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Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance is a 3rd person action RPG/Beat 'em up video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It was developed by Cavia and published by Capcom, and released on August 23, 2005. In it, the player takes the role of any of 5 gangsters, having been betrayed by their boss and scattered across the city. The player earns respect on the street by fighting enemies to take down a shadowy organization and gain control of Los Sombras. The player also has complete control of team-building and can free-roam for most of the game. There are numerous moves that the player can use to beat their enemies including hand-to-hand combat, melee weapon combat and in the later stages of the game firearms such as pistols and shotguns. Powerful combination moves referred to in game as "combos" can be learned from a variety of NPCs in exchange for cash or upon reaching a certain skill level. During the course of the game, players can buy clothes or undergo plastic surgery to disguise themselves and evade the rival gangsters and police who pursue them

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Beyond Good & Evil takes place in the year 2435 on the mining planet of Hillys, located in Sector Four, a remote section of the galaxy. The architecture of the city around which the game takes place was designed with a rustic European style. The world itself combines modern elements, such as e-mail and credit cards, with those of science fiction and fantasy, such as spaceships and anthropomorphic animals coexisting with humans. The once-peaceful planet is under siege by aliens called the DomZ that abduct beings and either drain their life force for power or implant them with spores to convert them into slaves. A military dictatorship called the Alpha Sections takes power, promising to defend the populace. However, the Alpha Sections seem unable to stop the DomZ despite their public assurances. An underground resistance movement, the IRIS Network, fights the Alpha Sections, believing them to be in league with the DomZ.

Licensed by card manufacturer Bicycle, this game lets you gamble on the Xbox with slot machines, card games, keno, roulette, money wheel, pai gow, craps and different types of poker, including the popular Texas Hold'Em. The game boasts 500 variations, but most of them are based on the table limits for each game. You start by creating a character with different options for skin tones, facial features clothes, accessories. The gameplay for table games is shown through a camera hovering about the players. Bicycle Casino has support for Xbox Live. You can talk, bluff or threaten through the head-set, or use in-game animations and emoticons. Hints and strategy tips are included for all games.

Big Bumpin Game Overview

Big Bumpin transports players to a futuristic cosmic racing universe where specially designed vehicles called Bumpers compete across hazardous interstellar tracks. Players assume the role of Zorax Vex, a disgraced former champion seeking redemption, or his protege Lyra, a talented young racer from a mining colony. The game features an intricate vehicle customisation system utilising unique crystalline materials that affect performance, defensive capabilities, and racing strategies. The core gameplay revolves around strategic collision mechanics where controlled bumping provides momentum advantages when executed properly. Players navigate through diverse environments including asteroid fields, abandoned space structures, stellar coronas, and electromagnetic nebulae, each presenting distinct challenges and racing conditions. A compelling narrative unfolds as players progress through underground racing circuits to the prestigious Fringe Gauntlet, ultimately challenging the corrupt Hegemony Corporation that controls professional racing. The revolutionary crystal technology pioneered throughout the journey eventually transforms not only the racing world but interstellar society itself, leaving players with meaningful impact beyond victory.

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Big Mutha Truckers is primarily a racing game, in the same vein as 18 Wheeler.  American Pro Trucker. Players spend the majority of their time on the road, navigating the highways between the game's six cities: Salt Sea City, Capital City, Greenback, Skeeter's Creek, Smokestack Heights, and Big Mutha Truckin' Incorporated. The player will earn most of their money through trade, shipping goods from cell phones to beer, with additional opportunities from mini-games and challenge races. Every city features three locations: a garage, a bar, and a store. The garage allowed players to repair damage, refuel, switch trailers to carry different kinds of cargo, buy upgrades to improve their rig, or design custom logos for their truck. In the bar the player can find tips on where to buy and sell certain cargo, and a loan shark. The store allows the player to buy and sell goods, with prices varying by town. When visiting Big Mutha Truckin' Incorporated, the bar and store are replaced by visits to Ma Jackson. On the road, the player can earn extra money by smashing other vehicles. This money can be multiplied through combos, or by hitting a vehicle with the trailer. If the player earns a high enough combo, he can make reward icons appear on the road. When collected, these icons can refuel the truck, repair damage, or offer a cash bonus. Law enforcement and biker gangs are both present in the game, and cause trouble for the player if they attack them by mistake. Any cop will pursue and capture a player, while bikers will attempt to shoot up the trailer, or even detach it from the truck. In either case, it is a significant blow to the player's cash. Every cop can be avoided with skilful driving, and bikers can be shaken away from the truck.

