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L.A. Rush

Title: L.A. Rush
Publisher: Midway
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Racing
Release Date: 10/11/2005
Overview:
Smoke the roads in Los Angeles with Midway’s L.A. Rush! Race through the streets of Beverly Hills, Compton, Hollywood, LAX, Santa Monica, and Downtown. Choose from more than 50 licensed street and concept cars. Race in a variety of modes including a unique mission-based Story mode. All street racers are designed by the legendary chop shop West Coast Customs. Stylize and tune up your rides with engine tweaks and visual upgrades. Race to win back your stolen cars. Earn street cred and respect. Exact revenge by stealing your enemies’ rides. Feel the rush of being a street racing maverick!

NCAA March Madness 06

Title: NCAA March Madness 06
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 10/12/2005
Overview:
The road to the Final Four begins now with NCAA March Madness 06, where national titles are won with intense defense and a high-flying transition game. D-up with the Lockdown Stick. Use it to dictate game tempo by pressuring the ball, forcing turnovers, and jumping passing lanes. Then streak to the hoop for easy buckets with an enhanced up-tempo play style. Expanded defensive playbooks let you unleash tenacious man-to-man, suffocating zones, or draw up custom sets. Your team’s energy feeds off your Senior Leader. A monster 30-year Dynasty Mode is more extensive than ever. Re-create the greatest moments from college hoops by playing College Classics.

SSX On Tour

Title: SSX On Tour
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 10/12/2005
Overview:
Go from slope-side wannabe to snow-stylin’ king of the mountain in SSX On Tour. Create your own skier or boarder and craft a career by shredding the slopes and pulling off jaw-dropping acrobatics. Dominate all-new challenges to earn a Tour invite. Then out-style the competition and build black-diamond buzz on your way up the ranks. Plunge down 12 new courses as you experience adrenaline-pumping velocity through speed-sensitive cameras, motion blurring, and controller feedback. Catch big air with monster tricks that lay waste to the laws of physics. Just make sure you look good doing it. To become a true black-diamond rock star, your reputation matters as much as your technique.

SPLAT Magazine Renegade Paintball

Title: SPLAT Magazine Renegade Paintball
Publisher: Globalstar
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/12/2005
Overview:
What are you waiting for? Get “gogged” in the most adrenaline-packed paintball experience yet with Renegade Paintball from Splat! Magazine. Play from a first or third-person view as you splatter 15 environments including cities, stadiums, hills, and more. Choose from 25 single-player options in Tourament, Fieldball, and Fantasy Arcade Modes. Create the ultimate customized paintball battlefield, indoors or out, by adding buildings, forts, inflatables, junked cars, and even a helicopter! Supercharge your weapon with ricochet, cannonball, snipe, and rapid-fire power-ups, or frustrate your enemies with invincibility and ghost powers. Multiplayer battles, including King of the Hill and Capture the Flag, are possible for up to seven combatants with Xbox Live.

Blitz: The League

Title: Blitz: The League
Publisher: Midway
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 10/18/2005
Overview:
Learn the price you pay for living the dream in this gritty football saga that shows all the hits you take, on the field and off, to win in professional football. In Story Mode, lead a down-and-out football franchise back to glory. Bring in new players, retool the coaching staff, and guide your squad to a league championship. In this league, players will do whatever it takes to win. Compete head-to-head in person or online. Teams, players, and stadiums are fully customizable. Earn bonuses to enhance your off-field lifestyle. Some may call those hits you laid on opposing QBs dirty. You call it doing your job.

Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 3: Night of the Quinkan

Title: Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 3: Night of the Quinkan
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/12/2005
Overview:
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is back to save the planet in this character-based action adventure. The third Ty the Tasmanian Tiger installment adds new missions and power-ups plus close-range and vehicle-based combat. It’s a race against time as Ty must find a mystical boomerang in order to defeat a coming foe, the Quinking. Explore 30 levels in a lavish, open Australian Outback environment. The customizable boomerang system lets you select from over 2,000 possible ‘rang combos. You’ll need ’em to defeat bigger and badder enemies including Giant Robots, Uber Lizards, and Quinkan Lords. Brand new Outback Cart Racing Tracks are stocked with new power-ups and ready for multiplayer racing action.

