Learn more about Need for Speed: ProStreet. (Flash demo) SynopsisCalling all driving enthusiasts ~ Need for Speed: ProStreet blows away your expectations with searing street-racing excitement. Filled with new courses, rides and racing styles, this test of speed and skill will make even experienced racers sweat with intensity. A new physics engine and an intuitively refined Artificial Intelligence reproduce the authenticity of racing. Customizable vehicles realistically dent and collide in smoke-filled crashes. Prepare for the gladiatorial racing contest known as the Show Down, draw from your experience and muster your nerve to become the most infamous driver on the street.Test your abilities in adrenaline-fueled competitions on Tokyo's Shuto Expressway, the Autobahn, the Nevada desert and more. Master the reinvented Drag mode and utilize drift to maneuver through turns and past the competition. Prove yourself in the intense contests of the Speed Challenge. Take credit for your creations by uploading your visual and performance customization settings online, then sit back and receive a credit every time another player uses your settings to win a race.19.99
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GREAT racing game. You can customize over 50 cars like never before and tune your vehicles so that they stand out from the pack. The race days are a lot of fun, different racing types (drag, drift, grip, speed) make this game diverse and fun to play.
Online play sucks because everyone races with the fastest car, and it is really laggy and slow. There is also no free roam mode, so you can only do the race modes.
Great game.
What's great about it: Very detailed customization, tuning options, and endless gameplay.
What's not so great: Online play, no free roam mode
Learn more about Army of Two Platinum Hits. (Flash demo) SynopsisPolitical turmoil and conspiracy are threatening the entire world. In efforts to ease the swelling of deceit and injustice and maintain its dominant presence worldwide, the United States has begun awarding an unprecedented number of contracts to Private Military Corporations (PMC). Since Vietnam, the number has increased tenfold and continues to climb. Now, only the combined strength of an Army of Two can define a clear-cut chain of command and the military responsibilities of a nation divided.As ex-Army Rangers turned contractors for the PMC, you and your comrade will be challenged to use your combined skills and intensive military training to become the deadliest two-man military outfit the world has ever seen. From dual sniping to parachuting, you'll be thrown into the depths of war-torn sites, taken from today's top headlines, where together you must utilize sophisticated tactics and strategies to surface unscathed. Outstanding digital images, 3D animation and expert writing, directing and audio engineering offer a gaming experience that's one of the first of its kind.
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When you put this game in your 360, you wont wanna put it down. The story mode is so much fun that you wont wanna quit until you beat it... sadly you can beat the game in one long sitting. The game uses AGRO, which is basically when a group of enemies are targeted on you while your partner comes around and silently shoots all of them. But, this game gets old fairly fast, online play sucks, and you just go back to Vegas 2 or COD4. FUN game while it lasts but gets old real fast.
What's great about it: Taking cover, story mode, gun/character customization, AGRO
The Covenant rules the Earth ~ the Flood has been unleashed ~ and the fate of life everywhere hangs in the balance. Master Chief, a genetically engineered super soldier, is the last chance for humanity's survival. Stowed away on a Forerunner ship, he rushes back to Earth to defeat the Covenant once and for all. Hopelessly outnumbered, his outlook is bleak. But when you are bred for battle, you fight past the breaking point and bow to no one. It's all been building to this ~ a desperate, final war that leads to a soul-shattering climax of epic proportions. Help this incredible hero stop the Covenant, destroy the Flood and save the lives of every person on the planet.The third chapter in the critically acclaimed franchise features insane battles with an arsenal of alien and human weaponry. Discover all-new armaments and characters as you fight to the finish. You can even play online with Xbox Live and battle in pulse-pounding multiplayer action. Next-generation graphics and technological advances, such as enhanced artificial intelligence and a beefed-up real-time lighting engine, make Halo 3 shine with stunning realism.
