Halo 3 (Heroic Map Pack)

Genre: FPS
Publisher: Microsoft
Developer: Bungie
Release Date: December 11, 2007

By now, odds are you've heard of the Heroic Map Pack for Halo 3 that Bungie is planning to bring out in less than a week's time. If not, here's the deal: Starved Halo 3 junkies will soon get the opportunity to play around with three brand-new maps. I went to Bungie last week for the sole purpose of bringing back the lowdown on these new battlegrounds. In a room full of with game journalists and Bungie designers (all manning 16 terminals), I ended up getting my butt kicked quite a bit, but I still came back with the info you crave.

• Halo 3 players will be able to enjoy three all new multiplayer maps on December 11 as part of the Heroic Map Pack, the first in a series of downloadable content from Bungie Studios to come via Xbox LIVE.
• Available for 800 Microsoft Points exclusively on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, each map presents a totally different play style.
• The symmetrical valley of Standoff, with its entrenched bases and fields of boulders is ideal for mid-sized objective and Slayer game types.
• The vast, labyrinthine passages of the Rat's Nest bring something completely new to the multiplayer experience: an indoor vehicle paradise. Strongly influenced by the Campaign mode, this map is ideal for big team battles.
• Foundry is the ultimate Forge map. Players can edit every single object in this voluminous industrial warehouse, placing stairways, walls, bridges, and tunnels to create an entirely new play space and build almost any kind of map imaginable

source:xbox

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus (PSP)

Genre: Action/Online
Publisher: Konami
Developer: Kojima Productions
Release Date: November 13, 2007

In this portable multiplayer experience (a stand-alone "expansion" on the content from the original Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, sold separately), players will enjoy more maps and missions, plus recruit a crew of battle-hardened warriors for combat against real opponents in online arenas.

Portable Ops + includes a new single player mode, "Infinity Mission," in which players must advance from start to finish through increasingly difficult stages, gathering weapons and recruiting high-level comrades to build up their units. Additional multiplayer modes such as the Shooting Range to test player's shooting skills in a deathmatch environment and a Training Mode to practice and sharpen their game controls will challenge even the most experienced tactical fighters. Using saved data from the original Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, players can create instant squads for battle.

source:IGN

Avatar: The Last Airbender — The Burning Earth

Genre: Action
Publisher: THQ
Developer: THQ Australia
Release Date: November 12, 2007

Avatar: The Last Airbender — The Burning EarthAvatar: The Legend of Aang — The Burning Earth in Europe) is a video game for (known as Xbox 360, Wii, PS2, Nintedo DS, Game Boy Advance and based on the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. It is a sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbende .

Based on the popular Avatar: The Last Airbender animated series, Avatar: The Burning Earth continues the epic adventure of Aang and his courageous battle to restore balance to his war-torn world. Join him and his friends Katara, Toph, and Sokka as they master their skills and fight their way to defend the greatest Earth Kingdom city against a Fire Nation invasion!

source:IGN

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga

Developer: Traveller's Tales

Publisher:Lucas Arts

Release Date(s):

• USA: November 6, 2007
• EUR: November 9, 2007
• JPN: TBA
• AUS: November, 2007

Genre(s): Action/Adventure

Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga is a videogameTraveller's Tales published by LucasArts. It is based on the Star Wars-themed toy line by the Lego Group, and is a combination of the highly successful Lego Star Wars: The video Game and its sequel Lego Star Wars II: The original Trilogy. developed by

From the Trade Federation's "negotiations" with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace to the space battle above Endor in Return of the Jedi, The Complete Saga allows players to kick some brick through 36 Story Mode levels, including Episode II's newly added high-speed pursuit of bounty hunter Zam Wessell. Traveller’s Tales has revamped levels from the original LEGO Star Wars to match the gameplay evolutions found in LEGO Star Wars II, and Prequel Trilogy characters can now be mixed and matched with those from the Original Trilogy – more than 160 in all.

source: metacritic

Rocketmen: Axis of Evil(Xbox 360/PS3)

Genre: Arcade Shooter
Publisher: Capcom
Developer: A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. Games
Release Date: November 2007

Rocketmen: Axis of Evil is a downloadable videogame for the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Arcade. WizKids' popular constructible strategy game comes to the videogame world with Rocketmen: Axis of Evil. In this arcade shooter, players will join the heroes of the Alliance of Free Planets in their white-knuckled, frenzied struggle to free the Solar System. Up to four players will be able to cooperatively shoot their way through multiple levels, powering up their weapons, picking up bonuses and laying waste to anything that moves.

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Battlestar Galactica

Genre: Sci-Fi Shooter
Publisher: Sierra Online
Developer: Auran
Release Date: October 24, 2007

Battlestar Galactica is a videogame developed by Auran and published by Sierra Online for Xbox Live Arcade and Windows PC.

The story is set during a critical time for the human colonists as the war against the Cylons is coming to close. Adama has recently been assigned to the Galactica as a pilot and gamers play through the events that will shape the man who will later be Commander Adama, the captain of the last Battlestar leading a ragtag fleet of humans to their fabled homeworld called Earth. The game, developed by Warthog, is based on the 2003 Sci-Fi channel miniseries.

Play Sequence

Turns consist of three phases, with all players working through each phase before moving onto the next phase. The phases are defined as follows:

1. Ready Phase - During the ready phase, players ready and restore existing cards, draw two new cards, and may then play a card as a supply card or asset.

