To gain the fan base Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands is said to be running many elements of the previous games, which is why all the previous games of the series were such huge hit. The prince now can rewind in time from beginning to the end of the game and also there will be all new powers in the game. Surprise element of the game is the inclusion of elemental powers which are expected to bring new dimensions to the core gameplay of the Prince of Persia Series. One of the four elemental powers of the prince will be the ability to turn fountains into solid ice which cane be used as climbable towers. There will be other powers as well but nothing is much revealed about the game. Combat mechanics of the game will be similar to the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. In the melee attack prince can fight upto 50 enemies.

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After the huge success of Modern Warfare 2 gamers are looking forward to two other games but this time from some other genre of gaming. The games are God of War III, third and final game of the God of War series and the other game is Red Dead Redemption. Successor to the 2004 hit game Red Dead Revolver this game will be a sandbox-style action adventure western video game. Red Dead Redemption is developed by the famous Rockstar Games, the name behind blockbuster games like Grand Theft Auto series and Max Payne series. The game will be released for the platforms of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Red Dead Redemption will be launched on May 18 and May 21 respectively for the regions of North America and PAL nations. Just like all the Rockstar games of the current generation Red Dead Redemption will run on RAGE (Rockstar Advanced Game Engine).

The game starts in year 1908 in America and John Marston a former outlaw is the main focus of the game. After a long criminal career Marston retires from crime world ans starts a new and peaceful life with his family. His peaceful life however is ends like a sweet dream when he is blackmailed by United States Government. They want his help in bringing law to certain American territories. Primary aim given to John is to kill his former gang members which even include his old friend and gang leader Bill Williamson. John is also asked to act as bounty hunter by Marshal Leigh Johnson. On his way to help US government John meets many characters, like a female rancher Bonnei McFarlane. Some local groups are tormenting her continuously. John finally cross Mexican border, where he meets a rebel Abraham Reyes. Gameplay of Red Dead Redemption will be similar to the open end gameplay of Grand Theft Auto Series.

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The Avatar is the most discussed game and movie of the year, both movie and the game will release fall of 2009. The game is better known as James Cameroon’s Avatar: The Game, since the game is a adaptation of James Cameroon directed movie of the same name. The game is developed by Ubisoft Montreal and will be published by Ubisoft. Legendary game engine of Ubisoft, Dunia which was last used in Far Cry 2 is used as the engine for the game. Avatar: The Game will be one of the biggest release and will be released on all the seventh generation consoles including, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation Portable. The game will be released in action adventure genre and will be played in First Person Perspective. Ubisoft announced that the game will use the same 3D technology which is used in the movie. Two modes to be featured in the game will be Single and cooperative multiplayer mode. Although the game will be based on the movie, premise of the game will feature some difference from the movie. Working ground of the movie is Pandora an alien planet and the game will include Na’vi’ native people to Pandora and discovering other life forms on the alien planet.

Ubisoft announced in July 4, 2007 that they will develop Avatar. According to the director of the movie Avatar James Cameroon, for the movie they have created a world rich in detail, character, conflict and cultural depth. The game features something which most of the modern gamers expect from the games like, rich visuals and ideas and also lot of challenges in the gameplay. James Cameroon further cleared that he asked Ubisoft to be free with the development and don’t think of this as a movie based game. Ubisoft responded with a fully realized presentation which captured the soul of the characters and world. It was announced on July 24, 2009 that Sigourney Weaver will play as Dr. Grace Augustine. Other actors from the movie who will feature in the game will be Michelle Rodriguez, Stephen Lang and Giovanni Ribisi. Ribisi will reprise his role of arrogant Parker Selfridge but only in the Wii version of the game. Col. Quaritch antagonist of the film is played Lang and Michelle Rodriguez will play Trudy Chacon chopper pilot of the main player, in the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows version. Although it is still to be confirmed whether Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana will be a part of the game or not. They will play as lead roles in the movie. James Cameroon’s Avatar: The Game will require a HDMI output and 120Hz capable set in order to benefit the 3D effects in the game. Wii version will use Jade Engine as the game engine instead of Duniya which will be used in all the other versions of the game.  Wait for the fall of the year to get your hands on this biggest project of the year.

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Broken Saints is an upcoming games by casual game developers Gnosis Games, a Canadian company famous for there casual games for the social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace. Gnosis Games enjoyed a lot of success in casual games they are entering the world of serious gamers with this new game. Broken Saints will be an action adventure game, played from third person perspective. Only single player mode is confirmed so far and multiplayer is said to be under development. Broken Saints will be released in two main entries. First entry will be for the all the seventh generation consoles as PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. Second Entry is for all the handheld consoles like PSP (PlayStation Portable) and Nintendo DS. However both the entries will be same and will utilize same artistic style that is found in the animated comics. Story of the game will be similar to Broken Saints a flash animated film series released in the year 2001, which won many awards round the globe.

