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Offroad racers

noreply@blogger.com (game.info8) — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:31:00 +0700

offroad racers

There's enough there is a racing type game to date. Although the shrinkage to a more narrow in scope (freeware), still the game of this type can not be numbered in number. But in between it all just a bit that displays the level of the appeal and the high-tension. Well, one free racing game that you can try is offroad racers.
Overall, this game includes 8 types of cars with different advantages and disadvantages of types of monster trucks, rally cars, pickups, and bugie. There are 18 tracks which will open one after each race you win.
Just like most racing games, the vehicle is controlled by the arrow keys (up, down, left and right). In addition, also provided a turbo mode that will make you the speeding vehicle.
4 mode
There are 4 types of racing modes that you can choose: contest, time attack, circuit race, and the elimination race. Contest you can choose if you want to follow the existing racing scenario. Starting from the first track, will be continued if ye have been through it by being at least in third. If you select a time attack, you must pass through each check-points before the time fixed in the right end, you can record the best record time which could be a reference to win the next race.
Circuit race
Can you choose if you want to follow the race at random. Here you can choose the path can not be open before you go on and win contest choice. For those who want to heighten tensions, please select the mode elimination race.
Fraudulent or dishonest
You could win a race in many ways, can be dishonest or fraudulent manner. If you want honest, you're in demanded for smart - smart control for stable and drove the vehicle without resistance. Whereas want a little cunning, you could try to block the opponent by means rammed vehicle for their cars going off track or to fall apart.
Each vehicle is equipped with a turbo mode to boost its speed is much faster. But be careful, because if you continually use it, the machine will heat which can eventually blow up your vehicle.

Bejeweled 3

noreply@blogger.com (game.info8) — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:32:00 +0700

Bejeweled 3

Manufacturer : PopCap Games
Publisher : PopCap Games
Genre : Puzzle
Players : single player
Release date : December 7, 2010
PC Requirements: (Minimum) Windows XP/Vista/7, Intel Pentium 3. 1.2 GHz, AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz, 1GB memory, 64MB graphics card, 320MB hard disk space.

Fans of puzzle games would know Bejewel. The game offers a classic indeed, but not discourage people to continue to play it. Proven to all three versions are now in release.

Bejeweled game model still relies on the ranks of the ranks of gem that is ready to be set. The challenge is to develop the gems with same color to form at least three gems in a vertical row or horizontal. How to make do with swapping positions between the gems. Once lined up three gems will disappear and produce bonus points.
If diamonds are lined up were four you will get a flaming jewel which, if successful in flats lined with the same type, will cause an explosion that would deteriorate the jewel jewel around and get a bonus for you. If diamonds are arranged can be lined up more than four and form a junction, the gem may turn into a more powerful bomb.

For Relaxation
In order for the game run more smooth mind must also be relaxed when playing Bejeweled 3. He cried no mode so that you can play more relaxed "Zen Mode" name. This mode is similar to Endless Mode in Bejeweled 2 where the game is not in limiting the time and you can play it until satisfied.
But the fun is not unlimited time mode, but the song that accompanies this game in the form of Audio Sound that has elements of relaxation, Natural Voice and respiratory modulation. Similar songs that use the pad in relaxation or meditation session. As a result you can be helped to be more relaxed playing Bejeweled.
Oh yes, if all existing game modes are played one by one out of four new modes "secret mode" will open. They Is Butterflies, Diamond Mine, Ice Storm, and Poker.

65 badges
Overview of the popular game made by PopCap is the same as the previous series series. However, an additional blessing fashion you will find many new challenges after the game and play it some time. In summary there are four new modes in the offer with a better visual and an opportunity to gain 65 badges.

Bad Company 2 Vietnam

noreply@blogger.com (game.info8) — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:37:00 +0700

Bad Company 2 Vietnam

Bad Company 2 Vietnam Specification:

Windows XP, Intel Core 2 Duo E4700 2.6 GHz/AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core 5800+, 2 GB RAM, Hard Drive 5 GB Video Card 512 MB

Genre : First Person Shooter

Info : www.battlefieldbadcompany2.com/vietnam

Vietnam is a company exspansi game of Battlefield 2 that uses the game setting the war in Vietnam. there are a lot of new content added to this Vietnam exspansi package.
Among them there are four new multiplayer maps, an additional 6 units of vehicles a new war like Huey helicopter owned by American and T54 tanks from Russia presented in this game, and there are an additional 15 new weapons that can be used to add a devastating war situation.
In addition, if the number of players reached 69 million players in action, there will be an additional folder that is not locked anymore. For the audio in this game included all the 49 tracks of contemporary music can be heard via radio on the game and additional new voice in American troops and Vietnam.

Medal Of Honor U.S. vs. Taliban

noreply@blogger.com (game.info8) — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:35:00 +0700

Medal of honor the U.S. vs. the Taliban are formidable. Game on this one as if to invite you to be in the middle of a real battle. Luxuriance bullet, blast bombs, until the enemy who came out no end coupled with beautiful visuals and a smooth 3D animation offers suspense as well as to the appeal.

The unique game that consists of single-player mode (campaign) and the multiplayer was developed by EA Los Angeles two parties specifically make games solo. While EA Digital illusions CE develops its multiplayer game. Second game mode it was using a different game engine.

This game is intentionally made with a view serealistik possible. Even rumors EA contracted consultants from the U.S. military to create the design and gaming environments that resemble the original.
Once the game in the halted when the U.S. side intends invasion of Afghanistan after the 11th of september. You'll play as soldiers from the army DEVGRU coded name "RABBIT" besides, you also can choose a position as a sniper with the code name "Deuce", Army Specialist Rangger named Dante Adams, or sniper AH-64 Apache helicopter named Brad "Hawk" Hawkins.
Mission in single player mode is similar to actual military missions, ranging from hunting down terrorists, rescue hostages, through undercover operations. Its main mission is clear kill all Taliban troops in the encounter.
The fighting in open areas will require you to keep vigilant and also sniper fire. if injured or shot your opponent will cover the blood splattered point of view. Battle area vary from the rubble rubble rubble housing to broader fields. Unfortunately the single player game is short.

God of War Cheats and Hints

noreply@blogger.com (game.info8) — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:39:00 +0700

God of War Easter Eggs

Secret Message 2

Destroy the Ares and Minotaur statues in the throne room at Olympus (use Lance of the Furies: L1+Circle). The secret message is a scrambled telephone number, just read it from left to right to figure it out... it should be pretty obvious. Call the number to get a pre-recorded message describing how cool you are (or aren't).

Sex Mini-game
In the Beginning of Act 2, there are 2 women in your bed when you are inside your ship. If you jump on the bed, A circle will appear above the bed, indicating a Mini-game. Press Circle, and the game will start. All you see is the vase, but as you get further, the vase will shake more and more, until it falls and breaks. you have to press the buttons as it commands it. closer to the end, you have to rotate the Left Analog Stick. If you win, the first time, you get a large amount of Red orbs. Everytime afterwards, you get 5 more.

Surrender Kratos Message
Outside the Temple of the Oracle, in the area with the Gravedigger. Look on the left ledge near a red orb chest, there should be a small firefly buzzing around, Press R2 near it. Now quickly run to where the Gravedigger is and stand on top of the highest mound of dirt, Press R2 again. Finally, run south across the bridge and stand between the two torches and press R2 one more time. If done correctly the words "Surrender Kratos" will be written in the night sky in cursive.

Secret Number after you beat God Mode
There is a secret number you receive after you defeat God Mode. The secret number is a non scrambled telephone number. Call the number to hear an interesting side story to what really happened to the final boss.

God of War Secrets
Secret 2 EU Version
In the European version of God of War you do not receive a telephone number scrambled up like in he American version. Instead you receive a secret cutscene which is ensued after destroying the Ares & Minotaur statues.

God of War Glitches
Infinite orbs
During the Challenge of Atlas after you cross the bridge and pass the saw room, there will be an enemy at the bottom of the tower. Don't kill him, just go to the ladder near the wall. Position yourself so that you are between the enemy and the ladder. Use the square, square, triangle combo to take him out. Make sure you kill the enemy above the ladder. Once you kill it, it should hit the ground, then bounce back up getting caught in this bounce. If done correctly, it will continually release red orbs. Once you get the glitch going, just stand there for about 10 minutes. You will get the max amount of orbs, 199 full red bars which is 59,700 orbs.

Skip conveyer belt area
When you first walk in to the conveyer belt area right before pandoras box you barely go past the entrance as to not activate the battle with harpies and arrowers. Immediately walk as far as your can to the left or right with running into a conveyer belt. Then walk forward next to the conveyer belt until you reach the first pedestal. Jump on it and you should be home free. Now you can liesurely walk to pandoras box without a battle.

The whole idea is that there is an area near the entrance that if you walk in it you will initiate the battle. By walking as close as you can to the edge you are not "tripping the trigger" per say.

reference: http://asia.gamespot.com/ps2/action/godofwar/hints.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gsbottomnav&tag=quicklinks%3Bcheats

Promote your blog via BlogUpp!

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Assassin's Creed II

noreply@blogger.com (game.info8) — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:00:00 +0700

Assassin's Creed II is a historical fantasy third person action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It is the second video game installment of the Assassin's Creed series and is a sequel to the 2007 video game Assassin's Creed. The game was released on video game consoles in November 2009, and released for Windows in March 2010. The direct sequel, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, comes out in November, 2010.
The game is set in the 21st century, with player-controlled protagonist Desmond Miles escaping from Abstergo Industries with an employee, Lucy Stillman, after being forced to relive the genetic memories of ancestral assassin Altaïr ibn La-Ahad through a machine known as the "Animus". After escaping from Abstergo, Desmond enters a device which is more advanced than the original Animus, the Animus 2.0, and relives the genetic memories of ancestral nobleman Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who lived during the Renaissance period of the late 15th century in Italy. The player controls Ezio, who becomes an Assassin after his father and brothers are murdered by a traitor to the Auditore family. While controlling Ezio, the player can explore game renditions of Italian cities, regions and landmarks in open world gameplay.
Assassin's Creed II was met with widespread acclaim, garnering aggregated scores of 91% for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and 86% for PC, from review aggregator Metacritic. The game was praised for its stronger emphasis on open-world exploration and interaction, non-linear gameplay and greater mission variety compared to the first Assassin's Creed. The game was also credited with improved non-player character AI and combat mechanics, and its new economic system allowing players to purchase accessories, armor and improved weapons through the course of the game.
Gameplay
Assassin's Creed II takes place in an open world with nonlinear gameplay, allowing the player to roam freely within several regions throughout late fifteenth-century Italy such as Venice, Florence, and the Tuscan countryside. The Animus 2.0, a new version of the machine of the same name present in Assassin's Creed, provides in-game context for changes and additions to several game elements. A database is also available, providing extra historical information about key landmarks, characters and services that the player encounters.
The health system has been made more dynamic, with synchronization to the Animus and causing the character to recover only from minor injuries.More grievous injuries require visiting a street-side doctor or use of medicine which can be purchased from doctors or found on bodies.The player may now swim in water, and eagle vision —the ability to identify specific people and landmarks— can now be used in third-person view and while moving.A young Leonardo da Vinci is present in the game, aiding the player by creating new weapons from translated "codex pages" that Altaïr, the original game's main character, left behind for future assassins' analysis and insight. Within the game, the player will be able to use Leonardo's flying machine (based on real-life plans by Leonardo) while on one mission. The player also has the ability to control a carriage on one level, but can row gondolas, as well as ride horses at any point in the game where they are readily available.The setting of the various places the player may go to have been made relatively more detailed and in-depth. Civilians can carry objects and sometimes sneeze. Additionally, one can hire different groups of NPCs such as mercenaries or thieves.
The combat system is more complex than that of its predecessor, with the ability to disarm opponents using counter attacks while unarmed. If the player steals an enemy's weapon, it is possible to follow up with an attack that instantly kills.Leonardo da Vinci provides the player with specialized weaponry, such as the hidden dual blades, poison blade and the miniature firearm. Generic swords, cutlasses, maces, axes, spears and daggers can all be purchased from vendors in each city or otherwise looted from corpses. In addition, players are able to purchase artwork for their villa, obtain new armor as the game progresses and even dye Ezio's clothing with a number of different colors. Other equipment includes: larger pouches to carry more throwing knives and medicine. Six additional weapons can be unlocked by connecting a PSP with Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines to the PS3.
The Auditore family's countryside villa acts as Ezio's headquarters, and the surrounding property can be upgraded, drawing income for the player's use. There are several outlets for using currency, with vendors selling items such as medicine, poison, weapons, repairs, upgrades, paintings and dyes for changing the color of Ezio's outfit. When these shops are renovated, Ezio receives discounts at the shops on the goods they sell.
There is now a broader array of methods for hiding or blending in the area. One can dive underwater to break the guards' line of sight, and blending may be performed with any group of people, rather than only a specific type, as in the first Assassin's Creed.The game features a notoriety system, with Ezio becoming more recognizable depending on his behavior, location, and current mission. This infamy can be reduced with bribery, removing wanted posters, or assassinating corrupt officials.A day and night cycle has been added to the game, giving the game more of a sense of time, in addition to setting missions and events at certain times of the day.There are many ways to interact with non-player characters, with some NPCs available for hire, they serve as a distraction, and groups of thieves to fight alongside the player. Money thrown to the ground may also serve as a distraction. There are also several types of enemies, some more agile or stronger than others.
The missions in the game now have an expanded variety, with different structuring. For example, a mission may have the objective to escort someone, but may change to a chase and assassination. Investigation is less explicit, and instead missions may follow people and/or a narrative. There are roughly 200 missions in this game; about half are part of the main storyline, while the rest are side quests. Cities also contain hidden locations such as catacombs and caves, the design of which have been compared, by the developers, to the Prince of Persia series, where the objective is to navigate the area. Exploring these locations eventually rewards the player with an Assassin's seal, six of which allow the player to unlock the armor of Altaïr in a concealed section of the Villa.
Like Assassin's Creed, characters based on historical figures are present in the game including Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, Caterina Sforza, Lorenzo de' Medici, the Pazzi Family, and Pope Alexander VI.
Locations in the game include the Tuscany region (Florence, Monteriggioni and San Gimignano), the Apennine Mountains, the Romagna region (Forlì), Venice and Rome. Specific landmarks include St Mark's Basilica,the Grand Cana, the Little Canal, the Rialto Bridge, Santa Maria del Fiore, the Sistine Chapel, Santa Croce, Palazzo Vecchio, Ponte Vecchio, and Santa Maria Novella
Plot
The game continues shortly after the events of Assassin's Creed, where, in 2012, Desmond Miles (Nolan North) is still a prisoner at Abstergo Industries after searching the memories of his ancestor, the Assassin Altaïr, in the Animus. Abstergo, the modern-day Knights Templar, had been using Desmond to locate powerful out-of-place artifacts called "Pieces of Eden." Using the "Eagle Vision" ability he gained as a result of the "bleeding effect" (from overexposure to the Animus), Desmond is able to see messages and symbols written in blood on his bedroom wall, written by the former test subject, named "Subject 16 (Cam Clarke)". Lucy Stillman (Kristen Bell), a former researcher for Abstergo and an Assassin, frees Desmond and brings him to a secret hideout used by herself and two other Assassins, historian Shaun Hastings (Danny Wallace) and computer expert Rebecca Crane (Eliza Schneider). With their own version of the Animus, dubbed the 'Animus 2.0', they invite Desmond to help them discover the memories of his ancestor, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, for two reasons: to train Desmond in Assassin skills through the bleeding effect, and to find other Pieces of Eden.
Ezio, residing in Italy during the Renaissance in the late 15th century, finds his family in Florence the victims of a political plot, and is unable to prevent the hanging of his father and the both of his brothers, Federico and Pettrucio (Federico appears throughout the game as an assassin, but ends up hanging). His father's final instructions lead Ezio to a chest containing Assassin garments and tools. Ezio's uncle Mario allows Ezio and his mother and sister to shelter in his countryside villa, and trains Ezio in the art of combat. Mario further provides leads to those in on his family's betrayal, and Ezio follows the trail of clues, leading from Florence to San Gimignano, Forlì, Venice and eventually to Rome. Along the way, he encounters several allies that assist in his pursuit, including Leonardo da Vinci, who is able to help decode pages from Altaïr's Codex, creating new equipment. After assassinating many people involved in the plot, Ezio is able to identify Rodrigo Borgia as the leader of the conspiracy, aimed to bring down the Medici family in Florence with the help of the Pazzi family and the Doge of Venice. Borgia later arrives in Venice with the "Apple," the Piece of Eden that Altaïr originally had found. Borgia believes himself to be the "Prophet" that would lead to the discovery of "The Vault", supposedly containing more Pieces of Eden and other knowledge the Templars seek. Ezio, joined by his allies, stop Borgia, who flees without the Apple. His allies, including Niccolò Machiavelli, reveal they are all members of the Assassins, and bring Ezio into their ranks, telling him that they believe him to be the Prophet that will lead them to the Vault.