2. Execution Phase - Players alternate playing a card, playing an ability, challenging, or resolving a mission. When both players have passed consecutively, the phase ends.

3. Cylon Phase - If the Cylon threat level of the face-up alert and reserve cards exceeds the fleet defense level, the Cylons attack. When this occurs, each player reveals a Cylon threat, and each player must then challenge a threat or pass (losing one influence) until no threats remain or everyone has passed.

The player who goes first in all situations is the player with the lowest current influence at the start of the current phase.

Card Type:

• Bases - Cards which are not part of the main play deck. Each player reveals a base card at the start of the game, and this card determines a number of factors, including starting hand size and influence.

• Events - Events which have an immediate effect on the game.

• Personnel - Individuals or characters from the universe of Battlestar Galactica.

• Missions - A task or mission which a player's fleet can attempt. Players typically resolve missions by meeting the mission requirements using face-up alert units.

• Ships - Space-going vessels or ships from Battlestar Galactica.

Feature:

• Battlestar Galactica features 10 single-player missions, each of which are based on genuine episodes from seasons one to three of the television show.
• The multiplayer supports up to eight people on Xbox Live Arcade and 16 on PC-based gaming. All of your favorite multiplayer game types are in as well, from standard deathmatch and team deathmatch to Domination.
• Battlestar Galactica is focused on pick-up-and-play gameplay.

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source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_(video_game),http://www.worthplaying.com/

TimeShift

Genre: Action
Publisher: Sierra Entertainment
Developer: Saber Interactive
Release Date: October 30, 2007

TimeShift is an upcoming sci-fi, first person shooter from Vivendi Games for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, developed by Saber Interactive.

Game Story:

TimeShift places you in the shoe of a nameless scientist working on time travel project for the government. As the project nears a completion, one of the other scientists, who goes by the friendly name of Krone, steals the prototype Alpha Suit, which grants it weather the ability to perform uncontrolled time travel. He goes on murdering spree, kills every other scientist on the project and plants a bomb to eliminate any trace of his actions. The only hope for survival lies in the Beta Suit, which teleports from the laboratory moments before Krone's bomb obliterates it. Unfortunately, being a time travel suit, it sends you backwards after Krone into a twisted alternate timeline where Krone, using the power of the suit and his own advanced technology, has taken over the world. Your character is quickly drafted by the resistance forces, who hope to stop Krone before his monkeying with time becomes irreversible.

TimeShift empowers players with the gift of time manipulation, including the ability to slow down, stop and rewind the world around them, allowing them to move freely while opponents and game objects are frozen in time. Featuring complex time control puzzles as an integral part of gameplay, TimeShift takes first-person action games in an entirely new direction.

source:http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=46822

Hellgate:London

Genre: Role-Playing
Publisher: EA Games
Developer: Flagship Studios
Release Date: October 31, 2007

Hellgate: London is an RPG set in the immersive first-person shooter. With a completely randomized world that offers a unique experience every time you play, Hellgate: London introduces a demon-ridden place where the last survivors of the human race must meld science and magic to survive. Gameplay is based heavily on the character's stats. Hellgate: London is an obvious successor to Diablo.

Game Story:

According to legend, when the ravens depart the Tower of London, it will crumble to rubble and disaster will befall England. As man became more dependent on science, believing only in what he could define or create, ancient knowledge and rituals were lost to the antiquity of time.

The Classes of the game:

The Templar, a secret society preserving the rites of the original Knights Templar, mix futuristic technology with ancient artifacts to create powerful weapons and armor perfect for short-ranged and melee attacks.

The Cabalists are students of the dark arts and edges of science which often leaves them standing right on the line between good and evil. Their mystifying spells make them suited for mid-range combat.

The Hunters are mysterious, highly trained ex-military operatives who lay waste to their foes with hyper-advanced weapons that blend theoretical science and the latest in technology – and their bullets can come from almost any distance.

HellGate: London delivers an amazing gaming experience to PC gamers of all types – delivering the eye-popping DX10 visuals demanded by the hardcore, and scaling to ensure the masses of casual RPG players can still get the best performance on older PCs.

Key Features

• The RPG Authority – Flagship Studios was founded by the core creators of Diablo, one of the biggest PC gaming franchises in history with over 13 million units sold worldwide – they are the first, last and only voice in the world of action RPGs.

• Beyond RPG – Experience new layers to the traditional hack-and-slash forumla by experiencing the action RPG from the first-person perspective and through nontraditional character classes and playstyles.

• Have it your way - Three unique factions with their own visual and gameplay style, offering something for every type of gamer, whether they prefer the longer-range blasts of the Hunter or want to get up close and personal with the Templar.

• Infinite Replayability – Dynamically generated levels, chance events and massive quantities of randomly created items makes for infinite replayability -- no two experiences will ever be the same and every game will be it’s own unique event.

• Mad Skills – Each faction has two character classes that contain a wide variety of skills and spells that are fully customizable.

• London Calling – Explore post-apocalyptic London, even darker and gloomier than usual. From shattered cathedrals and landmarks to the ancient ruins buried beneath the shell of a once-great city, players will need to scour all of London in search of the unknown.

• Misery Loves Company – Don’t be a glory hog – fight online. Gather with friends or recruit strangers in Underground stations and venture out into mean streets of London together to erase the Demonic threat.

• Hell Never Looked Better – HellGate: London features all of the latest next-generation technology to deliver a true, DX10 experience, while being fully scalable for optimal performance on older PCs.

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source:www.hellgatelondon.com