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What's New - Game Releases for Week Ending 15/4/05

16th April 2005, 12:52am
Look at what's arrived in the Games Warehouse this week.

PS2

CT Special Forces: Fire for Effect
You belong to an elite force fighting against global counter-terrorism. Your main objective is to dismantle the NEMESIS network and retrieve the stolen technology. But by changing the chemical properties of certain proteins, the terrorists have made their fighters much more aggressive...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Battle Nexus
The action is packed into another exciting series of adventures with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus. Run with the Turtle dudes as they show off their new Ninja abilities against all new opponents. Only the best can turn chaos into control with simultaneous play for up to four players in both cooperative and head-to-head modes. Also available on Xbox and PC.

Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2
KAO the kangaroo is on the run – he has to stop the evil hunter Barnaba, who has captured most of his friends. Starting deep in the forests of the beavers, your journey will bring you to fascinating locations like the thunder mountain, the sea land and even the lost treasure island. Also available on Xbox.

Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings
Age of Empires II is the sequel to the award-winning, best-selling real-time strategy game Age of Empires. Age of Empires II spans a thousand years, from the Dark Ages to the late medieval period, in which players control the destiny of humankind from the fall of Rome through the Middle Ages.

Death by Degrees
Dispatched to investigate the whereabouts of a stolen high-tech weapon, Tekken's Nina Williams must infiltrate a shadowy organization and reveal a conspiracy on a global scale.

Viewtiful Joe 2
Viewtiful Joe returns in an action packed sequel of mammoth proportions and this time round there’s more! More stages, more VFX, more characters, more 'Six Machine' madness and loads more fun! Also available on Gamecube.

Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition
Rockstar Games has joined forces with DUB Magazine, the authoritative source on automotive lifestyles, to redefine the racing genre once again with Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition. Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition has more speed, more choices, and more chrome than any game has ever packed under the hood. Also available on Xbox.

La Pucelle Tactics
La Pucelle: Tactics is a tale of betrayal and double cross, monsters in human form and humans in monster form, set in an alternate medieval Europe. The unlikely hero is a smart mouthed and undisciplined sixteen year old who just passed her exorcism exams and her comrades in La Pucelle, a demon hunting squad.

PC

Driver 3
Featuring Hollywood-level production values and a gripping, narrative story line, DRIV3R casts players once again as Tanner, a jaw breaking, no-holds-barred undercover cop and master 'Wheelman' who does whatever it takes to bring the bad guys down.

Star Wolves
Only the Fearless Need Apply! Star Wolves, a 3D space RPG that thrusts you into the future where danger lurks behind every asteroid and rogue comet.

Gary Grigsby's World at War
Take command in this dynamic turn-based game and test strategies that past generals could only dream of.

Sentinel: Descendants in Time
The Tastan civilization succumbed to extinction many years ago; their only legacy being the mysterious Tastan Caverns. Some believe the caverns hold an invaluable treasure, while others say great wealth is attained through the knowledge and technology left behind by the Tastan civilization.

Gamecube

DragonBall Z Budokai 2
Featuring never before seen character fusions, a new single player mode, cel-shaded graphics and opponents new to the video game world, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 is a sequel to the best-selling Dragon Ball Z: Budokai game.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
A Japanese Information Defence Force is formed to help face modern threats. Deemed a violation of international law and of the Japanese Post-War Constitution, Korea and China become outraged.

Well, that's it for this week. Which games will you pick?
by Nick Schaedel
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