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Game Description: First Person Shooter Team player and multi-player.
Publisher: Capcon
Genre: Horror, Action, First Person Shooter, Modern, Shoot-em-Up.

Chain Saw PS2 Controller - Not for the meek.

Rating: 8 out of 10

One of the greatest horror themed games ever created.
They made of movie of the earlier Resident Evil Game it was so good and the movie is one of my favourites. Not for the meek or young this is truly an adults game. Great cinematics wrapped around a classic Horror story. I dont wont to give anything away , if Horror is you kind of game or movie then this game has it all, a little to violent for my tastes but any game that has its own chain saw PS2 controller gives you a good hint that its not for the week at heart.



Game 8 out of 10
 

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Much awaited, this Game lets you blast everything. Lots of glass to break cars explode, walls fall down. The usual type shooter blast em game with the ability to shoot most objects as well. Heavy pace with plenty of action but not very long. Difficult to survive long enough to get to the end. Lots of good weapons a little slow to re-load I thought. But a good blast-em-up with plenty of non-stop action to keep you busy. Wish it was on PC with easier controls than the PS2 but its not. Nice explosions good graphics plenty of weapons and things to shoot. Black is short for Black OPs , secret operations that are not in the books that Governments  can deny ever happened. As a Black Ops special forces type you are trying to bring done some arms dealing terrorists called Seventh Wave. As far as first person shooters go its pretty good and if you like them you will like Black. I'm a little tired of them and they have to be pretty special to hold my attention these days. A good shooter game but still its another shooter game. Not in the same league as Battlefield 2 but enjoyable.

Game 6 out of 10

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Game Description: First Person Shooter Team player and multi-player.
Publisher: EA Games
Developer: Digital Illusions, Dice.
Genre: Action, First Person Shooter, Modern, Shoot-em-Up, Internet, Multiplayer.
Rating: 10 out of 10

More for the Game of the Year Battlefield 2. Expansion Pack - Special forces. With Night Scopes, gas masks, Zip lines- flying foxes, grappling hooks, flash grenades, RPG's rocket launchers, tear gas,  Motor bikes and even jet skies this add on to Battlefield 2 is a must have. Play SAS or Spetsnaz, MEC, Seals,  or terrorists/(freedom fighters), lots more goodies and eight new maps including a space port with soviet rocket ready for launch. (I climbed right to the top of this with a sniper rifle and had a field day). Hind helicopters, night missions you even have to parachute into one mission. A absolutely amazing game and this pack just adds more goodies on to it. Very hard to stop playing this game IS that good. Multiplayer is excellent and single player against and with some bots is also good training.  Go to Games Wizards and get Battlefield 2 and this Special Forces expansion Pack and start having some fun.

Game 10 out of 10
 

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Very Bizarre game from Namco. More of the cult game original Katamari Damacy. This very original game requires you to roll a ball along that is like a big sticky chewing gum that sticks to everything and rills into an ever bigger ball. Rolling up the landscape the items and even the characters relatives. Very original, very addictive, very strange. The King of the cosmos then judges them and sizes them and turns them into planets and stars that he erased when drunk one night. Did I mention it was very strange. It is odd and takes some getting used to. The King is funny and has lots to say and the whole thing g=has a certain charm. Just one more game to see if I can make a bigger ball before my time runs out. Just one more go, gee is that the time. Probably wont appeal to everyone but is very addictive. Did I mention it is very strange. Definitely something a bit unusual worth a try. Women especially find it interesting something about hunting and gathering?
This is something like Dig Dug on Acid or nothing like it at all , it is very original and I am not sure I even like it but I cant stop playing it.

Game 6 out of 10

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Game Description: Australian Idol Sing Game PS2
Publisher:  Red Ant
Developer: Channel Ten - Grundy
Genre: Singing Game
Rating: 7 out of 10

   I'm not a super fan of Australian Idol but this game is great. It has a Logitech USB Microphone and you sing along in a Karaoke style game with the added bonus of videos of Mark Holden, Marcia. or other celebs giving you a touchdown if you are worthy or if not good enough, enlightened encouragement. You sing along the line with Karaoke words similar to other Singing games but to 20 great Australian song tracks and with the added Idol feeling and the video response of the judges and lots of other cute singing games this is a great fun game. If you are a fan then you will not be disappointed its great if you are not a fan it has been done so well that it is still a lot of fun and you will like it anyway. Especially if you have young girls in the family and are wondering what gift to give then this is something they will love and is great fun for all the family. Practice your favourite tunes, audition for the judges, compete against friends and family.  Unlockable TV videos, Multi Player 1 to 8 Players, Mini games ( I like the feed the cat one ), 20 Hot Aussie tracks makes this a surprisingly great little game in fact its a, TOUCHDOWN!