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The truckers return and this time you have to get Ma Jackson off the hook after being arrested for tax evasion. Bribe the jurors as you take the roll of Ma's cousin Jacob in a race to make money by trucking and trading. Drive and go almost everywhere at any time in a bigger environment than the original finding shortcuts and new towns to go trucking in. Trading is only a small part of the game and has been simplified to allow more time driving. Like the previous game, Big Mutha Truckers 2 follows Ma Jackson and her children in their exploits running a haulage company and trading goods to raise enough money to hire a lawyer to get 'Ma' off the hook for tax evasion. The game has the player driving between towns, purchasing goods for cheap and delivering them to a different town, where the price is higher, to make a profit. The game also includes side missions, where the player drives other vehicles such as an SUV or pickup truck.

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Bionicle is a 3D platform game. The game's levels vary between normal platforming levels and levels that use mechanics like snowboarding or lava surfing. Light stones are scattered throughout each level, and collecting them unlocks bonus content. Captive Matoran characters are located in some levels, and finding them is necessary to solve puzzles. Each Toa character can attack using elemental energy; the attacks automatically target enemies. By timing attacks correctly, the player can launch a multi-bolt attack. Elemental energy depletes after each use. In order to replenish their supply, the player can shield and absorb attacks from enemies or draw in energy directly from the environment. When drawing from the environment, the player is vulnerable to attack. Elemental energy can also be resupplied by finding masks – called Kanohi of elemental energy. Bionicle The Game is an action-adventure video game released in 2003. The game is based on parts of the movie Bionicle: Mask of Light and other parts of the Bionicle storyline. Initially, the game was supposed to make each Toa, Toa Nuva, and the Toa of Light playable, but due to deadlines, much of the game was dropped. However, all of the characters are playable in the Game Boy Advance version. The Mac OS X version of the game was released by Feral Interactive.

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Black takes place in Chechnya (Southern Russia). The protagonist is a black ops soldier named Sergeant First Class Jack Kellar (portrayed by Marty Papazian). Kellar tells most of the story in first-person at an interrogation four days after the events in the story begin. Kellar is an inadequately disciplined member of a CIA black ops group and a veteran of several conflicts including Guatemala, Colombia, Iran and Croatia. The unknown interrogator (portrayed by Paul Pape) questions Kellar about an arms smuggling and terrorist operation called the Seventh Wave. Seventh Wave have been responsible for a number of terrorist attacks. Kellar is told that, unless he co-operates, he and his actions will be declassified, he will be dishonorably discharged and imprisoned for life. Though initially resistant, Kellar at last agrees to tell his story.

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Black Stone lets one to four players play on a single Xbox no split screen worries. In fact, just about everything in the game is reminiscent of the party game classic. You choose one of several classes of character to play. You've got enemies who spawn endlessly from "huts", which you must destroy to stop them from swarming your party. You pick up magic scrolls (as opposed to potions), which offer powerful blasts. You've got both a ranged and a melee attack. You open chests for goodies and often you'll be yelling at your buddy that you need that food health pick-up more than they do. That's not to say Black Stone doesn't try and throw in a few wrinkles of its own. There are some pretty cool power-ups you can nab that will affect your melee and ranged attacks. Like a triple ranged attack and Berserker rage that causes 50% more damage for a limited time. But these wrinkles are no kind of innovation and are rather just an extra coat of paint on a genre in need of some inspiration. Up to 4 players battle through various environments, fighting off endless waves of enemies and using magic and melee attacks of many types to defeat evil and reclaim hope for the planet. A various range of characters are available, each with their own set of attack styles and magic abilities. During play you can pick up scrolls that will add further attack abilities. Enemies spew out of huts, which must be destroyed in order to continue on. You can also ride on dinosaurs for that extra edge in battles.

