Sid Meiers Civilization IV Beyond the Sword

The massive Civilization IV universe is about to become more epic with this 2nd expansion pack to the 2005 Game of the Year. The biggest Civ expansion set ever, Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword focuses on the “late game” time periods after the invention of gunpowder and will deliver 12 unique and challenging scenarios created by the development team at Firaxis as well as some esteemed members of the Civ Community.

Civilization IV: Beyond The Sword will deliver new themes never seen in Civilization, many recommended by the fans. The expansion will focus on the late-game time periods after the invention of gunpowder and will deliver 12 challenging and decidedly different scenarios, ten new civilizations, 16 new leaders, five new wonders, and a variety of new units. Five new wonders - The Statue of Zeus, Cristo Redentor, Shwedagon Paya, the Mausoleum of Maussollos, and the Moai Statues Earn a diplomatic victory and unlock the United Nations - then create new resolutions to expand your diplomatic options Advanced Starts let players buy an empire's components&begin play in a later part of the game -- experience new features of the expansion in a shorter time Enhanced AI is tougher to beat on the higher levels, and expanded its strategies for achieving victory

It took two years, two expansions, and enough patches to stitch up Humpty Dumpty, but Civilization IV is finally worthy of being called the best strategy game on the market. The latest expansion, Beyond the Sword, improves Civ IV so much that you'll wonder how the (in)famous time sink ever sank a moment without it.

Deconstructing Civ
Beyond the Sword goes way, er, beyond mere tweaks, implementing fundamental gameplay changes and additions. First among these: the new Galactic Civilizations-style "events" -- random occurrences that can spell calamity or opportunity for the recipient. Cleverly, these are tied to your civilization's choices throughout the game. For example, only players using the Slavery civic are vulnerable to Kirk-Douglas-and-friends slave revolts, while only players with clam hatcheries can discover rare black pearls. Occasionally, players even receive worldwide "quests" that they can accomplish for a massive bonus -- while their rivals try to do the same.

Apart from the new event system, though, BTS showcases more quality features than a Woody Allen-only multiplex. The new Apostolic Palace wonder increases the role of religion in the early game, while multinational corporations largely replace religion later on. These corporations provide massive, game-changing bonuses to their home countries. Cereal Mills, for example, boosts population growth, while Standard Ethanol supplies fossil fuels even if you have no oil&and gives a research bonus. Corporations finally give players a reason not to switch to the State Property civic (which renders them useless) late in the game.

And even when the changes are minor, they're welcome. Improved connectivity and simultaneous turns greatly speed up multiplayer. And on that subject, you and your buddies should load up one of BTS's many innovative mods, which include a realistic depiction of World War II, a squad-based humans-versus-zombies conversion, and even a Civ IV take on Defender, in which you build cities, stock them with units, and try to hold out against waves of baddies.

Celebrity
Of course, no Civ expansion would be complete without a bevy of new races and leaders. You can now lead -- among others -- the Babylonians as Hammurabi, and the Portuguese as John II. DeGaulle, Churchill, and Stalin take time off from their regular gig at the History Channel to make an appearance, although -- as far as the Civ development staff is concerned -- Hitler remains in 10-foot-pole land. Moreover, the entire leader dynamic is changed: Players can now pair any leader (and his unique talents) with any civilization (and its unique units and buildings). So, if you've always dreamed of Napoleon leading an army of redcoats, now's your chance to show Bizarro French Wellington who's boss.

Apart from a few quibbles (large maps still load at a glacial pace and the A.I. still builds cities right on top of yours), BTS takes a strong game with some serious flaws and turns it into a fantastic game with a couple of minor flaws. No small feat, that.