*Assassin's Creed* series fictional chronology
Altaïr's Chronicles *Assassin's Creed* Bloodlines Lineage Assassin's Creed II II: Discovery *Assassin's Creed II* (continued) Brotherhood Lost Legacy

During one break from using the Animus 2.0, Desmond suffers a hallucination that returns him to the body of Altaïr in Acre, and has intercourse with Maria, a Templar he had earlier spared (a decoy for Robert de Sable in Assassin's Creed whom Altaïr formed a relationship with in Bloodlines); when Altaïr departs, Desmond finds the memory staying with Maria (thus implying that she is now pregnant with one of his ancestors), and leaves him confused when he recovers. He also learns of the case of Subject 16, one of several previous test subjects used by Abstergo, and the person responsible for writing the images he saw in his room at Abstergo. Subject 16 has managed to hack the Animus and place twenty glyphs that can only be seen and decoded by the Animus user, revealing a video of a man and a woman, claiming to be Adam and Eve, carrying the "Apple of Eden", running through a futuristic setting identified, by a flash of binary code, as Eden.
When Desmond returns to Ezio's memory after he fought off Borgia, they find several corrupted memories, and are only able to return Desmond to Ezio's memories in the year 1499 (The memories comprise the semi-historical siege of Forli by the Orsi family and the Bonfire of the Vanities), where Borgia has since become Pope Alexander VI at Vatican City. Ezio's memories reveal that he and his allies have completed the Codex and discovered that "The Vault" lies in Rome, and realize that the Papal Staff is another Piece of Eden; Borgia's plan, upon deposition of the Medici family, would allow him to become Pope and gain access to the staff and the Vault.
Ezio travels to Rome; while his allies distract the rest of the city, Ezio discreetly enters the Vatican and attempts to assassinate Borgia inside the Sistine Chapel (while he preaches the Nicene Creed in Latin). Borgia manages to escape with both the Apple and the Staff, and attempts to use them to open the Vault, but Ezio catches up and defeats him but does not kill Borgia, since revenge will not bring back his family. In Ezio's hands, the Apple and Staff open the Vault; inside, he finds a holographic figure that identifies him as The Prophet that has brought Desmond and the 21st century observers to the Vault, much to Ezio's confusion. The figure, calling herself "Minerva" and addressing Desmond directly, reveals that she and others of her kind were part of a far more advanced society (Those Who Came Before) that lived on Earth and created humans in their own image (it is hinted several times throughout the game that humans were created as a slave race). Eventually man freed themselves and the two races went to war against one another, soon halted by a natural celestial catastrophe involving a massive solar flare which resulted in the destruction of most life on Earth. The remaining people of both races rebuilt society. The few remaining Ones Who Came Before constructed several "temples" around the world (one being located within the Vatican) that would help the human race to prevent the same disaster from reoccurring once the Ones Who Came Before had become extinct. Minerva insinuates that records of the existence of the Ones Who Came Before, as well as their warning, had been misunderstood and had, over time, evolved into various myths, legends and religions throughout the modern world. As the hologram vanishes, Minerva says "the rest is up to you, Desmond", confusing Ezio.
As the memory ends and the credits begin to roll, Desmond wakes to find that Abstergo has discovered their hideout and, with his assimilated skills from Ezio and Altaïr, he manages to escape with Lucy and the others. As the scene fades to black with the credits still rolling, they take a van with an Animus 2.0 built inside. Lucy then explains that Minerva was referring to a great celestial catastrophe. She goes on to explain that a weakness in the Earth's magnetic field has been discovered, and that a single solar flare could cause worldwide disaster. This hints towards the 2012 Doomsday prediction. Desmond prepares to re-enter the Animus as the game ends, which allows the player to continue as Ezio after the game has finished.
Downloadable content
On December 1, 2009, Ubisoft announced the first of several downloadable content (DLC) expansions for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Assassin's Creed II. The first, entitled Battle for Forlì, continues the story of Caterina Sforza and was released on January 28, 2010. It also includes a special memory that allows users to pilot Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine over Forlì. The second expansion, entitled Bonfire of the Vanities, concerns the mass burning of sinful objects in Florence and was released on February 18, 2010. These were both initially planned to be included as part of the main game, but were later cut due to time constraints.The retail PC version includes the following packages as part of the main storyline.
The Battle of Forlì
The two downloadable content packs feature the corrupted memory sequences, which Rebecca is able to repair with a computer patch. Sequence 12, "Forlì Under Attack" (released as The Battle for Forli) is set in 1488, just after Ezio has recovered the Apple of Eden. Machiavelli, Mario Auditore, Ezio and Leonardo da Vinci meet to discuss what to do to protect the Apple, and it is decided that it will be sent to Romagna to be defended by Catarina Sforza. When Ezio arrives however, he finds that the city is under attack from the Orsi Brothers, who have been hired by Borgia to take a map featuring the locations of the Codex pages, made by Sforza's late husband. In an attempt to force Sforza to hand over the map the brothers kidnap her children. Ezio leaves the Apple in Sforza's protection; he rescues her children and kills one brother. When he returns, he discovers that Checco, the other brother, used the distraction to steal the Apple. Ezio gives chase, and kills Checco. As he stands over Checco's body, Checco stabs Ezio. Ezio falls to the floor bleeding, and before he passes out, he sees a man missing a finger and wearing monastic robes take the Apple.
Ezio wakes up with Sforza at his side. He sets out to reclaim the Apple, and Sforza gives him the map of the Codex page locations. He travels to a monastery in the wetlands, where he is sent to Forli's monastery. He attempts to speak to the abbot, but the abbot recognizes him as the assassin who killed Brother Stefano (one of the Pazzi conspirators) and flees. When Ezio catches him, the abbot names the monk who stole the Apple as Girolamo Savonarola.
The Pack also includes a bonus memory in which Ezio can pilot Leonardo's Flying Machine over the Forli area. Unlike regular memories the player is allowed to play this memory an unlimited number of times.
Bonfire of the Vanities
Sequence 13 begins in 1497, two years prior to Sequence 14 and nine years after Sequence 12. Ezio has tracked Savonarola to Florence, where the player can now explore the southern province of the city. After meeting with Machiavelli, Ezio devises that bringing unrest to the city will force Savonarola to come out and settle the unrest. In order to bring about this unrest, Ezio assassinates nine of Savonarola's lieutenants who preach within the city. The people become angry and a mob forms outside the plaza where Savonarola preaches to the mob to disperse. He exposes the Apple to bewitch the mob, but Ezio quickly throws a knife at the Piece of Eden and Savonarola drops it. The mob proceeds to take the monk away, but a templar quickly rushes in to retrieve the Apple. Ezio rushes after the guard and reclaims it. Afterward, the mob takes Savonarola to the Piazza della Signoria to burn him at the stake, but Ezio, believing no one deserves such a painful fate, jumps on to a wooden platform, leaps at Savanarola, and stabs the monk in the face with his hidden blade to spare him the pain. Ezio stands before the confused crowd and declares that all should follow their own path
Development

This section requires expansion.

System requirements

	Minimum	Recommended
Windows
Operating system	XP, Vista or Windows 7
CPU	Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHZ or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4GHZ	Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ or better
Memory	1.5 GB for XP 2 GB for Vista or Windows 7
Hard drive space	8 GB
Graphics hardware	256 MB DirectX 9.0–compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher	GeForce 8800 GT or ATI Radeon HD 4700 or better
Sound hardware	DirectX 9.0 –compliant sound card	5.1 sound card
Network	Constant Internet Connection: Broadband connection with 128 kbps upstream or faster.

Ubisoft's Yves Guillemot officially confirmed that Assassin's Creed II was in development on November 26, 2008, during the company's financial performance report. This was followed by Michael Pachter speculating in GameTrailers' "Bonus Round" that game would change its setting to the events of the French Revolution, which turned out to be false.
A promotional video was released by Ubisoft on April 6 showing a skull, some hidden blade designs, and Leonardo's flying machine on a scroll. On April 16, Game Informer released details of the game, including pictures of Ezio,a new teaser trailer was released, and the game was "officially" announced by Ubisoft.
In an interview, in May 2009, Sebastien Puel stated that the development team working on Assassin's Creed II had increased to 450 members, and the development team's size had tripled since the first game.
On June 1, 2009, Ubisoft released a new four-minute cinematic Assassin's Creed II trailer at E3.On June 2, 2009, Ubisoft revealed the first live gameplay demo, lasting 6 minutes, at the Sony Press Conference.GameTrailers features an exclusive developer walkthrough from E3 2009. In an interview with GameTrailers Ubisoft Montreal creative director Patrice Desilets stated Desmond would be doing more than walking around and discovering clues.
It was announced at the Assassin's Creed panel at Comic Con 2009 that a mini-series of three episodes, Assassin's Creed: Lineage, would be released showing the events leading up to the game and the history of Ezio and his father.
It was also revealed that the humorist Danny Wallace would be voicing a new character in Assassin's Creed II by the name of Shaun Hastings, a sarcastic historian assisting Desmond. The character's face would also be modeled after him. Actress Kristen Bell returned for the character of Lucy Stillman.
The game was originally due to be released at the same time on all the three platforms, but Ubisoft announced on September 24, 2009 via Twitter that the PC version would be delayed to the first quarter of 2010 in order to have "a bit more time for the dev team to deliver the best quality game". In the course of March, Ubisoft sent an e-mail to their PC-customers to apologize for problems with the DRM (although some people never had problems), and granted them a code to unlock the three Templar Lairs that were playable in the Black edition for console.
Music
The score to Assassin's Creed II was composed by Jesper Kyd. It was recorded at Capitol Records with a 35-piece string ensemble and a 13-person choir, and featured vocals by Melissa Kaplan.A soundtrack was released via digital download on November 16, 2009. 14 tracks of the soundtrack were also released on the game disc available with the special pre-order Black edition of Assassin's Creed II.
In the marketing, "Genesis" by Justice was used in the "Visions of Venice" trailer.

Assassin's Creed II Original Soundtrack
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Earth"	3:59
2.	"Venice Rooftops"	3:18
3.	"Ezio in Florence"	2:19
4.	"Home in Florence"	5:02
5.	"Ezio's Family"	4:21
6.	"Sanctuary"	3:56
7.	"Stealth"	2:20
8.	"Florence Escape"	2:50
9.	"Approaching Target 1"	3:34
10.	"Approaching Target 2"	6:07
11.	"Leonardo's Invention Part 1"	2:22
12.	"Tour of Venice"	3:16
13.	"Flight over Venice"	4:50
14.	"Darkness Falls"	4:05

Promotion

On October 20, 2009, Ubisoft announced a series of short movies to be broadcast via YouTube that would provide additional back story and the introduction of some of the characters found in the game. The shorts, called Assassin's Creed: Lineage, came in three parts and were developed by Ubisoft’s Hybride Technologies, who previously worked on the films 300 and Sin City. The series focused on Ezio's father, Giovanni Auditore, and contained live-action and computer generated imagery. The first of the films was released on October 27, 2009, with the remaining two released on November 13, 2009.
On November 12, 2009, Ubisoft released Assassin's Creed II themed virtual items on PlayStation Home to promote the release of the game, as well as the game Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines for PSP. Assassin's Creed II virtual items and an Ezio costume were also released on the Xbox Live Marketplace for the Xbox 360's avatars. On November 19, 2009, more Assassin's Creed II virtual items were released in PlayStation Home, along with a costume for Ezio, which was released on November 26, 2009. On December 3, 2009, more 15th century Italian renaissance themed items were released in Home Ezio's "Purple Assassin" costume is available to download on LittleBigPlanet, as of December 8, 2009, on the PlayStation Network.
Assassin's Creed II is the first game to be linked to Ubisoft's Uplay feature. Progression through the game allows Uplay members to acquire points that can be redeemed for bonuses for use in the game, including a new crypt to explore and an Altaïr costume.
A novel based on the game, called Assassin's Creed: Renaissance by Oliver Bowden was published by Penguin Books in November 2009.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate scores
Aggregator	Score
GameRankings	90.65% (360) 90.49% (PS3) 85.00% (PC)
Metacritic	90% (360) 91% (PS3) 86% (PC)
Review scores
Publication	Score
1UP.com	A-
Computer and Video Games	9.4/10
Game Informer	9.5/10
GamePro	5/5
GameSpot	9/10 (Xbox 360) 8/10 (Windows)
GameSpy
GamesRadar	10/10
GameTrailers	9.2/10
IGN	9.2/10
Official PlayStation Magazine (US)	10/10
Official PlayStation Magazine (UK)	9/10
Official Xbox Magazine (UK)	9/10
TeamXbox	9.5/10

Upon release, Assassin's Creed II garnered widespread critical acclaim. Review aggregator site Metacritic gave the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version a score of 91.
In an exclusive review by Official Xbox Magazine, Assassin's Creed II scored 9/10. Its second review was a perfect score from the Official PlayStation Magazine US, while the Official PlayStation Magazine UK scored the game a 9/10.
German magazine, Computer Bild Spiele, reported that the game's publishers offered to provide a pre-release copy of the game if the magazine would guarantee a review score of "very good". The magazine rejected the request and instead opted to delay their review.
GameSpot which reviewed the PC version of the game, said despite the game being "fun and beautiful" it was hard to justify the higher price point. It was also mentioned that the game was hindered by Ubisoft's DRM and the game "deserved better. For that matter, PC gamers deserved better too."
According to pre-official sales estimates, Ubisoft announced that Assassin's Creed II sold 1.6 million copies worldwide during its first week of sale, representing a 32 percent increase over the first week retail performance of the original Assassin's Creed. As of February 10, 2010, the game has shipped 8 million copies.
At the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards, Assassin's Creed II was named Best Action Adventure Game, and IGN named it as the Action Game of the Year for Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 Game of the Year. Game Informer also named it as Xbox 360 Game of the Year. It also received Game of the Year from GamePro, Eurogamer and The New York Times. Assassin's Creed II has been nominated for the "Outstanding Achievement in Animation", "Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction", "Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering", "Outstanding Achievement in Game Play Engineering", "Outstanding Achievement in Original Story", "Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition", "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design", "Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction", "Adventure Game of the Year" and "Overall Game of the Year" Interactive Achievement Awards from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.The game was also nominated for several Game Developers Choice Awards including "Best Game Design", "Best Visual Art", "Best Technology", and "Game of the Year".

