When Assassin’s Creed released back in 2007, fans got to taste just a sample of the possibilities that Ubisoft imagined.  With amazing visuals, stunning locations and gameplay that revolutionized how we play and imagine games today, Assassin’s Creed proved to be more popular than anyone imagined.  How exactly would Ubisoft be able to top that monstrous effort?  By making the sequel bigger, bolder and an all-around better game than its predecessor, which is exactly what Assassin’s Creed 2 is.

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PopCap Games is known for making easy to pick up and play games that are very difficult to stop playing. Square Enix is a company known for making long character-driven RPGs with epic albeit somewhat clichéd storylines. Putting these two companies together on a project could yield one of the most addicting games ever created, or a muddled mess of blandness. In the case of Gyromancer the latter turns out to be the case.

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Left 4 Dead 2 revives the zombie apocalypse with a breath of fresh air, new excitement and plenty of nonstop action.  Last year’s multiplayer zombie killing bloodfest was plagued with dull level designs, lack of gameplay modes and an affinity for utilizing glitches to achieve victory in Versus mode.  Thankfully Valve has fixed all of those problems, to great effect, and made Left 4 Dead 2 one of the best multiplayer games of the year.

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