Category: Action/Adventure

Title: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
Publisher: LucasArts
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/25/2010
Overview:
In the first Force Unleashed, you were gunning for targets that Darth Vader sent you after; this time, Vader is gunning for you! Go on the run in this sequel to the fastest-selling Star Wars game of all time. Vader wants to clone you to create an unstoppable Sith warrior. You have other ideas. Uncover the mystery behind your past, search for your lost love, Juno Eclipse, and harness incredible new abilities in a story set during Episodes III and IV. Wield two lightsabers at once, unleash new Force Powers, use Jedi Mind Tricks, and fight with a fury designed to show your former master just how powerful you’ve become.

Title: CSI: Fatal Conspiracy
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/26/2010
Overview:
To join the cast of a hit prime-time show, all you have to do is pick up a controller. CSI: Fatal Conspiracy puts you right alongside the stars of CSI Season ten. Solve five interconnected cases hatched from the minds of the show’s writing staff. Scan crime scenes for evidence and use your powers of observation to find the traces that every crime leaves behind. You’ll interact with Ray Langston, Catherine Willows, Nick Stokes, and other CSI characters, voiced by the show’s cast. Suspense hinges on every clue and each interrogation as the truth is revealed in a new, more dramatic, piece-by-piece story structure designed to ratchet up the tension.

Title: Bakugan: Defenders of the Core
Publisher: Activision
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/26/2010
Overview:
Sometimes things grow up right before your eyes. But this…this is ridiculous. Watch your Bakugan grow from a small ball to a creature that stands six stories high in this massive real-time battle! Bakugan Battle Brawlers: Defenders of the Core lets you romp through destructible 3D environments while in control of the biggest Bakugan Brawlers you’ve seen in a game. Create a hero and lead the Bakugan Brawlers in a battle to save the Earth from Spectra and his evil forces. Experience all-new levels of control in new types of battles. For the first time in a Bakugan game, choose to fight head-to-head battles, strategic destruction battles, or anything-goes free-for-alls.

Title: Brutal Legend
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/13/2009
Overview:
Imagine a world where there is one rule and one rule only: if it wouldn’t look good on a heavy metal album cover, it doesn’t exist. That’s the world of Brutal Legend, and it’s the world that Eddie, the world’s greatest roadie, must figure out how to save. Equipped with only a muscle car, an axe, and his trusty guitar, Eddie must form an army of rockers and stop evil demons from enslaving humanity. Jack Black stars in this rock-and-roll battle epic featuring the voice talents of rock giants, a face-melting soundtrack, and the chance to take your place among the gods of metal.

Title: Afrika
Publisher: Natsume
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/14/2009
Overview:
The African plains are full of zebras grazing on grass, hippos bathing in water, and cheetahs on the hunt. All these images can be yours to capture as you make a name for yourself in professional photography! Use licensed real-world photography equipment to complete assignments and catch the elegant, and sometimes even gruesome, moments of nature in Africa. Snap pictures of over 70 of Africa’s majestic creatures as they behave and interact just like in real life. Build real-life photography skills with an innovative photo grading system that will critique your work. Scout through grasslands, forests, and marshes as you hunt for the elusive perfect picture!

Title: Bakugan
Publisher: Activision
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/20/2009
Overview:
Join Dan and the rest of his Bakugan buddies as the wildly popular card/ball battle game and TV series comes to life. Toss cards onto the battlefield then shoot your Bakugan onto the cards and trigger their powers. If two Bakugan wind up on the same card – it’s on! Battle for supremacy in Tournaments, Battle Royals, Tag-Team Matchups, Story Mode, and head-to-head showdowns. Dan will show you the ropes, give advice, and practice with you between tournaments to help make you a Bakugan battle master.

Title: Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/28/2009
Overview:
Is this the end of the line for the universe’s greatest duo? When Clank is kidnapped as part of the latest evil plot by Dr. Nefarious, the two are in for an action-packed fight to reunite. They’ll battle to get back together, but could it be possible their destinies aren’t actually linked? While their future is uncertain, the duo’s arsenal holds plenty, including new, customizable weapons, and lots of them. Use new gadgets like Ratchet’s hoverboots and new powers like Clank’s nifty new ability to shift time. The non-linear levels unfold with high-impact graphics that feel like you’re playing your own CG-animated movie.

Title: Fairytale Fights
Publisher: Playlogic
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/4/2009
Overview:
Happy endings do not exist in this game that takes your favorite fairytale characters, brings them all together, and lets them slice each other up! All those princes and princesses you remember as sweet and innocent? Not anymore. Pick your favorite character and try and save a fantasy world from a grizzly end. How you going to make that happen? By reducing everything in sight to a puddle of blood. And Fairytale Fights won’t cheat you out of any over-the-top action. The game shoves aside preset animations for real-time slicing-and-dicing, so you can carve up other characters in any twisted way you can imagine.

Title: Jurassic: The Hunted
Publisher: Activision
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/6/2009
Overview:
The rules on the Lost Island are simple: play a part in dinosaur extinction or they’ll play a part in yours. Return to Jurassic Park in this story-driven first-person shooter. Weapons and survival expert Craig Dylan has been brought in to protect a research team investigating an energy surge on the island. Use 13 weapons in 12 levels of arena combat, boss fights, and other battles as the first and last line of defense against a bunch of hungry prehistoric lizards. Visualize and target enemy weak points using the cinematic adrenaline burst, travel back in time in Sci-Fi Story Mode, and do your best to make it out alive.

