finished in 2005, the production of new Star Wars films went into a relatively brief (and possibly final) break. There was no…

“There’s kind of a tank in here” – Mercenaries 2: World in Flames

Mercenaries 2 is not the first UK #1 game of 2008 to centre on privatised military acting in the global south. Coming after Army of Two, it is…

“Real-time ball trail” – Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09

The games charts are, at least viewed over time, a way of seeing different mainstream visions of what games could be. 2007 and 2008 were fascinating for the…

“Kill you, I will” – Soulcalibur IV

[This is a guest post, and I’m as happy as ever to welcome back David C James, whose previous posts here include Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and God of…

“The golden twilight of Western civilization” – Grand Theft Auto IV

On release, Grand Theft Auto IV sold nearly a million copies in the UK in five days, making it the fastest-selling game here ever. That was no surprise….

“Flash and clear” – Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2

Just because Ubisoft had found a new idea to give them a big breakthrough, it didn’t mean that they weren’t going to carry on with what already worked…

“Cowboy contractors” – Army of Two

From Syndicate to Conflict: Desert Storm to Gears of War, there has been a tendency for squad-based shooting games to settle on four as the optimal size of…

“Take me down” – Burnout Paradise

One thing that the Burnout series’s introductory radio station Crash FM provides is plenty of soundbites to neatly sum up its games. Burnout Revenge’s “it’s a car-crash-car world”…

“Hell of a highlight reel” – Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

It’s dark. You’ve slowly picking your way through enemy territory, laying down and crawling to cower from helicopter spotlights, remaining cautious and vigilant. It’s a slow, laborious process….