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HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2006: Holiday game guide
Fall can be a conundrum for gamers and the people who love them. Do you submit to your urge to buy all those cool, spanking-new games coming out, or do you hold off in the hopes that Grandma knows what you want for the holidays? For Grandma, it's even harder; newbies can have trouble differentiating between duds like Ford Bold Moves Street Racing and hits like GTR 2. To make the holidays easier on both givers and receivers, we've collected our biggest games of the season. Bide your time with demos and preview videos or figure out the perfect gift for the PC gamer in your life.
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The third game in the explosive Battlefield series takes the action to the next century, with all the trimmings of near-futuristic, high-tech warfare. After an Ice Age forces the world's population toward the equator, battles erupt between two factions. The biggest game advancements involve customizable vehicles and soldiers, and a Titan mode that creates an entirely new strategy for multiplayer gamers to master. The game also features a whopping 40 different weapons and pieces of equipment that are unlockable, raising the replay value.
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Epic, historical battles are the highlight of this highly realistic, real-time strategy reenactment of World War II. The massive amount of content will keep gamers busy for long hours as they command Allied troops from the beaches of Normandy into the heart of France to crush the Nazi occupation. You'll need a powerful PC to run the game well, and the gameplay can be extremely difficult at times. However, the impressive graphics and exciting gameplay should appeal to a wide variety of gamers who might not normally like the RTS genre.
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Role playing |
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Global phenomenon World of Warcraft is preparing for the game's first expansion, and millions of MMORPG fans are drooling in anticipation. Besides introducing the new, massive Outland continent, Blood Elves and Draenei races, and the jewel-crafting skill, the game will let characters rise to level 70 and will add supercool flying mounts for soaring around the world of Azeroth. A revamped PvP combat system includes arenas where players can form teams to battle other crews. The raid dungeons also promise new variability, with quests designed for smaller parties and various levels of experience. Available November 22.
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Adventure |
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The anthropomorphic dog in detective's clothes and the "hyperkinetic rabbity thing" were born from the pen of comic-book artist Steve Purcell in the 1980s, and they became gaming cult heroes with the release of LucasArts' Sam & Max Hit the Road in 1993. Adventure fans have been craving a sequel for the freelance police duo ever since. Telltale Games, an upstart developer featuring some of the crew behind LucasArts' classic adventure games, has worked with Purcell to create a new, unique, episodic series of adventures for the wacky pair. The first episode, Culture Shock, hits retail shelves on November 1.
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