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This is the first title in the J-League Jikkyō Winning Eleven series. Choose a Japanese club team, and then hit the field in the Exhibition or Full J-League season. No matter what mode you play, all of the rules of soccer apply: throw-ins, offsides, and penalties. For those who like to control every aspect of play, you can choose team strategies and formations. There is also multiplayer so you can challenge your friends to see who is the master of the soccer pitch.

Winning Eleven DS is the Nintendo DS version of Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007. This game features online play over the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and official licenses. The game also features a new World Tour mode, which adds a spin on Master League from previous games. Here, you play as a generic team traveling across the globe playing every nation included in the game until you are victorious. Along the way, you are awarded silver and gold medals which can be used to purchase international footballers from a touch-screen-manipulated gumball machine.

Worldwide Soccer Manager 2007 is the third entry in the soccer management series. Numerous new features have been introduced in this installment. These include a new default GUI created with the aid of user feedback in an attempt to make it more user friendly.

The game also includes pre-match team talks. In the previous edition, only half-time and full-time team talks could be given. The game has also increased functionality of the half-time team talk, managers can now target individual opposition players for special attention, such as instructing players to close them down or always to tackle them with force.

A significant new addition is the ability to create a feeder club affiliation. This allows larger clubs to set up a relationships with a smaller club and vice versa. This can be used by users managing larger clubs to loan out players to their feeder club to gain the first team experience that they are unable to get at higher levels. On the other hand, the smaller clubs can benefit from the ability of these players.

SEGA SuperStars is a game developed by Sonic Team for the PlayStation 2 EyeToy USB Camera. It features a series of mini-games based on notable SEGA franchises. The characters are controlled by waving your hands.* Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg

• Crazy Taxi
• ChuChu Rocket!
• House of the Dead
• NiGHTS into Dreams
• Puyo Pop Fever
• Samba de Amigo
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Space Channel 5
• Super Monkey Ball
• Virtua Fighter
• Virtua Striker

Kirby is enjoying his picnic until someone snatches his strawberry cake. As usual, it turns out be his eternal rival, King Dedede. So Kirby rushes off to get his cake back. Along the way he meets up with the Squeak Squad, a team of mysterious and infamous thieves. After Kirby defeats Dedede, the Squeaks turn against Kirby and steal the treasures he has collected, because they believe the they "grant you the ultimate power". It's up to Kirby to defeat the whole Squeak Squad, and get the treasure back.

Kirby can copy the abilities of certain enemies by inhaling and swallowing them, as Kirby can do in most of his games. Squeak Squad also includes new features such as interactive environments, allowing the player to use copy abilities to pass objects. For example, using the Ice ability on water will freeze it, allowing Kirby to cross. A new feature, Copy Scrolls, let the player power up Kirby's abilities. For example, Spark can create thunder clouds and make electrical currants that can run through metal.

Kirby can collect and store objects in his stomach which is represented on the touch screen. The player can also roulette by one copy ability over another using the stylus. Roulette stops on a random ability including abilities only available through the roulette.

In Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin you control two characters, a vampire hunter named Jonathan Morris and a young witch Charlotte Aulin. The two heroes must stop Brauner, a vampire artist devising a plot to use magical paintings to draw power from Dracula's castle. In addition to Brauner's castle you can explore environments such as Egyptian deserts and otherworldly carnivals via paintings which Brauner has scattered throughout the castle. A mysterious ghost named Wind offers rewards if the two heroes are willing to complete quests for him, such as finding rare monsters or mastering abilities.

In the game you can freely switch between Jonathan and Charlotte, so you can decide which character is best for battling against the vampires' army. Both characters have unique lists of armor and weapons they can equip; whips for Jonathan and magic spellbooks for Charlotte. Charlotte is able to find many different kinds of spells throughout Brauner's castle and paintings, including magical attacks, form changing spells, and stat boosts that affect both Jonathan and herself. Similarly Jonathan can find items that act like the sub-weapons of previous Castlevania games, although now he can select which to use from the menu, and each weapon grows more powerful the more it is used. Both characters can also combine their powers for very powerful Dual-Crush that drains a lot of mana. Also, at the first time in the series, both characters can be on the screen simultaneously, helping each other.

