Category: Strategy/Simulation

Title: Air Conflicts: Aces of World War II
Publisher: Graffiti Entertainment
Platform: PSP
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 4/11/2009
Overview:
Fly some of history’s greatest aircraft – and shoot down others – in this authentic World War II flight sim. Embark on 13 nonlinear combat campaigns filled with a whopping 240 individual missions. Survive dogfights, execute patrols, provide air support, pull off bombing runs, intercept enemy fighters, insert paratroopers, and more. Choose to fly for the U.S. Air Force, Royal Air Force, Red Army Air Force, or the German Luftwaffe. You’ll pilot 16 authentic aircraft, including the Spitfire, P-47 Thunderbolt, B-17 Flying Fortress, Avro Lancaster, Gloster Meteor, and other WW2-era warbirds. Your performance earns you authentic military medals and ranks. Up to eight flyers can engage in multiplayer missions.

Title: Combat Wings: The Great Battles of WW2
Publisher: City Interactive
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 6/23/2011
Overview:
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Title: Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
Publisher: Namco
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 12/31/2011
Overview:
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Title: The Sims 3
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 10/25/2010
Overview:
If you had a dollar for every Sim you could create in The Sims 3, you would be a millionaire! Create millions of Sims and enjoy remarkable freedom to shape their personalities and control their destinies. Make them nervous, romantic, loudmouthed, phobic, evil – it’s up to you! Decide if your Sims’ dreams will come true, then give them a lucky break – or an unfortunate turn of events – with new Karma Powers. Give a your Sim a place to call home and explore the living neighborhood around it. Complete challenges and unlock upgrades. Everything you create on your console can be seamlessly shared with the Sims world online.

Title: The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout
Publisher: THQ
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 11/3/2010
Overview:

NOTE: This title requires the Kinect Sensor for gameplay. The Kinect Sensor is not included with rental or purchase of this title.
Freedom to move leads to real results in this Xbox Kinect workout from the fitness experts on The Biggest Loser. Join trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels in a personalized training program that incorporates upper and lower body exercises, cardio routines, cardio-boxing, and yoga. Design your own workout from 125 exercises or choose from pre-designed routines like Boot Camp and Belly Buster. The built-in Body Analyzer will track your progress and help you see tangible results, while the Kinect Sensor lets you get feedback in real time. Count calories, record a video diary, and more. You’ll get encouragement from host Alison Sweeney and dozens of actual Biggest Loser contestants.

Title: Apache Air Assault
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 11/16/2010
Overview:
A vital cog in the military machine finally gets its moment in the first next-gen combat sim focused on helicopters. Apache Air Assault delivers a blend of real-life military simulation and fiery arcade action with help from one of the most powerful attack helicopters on the planet. Enter the world’s most combustible hot zones and fight terrorists on multi-stage missions in high-res areas built from real satellite photographs. Pilots looking for a quick explosion fix will find it in Arcade Mode, while combat-tested veterans will be pushed by the discipline required in Realistic Mode. Multiplayer offers a realistic Co-op Campaign Mode and a variety of action-packed online options.

Title: The History Channel: Great Battles – Medieval
Publisher: Maximum Family Games
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 3/17/2011
Overview:
Experience some of the most epic battles in human history as you journey to medieval times and fight against the backdrop of the Hundred Years’ War. Fight over 70 historically-accurate battles, including 26 from the Hundred Years’ War that raged between England and France in the 14th and 15th centuries. Command armies with over 40 units in historic conflicts like the Battle of Crecy and the Siege of Orleans. Deploy charging knights on horseback, French crossbowmen, English longbow archers, and more. You’re able to shape your own campaign by choosing when and where to fight on a free-form quest map.