The game will be centered on religious, philosophical, political and spiritual themes. Main part of the story are four strangers from almost four corners of the world. All the fours strangers are connected to each other by a vision they are receiving from evil, which leads them to each other. In search of truth they found a far larger and more disturbing truths totally unexpected. There quest is leads them to layers of global technological conspiracy. At every depth their own torturing souls reveal shocking truth binds which binds them together. The vision they are receiving varies only a red cat’s eye is common. All of the four characters faint after seeing the Red eye and they fall into a temporary coma. The Eye is a red circle and may people mistake it to be a Eye of Sauron.

Four main characters will include Kamimura a Buddhist monk, Raimi Matthews a non-practicing catholic living in a fictional Coast City. Through an electronic code he learns about a project of his company, the project is about bringing four strangers together. Oran Bajir is Muslim devout from Iraq. He guarding a small bunker and reading holy book of Islam, later on he starts doubting his mission. Shandala Nisinu is the fourth character he is a mysterious orphan from Fijan islandof Japan. Other then these four main characters there are many small characters as well which will play important role in destiny of the four bind to each other. Our four main characters will use their special gifts to explore lush landscapes, terrifying dreamscapes and chilling web techno-spiritual conspiracy, which can change the whole world.

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2K Sports makers of most of the American regional games like MLB (Major League Baseball) and NHL (National Hockey League). 2K Sports are the only contenders to EA Sports giants of Sports Games. National Hockey League or better known as Ice Hockey is a popular sport in natural cold countries like Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and northern part of United States. NHL 2K series was started by 2K Sports in the year 2000 and till date have nine games released in the series. Tenth game NHL 2K 10 is under development of Visual Concepts and like the previous games of the NHL series it will be published by 2K Sports.  NHL 2K 10 will be released for the platforms of PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii.  Specialty of the game will be different feature for each version on  different platforms. Genre for the game will be Sports and Hockey. NHL 2K 10 is scheduled to release on September 15, 2009 on all the four consoles. Cover athlete for the game will be All-Star left winger Alexander Ovechkin of Washington Capitals.

Improved Features

Better Graphics: The player looks and styles will be more accurate, realistic pre-game introductions and brighter arenas.

Smarter Hockey: Game will be more authentic in defensive and offensive zones because of improved A.I. multiplayer will be more exciting because of the NHL-caliber playmaking feature.

Online Multiplay: Online teams can be created and you can play in leagues. By joining tournaments you can test yourself against best NHL 2K 10 players in the world

Better Control: with improved controls it will deliver better handling and new defensive moves like stumble shots, and stick lifts you can always get puck on the net.

All these feature will be common for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360 for Wii controls will be different as it will use Wireless input Wii Remote. Get ready for this action packed game with lots of adrenaline.

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Racing gaming genre evolved a great way, from traditional circuit racing in the earliest games to drift and drag racing of modern times. A new genre evolved from racing is action-racing with some best known games as Burnout and Ridge Racer series. These games are known high risk gameplay mechanics and high quality collisions. A new game in the genre is Split Second. It is developed by Black Rock Studio, previously released other such games like Hot Wheels: Stunt Track Challenge, MotoGP ’06 and ‘07 and Pure. Split Second will be released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows, with the Microsoft Windows version to be published by Disney Interactive Studio. Publishers for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions are still to be announced by the developers. The game was revealed in March 2009 for the first time and will be released in Q1 of the year 2010. As the game is from the genre of action-racing main feature of the gameplay will make use of special actions and destructive environments. Split Second will have two playable modes as single and multiplayer.

The game is about fictional reality TV program where participants race for money and glory. Player takes part in the program in order to earn money. A “powerplay” meter fills up while performing stunts in the race such as precision driving and passing very close to objects, stunt jumps and drifting. As the meter builds up special events will be triggered and they will further create obstacles in the race. Not just obstacles these special events can alter the race course entirely and create shortcuts. In order to stop the player from wining the race these triggers can also be used by AI opponents. These events can include airplane crashes, building collapse and huge explosions. Frequency of the trigger will depend on how full players meter is. Even if only one bar is full from three bars on HUD first level of events will be available and the most extreme events will be available only when the three bars are filled. Difficult y of the races will very greatly, first level races will be extremely easy to play and the races on the other end will be extremely difficult to play.