Shattered Union

Title: Shattered Union
Publisher: Take Two
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 10/18/2005
Overview:
The United States is splintered into warring nation-states and the country’s fate is in your hands! Lead one of seven factions – the California Commonwealth, Pacifica, the Republic of Texas, the Great Plains Federation, The Confederacy, the New England Alliance, or a European peacekeeping force – in the struggle to reunite America. This tactical 3D war game unfolds with a birds-eye view. Plot turn-based moves, then see results in fiery animations. The path your non-linear mission takes adjusts based on your choices. Call up the National Guard, strike a deal with the Russians – it’s all part of the battle to become the next great patriot. Multiplayer options are available both on and offline.

The Warriors

Title: The Warriors
Publisher: Take Two
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/18/2005
Overview:
The same people who brought you Grand Theft Auto resurrect the cult classic movie The Warriors for the next generation. Keeping to the retro style and look of the 1979 movie, The Warriors takes you on an unforgettable night of gang terror in New York City. When the most powerful gang leader of the city, Cyrus, is murdered at a truce gathering between the five major gangs of New York City, the blame is wrongly placed on The Warriors. Now the warriors must run for their lives, fighting off the other gangs, as they struggle to make their way back across the city to their home turf.

The Bible Game

Title: The Bible Game
Publisher: Crave
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 10/19/2005
Overview:
Faith and fun merge in this rewarding action/adventure trivia challenge based on the Bible. Test your knowledge in an interactive quiz-show-style party game with 1,500 questions about the Old Testament. A golden-voiced host keeps the action moving, while a goofy off-screen announcer tosses in some comic relief. Twenty mini-games bring the Bible to life through inspiring challenges based on the stories of Noah’s Ark, David and Goliath, Jacob’s Ladder, and more. Up to four players can try to beat the buzzer in wholesome, interactive gameplay the whole family can enjoy together.

Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse

Title: Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse
Publisher: Aspyr
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/19/2005
Overview:
The life of down-and-out, Great Depression-era traveling salesman Edward “Stubbs” Stubblefield came to an end when he was murdered and buried with little fanfare in a remote Pennsylvania field. In 1959, billionaire playboy Andrew Monday builds Punchbowl, the city of the future, on Stubbs’ resting place. As the city celebrates its opening, Stubbs stumbles out of his grave, confused, undead, and hungry for brains. Drunk with newfound zombie power, Stubbs’ quest to rule Punchbowl plunges the city into a war between the living and the undead. Be the zombie as you munch humans and convert them to allies in this twisted quest to rule the city.

Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland

Title: Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 10/19/2005
Overview:
Los Angeles is your playground in the first-ever Tony Hawk game to feature a completely open environment. American Wasteland is built with no levels and no load times. You’re free to skate or bike from Hollywood to East L.A. and beyond, without repetition. New tricks and expanded controls include Bert slides, Natas spins handstands, wall runs, wall flips, and more. Accomplish goals and earn cash to customize your look at skate shops, barbershops, and tattoo parlors. In another first, you can choose a BMX mount for the entire game and experience BMX-specific tricks and goals. Two players can complete old-school THPS goals together via Xbox Live.

World Poker Tour

Title: World Poker Tour
Publisher: Take Two
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 10/19/2005
Overview:
Let it ride as you live the full experience of the World Poker Tour. Master 14 poker games including Omaha, Pineapple, Shanghai, and the mega-popular Texas Hold ‘Em. Use the poker editor to set your own rules and custom limits. Create a character, build your skills, and pile up chips in Quick Play, Event Play, and Season Play Modes. Cash in your stack to buy accessories and deck yourself out. Compete in real WPT venues against top players, including Erick Lindgren, Evelyn Ng, Phil “Unabomber” Laak, and Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari. Extensive online options let you host virtual poker nights, chat, and ante up against players from around the country.

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords

Title: Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Publisher: LucasArts
Platform: Xbox
Genre: RPG
Release Date: 12/6/2004
Overview:
It’s the moment of truth for the Jedi. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords sets us five years after the original KOTOR. A new storyline commences, with a new main character. Bid farewell to your former bad self and say hello to a new Knight of the Old Republic. Developers Obsidian, brought onto this sequel by BioWare, take the saber, starting us off with the aftermath of a Jedi civil war and the rise of the Sith Lords. The Jedi Council obliterated, there is only one surviving Jedi, you! Graphics are still marquee, with KOTOR II’s real meat and muscle hiding deep inside its gameplay and RPG dynamics.