Game 7 out of 10
                    Good gift for that young girl.

Available from your closest EB Games store click here for a list of EB Game stores.

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Game Description: Tekken Dark Resurrection PSP
Publisher: NamcoBandi
Developer: Namco
Genre: Fighting Game
Website/Patches/Demos/Pics:  tekken5.namco.com
Rating: 8 out of 10

   One of the great classic PS2 fighting games made available on the PSP. The PSP can play two players by Wireless connection between two PSP's and this game is so good its worth  buying two PSP's just to play it. If you are sick of the kids fighting in the back of the car then let them fight, on PSP of course, this game will keep them quite and busy for the entire trip. All the great action of the old Arcade games. You only have to buy one copy of the game and the PSP game shares to the second PSP. The classic Tekken 5 arcade fighting game with enhanced graphics and sound.  If you are new to these types of games you play the computer or another player and by pressing different buttons to perform different martial arts moves to knock out your opponent. Very addictive and great fun and each character has his own signature special moves. Great sound and great backgrounds with action so intense you really do work up a sweat.

Game 8 out of 10
                    Great Portable Fighting Game

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Game Description: Fantastic Guitar Simulation
Publisher: Red Octane
Developer: Red Octane
Genre: Music, Guitar, Simulation, Rock and Roll.
Rating: 11 out of 10

This is the must have accessory and Game of the Year, words fail me you have to try one. Boot up your Playstation on the giant Plasma screen pick you Guitar type and rock Legend avatar and Crank up your Home Theatre Amp to 11 thats right past 10 all the way to 11 and like I have been for the past few days blow the next door folk away with Smoke on the Water, Frankenstein, White Zombie, Iron Man, Queen, David Bowie, Crossroads, Thunder Kiss, ZZtop in fact 40 great rock guitar covers that blow your TV system apart. Notes come up on the TV in front of digital bands playing on the screen and if you press the corresponding coloured notes you get the blasting sound of the guitar solos if you miss them you don't. The effect is similar to playing an Air Guitar but with the sound and the vibrato with the tremolo arm. The effect is exactly as if you are playing a real guitar and you add your own feel with the timing and the tremolo arm so the illusion that you are really playing is complete. I played guitar in the first two bands I ever played with,  (I am a keyboard player but everyone wants to be a Guitar Hero), so I know the feel and it is exactly like playing guitar for real only I could never play anywhere near as good as the sounds that come out of this. They really have the ultimate package here and although they give you 40 great thumbing Guitar songs I cant wait for more song CD's to come out. It is simple to learn no musical knowledge is needed and even young kids can quickly play like a star. Jumping around the room like a mad man raging out shaking what's left of my long hair like up and down and bouncing around like ACDC , having the most fun I can remember having for a long while I have hardly put it down for 4 days now, constantly playing I actually have calluses on my fingers just like a real guitar. It is truly amazing, jump into your closest Wizards store and get one before they are all sold out. This is by far the ultimate toy I have ever reviewed , you must have one. I have to go now, I have to get the band back together man.....
 Whats a good name for a over 40's band. "Fat, Bald and Bitter", I like it lets rock.
Game 11 out of 10
                    This is the Game sensation of the Year
 

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Swat 4 is a good example of a great squad based game.

The idea is to arrest people and not kill people and sometimes the threat to you or others you are still criticized for being to gun happy they practically have to take a shot at you to make it a real threat so you can react with lethal force. This is a bit much sometimes as running perps with guns are not legal targets and it is a bit frustrating. Although each time you play, the scenarios are a little different so the guy behind the bar with the shot gun is not there this time (ie. you cannot just learn the sequence like for example Doom- shoot two to the left, then one up top then two pop up, jump back and shoot two more to the left). Swat 4 keeps you guessing each time and is much more a thinking game than just a shoot blast feast.

Great graphics and sound keeps you interested. If thinking and planning and working with a team to capture and arrest and not an adrenalin continual shoot them up, then this game is for you. You learn a lot a bout police tactics and training but I bet in real life there  is a lot more paper work.

