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Rotor – CFD! Review

The basic idea behind Rotor, according to the folks at Pocket Starship, is to combine the slick Mirror’s Edge aesthetic with the hectic, challenge-based gameplay of Crazy Taxi, only with a helicopter. Not a bad combinatio...

by Rob Rich

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Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom – CFD! Review

Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom is likely to remind you of many things. It’s a lot like a classic fairy tale, in that it doesn’t spend time fleshing out the world but rather focuses attention primarily on the main charac...

by Hayley Winter

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ilomilo – CFD! Review

Looking like an arts and crafts project come to life, ilomilo is the most adorable puzzle game I’ve ever played. The characters and creatures look doll-like and in one of the worlds the platforms you navigate resemble pap...

by Hayley Winter

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Hyper Button – CFD! Review

It’s difficult to make a game that’s entirely about timed button presses interesting. There have been successes in the past (i.e. Dragon’s Lair), but it takes a special touch to keep things from getting stale....

by Rob Rich

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Pixelbit Snooker & Pool – CFD! Review

There have been a fair number of indie pool games made for Xbox Live. Most of them feature shoddy ball physics, ugly graphics or both. Pixelbit Snooker & Pool, however, has neither of these things. It looks good, despite it...

by Rob Rich

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Cause Of Death – CFD! Review

Interactive novels are kind of a big deal on the other side of the Pacific, but here in the US they’re somewhat of an under-appreciated genre. I suppose most of the ADHD-riddled crop of modern American gamers just donR...

by Rob Rich

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Blood Drive – CFD! Review

I doubt I even have to say this, but zombies are in right now. Move over aliens, Nazis, communists, and terrorists; zombies are the new de facto video game enemy, and why not? Unlike the others, zombies offer a humanoid target ...

by Scott Thompson

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GoldenEye 007 – CFD! Review

In my review for the XBLA version of Perfect Dark, I remarked that Rare had done the best they could to placate all those people screaming for a re-release of GoldenEye 007. With the amount of licensing headaches surrounding th...

by Scott Thompson

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Fable III – CFD! Review

The Fable series has long had the lofty goal of bringing a personal and emotional level to the RPG formula, while taking the complexity out of the RPG experience. To varying degrees, it’s hit that mark successfully. One area ...

by Hayley Winter

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