Editions

There are several different limited editions of Assassin's Creed II. The Black Edition contains an Ezio figurine garbed in a black outfit and was released in Europe and Australia. Included also are three bonus areas and missions, an art book, and a DVD with part of the game's soundtrack, one premium PS3 theme, behind the scenes videos and 2 desktop wallpapers. The White Edition contains one bonus area/mission and an Ezio figurine in his white outfit. The Master Assassin's Edition is the North American limited edition, which contains an Ezio figurine, two bonus areas, an art book and a Blu-ray with music and behind the scenes videos.
After much complaining from Assassin's Creed II fans that they were unable to complete the game due to the need to play the three Templar Lairs - only available on the White or Black Editions - to earn 100% synchronisation, Ubisoft released Assassin's Creed II: The Complete Edition. Included on the package are download codes for the two DLCs, Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities and the three Templar Lairs. Later Assassin's Creed II: The Game of the Year Edition was released, containing the extra content incorporated on the game disc.

Controversies and criticism

The PC version of the game contains a DRM system that requires all users remain connected to the Internet while playing. In the initial retail version, any progress made subsequent to the last checkpoint was lost if the Internet connection were severed. Ubisoft stated that if the disconnection was temporary, the game would pause. In addition, the company argued that there were numerous checkpoints spread throughout Assassin's Creed II.The company was also criticized by overseas members of the U.S. Armed Forces, who could not play the game while in locations with sporadic and expensive connections. Ubisoft has since published a patch to alter the DRM: after resuming their connection to the Internet, players are now able to resume the game from the exact same point.
Shortly after the release of the Windows version, Ubisoft claimed that a cracked version of the game had not been created, and was confirmed by at least one website. During the following weekend, the DRM servers for Silent Hunter 5 and Assassin's Creed II were, according to Ubisoft, affected by a denial-of-service attack. Ubisoft later stated that "95 per cent of players were not affected, but a small group of players attempting to open a game session did receive denial of service errors." A server emulator to overcome the DRM has been developed. A cracked executable bypassing the connection requirement entirely was released in late April.
Following the series of server outages, Ubisoft offered owners of the Windows version all DLC from the Assassin's Creed II Black Edition, or a free copy of Heroes Over Europe, Tom Clancy's EndWar, Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X, or Prince of Persia (2008).
The PC version of the game was also widely criticized for being DirectX 9.0 only, whereas the original Assassin's Creed was a DirectX 10 title.

Sequel

Intended to be a trilogy, discussions on the details of Assassin's Creed III were already present before the release of Assassin's Creed II, with the game's staff noting talks of possibly having a female ancestor in World War II.However, co-writer Corey May has stated that the series will never take place during that period, as a major goal was to take players to settings normally unvisited in games. Ubisoft's Philippe Bergeron stated that potential settings could include England in the Middle Ages, during the era of King Arthur, and feudal Japan, the latter of which had been a "personal favorite" of many in the staff, although nothing has been confirmed yet.
Ubisoft has confirmed a game called Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, which will be released November 16, 2010.While not an expansion pack to Assassin's Creed II, this game will again feature Ezio Auditore da Firenze, and will include a new online multiplayer mode. It has been confirmed that most of the game will take place in Rome, the seat of power for the Borgia family and the Knights Templar. However, Brotherhood is not the 3rd game in the series - though it features Desmond, it is more on par with Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines.
References : Wikipedia
External links

Official website
Assassin's Creed YouTube Channel
Assassin's Creed II at the Internet Movie Database

Assassin's Creed II

Assassin's Creed

noreply@blogger.com (game.info8) — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 01:58:00 +0700

Assassin's Creed
Developer(s)	Ubisoft Montreal
Publisher(s)	Ubisoft
Designer(s)	Patrice Desilets (creative director), Jade Raymond (producer)
Writer(s)	Corey May
Composer(s)	Jesper Kyd
Series	Assassin's Creed
Version	Windows 1.02 (May 13, 2008), PS3 1.10 (October 16, 2008)
Platform(s)	PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows
Release date(s)	PlayStation 3, Xbox 360: ^NA November 14, 2007 ^EU November 14, 2007 ^AUS November 21, 2007 Microsoft Windows: ^NA April 8, 2008 ^AUS April 10/11, 2008 ^EU April 10, 2008
Genre(s)	Third person action-adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player
Rating(s)	BBFC: 15 ESRB: M OFLC: MA15+ OFLC: R13 PEGI: 18+ USK: 16
Media	Blu-ray Disc, DVD-DL, download
System requirements See System requirements

Assassin's Creed is a historical fantasy/science fiction third person action-adventure video game. The game is developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It was released worldwide in November 2007 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360,and April 2008 for PCs. The bulk of the game takes place during the Third Crusade, and is based upon the Hashshashin, a Muslim sect known as the Secret Order of Assassins. The player is in reality playing as a modern-day man named Desmond Miles, who through the use of a machine named the "Animus", is allowed the viewing and controlling of the protagonist's genetic memories of his ancestors, in this case, Altair, a member of the Hashshashin.

Through this plot device, details emerge of a struggle between two factions, the Knights Templar and the Assassins, over an artifact known as a "Piece of Eden" and the game primarily takes place during the Third Crusade in the Holy Land in 1191. The game received generally positive reviews, and won several awards at E3 in 2006. A sequel, Assassin's Creed II, was released in November 2009.
Plot

Desmond Miles is not accurately characterized as simply a barman despite his initial protestations and bewilderment. He is an estranged member of the modern-day Assassin’s Brotherhood. He attempted to live anonymously under an assumed name after escaping from a secret Brotherhood compound known as the “Farm” at age sixteen, avoiding all contact with technology and agencies that might reveal his identity and location. His sole mistake was to acquire a license for a motorcycle that required a photo and a fingerprint.

Abstergo (Latin for “cleanse,” or “wipe away”) is a corporation run by modern-day Templars, who still wage a secret crusade to protect mankind by restricting free will, while the Brotherhood still fight to preserve humanity’s right to self-determination. Through the exploration of Desmond’s genetic memories of Altaïr ibn La-Ahad (Arabic for “The Flying One Son of None”) by using the Animus (Latin for “soul”), the Templars hope to discover the location of all existing “Pieces of Eden,” mystical devices that enable its holders to manipulate the minds of others. The Templars plan to broadcast a Piece of Eden’s power by subsequently launching it into orbit onboard a satellite, enslaving all but a few with innate resistance to the control each device exerts.

In the sterile confines of the Abstergo laboratory, Desmond interacts with only two of the company’s employees: Warren Vidic (who, in a broad sense, invented the Animus), and his assistant, Lucy Stillman. Warren is officious, driven and arrogant; a Templar with little regard for Desmond’s well-being. Lucy is more pragmatic, and is quick to rebuke Warren on his treatment of Desmond. The relationship between the two scientists is complex. Lucy reveals to Desmond that Abstergo hired her as a graduate, having taken a special interest in her studies. Three company employees were sent to execute her once the Animus was complete despite her vital contributions to the project. Only the timely intervention of Warren saved her life. Tolerating Warren’s brusque manner and assorted foibles is a small price for Lucy. She too is a prisoner of the company like Desmond however, unable to leave the premises.

Over the course of several days, Desmond enters the Animus for hours at a time, before spending his evenings locked in a suite adjacent to the laboratory. He gradually learns more of Abstergo’s activities and intentions through conversations with Warren and Lucy, and his experiences as Altaïr.

Desmond relives key moments in the life of his ancestor while installed in the Animus. Altaïr is a senior member of the Assassin’s Brotherhood during the Third Crusade. The memory begins with the Assassin, joined by two Assassin brothers Malik and Kadar Al-Sayf, attempting to secure an artifact from the Temple of Solomon.

Altaïr is a flawed character, defined by his arrogance and an almost contemptuous disregard for the central tenets of the Brotherhood. Altaïr is thrown aside by Robert de Sablé – Grand Master of the Knights Templar, who are also seeking the same object – when he rashly confronts him, cutting him off from the melee that ensues by a collapsing wall, and escapes alone.

Altaïr meets with Assassin leader Al Mualim (Arabic for “The Teacher”) on his return to the Brotherhood stronghold at Masyaf in Syria, and is shamed by the account offered by Malik, who barely survived with the cost of losing his left arm, and successfully retrieved the strange golden object. Altaïr is subjected to a mock execution despite his bravery during a subsequent Templar siege of the fortress led by Robert. He awakes to learn that he has been demoted to a mere Initiate, losing all weapons and privileges unique to his previous high rank. Al Mualim castigates Altaïr savagely, but offers a path of redemption. To be restored to his former standing, he must assassinate nine targets:

Tamir of Damascus
Garnier de Naplouse
Talal of Jerusalem
Abu’l Nuqoud
William of Montferrat
Majd Addin
Sibrand
Jubair al Hakim
Robert de Sable

Altaïr begins to question the motivation for the killings as he tracks down each target in turn. Many of the nine insist that their actions were necessary to achieve a higher purpose, even though the majority of them are ostensibly guilty of great cruelty or venality. Altaïr learns that the object retrieved from Solomon’s Temple is a Piece of Eden. The Templars would use it to bring peace to the region and, ultimately the world, but at a more questionable price: the enforced sacrifice of free will by all who fall under its spell.

Robert de Sablé reveals to Altaïr that only one other now knows the device’s power: Al Mualim, who seeks to possess it exclusively for his own ends. Desmond is then abruptly pulled from the Animus due to an unsuccessful attempt by the Brotherhood to storm the facility. Lucy then subtly reveals that she too is an Assassin, a sleeper agent sent to infiltrate the Templar ranks.

Back in the Animus, Desmond unlocks the memory of Altaïr returning to Masyaf to confront Al Mualim, finally comprehending the full import of his tutor’s manipulation. Al Mualim reveals to Altaïr that he is susceptible to the Piece of Eden unlike others, yet he still manages to overcome its illusions during their climactic battle. Altaïr watches in wonder as the Piece of Eden opens once Al Mualim falls to his blade, projecting the location of other devices throughout the world.

The people at Abstergo obtain the locations of the Pieces of Eden with the completion of the memory. Desmond hears Warren confirm the existence of at least six of these to an unseen male colleague as he lies on the Animus, with teams poised to explore each location to retrieve them. Warren intends to execute Desmond, but refrains from doing so when Lucy insists that he may yet still be of value. Desmond realizes that something is seriously amiss as Warren and Lucy depart. His vision is blurred yet augmented in a way that resembles Altaïr’s Eagle Vision, his uncanny ability to discern the unseen and differentiate between friend and foe. Warren appears highlighted in an angry red hue, and Lucy, a reassuring blue.

The Abstergo employees exit the laboratory, leaving Desmond to discover that the walls and the floors are somehow covered in arcane symbols and coded, cryptic texts apparently written in several languages
Characters1191 A.D.
Muslim Assassins

Altaïr ibn La-Ahad - an agent of the Assassin Brotherhood. The primary player character.
Al Mualim - the Master Assassin of Masyaf, later Altaïr's last target.
Malik Al-Sayf - the Assassin Bureau leader in Jerusalem

Muslim Saracens

Salah al-Din - a military and political leader, Richard the Lionheart's adversary
Tamir - a black market merchant based in Damascus' poor district, Altaïr's first target
Talal - a slave trader based in Jerusalem's rich district, Altaïr's third target
Abu'l Nuqoud - the merchant king of Damascus, Altaïr's fourth target
Majd Addin - Salah al-Din's regent of Old Jerusalem, Altaïr's sixth target
Jubair al Hakim - chief scholar of Damascus, Altaïr's eighth target

Christian Crusaders

Richard the Lionheart - the "absent king," Salah al-Din's adversary
Garnier de Naplouse - the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitalier, Altaïr's second target
William of Montferrat - Acre's Crusader regent, Altaïr's fifth target
Sibrand - the Grand Master of the Knights Teutonic, Altaïr's seventh target
Maria Thorpe - Robert de Sablé's steward, spared by Altaïr
Robert de Sablé - the Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Altaïr's ninth target

2012 A.D.

Assassins

Desmond Miles - a bartender and an estranged Assassin, Altaïr's descendant
Lucy Stillman - an Assassin sleeper agent at Abstergo Industries

Abstergo Industries

Warren Vidic - a disgraced scientist and a former Ivy League professor of ill repute

Gameplay

Assassin's Creed is an action-adventure video game in which the player primarily assumes the role of Altaïr as experienced by Desmond Miles. The primary goal of the game is to carry out a series of assassinations ordered by Al Mualim, the leader of the Assassins. To achieve this goal, the player must travel from the Brotherhood's headquarters in Masyaf, across the terrain of the Holy Land known as the Kingdom to one of three cities, Jerusalem, Acre, or Damascus, to find the Brotherhood agent in that city. There, the agent, in addition to providing a safe house, gives the player minimal knowledge about the target, and requires them to perform additional intelligence gathering missions before attempting the assassination. These missions include eavesdropping, interrogation, pickpocketing and completing tasks for informers and fellow assassins. Additionally, the player may take part in any number of side objectives in these open world environments, including climbing tall towers to map out the city, and saving citizens who are being threatened or harassed by the city guards. There are also various side quests that do not advance the plot such as hunting down and killing Templars and flag collecting. After completing each set of assassinations, the player is returned back to the Brotherhood and rewarded with a better weapon and then given another set of targets, with the player free to select the order of their targets.

The player is made aware of how noticeable Altaïr is to enemy guards as well as the current state of alert in the local area via an alertness level meter. To perform many of the assassinations and other tasks, the player must consider the use of commands distinguished by its type of profile. Low profile commands allow Altaïr to blend into nearby crowds, pass by other citizens, or other non-threatening tasks that can be used to hide and reduce the alertness level; the player can also use Altaïr's retractable blade to attempt low profile assassinations. High profile commands are more noticeable, and include running, scaling the sides of buildings to climb to higher vantage points, and attacking foes; performing these actions at certain times may raise the local area's awareness level. Once the area is at high alert, the crowds run and scatter while guards attempt to chase and bring down Altaïr; to reduce the alert level, the player must control Altaïr as to break the guards' line of sight and then find a hiding space such as a haystack or rooftop garden, or blend in with the citizens sitting on benches or wandering scholars. Should the player be unable to escape the guards, they can fight back using swordplay maneuvers.

The player's health is described as the level of synchronization between Desmond and Altaïr's memories; should Altaïr suffer injury, it is represented as deviation from the actual events of the memory, rather than physical damage. If all synchronization is lost, the current memory that Desmond is experiencing will be restarted at the last checkpoint. When the synchronization bar is full, the player has the additional option to use "eagle vision" which allows the computer-rendered memory to highlight all visible characters in colors corresponding to whether they are friend or foe or even the target of their assassination. Due to Altaïr's memories being rendered by the computer of the Animus project, the player may experience "glitches" in the rendering of the historical world, which may help the player to identify targets, or can be used to alter the viewpoint during in-game scripted scenes should the player react fast enough when they appear.
Development

On September 28, 2006, in an interview with IGN, producer Jade Raymond confirmed that Altaïr is "a medieval hitman with a mysterious past" and that he is not a time traveler. In a later interview on December 13, 2006, with IGN, Kristen Bell (who lent her voice and likeness to the game) talked about the plot. According to the interview, the plot centers on genetic memory and a corporation looking for descendants of an assassin.

