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Category: Dumpster Diving

  • Dumpster Diving: Perfect Dark Zero

    Year Released: 2005Price Paid: $7.99Time Spent: 2 hoursExpected Rating: 3/10Overall Rating: 6/10Value For Price: B+ Comments:Definitely not the worst game I’ve come across, but Perfect Dark Zero lacks something to be desired.  The controls feel somewhat stiff and the game-play uninspired to do anything new, but I really dig the look and soundtrack of the game. I don’t feel sorry for…

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  • Dumpster Diving: Vampire Rain

    Year Released: 2007Price Paid: $1.99Time Spent: 15 minutesExpected Rating: 4/10Overall Rating: 2/10Value For Price: F Comments:Think about everything you loved about Splinter Cell and Syphon Filter.  Now take it all away and you get this piece of crap.  Whole game seems pointless and just trying to hone in on whatever money could have been made by releasing another third-person shooter.  Controls…

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  • Dumpster Diving: John Woo Presents Stranglehold

    Year Released: 2007Price Paid: $3.00Time Spent: 4 hoursExpected Rating: 4/10Overall Rating: 6/10Value For Price: A Comments: Pretty much get what you think you will from the cover of this one.  Lots of dudes with guns, lots of firing wildly while performing stylish moves (slow-mo and all).  I can’t see paying more than what I did for this but I could see…

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  • Dumpster Diving: Fuzion Frenzy

    Year Released: 2001Price Paid:  $1.99Time Spent: 2 hoursExpected Rating: 6/10Overall Rating: 8/10Value For Price: A+ Comments:Probably holds more value for me based on nostalgia but for the price of a small cup of coffee I was able to find one of the funnest party games I remember playing.  Only downfall is that all the fun revolves…

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  • Dumpster Diving: Prey

    Year Released: 2006Price Paid:  $6.99Time Spent: 6 hoursExpected Rating: 4/10Overall Rating: 7/10Value For Price: A+ Comments:I think the only thing that could have made my experience with this game any better would have been to have played it when it came out as the graphics are pretty nice and any problems I had with any technical aspects were due largely…

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  • Dumpster Diving: Ninja Blade

    Year Released: 2009Price Paid:  $4.99Time Spent: 4 hoursExpected Rating: 6/10Overall Rating: 6/10Value For Price: A Comments:Hope you like quick-time events and ninjas because both are rampant in this game. Story is stupid, character designs are laughable but the game plays well, looks good and can hold your attention well enough. Definitely worth the price I paid.

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