GunGriffon: Allied Strike

Title: GunGriffon: Allied Strike
Publisher: Tecmo
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 12/15/2004
Overview:
GunGriffon takes place in a hostile futuristic world where there is little hope for survival among the human race. The earth’s resources have been exhausted and people are continuously splitting into groups to fight for what is left of it. The player takes on the role of a renegade soldier, enlisted in an anti-tank troop, who’s prime mission is to take down armored tanks, the ultimate ground weapon used to destroy the earth and any living thing that gets in its way.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 12/15/2004
Overview:
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation for the Xbox is a first-person adventure game that puts the fate of unsolved mysteries into the hands of the console gamer as they examine crime scenes, question witnesses, and analyze evidence using the latest in forensic equipment. The adaptation of television’s No. 1 show, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation for the Xbox includes all ten cases from the previous two PC releases and all the in-depth evidence examination and interactive lab functionality.

NFL Street 2

Title: NFL Street 2
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 12/24/2004
Overview:
The gridiron returns to the gritty streets for a second season of no-holds-barred football in NFL Street 2! Crush your competition with even more style this year with one-handed grabs, ball strips, hurdle wraps, and other fresh Style moves. Seven new game modes and ten new fields introduce walls to the game, letting you pull all-new wall tricks you never thought possible: leap 15 feet off the wall for a catch, run the QB up the wall to open passing lanes, or wall-juke to avoid incoming defenders. Perform wall moves on key areas of every field to open up unlockables, gain style points, and claim arenas as your own. Take your team online to challenge the competition and find out who owns the streets of Bay City!

MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf

Title: MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf
Publisher: Microsoft
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 12/29/2004
Overview:
Day 1 Studios brings us MechAssault 2, day 2 for one of the most expansive and successful titles in Xbox’s early days. Taking a big step forward, MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf features a deeper single-player storyline. More central to its success is its new Battle Armor feature, which allows players to exit their mechs and drive other vehicles, and most importantly, hijack enemy mechs! This new ability promises a new level of perverse joy in online mech battles. Combined with better graphics, better mobility, and smoother gameplay, Lone Wolf may be the new lone champion in the big robot video game genre.

Tork: Prehistoric Punk

Title: Tork: Prehistoric Punk
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 1/12/2005
Overview:
The evil wizard Orgus has killed Tork’s father and destroyed his village. Now it’s up this young time-traveling, shape-shifting caveboy to defeat Orgus and put history back on track. Tork’s trusty bolas are not his only weapon to fight off dinosaurs and spear-weilding warriors – Tork can also transform into a gigantic Yeti, an armor-plated armadillo, and a dive-bombing flying squirrel when he is in a tight spot. Tork will travel from the Stone Age, through Medieval Times, all the way to the Age of Fantastical Machines in his quest to save his father and stop the evil Orgus. It will take more than avalanches, erupting volcanoes, earthquakes, geysers, landslides, and giant robots to stop this Prehistoric Punk!

Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction

Title: Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Publisher: LucasArts
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 1/10/2005
Overview:
Mercenaries is a revolutionary third-person combat-action game that delivers the next level of free-form gameplay in massive interactive environments. The game gives players the opportunity to take on the role of a soldier for hire in an open-ended world. Mercenaries is set in North Korea in the near future, where a coup has plunged the troubled nation into chaos. An elite private military company, Executive Operations, has dispatched a mercenary to track down the “deck of 52” fugitive members of the old hardliner regime – before they can launch a nuclear attack.

The Punisher

Title: The Punisher
Publisher: THQ
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 1/19/2005
Overview:
Enter the dark, gritty world of Frank Castle (a.k.a. The Punisher), where you serve as judge, jury, and executioner in your mission to rid the streets of the criminal scum who corrupt them. In a story penned by Punisher creators Jimmy Palmiotti and Garth Ennis and based on the recent era of the comic, you will interrogate criminals using their own ruthless methods, vigilante style. A unique “interrogation system” allows exacting control over the physical force and environmental interaction you will need to coerce information out of crooks. Collect and upgrade classic Punisher weapons like pistols, Uzis, shotguns, and other persuasive “tools” for those times when talking just isn’t getting your point across!