Vehicles, and locations that will affect the gameplay will be highlighted with a blue glow and the player must time action accurately in order to hamper the opponents to the extreme level. Once an event is triggered the powerplay meter will reset itself. Now the decision will be on players whether to choose the less affective first level, which will be available as soon as the meter resets itself or they can save powerplay points for longer and build them further to use the top tier actions. There will be several powerplays that can be used in the next level like the bombs dropped from the police helicopters. Opposite to this there will be few powerplays which never will reset unless and until you quit the race or restart it. To make the HUD as simple as possible Black Rock Studio removed many unwanted items from the HUD like Speedometer, Map e.t.c. Only elements on the HUD will be powerplay meter (most important of all), lap and position of the player in the race. Using the reality TV shows premise the game is broken in 24 episodes and one episode will have three races each. Multiplayer mode of the game will have online and offline versions.

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Risen will ask players to rise against destiny. It will be an fantasy themed game based in the genre of action role playing game. Development is under Piranha Bytes, German company famous for Gothic series. The game will be published by Koch Media’s game label Deep Silver. Deep Silver previously developed game for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows and Nintendo Wii. Games developed by Deep Silver include some of the fines games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, Cursed Mountain, Warhammer: Mark of Chaos and many more. Risen is set to release on October 2, 2009. Platforms chosen for the release of the game includes Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360. Development of the PC version is under Piranha Bytes and the Xbox version is outsourced to an experienced console team underneath the control of Piranha.

Game starts and the protagonist of the game is shipwrecked after a storm on the island Faranga. This Island is home to an active volcano. Recently ruins of an ancient temple have risen from the ground and may types of bizarre creatures infested island. Perilous of all everybody is forbid to leave the city of the island, because of the inquisitions. The island Faranga is specially created for the game. Location for the island is 21’19’ North 157’50’ west. In real life it will be somewhere in the Oceania and thus having tropical climate. However, it is described as Mediterranean island with dissimilar vegetations zones and sub-climates on the Official Risen Blog. Weather conditions on the island varies and it will also feature day/night cycle. Temple ruins risen from the ground are scattered throughout the island. These structures will offer access to the underground structures such as dungeons and catacombs. These structures are often found to be interconnected. There are many human settlements on the island. Faranga is occupied by humans along with some creatures still to be explained by the developers. Humans and these creatures both will have magical powers.

Initially the island will be locked and very few areas will be left open to explore. All the areas of the island will be unlocked as the game advances. Developing team also say that they bare working on easter eggs or secret games. Videos of the gameplay were leaked on Youtube. According to these videos player can access through classes, as well as weapons and fighting styles. Developers Piranha Byte cleared that the leaked video features the beta phase of the game. They further added that since the beta phase the game went under heavy changes and it doesn’t resemble any of the leaked videos of the game. To make the game famous many trailers of the game were released online by Deep Silver. One of the famous trailer features portions of the Nightwish song “The Poet and the Pendulum”.  A demo like preview called as The Risen Experience can be played on the official Risen website. A more trailer with more expansive gameplay demo is under development. The name Risen is given may be because of the structures Risen on the island, that makes it look differently.

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Far Cry is one the four game that are regarded as pillars of First person Shooter (FPS) genre. Developed by Crytek, German game developers and published by Ubisoft, it hit the market on March 23, 2004 and within the period of four months is sold more than 730,000 units. A sequel to the game was released on October 23, 2008 and it changed the history of gaming. Instead of Crytek Far Cry 2 was developed and published by Ubisoft. Development of the game took place in the Montreal studio of Ubisoft which better known as Ubisoft Montreal. Although Ubisoft marked Far Cry 2 as a true sequel of the previous one, but there was no similarity in the two games, even the protagonist of the game was changed. Dunia and Havok Physics were used as the game engine. Dunia was developed specially for Far Cry 2 by Ubisoft Montreal. It was because of Dunia and Havok that the game is so unique about its graphics and dynamic weather. The game was released on Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Genres of the game are First person shooter, action and Sandbox. So it can be said that Far Cry 2 is played in first person shooter perspective with lot of action in sandbox style of gameplay.

Experts and game enthusiast often call Far Cry 2 as a GTA in jungle. As the Far Cry 2 is an open ended first person shooter. You can play with one or more mercenaries and factions. Sandbox style of gaming and progress in the game as you want, ensuing the sandbox style settings in the game. There many options for the weapons and vehicles in the game. You can use wide range of vehicles like boats, trucks, cars, and the above all hand gliders. Depending on the situation player can choose playing styles like stealthy infiltrations or head on assault. Far Cry 2 is a unique game because it takes place in an open world instead of maps like most of the FPS games. Background for the game is beautiful and dangerous Africa. Topography of the game includes savannah, jungle and desert with an total area of 20 sq miles. Actions performed by player will effect the environment. Soldiers will try to kill the player as soon as they saw him, in spite of the factions he is working with. Only firing free zones in the game are ceasefire zones near all the big towns in the game. The sci-fi creatures from the previous installment are replaced by human mercenaries.