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World Of Warcraft Expansion: Burning Crusade

Blizzard Entertainment took online role playing by storm with their hit title, World of Warcraft. With mind-boggling improvements in graphics, gameplay networking, and interface -- really every category -- this game became the crown prince of the genre. World of Warcraft players will be excited by the approaching release of the new expansion pack: World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. This pack expands the already massive, award-winning multiplayer online role-playing game by tremendous bounds, adding new races, lands, battlegrounds, professions and items, and much, much more. Although no release date has been set, here is sample of what you can expect from The Burning Crusade.

The expansion pack features an increase in the level cap to 70. There are two new playable races, including the magical Blood Elves that you can read more about below. The other race has not yet been released by Blizzard. There will be new starting zones in Quel'Thalas and beyond. Another eye-opening addition is the entirely new, unexplored continent of Outland that is reachable through the Dark Portal. Plus, you'll find many new high-level dungeons to explore in Azeroth, Outland, and elsewhere that will substantially boost gameplay. There are new flying mounts in Outland; tons of new and dangerous monsters (including epic world bosses); hundreds of new quests and items; and even a new profession: Jewelcrafting. Of course this isn't the end of the list -- this is just a glimpse of what Blizzard has planned for their unreleased expansion pack.



The New Story, the Rumors, and More
Several years have passed since the Burning Legion's defeat at Mount Hyjal and the races of Azeroth have continued to rebuild their once shattered lives. With renewed strength, the heroes of the Horde and Alliance have begun to explore new lands, and have broken through the Dark Portal to investigate the realms beyond the known world. In this expansion pack, The Burning Crusade refers to the Burning Legion's ongoing efforts to destroy life on Azeroth. To date, the Burning Legion's exploits have been documented in Warcraft III and in the War of the Ancients novel trilogy. As part of the expansion pack, players will now be able to travel through the Dark Portal to confront the Legion on otherworldly battlefields.

Although only one race has been revealed, Blizzard has announced plans to unveil details about possible additional races at a later date. On the other hand, many details have been released about the new continent, Outland. Players last visited Outland in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, alongside Illidan as he conquered the Pit Lord Magtheridon's domain. Players will also gain access to Quel'Thalas, the region to the northeast of the Forsaken lands, where the Blood Elves reside. Blizzard says that this expansion pack holds even more new areas that are ripe for player exploration -- additional details will be revealed in the months ahead.

Blizzard also has plans to add new dungeons and battlegrounds with the expansion, though the exact number has not yet been determined. One upcoming dungeon that has players excited is Karazhan, which is located within Medivh's tower. Because Medivh has played such a central role in Warcraft lore, Blizzard is convinced that longtime players will be especially interested in seeing what Karazhan contains. As for battlegrounds, Blizzard has released very little information. However, they have announced plans to make some of the battles from the past accessible through the Caverns of Time.

Blood Elves: The New Race
Thousands of years ago, the exiled Highborne landed on the shores of Lordaeron and founded the enchanted kingdom of Quel'Thas. These high elves, as they called themselves, created a fountain of vast, magical energies within the heart of their land -- the Sunwell. Over time, they grew dependant on the Sunwell's unstable energies, regardless of the bitter lessons they'd learned in ages past.

During the Third War, the villainous Prince Arthas invaded Quel'Thalas and reduced the once-mighty realm to rubble and ashes. His undead army decimated nearly all of the high elven population. In addition, he used the Sunwell's energies to resurrect a powerful undead Lich, Kel'thuzad, thereby fouling the Sunwell's mystical waters. The few elven survivors, realizing that they had been cut off from the source of their arcane power, grew increasingly volatile and desperate.

In the midst of the elves' darkest hour came Kael'thas Sunstrider, the last of Quel'Thalas' royal bloodline. Kael, as he was commonly known, knew that the remnant of his people would not long survive without the nourishing magic that once empowered them. Renaming his people "blood elves" in honor of their fallen countrymen, Kael taught the survivors how to tap into ambient mystical energies -- even demonic energies -- in order to sate their terrible thirst for magic. In search of a new destiny for his people, Kael'thas ventured to the remote world of Outland where he encountered the fallen night elf, Illidan. Under Illidan's watchful eye, Kael and his blood elves regained much of their former power.

