8th September 2006, 2006 World Series of Poker
Building on last year’s #1 poker title and the number one brand in poker, World Series of Poker®: Tournament of Champions takes a story-based approach as it puts players on the Circuit as a newly turned poker pro and under the wing of Chris “Jesus” Ferguson as his protégé. Players will test their skills against the world’s best poker pros in...
Genre: Sport Our score: 6.5
6th September 2006, 2006 Scramble
Scramble your fighter and take on the enemy base in this newly enhanced version of the arcade classic. The base is heavily guarded and you must guide your ship through five levels of enemy defenses before you can destroy your objective. Featuring brand-new graphics and sounds for Xbox 360™, take your skills online and challenge the new...
Genre: Shooter
3rd September 2006, 2006 Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged Volume 1
With six exciting games to choose from, Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged Volume 1 offers you a little bit of everything, from shoot-em-up action to a space station sim to puzzles to cards. Check out this sample of all the entertainment Xbox Live Arcade has to offer!
These six exciting Xbox Live® games are available offline for the first...
Genre: Shooter
1st September 2006, 2006 Assassin's Creed
Assassin’s Creed is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that will redefine the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin’s Creed merges technology, game design, theme, and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of...
Genre: Shooter
31st August 2006, 2006 Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
What if Winston Churchill had died on December 13, 1931 after he was struck by a cab while crossing 5th Ave. in New York, and wasn’t alive to rally the Allied forces to confront the Nazis? Turning Point™: Fall of Liberty uses this ‘what if’ idea to create a fast-paced Action/FPS game set in an alternate history where Winston Churchill is...
Genre: Shooter Our score: 3.8
31st August 2006, 2006 NBA '07
The most detailed and engaging NBA experience both on the court and behind the scenes is back again with NBA ’07 for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system. Picking up where last year’s game left off, NBA ’07 hits the hardwood with new features, enhanced gameplay, and a return to the immersive inside experience of life in the league by...
Genre: Sport
30th August 2006, 2006 Burnout 5
Burnout 5 gives players license to wreak havoc in Paradise City, the ultimate seamless racing battleground, with a massive infrastructure of traffic-heavy roads to abuse. Gone is the need to jump in and out of menus and aimlessly search for fun like many open world games; in Burnout 5, every inch of the world is built to deliver heart-stopping...
Genre: Driving
28th August 2006, 2006 Indiana Jones 2007
Indiana Jones returns for his most incredible interactive expedition ever. Set in 1939, this epic, original story -- written for the first time under the direction of George Lucas -- puts you in the fedora of the legendary adventure hero as he unravels the clues found in ancient artifacts spanning the globe. From San Francisco's Chinatown to the...
Genre: Adventure
27th August 2006, 2006 BOMBERMAN Act: Zero
Bomberman is reborn with a new look and a new attitude for the next generation. Deep within an experimental underground facility, humans are imprisoned as test subjects and trained to become soldiers. Equipped with armored battle suits, the subjects must fight for survival and eliminate each other to determine who will become the Ultimate Human...
Genre: Shooter
24th August 2006, 2006 FIFA 07
FIFA 07 delivers complete authenticity with licenses for all the world’s top leagues, including MLS and Mexican 1st Division in North America, and 26 others from over 20 nations. This year, you have the power to shape your club’s destiny in the EA SPORTS™ Interactive Leagues, a new online mode that enables you to pit your club against supporters...
Genre: Sport Our score: 7.2
23rd August 2006, 2006 Texas Hold 'em
Texas Hold 'em poker is the most realistic poker game around. Whether you're a beginner or a pro, enjoy the thrill of the perfect hand or the perfect bluff. Test your skills in ring games and tournaments, or fine-tune your skills playing the scenario you always wanted to be in.
Customize the game however you want. The comprehensive...
Genre: Simulator
21st August 2006, 2006 Battlefield: Bad Company
Battlefield: Bad Company is a completely new game which uses ”Frostbite”, DICE's in-house developed game engine.
Genre: Shooter Our score: 8.5
9th August 2006, 2006 Bullet Witch
Developed by Japan-based Cavia, Bullet Witch is set on a bleak planet earth in the year 2013 with human kind on the brink of extinction and hideous demons creating a tidal wave of destruction and havoc. All hope of mankind’s survival rests with Alicia, a witch blessed with magical skills and a swift trigger finger.
Genre: Shooter
8th August 2006, 2006 NBA Street
The fourth chapter in the multi-platinum selling NBA STREET series expands on the fast-paced and larger-than-life 3-on-3 basketball gameplay that has made the franchise a hit. The newest iteration of NBA STREET creates a hyper-real world that merges legendary courts with the hometown courts of your favorite NBA stars into one seamless city of...
