Look, I don’t want to tell you how to live your life, but nit-picking Uncharted 2 is tantamount to Pope Julius telling Michelangelo that, while the Sistine Chapel is a hell of a piece of work, he might have liked it more if Adam’s junk was a bit bigger. It seems a little ungrateful in the face of such a ridiculous bounty, you know? The entire package—both single-player and multi-player—is so polished, adroitly crafted, and fun, that whatever flaws are present become functionally invisible to me. Games like this one don’t come along often. Enjoy it—it’s perfect.

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There’s a lesson to be learned here for other developers creating narrative-driven shooters: keep your story very simple so you’re able to tell it very well. Bound in Blood does just that, and then seals the deal by adding gameplay mechanics that never get old (like bursting through saloon doors, fanning the hammer of your revolver at a roomful of cowboys) and a believable old west landscape that can, at moments, take your breath away. Multiplayer is… less impressive.

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“It’s like a new Ghostbusters movie!” If what’s meant by that is that the game drags the franchise down in the same way the original movie’s sequel did, then I’ll agree. The story, dialogue, and locations are inexcusably uninteresting and unfunny, especially coming from the movie’s original creators. Its only saving grace is that wrangling ghosts with your proton stream is seriously fun… until it isn’t.

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Fuel has some of the finest marketing trailers of any game in recent memory. And they lie. What appears to be a seat-of-your-pants off-road racer on the order of Motorstorm is actually a slow, boring slog through a sparse [though admittedly enormous] landscape. Want to just zone out and explore ad nauseum? Rent.

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About our scale… the number of words in our review reflects the score of the game. In practical terms, you could assume that games reviewed in 49 words or fewer should be avoided, games reviewed in 50-75 words would make a decent rental, and games reviewed in 76 words or more would make a solid purchase.