"It's actually really interesting to me. It's sort of based on the research that's sort of happening now, about the fact that your genes might be able to hold memory. And you could argue semantics and say it's instinct, but how does a baby bird know to eat a worm, as opposed to a cockroach, if its parents don't show it? And it's about this science company trying to, Matrix-style, go into people's brains and find out an ancestor who used to be an assassin, and sort of locate who that person is."
—Kristen Bell

Raymond also stated in an interview that the game takes inspiration from Bartol's novel Alamut.

On October 22, 2007, in an IGN Australia interview with Patrice Desilets mentioned that the lead character's climbing and running were done by "Alex and Richard – the same guys from Prince of Persia".

Altaïr is voiced by actor Philip Shahbaz,and his face is modeled on Francisco Randez, a model from Montréal. Al Mualim's character is roughly based on Rashid ad-Din Sinan, who was the leader of the Syrian branch of the Hashshashin in 1191 and was nicknamed "The Old Man of the Mountain".
Windows version

System requirements

	Minimum	Recommended
Microsoft Windows
Operating system	Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
CPU	Intel Pentium D 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (Dual Core) processor	Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz or better/AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ or 4400+
Memory	512 MB (XP), 1 GB (Vista)	2 GB
Hard drive space	9.0 GB
Graphics hardware	256 MB DirectX 9.0c Graphics Card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher.	512 MB DirectX 10.0–compliant video card.
Sound hardware	DirectX 9.0 or 10.0–compliant	5.1 channel surround

It was made public in April 2008 that Assassin's Creed would be sold electronically and available for pre-order through Valve's software distribution program, Steam. The PC version of Assassin's Creed was released on April 8, 2008, in North America. Four bonus mission types, not seen in the console version, are included. These 4 new missions are archer assassination, rooftop race challenge, merchant stand destruction challenge and escort challenge.

A pirated version of the game has been in existence since late February 2008. According to Ubisoft, a Computer bug, was purposely inserted into the pre-release version of the game by the publisher itself to unpredictably crash the game and prevent completion as a security measure, though players were able to use extra content available on the Internet to bypass it. The pirated version of Assassin's Creed was one of the most popular titles for piracy during the first week of March 2008. The presence of the bug and performance of the pirated version of the game was believed by Ubisoft to lead to "irreparable harm" for the game and resulted in low retail sales; NPD Group reports that 40,000 copies of the PC title were sold in United States in July, while more than 700,000 copies were illegally downloaded according to Ubisoft.In July 2008, Ubisoft sued disc manufacturer Optical Experts Manufacturing, believing the company to be the source of the leak, citing poor security procedures that allowed an employee to leave with a copy of the game.
Demos

On July 10, 2007, during Microsoft's E3 press conference, a demo was shown using a previously unseen city, Jerusalem. Features that were demonstrated included improved crowd mechanics, the "chase" system (chasing after a target trying to flee), as well as deeper aspects of parkour. This was the first time when Altaïr could be heard speaking. It was again showcased for 20 minutes on July 11, 2007. The video showed an extended version of the E3 demo, and included Altaïr trying to escape after his assassination of Talal the Slave Trader.

On August 26, 2007, an 11-minute demo of Assassin's Creed was shown at the Penny Arcade Expo. The level that was shown was the same as in the E3 demo; however, a different path was taken to reach the target. At the end of the demo, a conversation between Altaïr and Malik, the head of the Assassin's bureau in Jerusalem, was shown.
Limited edition

The North American limited edition on Xbox 360 and PS3 contained: the game, a 3-inch Altair figurine, Penny Arcade comics, a miniature strategy guide and DVD bonus disc featuring the winners of an Assassin’s Creed short film contest, behind-the-scenes videos, developer diaries, trailers, producer interviews, and downloads.

There were three European limited edition packages on Xbox 360 and PS3. The first contained: the game and a 8-inch painted resin Altaïr figure. The second contained the game and 4 bonus postcards, housed within steel case packaging. The third contained the game, a PC DVD-ROM bonus disc, and a 17-page comic book, housed within steel case packaging.

The European limited edition on Windows PC contained the Director's Cut game housed within steel case packaging.

References

Assassin's Creed UK website
Wikipedia

Assassin's Creed

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones

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Cheats & Codes

Easter Egg: Sound Credits

This occurs during your second Dark Prince transformation (this is in the large courtyard right before the first chariot sequence). In the corner of the courtyard, there will be a hole in the ceiling that respawns enemies until you leave the area. Near that is a panel you need to stab and hang from to open the exit. Climb the closest pole to the hole in the ceiling and a female voice will start announcing sound credits for the game.

510pimp

Unlockable: Video Gallery

Finish the game.

Unlockable: Battle Rattle

During gameplay, pause and input LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT, RIGHT, Y, X, X, Y, UP, DOWN.

Ubisoft

Unclockable: Telephone

During gameplay, pause and input RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, DOWN, DOWN, UP, UP, Y, X, Y, Y, X, X.

Ubisoft

Unlockable: Chainsaw

During gameplay, pause and input UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, Y, X, Y, X.

UbiSoft

Unlockable Secret Sword

During gameplay, pause and input UP, DOWN, UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, YELLOW, BLUE, YELLOW, BLUE.

Cheats & Codes

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories Mission Unlockables

noreply@blogger.com (game.info8) — Wed, 3 Nov 2010 23:43:00 +0700

Unlockable	How to Unlock
Infinite Sprint	Beat Ambulance Missions Level 12
Bickle '76	Drop off 100 Passengers in the Taxi
Fireproof Toni	Complete Level 12 In Firefighter Missions
Extra 25 Max Health Points	Complete Level 10 in Pizza Deliveriy Missions at Joe's Pizza in Staunton Island
Extra 25 Max Health Points	Complete Level 10 in Noodle Delivery Missions at Noodle Punk in Portland
150 Max Armor Points	Complete Level 12 In Vigilante Missions
Super Angel Bike (Bulletproof) generated at Portland safe-house	Completing Avenging Angels missions in Portland
Getting Busted Won't Cost Money	Completing Avenging Angels missions in Staunton Island
Super Land Stalker (Bulletproof) generated at Shoreside Vale safe-house	Completing Tourism missions
Upgraded Sanchez	Complete all ten courses in the "Bump & Grinds" at the dirt bike course in Portland
Underwear costume	Complete 1 Unique Jump
Generate cash from "Hogs & Cogs"	Sell 40 motorcycles in Belleville Park, Staunton Island
Hero Costume	Beat Level 15 of the Avenging Angels missions in Shoreside Vale
Generate $4000 at Capital Autos	Beat Level 6 of Car Salesman
Hellenbach GT	Beat level four of the car salesman sidequest
Multiplayer Skins	Complete the "Driving Mr Leone" mission.
Generate 4x the cash for cars in the Scrapyard	Complete the Scrapyard motorcycle challenge
Bullet Proof PCJ 600	Take Waynes Bike in Biker Heat Mission.
Cox Mascot Outfit	Beat SlashTV 2 times
M60 machine gun	Beat all rampages.
'King' Jumpsuit Costume	Finsh all story mode missions
V8 Ghost	Complete Love Media
PCJ	Complete Love Media
Infinite Ammo	Beat the game 100%
Rhino Tank in Ft. Staunton	Complete the game 100%
Micro SMG able to be purchased at Ammu-Nation	Complete the Don in 60 seconds mission
Overalls Outfit	Complete the The Portland Chainsaw Masquerade mission
Avenging Angel's Outfit	Complete the Frighteners mission
Chauffer's Outfit	Complete the Rollercoaster Ride mission
Vehicles Take Double Damage	Complete the game 100%
Get 10000$	Complete all 26 unique jumps
Dragon Jump Suit	complete the mission "Crazy '69'
Wise Guy clothes	complete mission "shoot the messenger"
Antonio Outfit	Complete the mission "Making Toni".
Sweats Outfit	Complete the mission "A Walk In The Park".
Goodfella Outfit	Complete the mission "Overdose of Trouble".
Tuxedo Outfit	Complete the mission "A Date with Death".
Leone's Outfit	Drive to your house at the start of the game and walk into the clothes icon
Generate a boat Speeder at Portland Ferry Docks	Beat the game 100%

Saurce::Gamespot

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 Hints & Cheats

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SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 Passwords
At the Main Menu, select My WWE, then Options, then Cheat Codes:

Password	Effect
8thannualtribute	tribute.to the troops arema
apexpredator	Randy Ortons Viper Pack

SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 Unlockables
Characters

Unlockable	How to Unlock
Finlay	Win 1 "SmackDown" match with any Superstar (1-on-1 Match only)
Ezekiel Jackson	Win 5 matches on "WWE Superstars" with any superstar (1-on-1 Match only)
ECW Championship Belt	Win WWE Championship in Main Event at Extreme Rules
Brie Bella	Win one Women's Championshipwith any Diva on PPV (1-on-1)
Zack Ryder	Win 1 “WWE Superstars” match with any Superstar (1-on-1 match only)
Yoshi Tatsu	Win 5 “Raw” matches with any Superstar (1-on-1 match only)
William Regal	Win 10 “WWE Superstars” match with any Superstar (1-on-1 match only)
Shelton Benjamin	Win 10 "SmackDown" matches with any superstar (1-on-1 matches only)
Nikki Bella	Win one Women's Championshipwith any Diva on PPV (1-on-1 match)
Mike Knox	Win 5 "SmackDown" matches with any superstar (1-on-1 matches only)
Mickie James	Win 5 Divas-only matches with any Diva (1-on-1 matches only)
Gail Kim	Win 1 Divas-only match with any Diva
Goldust	Win 10 "Raw" matches with any Superstar (1-on-1 Match only) (WWE Universe)
Jake "The Snake" Roberts	Defeat him on Week 9 in Taker's RTWM without taking substantial damage
Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka	Beat Superfly on Week 10 in Taker's RTWM in under 3 minutes.
Masked Kane	Collect all the souls in Taker's RTWM and beat him on Week 11.
Paul Bearer	After defeating Paul Bearer(in 90 sec), Defeat Undertaker at WrestleMania

Unlockables

Unlockable	How to Unlock
ECW Brand	Win a match at Extreme Rules.
WCW Championship	Win World Heavyweight Championship at Extreme Rules
ECW Arena	Win World Heavyweight Championship at Extreme Rules

References::Gamespot

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Hints & Cheats

noreply@blogger.com (game.info8) — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 07:58:00 +0700

Unlockable Characters

Unlockable	How to Unlock
Gaara	Clear "Burning Will of Fire" (Flashback Mission: Leaf Destruction Arc)
Itachi Uchiha	Clear "Fatal Encounter" (Flashback Mission: Tsunade Search Arc)
Jiraiya	Clear "A Match with Pervy Sage"
Kabuto Yakushi	Clear "A Whirling Rasengan Explodes" (Flashback Mission: Tsunade Search Arc)
Kakashi Hatake	Clear Genin Training Arc
Kankuro	Clear "The Aburame Clan" (Flashback Mission: Leaf Destruction Arc)
Kimimaro	Clear "Battle with the Sound Beguns" (Flashback Mission: Sasuke Chase Arc)
Kimimaro: Curse Marked Second State Mode	Clear "A Duel that risks their Bond" (Flashback Mission: Sasuke Chase Arc)
Kisame Hoshigaki	Clear "Toad Sage shows his ability" (Flashback Mission: Tsunade Search Arc)
Might Guy	Clear "Odd Beast Battles a Scourge" (Flashback Mission: Tsunade Search Arc)
Might Guy: Eight Gates Mode	Clear "A Duel that risks their Bond" (Flashback Mission: Sasuke Chase Arc)
Naruto Uzumaki: Nine-Tailed Fox Mode	Clear "A Duel that risks their Bond" (Flashback Mission: Sasuke Chase Arc)
Orochimaru	Clear "Sannin Rock Heaven and Earth" (Flashback Mission: Tsunade Search Arc)
Rock Lee: Eight Gates Mode	Clear "A Duel that risks their Bond" (Flashback Mission: Sasuke Chase Arc)
Sasuke Uchiha: Curse Marked Second State Mode	Clear "A Duel that risks their Bond" (Flashback Mission: Sasuke Chase Arc)
Temari	Clear "The Chunin Exam Sleeper Pick" (Flashback Mission: Leaf Destruction Arc)
The Third Hokage	Clear "Unprecedented Mega Battle" (Flashback Mission: Leaf Destruction Arc)
Tsunade	Clear "Tsunade finally opens her eyes" (Flashback Mission: Tsunade Search Arc

Unlockable Costumes

Unlockable	How to Unlock
Gaara's Later Outfit	Clear "Gaara Returns" (Flashback Mission: Sasuke Chase Arc)
Kankuro's Later Outfit	Clear "Gaara Returns" (Flashback Mission: Sasuke Chase Arc)
Sasuke Uchiha's Black Outfit	Clear "Sasuke and Gaara" (Flashback Mission: Leaf Destruction Arc)
Shikamaru Nara's Chunin Outfit	Clear "Shikamaru's Squad is summoned" (Flashback Mission: Sasuke Chase Arc)
Temari's Later Outfit	Clear "Gaara Returns" (Flashback Mission: Sasuke Chase Arc)

References::Gamespot

Unlockable Characters

Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword

noreply@blogger.com (game.info8) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:39:00 +0700

Developer(s)	Firaxis Games
Publisher(s)	Take Two Interactive
Distributor(s)	2K Games
Version	3.19 (June 10, 2009)
Platform(s)	Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X
Release date(s)	^AUS July 18, 2007 ^UK July 20, 2007 ^NA July 23, 2007
Genre(s)	Turn-based strategy
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: E10+ OFLC: PG
Media	CD , DVD, Steam Download
System requirements Copy of Civilization IV, Windows 2000/XP/Vista 1.2 GHz processor 256 MB RAM 1.7 GB free space 4x DVD Drive DirectX 9.0c –compatible 64 MB video card with hardware T&L & pixel shader DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card

Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword is the second official expansion pack of the turn-based strategy video game Civilization IV. The expansion focuses on adding content to the in-game time periods following the invention of gunpowder, and includes more general content such as 11 new scenarios, 10 new civilizations, and 16 new leaders.
Overview

Corporations: A new gameplay feature, similar to the ‘religion’ one, allows players to create corporations and spread them throughout the world. Each corporation provides benefits in exchange for certain resources.

Espionage: Now available much earlier in the game, this expanded feature offers players many new ways to spy on opponents, stir citizen unrest and defend their government’s secrets.

Random Events: New random events such as natural disasters, pleas for help, or demands from their citizens will challenge players to overcome obstacles in order for their civilizations to prosper. Random events can also be beneficial, such as scientific breakthroughs or incidents that improve relations with a neighbor.

Advanced Starts: When starting the game in any era, this new option allows the player to purchase components for an already-developed nation.

Expanded Space Victory: Obtaining a space victory is now more difficult and requires more strategy and decision-making than before.

Expanded Diplomatic Victory: It is now possible to achieve diplomatic victories much earlier in the game, and to defy resolutions.

New Game Options: Beyond the Sword offers various new game options, like new world-types and the option to play any leader-civilization combination.