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin also includes a Wi-Fi and wireless co-operative multiplayer mode where two players fight side by side through pre-set challenge courses in a limited time. Players can also set up a shop on either Wi-Fi or wireless and sell their items to other players.

Gran Turismo is back and there is a huge variety of cars, including the Model T Ford, Jay Leno's Tank Car, and some of the famous Le Mans cars from down the years. GT4 has brand new tracks, including the famous Nürburgring, and tracks set in famous locations such as Paris, the Grand Canyon, and many more. There is a new Photo mode in GT4 where you can take photographs of a saved replays or in photo mode, and save them to your memory card, or a USB storage device. There is also a new B-Spec mode where become race manager, in other words you let the computer do the work, so it's useful if your doing a endurance race.

The new Pro Evolution Soccer has over 3000 licensed players, and Fully Licensed Leagues & teams from Serie A (Italy), Liga Espanola (Spain), & Eredivisie (Holland). So this new PES has definitely improved on the License front. There's also full leagues of England, France & Germany. Also there is a revamped Master League, and this time you don't have to start with them stupid rubbish Default players, you can start with the proper team!!! Still if you want a challenge you can choose to start the ML with the default players. Another thing you can create your very own team, and play against the world in the Master League, and you get to swap the Default players, for half-decent ones! It's not just the master league that's changed in the Edit mode, you get to edit or change the player's goal celebrations! Another feature is the PES Shop, you acquire points to unlock bonuses!

The 3rd game from the successful Touring Car series. This game is bigger & better, with instead of just the British touring car series, they have expanded the game, so you can compete in touring car championships from across Europe, The America's, Asia & Australia. You can race in an exhibition race or participate in a realistic championship mode, where you choose a scenario, first of all you have to complete the testing session, similar to Gran Turismo. After that you are set a target to reach before the end of season. If you complete the target you unlock secret cars.

Pro Rugby Manager is one of the first rugby management games. Choose from over 100 club teams, and 50 international teams. Select your starting 15, change tactics and watch the game in 3D, and take part in 10 national competitions, including the Six Nations & the Rugby World Cup. You can also play in real-time over the Internet using Gamespy. Or you setup your very own league for up to 100 players on a LAN.

Sphinx is on a mission using his special powers & his agility to find the stolen mystical crowns of Egypt. With his sidekick, the Mummy you travel through 5 worlds, acquire special abilities along the way and uncover dark secrets. You also have the ancient Egyptian weapons as your arsenal.

All 22 drivers and 16 tracks from the 1998 Formula One season are included in this racing game. It has an Arcade mode & a realistic Grand Prix mode, with car setups and trickier handling. Split-screen and four-player link options are offered. There is a new in-car view and more overall camera views than before. A rear-view mirror is available as a separate view, triggered by holding a d-pad button. This version adds the ability to tour the track, with TV analyst and former driver Martin Brundle directing you. Brundle and TV legend Murray Walker commentate on the races.

The race modes offered by the game are:* Arcade Race: This is the 'pick-up-and-play' version of the game. Here the player can compete against other cars and against the clock, winning time extensions for good lap times and passing checkpoints. Racing in this mode allows the player to set a race length, difficulty, and toggle braking assist, steering assist, and car damage.

• Arcade Time Trial: Essentially the same as the Arcade Race but with no choice of car or circuit and no race configuration options.
• Arcade Challenge: This is a single player game. The player's team and driver are automatically selected and the challenge is to finish in a specified position or higher. As the player progresses through the challenges the finishing position becomes harder, the opponents become more skillful, and the car becomes more like an F1 car.
• Quick Race: A simple no frills version for one or two players. Here there is no choice of car and no car setup options. The Quick Race is a separate option on the main menu to all other race types.

