As a break from tradition from previous Rare games the gameplay is simple in design, utilizing the simple premise of moving through the game's mansion and completing the required 'beat em'up' challenges for each room. Such challenges include killing all the Ghoulies in a room, beating only a specified kind...

At a summer camp for up-and-coming psychics, a young boy with an unusually high level of psychic ability inexplicably shows up. The boy, named Raz, is allowed to stay at the camp until his father comes to pick him up, but his arrival coincides with very strange circumstances. Soon, evidence...

Manhunt is a stealth-based psychological horror video game with a third-person perspective. The game consists of twenty levels, and four bonus levels that can be unlocked; the levels are referred to as "scenes". Players survive the Scenes by dispatching enemy gang members known as "Hunters", occasionally with firearms but primarily...

Countless legends surround a sword known as Soul Edge. Some claim it was the ultimate weapon. Others refer to it as the "Sword of Heroes." ...A phantom sword with immeasurable power of the spirits... the key to eternal youth... treasure without equal... a panacea to cure all illness... There are...

Shaolin Monks is an action-adventure game that spans the events of Mortal Kombat II, starting with the aftermath of the first Mortal Kombat. The game centers on two members of the Shaolin Order, Liu Kang and Kung Lao, as they travel through the realms in an attempt to thwart Shang...

Mortal Kombat: Armageddon brags a roster of 62 characters and sees the return of classic ones from the original Mortal Kombat, such as Reptile, Shang Tsung and Goro. The enhanced Konquest mode (story/adventure mode) improves over the preceding versions, but has a shorter length. There are now 64 arenas (including...

Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance is a multi-platform updated version of the original MGS2 first released for the Xbox, then followed by PlayStation 2 and PC. The game contains the main Sons of Liberty game with some subtle alterations, as well as the inclusion of Boss Survival and Casting Theater...

A sequel to Far Cry Instincts, sharing the same name except for the addition of the subtitle Evolution, was released for the Xbox on March 27, 2006. Evolution includes a new single-player campaign, although it is considerably shorter than the campaign found in the original Far Cry Instincts. The storyline...

You're Jack Carver. This ain't your lucky day, you're trapped on a tropical island hunted by ruthless mercenaries. After escorting an inquisitive journalist, Jack Carver finds himself stranded in paradise. Want to survive? You'd better adapt. You'd better evolve. And you'd better fight. ● 7 vehicles and 17 weapons. ●...

Max Payne is a third-person shooter video game. The game features a gritty neo-noir style and uses graphic novel panels (with voice-overs) in place of animated cutscenes to narrate the game, as it draws inspiration from hard-boiled detective novels by authors like Mickey Spillane. The game contains many allusions to...

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a third-person shooter video game developed by Remedy Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Rockstar Vienna for the Xbox and PlayStation 2 and published by Rockstar Games. The game is a sequel to Max Payne and is followed by Max Payne 3....

Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller is the third game in the Crazy Taxi series, and was released for the Xbox and Microsoft Windows, with also an arcade release under the name Crazy Taxi: High Roller. Crazy Taxi 3 inherits the tradition of mini-games from the Crazy Taxi series. Crazy X...

Project Gotham Racing 2 (PGR2 for short) is a racing game for the Xbox, developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Microsoft. PGR2 is the sequel to the highly successful Project Gotham Racing. It is the second title in the Project Gotham Racing series. As in PGR, the route to...

Project Gotham Racing (PGR) is a racing game, the first in its series, developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox gaming console. PGR differs from most racing games in that winning a race does not necessarily mean the player advances to the next round;...

More than 500 years in the future, you and your partners embark on a search-and-rescue mission to piece together a spacecraft's mysterious reappearance after a 300-year absence. Armed with hyperspeed booster units and an arsenal of futuristic weaponry, you'll confront ferocious space mutations and evolved forms of dinosaur creations. On...

Magneto has unleashed his most diabolical plan ever. Now, as Earth falls under a shroud of darkness, X-Men Legends puts the fate of the world in your hands. Combine and customize teams of mutants through an epic series of battles to save mankind. X-Men Legends is played as an action...

Gunvalkyrie is an alternate history/science fiction video game. It takes place in 1906 when the British Empire rules all of Earth and several extrasolar colony worlds, powered by technology brought to the planet by Halley's Comet. The game itself follows members of an elite military force known as "Team Dolphin"...

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords (KotOR II) is a role-playing video game released for the Xbox and Microsoft Windows. The game takes place five years after the events of Knights of the Old Republic, in a time when the Jedi have been nearly...

Just Cause is an open world action-adventure video game. The fictional area explored during the game is described as being over 250,000 acres (1,012 km2; 391 sq mi) in size, with 21 story missions and over 300 side missions to complete. The core gameplay consists of elements of a third-person...

Fable is an action role-playing open world video game. The Lost Chapters features all the content found in the original Fable, as well as additional new content such as new monsters, weapons, alignment based spells, items, armor, towns, buildings, and expressions, as well as the ability to give children objects....

Fable is an action role-playing open world video game where players control their character from a third person perspective. The main character, known as the The Hero of Oakvale, can interact with people and objects as well as battle foes. The goal of Fable is to complete missions known as...

Counter-Strike is a tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation which originated from a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe. Counter-Strike pits a team of counter-terrorists against a team of terrorists in a series of rounds. Each round is won by either completing the...

Deus Ex: Invisible War is an action role-playing game. It is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Deus Ex. Invisible War takes place twenty years after Deus Ex, in a world being rebuilt after a catastrophic event called "The Collapse." Following a terrorist attack that destroys the city of Chicago,...

The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning is the first game in The Legend of Spyro trilogy, a reboot of the Spyro series. It was developed by Krome Studios for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Game Boy Advance systems and Amaze Entertainment with a separate version for the Nintendo...

Two years after versions on other platforms, the then-current consoles got their own adaptation of the first Harry Potter book and film. Like in the computer and PlayStation versions, Harry Potter's first year at school of magic Hogwarts is presented as a 3D action adventure title. After a tutorial at...