Corporations

Corporations become available with discovery of the Corporation technology. Each of the seven available Corporations requires a particular type of Great Person, a particular additional technology, and access to particular resources to build the Corporate Headquarters and found that Corporation; each of the seven Corporations can be founded only once per game. Each Corporation consumes specific resources, and supplies alternative resources or benefits in return. The more instances of resources they consume, the more food, production, commerce, or resources they supply. Corporations can be spread like religions (using the Executive unit as a missionary) to other cities, including foreign cities; any city hosting a Corporation branch must pay a maintenance fee for its services, while the owner of the Corporate Headquarters receives bonus gold for each branch.
Players can block foreign corporations from operating in their cities by adopting the Mercantilism civic, and they can block all corporations, even their own, by adopting the State Property civic.
Currently, the following seven Corporations appear in the game. Unlike Religions, the Corporations are not directly based on real-life corporations, but some of the options are clear references to real companies such as General Mills or Standard Oil:

Standard Ethanol Companyoffers the player, after the use of a Great Scientist to build its headquarters, the possibility to provide oil in exchange for corn, sugar, or rice.
Cereal Mills provides additional food for a city in the form of cereal, in exchange for corn, rice, or wheat. The player can build its headquarters with a Great Merchant.
Creative Constructions provides extra production and culture in exchange for obsolete strategic resources like iron, copper, stone, or marble. A Great Engineer can create a Creative Constructions headquarters.
Aluminum, Co. provides Aluminum in exchange for Coal. Its headquarters can be created with a Great Scientist.
Civilized Jewelers requires the Mass Media tech and needs a Great Artist to create its headquarters. The corporation consumes gold, silver or gems to generate treasury income and culture.
Mining Inc. corporation's headquarters can be built with a Great Engineer.It consumes Coal, Iron, Copper, Gold or Silver and increases a city's production.
Sid's Sushi Co. requires the discovering of the Medicine techand the use of a Great Merchant to build its headquarters. This corporation uses Fish, Crabs, Clam or Rice to provide extra food and culture to cities. This corporation is named for Sid Meier, creator of the Civilization series.

Espionage

Espionage's importance in Civilization IV has been raised to compare with that of scientific research, culture, income from taxes etc. The new espionage slider allows the player to divert part of their income towards espionage activities against other civilizations. Once the player has reached certain thresholds of espionage investment, the player starts gaining some automatic intelligence benefits over rival civilizations.
The player can also send Spy units into foreign territory to gather further intelligence and to perform various missions of destruction and propaganda. Their role is a bit different, because spies are now invisible to all units, save for other spies. Great Spies are born in cities, like other Great Persons. Great Spies can perform typical functions like serving as a Specialist, starting a Golden Age, or building a unique building. Their special function allows them to infiltrate enemy cities, giving the player significant advantage in espionage against that civilization. Just like other Great Persons, they have unique names, and their appearance changes accordingly to the time period, e.g., a Great Spy in the ancient era shows up as a ninja, just as the Industrial-Age Great Spy appears as a tuxedo-sporting James Bond-style unit, complete with similar thematic music once a mission is performed.
Conversely, espionage has become somewhat of a hindrance in the pursuit of normal diplomatic victories. The act of catching opposing AI controlled spies will devastate your diplomatic relations with those players forcing you into a negative relationship that you cannot recover from. Even a friendly AI could potentially have a hidden -10 points from captured spies that will never allow a diplomatic victory, even through rampant generosity of resources, technology, gold, and all other attempts to negate the immense negative statistic. (This can be tested by saving an in-progress player vs CPU game and continuing it with players in place of the AI.)
Random events
The Beyond the Sword expansion reintroduces Sim City- and Alpha Centauri-style random events from the original Civilization game, which can cause the game to swing in the player's favor or present another obstacle the player must overcome. There are more than a hundred of these events, including natural disasters, such as earthquakes that can destroy buildings, and diplomatic marriages that might suddenly turn two former rivals into friends. Together these new events give each game a completely unique flavor. In addition, each game offers players the opportunity for rewards through the completion of special events in the form of missions ("quests").
Some examples of Random Events in the game include:

Tsunamis
Floods
Discovery of new resources
Earthquakes
Diplomatic marriages
Plea of help from another civilization
Unexpected demands from citizens
Hurricanes
Global warming
Bermuda Triangle accidents

Advanced starts

Advanced Starts are a pre-game setup phase players use to purchase cities, improvements, buildings, technologies, and units. It works in both single-player and multi-player. The player decides what to purchase and where to place it. When everyone is done, the game starts with players controlling relatively balanced, advanced empires with a working infrastructure. This mechanism is ideal for those who want to jump right in and experience a balanced game in a further era, without having to start it from the stone age.
Expanded Space Victory
To acquire a Space Victory, the game now requires the player's spaceship to reach Alpha Centauri, rather than simply launch. It is now also possible to build spaceships that fly faster than those of other civilizations, so that a player can achieve Space Victory, even if they finished building a spaceship after a competitor.
Expanded Diplomatic Victory
The new Apostolic Palace wonder allows the player to win an early diplomatic victory, centuries before the United Nations is due to make its appearance. The wonder is tied to the state religion of the player who built it. Depending on the influence of the Palace's religion on their civilization, players get votes to cast on decrees like holy wars, trade embargoes, or peace enforcement. It is later rebuffed by Communism and made obsolete by Mass Media. At this point, the more modern United Nations takes over many of its functions.
New game options
The expansion offers various new world-types and game options. The player will have the option to play as any leader-civilization combination, therefore allowing "what-if" possibilities. Also, a new feature is the option to only trade away player researched technologies. Finally players can choose the religions founded by specific technologies, so that the same religions will not be dominant in every game
New content
New content includes:

10 new civilizations and leaders (Babylonia, Byzantine Empire, Ethiopian Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Khmer Empire, the Mayans, Native Americans, Netherlands, Portugal and Sumer)
6 new leaders for existing civilizations (Abe Lincoln, de Gaulle, Boudica, Darius I, Suleiman the Magnificent and Pericles).
25 new units, 18 buildings and new technologies added primarily to the late game.
11 new scenarios.
6 new Wonders of the World.
New diplomatic resolutions through the United Nations.

Thus, this is how the Civilization IV final roster looks:
Civilization	Unique Unit	Unique Building (added in Warlords)	Leader/s	Capital
American	Navy SEAL	Mall	Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt	Washington
Arabian	Camel Archer	Madrassa	Saladin	Mecca
Aztec	Jaguar	Sacrificial Altar	Montezuma	Tenochtitlan
Babylonian	Bowman	Garden	Hammurabi	Babylon
Byzantine	Cataphract	Hippodrome	Justinian	Constantinople
Carthaginian	Numidian Mercenary	Cothon	Hannibal	Carthage
Celts	Gallic Swordsman	Dun	Brennus, Boudica	Bibracte
Chinese	Cho-Ko-Nu	Pavilion	Qin Shi Huang, Mao Zedong, Taizong (in the Chinese version)	Beijing
Dutch	East Indiaman	Dike	Willem van Oranje	Amsterdam
Egyptian	War Chariot	Obelisk	Hatshepsut, Ramesses II	Thebes
English	Redcoat	Stock Exchange	Elizabeth, Victoria, Churchill	London
Ethiopian	Oromo Warrior	Stele	Zara Yaqob	Aksum
French	Musketeer	Salon	Louis XIV, Napoleon, de Gaulle	Paris
Germans	Panzer	Assembly Plant	Frederick, Bismarck	Berlin
Greek	Phalanx	Odeon	Alexander, Pericles	Athens
Holy Roman	Landsknecht	Rathaus	Charlemagne	Aachen
Incan	Quechua	Terrace	Huayna Capac	Cuzco
Indians	Fast Worker	Mausoleum	Asoka, Gandhi	Delhi
Japanese	Samurai	Shale Plant	Tokugawa	Kyoto
Khmer	Ballista Elephant	Baray	Suryavarman II	Yasodharapura
Korean	Hwacha	Seowon	Wang Kon	Seoul
Malinese	Skirmisher	Mint	Mansa Musa	Timbuktu
Mayan	Holkan	Ball Court	Pacal II	Mutal
Mongolian	Keshik	Ger	Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan	Karakorum
Native American	Dog Soldier	Totem Pole	Sitting Bull	Cahokia
Ottoman	Janissary	Hammam	Mehmed II, Suleiman	Istanbul
Persians	Immortal	Apothecary	Cyrus II, Darius I	Persepolis
Portuguese	Carrack	Feitoria	Joao II	Lisbon
Roman	Praetorian	Forum	Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar	Rome
Russian	Cossack	Research Institute	Peter, Catherine, Stalin	Moscow
Spanish	Conquistador	Citadel	Isabella	Madrid
Sumerian	Vulture	Ziggurat	Gilgamesh	Uruk
Viking	Berserker	Trading Post	Ragnar	Nidaros
Zulu	Impi	Ikhanda	Shaka	Ulundi

General changes

Improvements in AI (Artificial Intelligence) for harder games across all difficulty levels. The AI player will attempt more ways to win than before. It is also better at warfare (particularly naval operations) and economic management.
Early-game units now have different regional art styles and motifs.
On-map ocean trade routes that enhance the importance of the navy
Colonies can split off from their motherland to form new civilization
The foreign advisory screen has been overhauled.
Beyond the Sword includes some material from the previous Warlords expansion pack, specifically the core game features, but not the Warlords scenarios.

New scenariosThe expansion delivered 11 new scenarios. Some were developed by the fan community, and were critically well received. The following scenarios are included.

Afterworld

This single player scenario was designed by Firaxis' Tim McCracken featuring a Science fiction/Horror/Role Playing Game theme where a team of "Gravebringers" are sent to a world inhabited by human robots to retrieve research. In this squad based tactical scenario the player must fight against zombies and the undead. This scenario is also unusual in that it does not contain many aspects of Civilization IV like leaders, cities or technologies.

Broken Star

Russia is divided, and a civil war is coming. To unite the Motherland the player may purchase military units from the U.S. or promotion upgrades from the Chinese Black Market; conscript the Russian people or bribe enemy forces; or even deploy the ultimate in doomsday weaponry, the nuclear bomb.

Charlemagne's Wars

This scenario is based on the wars fought by Frankish king and later emperor Charlemagne in Europe during the late eighth and early ninth centuries. The scenario introduces a bevy of Medieval units such as the Mounted infantry and Supply Train. Players gain favor from Rome by spreading Christianity and destroying Islam. When a player gains enough favor he/she may be rewarded with the powerful Papal Pikeman

CIV Defense

In CIV Defense, Civilization IV becomes a single player tower defense in which players start with a small amount of cash to buy an advanced start and to get a single city going before the game starts. The player is confronted with 20 waves of enemies who try to capture their cities. Between each wave of attacks, the player receives gold for each city that survives, using it to acquire new units, cities and technologies.

Crossroads of the World!

A late medieval age scenario where the player carves out a fortune from the riches of fourteenth-century Africa, Arabia, and Persia. Victory is achieved by trading, betraying, and battling one's way towards control of the Crossroads of the World.

Fall from Heaven: Age of Ice

A plot-heavy fantasy scenario set in the world of Erebus, home of the popular Fall from Heaven public mod^[ and made in cooperation with Firaxis staff and members of the mod team.
The scenario begins 350 years into the Age of Ice. Mulcarn, the God of Winter, reigns and the world is little more than a frozen wasteland ravaged by blizzards. Mankind has lost the knowledge gained during the previous age and has broken into small tribes fighting for survival. The player controls Kylorin, an ageless hero, who needs to recover the pieces of the legendary sword "The Godslayer", and defeat Mulcarn with it.

Final Frontier

The Final Frontier space scenario adapts Civilization into space with a brand new tech tree, units and terrain. The sides are different extrasolar colonies that have now lost contact with Earth. Over the course of the scenario, clues about what happened to humanity's home planet are revealed. The focus is not on building cities, but colonizing entire star systems.

Gods of Old

Gods of Old is the standard game, based on principles of Sumerian religion. Each of the seven Ancient Sumerian gods in the game has a special ability and can unleash calamities such as earthquakes and floods.

Next War

A futuristic sci-fi scenario with clone armies and mechanized units set in the 2050s. This scenario is available as an expansion on the Epic game as well as being a standalone scenario.
The World is divided into four huge empires: The Pan-Asiatic People Co-Operative-led by The Glorious Leader (Qin Shi Huang) (China, Japan, Siam and East Russia), America Inc.-led by Mr. Big (George Washington) (North America, Britain, New Zealand and Australia), The Great Southern Empire-led by The Lady (Hatshepsut) (Africa, Middle East and South America) and Europa-led by His Excellency (Alexander the Great) (Europe, Algeria, Turkey and West Russia). You can also build Biological Bombs to destroy other empires and Nuclear bombs to do even more damage.

Rhye's and Fall of Civilization

Nearly all standard civilizations available in Beyond the Sword are made available to play in their proper geographic and historical locations. Features such as dynamic historical city names, unique historical victories, and the new stability system enhance both the historical feel and the game play. Scripting of the AI encourages the world to develop in a similar path to real history, yet with an element of unpredictability to keep the game fresh.

World War II: Road to War

Play as the Allies or Axis in the European Theater starting in either 1936 or 1939 or the Pacific Theater starting in 1936 of the Second World War. Some of the countries playable are Germany (Vice Chancellor Von Papen), Japan (Admiral Yamamoto), The United States (President Roosevelt), France (De Gaulle), Great Britain (Churchill), and the USSR (Stalin).
Modding
In general, with the exception of Final Frontier, the "external mods" (official mods originally made by users, instead of by Firaxis) had the best reception: "Rounding out BtS is a selection of mods and scenarios. Some are the best of the mod scene, others Firaxis designs. Sadly for Firaxis, it's the already existing mods that shine - the excellent fantasy-set Fall from Heaven, the intriguing, history-following Rhye's and Fall of Civilizations, and WWII: The Road to War.
For example, Rhye's and Fall of Civilization was called "one of the most exciting and robust mods you'll ever see for any game" in Yahoo! Games review,and "a fresh new coat of paint to the core Civilization gameplay" in the Gamespot one.French magazine Cyberstratège reckoned it the best of the scenarios released in Beyond the Sword, assigning the best mark (9 of out 10) among them. Whereas the standard, epic game takes historical civilizations from different eras and locations on the planet and starts them each in 4000 BC on a random map, Rhye's and Fall of Civilization puts the civilizations into their proper time and place in human history. The mod is also notable for the addition of features meant to enhance the historical feel of the game such as a stability system (civs truly can rise and fall), plagues, historical place names, and scripted AI behavior that mirrors real Earth history. An added victory condition, the Historical Victory is also added. This victory requires the player to meet certain conditions that are unique to each civilization, for example the Americans must not allow European cities in North America by a 1900 and Arabia must spread Islam to 40% of the world in order to win.
Another notable Beyond the Sword mod Fall From Heaven II was created by the fan-team who were involved in developing the scenario Age of Ice. It is set in a dark fantasy world directly after the scenario, at the end of an ice age and the rebirth of civilization. FfH rebalances the game to emphasize warfare with small, enduring groups instead of human waves; adds a magic system with caster units and "mana" resources; and changes religions and civilizations from being mostly interchangeable to "wholly different experiences."
A full-length review in Pelit magazine awarded FfH 92% describing the mod as "a clump of clichés at first sight" that turns out to be "the finest fantasy strategy since Master of Magic and the best times of Warlords." The reviewer further complimented a strong backstory ("for a mod") and an extensive manual and Civilopedia. He criticized technical problems with online multiplayer, problems that are largely beyond a mod's capacity to fix, some problems with sound and high system requirements.
Civilization II and Civilization III both included popular World War II scenarios and Civilization IV is no exception. Beyond the Sword introduces a fan-created mod, The Road to War. "The Road to War offers three variants - Pacific 1936, Europe 1936, and Europe 1939 - as well as a host of different scenario-specific units."
References wikipedia
External links