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Blade II is an action beat them up game played from a third-person perspective, with the player controlling Blade's movement via the left analogue stick. The game primarily focuses on melee combat, although it does allow the use of firearms. Combat is controlled via the right analogue stick, allowing for what the developers call a "360° combat system" – the player moves the stick in the direction in which they want to attack and Blade punches or kicks in that direction. The player has no control over what kind of attack Blade executes, only the direction in which he attacks. Blade can also block, chain attacks together into combos and perform "finishing moves", such as grabbing an enemy in a headlock and driving a stake into their head. A major feature of the game is Rage mode. Fighting slowly and methodically charges up Blade's Rage meter through three levels: "Sword", "Shield" and "Strength". If the player activates Rage mode on the first level, Blade will take out his sword and use it for a limited amount of time. If activated on the second level, Blade uses his sword and becomes invincible. If activated on the third level, Blade uses his sword, becomes invincible and increases in strength. At the start of the game Blade is equipped with only a "mach pistol", but as the player advances they can unlock other weapons and accessories; a shotgun, a glaive, stronger body armour, silver knuckles, UV grenades, and serum to increase Blade's health regeneration.

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You can take to the skies and reenact some of the greatest air battles of World War II in Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII. The game features squadron-based combat, which lets you use the individual characteristics of your wingmen to complete the 18-mission single-player campaign. Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII uses the graphical power of the Xbox 360 to accurately model battle sites such as England, Morocco, and Pearl Harbor and the 38 aircraft included in the game. Up to 16 players can battle via Xbox Live in both competitive and cooperative game modes. The Angels of Dunkirk is the name of the player's squadron in the game. It is made up of the player, Tom "the shield", Joe "the mechanical wizard" and Frank "the hunter". The player's name is not revealed in the game, but some pilots call him "Captain". Also featured is a German Ace, that the player first encounters during the Battle of Britain, throwing insults at the squadron. He appears again in the final mission of the game, 1945 Berlin leading the Nowotny Squadron also known as Jagdgeschwader 7, a squadron of elite German aces flying the experimental jet planes Germany was trying to create. The Ace is shot down by the player when he nearly kills Tom.

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In Blinx 2, the player switches between playing as the Time Sweepers and the Tom Toms. Much of the core gameplay is retained from the first game for the Time Sweepers, with each Time Sweeper equipped with a vacuum that can collect debris, time crystals, and gold crystals.[1] When shooting debris, the player can now lock onto enemies, a feature planned for the original game. The player no longer needs to collect the crystals in any order to receive a time control, but rather just collect three of a particular crystal. Some of these controls can also be combined, allowing the player to use certain effects with each other, such as speeding themselves up with the fast forward while slowing the world down at the same time. Each Time Sweeper level has multiple missions that the player can choose to do, although only one needs to be completed in order to progress. Meanwhile, the Tom Toms control much like a stealth game, with the player aiming to avoid Time Sweepers to collect loot at a location, and then return it to their initial location without being caught. In this mode, the player has several gadgets at their arsenal to control space, distract the Time Sweepers and to assist with their passage through the level, such as decoys and wormholes. They also have guns, which can be used to take out Time Sweepers at risk of attracting attention to themselves.

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Blinx The Time Sweeper is an action platformer, with the player controlling the titular character of Blinx. The player is initially equipped with the TS 1000 Vacuum Cleaner, which is able to sweep up parts of the environment (referred to in game as trash), gold crystals, cat medals, and time crystals; they are also able to shoot out collected trash. The player is able to purchase better vacuums with their collected gold in order to sweep larger objects. By collecting at least three of the same time crystals in their inventory, the player gains one time control related to the crystals collected, receiving two if four of the same are collected instead. The player is also able to receive up to three retries by collecting red hearts in the same manner. Using time controls, the player is able to affect the level in one of five ways: reversing time (REW), speeding up time (FF), slowing down time (SLOW), pausing time (PAUSE), and recording their movements for a period of time to create a clone of themselves (REC); the time controls do not affect the player, allowing them to manoeuvre through the stage as the control is being used. If the player is defeated and has a retry, a process similar to the REW time control occurs, although the player is also reversed to a prior state before they were defeated. Each stage must be completed within a 10 minute timer by defeating all enemies in a stage and entering the goal gate.

Blitz The League Game Overview

Blitz The League delivers an uncompromising alternative football experience where players guide Marcus Garrison and the struggling Detroit Demons through the ranks of a gritty sports association that embraces the violent reality of professional tackle football. The gameplay focuses on risk versus reward mechanics featuring explicit injury systems, strategic aggression management, and uniquely brutal special moves unavailable in conventional sports titles. Players navigate a morally complex world extending beyond the field, making consequential decisions regarding performance enhancement, media relationships, corruption engagement, and off field activities that directly impact team chemistry and player attributes. The multitier division structure creates a compelling progression path from dilapidated venues and minimal coverage to championship opportunities against powerhouse franchises benefiting from institutional advantages. A rich narrative explores themes of redemption, institutional corruption, and community impact as the revitalisation of the franchise parallels potential renewal for a struggling industrial city, with multiple legacy paths extending the experience beyond initial championship pursuits into long term career development and potential organisational transformation.

