Spore Hero

Title: Spore Hero
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Wii
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 10/5/2009
Overview:
You’ve just crashed landed on an alien planet. And that’s the good news. An evil force followed you and is already spreading across the planet, wreaking havoc as it goes. Time to call in a Spore Hero! Create your own customized Spore Hero and embark on a perilous quest through a rich 3D world. The Spore Creature Creator makes an impressive debut on Wii, giving you a chance to create your hero from over 250 unique parts. Fight white-knuckle battles, solve puzzles, and push yourself to the limit on challenging missions. Find new parts and combos you can use to make your hero even better equipped to save the planet.

Biggest Loser

Title: Biggest Loser
Publisher: THQ
Platform: Wii
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 10/6/2009
Overview:
Win by losing in this fitness program based on the Biggest Loser weight-loss TV show. Map out your goals by setting a Fitness Program, then compete to be the Biggest Loser over a customized 4, 8, or 12-week program. Focus on any part of your body with pre-made Exercise Routines, or plan your own custom workout. Use the Health and Lifestyle Tool to find recipes that’ll make your mouth water (and help the pounds melt away). Compete against former BL contestants in Challenge Events or identify (and work on) your biggest weakness in Single Exercises. The game will help monitor progress, track calories, provide encouragement, and more. Let’s do this!

Jillian Michaels’ Fitness Ultimatum 2010

Title: Jillian Michaels’ Fitness Ultimatum 2010
Publisher: Majesco
Platform: Wii
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 10/7/2009
Overview:
Once Jillian Michaels gets her hands on you, she’s not letting go until you’re in shape! The 2010 boot-camp style workout from the star trainer features retooled Cardio, Strength, and Balance routines and new features geared toward getting you in shape. Map out your fitness goals for the next six months in Fitness Resolutions Mode. Score some one-on-one time with your muscle muse in Exercise with Jillian. Improved motion-tracking capabilities help you hone proper technique and pacing, and you can adjust your workouts to suit your own ability. To keep things fresh, you can train in exotic locations or challenge friends to multiplayer fitness competitions.

Hustle: Detroit Streets

Title: Hustle: Detroit Streets
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 4/27/2006
Overview:
You’re an unknown Detroit pool jockey, down on luck and out of money. Run the tables in nine unforgiving clubs and pool halls to earn cash, cred, and just plain save your life. Challenge 170 pool sharks who work their own schemes and angles with street-smart AI. Line your pockets by earning prize money, betting on matches (your own and others), wagering on shots, and working the hustle. Play single-player Story Mode or hit the felt on the Challenge Run, where you’ll face 189 different table-based tasks (like sink 12 balls in 10 shots). Once you’ve conquered the streets of Detroit, go online to seek out new marks in cyberspace.

Stacked with Daniel Negreanu

Title: Stacked with Daniel Negreanu
Publisher: South Peak Interactive
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 6/6/2006
Overview:
Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu, 2004’s best tournament poker player, stars in Stacked, the most sophisticated poker game on the planet. Play against exclusive Poki bots, AI opponents who recognize your tells, anticipate moves, and look for holes in your game. Know when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em by accessing over 1,000 tips from Negreanu’s seasoned poker mind with the touch of a button. Brush up on basics or refine strategy with 45 minutes of video tutorials. Customize a character and grow from amateur to championship level in Career Mode. Stacked’s multiplayer possibilities include games among a few buddies, massive thousand-player scrums, and Masters Tournaments against real poker pros.

Bass Pro Shops: Trophy Bass 2007

Title: Bass Pro Shops: Trophy Bass 2007
Publisher: Vivendi Universal
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 11/1/2006
Overview:
Try to hook the big one! Travel around the world to 12 different locations, and attempt to catch one of 11 different species of fish, all with artificial intelligence. Enter one of 20 tournaments and prove yourself to be the best in Tournament mode. Use one of 750 available, realistic lures to catch your fish. Control your rod to up the realism factor. The authentic underwater environments have been created with caustic effects, vegetation, and depth-of-light rays. Change views to see from the fisherman’s perspective – or even the fish’s! Then, when you’re ready, check out the real-life fishing guide for tips on how to take your skills into the real world!

Thrillville

Title: Thrillville
Publisher: LucasArts
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 11/17/2006
Overview:
It’s a life-long dream – your Uncle has left you in charge of his five theme parks! Take on ownership of the parks and build up to five new ones in over 120 missions. Wander around your parks at person-level, talking with your customers and making sure they’re happy (so they’ll spend more money!) and enjoying the rides. Play minigames and go on all the rides to make sure they’re thrilling enough. Build your park according to one of 15 themes, including “time warp,” the movies, and paradise. Create your coasters from a first-person, flying view – the computer will fill in the correct track piece.

The Sims 2

Title: The Sims 2
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 10/25/2005
Overview:
The Sims returns for another infectious life-simulation experience courtesy of Electronic Arts. Create your own cast of characters and shape their lives by building their homes, making their food, designing their clothes and launching their careers. Help them build a network of friends and outsmart their enemies. Your Sims will also develop memories, making relationships more complicated and fun! You can even play cooperatively with a friend in a new 2-player split-screen mode! Take your Sims as far as your dreams can go.

