The zombie apocalypse. Be honest: You've thought about it. When most humans have been turned into shambling, flesh-hungry monsters, how will you fare? Whether you fancy yourself an intrepid survivor or an infected savage, Left 4 Dead is the game for you. Battling your way through the grim, desolate world is always tense and challenging, thanks to the unpredictable, relentless enemies. It's equally thrilling to play as one of the zombies (aka the infected), coordinating deadly ambushes as you try to kill the survivors. Nevertheless, Left 4 Dead's well-crafted gameplay simply must be experienced in multiplayer. Human teammates (or enemies) make each play-through dynamic, mitigating the game's two hang-ups: limited map selection and uninspired friendly AI. Despite these hitches, Left 4 Dead is a remarkably fun, excitingly tense game that will make you want to revisit the apocalypse again and again.
 

For the most part, the reaction to the last few Need for Speed games was the same: "Why aren't they more like Need for Speed Most Wanted?" "Where are the cheesy cutscenes and the over-the-top cop chases?" It seems as if EA heard those cries, because for better or for worse, Need for Speed Undercover feels like Most Wanted.

In Undercover you play the role of...wait for it...an undercover officer. Along with agent Chase Linh, played by the attractive Maggie Q, your job is to take down a group of street racers that have somehow become involved in an international smuggling ring. The story is told via campy cutscenes that fail to capture the charm of Most Wanted thanks to uninteresting characters and a predictable plot. Having a story provides incentive to make it through race after race, but the whole "this is cheesy so it's cool" thing feels kind of forced this time around.

ORIGIN........ PAL                                       °
   Þ     °  PLATFORM ..... PS2
   Þ     °  LANGUAGES .... EN GER
   Þ     °
   Þ     °  RELEASE DATE . 2008-11-05
   Þ     °  SIZES ........ 60 x 50M
   Þ     °  SOURCE........ DVD
   Þ     °
   Þ     °  GENRE ........ Wrestling
   Þ     °  PUBLISHER .... THQ

he #1 fighting  game  franchise  in the  world upholds  its
 Þ  commitment  to   providing   gamers  with   the   definitive
 Þ  simulation of live  WWE programming.  Featuring  added depth
 Þ  and realism,  along  with  a first-ever  co-op  story  mode,
 Þ  WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009  enables players to come together
 Þ  and experience the  virtual world of  the WWE. On  your own,
 Þ  you're great, but together, you're unstoppable.


 

Welcome to the future of sports video gaming with NHL 09. With all-new Be A
Pro mode, step onto the ice and play an entire career as yourself through a
dynamic camera angle in two compelling game modes. As a single player, earn
your own hockey card as you progress from the AHL to the NHL, or be the first
to play the first true console sports massive multiplayer online game, allowing
you to assemble a team with up to 50 friends in the new EA SPORTS Hockey League.
Playing with 11 live players online or storming the ice on your own, evolve your
game and have a legendary career with NHL 09.
 

Jackass: The Game Hands-On
MTV's crew of masochistic ne'er-do-wells are about to prove that in this day and age, anyone can have their own video game.

After three seasons, two motion pictures, and countless blows to the groin, MTV's Jackass is finally coming to video game consoles--namely the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable--with a new title that will let you act out a series of stunts just as brutal as those you've seen on TV. The story goes that director Jeff Tremaine was injured in a prank right before shooting on the new season was set to begin, so you'll have to come in and pick up directing duties to complete the seven episodes of the new season. That means you'll be happily abusing series mainstays like Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, and Wee Man to your heart's content through the 35 stunts that make up the seven virtual episodes contained here.

Each episode will have five stunts, and we got to see a handful of them. In San Fran Trash Can, you'll load your favorite jackass into a trash can and send him careening down the hills of San Francisco, with you guiding the trash can between--or into--various cars, pedestrians, and obstacles as you try to reach the finish line. Suburban Catapult had us loading a cast member into a giant slingshot strung between two trees and launching them across a quiet neighborhood and nearby construction site, just to see how much distance we could get with our human projectile. Golf Rally was all about jumping into a motorized cart and terrorizing a golf course, knocking down attendants and destroying the scenery as much as possible.

Basically, this is exactly the kind of stuff you'd expect to see in the show (though none of the show's specific stunts have been re-created here). A few of the stunts will fall into the "Wee Man games" category, and these naturally focus on Jackass's diminutive character of the same name. These will be simpler games than the primary stunts, and will involve things like Wee Man shooting a paintball gun at Johnny Knoxville, who's being rotated on a circular board by Chris Pontius. Of course, you can blast Pontius too, if you feel like it; this is just that kind of game.

The PS2's and PSP's scoring systems each work a little differently. On the PS2, you're trying to rack up a set amount of money (usually $500,000) by causing damage before you can move on to the next event. On the PSP, you're striving for a best-of-five-stars rating. In both cases, though, you'll have a list of specific objectives to meet that will net you big bonus points. In San Fran Trash Can, sample objectives included rolling safely under three trucks, finishing the plummet without hitting anything, or hitting a fire hydrant on the way down. Suburban Catapult tasked us with landing in a particular swimming pool, smashing through a glass house, or skidding more than 30 feet after initially hitting the ground (you wouldn't believe the rug burns). Some stunts will even let you bail out of your vehicle early, at which point you'll see every laceration and broken bone called out onscreen, along with the extra points you're getting for all that pain

The Jackass games will contain a good amount of extra content outside the main stunt mode. Since this game is based on a TV show, television-style replays are prominent. The director's mode will let you control the camera angles and other such production elements on your replay, and the PSP game will even let you upload your best replays or download other players' own stunts for greater comedic effect. There's a challenge mode that makes the stunts harder. The Jackass Mart lets you buy all kinds of crazy props to use in your stunts, not to mention new characters and costumes (such as Ryan Dunn's sewer costume and Pontius' Party Boy getup), plus galleries and movie clips from the series. Finally, there's a multiplayer mode, such as a four-player round-robin tournament to see who can get the highest score in a particular stunt, and the aptly named "ass-to-ass" two-player cooperative mode that lets you play a handful of the stunts in split-screen mode.

It seems as though Red Mile and MTV are putting a lot of effort into this one; all of the Jackass cast members have contributed their own voice acting, and motion capture was handled at Weta Digital, of Lord of the Rings fame. (Don't expect this one to win any Oscars, though.) Both versions of Jackass are scheduled to hit store shelves on September 25.

In the largest and deepest Tony Hawk game yet, gamers are now in total control of their skating destiny in Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground. Set in the streets of Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., the title empowers players with the freedom to define their character, story and style based on the choices they make, the paths they select and the style of skating they want. The game delivers deeper customization than ever before, including a full-featured video editor to create epic skate videos and a completely customizable online Skate Lounge, where players can skate with friends in the ultimate pad. Gamers also have the freedom to skate from single player to online seamlessly. Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground also features an arsenal of amazingly detailed Nail the Trick™ moves, and new gameplay mechanics like skateable terrain building and Bowl Carving to deliver the most personalized and immersive skating experience ever.

With NFL Street 3 you can play your style of football both on the ground and in the air in this newest iteration of the popular NFL STREET franchise. Show off your style and boost your score by performing stunning aerial moves, jumping into the air and collecting special items and game modifiers that hover above the playing field. You will also
have the ability to control your Gamebreaker and pull off new Power moves that are available to both the offense and the defense.