Title: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Studio:Warner Brothers
Publisher: EA Games
Genre: Adventure
Platform: PS2

Premise:

You play as Harry Potter, who is in his third year at Hogwarts as a wizard in training. He finds out that a convict from Azkaban named Sirious Black has escaped the prison. So he must go through a series of difficult tasks to find out the mystery behind his escape and make everyone safe and happy :)

Character:

For most of the game you play as Harry Potter, but in some parts of the game if Harry gets injured, you play as one of his friends and get him potion to make him well again.

Game Play:

You must follow information you find along the way, and talk to people you see along the way. You had to fight magic creatures, or "dementors", and keep your friends safe. If a friend is injuired, or Harry, then you must drag them out and cure him or her. In one part of the game you are flying Buckbeak to help get to your distination faster.

Challenge:

You have to remember information given to you, and follow clues. If you get injuired during a fight, you may have to start over depending on whether or not Hermione and Ron are there.

Title: Midnight Club Los Angeles
Studio: Rockstar Games
Publisher: Microsoft
Genre: Racing
Platform: X-Box 360

Premise:

You race against others to obtain there vehicles, or as they call them, Pinkslips. You need to build your car to be able to race against the higher up people.

Character:

In this game you are able to make your own character with customizations. You start off as a guy who gets beat by another who takes his car and sells the car to another guy.

Game Play:

The game follows the racing format. Each person must choose there car to start out with and customize it to your liking.

Challenge:

There is no challenge to this game besides being able to race against other people and watching out for traffic.

Gears of War 2

Title: Gears of War 2
Studio: Epic Games
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
Genre: Third-person Shooter
Platform: X-Box 360

Premise:

The human Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) fight against the Horde Locust. The government is using a team of well trained armed personal, that know the aliens weaknesses. The leader, Sargent Marcus Fenix, use there tactical skill and their physical strength to outwit the alien species. The aliens are attempting to sink all the cities on the planet Sera by using a worm to eat all the ground underneath each and every city. The humans need to stop this worm by going through a series of tunnels of where the worm has already eaten. When they find the worm they have to get rid of all the ways the worm can ingest food.


Character:

Dom is the main character in this game. He used to be part of the COG before the alien infestation. He caused a lot of trouble when he first was in the COG. When he was called back to the team he refused at first, but when they told him the dilemma they had with the aliens he told them he would do it because he owed his fellow man a great duty.

Game play:


This game follows a basis of killing all the enemies to get to the next area of the map. The characteristics of all the locusts and COG are nearly one in the same, they just have a different tone of skin. The game play that this game has is a fairly similar one to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

Challenge:


The Challenge for this game is that the horde, or locusts, keep getting new things that overpower the COGs weapons. There are also difficulty levels that you can choose from.

Title: Risk
Studio: Hasbro
Publisher: Parker Brothers
Genre: Board Game/RTS
Platform: Table

Premise:

You are a very powerful country that wants to take over the world. You need to place your units very carefully in order for you to have a strategic advantage.

Character:

You are a country that wants to take over the world by using mass armies against your foes.

Gameplay:

This game is a turn based game that allows each player to have an equal and balanced strategic advantage. The game requires luck in rolling die. The attacker gets 3 red die and the defender gets 2 white die. whoever rolls higher out of the two loses one or more of there units depending on the amount rolled on the dice.

Challenge:

The challenge of the game is the oppenents that you face during the time you play.

Title: Magic the Gathering
Studio: N/A
Publisher: Richard Garfield
Genre: Card Game/strategy
Platform: Table or any other flat surface

Premise:

The premise of this strategy card game, is that you are a Planeswalker trying to travel across the different lands. You battle your way through other players to achieve bragging rights.

Character:

You are a planeswalker attempting to achieve power by defeating other planeswalkers (players).

Gameplay:

The gameplay consists of two players or more, battleing eachother for empowerment. This game deals with a tapping method for playing your powerful or not so powerful cards. The Mana that you need to play your cards, consist of Mountain, Island, Plains, Forest, and Swamp. Each card has a different mana cost that is specific to one of the mana types. There are cards that deal with multiple mana types which you need to use to play the cards.

Challenge:

The challenge of this game is that you are playing against another player. The player can counter your cards by tapping mana to play a counter spell. The game consists of a lot of strategy and planning ahead. You have to predict what your oppenent is gunna do in the turns to come.

Title: Call of Duty World at War
Studio: Activision
Publisher: Activision
Genre: First Person Shooter
Platform: X-Box 360

Premise:

The premise of this game is that you are a marine, that is fighting in World War II. The whole story is how the United States entered the second world war and how there position in the second "Great War." Most of the game follows the story of America in Japan when they are trying to beat them.

Character:

The main character in this game is not specified exactly. You are a private who is helping America succeed in World War II. You are part of a group, or squad, fighting against the Japanese. You are also a Russian private who is fighting against the Germans trying to gain independence.

Game Play:

The game play for this game is great. Everything that has to do with environment is well made and has amazing texture. All the players have great movement and its very realistic. The way enemies die is very realistic.

Challenge:

The challenge to this game also varies. You have competitive player versus player which gets harder every time you level your character up, because it puts you with people that are the same level as you. You have the difficulty levels during the campaign which give significant differences to your game play.