Genre: Sport
2nd August 2006, 2006 Import Tuner Challenge
mport Tuner Challenge is an authentic and extremely customisable street-racing game that challenges racers to immerse themselves in Tokyo’s underground to take on the fastest street-racing teams. Players can modify and race licensed import sports cars using real tuner parts and tuning techniques. More than five million combinations are possible...
Genre: Driving
20th July 2006, 2006 Ricky Ponting International Cricket 2007
Ricky Ponting International Cricket 2007 will expand the series’ trademark fluid, dynamic gameplay mechanics to deliver a thoroughly entertaining and competitive game that captures all the tension, skill and intensity of world-class international cricket. The Ricky Ponting game engine has been brought into Codemasters Studios to benefit from a...
Genre: Sport
20th July 2006, 2006 Colin McRae: DIRT
Colin McRae: DIRT™ is set to be the most diverse and exhilarating off-road racing experience ever with sensational gravel, mud and dirt events the world over. Events will include the series’ intense point-to-point races and then take players further off-road than ever before.
Race in challenging heavyweight 850bhp cars, drifting on...
Genre: Driving Our score: 9.0
20th July 2006, 2006 World Snooker Championship 2007
World Snooker Championship 2007 boasts 104 of the World's best snooker players, with ten official tournaments all realistically modelled for the 2007 season. Can you take Shaun Murphy to another stunning World Championship win? Or will you be able to bring Ronnie O' Sullivan back to form at the table to regain his titles?
Genre: Sport
19th July 2006, 2006 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
Tiger Woods Comes Alive — See and feel every emotion in complete detail with the introduction of all-new Universal Capture (UCAP) technology. The world's No. 1 golfer seems so real you won't believe your eyes.
Play Under Pressure — With bigger galleries, mass crowd movement from hole to hole, and cheers from nearby greens, all eyes...
Genre: Sport Our score: 8.8
19th July 2006, 2006 Madden NFL 07
Madden NFL Football continues to stand out as the most popular football videogame franchise of all time with a combination of innovative new features and the most authentic football gameplay.
Genre: Sport
17th July 2006, 2006 Tony Hawk's Project 8
Reengineered from the ground up for Sony and Microsoft’s next-generation consoles, Tony Hawk’s Project 8™ immerses players in the definitive skateboarding experience using ultra-realistic graphics, enhanced physics and extremely responsive controls that simulate the feeling of skating with every trick and bail. The game challenges players to...
Genre: Sport Our score: 8.2
26th June 2006, 2006 Infernal
Dark Eaville is the best Special Agent, in service His Majesty Devil. Good and Evil secret agencies are in continuous and endless conflict on Earth since the act of human being creation. It's a fight for souls now and here. Agents of Good are up to something, something big. To stop them, Dark Eaville will snipe, sneak, chase enemies in his...
Genre: Shooter
26th June 2006, 2006 Cipher Complex
In Cipher Complex, a recon satellite is mysteriously blasted from orbit, and when diplomatic requests for information are stonewalled, the US government is forced to call in its last resort – Operative John Cipher. Charged with uncovering the truth by any means necessary, Cipher is going behind enemy lines to extract information the hard way.
Genre: Shooter
23rd June 2006, 2006 Need For Speed: Carbon
What starts in the city is settled in the canyons as Need for Speed Carbon immerses you into the world's most dangerous and adrenaline-filled form of street racing. You and your crew must race in an all-out war for the city, risking everything to take over your rivals' neighbourhoods one block at a time. As the police turn up the heat, the...
Genre: Driving
9th June 2006, 2006 Football Manager 2007
Feeder Clubs - Brand new to Football Managerä 2007, and one of the most requested features on Sports Interactive’s forums has been the addition of feeder clubs to the game. This new addition works in all the ways you would expect it to in real life. You can establish your club as the small team who receives loan players from a larger club or a...
Genre: Sport
26th May 2006, 2006 X-Men: The Official Movie Game
X-Men: The Official Movie Game (working title) immerses players in an original storyline that provides the back-story for the upcoming X-Men: The Last Stand feature film. For the first time ever, the game enables players to truly command the powers of popular characters from the X-Men movie universe by allowing players to assume the roles of...
Genre: Shooter Our score: 6.0
24th May 2006, 2006 NHL 2K7
The legacy lives on! NHL® 2K7 reigns supreme as the category leader in innovation, design and critical acclaim with 4 straight years as the #1 rated* NHL video game. 2K7 marks a 2nd year of next-generation domination with a groundbreaking presentation system and all-new controls, delivering yet another year of truly immersive and authentic NHL...