• The Grand Prix: This race mode allows the player to make many adjustments to their car, tuning the suspension, brakes and more. There are both Practice and Qualifying sessions with which to refine the car's setup. The player can choose from three levels of difficulty, a choice of weather conditions, player aids can be toggled on and off as well as other features such as mechanical failure, tyre wear, fuel depletion, and whether race flags are to be obeyed.
  Pit stops are needed to repair tyres and to refuel, in Practice and Qualifying the car setup can be adjusted - this option is not available in the main race.

• Championship: this is a full season of Grand Prix races

The sixteen circuits that were used in the 1998 season are Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia; Jose Carlos Race Circuit in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Autodromo Alfredo Galves circuit in Beunos Aires, Argentina; the Enzo E Dino Ferrari circuit of Imola, San Marino; The Spanish Catalunya circuit of Barcelona; the Monaco Street Circuit, Montreal's Gilles Villeneuve circuit in Canada; France's Circuit de Nevers Magy-Cours; Britain's Silverstone; the A-1 Ring of Austria; Germany's Hockenheimring; the Mogyorod-Hungaroring of Hungrary; Belgium's Francorchamps circuit; Italy's Autodromo Nazionale Monza; the famous Nurgergring of Luxembourg; and finally the only non-European circuit the Suzuka International Racing Course of Japan.

The teams represented were Benneton, Williams, McLaren, Jordan, Prost, RedBull International, Arrows, Stewart, Tyrell, Ferrari and Minardi. Each team had two drivers.

The first ISS Pro game for the Playstation, with 32 international teams, a choice of 4 stadia, 21 formations & strategies. With a choice of Exhibition Mode, International League, International Cup, and a Penalty Kick mode.

Based on Dr Seuss's Cat in the Hat movie, you play as the cheeky cat. There are all the original characters including, Conrad, Sally, and Mr. Quinn who tricked Conrad, and Sally into opening the box the Cat was in, as he was released into the outside world. The Cat must help Conrad and Sally to return the magic to the box the cat came in, and get all three pieces of the "Crab Lock" in order to lock the box for good. The game allows you to see rooms that where not included in the movie.

Cricket 2004 has full licenses from the Australian, English and Wales, New Zealand, South African Cricket Boards and the International Cricket Council (ICC). The game has 56 teams with over 1,200 players, domestic and international. Create cricket legends with the full player editor. The game has a TV style to it, with full action replays, the third umpire, etc.

The brand new game in the LMA Manager series. The game has over 18,500 players, 778 clubs, and 31 countries. Watch the matches in the 3D match section, and you can make your very own football club with the Fantasy Team mode. On the Xbox version of the game you can tell the team what to do with the Xbox Communicator. You may play as an English, French, German, Spanish, and an Italian team, and the game has all stats from the 2003/2004 season.

The game has two levels of difficulty and the AI staff can help with finance and training, just finance, or the player can handle everything themselves. The number of clubs is considerable, in the PS2 game they come from the following countries and leagues:* England - Premiership, Division 1, Division 2 and Division 3

• Scotland - Premiership, Division 1, Division 2 and Division 3
• Italy - Serie a and Serie b
• Spain - Primera División and Segunda División
• Germany - Liga 1 and Liga 2
• France - Division 1 and Division 2

The second installment of the ISS Pro Evolution series, and the first ISS Pro game with a proper license (some players now have real names, like Beckham instead of Deckham). The game has an extended Master League, with two divisions and more clubs, as well as more international teams. Gameplay has also been changed to be smoother and more realistic.

Before the Pro Evolution Soccer series, "Seabass" Takatsuka produced International Superstar Soccer Pro Evolution for the Playstation. The game includes a Master League, a club league of 16 teams including Man U, Arsenal, etc. The game has what you would except of soccer simulation, including an International League, & Cup, & not forgetting the European, African, The America's, & Asian cups.

