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]]> 16 Apr 2008 11:38:33 Bringing 5 new playable characters to the table, Otogi 2 built off of the general concept of the original game. Raikoh returned, joined by Seimei, Suetake, Kintoki, Sadamitsu, and Tsuna. Each character offered a different weapon and play style, as well as different abilities. Once again, the highly destructible environments made play exceptionally entertaining.

]]> 10 Feb 2007 02:14:44 The developers must have been obsessed with Magic: the Gathering, Soul Caliber, and Unreal Tournament. It's played from an over-the-shoulder camera in 1v1 or 2v2 matches. Player's freely run around large environments collecting resource balls and locking onto enemies. Each time is resource ball is collected it's like drawing a new card from a CCG deck. Player's always have 4 of these "cards" in hand - one mapped to each face button. Most are attacks, but some others are defensive or allow moves like super jumps.

Combat is all about locking onto an enemy and firing at them once they're in the optimal range for your spell. You also need to carefully time your defensive spells to counter their attacks and keep moving to find more orbs and refresh your spell pool. The environments are destructible so destroying the bridge under your enemy is a lot of fun.

Between battles the game is all about customizing your pool of spells and acquiring new spells. Like a CCG there's tons of combinations and strategies.

Multiplayer battles are supported on Xbox Live.

]]> 07 Feb 2007 02:20:09 Once upon a time...

Scratch that, this is no fairy tale.

Imagine a world where every choice and action determines what you become. Where you evolve in real time based on every little thing you do. Fable is an RPG action adventure unlike any you've ever dreamed of. And now more than ever - with extra quests, additional customization, and extended content - your destiny is yours to choose!

Evolve in Real Time - Your decisions make you a hero, villain, or anything in between. Your actions determine how you look and how others react to you.

Expanded Content - Discover additional regions, storylines, and side quests as well as new optional missions.

Fable is designed to offer pure, concentrated role-playing, with a primary emphasis on open character development and influential interaction with the game world. The game begins as the player's character enters the fantasy land of Albion, a growing, interactive environment that develops and changes with each new event. The character grows and changes as well, beginning the adventure as a youth but slowly aging as he or she lives life in Albion, gaining wrinkled skin, graying hair, and (hopefully) becoming quite elderly by the end of the story.

The game is designed such that every choice and action the character makes can have an effect on his or her development. Physically active characters become more fit, while those who spend their time studying the arcane arts may develop receding hairlines. Characters who spend time working in the hot sun will get a tan and individual wounds heal into distinct, telling scars. Less tangible characteristics mature according to behavior as well. Players are free to commit nearly any conceivable action, but acts of cruelty will lead to vilification by NPC townsfolk, while noble and altruistic deeds may inspire loyalty and adulation from the masses.

It is important to note that instead of focusing on a limited number of scripted "good versus evil" plot points, character development in this game occurs mostly through hundreds of minor day-to-day decisions that gradually come to define and refine the player's place in the game world. In short, !Xbox gamers are offered a virtual lifetime of choices to play through. Fable is developed by Big Blue Box, an affiliate of Lionhead Studios, whose popular Black White shares the theme of free-form, consequential character development over a broad span of time. (http://www.starpulse.com/Video_Games/Fable/Summary/)

]]> 24 Jan 2007 07:52:51 A strange land, home to the dark elves, is under siege from within. The evil Dagoth Ur strives to conquer all, and the Tribunal which protects the land are weakened and can no longer hold out against the onslaught. To Morrowind, to the island of Vvardenfall, you are sent, to do battle with Dagoth Ur and free the false gods of the Tribunal from their ancient folly.

]]> 09 Jan 2007 10:43:39 Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created. Oblivion is the latest chapter in the epic and highly successful Elder Scrolls saga and utilizes the latest PC and next-generation video game hardware to fully immerse you into the experience.

]]> 25 Nov 2006 06:28:05 It is Four Thousand years before the Galactic Empire and hundreds of Jedi Knights have fallen in battle against the ruthless Sith. As the last hope of the Jedi, you must lead a band of freedom fighters in an epic struggle to save the galaxy. Can you master the awesome power of the Force on your quest to save the Republic? Or will you fall to the lure of the dark side?
Hero or villain, savior or conqueror...you must choose wisely as you alone will determine the destiny of the entire galaxy!

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