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

noreply@blogger.com (game.info8) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:36:00 +0700

Developer(s)	Ensemble Studios
Publisher(s)	Microsoft (Win, Mac) Konami (PS2)
Designer(s)	Bruce Shelley
Series	Age of Empires
Version	2.0a
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation 2
Release date(s)	September 30, 1999
Genre(s)	Real-time strategy
Mode(s)	Single player Multiplayer
Rating(s)	ELSPA: 3+ ESRB: T (Teen)
Media	CD-ROM
System requirements 166 MHz Processor 32 MB RAM 200 MB Hard drive space

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (often shortened to AGE2, The Age of Kings, AoE II or AoK) is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft. Released in 1999 for the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh operating systems, it was the second game in the Age of Empires series. An expansion, The Conquerors, was released in 2000. A PlayStation 2 version was released by Konami in 2001, and a Nintendo DS spinoff, Age of Empires: The Age of Kings was developed by Backbone Entertainment in 2006. The Dreamcast port, by Konami, was canceled.
The Age of Kings is set in the Middle Ages and contains thirteen playable civilizations. They are the Britons, Byzantines, Celts, Goths, Teutons, Franks, Mongols, Chinese, Japanese, Persians, Saracens, Turks and the Vikings. Players aim to gather resources, which they use to build towns, create armies, and ultimately defeat their enemies. There are five historically-based campaigns, which constrict the player to specialized and story-backed conditions. There are three additional single player game modes, and multiplayer is supported. Despite using the same game engine and similar code to its predecessor, development of The Age of Kings took a year longer than expected, forcing Ensemble Studios to release Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome in 1998 instead. The design team focused on resolving significant issues in Age of Empires, but noted on release that some problems remained.
Reception of The Age of Kings was overwhelmingly positive, and the game scored highly on review aggregators. The significant number of new features was praised, as were the gameplay improvements. Some reviewers were critical of the presentation of units—they were seen as bland and uninteresting—while others considered The Age of Kings to be overly similar to its predecessor, Age of Empires. Three months after its release, two million copies of The Age of Kings had been shipped, and it topped sales charts in seven countries. The game won multiple awards and has had a significant impact on future games in its genre.
Gameplay
The Age of Kings focuses on building towns, gathering resources, creating armies, and destroying enemy units and buildings. Players conquer rival towns and empires as they advance one of 13 civilizations through four "Ages": the Dark Age, the Feudal Age, the Castle Age (The Middle Ages), and the Imperial Age, reminiscent of the Renaissance—a 1000 year timeframe. Progressing to a new Age unlocks new units, structures, and technologies, but players must pay a sum of resources to advance to the next age (typically food and gold) once selected technologies are researched from their current age, and certain buildings are constructed.
Civilian units, called "villagers", are used to gather resources; they are either male or female - gender does not affect their abilities. Resources can be used to train units, construct buildings, and research technologies, among other things; for example, players can research better armour for infantry units. The game offers four types of resources: food, wood, gold, and stone. Food is obtained by hunting animals, gathering berries, harvesting livestock, farming, and fishing. Wood is gathered by chopping down trees. Gold is obtained from either gold mines, trade or using relics in a monastery, and stone is collected from stone mines. Villagers require checkpoints, typically depository buildings (town center, mining camp, mill, and lumber yard), where they can store gathered resources.Each civilization can purchase upgrades that increase the rate of gathering these resources. Players can construct a market for trade; players can either trade wood, stone, and food for gold, and use gold to buy other resources. Market prices fluctuate with every transaction.Furthermore, docks can also generate gold by using trading cogs which are used to visit ally ports; once they return to the player's port, gold is added to the stockpile. The amount of gold a trading cog earns on each trip is related to the distance it had to travel to an ally port. More gold is earned on longer trips. It is possible to trade with enemies' ports, but the player's trading vessels may be attacked or destroyed by enemy units in the process. Players do not need to keep trading manually, as once they select the port or market the trading units infinitely continue to trade.
There are five campaigns in The Age of Kings, containing historically-based scenarios such as Genghis Khan's invasion of Eurasia, Barbarossa's Crusade, or Saladin's defence of the Holy Land. In the Joan of Arc and William Wallace campaigns, the player can control a unit based on its namesake; in others, players take orders from guiding spirits representative of the army's commander.
Additional game modes are available to the player in The Age of Kings.One mode, random map, generates a plain map, with players starting in the Dark Age with a Town Center, three villagers, and a scout unit. The game can be won through military conquest, by constructing a special building known as a Wonder and keeping it standing for a certain amount of time, or by obtaining control of all relics on the map for a set amount of time. Deathmatch mode allows players to begin with large amounts of resources, creating a focus on military dominance, while in the regicide mode each player is given a king unit, winning by killing all of the other monarchs.
Civilizations
Players choose to play as one of 13 civilizations split into four architectural styles, West European, Central European, Middle Eastern, and East Asian, that determine building appearance in-game. The 13 civilizations are: Britons, Byzantines, Celts, Chinese, Franks, Goths, Japanese, Mongols, Persians, Saracens, Teutons, Turks, or Vikings. The civilizations have varying strengths and weaknesses with regards to economics, technology, and battle, and each has access to a different, very powerful "Unique Unit". Additionally, each civilization provides an individual team bonus in team games. To add variety, each civilization has a set of soundbites in its native language that are uttered by units when selected and instructed to perform a task.
Units
Every player has a limit to the number of units they can create—a population limit—but may not immediately use the entire potential population.The population capacity, which can be capped at anywhere between 25 - 200, is based on the number of houses, Castles, or Town Centers—the main building in a player's town—which have been built.The Age of Kings introduced two significant new features for unit management: the idle villager button, which helps players identify villagers that have not been assigned a task, and the town bell, which sends all a player's villagers into their Town Center, Castle, or tower for safety ; units garrisoned within these three buildings, especially archers, increase the building's fire-power (towers fire more arrows with units garrisoned inside) including the town center, which can not fire anything at all without someone garrisoned there.
The Age of Kings also includes five types of military units: infantry, archers, cavalry, siege weaponry, and naval units. Certain types of infantry, archers, and cavalry are "counter units" with special defenses against other types of unit. The three human classes of military generally follow a rock-paper-scissors model. For example, infantry are generally powerful against buildings but weak against cavalry, thus the infantry counter units—spearmen and pikemen—have attack bonuses against cavalry. Each Civilization in The Age of Kings has a special unit that is exclusive to that Civilization. For instance, the Britons have access to Long-bowmen, an archery unit with increased range. These Civilization-specific units are generally more powerful, but still follow the basic rock-paper-scissors model. The monk is a special kind of military unit that has the ability to convert enemy units to the player's civilization, and to heal allied units. Monks are also used to collect relics; relics accumulate gold once held in the player's monastery — the more relics he has captured, the faster the gold is accumulated. Collecting all five relics on the map is one method by which a player can win a random map game, depending on the victory setting. Once a player has all five in their monasteries(does not all have to be in the same monastery, as long as they are owned by the same player or team), a timer is shown to all players. If an opposing player does not destroy a monastery holding a relic after the set time, then that player wins.
Buildings
The buildings in The Age of Kings are split into the economic and military buildings categories.Buildings can research technologies and upgrades that increase economic, military or unit-based efficiency, as well as provide resources for the player.
The most important economic building is the Town Center, where villagers are created, all types of resources can be stored, some technologies are researched, and the player can advance to the next Age. The Town Center can fire arrows at enemy units within range if villagers or archers are garrisoned while under attack. Other economical buildings available include storage buildings for resources, farms, docks (the dock may also produce several military ships), and houses to support a higher population.
Military buildings include unit-producing buildings such as barracks, archery ranges, stables, and castles, as well as defensive buildings such as walls and towers.Military buildings can perform research to improve the abilities of military units, increasing their strength, defensive capabilities, or other attributes.The castle is a military building which can train a wide variety of units, including the civilization's 'Unique Unit', and fires arrows at enemy units within range, with garrisoned units (notably archery units) firing extra arrows.It can only be built after a player has reached the Castle Age, although in some game options, players can begin with an already-built castle as early as the Dark Age.
There are two main defensive buildings, the wall and the tower. The two types of walls, stone walls and the weaker palisades, are used to prevent access to an enclosed area whilst providing a solid line of defense. Gates can be installed in stone walls to allow allied units to access a defended area.Towers are equipped with the ability to fire arrows at unfriendly units, and can be used in conjunction with the wall in defense mechanisms.
Multiplayer
The Age of Kings supports multiplayer over the Internet, or via a local area network (LAN). Up to eight players can take part in one game, with all of the single player game modes available. The MSN Gaming Zone supported the game until the service closed on June 19, 2006. Alternative services, such as GameSpy Arcade, GameRanger and Garena, also known as "GGG-Client", were recommended as a replacement.
Development
Prior to the completion of Age of Empires, Ensemble Studios had signed a contract with Microsoft for a sequel. The design team chose to set The Age of Kings in the Middle Ages as a logical progression from the ancient era setting of Age of Empires. The design team was conscious of attempting to capture the broad appeal of the first game without making the game's design too similar. Nonetheless, they attempted to appeal to the vast demographic who played Age of Empires.
The Age of Kings's design team intended to complete the game within a year by using code from the original and reusing the Genie game engine. Several months into the process they found they would not be able to complete a game of the quality they sought in that time. Ensemble Studios informed Microsoft they would need another year and instead created Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome, an easily-developed expansion pack of Age of Empires, as a compromise which could be released for Christmas 1998.To help meet the next year's deadline, additional programmers, artists, and designers were employed.
The original Age of Empires had been criticized for its artificial intelligence (AI). Because the original AI did not "cheat" by attributing itself extra resources or using other techniques the human player could not, it was easier to defeat than in many other real-time strategy games. For The Age of Kings, Ensemble Studios attempted to develop a more powerful AI system that did not compromise by cheating. Industry veteran Mario Grimani led Ensemble Studios in the creation of the new system. At the Standard setting, the AI does not cheat. However, at the higher levels, moderate, hard, and hardest, it gives itself free resources at various times.
To overcome another significant objection to Age of Empires—that of path finding—the team completely redesigned the game engine's movement system.
The team was less successful in resolving other issues; programmer Matt Pritchard complained following the release of Age of Empires that there was still no process by which patches could be issued. Extensive cheating in multiplayer games of Age of Empires came as a result of several bugs in the game, which resulted in Microsoft promising Ensemble Studios there would be a patch process for The Age of Kings. On release, there were several bugs that needed immediate attention, but the patch process was not yet ready. The first patch was released 11 months later.
Ensemble Studios developed a new terrain system for The Age of Kings, with 3D presentation capabilities that were vastly superior to those of Age of Empires. Pritchard noted an improvement in the team's artistic abilities following their work on the past two games, and he is noted as saying that "AoK became a showcase for their improved talent".However, he complained about the lack of an art asset management tool, while other departments gained new tools and automated procedures to assist in design and play testing.
The Age of Kings saw the introduction of a triggers system for its scenario editor. The triggers allow messages to be displayed, or actions to take place, based on pre-set criteria or "events". The scenario editor was also improved by the new AI system. The AI and trigger systems interacted regularly in the single player campaigns.
The soundtrack for The Age of Kings was directed by Stephen Rippy, who has since taken that role for all games in the Age of Empires series. Music for the game was split into two categories. For "in game" music, Rippy's team took musical elements from a variety of cultures and combined them to create a mixed sound. "Pre-game" music was designed to be unique to the civilization in question. Campaigns based on historical figures would include "a theme that will at least be rooted in [the character's] culture".

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings in-game music
Shamburger (3:25) I Will Beat On Your Behind (2:58) Drizzle (Firelight Smoove Mix) (2:40) Machina del Diablo (3:00) T Station (3:13) Bass Bag (3:10) Ride, Lawrence, Ride! (2:53) Smells Like Crickets, Tastes Like Chicken (3:01) Operation: Monkey (3:26) Tazer (2:55)

A demo of The Age of Kings was released on October 16, 1999.It featured the learning campaign, a sample of a random map game, and the ability to play via the MSN Gaming Zone.Much to Ensemble Studios' disappointment, numerous incomplete versions of the game were leaked. These were picked up by warez sites, and sold illegally throughout the Pacific Rim; warez versions of the game were even sold outside Microsoft's offices in Korea.
Reception and legacy

Reception
Aggregate scores
Aggregator	Score
GameRankings	92%
Metacritic	92
Review scores
Publication	Score
Allgame
Computer and Video Games	9.0/10
Edge	8/10
Eurogamer	9/10
GamePro
Game Revolution	A-
GameSpot	9.1/10
GameSpy	89/100
IGN	8.8/10
PC Zone	9.0/10