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Halo 3 wraps up its trilogy with their best game yet. The story mode is epic and fun, online ranking system is based on your actual game play, and there are countless games ranked and unranked in which to have fun. Only 3 stars, no reccomendation to friends? I say this because compared to the graphics, customization, online play, and realism of Call of Duty 4, this game flat out sucks. Halo 3 did a poor job of delivering something we can remember. Save $60, buy COD4.
What's great about it: Diverse online game play, ranking up is a challenge and is based on your actual skill and game play
What's not so great: Too unrealistic, you're either good or bad on online, some power ups and games are one-sided and too challenging...
Learn more about Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2. (Flash demo) SynopsisBehind the bright lights of Sin City lies a deadly terrorist threat. Return as a member of the elite Rainbow Six squad and go up against Artificial Intelligence characters armed with thermal vision, night vision and shields. Fortunately, your cache of updated weapons is just as lethal. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 features two new adversarial modes and added rewards. Leave the gambling for the casinos and don't take chances with the lives of your fellow Americans. Make your way through new Vegas hot spots on 11 new multiplayer maps. Updated customization options let you create a character that stays the same in single-player or multiplayer action. In the innovative new Co-op mode, bring a friend in on the action at any time without impacting the story. Select wisely from your arsenal of 11 new weapons, but beware ~ sometimes they won't be enough.
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Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is a fun game to play, don't get me wrong. You have the freedom to command your two squad members in almost any way you can think of. The minigames, like terrorist hunt, are a lot of fun when you are done with the story mode, Ubisoft does a great job of creating realism and AI inteligence, taking cover is convenient and easy to understand, and you can customize your character like no other game.
So why give this review only 3 stars?
First off, the online play sucks. Much like Turok, you can only do so much. Many games are just a lot of people working together to rank up. So you're sitting there for hours on end doing nothing but losing matches while ranking up a little faster, but ranking up takes for ever and a day. The game play is only fun for so long, and you end up falling back on Call of Duty 4 or Grand Theft Auto 4.
What's great about it: 2 primary weapons, control your squad members, terorist hunt, taking cover, customize your character's camo
What's not so great: Online play sucks, ranking up takes forever, only fun for so long.
Learn more about Battlefield: Bad Company - Xbox 360. (Flash demo) SynopsisA band of renegade soldiers prowls through a dangerous landscape, risking everything in a quest for personal gain. The battlefield around them looms with violence. The air is thick with danger and the possibilities for destruction are immense. And the fun is just getting started. Take the battlefield by land, air or sea with dozens of new vehicles, weapons and toys and get ready for explosive experimentation. Battlefield: Bad Company bursts with excitement from the moment you set foot on the battlefield. With environments that are nearly 100 percent destructible, the possibilities are endless. Shape the battlefield to suit your playing style. Demolish structures down to their foundations. Stunning graphics bring the scope of the destruction to vivid life before your eyes, while dozens of subtle changes to the first-person shooter formula provide a true "through the gun" experience as you fire your weapon. With every shot and explosion, Bad Company immerses you in a hail of intense action.
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This is a fun game that brings modern warfare to a somewhat realistic game play. You can get in hummers, tanks, and even helicopters, and destroy almost everything. It brings the fast paced, realism from Call of Duty 4 and the fun un-realistic gameplay from Halo 3.
The controls are very wierd and hard to get used to. You have to cycle through buttons to select your secondary weapon or your grenade or your special grenade, etc. Sniping online is almost impossible unless your target is standing completely still. This game takes in the Coreolis effect, and counts for lag time, which is realistic, but frustrating when you cannot even kill anyone. So you have to aim several feet in front of your target to have any hope. Your health does not regain; much like the millions of other games, you need to find a medic or health packs to regain health.
Other than those cons, everything else about this game is great. Personally, I'm gonna buy Top Spin 3 on June 24th. haha
What's great about it: Very realistic; like the best of Halo 3 and COD 4 combined into this game.
What's not so great: Controls are hazy, sniping is almost impossible. Health doesn't regain like in Call of Duty.