World Championship Poker 2

Title: World Championship Poker 2
Publisher: Crave
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 11/2/2005
Overview:
Shuffle up and deal! The World Championship Poker series returns with all the games you know and love. Texas Hold ‘Em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Low, 7-Card Stud, 7-Card Stud Hi-Low, Pineapple, 5-Card Draw, Razz, and Lowball. Create your character from scratch and play all over the world, from basements to Las Vegas card rooms. Limit variations are available for all game types. Read your competitors’ faces to tell if they’re bluffing. Develop your own skills to be better at telling the odds, forcing players to fold, or reading their play styles. Are you ready to go all-in?

World Series of Poker

Title: World Series of Poker
Publisher: Activision
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 9/1/2005
Overview:
7 Card Stud, Texas Hold ‘Em, Razz, Omaha. Poker in all its forms is here in the World Series of Poker, and XBox deals you right in on the action! Officially licensed and designed to mimic the experience of the real casino championship, WSOP lets you build your entire card-playing career by creating your player’s face and upgrading your clothes as the game progresses. Watch for tells and bluffs on your opponents’ faces in four different modes of play: Main Event, Career, Multiplayer, and Quick Play for instant action. The AI pits you against the pros as you feel the excitement of the high stakes tournament!

Heroes of the Pacific

Title: Heroes of the Pacific
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 9/28/2005
Overview:
To become one of the Heroes of the Pacific, you’ll have to make your mark on history by completing 26 missions based on World War II’s most famous air battles. Survive dogfights, execute defense patrols, rip off dive-bombing maneuvers, and more. The skies swarm with over 150 on-screen planes, each with its own AI and physics. Command 36 authentic planes, including every major U.S. and Japanese warbird, plus bonus fliers from Germany, the U.K., and the U.S.S.R. Win victories at Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, Midway, and the rest of the Pacific theater in six different game modes. Go online for head-to-head dogfights or co-op missions with up to eight friends or foes.

NTRA Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships

Title: NTRA Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships
Publisher: Bethesda
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 9/29/2005
Overview:
NTRA Breeders’ Cup delivers all the thrills of live horse racing! Compete at one of ten top North American tracks in Quick Race Mode. Day at the Races Mode puts you in the stands for an afternoon at the track. Own a stable and breed your own thoroughbreds in Career Mode. Win stakes races to unlock legendary steeds, then race against them in Challenge a Champion Mode. A dynamic weather system alters track conditions and race outcomes. The game also features TV-style coverage and a sophisticated wagering system that incorporates all the factors used by pro handicappers.

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.

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 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.

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.

Playboy: The Mansion

Title: Playboy: The Mansion
Publisher: Hip Interactive
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 1/26/2005
Overview:
Playboy: The Mansion blends state-of-the-art social simulation with traditional role-playing and empire-building gameplay. As Hugh Hefner, you build the Playboy Mansion and magazine into a dynamic cultural icon and powerful brand. Rub shoulders with stunning women and celebrities as you pursue the ultimate Playboy lifestyle. Grow famous and gain exclusive access to the Playboy Archives, including footage of the world-famous Playboy Mansion.

Dai Senryaku VII: Modern Military Tactics

Title: Dai Senryaku VII: Modern Military Tactics
Publisher: Kemco
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 2/17/2005
Overview:
Command an entire military force with the most modern technologies of war. Join the 3-D battlefield with Kemco’s Dai Senryaku and test your abilities against the unrelenting computer AI or challenge your friends to an all out battle. You’ll need to develop a strong strategy that factors in distance, terrain, firepower, and armor. Actions create reactions and how you respond will determine your success as a dominant force in the world of war simulation. Choose from over 400 vehicles, 160 maps, and if you don’t like the terrain, create your own with the map editor.

Worms Forts: Under Siege

Title: Worms Forts: Under Siege
Publisher: Sega
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 3/16/2005
Overview:
It’s worm versus worm and fortress versus fortress in Worms Forts: Under Siege. You’ll command a team of four fort-dwelling worms, building your castle as you go and defending against enemy attacks. Strategy is key, which you should keep in mind when building walls, citadels, and towers – while avoiding catapults, cannons, giant crossbows, bows and arrows, flaming oil, rocket launchers, artillery fire, air strikes, napalm…even nuclear strikes! In single-player mode, battle through 20 missions. Unlock new weapons, building materials, environments, and fort styles. Then take on up to four friends in Fort vs. Fort mode.

Myst IV: Revelation

Title: Myst IV: Revelation
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Strategy/Simulation
Release Date: 3/30/2005
Overview:
Ubisoft’s award-winning Myst returns to the Xbox with Myst IV: Revelation. A little girl disappears and her two brothers Sirrus and Achenar are suspected of the crime. You will set out to solve the crime but as you dig deeper, your investigation will lead you to understand the brothers’ motives, motives that will lead you to a “revelation.” The Xbox version of Revelation features improved menus, a better Help Map System, a faster interface, and an improved Zip Mode.