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The vampire, Kain, refused to sacrifice himself to restore the Pillars of Nosgoth at the end of Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, thus damning the Pillars and the world of Nosgoth to an eternity of depravity and decay. Following his refusal, Kain built a vampire army with Vorador's help and attempted to conquer the world. Four hundred years after the events of Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Kain awakes in Meridian, Nosgoth's industrial capital city. He remembers very little, and is lacking much of his former power. He is greeted by a vampire called Umah, who informs Kain that he has been asleep for two hundred years. Two hundred years before, Kain's conquest of Nosgoth had been opposed by an army of vampire hunters called the Sarafan Order. The Sarafan Order destroyed Kain's army, and Kain himself was defeated in combat by their leader, the Sarafan Lord who then claimed the Soul Reaver from Kain. In the years since, the Sarafan have imposed harsh martial law on Nosgoth's human population, and started an industrial revolution. Employing 'Glyph magic' - a new kind of magic, deadly to vampires - they have hunted the remaining vampires to near extinction: as a result, several vampires have agreed to serve the Sarafan out of self-preservation. Umah is a member of the Cabal, an underground resistance movement formed of vampires and working to undermine the Sarafan at every turn. The Cabal hopes that Kain will destroy the Sarafan Lord, and the traitorous vampires that protect him.

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Blood Wake is a naval combat video game that was released in 2001 on the Xbox as part of Microsoft's initial wave of Xbox launch titles. The game was developed by Stormfront Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios. Set in an Asian themed fictional world, Blood Wake is a story driven, mission based high seas action game in which the player controls a series of small fighting vessels. Some reviewers described its gameplay as "Twisted Metal on water," although its mission-based story line differentiated Blood Wake from Twisted Metal's arena based gameplay. The player controls Lieutenant Shao Kai, a former naval officer of the Northern League fleet who was betrayed and left for dead by his brother, Admiral Shao Lung. Kai is rescued by a band of sea raiders known as the Shadow Clan, and joins them after proving himself worthy to their leader, Ped Zeng. He will bide his time with them awaiting his chance for revenge against his brother. Here he meets a formidable young woman who advises Ped and becomes the love interest. The Shadow Clan spends most of its time preying on the third faction in the game, the Jade Kingdom, who are primarily a mercantile power led by Lord Sri Brana. All are now in the path of Admiral Shao Lung's ambitions to create the Iron Empire. Lung has developed a monstrous warship named the Dragon and a powerful magic amulet to defeat anyone and anything in his way.

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The game begins in 1933, in a place where it appears that the people believe in vampires, as all the doors and windows show crosses. It shows a man and woman running down a street. The woman trips, and the man pauses long enough to help her up, only to be dragged into a dark alleyway by a chain. His head is thrown from an alley at the woman's feet, with Rayne walking calmly up to the woman. The woman seemingly breaks down crying, but in fact only hides her face to reveal she is in fact a vampire. After a brief fight, Rayne decapitates her and then takes off before a small army of vampires tries to catch her off guard. She drops a grenade on their position as she leaves. On top of the buildings, two mysterious men, who were watching the events unfold the whole time, are discussing their reason for being here. One reveals they are here to recruit Rayne, who is trying to find where her father is. The other member does not want a Dhampir with the Brimstone society, regardless of the fact that she is only half-vampire and has fewer weaknesses, as the Society is trying to rid the world of Vampires(and presumably people with Vampire blood in them. Eventually they agree to recruit Rayne, and leave a necklace with their symbol on it as seen on the game cover.