Weapon inventory of Far Cry 2 is one of the largest of all, including weapons in set of primary, secondary and special. Other than weapons from these categories a machete is carried all times along with set number of grenades and Molotov cocktails. Battle rifle, an assault rifle, MP5, MGL grenade launcher and sniper rifles are depicted as primary weapons. Special weapons will include light machine guns, recoilless rifles, a mortar and a flame thrower and mortar.  A gas powered tranquilizer is included in the game in order to control wild animals. In the secondary section semi-automatic pistols, SMG (submachine guns) and flare guns are included. The weapons will have an interesting feature of degradation, making the game more real and interesting. When weapons are used continuously they will get susceptible to jamming, dirty and ultimately leading to terribly fail becoming unusable. Weapons can be bought from various gun shops, in the exchange of money, gold and diamonds. Weapons in the gun shops will be brand new and will cam along manuals to use them. Weapons picked up from dead enemies will be found in bad conditions and can fire only for few time before going useless.

Far Cry 2 is based in a fictional troubled nation in Central Africa in the year 2008. The nation is involved in an civil war and many mercenaries have been called by the two main factions of the country fighting for power. Two faction in the game are APR (Alliance for Popular Resistance) lead by Oliver Tambossa and UFLL (United Front Liberation and Labour) lead by Addi Mbantuwe. Both of the factions are corrupt and their only interest is money and power. To win the war both sides have hired many mercenaries and protagonist of the game is one of them. Adding to the woes is the discovery of diamond mines with all the factions and foreign mercenaries without payment are fighting  for them. Player has to fight against all these factions and soldiers and also the major villain of the game the Jackal. He is arm dealer providing weapons to both to the factions and increasing the war. Aim of then player in the game is to find Jackal and kill him. Most of the soldiers in the game will be enemies except few friends which will include mercenaries. The game is divided in 4 acts with each having two endings. Be a mercenary and fight for money, diamond and blood.

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Bethesda Game Studios video game developers based in Rockville, United States. They are famous for their excellence in role-playing, racing and simulation games. Bethesda Game Studios develop one of the longest running game series The Elder Scrolls with 14 games in the series. Other important games developed by Bethesda Game Studios include Fallout series, Star Trek series and Doom 4 (to be released in 2010). Most notable of the games is Fallout 3, third entry in the Fallout series. First game of the series Fallout was released in the year 1997 followed by Fallout 2 in 1998. The third game however took 10 years for the completion. Fallout 3 is from the genre of action role-playing game. Fallout 3 was released between October 28 and 31 all over the world for the platforms of Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows. The game was received with full critical and commercial success. Fallout 3 sold more than 610,000 units in its first month of release breaking the record for the previous Bethesda Softworks’ game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Fallout 3 uses Gamebryo as the game engine, it is one of the most used game engine. Fallout is considered as one of the best game with post apocalyptic settings.

Background of Fallout is a post-apocalyptic, retro-futurist Washington D.C. and parts of Maryland and Virginia in the year 2277. Main player of the game lives in Fallout shelter known as Vault 101. The player lives in the shelter along with his father until one day when he wakes up to find that James has left the Vault. When the overseer finds out that James father of the player (PC) is missing, he becomes suspicious and orders his men to kill the PC. PC is forced to go out in the Washington wasteland, and follow his father’s tail and find out why he left. On his quest, he encounters various factions like the outcasts a group of brotherhood of steel exiles, the Enclave leftovers of the United States. There are total six vaults in the Washington that can be explored. Most of them showing the results of the “Vault Experiment”. The character of is a nineteen years old boy who is simply called as player character or PC. In search of his father, he explores various areas of Washington starting from Megaton a place named after the undetonated atomic bomb at its centre, followed by Galaxy News Radio station. Another human settlements in the area is Rivet City a derelict aircraft carrier. PC meets doctor Li, a scientist earlier worked with player’s father and tells him about Project Purity carried for take out radiation from water of wasteland.

