Games Guide

Saturday, December 29, 2007

My Horse and Me

Passionate about horses? My Horse and Me! is your chance to experience all the excitement and fun of life with your horse! Enter championships against other riders, or simply spend time taking care of your new friend - My Horse and Me! lets you create the experience you want!

Fulfil your dreams by taking part in competitions in locations around the world, from rustic stables to world-class tournaments. Work your way up the leaderboards to become the champion!

My Horse and Me! puts you right in the saddle with the most beautifully accurate horse models and animations, exciting gameplay modes and fun-packed mini-games!

The Championship
Learn how to ride your horse and jump different obstacles in beautiful indoor and outdoor arenas, and train to win the five championship leagues spanning different locations around the world.

The Riding Games
The Riding Games are smaller games that range from improving your riding skills to fun and exciting mini-games that will test you in different ways. Collect butterflies, herd the chickens back into the coop, catch falling stars from the skies... These games offer fun for both the serious and more casual player.

You And Your Horse!
This is your own horse lovers mini-universe! Here you can customize your character and horse, then clean, brush, groom and bond with your horse. Unlock new outfits for you and equipment for your horse in this part of the game.

Play around with new features, weather effects and animations that you've unlocked in the championship and riding games and create that one special place you've always dreamed about for you and your horse.

Features

* The game features the different 'galop' levels: learn how to ride your horse, with basic dressage lessons and jumping lessons, and go to the next level!
* The most complete horse riding and care experience for PC and Wii; a jumping championship that takes place in a variety of locations around the world, under different weather conditions and times of day; mini-games for the casual player, deep and rewarding horse care gameplay and horse customization options.
* My Horse & Me has the official FEI license (International Equestrian Federation). The jumping championship mode is a faithful and romantic representation of the sport.
* Attractive indoor and outdoor environments ranging from rustic stables and classical riding schools to world-class tournament locations. The game features 4 outdoor environments each with multiple courses that can be tackled at different times of day. My Horse & Me also features 4 indoor locations with their own different courses.
* 7 different mini-games with wildly varying themes.
* A rich reward system lets you win all kinds of prizes and achievements just like in real-life horse riding.
* The game doubles as a learning tool for practicing disciplines that riders also face in real life.
* Players are constantly rewarded with items while playing. New clothes, new horse accessories (saddles, horse blankets etc.), and more.
* Choose your character from amongst 4 girls and 2 boys.
* 3rd and 1st person camera controls allow for an arcade or simulation style riding experience.
* My Horse & Me is a sandbox experience. Players play as they like and advance as they choose through the game.
* Take 'pictures' of yourself and your horse while riding, then add the pictures to your user profile on the official website.

Minimum System Requirements:

Processor: Pentium 4 / AMD Athlon XP or higher
(Pentium 4 of 1.4 Ghz and higher, AMD Athlon XP of 1.3 Ghz [1500+] and higher)
Ram: 512 MB Memory
Video Card : 128 MB with Pixel Shader 2.0 support
(NVIDIA GeForce 3 / ATI Radeon 8500 and higher)
OS: Windows Windows XP/Vista (OS must be up to date with the latest Service-Pack and hotfixes)
HDDSpace:2.5 GB harddisk space
DVD rom 8X
DirectX 9.0 included with the game

Recommended System:

Processor: Pentium 4, 2.4 Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 2.0 Ghz or higher.
Ram: 1024 MB Memory
Video Card:128MB videocard with shader 2.0 support
(GeForce 6 and higher / Radeon 9800 and higher)
OS: Windows Windows XP/Vista (OS must be up to date with the latest Service-Pack and hotfixes)
HDDSpace: 2.5 GB harddisk space
DVD-Rom drive 8x
DirectX 9.0 included with the game

Official Game Website

My Horse and Me Demo

My Horse and Me Screenshots

My Horse and Me Trailer

Release Date: 12 February 2008
Genre: Simulation

Labels: Feb 08, simulator

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Conflict: Denied Ops

When the US government needs to act, but can not afford to be associated with the operation, deniable operatives are dispatched. Members of the unit must bear no identity; no objects, papers or clothing that could associate them with the government. Their task is to do anything necessary, no matter how ruthless, to dissolve the threat.

Conflict: Denied Ops puts players in control of two of these merciless operatives, each of them highly specialized in both weapons and military tactics. With gameplay focused on accessible two-man tactics, utilize simple commands and switch seamlessly between team mates to lay down covering fire, explore diverging paths, create distractions and pin the enemy under fire.

Making full use of Pivotal’s new Puncture Technology™, Conflict: Denied Ops features a highly destructible environment, allowing players to utilize new tactics such as shooting through walls to create sniping holes or blasting open new paths to take the enemy by surprise. Fighting for a good cause, does not mean they have to play by the rules. Brutalize the opposition, blast down buildings, and destroy everything in true Hollywood fashion – all throughout politically sensitive areas across South America, Africa and Russia.

Features

** Struggles in the modern paramilitary unit in the world: the Special Activities Division of the CIA.

** Explore in 10 real crisis areas varied environments.

** Set your AI partner as a weapon or let it cover, as you pursue your goal.

** Turn the push of a button between the two characters.

** Play the single-player campaign with a friend in coop mode online or shared on screen.

** Ask for air support, to control armed vehicles and equip your weapons, your fire power to increase.

** Go into coverage, during your surroundings thanks to the unique Puncture Technology ™ in real time around the ears flies.