Title: Field & Stream: Total Outdoorsman Challenge
Publisher: 505 Games
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 6/22/2010
Overview:
The hunt is on in this realistic hunting simulation. Learn and apply real-life techniques to hunt more than 30 big game, small game, predator, and game bird species. Listen for animal calls, check the ground for tracks, and use Scent Vision to spot prey. You must do all this while obeying the local rules and regulations of a particular area. If you prefer to break all the rules, try Free Hunt Mode where you can hunt down any animal without restrictions, regulation, or licenses. Or if you prefer a realistic experience, try Ultimate Hunt Mode where you will brave the wilderness using only your hunting and tracking skills.

Title: DarkStar One: Broken Alliance
Publisher: Kalypso
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 7/21/2010
Overview:
DarkStar One: Broken Alliance challenges you to solve a mystery on an adventure that’s as big as the universe itself. You are Kayron Jarvis, an upstart space adventurer who sets out to solve the mystery surrounding the death of his father. Explore a remarkably crafted and incredibly expansive 3D outer space world that spans 330 solar systems that are home to six alien races, each with unique architecture, technological abilities, and combat tactics. Forge alliances to trade for new technology, or take it by force. It’s just one of the choices you’ll make in an open-ended story where you’ll carve a path to fortune and glory and bring your enemies to justice. 

Title: Tom Clancy’s HAWX 2
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 9/4/2010
Overview:
Everything in HAWX 2 pushes the envelope: the aircraft you pilot, the weapons you deploy, even the technology used to make the images in the game itself. Join the most elite team of pilots in the world and fly missions that never happened in aircrafts that don’t exist. Pilot drones on recon missions, engage in fierce dogfights, and make crippling bombing runs. The futuristic Enhanced Reality System returns to help you target enemies, avoid threats, and harness the full power of your aircraft. And the ground below has again been created with images from GeoEye, one of the most advanced satellites in orbit!

Title: R.U.S.E.
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 9/4/2010
Overview:
Mind tops muscle in this real-time war strategy game where outfoxing your enemy is just as important as outgunning them. Become a master of deception in combat where recon, spying, and altering enemy intelligence are the keys to victory. Gather intel, strangle supply lines, and strike where your enemy is weak. Use codes, decoys, camouflage, and other tactics designed to mislead. Command soldiers, vehicles, and aircraft in a single-player campaign, or see if someone calls your bluff in eight-player skill-based skirmishes. Keep an eye on every detail with an exclusive engine that lets you effortlessly zoom in from high overhead and put yourself right in the heart of the battle.

Title: Rapala Pro Bass Fishing 2010
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 9/28/2010
Overview:
You have fished where the pros fish. You have used the gear the pros use. But no game has let you truly experience the pressure the pros face – until now! Fish against the best of the best in the first fishing game that features a professional tournament setup backed by a full TV presentation. Rapala Pro Bass Fishing 2010 sends you to North America’s best freshwater lakes where you’ll compete in 20 tournaments. Barry Brueland, the voice of InFisherman TV, calls the action from the starting line to the dramatic final weigh-in. Use the best gear in tournament play or over 50 fishing challenges for one or two players. 

Title: MySims SkyHeroes
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 9/28/2010
Overview:
Build a character, build a plane, then build a hero! It all comes together in this high-altitude MySims combat flight sim. In MySims SkyHeroes, your MySim starts off as an unknown pilot out to stop the evil Morcubus and his drone army from taking over. Bring down massive bosses, survive dogfights, make air raids, test yourself in speed challenges, and complete daring missions to turn your MySim into a decorated hero. Customize and upgrade your plane to improve its performance and fine-tune it for battle. Up to ten friends can fly together in split-screen co-op or head-to-head play.

Title: Bass Pro Shops: The Strike
Publisher: Psyclone
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 11/10/2009
Overview:
Bass Pro Shops: The Strike lures you in with the promise of biting fish. Then it hooks you with incredible visuals and ultimate realsim to deliver a perfect day at the lake! Fish ten of North America’s best lakes, all stocked with plenty of freshwater fish and one scale-busting legendary catch. Prove how well you know your stuff in tournaments and the Bass Pro Invitational, or drop a quick line in two fast-and-friendly party modes. Hit the Bass Pro Shop to grab the latest gear, then check your stats to see your favorite lures, heaviest catches, and more. You can fish with your normal controls or the new Fishing Rod peripheral.

