Category: Sports

Title: EA Sports NBA Jam
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 11/18/2010
Overview:
High flying, rim-rocking, NBA action is back with the return of NBA Jam! The arcade classic is heating up for Xbox 360, bringing back basketball at its showboating best. Play as some of the NBA’s biggest stars in two-on-two dream matchups where a plain old two-handed dunk will get you booed off the court. Soar above the shot clock for alley-oops, windmills, 360s, and more. Hoop it up in two-on-two games, challenge modes like Backboard Smash, and one-on-one matchups against NBA legends. Gameplay gets an update with help from motion-capture technology, and the faces of your favorite NBA players have been re-created with photo-realistic accuracy.

Title: Brunswick Pro Bowling
Publisher: Crave
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 3/3/2011
Overview:

NOTE: This title requires the Kinect Sensor for gameplay. The Kinect Sensor is not included with rental or purchase of this title.
You know you’ve it made when life is so good you have a bowling alley in your house. For Xbox 360 owners, that dream comes home with Brunswick Pro Bowling! The good times roll any time you want with this realistic bowling experience designed for Xbox Kinect. Customize your bowler with professional-quality Brunswick shoes, balls, and clothes, and bowl in six authentic ten-pin environments. Choose the competition you want with different ways to play including Exhibitions, Tournaments, Leagues, mini-games, and more. And, like a real bowling alley, kids can get in the game with beginner-friendly bumper bowling.

Title: Major League Baseball 2K11
Publisher: Take Two
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 3/8/2011
Overview:
MLB 2K11 is ready to flash some serious leather. The baseball franchise spent the off-season refining its defensive game, adding a revamped fielding system to an already impressive roster of features. Play Gold Glove caliber defense with throwing meters that help you uncork the perfect throw and landing indicators that let you chase down that fly ball. Newly rebuilt player models look sharper than ever, and they perform just like their real-life counterparts with Dynamic Player Rankings that update daily. The battle between pitcher and hitter remains intense with the return of Total Control Pitching and Hitting, while the presentation stays fresh with details pulled from real Major League happenings.

Title: Top Spin 4
Publisher: Take Two
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 3/15/2011
Overview:
Top Spin returns for a fourth time, and the tennis franchise has brought a very special guest. Superstar Andre Agassi makes his first video game appearance in a decade in Top Spin 4! Choose from the deepest Top Spin roster yet and take the court with the best in the world. Dig in for grueling battles designed to deliver the same intensity of an epic boxing match. Each point is packed with remarkable detail, from the spin on the ball to the signature actions of your favorite players. Whether you’re playing online or off, you can improve by earning experience points or hiring coaches who help you develop specific skills.

Title: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 3/29/2011
Overview:
For the first time, you have a chance to experience the tradition unlike any other in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters. Play one of the most exclusive courses in the world in the most prestigious tournament on the PGA Tour as you compete at Augusta National. Earn a spot on the Tour in Road to the Masters, relive some of the most memorable moments in Masters history in Masters Moments, and enjoy network-style presentation with broadcasters Jim Nantz and David Feherty. Gameplay has been enhanced with a new Fast Golf option and the ability to save your round and continue later on.

Title: Skate 3
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 5/10/2010
Overview:
Skate 3 wants you to bring your friends along for the ride! The award-winning franchise has created a  new skater’s paradise, shaped it around a co-op experience, and provided all the tools you need to connect and conquer it. Form a team and tackle challenges together in the city of Port Carverton. Learn with on-screen guides, a trick analyzer, and customizable practice sessions in the new Skate School. Keep tabs on your teammates – and an eye on your rivals – with Skate Feed, an all-new social network designed to connect the Skate world. Create and share your Skate Reel or Skate Graphics, and use the new Skate Park to build your own skateboard playground.

Title: Backyard Sports Sandlot Sluggers
Publisher: Atari
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 5/25/2010
Overview:
Backyard Sports hits another home run with this arcade-style game that adds oddball to baseball. Join the Sandlot Sluggers for a combination of backyard ball and over-the-top play that is nothing but fun. Play on eight new fields with teams made up of entertaining neighborhood kids. Go for it all in Season Mode, become a backyard baseball hero in Story Mode, and play sandlot-style baseball mini-games. Give your bat some extra pop, put some extra mustard on that pitch, freeze defenders in blocks of ice, and more with wacky power ups. Each game is presented with fun commentary and graphics that deliver a big league feel while keeping things backyard-friendly.