Game 7 out of 10

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Developed by Gearbox a Texas software company Brothers in arms tries to be as realistic as possible in its missions and game in a pre para drop before D-day by the 101st "screaming eagles".

Based on a true story you lead your team mates in multiple missions against good AI Germans in a pre para drop before D-day with very authentic and accurate looking weapons.

A good game but how real do you want it to be a similar interface to 'Call of Duty' which I think is a better game. I don't really want the virtual responsibility of a virtual squad with virtual personalities- I just want to play a game. But nicely done and well worth a look.

Online play in multi player mode, nice looking graphics and sound. Lots of realism with no holds barred more of a gritty eye witness account than a fun game.
You do have to wonder about what the poor old Germans what they think about all these games killing simulated Germans. From Castle Wolftenstein on, a lot of simulated Germans have bit the dust.

Game 7 out of 10

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You wonder around in really bad level designs stuck wondering what the hell do I do now. Call of duty has a constant reminder of what your mission is and stars on a compass to lead the way. I HATE being just stuck while you wonder around and around bored to hell. Oh I didn't shoot the padlock now I can get to the next bad level design and be bored. The much vaunted AI is crap, you can easily just stand in the open and gun down dozens of bad guys as they jump up and down then rush you. I don't see any thing good about this game except the pretty buildings , good for insomnia as it sent me to sleep. Nothing new here. Doom 3 is much better, Call of Duty 2 leaves this in the dirt. It's an OK shooter but I didn't think much of it with all its hype. Lame story line, easy to kill shoot feast, bad level design, stuck all the time, bored a lot but it did have pretty buildings.

Game 6 out of 10

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Publisher: Activision.
Developer: Infinity Ward.
Genre: Modern, Action, WW2, First Person Shooter.
Rating: 9.5 out of 10
We are put straight back into it where Call of Duty left off. This is one hell of a game so do yourself a favour and get the kids to get this one from your local Games Wizards and stick it under the tree for you. I couldn't think of nothing better than spending my holidays in my shorts, a cool drink, headphones on full blast more so I am not disturbed than to lessen the family Holiday atmosphere by constant shelling and tank and machine gun noises. This game takes you there, explosions, fighting in the snow, in the desert and in Tanks.

Grenades are a constant headache and you spend as much time running backwards to get away from them as forwards single handed taking machine gun nest one after another. The hours melt away playing this master piece of software and the sweat and exhaustion you feel from so much action must simulate something like what real combat conditions must be like.

This is a must have game and the entire collection of Call of Duty and its expansion United Offensive and now Call of Duty 2 are the games you go back to playing after you have tried the others.

It is all WW2 based so far but I hope they cover other time periods as well. A similar game as one of Alexander's soldiers would be fascinating or one of Napoleons Old Guard. You have to wonder how they could ever make games any better than these. I still remember paying money in bowling alleys to play PONG two green blips with a blip bouncing between them. What a difference a few years make what are our children going to be playing. You don't need a good review just buy this one.

Game 9.5 out of 10

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Rarely has a game got so much to live up to, but Quake has a reputation and with the hype of Quake 4 means this has to be something very special.

At first look it looks like Doom 3, with enhanced graphics. Not that there is anything wrong with that as Doom 3 is a fantastic game but you did expect more.

It is a good solo game, but you are sometimes working in a team and you are sent backwards and forwards on different missions. It's good and the outside battle graphics are impressive, but you do expect more from the Quake team and on this they don't really deliver.

The multiplayer is disappointing and is the same as Quake 3. Though nothing has graphics this good and very nice sound and music. The solo game is addictive and the guns are beefy and have a good feel. Not much jump out at you or surprises and suspense as Doom 3 and a different team based game is probably not as good as Doom 3 but much prettier. Still more Doom 3 with better graphics is still a good game and well worth a bash. It is faster paced than Doom 3, but you do also have to think through several puzzles and I had to come back several times with a clearer head to work out how to move on. I hate being stuck. You can get into the vehicles and Tanks and they are a nice change of pace. Just when you think you have done everything and its slowing down and you have seen all this before you are captured, your legs are cut off and you are turned into a Strogg and it gets real interesting again. Overall a very good fun game. 

Lots of splatter and baddie killing not recommended for the squeamish. If you did expect something really super from these guys, this is a little disappointing, it is good and difficult to top and I don't know how it could be better but I did just expect something more, something really special and WOW from these guys. With all that said still a great game.