Initially Fallout 3 was assigned with Black Isle Studios, original developers of Fallout and Fallout 2. Black Isle Studios was original owned by Interplay Entertainment. When interplay went bankrupt, license of Fallout 3 was sold to Bethesda Softworks. They paid an advance of $1,175,000. At the time of purchasing of the license, Bethesda Softworks was famous for The Elder Scroll series. Work again started on Fallout 3 in July 2004. But major development for the game did not begin until The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was completed. First trailer for the game was released on June 5, 2007. With press kit of the game, it was also revealed that the game will release in fall 2008. Destroyed Washington was showed in the trailer, which was confirmed by an damaged Washington Monument. On release, Fallout 3 registered some of the best results both commercially and critically. Average score Fallout 3 was 93/100. This success was followed by n number of awards it won later. In the award list, it won IGN award for the Overall and Best Xbox 360 game of the year 2008. GameSpot gave away the Best PC Game of 2008. Fallout 3 is one of the best game of the modern generation. It was praised for some wonderful use of the action-adventure genre to show post apocalyptic effects.

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Grand Theft Auto is the brightest star in the sky of gaming world. There are four main games in the series and several other spin-off games in the series. Starting from GTA or Grand Theft Auto latest game in the series was to be released was Grand theft Auto IV, one of the best. Shortened as GTA4 or GTA IV it is a sandbox style game with action adventure settings. GTA IV is developed by Rockstar Toronto and Rockstar North, both parts of Rockstar Games. Rockstar Games are considered as one of the best game makers in the world. Grand Theft Auto IV was published by Rockstar in the whole world except Japan where it was published by Capcom. The game was distributed on the retail by Take Two Interactive and online it was distributed by Steam. RAGE (Rockstar Advanced Game Engine) is the engine used in the game. The game was released for the platforms of Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 3. Genres for the game selected for the game was Sandbox, third-person shooter, action-adventure. Single and the multiplayer mode are the two playing modes for the game. Grand Theft Auto was released on 29^th April 2008 on the platforms of PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 worldwide and the Microsoft Windows version was released on 2^nd and 3^rd December 2008.

Protagonist of the game is a war veteran for the Bosnian War and an illegal immigrant and his name is Niko Bellic. Niko arrives in America from Eastern Europe in order to forget his criminal past and live a new life. Liberty City is used as the background city in the game. However, on his arrival he learns that his cousin Roman is working in illegal gangs. Niko helps Roman in the hope of figure out a new life for himself in the city. Later in the game, it is revealed that Niko arrived in Liberty City to search Florian Cravic. Niko blames Florian for the betrayal of his old army unit. Niko starts working for Mikhail Faustin one of the drug lord of Liberty City. Niko is ordered to kill Mikhail by Dimitri Rascalov, he is an associate with Mikhail and Rodislav Bulgarin. Only after killing Mikhail, Niko learns that Dimitri also ordered his men to kill Niko once he finishes job. Niko escapes with the help of Little Jacob an arms dealer he befriended earlier. Niko and his cousin Roman flees to some other part of the city. Niko desperate for money works for several other gangs, including Playboy X’s gang, McReary Irish Mob, Pegorino Crime Family. While working as a gangster Niko finally finds Florian only to discover that Florian is not the one who betrayed him. Darko Brevic is revealed to be the person who betrayed Niko in the Bosnian War. Niko earlier worked for an undercover agency and in return, they locates Darko in Bosnia and brings him to Liberty City as a Final reward to Niko. Niko finds that Darko has become a drug-addicted, guilt-ridden wreck. Now Niko is left with two choices either to kill Darko or leave him. Niko is called by a mob boss Jimmy Pegorino to obtain a shipment of drugs for him to be sold to a buyer: Dimitri Rascalov.

To give the game a twist and make the ending more classic players are left with two options Revenge or Deal. The game will end how the players want it to be. If the player choose revenge then Niko ambushed Dimitri on the tanker and after a long gunfight he kills Dimitri. Furious after the betrayal Jimmy Pegorino attacks Roman’s wedding and Niko’s girlfriend is killed. Niko tries to kill Pegorino but he escapes using a boat to the Happiness Island. Niko follows him in helicopter and finally kills Jimmy Pegorino. Now of the layer chooses to play the game in Deal then Niko makes the drug deal silently. But Dimitri disrupts his part of the deal Niko still retrieves money and drugs. Pegorino calls Niko to congratulate him and reveals that he is now befriended with Dimitri. A killer send by Dimitri to kill Niko unintentionally shoots and kills Roman during a struggle. Confounded Niko follows Pegorino and Dimitri and kills them both. Grand Theft is the best ever game in the history of gaming, both commercially and critically. It sold more than 3.6 million copies in single day making almost $310 million in revenue. GTA IV broke the pervious record, which was hold by Halo 3. Grand Theft Auto IV scored an awesome score of 10/10 on nearly every game ranking website and magazine.

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