Title: Chaotic: Shadow Warriors
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 11/17/2009
Overview:
You’ve battled for control in the Chaotic trading card game, now settle the score on the battlefield! Enter the world of Perim for an epic journey in this adventure based on the hit card game and TV series. Build and manage your army of Chaotic beasts and creatures in an all-out battle for tribal domination. Choose from 40 different creatures and outfit them with 30 types of battlegear. Send your opponents a message with 35 powerful mugic spells to unlock and master. Sharpen your strategy to come out on top in tactical single and multiplayer battles set in a richly developed 3D fantasy world.

Title: Blood Bowl
Publisher: South Peak Interactive
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 1/25/2010
Overview:
What do you get when you mix American football with the fantasy world of Warhammer? You get Blood Bowl! Form a team filled with Orcs, Wood Elves, Humans, Dwarfs, and other fantasy races, and prepare for real bone-crunching action. Two game modes offer two different takes on the same sport. The first is played in real-time as battles are waged on the field and the action continues down-pitch. The second faithfully recreates Warhammer’s turn-based strategy for the true enthusiast. Take your team online and create a league or challenge others to participate in online tournaments with official rankings.

Title: Tropico 3
Publisher: Kalypso
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 2/16/2010
Overview:
Elections? We don’t need no stinking elections! Through devious deeds, you’ve just become the leader of a small, strategically-important island nation. Now that you’re El Presidente, decide how to use your power in this Cold War era sim. Explore your island home, giving speeches to your people and muscling political opponents. Turn Tropico into a vacation paradise, build it into an industrial powerhouse, or rule with an iron fist and throw everyone you can round up in jail. You’ll experience events straight out of history as you fend off would-be revolutionaries and jostle with superpower nations who desperately want to get you out of office.

Title: Supreme Commander 2
Publisher: Square Enix
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 3/16/2010
Overview:
From the critical decisions that test your resolve to the monstrous war machines that roam the battlefields, there is nothing small about this real-time strategy sequel. Pick your side and lead your forces as commander of The United Earth Federation, Cybran Nation, or the Aeon Illuminate. Whether you play the 18-mission single-player storyline or take the fight online, you will battle on the largest possible scale and watch your decisions play out in real time. Upgrade armies and vehicles with new weapons and tech and send them straight into battle. New rendering technology delivers more explosive combat, while improved UI lets you focus on action and the most important strategy elements.

Title: Battlestations: Pacific
Publisher: Eidos
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 5/14/2009
Overview:
Man your battlestations again for two campaigns: one that retraces history, and one that reinvents it. This sequel to Battlestations: Midway is more epic and more explosive than the original. Fight 28 historic WW2 battles on both sides of the battle for the Pacific. Experience the American campaign from Midway to Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and beyond, or begin the Japanese “what-if” campaign at Pearl Harbor. Strategically plan your maneuvers in a giant open world, then launch large-scale assaults using air, sea, and undersea forces. Dive into the action and switch to any plane, ship, or sub anytime. Up to eight players and 100 units collide in massive multiplayer modes.

Title: Heroes Over Europe
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 9/14/2009
Overview:
You and your three best buddies are alone over the English Channel. You’re patrolling for a Nazi fleet which has held these waters for too long. Suddenly, out of the sun, 50 German fighters come screaming your direction! Fortunately for you, you’ve got bullet time and unlimited rockets. Pilot 40 different aircraft with the intuitive control scheme, including the Spitfire, Mustang, and the classic B-17. Get an enemy in your sights and fill your adrenaline meter to slow down time and target specific areas of the Nazi planes. Fly over authentic 1940’s Europe, become a real ace, and bomb your target to stop the enemy!