0 Burnout Revenge Insurance adjusters will cry. By Greg Ford, 10/10/2005 at 00:00 Burnout Revenge is harder to rate. On about every level, it's above to Burnout 3, yet it lacks the appulse of that game, which had so abounding pieces arise calm to actualize arguably the best arcade-racing acquaintance ever. But Revenge's adorableness is bounteous. The additions of track-opening shortcuts, an automated appraisement system, and the adeptness to hit same-way cartage are cogent and chip flawlessly. I accept a account of tiny complaints--I'd still like to see beneath loading screens and some arrangement of map or adumbration a clue is advancing the end--but the actuality is, I relished anniversary minute with this game. Just as I did with Burnout 3. Revenge offers the abdomen thrills and affiliated affiliated of achievement that few abecedarian reach, about eliminating my admiration to anytime put it down. But Wait! You Aswell Get... Got a Burnout 3 or Madden NFL 06 bold save? If so, set up your Revenge contour on the above anamnesis agenda and you'll allay adapted cars. A Madden 06 save opens up the Madden Claiming van in Crash mode, while a Burnout 3 save unlocks the Dominator Assassin. Both cars backpack a added atomic bite than the absence Crash access car. It has to be said that Ties That Bind artlessly offers added of the above accepting we got from The Suffering. That can be a acceptable or a bad activity depending on how you feel about the antecedent game. But it should aswell be said that what Ties That Bind lacks in boldness and depth, it makes up for with acceptable ancient demon annihilation and a chilling atmosphere. The Suffering's adorableness is that while it's never a actually arduous exercise of the gray matter-the few puzzles that do abide in this apple are of the "pull this about-face to attainable that door" variety-the assorted beasties all attending and act differently, acceptation about every appointment stays about alpha admitting the game's repetitive nature. Angry mainliners up abutting is folly, aback they'll jab you with their syringes in a flash, while you'll accept to breach abaft awning and accept your shots if adverse a accumulation of beastly soldiers. The bold consistently changes up the mix during anniversary appointment to accumulate you on your toes. All of this is captivated in a horror-film-type atmosphere that in actuality gets the job done. The affiliated flashbacks capital appearance Torque suffers tend to arise too frequently, but the in actuality alarming scares and advancing adumbration mostly accomplish up for it. Read the abounding The Suffering: Ties That Bind 2 Marvel Nemesis: Acceleration of the Imperfects Imperfect strangers. , 10/10/2005 at 00:00 Who was that masked man? No, seriously--who was he? Heavyweight administrator EA absitively to inject its own homebrew heroes alongside archetypal Marvel crusaders into this beat-em-up amphitheatre fighter (think Dreamcast's Adeptness Stone, not Marvel vs. Capcom). New supermen are able-bodied and good, but the assets it took to actualize "Johnny Ohm" (whose tag bandage should accept been "resistance is futile!") could accept been put into authoritative a abundant added bold starring complete Marvel folks. The angry arenas are glossy and in actuality interactive; actuate altar like parking meters and antenna building all become weapons. But the activity adroitness ends there. Faceless-cyborg-smashing affray battles are repetitive, uninspired, and glitchy. And with anniversary adventitious bandage presented in a alternation of minimissions averaging 3 to 4 account apiece, you absorb a lot of your time switching characters and extenuative and loading instead of just amphitheatre the corruption game. Admitting some antithesis issues that accord jacked-up proj ectile chuckers a ample bend on short-range strikers, the adjoin bold is a adapted way for banana admirers to batten with as abounding superheroes as they're accommodating to unlock. But for me--no thanks. I yield my Marvel with a Capcom attached. Read the abounding Marvel Nemesis: Acceleration of the Imperfects 0