Game 8 out of 10

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Musical Quiz Game that comes with 4 x Buzzers so you can challenge each other to in a TV style game show.
Publisher: Sony
Developer: Sony
Genre: Musical Quiz Game.
Rating: 9 out of 10
Sony Entertainment  released Buzz the Music Quiz for Playstation 2 and it is a winner.

Buzz's assistant comes out to help you and get you started. It is for one to four players and each player gets a Buzzer controller (4 come in the pack), and then Buzz starts to ask you musical questions in which you have to Buzz in first and then you get four multiple choice answers to get a right answer.

It really puts you in the studio lights and in the mood as you battle Solo or with up to four other contestants. The format of the questions change regularly so you don't get bored and then there is the Bomb! Answer the question fast or it will Bomb you score. You really feel "In the HOT seat" as the competition hots up with the ever suave, slick and sophisticated "Buzz" urges you on to better scores. At the start you can select "new music", "oldies" or "All" which is the fairest if a general kids versus the parents battle is under way.

Sony need to be applauded on such a great little Game and we hope to see more Quiz's like Trivia, or (History my favourite) , or God no, not Sport. Definitely the PS2 game for Christmas get them from your local Games Wizards store while stocks last as this one is going to go fast.

 
Game 9 out of 10

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  In the Hulk Ultimate Destruction, you smash everything, crush everything and in general destroy towns, people and tanks. Float around on a giant Gorilla balloon and in general totally destroy the entire city. This is lots of fun. There is basically no thinking but then you are the Hulk, so there should be lots of mindless destruction. This is a lot of fun. Crush your enemies with wiggling cows, grab a tower and play golf with the enemy soldiers. Maybe a guy thing but a very addictive mad just destroy everything. Crush a Police car in half and wear it as a pair of metal gloves.  Very addictive for a few good hours of non thinking total destruction.

 Game 7 out of 10

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Massive first person shooter adventure with many open ended adventures with different endings.
Publisher: Atari
Developer: Atari
Genre: Shoot em up, first person,  Action, Adventure.
Rating: 7 out of 10
   In Boiling Point, you play Saul Meyers, an ex military whose daughter has been kidnapped and you have to find her in some third world South American type country. It loads a massive map 240 miles square and no reloads are needed. Lots of speech and interaction with everyone as you wonder around town. You see CIA agents, go to bars and watch exotic dancers and have a few drinks with the colourful locals. I had a few too many drinks and the screen went blurry and spun around and my character could hardly walk (this is in the game, not me personally) and you continue on getting job offers from the CIA, the local Military, the rebels and  the Mafia (again this is in the game, not me personally) , in fact 14 different factions want to employ you. Who you choose depends on who shoots at you.
   
  So what you say and what you do creates the path of his more than a "shoot-em-up" adventure. You can drive cars, trucks, helicopters tanks, planes, boats and an arsenal of weapons join different factions or change sides all in one big install no loading levels. Driving cars was a bit painful and there is lots of driving to get around this huge game. Interesting story and interaction but too much driving with 240 sq miles of simulated game and a not so hot driving interface which seem unnecessarily hard to get used to. I had fun with it but it was a bit slow in places but a good and new fresh idea for a game and a type of free-role playing game. Should appeal to many especially chaotic players who like more freedom to do whatever their character feels like today and not be forced down a specific linear path.
Game 7 out of 10

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Big first person shooter Sci-Fi adventure .
Publisher: Digital Extremes
Developer: Digital Extreme
Genre: Shoot em up, first person,  Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi.
Rating: 7 out of 10
  Earth is a prison planet in the not too distant future and you play a doctor in this sci-fi RPG thriller type adventure. With Halo type graphics it uses the Unreal engine to create a Movie type experience broken with shoot-em-up encounters.  Nice graphics and very interesting game play as you have an Arsenal of weapons that you can modify as you gain certain items. Buildings crumble and unexpected things do happen that keep you on your feet as you walk around in search for the girl. Good multiplayer modes and death match and capture the flag scenarios. Very nice sound track. I liked the personal feel and mix of sound and graphics and Blade runner type sci-fi effects.  You can use the vehicles and you need to think and solve puzzles definitely something you could get immersed in and carried away with the story. A thinking mans "shoot-em up" from the creators of Unreal Tournament using Epics Unreal engine.

