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Fortunately, I spent twenty years as a space marine and studied violent archeology at university, so I'm qualified to review most modern action games.

I like the option to drop the difficulty of a particular level if I keep getting wiped. Stranglehold did this very well. The new Prince of Persia has the same feature, and even throws you an achievement for doing so, which is kind of cute.

You should hopefully enjoy the ongoing Story Gamer reviews on Game People, Meemaimoh. While some are relatively straight reviews, but looking at the game primarily in terms of its story, others use the game as a springboard to discuss a specific aspect of storytelling in games, or focus in very...

Thanks to everyone who has commented so far, some very interesting points made. I'm not a big RPG player (does Fallout 3 count as an RPG these days?), but I'm sure I'll get around to all genres sooner or later. Except maybe sports games. Oh and Therumancer - I agree that a good film or book...