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Set in Ancient China during the third century, Dynasty Warriors 6 engrosses gamers in a genuinely cinematic kung-fu action experience. Famed characters have been entirely re-imagined with brand-new weapons and fighting techniques motion-captured from some of today’s leading stuntmen and women in Asia. With the game’s new "Renbu" attack system and game controls, players can carry out lightning-fast combos and the most dazzling fighting moves with ease.
Prepared from the ground up entirely for next-generation platforms, the game’s proprietary engine delivers the most chaotic and ambitious Tactical Action experience up to now. Players can use the landscape to evade the thousands of soldiers swarming the battlefield. But whilst players move and attack, flexible enemy A.I. formulates offensive and defensive combat manoeuvres, and can strike back with packs of ferocious hunting dogs and patrol boats. All of the explosive action comes to life in high definition, 60 frames per second (fps) graphics.
Based on the epic novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Dynasty Warriors 6 portrays the large battles ignited by the decline of the Han Dynasty when three rebellious states moved to bring down the Emperor of China.
Click here to pick up this XBox 360 title for £25.89 from DVD.co.uk.
The Viva Piñata: Limited Edition game comes packaged with a bonus DVD - quite what’s on it, I don’t know!
If you’ve never heard of Viva Piñata, it’s a mad, addicitve title where you create a world of piñatas.
Click here to buy this game for £8.93 from Asda.
With full support for XBox Live and some hilarious mini-games, FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage is a great little racing game.
There’s also over 8000 destructible objects per track, making for some fantastic crashes!
In order to be able to buy this XBox 360 title for £12 from Zavvi, all you have to do is click right here.
Forza Motorsport 2 features over 300 cars and a very good online multiplayer mode.
All of the cars are customisable, making this the complete racing experience.
Click here to pick up this XBox 360 game for £13.99 from ShopTo.
Beowulf: The Game is based on Beowulf, the movie - here’s hoping for Beowulf, the duvet cover next.
This actually lets you play out thirty years of the story not seen in the film, in order to experience more of Beowulf’s life.
To get the XBox 360 release for £9.89 from ShopTo, simply click here - alternatively, the PSP version can be had for £9.93 from Asda by clicking here.
Dark Sector thrusts players into the part of Hayden Tenno, an intelligence agent dispatched on a dangerous assassination mission into Lasria - an Eastern European city on the threshold of destruction that conceals a lethal Cold War secret. Assailed by an anonymous enemy, he awakes to find part of his body changed by an infection that’s given him inhuman powers. Now, Hayden must learn to evolve along with his abilities, to survive and to become a hero.
Produced by heralded developer Digital Extremes, this is a new and fresh action-thriller designed solely for next-generation consoles. A dark, gritty experience packed with fast action, unbelievable superpowers and an absorbing narrative; Dark Sector represents the future development of action gaming.
Click here to buy the PlayStation 3 version, or click here to get the XBox 360 release of this game - both of which are £24.93 each at Asda.
John Woo Presents: Stranglehold is actually a quasi-sequel to his action masterpiece film "Hard Boiled".
Chow Yun-Fat returns as Inspector Tequila, and he must balance his duty to uphold the law with trying to save his family from the Russian mob.
Click here to buy the XBox 360 release for £12.99 from Choices UK, or click here to get the PlayStation 3 game for £17.93 from Asda.
10 May
FIFA 08 is the first time for ages that E.A. have got a football game near-enough dead on.
This is as good as Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (which is great itself), and is well worth getting.
Asda are selling this game for a decent price on pretty much every console - click here to get the DS version, click here to buy the PlayStation 2 one or click here to buy the PSP release (each are £12.93). The other console versions are £17.93 (click here for the PlayStation 3, click here for the Wii and click here for the XBox 360).
Quite unsual that a retailer would have a cheap game on every system, but who’s complaining?!?
Set in the 23rd Century, Fatal Inertia combines street racing, demolition derbies and rallying with a futuristic setting where automobiles no longer require wheels and the laws of physics regulate entirely. The sport is known as Inertia and it’s one that offers an intoxicating mix of speed, combat and real world environments that may be exploited to make your triumph and break your adversaries.
Fatal Inertia is the high-octane opening salvo from Koei’s brand new Canada studio. With a distinctly Western flair, this game represents the first step into an all-new genre for Koei. Fatal Inertia exhibits the arresting contrast of vivacious, futuristic vehicles combating and racing in an assortment of lovely, natural environments. There are a wide array of physics-based weapons, and you’ll come across fresh methods to use them every time you play.
Click here to buy this XBox 360 game for £4.99 from The Game Collection.
In Dark Messiah: Might And Magic Elements players are introduced to the world of Ashan, the new setting for all future Might & Magic games. Ashan is a dark and unforgiving world, scarred by a bloody history and threatened by an apocalyptic prophecy: the Dark Messiah.
Players embody the young hero Sareth, who has been trained in the arts of magic and war in order to battle the prophetic Dark Messiah. Players have the choice to become expert warriors, mages or assassins, each with their own cache of devastating weapons and spells to use in battling huge and vicious enemies. Through combat, players unlock new skills and equipment, advancing Sareth’s experience and improving his performance, battle combos, hits, spells and techniques and setting his course for his destiny.
Click here to buy this XBox 360 game for £14.99 from Play.com.