Reception of The Age of Kings was overwhelmingly positive. The game scored 92 out of 100 on both GameRankings and Metacritic.
According to Eurogamer's Geoff Richards, "the list of new features and improvements over the original game is over a page long". GamePro's review similarly focused on "new additions to the genre itself" which it argued made The Age of Kings outstanding. These included the idle unit button and town bell GameSpy's Carlos Salgado was appreciative of other features; he raised the ability to create individual profiles for different players and to customize hotkeys. Meanwhile, IGN appreciated the new abilities given to the villager unit—the review stated villagers "now play an important role not only in the collection of resources, but also in town defense and even in combat."
Allgame's Michael L. House enjoyed the use of soundbites in civilizations' native languages, which he said was "very influential in developing an era-enhancing atmosphere" Eurogamer said this feature "gives [villagers] a personality, rather than the standard "Acknowledged" grunt of military RTS games", also stating that the use of female villagers provided a good variety. Game Revolution's review explained that by being set in a more recent epoch of human history, The Age of Kings was able to "add character to an otherwise impersonal style of gameplay". Computer and Video Games approved of The Age of Kings' use of shorter, more focused campaigns, compared to its predecessor, while Game Revolution noted that even in slower sections of the campaign, the historical narrative helped maintain player interest. GameSpot said that with the screen full of units, "you can begin to imagine how their historical equivalents once prospered", while GameSpy said The Age of Kings presents "realism rarely seen in the RTS genre". IGN staff argued that while the strengths and weaknesses attributed to different civilizations made the game more realistic, the fact that they were still mostly the same prevented The Age of Kings from "delivering the same battlefield impact of StarCraft or Tiberian Sun".
House also praised the gameplay interface, which he said "couldn't be simpler", as well as the advanced grouping and path-finding systems.Nash Werner of GamePro said that the formation tools were wonderful, and complained only that they could not be assigned to naval units.Computer and Video Games generally agreed, stating that "the controls are very user-friendly and well explained". GameSpot's Greg Kasavin wrote that despite the game's improved graphics, "there's nothing foreign about its appearance" and that most game features will be "immediately recognizable if you've played a real-time strategy game before".PC Zone agreed, but in a negative sense—it argued that The Age of Kings "is essentially an update of a two-year-old game".
Richards was surprised by the quality of The Age of Kings' graphics, considering they were all bitmapped.However, Allgame complained that units were sometimes difficult to tell apart, a point numerous reviewers agreed on. It also called the sound of The Age of Kings as a negative, but not something significant enough to draw players away from the game's overall quality. IGN stated that cutscenes were somewhat bland, but that overall the graphics added "an amazing amount of detail to the actual game". Its main criticism was for the in-game speech used in campaigns; it rhetorically asked "why can't they just find a Frenchman to do a French accent?" Alex Constantides of Computer and Video Games rated the graphics highly, saying that some in-game buildings are "so grand you'll even feel guilty about burning them to the ground".Werner agreed; "the most noticeable graphical advancements", he wrote, were "the sheer size and scale of things". Game Revolution stated "AOE2 is the best looking of the 2D RTS games out there right now".
In January 2000, three months after its release, Microsoft announced that they had shipped two million copies of The Age of Kings. The game topped sales charts in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia and Korea. It would spend the next two and a half years on top 20 sales lists. The Age of Kings was top selling game in October 1999,and the fourth highest selling game in 1999.
The Age of Kings won GameSpot's Strategy Game of the Year in 1999,and was a nominee for Game of the Year.GamePower also named it Strategy Game of the Year, while PC Gamer and Computer Gaming World gave it Editor's Choice awards.The Age of Kings won Strategy Game of the Year and Computer Game of the Year at the 2000 Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences awards. It was also nominated for Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Animation, Outstanding Achievement in Game Design, and Outstanding Achievement in Game Play Engineering.IGN ranked The Age of Kings the 53rd best game of all time in 2005,and the 10th best PC game of all time in 2007.GameFAQs users placed it 56th in a poll of the best games ever.
The Age of Kings was highly influential on its genre. Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, a 2001 game by LucasArts, shared The Age of Kings' game engine, and was heavily influenced by its mechanics. Empire Earth's design was also similar to that of The Age of Kings; GameSpot said it "borrows most of that game's controls, interface features, and even some of its keyboard shortcuts". Rick Goodman, designer of Age of Empires and The Rise of Rome, designed Empire Earth GameSpot's Scott Osborne argued that the gameplay of Cossacks: European Wars was heavily based on The Age of Kings.
An expansion for The Age of Kings, The Conquerors, was released in 2000. It introduced numerous new game features, including five new civilizations. Two of these, the Aztecs and the Mayans, represented the New World. As well as three campaigns similar in concept to those in The Age of Kings, The Conquerors included a "Battles of the Conquerors" campaign which contained several unrelated battles such as those of Agincourt and Hastings. Age of Mythology, released in 2002, broke away from the historical trend and instead focused on Greek, Egyptian, and Norse mythology. It shared many gameplay elements with The Age of Kings and was considered a spin-off of the main Age of Empires series. The third historical game in the Age of Empires series, Age of Empires III, was released in 2005. The game portrayed the European colonization of the Americas. Aside from one significant feature, the home city, the game's design was similar to that of its predecessor.
References : Wikipedia
External links

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Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings at GameFAQs
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Jade Empire is an action role-playing game developed by Canadian developer BioWare and first published in 2005 by Microsoft Game Studios as a worldwide release for the Xbox. The later, two-disc Limited Edition contained extra content. On May 10, 2006 BioWare announced a version for Microsoft Windows XP, to be published by 2K Games and developed by LTI Gray Matter, which was subsequently released in North America on February 26, 2007 as a Special Edition. The Special Edition was also released through the Steam delivery system on February 27, 2007 published by Valve Corporation. Jade Empire was released as an Xbox Original on Microsoft's Xbox 360 on July 21, 2008. TransGaming Technologies announced immediate availability of the Special Edition for Intel-based Macs on August 18, 2008.
Gameplay
Overview
Jade Empire follows the style of the Wuxia genre within a mythical setting inspired by ancient China. The player, who can be either male or female, progresses through an adventure based on traditional martial arts and can discover and develop new fighting styles:martial arts, weapon styles magic styles,support styles, or transformation styles. Combat is not turn-based, but is in real time, granting players control over how and when characters dodge or attack. In this fashion the player may change styles during combat and possibly initiate a Harmonic Combo.
The role playing statistic system in Jade Empire uses a tri-stat system Body, Mind, and Spirit These primary stats control the secondary stats of Health, Focus, and Chi (respectively), and the conversation skills of Charm, Intuition, and Intimidation. Focus is used by fighting with weapon styles (such as a longsword or a staff) or by choosing "focus mode", which slows the movements of other characters, allowing the player to attack at high speeds. Chi is a character's spirit energy. The player can use it to heal himself, to charge up a powerful "chi strike" to deal large damage, or to use it as "mana" when casting spells or transformations. Health, focus, and chi can be replenished by collecting power-ups left by defeated enemies in combat or by using Focus Shrines and Spirit Fonts found in the game world. Additionally, certain party members have the ability to add their power to yours—refilling your stats while they remain out of harm's way.
Certain aspects of Jade Empire's gameplay engine, dialogue and quest systems are handled in a way that is very similar to BioWare's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic games for the Xbox and PC. Players can speak to NPCs in the game's towns and other areas, asking questions for information to learn more about the world, the storyline, and other characters. Many of these NPCs will offer the player side quests that can be completed for experience points and items. These quests often have more than one method of completion depending on whether the player chooses to follow the "High path" (in the game referred to as The Way of the Open Palm) or the "Low path" (The Way of the Closed Fist). The player can respond to questions or take courses of action that are consistent with the philosophy he or she follows; different actions will affect a character's alignment and his or her ability to cast certain spells or equip certain items.
There is also a vertical-scrolling airplane shooter included in Jade Empire as a mini-game, which is triggered by certain events in the storyline. In the mini-game, only the health and chi bars are active. Chi is replenished by shooting enemies, and is used for special attacks specific to the mini-game. The yellow focus spheres will upgrade your primary cannon up to three times. Red health spheres refill your health bar as in the main game.
Jade Empire also features the constructed language Tho Fan developed by Wolf Wikeley, a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics at the University of Alberta.
Philosophies
Much of the game places emphasis on the two major philosophies in the world of the Jade Empire, the Way of the Open Palm and the Way of the Closed Fist. These paths bear a close resemblance to the "Light Path" and "Dark Path" described in the BioWare title Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic; however, a minor character states "I believe there can be intrigue behind the Way of the Open Palm, and honour behind the Way of the Closed Fist." Thus one who follows the Way of the Open Palm is not necessarily good, and one who follows the Way of the Closed Fist is not necessarily evil.
According to the "Way of the Open Palm," the key to maintaining the universe is by being in harmony with nature, one's surroundings, and one's station in life. As an effect of being in nature with one's surroundings, one is expected to actively assist in lessening the chaos in the area, through the assistance of lessening burdens. While this seems "Peaceful", the Way of the Open Palm is strict in another form: one should not act outside their station and purpose in life.
According to the "Way of the Closed Fist," on the other hand, the purpose of life is to follow the ways of serving oneself — to face one's challenges head on, challenge one's station in life, and work to become self-reliant. The emphasis of the Way of the Closed Fist is combat, turmoil, and constantly challenging oneself, which is why many of those who are evil tend to be considered to follow the Way of the Closed Fist, in that they bring about chaos in the universe.^[
Context plays a large part in the interpretation of these philosophies. For example, an evil follower of the Open Palm path could enable the suffering of others in order to achieve greater order, and a good follower of the Closed Fist path could encourage self-reliance in others, thus making them happier. For instance, if a follower of the Open Palm came upon a peasant being attacked by a gang of bandits, he would help because it is the right thing to do. Conversely, if a follower of the Closed Fist encountered this situation, he would reason that the peasant must survive on their own merit, or die. However, the Closed Fist student might also help the peasant if he felt that the peasant was too far out of his league for such a battle to be a valid test of his strength. For example, if a common thug came upon this situation he may not help the peasant due to concern for his own safety, but then later claim he was merely following the way of the Closed Fist. In this way, the Closed Fist tends to be misconstrued as evil.
Despite the philosophical nuances, the actual game play in Jade Empire for the most part casts Open Palm actions as selfless and heroic, and Closed Fist actions as selfish and thuggish.
Characters
Player characters
Prior to starting the game, the player must choose one of either six or seven playable characters, depending on the game version. The sex of the character is by far the most important factor at character creation, since it will determine the various romance options as well as the responses of many non-player characters throughout the story. There are no differences in combat capabilities between the sexes.
The default playable characters are labeled "fast" (Mind specialists), "magic" (Spirit specialists), "strong" (Body specialists), or "balanced." The male playable characters are Furious Ming (fast, tattooed), Lu the Prodigy (balanced, athletic), Monk Zeng (magic, dressed as a Buddhist monk), and Tiger Shen (strong, large & muscular). The female characters are Radiant Jen Zi (fast, diminutive), Scholar Ling (magic, contemplative), and Wu the Lotus Blossom (balanced, seductive). Monk Zeng is only available in the Limited Xbox and Special PC editions of the game. The names of the characters can be customized prior to starting the game. Other than sex-based differences, the Jade Empire plot does not distinguish among the player characters (e.g., all male characters will have the same dialog response options, and will be received the same way by the story). As a minor detail, some NPCs will give a vague description of the player character's appearance.
The player character models all share common expressive traits. Through most conversations, the faces of the playable characters are calm and expressionless. When choosing a rare humorous or witty response from dialog options, a slight, barely perceptible smile appears on the character models. When choosing a mean-spirited or angry response, a much more perceptible scowl shows itself. Many of the pre-generated video cut scenes are rendered separately for each player character model.
Non-player characters
During the course of the game the player will meet various non-player characters. Some will have the willingness to join the player's party and thereby become a 'follower'. Many more characters will not become followers, but will present opportunities for side-quests or casual conversation.

Dawn Star, voiced by Kim Mai Guest, is a fellow student of the Two Rivers school under Master Li. She is an orphan with the ability to sense spirits, and the only thing she knows about her past is that she is named after an ominous light, which causes people to be wary of her.

Sagacious Zu, voiced by Robin Atkin Downes, is a former member of the Lotus Assassins, who disagreed with the unnecessary slaughter ordered by Death's Hand. He attempts to stay away from trouble to avoid them, but he is drawn into the Spirit Monk's ordeal, often providing valuable insight into the Assassins. He hides much of his past, which includes getting an unnamed child to safety and his role within the Assassins.

Sky, voiced by Cam Clarke, is a thief, who has a grudge against the Lotus Assassins and the Empire for the death of his young daughter. He does not like being shackled by society, so he constantly travels, all while looking for his revenge.

Wild Flower, voiced by Nicky Pugh, is a young girl, who died during the flooding of Tien's Landing. She is then used by the Heavenly Gate Guardian, Chai Ka, as an anchor to the world, so that he may help the Spirit Monk and safeguard a piece of the amulet. He cares greatly for Wild Flower, and protects her from harm. Ya Zhen, an evil demon with goals of world domination, also inhabits her body in order to counterbalance Chai Ka's existence. The two constantly battle for control, and they manifest from Wild Flower's body in order to fight.

Silk Fox, voiced by Masasa Moyo, is a mysterious, black-clad assassin, who reveals herself to be Princess Sun Lian, The Heavenly Lily. She works undercover as a commoner in order to seek out evidence that Death's Hand is manipulating her father. A stereotypical rich girl by nature, she comes over as snobbish and a bit naive, seeing her allies as commoners who are only worthy of traveling with her because she allows it. Nonetheless, she enjoys her other side as it gives her the freedom to break away from tradition from time to time.

Henpecked Hou, voiced by Josh Dean, is a Bun Master, and a former combatant in the Imperial Arena. He formerly used the "Drunken Master" style of fighting, but the constant consumption of alcohol left him destitute. Eventually, he married his promoter's niece, who quickly became overbearing, and forced him to stop fighting and settle down. He does whatever he can to get away from her, but he is too afraid to leave her.

Kang the Mad, voiced by Paul Eiding, is an avid inventor who specializes in making things "fly and explode." He is generally eccentric, not very socially skilled, and quite arrogant about his creations. He does not believe in making improvements, and he instead completely destroys older models before building new ones. He has a very faulty memory, and he has a mysterious connection to Lord Lao's Furnace, which was created by a celestial being.

Zin Bu is a high ranking member of the Celestial Bureaucracy charged with keeping tabs on the damage caused by the student and cataloging it to keep the universe in balance. After being replaced by an entire department, he is relegated to trade, and forces the student to purchase wares from him.

Black Whirlwind is a dual axe-wielding mercenary known for his short temper, affinity for wine, and his eagerness to kill. He is very simple-minded, he lives to fight, and he often ends up killing the people who hire him.

Death's Hand is the mysterious, armor-clad leader of the Lotus Assassins and the Emperor's adviser. He is believed to be fanatically loyal to the emperor. However, the emperor's daughter Sun Lian, has other thoughts about his loyalty, assuming that he is attempting to seize control of the Empire.

Abbot Song, voiced by Armin Shimerman, is a deceased Spirit Monk killed during the siege on Dirge. He helps the student restore Dirge and the Water Dragon's power.

Master Li, voiced by Barry Dennen, is a humble martial arts master, who trains his prized student for a coming ordeal. He reveals that he is really Sun Li, The Glorious Strategist, the brother of the Emperor said to have been killed as a traitor years before. He is soon kidnapped by the Lotus Assassins, and his student begins to search for him.

Emperor Sun Hai, voiced by Armin Shimerman, is the leader of the Empire and the savior during the "Long Drought", which completely crippled the Empire. He eventually stops appearing in public and stays within the confines of his palace, while Death's Hand is very active.

