Thursday, August 7, 2008

VIDEO GAME REVIEWS:BEST OF 2008

Video game reviews:
The best of 2008 Next week, gaming's biggest names will gather in Los Angeles for the 2008 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). It is the industry's premier showcase, where these superpowers will lay out their plans for the coming year and beyond. This Christmas will be critical for Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony as they hope to capitalise on a record breaking 2007. Last year's holiday period saw an incredible amount of top quality games released, but, unusually, it wasn't a trend that wavered as we moved into 2008.
Here, we pick up the 25 best games released in the last 6 months, before we once again begin to look forward to a bumper fourth quarter
15. Ninja Gaiden II (Xbox 360) Buy Ninja Gaiden II.
Tomonobu Itagaki's Ninja Gaiden reduced grown men to tears with its unrelenting difficulty, but was still one of the Xbox's finest titles. Not being one to disappoint, Itagaki's follow-up is just as brutal and beautiful.
What was arguably the very best melee combat system ever made has been tweaked to near perfection- the bloody ballet performed by hero Ryu Hayabusa as breathtaking as ever. A dreadful camera and a multitude of cheap shots mar proceedings, but at its best Ninja Gaiden II is one of the most breathlessly satisfying video games out there.

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