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This Is Football played a good game of footy on the Playstation. It took on EA's mammoth with some style and flair.
Open-road racing in its purest form. Designed exclusively with Porsche, and modeled to their exact specifications. Everything you need to test your instincts for the open road. 4 racing environments (USA, Japan, Stuttgart, Alpine) with over 20 track combinations. Even race at Stuttgart -Porsche's official test track.
Join the Spice Girls as they enter their own interactive dimension. Interactive magazine with exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes footage. Create your own remixes of five of your favorite Spice Girls songs. Become your favorite Spice Girl and practice individual dance routines. Choreograph all the Spice Girls for their special live shows - on your TV!
There has been a racing game for just about every vehicle - automobile, motorcycle, jet-ski, airplane, you name it. Now, Rapid Racer (Turbo Prop Racing in the United States) lets race speedboats. The game offers several boats to choose from, and by winning races you can customize your speed, handling and acceleration. The game features six unique tracks filled with twists and turns. Each track is playable in three different modes: day, night and mirror. There are also plenty of secrets to unlock. As you win races, new tracks and boats will appear, as well as a special fractal racing mode that generates random tracks. The time trial mode lets you race against a "ghost" boat, and you can save your best times to a memory card.
The sequel to 'This Is Football', attempts to make a realistic yet enjoyable football game. Fully licenced by FIFAPro (International Association of Football Players' Unions) to use every players real name, dozens of the most famous football stadiums from around the world (Mexico, England, Italy, etc.) are faithfully represented while nearly every major football league, cup or competition is included.
Featuring a fully 3-D living city, a combination of narrative driven and non-linear gameplay and a completely open environment, Grand Theft Auto III represents a huge leap forward in interactive entertainment. For the first time, players are put at the heart of their very own gangster movie, and let loose in a fully-realised 3 dimensional city, in which anything can happen and probably will. With a cast of hundreds, 50 plus vehicles, ranging from sports cars to ice cream trucks and from boats to buses, 3 hours of music, including opera, reggae, house, drum and bass, pop and disco, a huge array of street ready weapons and some of the seediest characters in video game history, Grand Theft Auto 3 is a sprawling epic which will show you that sometimes, crime can pay and sometimes it can pay you back. Available now for PlayStation2, Xbox, PC and Macintosh.
In the year 1986, Tommy Vercetti is heavily indebted to his mafia superiors after a drug deal gone awry, but his dreams of taking over Vice City (based on Miami) push him down a different path. Featuring a wide variety of vehicles and weapons, radio stations playing hit songs from the era and an intense atmosphere, GTA: Vice City is an open-world sandbox satire of '80's Miami.
It's going to be a day to remember for Sgt Mitchell. His first shift back on the MET's Organised Crime Squad begins with a dawn raid on a council estate that turns nasty. The next 48 hours will put him against the suspicions of his team mates, a new ruthless wave of crime and the most powerful man in London. Meanwhile on the other side of the city, amateur boxer Eddie O'Conner is in severe trouble. The bank job went horribly wrong, his small-time crew has been wiped out and his only ally in this whole mess is Sam, a teenage thief more comfortable with nicking laptops than gang violence. Eddie knows he's way out of his depth, now his friends are dead and somebody is going to pay...
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