** Experience realistic destructible environments with constant battles.

Official Game Website

Conflict: Denied Ops Screenshots

Conflict: Denied Ops Trailer

Release Date: 12 February 2008
Genre: Action

Labels: action, Feb 08

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Thursday, December 27, 2007

Assassin's Creed

Assassin’s Creed is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that will redefine the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin’s Creed merges technology, game design, theme, and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of change.

The setting is 1191 AD. The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You, Altair, intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict.

You are an Assassin, a warrior shrouded in secrecy and feared for your ruthlessness. Your actions can throw your immediate environment into chaos, and your existence will shape events during this pivotal moment in history.

Features

* Be an Assassin - Master the skills, tactics, and weapons of history’s deadliest and most secretive clan of warriors. Plan your attacks, strike without mercy, and fight your way to escape.
* Realistic and responsive environments - Experience a living, breathing world in which all your actions have consequences. Crowds react to your moves and will either help or hinder you on your quests.
* Action with a new dimension – total freedom - Eliminate your targets wherever, whenever, and however. Stalk your prey through richly detailed, historically accurate, open-ended environments. Scale buildings, mount horses, blend in with crowds. Do whatever it takes to achieve your objectives.
* Relive the epic times of the Crusades - Assassin’s Creed immerses you in the realistic and historical Holy Land of the 12th century, featuring life-like graphics, ambience, and the subtle, yet detailed nuances of a living world.
* Intense action rooted in reality - Experience heavy action blended with fluid and precise animations. Use a wide range of medieval weapons, and face your enemies in realistic swordfight duels.
* Next-gen gameplay - The proprietary engine developed from the ground up for the next-gen console allows organic game design featuring open gameplay, intuitive control scheme, realistic interaction with environment, and a fluid, yet sharp, combat mechanic.

Assassin's Creed Official Site

Assassin's Creed Screenshots

Assassin's Creed Trailer

Release Date: 16 February 2008
Genre: Action

Labels: action, Feb 08

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Frontlines: Fuel of War

From the creators of Desert Combat and the Battlefield 2 R&D team comes the next-generation in first person shooters.

Based upon actual locations in Central Asia, the player embarks on an epic campaign featuring 7 unique theaters of war. In a world ravaged by a global energy crisis, environmental decay, and a new economic depression, the story follows a division of Western Coalition soldiers – The Stray Dogs – through a dark vision of our future. Players assume the role of an elite soldier in the Stray Dogs on an epic crusade against the Red Star Alliance to control the last of the world’s oil reserves.

Frontlines: Fuel of War offers extensive multiplayer game play supporting up to 32 players on console (with dedicated servers) and 64 players on PC via LAN or internet. Frontlines: Fuel of War combines cinematic, open world game play with a revolutionary Frontline Combat System to deliver the most intense FPS to date.

Frontlines: Fuel of War Screenshots

Frontlines: Fuel of War Trailler 1

Frontlines: Fuel of War Trailer 2

Release Date: 12 February 2008
Genre: Action

Labels: action, Feb 08

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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Pacific Storm: Allies

Man your battle stations! Dazzlingly recreating World War II’s most heated battles, long-awaited add-on Pacific Storm: Allies expands upon the success of internationally best-selling predecessor Pacific Storm to deliver an unforgettable mix of real-time strategy and blistering arcade combat.

Everything you need to turn the tide of battle’s here in one standalone, value-packed box! Marvel at a vastly enhanced 3D visual engine complete with detailed damage modeling. Take up arms as all-new nation England. Settle disputes via original diplomacy options. Or just assume direct control over stunningly-rendered ships and planes and personally annihilate your adversaries. From the US to USSR, Germany to Japan, new missions, tactical maneuvers and multiplayer modes offer armchair generals greater excitement than ever.

Whether charting the conflict’s progress from a strategic level or operating the controls of a deck gun and personally taking the fight to your foes, seize the day: History’s never been easier to rewrite!

Features

* Pacific Storm: Allies offers completely new experiences for those who played and liked Pacific Storm and the most intense hours of gameplay for those who didn’t play the original game.
* Brand new units and technology to develop based on historical archives.
* The perfect mix of genres remains on this standalone better than ever. Develop weaponry to improve your units, move your fleet and deploy it in the battlefield and send them to the combat as a general or become a pilot and control one of the planes or ships.
* Every scenario, map, and element has been created based on historical archives. Those who love the history will find in this game the most effective way to enjoy with it.

Hardware Requirements

* CPU/Processor Pentium 4 2000Mhz/Athlon XP 2000+ Pentium 4 3000MHz/AMD Athlon 64 3000+
* Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900/ATI Radeon 9800, 128MB NVIDIA GeForce 7600/Radeon X1600, 256MB
* RAM 512MB 1024MB
* Hard Drive 4.0 GB 4.0 GB
* Sound Card DirectX compatible DirectX compatible
* Operating System Windows 2000/XP SP2/Vista Windows 2000/XP SP2/Vista
* DirectX 9.0c 9.0c
* CD/DVD-ROM 12x or better 12x or better

Additional Info * Integrated/onboard graphic cards/controllers such as Intel (e.g.: 82810 / 82845 / 82852 / 82855GM&GME / 82945G / 845G / 852 / 855 / 865G / 910GML / 915GM / 945GM / 965), ATI Radeon Xpress 200M series, VIA/S3G Unichrome IGP (and other models), and the SIS (all scale) will NOT run this game.

Official Site

Pacific Storm: Allies Demo