Sonic Pinball Party is the second Sonic Pinball game since Sonic Spinball in the early 90's. The game has an arcade mode, a tutorial mode, and a vs mode (party mode). In the game the game has pinball tables of famous Sonic Team characters such as Nights, Samba de Amigo, and of course SONIC!

The story mode of the game is the usual type of story, Robotnik steals animals visiting Casinopolis, and is going turn into his Robotic slaves. Of course, Sonic is going to try and stop him. Before he does, he has to win a pinball competition and during the game you unlock prizes. The competition is set out as a knockout format. The game also has a Casinopolis mode, which has Casino games like Roulette. There is also a chao garden, just like in the Sonic Advance games.

In this football game endorsed by the Brazilian superstar Ronaldo Nazário de Lima, 64 International teams (some featuring real names, others not) are available to play in game modes: Exhibition, Arcade Cup (a 16 team knockout where the player has three chances to beat all teams, with no option to save between games), Resistance (a five division challenge where players must beat 8 other teams to climb to the next rank, Tournaments (continental championships, available in both tournament and league models, if the player wins faces national teams in a FIFA Confederations Cup styled competition) and the V-Football Cup, the World Cup of this game. As a bonus of winning competitions, all-star teams are unlocked. 15 stadiums (some based on real locations) are available to play in, with setting for day and night, as well as clear, rainy or foggy.

Gameplay is simple and works mostly around the four face buttons: Triangle sprints, Cross makes a low pass and a regular tackle on defense, Square lobs and crosses the ball (depending on the position) and makes a strong tackle on defense and circle shoots on goal and makes a sliding tackle on the player. The first row of shoulder buttons allow complex passes, such as the through-pass (R1) and the one-two (L1 + pass). There are three pad configurations to choose from.The player also acts as the manager, with options to change the formation, and to call several sets in-play, such as offside traps and the number of players in a free-kick wall.

Sonic Heroes is a 3D action-platformer in which the player takes control of a team of 3 characters, each with a special ability - speed, fly and power. The objective of the game is to race through levels as quickly as possible whilst defeating enemies and collecting rings. Your time, rings and enemies defeated make up a point system, and more points mean a higher rank on the level. There are 4 teams of characters each with their own changes to the gameplay:

• Team Sonic is the intermediate difficulty featuring Sonic (speed), Tails (fly) and Knuckles (power).
• Team Shadow is the hard difficulty featuring Shadow (speed), Rogue (fly) and E-123 Omega (power).
• Team Rose is the easy difficulty featuring Amy (speed), Cream (fly) and Big (power).
• Team Chaotix features new mission-based objectives with Espio (speed), Charmy (fly) and Vector (power).

The game features 4 modes:

• Story Mode, giving players the opportunity to play through levels as the story progresses.
• Challenge Mode, giving players the opportunity to replay levels that they have previously cleared in Story Mode
• Battle Mode, a multiplayer mode where players can race or battle each other
• Tutorial Mode, teaching players the basics of playing the game.

The third installment of the Pro Evolution Soccer series, with improved graphics and a bigger Master League. Because the Master League is so big, it's split into 4 zones with 2 divisions, and cup competitions in each zone. Other than most of the Italian teams, club names are fictional, as are many of the players. However, the game has an improved edit mode, so you can edit the team's name, flag, logo, shirts, and stadium.

You can use the 'shop' system to unlock hidden features such as classic teams. The game also has a training mode, and a challenge mode, in which you have to dribble around cones as quick as you can. Replays can be fast-forwarded and rewound, and the view can be rotated. The advantage rule is now implemented, so a foul will only stop play if the fouled team suffers from it.

F1 World Championship Edition is a Formula 1 racing game with real teams and drivers from the 1994 season including Benetton, Ferrari, Williams, Jordan, Lotus, Minardi, Tyrrell & McLaren. There are 16 circuits including the Monaco Grand Prix

The game includes a championship knockout and training mode. The SNES version offers a few more teams. These are: Sauber, Arrows grand prix, Larrousse and Ligier. It is the sequel to the game Formula One (1993).