By combining some of the concepts of Civilization with the general gameplay of Age of Empires, Big Huge Games has created a truly outstanding game.
In this virtual life game players communicate with a female robot via a microphone, and while the robot starts out with virtually no intellect, it can develop dramatically with the ...
The fiercely challenging space shooter comes to Xbox LIVE Arcade.
This mixed martial arts game has 100 fighters and a total of 500 moves that can be customized and edited.
Tao Feng looks and sounds just fine, but it doesn't have a strong enough fighting system to make it a viable option for fans of the genre.
Microsoft's Xbox Exhibition Volume 2 demo disk features nine playable demos, intense music, and new videos from G4.
While it's not the revolutionary title it initially promised to be, Freelancer delivers the exact combination of addictive and accessible gameplay that the genre has needed for a long time.
Kung Fu Chaos probably won't keep you occupied for long, especially if you're not playing it with a rowdy group of friends.
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball is a graphical showcase that makes for a pretty uneventful game.
Though the actual battles in Impossible Creatures aren't all that great, the game's offbeat premise, good looks, enjoyable campaign, and open-ended design make it both distinctive and recommendable.
Nightcaster II is a big step backward for the series in just about every respect.
With a $200 price tag and an occasionally punishing approach, Steel Battalion was clearly designed to scare off all but the most hard-core game players.
Asheron's Call 2 is a highly streamlined, highly accessible online RPG. Yet the world of Dereth seems bare for a number of reasons.
If you're going to buy one game with your Xbox Live starter kit, MechAssault is the one to get.
While it offers some impressive production values, it ultimately seems shallow and incomplete, and it won't hold any fighting game player's attention for long.
Mercenaries is the perfect stand-alone sequel: improved enough for hard-core players, yet accessible enough for novices.
Featuring lots of interesting, inventive design decisions, plenty of fun-to-use units, and tons of variety, Age of Mythology is the last real-time strategy game you'll need for a long time.
The extra options, especially the franchise mode, succeed in giving Inside Drive 2003 the longevity that Inside Drive 2002 lacked, and the refinements to the gameplay make it more entertaining.
Despite the game's flaws, it's still as addictive as ever, and you'll find yourself playing it for hours on end.
IMPORT: It's a polished game that serves as a showcase for the DC and the evolution of the RPG genre, and fans should definitely find a way to play it.
A multiplayer-focused space shooter in which players attempt to protect their home bases from black holes by attaching gravity orbs to them.
This Metal Slug-esque XNA game draws inspiration from the webcomic Little Gamers.
Proximity HD is an XNA strategy game played out with numbers that represent armies on a hexagonal grid.
This XNA dodgeball game features an array of power-ups that amp up the action.
This XNA game challenges players to use flowers to combat weeds and cultivate new varities.
Codename Kingdoms is the first Crytek-developed game for the Xbox 360.
Fans of Blade Runner can rejoice with the arrival of the hyper-colorful cyberpunk platformer, The Last Night.
Assume control of a human tribe and try to survive against simian and dinosaur foe in this Xbox-exclusive game.
The game mixes first-person shooting action with driving elements in one feature-rich package.
Piledriver is a 3D action-adventure game that is being designed specifically for the Xbox.
Fishing Live Online, which is set to be one of the first games for the Xbox Live service in Japan, will let players cooperate in realistic fishing challenges.
This online RPG will be one of first games for the Xbox Live service in Japan.
Previously known as Warcaster (working title), this project was reborn in 2002 after Tremor merged with New Systems under Microsoft. It was subsequently cancelled.
An online RPG steeped in Norse mythology was on the way from Microsoft ... until it met its very own Ragnarok.
This action game will challenge players to hunt and capture dinosaurs in the year 1910.
Microsoft is publishing a massively multiplayer online game featuring characters from the Marvel universe.
Peter Jackson was working on a new, unnamed Halo project via his Wingnut Interactive development company.
Milo is a voice-and-motion-recognition game from Lionhead Studios.
Pirate Mayhem is an arcade shooter game.
Runic Quest is a puzzle game in which you help an adventurer lost on a mysterious island face the dangers of a runic quest.
Obstacle course allows player to simulate the feeling of being at a summer camp.
For nostalgia buffs, these old games are worth your time and money, though you will miss the feel of the arcade controller.
It's a video game, it's a cartoon, it's a toy, it's a lunch box, and now it's a PC CD-ROM game.
A typical day at the beach: the sand under your feet, the roar of the surf... and the ripping sound of German machine guns as they cut your troops to ...
Atomic Games has managed to create the ideal sequel: It expands and adds many features while keeping everything that made the first game a joy to play.
If Microsoft and Pajitnov want to make us forget about Tetris, they're going to have to do a lot better than this.
Microsoft has proven itself fighting fit with a thorough retooling of the classic.
The strongest element of Combat Flight Simulator is the flight experience itself.
Revenge of Arcade's big problem is, surprisingly, the selection of games.
There are lots of missions and lots of branches so you can complete several missions in varying order, but all the missions end up playing the same.
If you've ever liked any other real-time strategy game in this classical style, then you'll clearly see why this one deserves so much credit.
Now that the Microsoft Golf series is no longer being developed by Access, it's really beginning to shine.
With its multitude of modes and good terrain graphics, this is pretty much everything you could hope for in a motocross simulation, and then some.
This is not quite the game you hoped for. Even worse, it has some definite problems.
Although its driving mechanics aren't terribly sophisticated, it can be a lot of fun because it affords you that very freedom that all driving games should but rarely deliver.
The problem isn't that the concept isn't good or that the game couldn't have been fun, it's that Access and Microsoft took a good idea and ran all of about ...
If you have the hardware to run it, this simulation really stands out.
It does a lot of things well and is a huge step up from the all-flash-and-no-substance gameplay of Full Court Press - and who can't love a $19.95 sticker price?
Its additional features are so unimpressive that there's not much reason for owners of the previous version to get excited.
Asheron's Call is a solid, well-rounded online role-playing experience that's at least as good as any other out there.
When it's happening, it looks and feels like real NFL football.
While the individual pieces may be a bit weak on their own, the overall experience is satisfying and worthwhile.
Its real-time strategy elements and its focus on cooperative piloting tactics are so central to its gameplay that Allegiance can be very challenging to learn, but it's well worth the ...
It doesn't stray too far from the formula, but it makes the logical progressions you would expect Nintendo to make.
The challenging breadth of the adventure, the richly detailed graphics, varied gameplay, killer sound, and multiplayer mode all fuse into one amazingly fun experience.
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