I played the demo for this game, and let’s just say I was less than impressed. It went from a “possible buy if I find it for 20$” to a “maybe I’ll rent it one day”. The demo, to be totally honest, was terrible. This brought down my hype for the game to zero.

So when I rented it (using GameAccess, a Canadian equivalent to GameFly), my expectations were as low as can be.

So does this surpass expectations, or is the final game just as lame as the demo? Read my review and see! (hint: it’s not a positive review)
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I can’t believe this game sold so damn much. At least 300000 people bought this. It might not sound like a really high number, but considering how bad this game is, it IS high. It’s from an unproven developer (who previously had only released a few games including PC ports of the GRAW games and… hum… that super crappy “Wanted” game), it looked crappy in the gameplay videos and, well… I have no idea why anyone bought this at launch instead of renting it. SURE, they did a GREAT job with Bionic Commmando Rearmed, but they had pretty much nothing to do there other than up the visuals and add boss fights. Oh, and not to mention they released the incredibly crappy Terminator Salvation games a day after Bionic Commando.

This is a “game that didn’t” on just about every front and is an insult to fans of the original.

Read on and see why.
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Sometimes, games are just a little bit too ambitious.  And their ambitions transform into unreasonable hype and make people expect things that they frankly shouldn’t be expecting at all.

Such is what happened to The Conduit. The hype on this was massive. And it failed at just about every level.

Read on and see why!!
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Well, I’m going just a bit less than a year back in the Xbox 360 library to talk about this game. I refused to play it for a long time because the trailers made it look like crap. But I finally rented it and gave it an honest chance. Did my opinion change? Well, this is a “Games that didn’t post” so obviously they didn’t change for the better.

Read on and see why this game is lame!
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There are games that don’t, and games that REALLY don’t. Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood is one of those.

I was willing to give it a chance. Western FPS is a fun idea, possibly. But what I got didn’t amount to much.

This time I’ll go straight to explaining why it didn’t and just skip the whole “review” part of the post.

Read on! (I’ll be short on this one)
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Well, for my first “Games That Didn’t” post, I’ll talk about a game that didn’t, just minutes ago for me.

Sometimes there are game that just don’t, and that for various reasons. Sometimes it’s bad gameplay, sometimes some gameplay mechanics are just incredibly bad, and sometimes there’s game breaking glitches. But fact of the matter is, some games just don’t. And Wolfenstein, sadly, didn’t.

Read on to see why it didn’t!
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We currently don’t have much going in the way of features on here. We do reviews, sometimes random rants, or commenting on news. And that’s pretty much it. We have almost no actual features.

As for actual features, there’s my high desolate “Jobocan’s Arcade Center” posts that I keep forgetting about and hasn’t had a post in months (though I plan to do more of them soon). And there’s the monthly “Games that are coming out next month” posts which are really just there for informational purposes. But that’s pretty much all we have when it comes to features.

So here I come to announce some new features!

Read on and see what I have in mind!
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