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Rayne is seen entering a library called Blood Library, with a few Nazis inside. She finds that Brimstone members have been slaughtered and realizes her vampiric father Kagan is here, acting as an influential Nazi. Rayne rushes to confront him for revenge for her mother's rape and the murder of her family, and Kagan mocks Rayne by saying he does not recognize her, as he sired numerous offspring that way. He finds what he was looking for, called the Vesper Shard. Knowing Rayne still wants to kill him, he then brings Professor Trumain up from the floor, strangled by his own small intestine, but barely alive. Kagan knows that they know each other, and that Trumain "stole" yet another offspring from him. While Kagan mocks Rayne, Truman pulls out a detonator, first giving time for Rayne to run, then detonating the grenade, killing himself and seemingly taking Kagan with him. Denied the pleasure of killing him herself, Rayne spends the 60 years after the war seeking out and destroying Kagan's offspring.[5] These offspring, Rayne's half-siblings, have banded together to form a group called the Cult of Kagan. The Cult has created the Shroud, a substance that can render sun rays harmless to vampires, allowing them to surface at all times of the day, and which twists nature into a nightmarish perversion trees dying almost instantly, grass catching on fire, corpses twitching. Using the Shroud, the Cult has pledged to create a new era of vampiric supremacy, continuing Kagan's legacy.

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Bloody Roar Primal Fury. Each character has a set of moves spread across a punch, kick, beast and block button, which is also used for throws. Special moves are primarily performed using quarter circle or half circle motions and a face button, though several exceptions exist. Attacks can be blocked with either a light guard, performed by not pressing forward or backward, or a heavy guard by holding back or the block button. Various attacks in the game can break through and stagger opponents using a light block. Various characters also have light block counters, which work against certain high or mid level punches and kicks. Players start each fight with a full life bar and a Beast Gauge, which allows them to transform into a stronger half animal fighter. This gauge fills as the player performs moves or gets attacked. It fills with either a blue bar, indicating the player cannot switch to beast form, or a yellow bar with the words "BEAST CHANGE!!" appearing above it, meaning the player can transform. While in beast form, both the life bar and the Beast Gauge deplete. An emptied life bar results in a knockout, but emptying the Beast Gauge and knocking the opponent down reverts them to human form. Also, it reverts the Beast Gauge to the blue bar, preventing them from transforming again until it is refilled.

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Blowout is a game that takes a classic gameplay concept and updates it with modern graphics and sounds. This game is a side scrolling platform shooter. The graphics are 3 dimensional polygons, but the action stays almost entirely in a 2 dimensional plane. The setting for the game is a space station that has been overrun by hostile aliens. You play as a bad ass soldier dude who will single handily wipe the aliens out. You travel around each level in a non linear fashion. You have to fight your way through endless hordes to find keys, flip switches, use elevators, and then ultimately defeat a big boss at the end. The game plays as a 2.5D side scrolling run and gun shoot 'em up with elements of a platformer. It follows the tradition of games such as Contra and Metal Slug, with a power up based non linear exploration structure akin to Metroid. The player takes the role of TransFed Marshall John "Dutch" Cane, a space marine sent to check up on researchers on the space platform named Honour Guard, only to discover that they have been mutilated by aliens. On the way through each level, the player can blast through walls, floors or ceilings to reveal secret areas, and shoot in full 360 degree range. There are 10 levels in total.

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BMX XXX is a 2002 sports video game developed by Z Axis and published by Acclaim Entertainment under their AKA Acclaim label for the Xbox. While primarily a BMX based action sports title, the game places a distinct emphasis on off colour and sexual humour, and allows the player to create female characters that are fully topless. The game also features unlockable live action footage of real life strippers courtesy of Scores, a New York based strip club. BMX XXX began development in 2001 as a traditional entry in the Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX series, and was announced as Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 3. The executives of Z Axis and Acclaim influenced by a crowded action sports game market, a dire financial situation, and the commercial success of the Grand Theft Auto series decided to insert nudity and mature humour into the game to increase publicity and sales. Although Dave Mirra initially supported the pitched concept, his name was eventually dissociated from the title following its unveiling at E3. The development team members were displeased with the change in direction, with some attempting to distance themselves from the production.

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While Breakdown is primarily a first person action game, it incorporates elements of a fighting game and employs an auto-lock system for shooting enemies. The player's perspective is maintained throughout, and interactions with objects are designed to be realistic. For example, ammunition is collected by looking down and picking it up, rather than simply walking over it. Doors are opened by grabbing the handle, key cards are swiped over scanners, and ladders are climbed using the character's arms. Health and energy are restored by consuming items such as energy bars, hamburgers, and sodas. A mysterious underground complex, known as Site Zero, is discovered in Japan and linked to increased earthquake activity. Controlled by a powerful being called Nexus, Site Zero is home to an alien race called the T'lan. Humanity has established a research facility near the site, but tensions between the T'lan and humans are escalating into open conflict. The game follows Derrick Cole, a protagonist suffering from amnesia after being injected with T'langen, a substance intended to create super soldiers with T'lan like abilities. At the start of the game, Derrick is rescued by a woman named Alex Hendrickson, who knows him and is distressed by his memory loss. As they escape the facility, Derrick’s new powers manifest, allowing him to fight the T'lan. The two are separated by an earthquake but later reunite, encountering Solus, a powerful human like T'lan, who easily defeats them.

