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OXM’s published the first Mass Effect 2 review, giving the BioWare RPG a not unexpected super-score.

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A Hong Kong magazine has given FFXIII a 4/10 review, saying the RPG is “so linear that it’s little more than riding an amusement park ride.”

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IGN has posted the first review for Army of Two: The 40th Day, which it calls “Bad Boys meets 2012″ and an “interactive disaster movie because every five minutes something blows up or crumbles around you”.

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Darksiders is out this week, in case you’d forgotten. Given the reviews that have been coming in all over the Holiday, you probably shouldn’t have done.

The 360 version’s got a current MC score of 86, with an 87 for the PS3 version.

Find the full round-up after the break.

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Famitsu’s given Final Fantasy XIII 39/40, as you can see in this scan on FinalFantasy-XIII.net.

Not as good as Bayonetta, then.

The RPG’s out later this month in Japan. Europe and the US get it in March.

Thanks, Galathor.

Tony Hawk RIDE’s not very good. Look. Hawk himself reckons the scores are hokum, though. The reviewers just didn’t give the peripheral-based game a chance, apparently.

“They were ready to discredit it before they even tried it, and if it didn’t play exactly how they imagined it… then they passed it off,” Hawk told the Sudbury Star.

“I don’t agree with people who say the board’s not responsive,” he added. “I think that they’re just not giving it a fair shake. And I think a lot of them came into it with an attitude that it’s going to suck.

“I know that [RIDE] is super fun, and I think there’s a misconception that I just stick my name on a game,” he said. “I brought this idea to Activision, and I saw it through, I’ve been playing it every step of the way and I am very proud of it.”

Yeah. Thanks, Kotaku.

Not looking so amazingly hot for James Cameron’s Avatar, with the game picking up some less than impressive review scores, as you can see here.

It’s out on Friday. Round-up:

• Team Xbox – 7.1/10
• Videogamer – 7/10
• IGN – 6.8/10
• IGN UK = 6/10
• 1UP – C+
• Gamespot – 5.5/10
• Eurogamer – 5/10

IGN AU’s gone live with the world’s first review for EA’s The Saboteur, giving the Parisian WWII actioner 8.2/10.

“While it’s a little rough around the edges we enjoyed this game more than we thought we would,” said the site.

“It’s far from perfect, but it’s great to see Pandemic going out with a bang.”

It’s out this Friday for PC, PS3 and 360. It’s next on the list for us after Assassin’s Creed II.

The latest Famitsu’s given New Mario Bros. Wii a perfect score of 40/40, as you can see on Kotaku.

It’s the thirteenth game in the mag’s history to take top marks. The rest are:

1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
2. Soulcalibur (1999)
3. Vagrant Story (2000)
4. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2003)

5. Nintendogs (2005)

6. Final Fantasy XII (2006)

7. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008)

8. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008)

9. 428 (2008)

10. Dragon Quest IX (2009)

11. Monster Hunter Tri (2009)
12. Bayonetta (2009)

Hit the link for picture proof.

The latest Edge scores are up on NeoGAF (thanks, Anders), including a 10/10 for Platinum’s Bayonetta.

Dragon Age fared less well: it got 5/10 for the 360 version.

The lot:

• Modern Warfare 2: 9
• Assassin’s Creed II: 8
• Left 4 Dead 2: 9
• Bayonetta: 10
• Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: 8
• Sin and Punishment: 8
• Dragon Age:Origins: 5
• Saw: 4
• Lit: 7
• Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles 7
• Football Manager 2010: 8
• Tropico 3: 7
• Spaceball Revolution: 5

Looks as though the censored Left 4 Dead 2 version that finally made release in Australia is a bit… rubbish. IGN AU’s given it 5/10.

Apparently the game’s been compromised by “glitchy-looking edits” and “is a massive step backwards from the original.”

To be clear, “if you can get your hands on an unedited version of this game, revise the score up to high 8s. If not, sit this one out.”

Got that. Hit the link for the full thing.

The first round of Dragon Age: Origins reviews are now live, and there’s an eyebrow-raising 8/10 from Eurogamer there. It’s got an MC average of 93 percent at the moment.

The game’s out this week for 360 and PC. PS3 owners get a crack at BioWare’s latest whip on November 20 in Europe. All three versions are out today in the US.

Round-up so far:

• Gamespot – 9.5/10 (PC), 9/10 (PS3), 8.5/10 (360)
• Game Informer – 9/10, 8/10 (360, PS3)
• IGN UK – 9.2/10
• Absolute Games (Russian) – 92%
• Meristation – 9.5/10
• Eurogamer – 8/10
• Eurogamer.de – 10/10
• CVG – 9.4/10
• Destructoid – 7.5/10 (360)
• MTV – N/A
• Joystiq – N/A (360)
• The Escapist – N/A (PC)
• 1UP – A-
• G4 – 5/5
• Kotaku -N/A

Tekken 6 released today in Europe for 360 and PS3, and there are now a healthy amount of reviews are saying you should buy it.

Proof below. You should take heed, fighting people.

