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- Polar excess
Warning: if you’re the type to scream profanities and toss controllers when a game is too difficult, you’ll want to give Ikaruga a wide berth.
- Cosmic debris
On paper, it was the greatest game ever. And then it crash-landed.
- Strummer vacation
The first two installments of the enormously popular Guitar Hero franchise were designed and developed by Harmonix, a Cambridge-based company famous for employing a horde of musicians.
- Holy war
Clive Barker doesn’t do subtlety.
- Board meeting
Competition is a good thing.
- Soccer riot
Some said it would never happen, but the arrival of a certain global icon has done the impossible and made Americans care about soccer.
- Shreddin’ heaven
By now, Guitar Hero has achieved a level of cultural penetration that most games can’t even dream of.
- Double jeopardy
Anyone who’s ever served on a jury can testify that courtrooms aren’t nearly as exciting as so many television dramas have made them seem.
- Portrait of success
Few video-game franchises are more durable than Castlevania .
- Sleeper cell
On the surface, Gears of War is as macho and chest-beating an action game as they come.
- Little to F.E.A.R.
When it was released for the PC in 2005, F.E.A.R. met with critical acclaim but not matching commercial success.
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