Breeders Cup World Thoroughbred Championships Game Overview

Breeders Cup World Thoroughbred Championships delivers the definitive horse racing simulation for Xbox, inviting players to build a racing dynasty from modest beginnings to international prominence. Players assume the role of Alex Morgan, a third generation horseman navigating the complex world of thoroughbred racing through sophisticated training systems, strategic race selections, and authentic breeding mechanics that determine long term success. The game features a comprehensive global racing calendar including faithfully recreated prestigious events from Churchill Downs to Royal Ascot, culminating in the ultimate challenge of competing in the Breeders Cup Championship races against the finest equine athletes from around the world. Management depth extends beyond racing to encompass bloodstock acquisition, staff development, facility improvements, and veterinary care that create meaningful resource allocation decisions throughout career progression. Each horse possesses unique attribute distributions across speed, stamina, temperament, and racing aptitude requiring individualised training approaches rather than formulaic methods. International racing environments present distinctive challenges through diverse track configurations, regulatory differences, cultural traditions, and regional breeding philosophies that successful operations must understand and adapt to while building a lasting legacy through championship performances.

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There are a few types of cricket that can be played in the game. Test match, Test series, One Day match, World Cup, ICC Champion's Trophy and practice mode. Along with the types of cricket there are several difficulty settings. Slog mode, village, county and test. With each difficulty bowling and batting decreases in ease. The game also offers the player to construct their own team from cricketers already in the game, and to construct their own "Career Players" who gain experience with each match. There is also a "Classic XI" mode, which has famous cricketers of the past such as W.G. Grace, Imran Khan and Jim Laker. There are also a challenge mode in the game, where the player can take on cricketing challenges based on notable cricket matches from the past. The player can either recreate or rewrite history, depending on the team they choose to play as. These include such matches as The birth of The Ashes, the 1933 Bodyline test match, Garfield Sobers' six sixes, and the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup final. There are 10 challenges in total. The game takes the perspective of the normal cricket TV coverage, other views and displays in the game also try to emulate TV coverage of cricket, for example Hawk-Eye, an electronic system used to track cricket balls as they are bowled is featured in the game.

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During these events, in Paris, Nico Collard prepares to meet and interview a hacker named Vernon Blier in his apartment, who recently decoded the Voynich manuscript, but is afraid for his life because of what he found out from it. Vernon is murdered in his home by a woman impersonating Nico, named Petra, just before the former gets there. When the two confront each other inside the apartment, Petra fails to kill Nico, and flees, leaving a few clues behind. Nico quickly tries to find what she needs to prove her innocence, but after the police arrive to investigate the murder, the detective in charge chooses to arrest her, based on the witness account of Vernon's landlady. Following her arrest and subsequent release two days later, Nico decides to find out more about what Vernon had found out, and returns to his apartment, finding his girlfriend, Beatrice, residing inside, still coping with the loss of Vernon. Finding and managing to open a hidden safe, Nico finds diagrams and a DVD, and the latter she plays back at her own apartment before showing it to Andre Lobineau, an old friend of hers, finding it contained a message from Vernon about what he found, believing the bizarre storms happening across the world are a sign of a global catastrophe in the making. Finding out about an abandoned theatre on the Ile St Louis in Paris, connected to a mask the killer had with her when she fled Vernon's murder, Nico heads out to investigate it but gets captured by Petra and her boss, Susarro.

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Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood is a first person shooter video game developed by Gearbox Software and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Xbox and PlayStation 2. The mobile phone version was developed and published by Gameloft and released in October 2005 along with the console versions. It was ported to the Wii in 2008 as a part of the Brothers in Arms: Double Time compilation. Earned in Blood continues the Brothers In Arms saga as newly promoted Sergeant Joe "Red" Hartsock (Hartsock was the Corporal of Baker's Fire Team), who was part of the historic Normandy invasion in the previous game. Earned in Blood includes several new multiplayer missions, weapons and vehicles, plus a new co-op skirmish mode. The AI of enemies has also been improved considerably in this game, while level designs are more open-ended than the original. Earned in Blood includes several new multiplayer missions, weapons, and vehicles, plus a new co-op skirmish mode. The AI of enemies has also been improved considerably in this game, while level designs are more open-ended than the original.

