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01:41:42 - 01:42:37

starting to panic if that was um that score is not correct matthew per the actual criteria i checked that one myself and that's fine okay good um ry's son of rome um 60 um cyberpunk 2077 86 um rematch 75 deadly premonition 70 lollipop chainsaw 70 barnet commando 71 red dead redemption 2 97 50 cent blood on the sand 72 and a meta sorry metacritic mirror's edge 79 for a total of 749 points matthew what's your list uh my list is nintendo switch to welcome tour 54 ghost squad 69 binary domain 74 space giraffe 68…

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... certainly one of your crimes let's let the judges decide indeed um let's just recap our picks then matthew so um in fact let's just read out our list in full so i'll read mine and you can read yours and the judges will have it written down anyway so um i picked um mad max uh for 69 um now i'm starting to panic if that was um that score is not correct matthew per the actual criteria i checked that one myself and that's fine okay good um ry's son of rome um 60 um cyberpunk 2077 86 um rematch 75 deadly premonition 70 lollipop chainsaw 70 barnet commando 71 red dead redemption 2 97 50 cent blood on the sand 72 and a meta sorry metacritic mirror's edge 79 for a total of 749 points matthew what's your list uh my list is nintendo switch to welcome tour 54 ghost squad 69 binary domain 74 space giraffe 68 outer worlds 85 the quiet man 40 belatro 90 the witcher 3 world hunt 93 uncharted the lost legacy 84 forward to horizon 4 92 also leaving me with one point so that's 749 yeah very good um okay so you know the judges will decide and you the listeners will hear about it in a ...

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00:49:43 - 00:50:19

30s yeah um that's funny well i i think it's uh i think there is an element of personalization to the list so i guess we'll see how far you test the boundaries matthew my next pick then um my fifth pick is going to be uh deadly premonition on xbox 360 which actually scored 70 on ps3 which was a higher score at launch it technically it launched just in the west on 360 and launched in japan on ps3 but whatever so i'll take it a 70 rather than fighting for it at 68 um a very a famously divisive game and a beloved…

01:36:43 - 01:37:16

obvious in some of these competitions and drafts that we've been doing and by picking mira's edge i have very much like um you know sort of deferred to type and there's a bit of that with lollipop chainsaw and mad max as well um but i did try and mix it up with some of my other stuff like 50 cent and um deadly premonition we've not talked about that much before i don't think and um you know a man talking about rice in 2025 that can't be that common you know uh so hey ho um so what's your final pick matthew with…

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