Title: Assassin’s Creed 2
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/16/2009
Overview:
The first Assassins Creed thrust you into the Crusades. This time, you’re on a crusade of your own. Italian noble Ezio Auditore da Firenze watches his father hanged and vows revenge. Enter a dynamic, open Renaissance world where everyone you encounter is an opportunity. Blend in, or engage with potentially unforeseen consequences. Train as a master assassin and perform the ugliest acts in two of the era’s most beautiful cities: Venice and Florence. Naturally, no operative is complete without a weapons/gadget engineer, so you’ll have help from your friend Leonardo Da Vinci.

Title: Planet 51
Publisher: Sega
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/17/2009
Overview:
In Planet 51, a world braces for an alien invasion. Only this time, we’re the ones doing the invading! Based on the animated movie that turns scif-fi films upside down, Planet 51 sends a human astronaut crashing down on a world full of little green men. Stay one step ahead of the Planet 51 police and military as you help astronaut Chuck Baker find his ship and find his way back home. Drive everything from hover-cars to bikes to lawnmowers to complete missions in crazy racing chases. Make new friends, meet characters from the movie, and explore a world not unlike our own in a variety of missions, mini-games, and multiplayer modes.

Title: God of War Collection
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/19/2009
Overview:
NOTE: The code for the God of War III E3 demo is not included with rental or purchase of this title.

Two acclaimed epics now have the same place to call home with the God of War Collection. Combining God of War and God of War II on one Blu-ray disc, the Collection follows the path of Kratos, a Spartan warrior determined to alter the unalterable – his own fate. Shape your destiny with two deadly blades and a ruthless drive to free yourself from the debt you owe the gods. Encounter legendary creatures and wield the powers of Olympus in a world ripped from the pages of Greek mythology. Each title has been revamped with hi-def, high-refresh-rate graphics geared for the PS3.

Title: James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 11/30/2009
Overview:
Become the ultimate biological weapon in this game based on James Cameron’s tangled sci-fi epic. The giant RDA corporation wants to harvest a rare mineral from the planet Pandora. The only thing in the way is the Na’vi, a resilient native people. To get what it wants, RDA has created the ultimate weapon – the Avatar. Learn to control a genetic hybrid that fuses the DNA of a human soldier with the genes of a native. Venture deep into Pandora’s jungles as the tension between RDA and the Na’vi escalates to full-blown war. With your DNA entrenched on both sides of the conflict, you must choose where your allegiance lies.

Title: Saboteur
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 12/7/2009
Overview:
When rough-and-tumble Irish mechanic Sean Devlin visits Paris, it isn’t the sights he’s after. He’s come to pick a fight. The Nazis have no idea what’s about to hit them in this stylized, open-world WW2 action saga. Slip into the seedy 1940s Parisian underground and swagger your way to revenge as a hero who’s bold, brash, and truly excited about blowing things up. Work with the Resistance to undermine the Nazi efforts. Derail trains, implode buildings, and fight through occupied territory as if it were a barroom brawl on a grand scale. Just try not to get captured or shot; it really hurts your ability to enjoy the nightlife!

Title: Darksiders
Publisher: THQ
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 1/4/2010
Overview:
Enter a post-apocalyptic nightmare where evil forces have prematurely brought about the end of time. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, originally sent to destroy Earth, have been betrayed by their master and stripped of their powers. Play as War, the First Horseman, and undertake a ruthless quest for revenge on the back of your phantom steed, Ruin. Use a modern and mystical arsenal to fight through a world, created by legendary comic book artist Joe Madureira, that lives by the sword and looks so sharp you’d think it was carved by one.

Title: Bayonetta
Publisher: Sega
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 1/5/2010
Overview:
A witch blessed with powers beyond the comprehension of mere mortals fights a non-stop battle for survival! Bayonetta leaves other action fighting epics in the dust with an unending onslaught of combat and carnage. Play as Bayonetta, a stunning witch who’s as ruthless as she is graceful. Use incredible finishing moves against angelic legions in over-the-top cinematic combat that has you fighting with all fours. You’ll equip Bayonetta with your choice of two weapon types: one for her hands and one for her feet. Once you see them in action, you’ll agree that shotgun stilettos are the right look for any occasion.

Title: Dark Void
Publisher: Capcom
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 1/18/2010
Overview:
Ever feel like shooters have gone a bit flat when it comes to inventive new action? Head for the Void. Dark Void unlocks a new dimension in combat by going vertical. Enter the Void, a mysterious gateway between two worlds. Play as Will, a pilot who joins a group of humans trapped in the Void, fighting against an alien race out to destroy the Earth. Fire up your jet pack and soar through a sprawling world where the assaults comes at you from every direction. Seamlessly move between air- and ground-based play as you sabotage enemy ships in mid-air, cling to walls in vertical battles fought a thousand feet up, and much more.

Title: Dante’s Inferno Divine Edition
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 2/8/2010
Overview:
A classic work of literature becomes a sinister action saga in this game inspired by Dante’s “The Divine Comedy.” Journey through the nine levels of Hell on a quest to save your beloved from the jaws of the underworld. Italian soldier-for-hire Dante returns from war to find his Beatrice murdered, and her soul dragged below. Confront the darkness of your own past as you fight to save her soul. Battle demons with the Reaper’s scythe, wield holy powers, tame beasts, and more. Survive limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery and you shall be rewarded…with a confrontation with Lucifer himself. Abandon hope all ye who enter here!

Title: Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce
Publisher: Koei
Platform: PS3
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 2/17/2010
Overview:
The Dynasty Warriors franchise has always challenged one fighter to battle many. Now, you no longer have to fight alone! For the first time, up to four friends can fight the game’s massive battles together. With more people on the battlefield, you’ll need more room to move. So, in another first, characters have new supernatural abilities that let them streak through the skies and clash at high-altitudes. Coordinate moves with voice or text chat as you break into strongholds, fight entire armies, and more in over 200 total quests. Single-player mode gives you the option to team up with AI allies or do it all yourself.