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Brothers in Arms aims to be one of the most realistic and authentic World War II shooters ever. Based on a true story, the game puts players in the role of Sgt. Matt Baker, a D-Day paratrooper squad leader as he leads the squad through the European campaign. Each battlefield has been meticulously recreated from aerial reconnaissance images, US Army Signal Corps photos and eye-witness accounts of war-torn Normandy. Brothers in Arms is notable for its intuitive command system; teams and tanks can be ordered to move, lay suppressive fire, rally, find cover, and charge the enemy. The game stresses at multiple points the effectiveness of fire and manoeuvre tactics, known as the Four Fs actually used by the military during World War II, expressed in the game tutorial as "Find, Fix, Flank, Finish" describing the steps in suppressing and flanking an enemy. The focus on team command rather than individual marksmanship is emphasized by providing the player with inaccurate aim. Brothers in Arms models weapons with erratic accuracy, and enemy fire can interfere with a player's aim to simulate the effects of suppressive fire. The relative lack of accuracy is designed to simulate the difficulty in hitting targets in a combat situation and to force the player to use team members to engage enemy units and provide better tactical opportunities.

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Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon features an epic storyline in which Bruce battles multiple enemies to rescue his kidnapped father and retrieve the mystical Golden Relic. A quest which will take him to several different cities around the world including Hong Kong and San Francisco. The game features a variety of martial arts styles, including Jeet Kune Do, the discipline started by Bruce Lee himself. It contains over 100 motion captured moves performed by one of Bruce Lee's 3rd generation students. These moves are learned as you progress through the game by collecting tokens from defeated enemies. In the end, over 30 different types of adversaries must be overcome in order to retrieve the relic and save your father. The game features a story line in which 24 year old Bruce battles multiple enemies to rescue his kidnapped father and retrieve the mystical Golden Relic from an organized crime organization known as Black Lotus, led by mysterious "Dragon Lady", whose father Chai Wan was inadvertently killed by Lee. Players control Lee through a series of areas set in various locations around the world, including Hong Kong, London and San Francisco. The game's bosses include Dragon Lady's sisters, including Cleopatra and Rhianna, and her other followers, such as Cobra and female ninja assassin Tsuki.

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Brute Force was developed to be a third person squad based shooter. This allows for both open ended type gameplay and adding a tactical component by playing the characters according to their abilities. Engagements can be handled via stealth, sniper fire, or direct assault. Each of the four playable characters has a special ability for approaching combat in their own way. Tex and Brutus are suited to direct assaults, Hawk is suited to stealth, and Flint is suited to sniping enemies. The player switches between and issues orders to the characters via the D pad. No online gameplay is offered with Brute Force, however there is cooperative play, where another player may at any time control another character during the campaign. Up to four players are supported this way.After the mechanics of the squad based gameplay, AI was perhaps the most important parts of development. This was actually to complement the team based system, which would allow the enemies to act intelligently and allow your team to support the player and work together as a team. The gameplay has four different command modes to which the AI reacts differently. The characters are also aware of the environment in finding areas for cover and sniping, as well as going to heal themselves.

Game Overview

In a dream sequence, Giles takes Buffy for training in an old Spanish Mission. Buffy fights her way through, opening the door to the chapel where she is transported to the Sunken Church. There she encounters three demons and the Master, who attacks her. Moments later, Buffy wakes up from the nightmare. The next night, Buffy is practicing cheerleading (as a favour to Cordelia) when the power goes out and vampires invade the school. Buffy eventually finds the school janitor dead, and uses his keys to access the basement and restore the power. She then rushes to the library, to save Giles from a vampire named Malik, who escapes with a book on spirit channelling. Giles is unable to determine why Malik wanted the book but isn't worried, so Buffy and her friends head to The Bronze. At the same time, Malik is revealed to be working for Spike who has returned to Sunnydale and regrouped the Order of Aurelius. Spike uses the book to summon the spirit of an ancient being named Laibach who possesses Drusilla in order to force Spike to do its bidding. Laibach orders Spike to get fresh human sacrifices for a coming ceremony and he dispatches vampires to the Bronze then he encounters Buffy.