God of War 2

Title: God of War 2
Studio: Ready at Dawn Studios
Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Genre: Single Player Action/Adventure
Platform: PS2

Premise:

The premise for this game is that Kratos has defeated aries and is the God of War. He has been egging on his spartans to take over the cities. Kratos defeats the colossus of roads by putting all his godly powers into the blade of olympus to kill the colossus. When Kratos tries to kill Zeus, Athena gets in the way and dies for Zeus. Kratos then feels like hell because athena has been helping him through his godliness.

Character:

Kratos, Gaia, and the rest of the Titans and gods are the main characters in this game. Kratos is the ghost of Sparta. He was originally under the service of Aries. Aries had him do horrible things, and made kratos kill his family. The reason Kratos is white is because he is covered in his wife and daughter's ashes. He went to search for Pandora's box and finds it. He used the box's powers to kill the God of War. He therefor became the god of war.

Game Play:

The gameplay is amazing, you start out with Kratos' two swords and a whole bunch of powers that you can use to your advantage. After you loose your godly power, you loose all your powers and need to start from the begginning which gives you a bit more of a challenge. You are able to gain better weapons that help you become more powerful. You are able to get power up's from multiple enemies, which get harder and harder as you go on.

Challenge:

The challenge of the game is that you have to battle multiple amounts of insanely powerful enemies that just keep getting harder. The game makes it as though you need to know what's going on at all times.

Soul Calibur 4

Title: Soul Caliber 4
Studio: Namco
Publisher: Microsoft

Genre: Action/Adventure

Platform: PS3, XBox 360

Premise:

The premise for this game is that there are good people and bad people that are trying to retrieve two swords. One of the swords is bad, Soul Edge, and one of the swords is good, Soul Calibur. Each of the characters you play as have a different use of the swords. For example, Siegfried was possesed by Soul Edge for a long time and he feels that he needs to destroy the sword as penance. Nightmare is the Reincarnation of Soul Edge, which uses his body to live on his own.

Character:

In this game you have a choice between the story line of any character in the game. Which ever character you choose you follow there story. Each character has there own story and there own reason to get to each of the swords.

Game Play:

The game play is either PVE or PVP. You have a choice between going online and fighting other people from across the world, or you can do the tower of souls where you can either climb or descend from the tower. If you choose to ascend the tower you go through multiple challenges that you need to get through to achieve the next level of the tower. If you descend the tower there will be multiple challenges that start out hard and get easier and easier. You can also create your own character by buying items to increase you stats that make you more powerful, or increase your speed.

Engaging:

This game is a seriously addicting game. The story line that each player gets to follow is extremely engaging and makes it so that each player understands why they are playing there character. It brings the player closer to their character and helps them realize that there character is trying to destroy or achieve the sword that they are chasing.

Challenge:

The Challenge of this game varies. You have the challenge of online player versus player, or you have the challenge of arcade mode, which you can set the difficulty level, or the Tower of Lost Souls. Each game mode for this game has a difficulty level choice. You can go on easy, regular, or hard mode.

Aion

Title: Aion The Tower of Eternity
Studio: NC Soft
Publisher: NC Soft
Genre: MMORPG
Platform: PC

Premise:

The premise behind this game is that there is a battle between angels and demons. The factions that you can choose from are Asmodians and Elyoes. These two factions have been fighting for thousands of years, and now its your turn to fight for your faction.

Character:

In this game you are not the main character fighting the computer. You are a regular demon or angel. There is the vast choice of character customization where you can make your own personalized character. The story behind the character you choose varies between the faction you choose. When you start out you are just a human trying to become the best you can. After you hit a certain level you can do a quest that gives you more powers and gives you wings.

Play:

The gameplay of this game is really good. The whole system of exploration involved with killing is a good mix. You will never get bored even after playing for hours on end. The only problem with the game is the amount of experience you have to gain just to level once. The whole game was made perfectly and was made to the extent, that possibly it was gunna be the best MMORPG out there.

Engaging:

This game is very engaging, it brings the player closer to the games plot or story line. The cutscenes while you play was a huge plus. The cutscenes where really interesting to watch, and that it did not take the player to actually read a book to be able to know the reason that they were playing the game.

Challenge:

The challenge of this game is the leveling system. It is a little hard to level in this game, because the quests that you complete do not get the correct amount needed to make the leveling go a little bit faster. The quests give about the same amount for every level up to level ten. As you level you have to acquire more experience.

Title: Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare
Studio: Infinity Ward
Publisher: Activision
Genre: First Person Shooter
Platform: X-Box 360

Premise

You take the roll as a marine and you use weapons to kill all the enemies throughout the levels you go through.

Character

There is no specified character in this game. You are part of the marines as a whole, you aren't just one person going with a team and following that persons story.

Play

Call of Duty is a really fun and interesting game to play. The online multiplayer makes it all the better. When you play single player you are part of a marine force team that completes missions to kill all the enemies and destroy the enemies plans. It is a first person shooter that incorparates alot of thinking and challenge. It's a basic game, but if you think you can beat hard mode on it, try your hardest cause its not gunna be easy.

Engaging

This game is very engaging. You can play this game for hours and never get bored, unless you don't like first person shooters. If you don't like cut scenes then you can skip them, but i would greatly consider you watch them. The cut scenes are very interesting.


Challenge

The Challenge of this game is the difficulty choices that you can choose from.