Unfortunately, the blood elves practice of embracing demonic energies caused their former comrades in the Alliance to shun them. Thus, the remaining blood elves on Azeroth look desperately to the Horde to help them reach Outland where they can reunite with Kael'thas and achieve the golden destiny he has promised them.

Outland: The New Continent
Once the beautiful homeworld of the orcs, all that remains of Draenor is the scattered wastes of Outland. Following the Second War, the Alliance invaded Draenor by crossing through the Dark Portal. To their horror, they discovered that Ner'zhul -- the dark warlord of Horde -- had constructed a series of new gateways that could lead the beaten Horde to newer, unspoiled worlds. As the Alliance forces closed in around him, Ner'zhul opened his gateways as a means of escape. However, his plan backfired and the gateway's clashing energies resulted in a massive catastrophic explosion that ultimately ripped the world of Draenor to pieces.

Nearly thirteen years later -- towards the end of the Third War -- the fallen night elf, Illidan, discovered that huge chunks of Draenor still existed, floating upon the astral winds of the Twisting Nether. After his defeat at the hands of the evil Prince Arthas, Illidan fled to the remnants of Draenor and dubbed them "Outland." He quickly seized control of the chaotic region and sealed the last of Ner'zhul's gateways.

Though he is the undisputed ruler of the ravaged land, Illidan lives in fear that he will be discovered by his powerful enemies -- most notably Arthas, the new Lich King, and the remaining Lords of the Burning Legion. For now, Outland is home to a number of scattered draenei tribes, primitive orcs, and powerful, arcane creatures of the Nether itself. Agents of the Burning Legion have also targeted the region as a vital strategic location in their unending Burning Crusade to scour all life from the universe.

What else can expected? Blizzard has tantalized Warcraft players with the brief glimpse into The Burning Crusade's storyline. Will these heroes find friends or foes? What dangers and rewards lie in wait beyond the Dark Portal? And what will they do when they discover that the demons they thought were vanquished have returned to renew their terrible Burning Crusade? These and other questions will remain unanswered until the gameplay can be explored by role-playing Warcrafters.



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Spore

You can start as a cell


From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in your own personal universe. Maxis, makers of The Sims, present the next big bang - SPORE. Create your unique creature and guide it on an epic journey through a universe of your own creations.


Or begin as a full creature

Play any way you choose in the five evolutionary phases of SPORE: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space. Each unique phase presents different challenges and goals. You may choose to start in Cell and nurture one species from its humble aquatic origins to its evolution as a sentient species. Or decide to start building tribes or civilizations on multiple planets. How you play and what you do with your universe is entirely up to you.


Build up a civilization

SPORE gives you a variety of powerful yet easy-to-use creation tools so you can create every aspect of your universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even starships. While SPORE is a single-player game, your creations and other players’ creations are automatically shared between your galaxy and theirs, providing a limitless number of worlds to explore and play. You can also visit the SPORE website and look at all the cool things your friends and people all around the world are making—then pull them into and make them a part of your own world!

Maxis, makers of The Sims, presents the next big bang, Spore. Create your unique creature and guide it on an epic journey through a universe of your own creation. Play any way you choose in the 5 evolutionary phases of Spore: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization and Space. Each unique phase presents different challenges and goals. You may choose to start in Cell and nurture one species from its humble aquatic origins to its evolution as a sentient species. Or decide to start building tribes or civilizations on multiple planets. How you play and what you do with your universe is entirely up to you. Spore gives you a variety of powerful yet easy-to-use creation tools so you can create every aspect of your universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings and even starships. While Spore is a single-player game, your creations and other player's creations are automatically shared between your galaxy and theirs, providing a limitless number of worlds to explore and play. From single cell to galactic god, create your own universal wonder.



