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The show is filmed on location at several different locales including Vancouver , BC . The hosts stand in frame as video game footage is projected onto an object in the background such as a Billboard or the side of a building. The unscripted show is filmed over the course of several hours and later edited to fit the show's thirty minute time frame. ''Judgement Day'' also has reviews of various video game Peripherals as well as a segment called ''Buried Treasures'' in which a host picks a game from the past that he feels was great, but was often overlooked by the masses. The ''Hit List'' was a quick rundown of the top five games in a particular category, such as a particular genre, or a given system; in 2006 a variation called the "''Sh_t List''" appeared, which has the bottom five games in a given category. The final segment of each episode, ''Versus'', compares two games of similar genre, title, or subject matter. ''Pocket Reviews'' is a segment reserved for rating handheld titles, where one of the hosts rates the game; aside from a few games in the ''Versus'' segment, the only handheld games to be rated by both hosts were '' Nintendogs '' ( DS ), and '' Madden NFL 06 '' ( PSP ). The highest rated games on the show so far, of which Lucas and Tallarico both gave 10/10, are three '', and '' Burnout Revenge ''. The lowest rated game on the show was '' Torrente '' ( PC ) which Lucas gave 1/10 and Tallarico gave 0.5/10. Tallarico was quoted as saying, "It sucks" and "I had Montezuma's Revenge playing this game". The only known 0/10 was given by Tallarico for the game '' High Heat Major League Baseball 2003 ''; he hated the game so much he stormed off partway through the review, followed by sounds of a car screeching away. Lucas and Tallarico have been both co-workers and good friends since their first meeting at E³ in 1995 . Current '' Lost '' castmemeber Evangeline Lilly 's first job in television was as a "Hardware Girl" for ''Reviews on the Run.'' Hardware Girls show off pieces of video-gaming hardware on the show while Lucas and Tallarico review the product in question. On ) as the original ''Reviews on the Run''. Later that day, Tallarico posted that he and Lucas were in contract negotiations with other networks in an effort to bring ''Judgment Day'' back to US TV, albeit with the ''Reviews on the Run'' name, as G4 owns the rights to the ''Judgment Day'' title. Tallarico also stated that the show was not cancelled, but it was a decision they made personally so that they could reach a broader audience. Specific details about the negotiations have not been disclosed. |
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