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NBA 2K9 - PC (E) The undisputed NBA franchise is back for its 10th season. Last year NBA 2K8 was the top selling basketball game on Xbox 360, and the NBA 2K series has been the #1 rated NBA simulation for six years running across all platforms. NBA 2K9 is for gamers and basketball fans everywhere who want to play the most fun, stylistic, and feature-rich NBA simulation on the market. With wholesale improvement across the board—from gameplay to graphics, presentation and online features—NBA 2K9 is the complete package and is poised to remain the category leader in next-gen sports gaming. Release Date:Mon, 20 Oct 2008 gamecrazy.com |
Shellshock 2: Blood Trails - Xbox 360 (M) ShellShock 2: Blood Trails is a violent, first-person, survival horror game set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Gameplay centers on the use of psychological horror and fear, relying on the power of suggestion, mood, tension and foreshadowing—implying the notion of danger, potential danger, imminent danger, and horrifying acts that have or are implied to have occurred or will come to pass. On course for war torn Vietnam, a plane carrying a top-secret cargo known only as Whiteknight is lost over the uncharted jungles of Cambodia. The special ops squad sent in to retrieve it disappear wtihout trace. Until, a month later, one of them walks out. Something in the darkness has driven him insane... Somehting from the darkness has followed him out...Psychological Horror: Gameplay simulates the perceptual effects of fear, drugs and your shell-shocked state due to combat. Experience the true chaos, horror and disorientation of the Vietnam War.Survive Vietnam: Every shot counts, and every bullet is precious. Fight off fear and push forward not knowing what unspeakable horror could be waiting to claim your life.Fight a cunning and elusive enemy that takes every advantage of everything at their disposal. Napalm attacks, intricate tunnel systems and vicious homemade traps—cruel, violent and unfiltered war.Infected Enemies: Fight the victims of Whiteknight—an enemy that has no side, one who is brutal, insane and ready to rip you to shreds. Release Date:Tue, 24 Feb 2009 gamecrazy.com |
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - DS (E) What the world needs is a hero. And in the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs video game, you can play as Flint, hero-inventor of the action-packed movie who creates a machine that causes food to rain from the sky. When the machine spirals out of control and creates a mess of gigantic portions, it’s up to you to save the world by using every vehicle and crazy gadget Flint has invented to save his hometown and the world from a food-tastrophe! Hurl hamburgers, sling spaghetti, and fight gummi bears with Flint and his pet monkey Steve to save the world! Release Date:Tue, 15 Sep 2009 gamecrazy.com |
MLB 10: The Show - PS2 (RP) Widely considered the most authentic baseball game available, MLB 10: The Show is set again to provide fans with the best baseball experience this console generation with even more features and modes destine to quicken the heart, raise the stakes, and hurl you further into a true MLB baseball experience. Holding more than 81% market share on the PS3 system, more than 70% market share across all PlayStation platforms, and the #1 selling baseball franchise in video game history, The Show is proving once again to be the industry’s premier licensed Major League Baseball (MLB) game, both critically and commercially. The long awaited Home Run Derby leads the deep features list in MLB 10 The Show for PS3. Fully implemented in the season modes and available as a stand alone feature, Home Run Derby follows the current MLB rules and flow. The MLB All-Star Futures Game will also be available within season modes in its correct timeframe (just before the Home Run Derby), as well as fully functional online leagues. Additional new features for the PS3 game include "Catcher Mode," the ability to call the game as the catcher, select pitches, and be the ultimate field general, just like Joe Mauer. MLB 10: The Show will also offer daytime transitional lighting, a newly added "Movie Maker" menu giving the user the ability to select multiple replays to add to and edit a single movie, and 11 new stadiums. Five new Minor League stadiums will be introduced, as well as a selection of classic parks available on the PS3 for the first time including Forbes Field, Crosley Field, The Polo Grounds, Shibe Park, Sportsman Park, and Griffith Stadium. Release Date:Tue, 02 Mar 2010 gamecrazy.com |