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The Orange Box

The Orange Box offers innovative five sets of Valve, the creators of Half-Life franchise in a box. The amber box includes Half-Life 2: Episode Two, PortalTM, and Team Fortress 2 in addition to full versions of the award-winning Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One for a captivating first-person action.

Characteristics:

* Five Games, one box: The Orange Box is the ultimate collection of innovative action games for the console, and an intriguing introduction to the half-life for the serial console players.
* Epic Storyline: Half-Life 2: Episode Two takes you deeper into one of the most famous stories in games, following the desperate struggle of Gordon Freeman against the mysterious Combine. In this episode, you must leave the city limits 17 for the first time and face the dangers even more beyond the city walls.
* Redefinition of action: portal offers a new gaming experience of action. Arm yourself with a gun portal that allows you to create portals from one place to another with the press of a button, portal forever change the way you interact with your environment.
* From world-class multiplayer: Team Fortress 2 is the continuation of grandfather role-based multiplayer action games. With nine distinct roles Heavy, Spy, Scout, Demoman, Engineer, Medic, Sniper, Soldier, Pyro and Team Fortress 2 is one of the year's most anticipated multiplayer games for any platform.



Product Description
In Part 3 of the half-life saga on the horizon, this collection offers from the outset so that you're willing to take the third episode of this exciting trilogy. Half Life earns its popularity and reputation of being the first First Person Shooter game use aq realistic, real-time plot between you in the action and behind the shutter. Created by Valve Software, each episode uses advanced technologies to better, more realistic play. In Half-Life, you assume the role of Dr. Gordon Freeman, a young graduate theoretical physicist who must fight against his way out of a sub-research center whose teleportation experiments have been awry. The second part of the trilogy of episodic extensions for Half-Life 2, Episode Two takes up where Episode One left? With Gordon and Alyx travel outside the city and 17 in a vast new environment.
The player takes a new lever scientific research Gordon Freeman, who is on an alien-infested Earth being selected to the bone, its resources depleted, its population is shrinking. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of saving the world of the damage he unleashed back at Black Mesa. And a large number of people people he cares about are counting on him. Intense, real-time game Half-Life 2 is made possible only by Source, Valve new technology engines property.



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Fallout 3: Amazon.com Exclusive Survival Edition

An Amazon.com exclusive, Fallout 3: Edition survival is the ultimate Fallout 3, which includes a life-size replica of Pip-Boy 3000, the wrist-mounted device worn by characters on Thursday The Pip-Boy 3000 has been carefully recreated and modified to display real world as a digital clock. In addition to Pip-Boy 3000, the survival Edition will include all elements of the Fallout 3 Collector's Edition whose playing Fallout 3, a custom metal Vault-Tec lunch box, 5 "Vault Boy Bobblehead, The Art Book Fallout 3 connected, and The Making of Fallout 3 DVD.

According Vlatko Andonov, President of Bethesda Softworks' survival Edition offers players a unique opportunity to own a piece of the history of video game with a collection of limited edition items - it is final Fallout 3 package. "

The award-winning creators of Oblivion, Fallout 3 has one of the most realized Thursday worlds ever made. Create a type of character you want to explore and full of waste post-apocalyptic Washington, DC Every minute is a struggle for survival that you're Super mutants, Ghouls, Raiders, and other dangers of wasteland. To prepare for the future. The third game of the series Fallout, Fallout 3 is a singleplayer action role-playing game (RPG) in a post-apocalyptic Washington DC. The combination of the horrific madness of the Cold War theory of mutually assured destruction was terribly wrong with the naivety of American kitsch of the 1950 nuclear propaganda, Fallout 3 will satisfy both players familiar with the popular first two games its series, and those who come to the franchise for the first time.