Title: Backbreaker Football
Publisher: 505 Games
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 5/29/2010
Overview:
Backbreaker Football delivers maximum gridiron impact with hits that are not just meant to stop the ball – they’re meant to send you to the infirmary. Experience the power of football in its rawest form with play and presentation that unfold from a player’s perspective. Feel defenders closing in around you, shed would-be tacklers, and drill receivers unlucky enough to go up over the middle. Gameplay is built around a revolutionary engine that keeps the action as fresh as it is ferocious. Each play evolves in real time and you’ll never see the same tackle twice.

Title: Pure Futbol
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 6/4/2010
Overview:
Pure Futbol gives soccer fans more of what they want, tossing out the sideshow so you can experience the fierce competition and heated intensity of top-flight football. Pure Futbol’s presentation style puts you right on the field in the middle of the action. Forget about TV-style camera shots. Here, the action unfolds with over-the-shoulder, ground level, and other close-up camera angles, giving you nothing but pure soccer. Play five-on-five matches with your choice of 230 of the world’s top footballers, 17 top international teams, and 17 legendary squads. You can also take a custom player through Career Mode, play four-person local multiplayer, or tackle head-to-head matchups online.

Title: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 6/7/2010
Overview:

NOTE: This game requires an EA SPORTS Online Pass code to access online content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title. A 7-day online trial is available via your PSN ID while renting this title. For more information, please visit the EA SPORTS Online Pass site.
Tiger may be the biggest name, but you will need every golfer to bring his biggest game in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11. The 2010 edition of the premiere PGA franchise adds Ryder Cup and team-based play to its unrivaled golfing experience. The Ryder Cup pits a team of America’s best against Europe’s greatest in a battle for ultimate bragging rights. Tiger leads the Americans while Ireland’s Rory McIlroy lead the Europeans in a variety of Ryder Cup matches, including alternating-shot foursomes, fourballs, and head-to-head singles play. Team-based play heats up even more online, where teams of up to 12 players can compete in head-to-head matches.

Title: NCAA Football 11
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 7/12/2010
Overview:
NOTE: This game requires an EA SPORTS Online Pass code to access online content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title. A 7-day online trial is available via your Xbox LIVE gamertag while renting this title. For more information, please visit the EA SPORTS Online Pass site.

When it comes to capturing the true spirit of college football, NCAA Football 11 is the unanimous choice to top the poll. College football gets more realistic than ever with new additions including dual analog-stick control, gang tackles, and more. It all starts with the 120 Ways to Win feature, which lets you compete in the style of all 120 FBS schools. From Urban Meyer’s spread offense to Georgia Tech’s twist on the option, each team-specific playbook is designed to replicate just what you see on Saturday. Refined locomotion and smarter AI maneuvers create the most natural movement yet, while a full-blown ESPN presentation brings the entire game-day experience together.

Title: Little League World Series 2010
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 7/19/2010
Overview:
Step up to the plate for the biggest Little League World Series experience yet! The LLWS franchise debuts on Xbox 360 with a chance for you to become a hero on the most prominent Little League stage. But to get there, you’ll have to earn it. Top the standings after a 20-game season and earn a spot in the regional tournament. Compete with other league champs for a chance to play on the biggest stage of all: the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Compete in six baseball skill challenges for up to four players, and go online to see where you and your team stack up on the leaderboards.

Title: Madden NFL 11
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 8/9/2010
Overview:
NOTE: This game requires an EA SPORTS Online Pass code to access online content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title. A 7-day online trial is available via your Xbox LIVE gamertag while renting this title. For more information, please visit the EA SPORTS Online Pass site.

Drew Brees. Peyton Manning. Tom Brady. And now you. Experience football from the perspective of an NFL signal caller in Madden NFL 11. Every Sunday, each team devises a gameplan that gives them the best chance to win. Madden 11 challenges you to execute that plan. Instead of picking from 350 possible plays, you’ll be fed one play based on your team’s real-life tendencies in that situation. Games have been streamlined as well, with 60 minutes of football playing out in 30. You’ll also find new analog-stick controls, improved animations, more realistic locomotion, the ability to create your own gameplans, and a new play-by-play man with the debut of Gus Johnson.

Title: NHL 11
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 9/7/2010
Overview:
NOTE: This game requires an EA SPORTS Online Pass code to access online content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title. A 7-day online trial is available via your Xbox LIVE gamertag while renting this title. For more information, please visit the EA SPORTS Online Pass site.