Genre: Sport
19th May 2006, 2006 Open Season
Open Season is a riotous romp in the great outdoors, where the rowdy brood of forest animals turns the tables on a bunch of unsuspecting hunters. When a domesticated grizzly named Boog gets lured into leaving the creature comforts of home by a fast-talking mule deer named Elliot, he finds himself lost in the woods just three days before hunting...
Genre: Adventure
18th May 2006, 2006 LMA Manager 2007
The PC edition of LMA Manager 2007 is a thorough evolution for the genre-leading series. Utilising a new game and database engine, a Transfer Market system with greater depth enabling more complex contract negotiations, and a detailed 3D match section, it’s set to be the most powerful edition in the series.
Genre: Sport
10th May 2006, 2006 Golden Axe: Beast Rider
Golden Axe delivers action-RPG thrills as a small band of Riders embark on an epic adventure to recruit allies, expose the enemy and prevent the annihilation of their breed. Delivering an intense and unique combat experience, players charge into battle on the backs of ferocious beasts or take their chances with the enemy while on foot. Fighting...
Genre: RPG
10th May 2006, 2006 Grand Theft Auto IV
Developed by Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto IV will be simultaneously available for Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system and PLAYSTATION3 computer entertainment system and will be in stores worldwide on April 29, 2008.
Genre: Shooter
10th May 2006, 2006 Crackdown
“Crackdown” pushes the action-driving hybrid genre into the next generation with the first ever truly 3-D playground. Gamers will enforce justice by any means necessary in Pacific City, a crime-ridden urban center built to encourage the exploration of the full width, depth and height of the city. Coupled with highly innovative co-op gameplay — a...
Genre: Driving Our score: 8.2
10th May 2006, 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog incorporates production values of Hollywood CG movies and combines them with next generation art, physics and game design to create the most intense sensation of speed ever experienced in videogames.
Genre: Adventure
9th May 2006, 2006 Forza Motorsport 2
“Forza Motorsport 2,” the sequel to Microsoft Game Studios’ award-winning, fully customizable driving simulator “Forza Motorsport,” speeds its way onto Xbox 360 this holiday. With authentic simulation physics, bone-jarring damage, photo-realistic graphics, and licensed tuning and customization options, the franchise improves on the unprecedented...
Genre: Driving Our score: 9.3
9th May 2006, 2006 Mass Effect
Players assume the role of an elite human Spectre agent, Commander Shepard, entrusted with keeping law and order in the galaxy. The player uncovers a threat so great it could destroy all life in the galaxy. As the only human Spectre, Commander Shepard’s job is complicated by the fact that no one will believe the word of a human, a race not fully...
Genre: RPG Our score: 9.0
9th May 2006, 2006 Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
In Lost Planet, human snow pirates navigate VS (Vital Suits) through hostile ice-covered environments, fighting against the indigenous Akrid creatures for the precious thermal energy they need to survive. For one such pilot named Wayne, death almost seemed imminent until he was fortunately rescued. However, he can only remember a few fragments...
Genre: Shooter Our score: 8.2
9th May 2006, 2006 Shadowrun
Shadowrun propels team-based combat into a new dimension with a revolutionary
blend of modern weaponry and ancient magic.
Up to 16 players battle for control of this new world through Windows Vista's Xbox
360-to-Windows Vista online compatibility. In Shadowrun, vie for supremacy
in a constantly evolving...
Genre: Shooter Our score: 5.3
5th May 2006, 2006 The Club
Join a misfit cast of killers forced to fight for their lives in an underground blood-sport controlled by faceless, obscenely wealthy and influential elite. Battling in abandoned locations spread across the globe these modern day gladiators with guns seek victory for a number of reasons - some for wealth, some because they have no choice and...
Genre: Shooter Our score: 7.8
5th May 2006, 2006 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent
Veteran agent Sam Fisher is back. But he's never faced an enemy like this before. To stop a devastating terrorist attack, he must infiltrate a vicious terrorist group and destroy it from within. For the first time ever, experience the relentless tension and gut-wrenching dilemmas of life as a double agent. As you infiltrate a terrorist...
Genre: Shooter
4th May 2006, 2006 The Outsider
Frontier's new 'next generation' game - "The Outsider” is a gripping, high-tech thriller played out against the backdrop of a living, crowded city based on present-day Washington DC and its environs including the CIA HQ at Langley, Andrews Air Force Base and Newport News Naval Dockyard. As a CIA operative the player has a mouth-watering arsenal...
Genre: Adventure
