Combat As Real As It Gets
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising offers a shooter that is more like a military simulation. Whether or not gamers will embrace this concept is up for debate.
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A Better Beatdown
WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2010 improves the series in a lot of ways from easier to use controls to realistic damage when you smack the senses out of your opponents.
Fantastic Fierce Fighting
Tekken 6 continues the glorious fighting tradition that the other games in the series offered, and does it for the first time on the Xbox 360 as well as the PS3, with 42 fighters ready at startup.
A Killer Game
Assassin’s Creed II is everything the first game should have been and more. Gone is all the repetitive grinding, replaced with a deep storyline and white-hot assassination action.
Indy Returns Again
Actually there is no need to fight over the new LEGO Indiana Smith 2: The Adventure Continues game, with an innovative split screen mode that lets multiple people play, and spread out within a level too.
A Frustrating Ride
Tony Hawk: Ride features an innovative skateboard controller, but for $120, it offers more frustration than thrills for the average player finding it under their tree.
A Pop Sensation
Band Hero has all the whistles and bells of Guitar Hero 5, but puts the focus on pop music like that played by Taylor Smith, Maroon 5, The Go-Go’s and The Jackson 5. If that’s your type of tunes, Band Hero is for you.
A Grim Fairytale
Fairytale Fights uses blood and gore to try and hook an adult audience into a cartoon fighting game. But beyond a lot of very sadistic red splattering, there isn’t too much to hold anyone’s interest.
A PS3 Powerhouse
PS3 players rejoice, because Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is practically the perfect blend of action, puzzle solving and shooting. And it has a fantastic plot coupled with great voice action. This PS3 exclusive completely rocks.
Roll Em' If You Got Em'
Katamari Forever offers an exclusive PS3 title that pushes the limits of normal gameplay. You will either love or hate this oddball game, but we are guessing probably love.