• 3DJuegos – 9.4/10
• Team Xbox – 9.2/10
• IGN – 8.8/10
• OXM – 9/10
• Game Informer – 8.75/10
• Gamespot – 8.5/10

OXM may not have a fancy-pants past-rewriting animus at its disposal, but the magazine’s still making some history of its own with the world’s first ever Assassin’s Creed II review. So, how’d Ezio and co. stand up under OXM’s unfaltering scrutiny? Pretty well, as it turns out. The numbers nine and ten were apparently mentioned once or twice, or so we’re hearing.

“OXM’s Mike Channell was the first non-Ubisoft person in the world to complete the game, the company tells us, and he was impressed,” said a post on OXM’s official site. “It addresses nearly all the gripes we had with the original game, including all that artificial flag-collecting nonsense, and delivers a brilliant single-player experience that’s built around a cracking story.”

The new issue – in all its review-packed glory – is on shelves now. Go buy it! Buy it so that the fine folks at OXM can keep telling you what to buy!

A Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time demo will release on PSN this Thursday, as detailed on US PS Blog.

Good news. Better yet, this is the first of two demos, for some reason.

“In this demo, you’ll take get to take control of Clank as he explores the Great Clock learning more about his past and his new time-based abilities that you’ll need to utilize to solve puzzles and defeat some of Dr. Nefarious’ minions,” said SCEA chap, Cristian Cardona.

And IGN’s posted the first review, giving it 9/10 (thanks, Monk).

Good, huh? It’s out on November 6.

Update – Looks like it’s confirmed. Sega’s tweeted it. Thanks, Gamoc.

Kotaku‘s chalking this up as rumour, but word is Famitsu’s awarded Bayonetta top marks, making it only the twelth game in the magazine’s entire history to get 40/40.

And the others are:

1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
2. Soulcalibur (1999)
3. Vagrant Story (2000)
4. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2003)
5. Nintendogs (2005)
6. Final Fantasy XII (2006)
7. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008)
8. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008)
9. 428 (2008)
10. Dragon Quest IX (2009)
11. Monster Hunter Tri (2009)

It’s out in Japan on October 29 and in Europe and the US early next year.

Looks as though this year’s football race is won in terms of quality. The first PES 2010 scores are up, and from first impressions FIFA 10′s stuck one well and truly in the back of the net.

Here’s the lot so far. If you’ve got one you want posting, stick it in the comments.

• Eurogamer – 7/10
• 3DJuegos – 8/10
• Meristation – 7.5/10
• IGN UK – 8.7/10
• Videogamer – 7/10
• CVG – 7.8/10
• SpazioGames – 8.2/10
• NowGamer – PS3 (7.2/10), 360 (6.9/10), PC (7.3/10)
• Britxbox – 8/10

After the first IGN-exclusive Brutal Legend reviews yesterday, EG’s gone live with an 8/10.

Snip:

It’s probably Brutal Legend’s characters that win out. Since the days when he provided dialogue options for Guybrush Threepwood, Schafer’s secret skill has been to people his games with lovable oddballs who quickly start to feel like friends, creating bonds strong enough to ensure you forgive some of the ropier moments. In this case, Schafer, Double Fine, and Black haven’t just created a story about roadies: they’ve become them, scuttling about energetically, heads down and minds focused, as they pull a handful of simple props together in order to put on an amazing show.

You can get it in the US now, and Play appears to be selling it in the UK, despite the fact it’s not supposed to come out until Friday over here.

Saw: The Videogame is apparently on the verge of release; IGN’s just given it 7.5/10 in its first review.

It doesn’t sound like the most amazing thing in the world:

It would have taken a lot more polish and time to put Saw up there with the kings of the survival horror genre. But the developers are definitely onto something, and I’d like to see the Saw games improve over time. For now, some of the puzzles repeat a few times too many while the plot points and big scares at times run thin.

But never mind. Buy it anyway. The video review’s after the break, if you want to see it in action.

As for the rest:

• GamePro – 7/10
• Game Informer – 6/10
• OXM – 4.5/10

It’s out on November 20. Who knew?

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The first Forza 3 reviews are now live, and it’s all looking pretty safe if you were thinking of investing.

Today’s the embargo deadline for reviews of the Turn 10 racer, so we’ll keep adding them as we go along. If you’ve got one you want us to flag up, just stick a link in the comments.

The game’s out on October 23.

• OXM France – 19/20
• Eurogamer.fr – 8/10
• IGN UK – 9.4/10
• IGN US – 9.4/10
• Team Xbox – 9.5/10
• Gamespy – 4.5/5
• G4 – 5/5
• Gamer365.hu – 9.5/10
• JeuxVideo.com – 17/20
• Xboxygen – 5/5
• NowGamer – 9.2/10
• Videogamer – 10/10
• GameDaily – 9/10
• Xbox360Achievements – 93%
• MSXboxWorld – 9/10
• GameReactor.no – 7/10
• CVG – 9/10
• Gamer.no – 9/10
• 1UP – A-