Gears of War 2 takes place back in the middle of the war six months after the lightmass bomb went of in the first one in the sequal. The COGs are loosing so many men that they know that they have to take the fight to the Locust Horde in the hollow. And with that The Delta Squad consisting of Markus Fenix, Dominic Sandiago, and Benjamin Carmine are sent down to help kill all of the locust and destroy the Hordes hollow. And they soon figure out that the Locust are talking prisoners and rescue Damon Baird.

The game play in the game just about remains the same except for you can pick up a downed enemies and use them like a meat shield to absorb the hits, and the Chainsaw Duels witch if the enemy has a Lancer gun you grind chainsaws and press the button repeatedly to win the duel. New weapons have been added like a Mortar Cannon, a Flamethrower, and a Chain Gun. But chain gun and the mortar cannon are heavy witch makes your character walk. And includes new stuff for multiplayer as well. On Gears of war 2s release weekend it sold over two million copies, and in the first two months it sold four million copies. And the game has a All Fronts Edition witch will be sold as separate retail. So check it out.

Gears of war is third person shooter that has a over-the-shoulder game play. The game is a cover fire kind of game because you need to keep cover fire going to make the game a lot easeir, you play Markus Fenix and if in co-op the second player will play Dominic. Now in multi-player mode there can be 8 player, the player can play all four of the Delta Squad and Lieutenant Minh Young Kim, Colonel Victor Hoffman, and Private Anthony Carmine. The Collectors Addition includes the art book named Destroyed Beauty which illustrates the games back-story and includes sketches, concepts, and desciption of the characters and a extra disc witch has locust Hordes that never made it to the game and artworks of environments and much more. And Gears of War 1 has sold over five-million copies. So check it out.

The journey starts as Nathan Drake is getting the coffin of Sir Francis Drake (Nate’s relative) From the sea floor, using a map inscribed into Nathan’s ring. Elena Fisher, Nate’s assistant, is there to record there findings and makes a documentary of it. The coffin only contains the only thing that was in the coffin was Francis’s diary, that has the coordinates to El Dorado, the city of gold witch Sir Francis Drake was looking for, proving that he actually faked his death, as Nate suspected. And then their boat is attacked and destroyed by pirates

Sully, Nates old friend rescues him and Elena. Sully and Nate leave Elena behind, fearing that there will be dangerous people like the pirates, leave to the Amazon, finding clues that El Dorado is a giant gold statue and that it was removed long ago, and ruins of an old south American civilization. Searching, Sully and Nate find an old German-u boat in the Amazon River, and a torn out piece of Drake’s diary and some Spanish silver coins, but the page says that the statue was most likely stolen at one point. They were about to leave the island when a group of mercenaries stop them in there tracks, the leader Atoq Navarro is searching for the statue and asked Nate to help him, and nate refuses so the leader shoots Sully in the chest, so nate attacks Navarro, and when he does he accidentally sets off a torpedo blowing up the u-boat, then Elena comes in Sully’s plane rescuing Nate, and they decided to go to where the statue is believed to be? The game play is like Tomb Raider and Prince of Persia. So check it out.

The game starts in a fierce war in Asgard, the home to the Norse Gods. The battle has now gone over to the mortal world, and now a hero must be found, a hero who can sway the war. The reason for this battle is Hel the daughter of Loki the Norse god of mischief, was banished from the kingdom of Asgard, for breaking Odin’s rule. Angry at her fate she seeks to find the ancient wolf-god, witch legend says brings Ragnarok, the battle that will destroy the Gods and Asgard. And bring her army of resurrected Viking soldiers.

The Goddess of war, Freya is assigned the task of stopping hel and her army from destroying all of mankind. Freya chose a warrior named Karin; he is a great fighter but is troubled by something. And is ignoring the real reason for his favour with the Gods. The fighting system is much like Spartan: Total warrior, one of the other games created by Creative Assemble. The player can explore three different islands, Galcliff, Isaholm, and Niflberg. You can sneak into a lumber mill and free the Vikings trapt in side to release an all-out one-man assault against a tower or quarry. The player may use several different ways of crumbling his enemies like going out in the center of combat and hacking and slashing their enemies who drop Dragon runes witch can be used to bring dragons to attack enemies from the air, or killing the Shamen who summons the troops. So sheck it out.

Those who have money have already left the planet, and  the rest of the the people devolves into lawlessness and chaos. Some of the settlers seek to get rich quick by finding alien technology, most others are just trying to live. It has taken 7 years, but now it is spring, and many creatures are now awake and are hunting for food. There is some light for the rest of the colonists, because there is a Vault carved in the side of a mountain. But there is a problem, the people who found the vault first were killed by some kind of force. And the only thing of evidence that is found is radio transmission, and it does not even say the location of the vault, just what it looks like.

There are three different playable characters in the game Lilith, who is searching for another siren thought to be on the planet, Mordecai, is on pandora because of a man that he knew in his past, Roland, a 10 year-old vendetta is rekindled when he learns that he is on the planet. And they will all have there own special abilitys like to increase the rate of fire, health regeneration and accuracy boost. And you can chose from 600,000 thousand different weapons and 500,000 thousand items and armor variations. it will realease in 2009. So check it out.

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Halo Wars has strategy game play but is still the Halo series, and you will see the same vehicles and species and some new ones too. The only characters named so far are a sparten named Alice, Sergeant John Forge, Professor Anders, an Al named Serina, Captain James Cutter, an unknown Arbiter and the Prophet of Regret. And we think that the time is 20 years before the events of Halo: Combat Evolved. The release date is February 27 2009.

Since Bungie and Microsoft split, Bungie will only be helping Ensemble Studios. Bungie had little involvement with Halo Wars; Ensemble is the main developer of the game. And Microsoft in areas like the Environments and just the feel of Halo. It is the last project to be developed by Ensemble Studios. And it is the first Halo game rated Teen. The only Trailer I could find is were a group of warthogs looking for a missing unit of soldiers. The Recon is killed by a group of camouflaged elites who de-cloak and advance into battle with the help of Banshees and at the end displaying a Sparten group Omega standing on a Hill. So check it out.

At the beginning Jango Fett, the greatest Bounty Hunter is chasing a man named Meeko Ghintee for his friend Rozatta, the owner of the outland. With Meeko captured, Jango gets a message from Dark Lord Tyranus (Count Dooku) to join a hunt for special prey. The reward the winner will reseve is five million credits, if they can capture of the deranged leader Komari Vosa. And then jango decides to join the hunt. There is some rumors that the Bando Gora (the company that Komari is the leader of) is behind the shipments of “Death Sticks”. And then Jango Fett decides to chase down the death stick dealer Jervis Gloom, who is infact wanted by the corusant police.

Jango captures Gloom and is able get him to reveal his sources. This leads him to go to a nerf prossesing plant in the Industrial Sector, run by a gangster named Groff Haugg. When Jango arrives he encounters Montross (who has already killed and tortured Haungg) and then learns that him and montross are trying to clam the same prize. Jango fights Montross, who flees, before finding a message on Haugg’s computer from the gangster’s co-conspirator, the senator Trell. Jango must now fight his way to the senator’s penthouse. Trell says that the death sticks came from a crime lord named Sebolto. After Roz’s advice, Jango proceeds to a prison on an asteroid named Oovo IV to release Bendix Fust with the idea of delivering him to Sebolto. Zam Wesell another bounty hunter meets Jango Fett at gun point, decide that if they are going to make it out of there they have to work together. Players also fight many bosses through the levels such as Montross and Bando Gora. There are also side objectives, such as collecting secondary bounties, that unlock special bonus items in the game. So check it out.