RomanceJade Empire gives the player-character the option to form a romantic relationship with several of the non-player characters, including characters of the same sex. Successfully romancing a character results in them standing outside the player-character's tent on the eve of the battle against the golems, whereupon unless the player chooses to reject them, the player-character and the NPC will lean in to kiss (although if the character is of the same sex, the camera will pan away before the actual kiss itself). Male characters can romance Dawn Star, Silk Fox or Sky. Female characters can romance Sky or Silk Fox. Male characters can also romance both Dawn Star and Silk Fox at the same time. If this is the case, the cutscene and dialog at the tent implies that Dawn Star and Silk Fox spent some time together in their grief and lead the player character off for a menage-a-trois. When romancing a certain character, the opportunity arises to influence his or her way of thinking. For example, the normally calm and collected Dawn Star can be persuaded to stand up for herself and become an altogether less mellow person, effectively following the path of the Closed Fist.
Plot
Setting
Jade Empire takes place in a fictional kingdom inspired by ancient China.
Tho Fan is a constructed language created by Canadian linguist Wolf Wikeley for the game. The language has been designed to sound ancient and distinctly Asian
Tho Fan does without the verb "to be"; instead, articles — words like "a" and "the" — would be used to mark tense. In the game, the Tho Fan phrases do not actually match up to their on-screen translations — most of them are actually a set of a few dozen pre-rendered phrases. In fact, the game will often use the exact same audio track to say successive sentences, much akin to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
Story
Chapter 1: Two Rivers
The game begins with the player cast as a martial arts student under the tutelage of Master Li, head of the Two Rivers martial arts school, based in the in-game geographical locale of the Golden Delta.
The player's training is interrupted as the town of Two Rivers comes under attack from an aggressor in a strange ship who summons ghosts to attack the student. The attacker is defeated by Master Li, who comes to the student's rescue and reveals that the attacker was a member of the Lotus Assassins, a mysterious force serving the Emperor of the Jade Empire. Gao the Lesser, a rival of the student, issues a challenge for a duel and loses. He is expelled from the school after he attempts to use explicitly forbidden magic on the student. Master Li explains that the student is the last of the order of Spirit Monks. He, a brother of the Emperor and leader of the Empire's army, had ordered an attack on Dirge, where the Spirit Monks' temple existed, in order to end the Long Drought. He claimed to have opposed the act and to have saved the student and the Dragon's Amulet.
He sends the student to a cave beneath the school where he or she finds part of a Spirit Monk amulet and has a vision of the Water Dragon, the entity whose death at the hands of the Emperor ended the decade-long Long Drought but left spirits roaming the land. Dawn Star, one of the students at the school and a friend of the player, is kidnapped by Gao The Lesser. The student rescues her but returns to find the village in flames and Master Li kidnapped. The student, Dawn Star, and Sagacious Zu, a man whom they had met in the swamps around the village, head off in a borrowed flying machine towards the Imperial City, where Master Li has been taken.
Chapter 2: Tien's Landing
The party crash-lands their machine in Tien's Landing and sets out to find a new flier and a wind map that will show them the way to the Imperial City. The new flyer, called the Marvelous Dragonfly, is taken from the base of Gao the Greater, the father of the dead student of the first chapter. Gao the Greater is working with Grand Inquisitor Jia's elite subordinate, Inquisitor Lim, and is distressed to hear of his son's death. The player tracks down and kills him, and recruits Sky, a rogue, and Kang The Mad, Gao's personal engineer.
The party goes to a recently drained area near Tien's Landing, which flooded when the dam was first constructed. The Lotus Assassins opened the dam in order to search the ruins of old Tien's Landing. The student fights Chai Ka, a demon bound in the body of a little girl, and learns that Chai Kai was sent to protect the student and that the Lotus Assassins already have the amulet. The player can then close the dam or destroy the controls, keeping it open forever.
The student then heads to the Great Southern Forest, which is under the ownership of Lord Yun. The player then has the option of helping the Forest Shadow defeat a demon known as the Mother, or helping the Mother's cannibalistic demons destroy the Forest Shadow. In either event, the player can convince Lord Yun that the forest is recovering and get his wind map. Inquisitor Lim will ambush the player at this point; the player kills him and recovers a piece of the amulet.
Chapter 3: Imperial City
The party lands in the Imperial City and meets up with Silk Fox, who is revealed to be Princess Lian the Heavenly Lily, daughter of the Emperor. She is unconvinced that her father is behind the sickness the plagues the land, and believes that Death's Hand, the black armor-clad head of the Lotus Assassins, is responsible. After joining either the Executioners or the Inquisitors, the student's party infiltrates the Lotus Assassin's training ground to recover the last part of the Spirit Monk amulet. Sagacious Zu reveals that he was one of the Lotus Assassins who killed Master Li's family. During their quest, the party helps Master Gang assassinate his superior, Master Shin, making it look like an accident, and puts a corrupted Spirit Shard into a Jade Golem, causing it to malfunction. The golems go out of control, damaging the underground complex. The party battles two Jade Golems and a handful of Lotus Assassins, killing Master Gang in the process. They also find Grand Inquisitor Jia, who reveals that the Emperor knew about what Death's Hand and the Lotus Assassins were doing and had, in fact, ordered them to do it. The player kills her, but Death's Hand arrives. Sagacious Zu sacrifices himself to save the student, burying Death's Hand in rubble.
Chapter 4: Imperial Palace
The party fights their way to the Emperor's throne room where Silk Fox learns of what her father has done. He is aware that the Water Dragon's death is stopping the dead from reaching the underworld but is mad with power. The Emperor knocks down everyone in the throne room with a blast of magic and summons guards to attack the student, who defeats them. The student battles the Emperor, who is able to alternate fighting styles and damage immunities. The student kills the Emperor, but Master Li gets up, takes the Jade Heart for himself, and kills the student.
Chapter 5: Spirit Monk Temple
The student wakes up in the underworld as a spirit. The Water Dragon reveals that Sun Li had planned this all along; he wished for the Water Dragon's power and needed to obtain the amulet and defeat Emperor Sun Hai. The student meets up with the spirit of Abbot Song, who tells him or her what truly happened at Dirge. He reveals that Sun Li wore Death's Hand's armor and killed the abbot when he tried to stop him and his brothers. The brothers arrange for Dirge's fountains to be tainted with human blood, weakening the Water Dragon, and Emperor Sun Hai killed Sun Kin when he and Sun Li attempted to oppose him. Abbot Song then reveals that one of his order attempted to escape with the student, but Sun Li, who had escaped from Sun Hai, killed the student's guardian and assumed his identity. The player and Abbot Song make their way through Dirge and learn that an evil being has taken control after the fall of the temple. The student reaches the place where the Water Dragon was slain, and defeats aspects of his or her darker emotions. The student then returns to life, and the rest of the party, who learns about this through Dawn Star, flies to Dirge to reunite with their friend.
Chapter 6: Defending the Temple
While the student was dead, Sun Li realized that action would have to be taken in case the student managed to return to the realm of the living, and he retrieved Death's Hand from the rubble of the Lotus Assassin headquarters. He then sends the Imperial Army against Dirge. Sky pretends to betray the group, and lures Death's Hand out so that the student can defeat him in single combat. However, this is not enough to defeat him; Death's Hand rises again, but the student uses the force of his will to expel Sun Li's influence. The player may then release Death's Hand, use him as a slave, or convince him to seek redemption.
Chapter 7: Back to the Palace
The party flies back to the palace to confront Master Li, now the Emperor. As they make their way through the palace they discover that Emperor Sun Hai had stopped the drought by cutting open the Water Dragon's corpse and letting the water that flows from it feed the Empire. The student chooses either to destroy the Water Dragon's body, thus freeing her spirit and allowing the dead to find the underworld, or defile the water to weaken the Dragon and claim her power after defeating the new Emperor.
The student reaches Emperor Sun Li, who first sends Constructs of Bull and Elephant demons, the most powerful in the game, after the player. Sun Li then encases the student in stone and attempts to defeat the player with the force of his own doubt. However, if the student's companions survived, they will reduce the number of enemies that must be fought in each of the two stages. Sagacious Zu appears and helps free the student from his mind.
Emperor Sun Li offers to help his student live in legend forever, if the student dies without fighting. If the player makes this decision, the student is remembered as a hero for knowing his or her place as Sun Li looks on and laughs. If the player does not, Sun Li attacks, and the student defeats him.
Endings
If the student chooses to free the Water Dragon's spirit, then the end sequence shows the people of the Jade Empire cheering the student and their party. If the student chooses to enslave the Water Dragon, the end sequence shows the Lotus Assassins kneeling at the feet of the student. After this end sequence, there are short text summaries detailing the fate of any characters who survived the adventure. These vary depending upon whether the student chose to enslave or free the Water Dragon, and also what romance options the student pursued.
Dawn Star: She either settles down with the student, settles down on her own, rules the empire with the student, or if the student talked her into a Closed Fist philosophy and/or abandoned her, wanders the Jade Empire alone.
Silk Fox: If the student does not romance Silk Fox, she will become Empress of the Jade Empire. If the student does romance Silk Fox and the student is male, the student and Silk Fox will rule the empire fairly, or with an iron fist. If the student is female, Silk Fox will either rule the empire fairly with her 'companion,' or will again rule with an iron fist, and both the student and Silk Fox don the Silk Fox costume to silence dissenters.
Sky: Sky will use the Guild for good purposes, or serve as the student's consort or as the new Death's Hand. If the student romances Sky, they leave the imperial city and live on the outskirts of Tien's Landing, unless the student is male, in which case they continue on their adventures through the Jade Empire, not complacent to settle down in one place.
Black Whirlwind: Black Whirlwind will roam the empire cutting off heads, eventually making his way around the world.
Henpecked Hou: After a series of mishaps, Hou starts a delivery business which he immediately uses as a method of escaping his overbearing wife.
Chai Ka: Chai Ka will either return to the heavens, freeing Wild Flower and giving her the gift of life, or he will remain trapped in Wild Flower's body causing her to wander the empire as a raving lunatic.
Ya Zhen: Ya Zhen will either serve the student until he or she passes away (resulting in him moving to bigger plans) or serve the student forever and loyally.
Death's Hand: Death's Hand will either become more evil, mutating so badly that his armor cannot hold his demonic form, or he will spend the rest of his days wandering the empire as a crusader for good, in order to make up for his past misdeeds.
Kang the Mad: Kang will continue to invent machines until an explosion appears to take his life, although strange machines continue to appear on the student's doorstep every year on his or her birthday. As Lord Lao, Kang's lack of danger affects his imagination in building machines, so as a radical solution Kang starts arming the mobs that chase after him. If the player chose the Closed Fist ending, Kang works for the emperor(player), worrying his use will eventually be worn out and he will be disposed of. Eventually, he crafts a portal to another dimension and disappears in a huge explosion, taking an entire lake with him.
A third, alternate ending is available if the Student agrees to the terms of surrender presented by Sun Li in the final confrontation. The ending sequence features a statue of the student being praised years later by a class of children with a skin condition similar to that of the Lotus Assassins. One child asks what life was like before the protagonist's honored sacrifice and is quickly shushed by his teacher as a Jade Golem readies an axe to quell such questioning. The sequence ends with Sun Li laughing evilly, as the decision to surrender has ultimately led to misery and corruption in the Jade Empire.
Versions
Limited Edition
A 'Limited Edition' of Jade Empire was available for those who pre-ordered the game, except in Canada where all copies were Limited Editions. Eventually, they would appear on all store shelves. The Limited Edition version has a different box art than the original. It has a red, reflective background instead of the sky blue, and the words "Limited Edition" were printed on the bottom of the name. This version of Jade Empire was packed with an extra disc that contained the data for the character model Monk Zeng, a magic type character, a "Making of" video by G4, and three game demos: Forza Motorsport, Conker Live & Reloaded, and MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf.
Special Edition
The Windows XP version of Jade Empire is known as the 'Special Edition'. It is based on the Xbox 'Limited Edition', and also includes the Monk Zeng character but not the Tien's Justice weapon style (both of which are available in the Limited Edition described above). Changes from the Xbox version includes increased resolutions up to 1600x1200 (1920x1200 in Widescreen), new special effects and redrawn textures, two new martial styles (Iron Palm and Viper), a new rhino demon transformation, new monsters, new high level weapons, an improved AI with enemies able to take cover more often; a new "Jade Master" difficulty level, with ability to import save games; a new world map interface; and keyboard and hotkey support. It also contains a bonus art book and poster. Windows Vista is not a supported operating system. The game runs with no problems in Windows 7 64-bit.
Reception

Reception
Aggregate scores
Aggregator	Score
GameRankings	89/100^[
Metacritic	89/100
Review scores
Publication	Score
1UP.com	A
Computer and Video Games	9/10
Eurogamer	8/10
Game Informer	9.5/10
GamePro	4.5/5
GameSpot	8.4/10
GameSpy	5/5
GameTrailers	8.6/10
GameZone	9.8/10
IGN	9.9/10
X-Play	4/5

The Xbox version of Jade Empire received positive reviews from most critics. Garnering a 89% from Metacritic, based on 84 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews. On Game Rankings the game also received an average score of 89%, based on 98 reviews.
IGN praises Jade Empire as "A completely original universe, hard hitting combat, accessible controls, and the story in an RPG on Xbox". The graphics were also commented by IGN stating, "Environments are beautiful and the characters are real enough to fall in love with", though it was criticized by its slight camera issues. Gamespot states that Jade Empire's "Open-ended role playing involves you in the storyline and fosters replay value" though was poorly received due to its unbalanced Combat system and lack of depth and challenge.
Like the original version, the Special Edition has also been criticized for being too short and for having rather easy battles using a simplistic battle system, getting an average review score of 80% according to Game Rankings.Other criticisms included a lack of cheat codes, and the ease of changing your alignment (hence changing the ending) at a point near the end-game which effectively discounts any good/evil deeds you've done for the majority of the game.
Sequel
In 2005, senior staff at BioWare suggested the possibility of a sequel; however, on January 2007 BioWare staff stated there were no plans to develop Jade Empire 2.Despite this denial, hints of Jade Empire 2 have surfaced as recently as December 2007.
A part of an interview for GTTV published on GameTrailers website on November 13, 2009 was tagged "Jade Empire strikes back". In this part Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka said a sequel was "something they thought about" but they had "nothing to announce".
See also

Heroes of Jin Yong
Dragon Oath
Martial Kingdoms
Xuanyuan Jian
The Legend of Sword and Fairy
Bujingai
Heavenly Sword

References: wikipedia

External links

List of Xbox Originals

noreply@blogger.com (game.info8) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:22:00 +0700

This is a list of released Xbox Originals games for the Xbox 360 video game console.

There are currently 31 games, priced at 1200 Microsoft Points ($15 USD) each unless otherwise noted. To sort by other columns, click the corresponding icon in the header row.

Title	Publisher	Release date	ESRB
Halo: Combat Evolved	Microsoft Game Studios	2007-12-04December 4, 2007	Mature
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge	Microsoft Game Studios	2007-12-04December 4, 2007	Teen
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex	Vivendi Games	2007-12-04December 4, 2007	Everyone
Fuzion Frenzy	Microsoft Game Studios	2007-12-04December 4, 2007	Everyone
Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy	Atari	2007-12-04December 4, 2007	Mature
Psychonauts	Majesco Entertainment	2007-12-04December 4, 2007	Teen
Fable	Microsoft Game Studios	2007-12-04December 4, 2007	Mature
Puyo Pop Fever	Sega	2007-12-04December 4, 2007	Everyone
Magatama	Microsoft Game Studios	2007-12-04December 4, 2007	Teen
Burnout 3: Takedown	Electronic Arts	2008-01-14January 14, 2008	Teen
Black	Electronic Arts	2008-2-11February 11, 2008	Mature
Ninja Gaiden Black	Tecmo	2008-2-11February 11, 2008	Mature
Sid Meier's Pirates!	2K Games	2008-2-11February 11, 2008	Teen
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey	Funcom	2008-3-24March 24, 2008	Mature
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System	Vivendi Universal	2008-4-21April 21, 2008	Teen
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory	Ubisoft	2008-4-21April 21, 2008	Mature
Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows	Midway Games	2008-05-19May 19, 2008	Teen
Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse	Aspyr Media	2008-05-19May 19, 2008	Mature
The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning	Sierra Entertainment	2008-05-19June 16, 2008	Everyone 10+
Guilty Gear XX #Reload	Majesco Entertainment	2008-05-19June 16, 2008	Teen
Jade Empire	Microsoft Game Studios	2008-07-21July 21, 2008	Mature
Destroy All Humans!	THQ	2008-09-15September 15, 2008	Teen
Intellivision Lives!	Crave	2008-09-15September 15, 2008	Everyone
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas	Rockstar Games	2008-10-20October 20, 2008	Mature
Zapper: One Wicked Cricket	Infogrames	2008-11-17November 17, 2008	Everyone
Sega Soccer Slam	Sega	2008-12-10December 10, 2008	Everyone
Raze's Hell	Majesco Entertainment	2008-12-10December 10, 2008	Mature
BlowOut	Majesco Entertainment	2009-01-26January 26, 2009	Teen
Grabbed by the Ghoulies	Microsoft Game Studios	2009-02-16February 16, 2009	Everyone
Max Payne	Rockstar Games	2009-04-27April 27, 2009	Mature
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne	Rockstar Games	2009-04-27April 27, 2009	Mature

References wikipedia

External links

Xbox Originals official website
Issues page

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