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Games

Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil

Title: Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/5/2005
Overview:
Prepare to return to Hell! Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil picks up two years after Doom 3, when one of your Marine buddies makes the mistake of touching a mysterious alien artifact. He reopens the doorway to Hell and paves the road for a bunch of the baddies living there. It’s up to you to stop them and seal the door, permanently. New weapons and abilities keep the combat fresh. All-new multiplayer maps give new battlegrounds for online matches. Ultimate Doom, Doom II, and Master Levels for Doom II are included out-of-the-box, so you can see the evolution of a classic FPS all on one disc!

Worms 4: Mayhem

Title: Worms 4: Mayhem
Publisher: Majesco
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 10/5/2005
Overview:
The comic crawlers in Worms 4: Mayhem are lovable, customizable, and totally destroyable! The latest installment of the highly addictive Worms series lets you blow ’em up in five themed worlds: Jurassic, Camelot, Arabian, Construction, and Wild West. Pretty much everything you see in the expanded 3D environments can be obliterated. You’ve got plenty of weapons to help do it, including bazookas, homing missiles, poison arrows, grenades, banana bombs, and even sheep and old ladies. Twenty-five single-player missions go beyond the usual day-to-day business of destroying worms by challenging you to recover items or smash scenery. Multiplayer offers those same 25 missions plus 20 more maps to blow up.

FIFA Soccer 06

Title: FIFA Soccer 06
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 10/5/2005
Overview:
Become more GOOOOOOAAAAAAL oriented with FIFA 06. Dictate pace and player performance through on-the-fly strategy shifts with tactical button configurations. Control players with pinpoint accuracy as you shoot, pass, trap, and tackle like a world-class footballer. Create a superstar and customize play to fit your style. Choose from a dizzying array of officially licensed clubs, stadiums, and players. Create eight-player round robins in the all new FIFA lounge. Get updated rosters and more online. The most full-featured management mode yet puts you in control of sponsors, transfers, and signings for 15 years in the search for the ultimate 11. As for your search for the ultimate soccer experience? It ends with FIFA Soccer 06.

Cold War

Title: Cold War
Publisher: Dreamcatcher
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/6/2005
Overview:
You’re a freelance journalist on the run and fighting for your life behind the Iron Curtain. Dispatched to the U.S.S.R. at the height of the Cold War for a routine story, you’ve been inexplicably stripped of all possessions, beaten, locked in a KGB prison, and plunged into a conspiracy that threatens to seize Soviet power. The non-linear storyline of this single-player FPS travels through real-life locations and features missions based on actual events. Use recovered weapons and improvised gadgets against enemy forces working with deadly AI. Overcome or evade, just choose wisely. One wrong move and you could wind up banished to a Siberian prison camp, or worse…dead!

Conflict: Global Terror

Title: Conflict: Global Terror
Publisher: Take Two
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/6/2005
Overview:
The fourth installment of the best-selling Conflict franchise reunites the four original heroes from the Desert Storm series against a relentless new enemy. You’re the head of an elite, rapid-response Special Forces unit that could be called into action anytime and dropped behind enemy lines anywhere in the world. Use counter-insurgency techniques to defeat a group of right-wing neo-Nazi terrorists. Seek out the radicals with anti-terrorism and special-ops training. Bring down cells in Columbia, South Korea, and the Philippines. Command four different operatives with Conflict’s trademark intuitive squad controls. Enhancements for this edition include lifelike physics, enemies with AI developed by real-life military specialists, and online play.

Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie’s Revenge

Title: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie’s Revenge
Publisher: Buena Vista Games
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/10/2005
Overview:
Jack Skellington returns to battle his nemesis, Oogie Boogie, in this dark and quirky action-adventure. The evil Oogie Boogie is out to kidnap all the holiday leaders and make himself ruler of all. Fight through 25 whimsical levels and not-your-usual showdowns that include musical battles. You’re armed with the devastating “Soul Robber.” Collect the souls of your enemies and exchange them for new weapons and other upgrades. Morph into Santa Jack and the Pumpkin King to use different attacks and additional abilities. Created in conjunction with Burton himself, Oogie’s Revenge uses voice casting straight out of the film and an eerie musical score to deliver a cinematic gaming experience.

Codename: Kids Next Door – Operation Videogame

Title: Codename: Kids Next Door – Operation Videogame
Publisher: Globalstar
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Action Adventure
Release Date: 10/11/2005
Overview:
Kids unite! In the cartoon Kids Next Door, five upstart ten-year-olds have joined forces to free kids from the oppressive rule of adults. In this game based on the TV show, you can play as your favorite Kid Next Door and battle through 14 levels. You’ll need your character’s unique talents and strengths to defeat your enemies and carry out your mission. Tangle with bad guys from the show including Stickybeard, Common Cold, Gramma Stuffum, and the Toiletnator. Wield trademark Kids Next Door weapons including the G.U.M.Z.O.O.K.A., the S.P.L.A.N.K.E.R., the S.C.A.M.P.P. and the F.R.A.P.P.E. Drive the Kids Next Door C.O.O.L.B.U.S. and seek out “Powuh Up” goodies that deliver maximum impact.

Serious Sam II

Title: Serious Sam II
Publisher: Take Two
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Shooter
Release Date: 10/11/2005
Overview:
Square-jawed gunner, Serious Sam, returns with more intense, over-the-top action in this frantic sequel to the popular first-person shooter. Mow down 45 new enemies as you machine-gun your way through 40 levels in 7 environments, including jungles, tundra, swamps, and futuristic cities. Serious Sam II continues the original’s knack for creating original enemy creatures that, while evil, pack laugh-out-loud wacky personalities. Powered by the custom Serious 2 engine, the graphics, environments, and physics are 100 times more intricate than those seen in the original. Climb the backs of rideable animals or hop aboard combat vehicles to wreak even more havoc. The explosive antics continue online.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.