The Story: Vault 101 - Jewel waste
For 200 years, Bank 101, a fallout shelter, has faithfully served the surviving residents of Washington DC and its environs, now known as the capital Wasteland. Although atomic warfare World 2077 has left the USA, but destroyed, the inhabitants of the Bank of 101 live a life free of the constant stress of the outside world. Insects Giants, Raiders, slavery, and yes, even Super all mutants are not larger than Vault-Tec Engineering. However, a fateful morning, you awake to find that your father has defied the supervisor and left the comfort and security offered by Vault 101 for unknown reasons. Leaving the only home you've ever known, get out of the Bank in the harsh sun Wasteland to find your father, and truth.


Key features:

* Freedom without limits - take in the sights and sounds of the great capital Wasteland. See the great monuments of USA located in post-apocalyptic ruin. You make choices that you define and change the world. Just keep an eye on your Rad Meter.
* Experience S.P.E.C.I.A.L. -- Vault-Tec engineers bring you the latest in human capacity simulation - the particular nature of the system. Using new breakthroughs in the capacity on the representation, SPECIAL offers unlimited customization of your character. There are also dozens of unique skills and benefits to choose, each with a dazzling variety of effects
* Fantastic New Views - assistants Vault-Tec made again. No longer limited to only one viewpoint, experience the world of the 1st or 3rd person. Customize your point of view with the push of a button.
* The power of choice. -- Feeling like a heinous evil today, or a good Samaritan? Choose one side or walking on the line, because each situation can be dealt with in different ways. Talk to your problems in a civilised manner, or simply flash your Plasma Rifle.
* Blast 'Em Away With V.A.T.S. -- Even the odds in battle with the safe-Tec assisted targeting system for your Pip-Boy Model 3000. V.A.T.S. you can pause in the fighting, targeting parts of the body of your target, tail attacks, and let Vault-Tec take your aggression for you. Rain death and destruction in a brand new format film featuring gory dismemberments and spectacular explosions.
* Mind-Blowing Artificial Intelligence - A Vault-Tec, we realize that the key to the revival of civilization after a global nuclear war is people. Our best brains pooled their efforts to produce an advanced version of Radiant AI, America's First Choice in Human Interaction Simulation. The facial expressions, gestures, dialogue unique, realistic and behavior are combined with a stunning results later in Vault-Tec technology.
* Eye-Popping prettiness - witness the harsh realities of nuclear fallout delivered like never before in super-modern luxury HD graphics. From the barren wasteland, the risk to fill offices and subway tunnels DC, the rotten flesh of a mutant hideous face.


The survival Fallout 3 Edition includes:

* The video game Fallout 3
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* The art of Fallout 3: Features nearly 100 pages of never-before seen concept art and commentary of Bethesda Game Studios artists.
* The Making of Fallout 3 DVD: An exclusive, inside look at Bethesda Game Studios and the team behind the game
* Vault-Tec Lunch Box: A personalized lunch box of metal in which the whole package arrives.

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Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice

In the 18 th instalment of the award-winning adventure series, the Italian police have asked Nancy Drew to help unraveling a network of crime that threatens to steal the whole Venice in the price of objects. Assuming the role of Nancy, players arrive in Venice during Carnival and begin to take on a series of challenges, including an infiltration mission of spying for the Italian police. Along the way, players must take advantage of the unique Venetian culture such as language learning and navigation on the transport network (gondola or on foot) to accomplish the mission at hand.

In the most exciting adventure yet, the players to discover the brains behind a series of unsolved thefts that took place in Venice - one of the most unique cities known for its elegant intertwining channels and gondolas. In the 18 th instalment of the award-winning adventure series, the Italian police have asked Nancy Drew to help unraveling a network of crime that threatens to steal the whole Venice in the price of objects. Assuming the role of Nancy, players arrive in Venice during Carnival and begin to take on a series of challenges, including an infiltration mission of spying for the Italian police. Along the way, players must take advantage of the unique Venetian culture such as language learning and navigation on the transport network (gondola or on foot) to accomplish the mission at hand. As the game progresses, the masked thief becomes more daring and players will need to correctly identify the false before he or she goes too far.

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