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BioShock PlayStation 3
After your plane crashes into icy uncharted waters, you discover a rusted bathysphere and descend into rapture, a city hidden beneath the sea. Constructed as an idealistic society for a hand picked group of scientists, artists and industrialists, the idealism is no more. Now the city is littered with corpses, wildly powerful guardians roam the corridors as little girls loot the dead, and genetically mutated citizens ambush you at every turn.
EverQuest Online Adventures: Frontiers PlayStation 2
EverQuest Online Adventures: Frontiers expands the persistent world of Norrath with more territory to explore, stronger monsters to slay, a new playable race, and hundreds of additional items and spells to earn while adventuring. An in-game tutorial has been included to help new players get accustomed to the controls and interface, and an in-game link to customer service is designed to minimize the frustrations that can occur while experiencing an online universe for the first time. Frontiers lives up to its name by offering intrepid explorers over 162 square miles of new lands to discover, from the red rocks of Odus to the bubbling magma found in Lavastorm’s deadly streams.
The player models and armor have received a number of visual enhancements, so players can customize their character’s appearance and see the fruits of their labor directly onscreen. The new playable race, the ogre, possesses a deadly combination of brute force and powerful magic capabilities, and characters of all races will be able to enjoy “expanded content” once they reach certain high levels. Since EverQuest Online Adventures: Frontiers is an online-only game, allowing thousands of players to participate simultaneously, requirements include owning the PS2 Network Adaptor as well paying a monthly fee of nine dollars and 99 cents for unlimited adventuring and game updates. ~ Scott Alan Marriott, All Game Guide
Gears of War 2 Xbox 360
Gears of War 2 is the highly anticipated sequel to the 4.7 million-selling blockbuster third-person tactical action game, and one of the most popular Xbox 360 games in history. Gears of War 2 picks up six months after the events of Gears of War, and thrusts you back into a deep and harrowing story of humankind’s epic battle for survival against a nightmarish force of underground creatures known as the Locust Horde.
Gears of War 2 is developed by Epic Games exclusively for Xbox 360. Continue the story of Marcus Fenix, a reluctant war hero, as he leads Delta Squad on a series of perilous and adrenaline-pumping missions. Gears of War 2 blends a best-in-class third-person shooter with unsurpassed high-definition visuals, all layered on top of an engaging story of survival, loss, and retribution.
Dead Space PlayStation 3
Gamers step into a third-person sci-fi survival horror experience that promises to deliver the ultimate in psychological thrills and gruesome action. Set in the cold blackness of deep space, the atmosphere is soaked with a feeling of tension, dread and sheer terror. In Dead Space, players step into the role of engineer Isaac Clarke – an ordinary man on a seemingly routine mission to fix the communications systems aboard a deep space mining ship. It is not long before Isaac awakes to a living nightmare when he learns that the ship’s crew has been ravaged by a vicious alien infestation. He must fight through the dead silence and darkness of deep space to stay alive.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots PlayStation 3
Solid Snake returns as an older, battlehardened veteran in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Series creator Hideo Kojima reprises his role as director as he brings the critically acclaimed stealthaction series to PlayStation 3 with a number of new elements. The futuristic setting now features expansive, wartorn environments with rival nations vying for control over both territory and technology. Sporting grizzled hair, wrinkles, and a moustache, the weary Snake also has an eye patch that pays homage to his character’s inspiration, Escape from New York’s antihero Snake Plissken.
Christened “Solid Eye” by Kojima, the eye patch serves as a multifunctional display that allows Snake to view infrared signals, radar, and more. As Snake sneaks through bombed out areas, interior locales, and other detailed environments, players will be able to shape the cinematic story line through their ingame actions. Missions can be accomplished in multiple ways, and Snake’s decisions during the course of play will influence how characters react to him. As in previous games, players can attack enemies in close quarters combat, wear disguises, perform acrobatic moves, use a variety of inventive gadgets, and call on familiar characters for assistance and information. ~ Scott Alan Marriott, All Game Guide
Gravity Games Bike: Street. Vert. Dirt. PlayStation 2
Midway’s first title based on the ~Gravity Games, a sports event created in 1999 featuring contests in wakeboarding, skateboarding, inline skating, and more, focuses specifically on the BMX biking events making up the competition: Dirt, Street, and Vert. A total of ten freestyle courses are spread across the three events with 21 different riders to choose from, seven of which are professionals.
Dirt has riders taking on a series of jumps along a dirt course, while Street involves performing tricks as players race through an obstacle-laden street. Vert takes place on a halfpipe, where the name of the game is to catch huge air and pull off stunts to impress the judges. Each rider can perform up to 1,500 tricks depending on the event, with the ultimate goal being to earn gold medals.
Two-player competition is also supported with its own series of four events: Graffiti, Race, Horse, and Team Attack. The featured pros include Dennis McCoy, Fuzzy Hall, Andre Ellison, Leigh Ramsdell, Jamie Bestwick, Reuel Erickson, and Matt Beringer. Over 400 motion-captured moves were filmed for added realism. ~ Scott Alan Marriott, All Game Guide
Ford Bold Moves Street Racing PlayStation 2
Feel the rumble of a muscle car tearing down the LA streets in Ford Street Racing. Taking place on 24 tracks such as “Canyon Road,” “Central Plaza,” “Chinatown,” “Downtown,” “Skid Row,” the “Pacific Highway,” and “Venice Beach,” the game is designed to look and feel just like the real thing.
With a unique team feature, players can race within a team of three, change which car they are driving during the race, and issue commands to gain tactical and positional advantages. Three groups of 18 officially licensed Ford vehicles include Classics, Performance, and High Performance cars such as the 1968 Mustang GT, 1970 Capri MK1 RS2600, 1975 Torino Sport, 2000 Ford SVT Cobra R, 2005 Mustang GT, 1985 RS200, 1995 GT90 Concept, and the 2007 Shelby GT500.
Players will race through competitions and leagues to win cash used for upgrading current vehicles, or buying a higher performance hot rod, that will make necks break, and gearheads go giddy. ~ Gracie Leach, All Game Guide