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#Wii Sports Resort #Nintendo #Wii #video games #2009

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#Tiger Woods #PGA Tour #golf #video games #2009

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#Fight Night Round 4 #video games #2009

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#Prototype #video games #retrogaming #xbox 360 #2009

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#Pokémon #Pokémon Platinum #Nintendo DS #video games #2009

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#The Sims 3 #The Sims #pc gaming #2009

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#UFC #video games #retrogaming #xbox 360 #2009

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#Resident Evil 5 #resident evil #video games #retrogaming #2009

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#Empire: Total War #british empire #retrogaming #video games #pc gaming #2009

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#Killzone 2 #Killzone #PS3 #PlayStation 3 #2009 #video games #retrogaming #FPS

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#Street Fighter IV #SFIV #video games #retrogaming #Playstation 3 #PS3 #2009

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Two explosive charges need planting. You have one. Your colleagues plant the other. “Timer’s fried” they call. The thing explodes right on cue after you plant yours, whenever that is. Every airstrike to call, every big moment, they all have to be yours. In game mechanics, you’re still the solo hero of old, at the same time as the story tries to have you just one of many. Miss your cues and things get really strange. The invisible barriers to keep you on the battlefield are just the start. 

At one point I was given the task of blowing up some tanks with bazookas. I ran out of ammo, I wasn’t sure where to get more from so I pressed ahead anyway and reached a checkpoint. Then followed a good twenty minutes of repeated failed attempts at getting anywhere from said checkpoint without being blown up by tank shells. I actually got an achievement for dying so many times. I eventually managed to negotiate my way back to do what the game had expected me to do in the first place, duly chastened for having taken any kind of initiative.

I wrote about the UK's final #1 game of 2008:

#call of duty #call of duty world at war #video games #retrogaming #xbox 360 #2008 #fps

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"It also transformed Gears 1’s leading characters from “overtly meaty heroes fighting underground monsters” to “overtly meaty heroes with personalities fighting underground monsters”. The painfully thin back stories originally attached to Marcus, Dom, Cole, and Baird – which, respectively, were “I’m angry”, “my wife’s missing”, “I’m a gobshite LaDainian Tomlinson” and “I’m too sarcastic for my own good” – were allowed to blossom in the same way the game’s expanded mechanics did.

Crucially, it offered the best highs and lows of the franchise as a whole. While playing it through with my friend – a very stoic, strongly constituted guy – I saw my own future. Gears 2 was able to hit those hilariously gruesome high notes, but completely pull the rug out from underneath you, making you react in ways you’d never imagined."

New guest post over on Super Chart Island:

#Gears of War 2 #gears of war #video games #retrogaming #xbox 360 #2008

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#Fallout 3 #video games #xbox 360 #2008 #retrogaming

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#Fable II #Fable #xbox 360 #video games #retrogaming #2008

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#Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 #pro evolution soccer #video games #retrogaming #2008 #PS3

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#FIFA 09 #video games #retrogaming #2008 #xbox 360 #Football #Soccer