Category: RPG

Title: Sid Meier’s Pirates!
Publisher: Take Two
Platform: Xbox
Genre: RPG
Release Date: 7/12/2005
Overview:
Sid Meier’s classic adventures on the high seas returns! Trade and hunt for treasure, engage in awesome sea battles, assault port towns, and duel with dastardly enemies in Sid Meier’s Pirates. Pick your allegiance to Spain, England, France, or the Netherlands. Then pick your start date to set sail. Become a skilled swashbuckler or masterful navigator as you captain a ship in the Caribbean. As you sail the seas you will command a crew of seafaring heroes. Your name will travel across the waters among privateers and pirates. Rumor of your exploits will even reach back home to Europe where a game of empires depends on your brilliant adventures.

Title: Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes
Publisher: Microsoft
Platform: Xbox
Genre: RPG
Release Date: 9/21/2005
Overview:
Reestablish order in the Kingdom of Bersia and you’ll go down in history in this prequel to the 2004 hit, Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders. Set five years before The Crusaders, Heroes follows seven new characters through 50 new campaigns in the war that will decide the fate of all mortals. Each character has new skills and a distinct tie to the original Kingdom Under Fire storyline. Vanquish enemies on improved, more-epic-than-ever battlefields. Choose from several training modes or behold the impressive power of Custom Game Mode, which allows you to create almost any type of mission imaginable. Team with or battle against fellow knights online with Xbox Live.

Title: X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox
Genre: RPG
Release Date: 9/21/2005
Overview:
The evil Apocalypse has the Earth in his clutches, and the X-Men must join forces with the hated mutant Brotherhood in an uneasy alliance to try and defeat him. Create, customize, and control a team of four mutants from 16 different character choices. Defeat over 100 different enemies including Lady Deathstrike and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Play single player or cooperatively with friends. A more flexible fighting interface makes it easier to toggle through twice as many mutant powers on the fly. Explore five X-Men Headquarters this time, each with its own supporting cast of characters!

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.

Title: Jade Empire
Publisher: Microsoft
Platform: Xbox
Genre: RPG
Release Date: 4/12/2005
Overview:
Note: Limited Edition Bonus Disc not included with game rental.

We have seen countless incarnations of European-inspired fantasy RPGs. But no one has made a definitive East Asian fantasy RPG game. Jade Empire is that game. Always riding the cutting-edge, BioWare delves deep into the East, drawing on China’s rich mythologies and history for inspiration. Moving from this starting point, BioWare has created a vibrant world that breathes with imaginative new life. Enter and study under a master of the old ways. Learn ancient, forgotten martial arts and magic. From the Land of Howling Spirits to the Imperial City, uphold your master’s honor and become a legend. Journey East to the Jade Empire, another pitch-perfect RPG from the minds of Bioware.

Title: Digimon World 4
Publisher: Bandai
Platform: Xbox
Genre: RPG
Release Date: 6/2/2005
Overview:
Access to the Real World has been closed and it is up to the Digital Security Guard to restore order back to the Digital World! The Digimon are back for more digital adventures in Digimon World 4! Play as your favorite Digimon from the hit TV animation show using a new real-time battle system. Unlock Digivolved Digimon as you master your Digimon skills and techniques. Play single-player mode or play with up to four players in multiplayer mode.