  As you Doctor Mason are transporting a girl with a terrible virus in a status chamber when the worst happens. I have to say Half-Life 2 seems better at putting this storyline role playing inside a movie type of game together. But it was interesting and well worth a look if your a fan of this type or of Sci-Fi. Starts a little slow but gets better and better.
Game 7 out of 10

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Freedom Force V's the 3rd Reich . When the evil genius, Nuclear Winter, returns with a plot to destroy Freedom Force and the Free World its up to gamming's greatest Hero's who must team up with a flurry of fresh faces as the sinister Soviet Villain's plans include a time dimension rip into the heart of the Third Reich itself. Can you as Freedom Force stop the naughty Nazis and the Evil villains. A good Comic book type game reminiscent of the old X-men comics and Thor and Iron man cartoons of my youth who used very similar blocky movement of still cut out characters moving across the screen and lame voiceover man predicting doom to everyone.  The actual play graphics are a top down, side on type and I still find the controls a little hard to use but got more used to them. As you move your group of Super Hero's around Patriot City. Every thing is pick up-able or destroyable. So you can throw a car into the building and it crumbles down. I caused lots of collateral damage in my capture of the bad guys, in fact entire blocks of buildings got smashed down. You can pick up a street light and wield it as a bat and it is a lot of fun. Anyone who likes comics or used to watch the old Marvel cartoons will have a great time playing this very good adaptation of a comic story feel to the computer. 
Game 8 out of 10

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I played Xbox pool for several hours only to discover I am just as bad at virtual pool as I am at real pool. This game let you do everything you can really do in a game of pool. You can adjust cue position, angle and where you hit the ball. It actually made me a better player as I was doing things I would have never normally thought of trying while playing real pool. You can view the shot from all angles, this would mean a lot if I knew what I was doing. You can even choose where you play pool, pub or tavern etc, location is very important to a professional like myself, and even the style of pool, eight ball etc. This is one of the best simulations of a game that I have seen in a while. At first glance pool seems too simple a game to be put on Xbox. After playing the game I can honestly say I had great fun. My 13year old enjoyed it even more beating in nearly every version of the game we played.
Game 6 out of 10

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   I hadn't played a kung fu fighting game for years not since in the old arcades of George St. Sydney, but you will want this one for your collection. It is definitely the best I have seen in this "3D Karate Fighter" type game style and definitely one you should have as you just cant stop playing. Namco invented this type of game 10 years ago and now with Tekken 5 have reached a height that will be very hard to surpass. You can fight the machine in an arcade type fight or for a more interesting style- story mode or even two player. With realistic fighting moves you defeat your opponents, which all have a few special moves only for that character (I like the ex- wrestler even though for some reason he had a tiger's head). The fights truly make you sweat as you battle it out and they become harder and harder and you can really feel the blows as you forget to duck and pay the price. The background scenes are beautifully done- from large dragon statues, to a dungeon type room with gold coins scattered all over the floor, to giant moving platforms that zoom down corridors on giant wheels as you battle it out on the moving platform to the Antarctic ice flow with penguins watching (this one seemed like a strange place to fight, but it did look good). The game play is fantastic, looks fantastic, sounds fantastic, and there is no way you can stop at just one fight. It is hard to believe all this is coming out of a PS2 you would think you where in an arcade on a machine with some super computer costing tens of thousands of dollars. Playing other players is a whole new adventure and the entire night with friends over can be spent with everyone wanting to beat each other stupid until you have to send them home. This is definitely the best game of its type and a must have in your PS2 collection.
Game 9 out of 10

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   Third person shooter, lasting good old Germans. What would the world do for bad guys if it hadn't been for those naughty Nazis. You are a member of the 101st Airborne Division the Screaming Eagles, parachuted behind enemy lines in the predawn hours of June the 6th, 1944 D-Day and are given various related missions to preparing for the D-day invasion. Nice little graphics it uses the Lith Tech 3D engine, which was made you will remember from old favourite games like Blood and Blood 2 and has a good soundtrack with distant battle sounds to give lots of atmosphere and it all works fine on low powered PC systems. The Germans baddies look good especially the officers and the AI is not bad as they will take cover or fall prone and duck in and out trying to shoot you. The weapons are pretty realistic and you die easily, so you need to use cover and keep your head down. German tanks burst through walls and fire at you so have that bazooka handy. I finished it in a few hours in easy mode so I recommend you play in normal mode for a more challenging game. Again, great fun for another $4 special from Games Wizards so I was very impressed. Best value for $4 I have found. Snipers, Tiger Tanks, Bunkers, Naval Guns and lots of those naughty Nazis to try to stop you. Game 6 out of 10

