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As you may already be aware of (if not, you should read Greg Costikyan), Quality critics about videogames does not yet exists.

Indeed, most Videogaming related press, either paper-based or online, can't afford to deeply criticize and analyse videogame while their review : they must stick to the flow of game released by the industry, so they are doomed to quickly review pre-versions of games, and are often severely limited in what they can say about the game, as many game editor litteraly buy review scores (remenber Eidos-Gamespot and Kane & Lynch ?)

So, if you are seeking for quality critics about videogames where should you go ?

On amateur website on Internet of course !

I already introduced you to Zero Punctuation columns in the Escapist, please now welcome The Angry Video Game Nerd, working for Game Trailers through his reviews of old and crappy games.

Beside the heavy humor, these critics are really deep and personnal, they shows what is wrong in each videogame through loads of reference to previous games, alongside with tiny fictionnal jokes about each games. In a few words, this is REAL videogame critic.

I hereby recommend the critics of Castevania 2 : Simon's Quest on NES, the one about Ghostbusters (three parts one , two et three) and Rambo's critics.

If you like it, you should really consider buying the DVD !