Well the reviews are trickling in for the new Prince of Persia game and its looking pretty good. This new Prince of Persia game currently has a metacritic score of 90. You can check out the Gametrailers video review here.

Its looks like our assumptions may be true and that the Sonic Unleashed game may suck.
According to Ars Technica:

"As it stands, it's another in a long row of disappointments, despite the presence of a few fun areas that show what could have been."

Read the full review here:
Sonic Unleashed: a step in right direction, then a fall

Edge magazine is surely one of my favorite video game magazines. I highly recommend. My subscription stays current though they still haven't sent me my damn free T-shirts but that's another matter. In any case Edge magazine does publish some pretty good and detailed reviews. To get into the score breakdown nitty gritty pick one up at Borders or subscribe online. Here are the scores to help assist in your Fall game shopping plans:

REVIEW SCORES:

Left 4 Dead - 9
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts - 7
Gears of War 2 - 9
Fallout 3 - 7
Call of Duty: World at War - 6
Resistance 2 - 6
Mirror's Edge - 5
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning - 7
007: Quantum of Solace - 5
Tomb Raider: Underworld - 8
Guitar Hero: World Tour - 7
Animal Crossing City Folk - 7
Ninjatown - 6
Command & Comnquer: Red Alert 3 - 7
Manhunt 2 - 4
Silent Hill: Homecoming - 6
Tom Clancy's Endwar - 8
Socom Confrontation - 5
Valkyria Chronicles - 7
Need for Speed Undercover - 3
Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip - 7

Source: GarthVaderUK via NeoGAF

Those who pre-ordered Left 4 Dead at GameStop were treated to access to the demo a week before the general public. I downloaded the demo early this morning and gave it a spin. I actually played through it a few times. I tried both single player and online co-op modes and the game is very fun. Left 4 Dead is frantic first person zombie action. I love it! The art style which is similar to the Half Life 2 series just works. Its realistic but not over done. There are no shiny CG looking charachters. The environments are detailed and varied. I was able to find an online game pretty easy and I did not notice any lag issues.



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From my time playing the demo Left 4 Dead seems like a good mix between Resident Evil, Half Life, Halo 3 and Call of Duty. If you play the game in single player mode the computer AI takes control of the other three on your team. The Zombies come at you but they are varied in size and speed. Some will just stand there and some will rush you. There are different weapons including an machine gun, shot gun, pistols that can be dual wielded and you also have melee attacks.

In multiplayer your friends or those matched up randomly on Xbox Live are added to your game and control the other players on your team. Full voice chat is enabled during multiplayer which is great. A very cool feature in multiplayer mode included is called "Take Break." Break mode is like pausing a multiplayer game but your not actually pausing anything because the computer AI takes over for you and continues to play for you with your online friends. You become a "spectator" and when you are ready you can take the game back over from the computer AI. Pure genius. In a nutshell this demo sealed the deal and my pre-order will be a final purchase.

Here are some screens from my demo run through:

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They seem to like it as much as we did when we talked about it on our podcast.

Check out this review of Earforce X4 Xbox 360 wireless surround sound headset. I am happy to see that the Gizmodo folks also think that the Sony DS6000s I reviewed a few months back are awesome.