NHL 11 delivers an incredible new physics engine and over 200 gameplay enhancements that will leave you as wide-eyed as a rookie hitting the pro ice for the first time. A new evolution in in-game physics creates true-to-life puck bounces and player reactions where anything can happen. Kick the puck after your stick shatters, make plays after you’ve been laid out on the ice, and more. Use a new face-off system, a new Hit Stick, and new dekes and hip checks. Be a Pro Mode now lets you start in the CHL junior leagues, and online play has been enhanced with championship ceremonies, a Practice Mode, and more. 

Title: FIFA Soccer 11
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 9/27/2010
Overview:
NOTE: This game requires an EA SPORTS Online Pass code to access online content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title. A 7-day online trial is available via your Xbox LIVE gamertag while renting this title. For more information, please visit the EA SPORTS Online Pass site.

FIFA 11 not only brings the game to life like never before, but gives you the option to bring it to life exactly how you want. With Personality+, each player will mirror how their real-life counterparts look and act, both with and without the ball. Improved passing physics add a realistic dose of unpredictable bounces, FIFA theater showcases your highlights, and custom chants and songs swirl around the pitch to bring the game to life. Take the game into your hands online, where you can use the web-based Creation Center to craft your own player. Choose his look and skills, then build a team, uniform, and stadium around him.

Title: NBA 2K11
Publisher: Take Two
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 10/4/2010
Overview:
The greatest player of all time meets one of the greatest NBA games as Michael Jordan returns in NBA 2K11. Experience unrivaled NBA action and play as His Airness for the first time on next-gen consoles. In MJ: Creating a Legend Mode, you’ll start as the rookie from North Carolina and shape Jordan’s career. But to reshape the life of a legend, you’ll have to relive it first. The only way to unlock Create a Legend Mode is to complete the Jordan Challenge, where you’ll play ten unforgettable games featuring Jordan’s signature moments. Gameplay features new IsoMotion dribble controls, the ability to adjust shots mid-air, a powerhouse soundtrack, and much more.

Title: Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
Publisher: Konami
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 10/18/2010
Overview:
Experience freedom to move, freedom to create, and freedom to play the beautiful game as it is meant to be played in Pro Evolution Soccer 2011. Anticipate runs by your teammates and pass the ball into space – any space – with enhanced 360-degree passing. New Shot Stamina meters monitor exactly how much power players have left, letting you gauge the chances of an accurate pass before you let it fly. Defenders no longer automatically chase nearby balls, instead reacting to the movements of the player in control. Add improved physics, new tackling styles, and 100 hours of motion-capture movements, and the beautiful game has never looked more realistic.

Title: EA Sports MMA
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 10/18/2010
Overview:
NOTE: This game requires an EA SPORTS Online Pass code to access online content. The Online Pass code is included with purchase, but not with rental of this title. A 7-day online trial is available via your Xbox LIVE gamertag while renting this title. For more information, please visit the EA SPORTS Online Pass site.

Find MMA stardom without ever setting foot in a gym with this MMA showdown that combines unflinching fighting action with a game-changing new online experience. Choose from leading MMA stars or create your own and fight across every discipline mixed martial arts has to offer. The action unfolds with the same announcers and presentation you see on TV. You can become a star online, where Live Broadcast gives you the chance to have your character featured on a live online fightcard broadcast to everyone with Internet access. Earn your shot at stardom by creating a character, then crafting a hype video that catches the eye of an EA Sports promoter.

Title: Backyard Sports Football: Rookie Rush
Publisher: Atari
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 10/22/2010
Overview:
Football? You bet. Pee Wee? Not a chance! Leave Pee Wee football in the rear-view mirror and get big-time action, right in the backyard with Backyard Sports Football: Rookie Rush. The neighborhood kids hit the gridiron for a combination of football fun and crazy arcade-style twists. Get your football fix on 12 neighborhood fields and unlock items to create your own backyard. Join Dmitri, Pablo, Joey, and other favorite Backyard Kids as they welcome a rookie to the neighborhood and try to build a winner in an all-new Story Mode. Use wacky power-ups like Deep Freeze and Banana Peels, work on skills in new mini-games, compete in tournaments, and more.

Title: Shaun White Skateboarding
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Sports
Release Date: 10/23/2010
Overview:
After wowing the world with his moves on the mountain, Shawn White ditches the snow and shows off some new tricks as the snowboard legend takes you skateboarding. Create as you skate by molding a dull, open-world city into a skateboard paradise. Transform benches into ramps, fountains into bowls, alleys into half-pipes, rails into nearly endless grinds, and more. Your creativity will earn points, win new gear, and open up new places to skate. Complete story-driven, objective-driven, and time-based challenges in your newly formed skate playground. Meet friends to build your own maps online, or skip the create and go straight to the skate in co-op and head-to-head multiplayer modes.