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   A tank type Arcade style "shoot-em-up" game. As an experimental M1A6 Tank, your Elite 7th Cavalry Tank group get ambushed and you are all that is left to reach our objective, the bad guys capital city guarded by a new top Secret Russian Super Tank. I liked it, it was a good change from shooting poor old Germans or zombies monsters. It has a separate drive direction and turret movement so you can be moving one way and blast sideways. But watch out for mines everywhere and cliffs. Nothing can bring the satisfaction of the mass destruction a tank can cause. Fighting other tanks, running over their pesky Infantry, mines everywhere , blasting towers, buildings, ammo dumps, fuel dumps, missile trucks and planes on runways. Night missions and the final cautious drive through the interior of a big city where every corner could be an ambush is completely different to zooming around through the open desert. Lots of fun, lots of different aspects of being a tank commander. I drove off a cliff and into a deep lake in the heat of battle. Overall good fun and another super bargain at $4 from Games Wizards. Very well worth the money. Good graphics and action uses the older Ureal Engine but for $4, a great value- lots of different missions, trail of mass destruction left wherever I went, a great battle .
Game 7 out of 10

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   One of those games you just don't stop playing. At 4.30am I thought just an 1/2 hour more it's not really that late, but it was.  You control a country in Napoleonic Times and build up its economic base, Battle and negotiate and deal as your armies sweep across Europe. Based on the Total War Games (like Rome Total War), if you have played any of these then all the controls will feel usual. It has great sea battles, fantastic looking battle maps and quick and easy to learn commands makes you want to be Emperor and command all of Europe. You build your Armies with Infantry , Cannon, Cavalry set up in a battle order and then set them loose and zoom in close to watch the desperate combat as your units struggle for supremacy.  A very addictive game and I have to say, fantastic graphics, music, strategy, campaigns, good computer negotiations and interaction and playability. This game has it all. Definitely my vote for Strategy Game of the year. Go to you local Games Wizards and grab this one.
Game 9 out of 10

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   Clint Eastwood type Western "Shoot-em-up."  You start on a moving train, shoot lots of guns, throw dynamite, face a Gattling Gun, go to the Saw Mill and save the girl etc. etc. I liked it! Lots of fun, not the super slick graphics or super excitement of the latest games like Doom 3, but it's as good as any western feels and I cranked it up to best graphics mode and re-did the controls and then played it for hours. There's nothing like blasting the Bad guys. " I'm a G'ona, Ya got me this time Stranger ", what more can I say except I picked it up at Games Wizards Castle Hill for $4. That's right $4! Well worth the money. As the  latest hi-tech Games go the Game is only a 5 out of 10 compared to Doom 3 say but as for Value for money 9 out of 10 and I got to admit I like the old cowboy "shoot-em-ups". A good fun little easy to play , no mazes or to much thinking and easy Game with lots of feel to while away a few hours. Wait till you zoom around in a mine car in the abandoned Mine that was a surprise ride.
Game 5 out of 10

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   Lots of "slash-em-up" violence in the Big Arena here. The animated violence and blood is not for the young ones and is very graphic. I was surprised at how graphic. I eventually got used to fighting with my Gladiator and won a few battles and must say it is a fun Battle, the roar, glory and admiration of the crowd, they have captured this well if not a little too graphic in the fighting. The A.I. of some of the enemy was a bit weak. If they had of just made this an Arena Battle it would have been great but then for some unknown reason , you cut down and slaughter (in a very graphic way), unarmed criminals or christians with their hands tied. Maybe historically accurate, but you have to ask "what were you thinking "?  Not much of a game section unless you plan to become a mass murderer. Then it tries to mix in a weak role playing adventure. I must admit, I quite liked the arena combat but was disappointed by the unarmed massacre and poor adventure bits. Very nice graphics some of the best I've seen on a PS2 if not a little bit too much gore - very blood thirsty and the pointless adventure sections, as you try to find Caesar's killer, lets this Game down. Game 8 out of 10 for the combat sections, 6 out of 10 for an overall Game.
Game 6 out of 10

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