The game goes through the movie’s story as its core and hits all the major plot points. The action centers around Remy, a French rat with big dreams of becoming a chef. Of course, given the pretty low number of world-renowned French rat chefs, Remy has more than a few obstacles to overcome. Rather than have the adventure offer a play-by-play of the film, the game will have a good chunk of its action take place in between the movie action, in a mix of locales that include those in the film and some made for the game. The gameplay in Ratatouille looks pretty standard platforming, obviously you get some wavy action going to the Wii.

The visuals in the Xbox 360 and Wii games differ, as you would expect. The Xbox 360 game features clean detailed visuals. The Wii game isn’t quite as pretty but still looked running at 480p. Remy will be able to run, climb, jump, and tail-swipe to stun enemies. Thankfully this modest set of moves is supplemented by the ability

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Everyones favorite Looney Tunes appear on the Nintendo Wii! The Looney Tunes franchise has long been a mainstay of the video game world, with a catalog of titles on platforms from the Game Boy to the the PlayStation2. But despite appearing on a variety of consoles, they’ve all had one thing in common–they’ve all been rather boring. Whether it’s adventure, racing, or even basketball, no Looney Tunes game has been worth a spot in any self-respecting gamer’s collection. One of the big features for Acme Arsenal is a co-op mode that, on the Xbox 360 at least, will be playable online. It will be also playable in co-op on all platforms (Xbox 360, PlayStation2, and Wii) offline using a split-screen mode. Even the single-player game depends on splitting between two characters, the choice of which is forced on you during your first play of the game; but you can go back and play with characters of your choice the second time around.

Fans are are also likely to dig the fact that all the foley work for the game was done at the same time Warner Bros. studio used for Who Framed Rodger Rabbit?

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The title may be very weird but you haven’t even read about it yet! This compilation from Valve Software will serve up Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2 Episodes One and Two, the class-based multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2, and the slick puzzle game Portal. The Orange Box will ship on October 10, and Valve along with publisher EA gave us a chance to experience its many different components. Half-Life 2 was one of the most acclaimed and successful PC games of 2004, and while t was ported to the Xbox in 2005 the performance struggled on that last generation system. Half-Life 2 continues the adventures of series hero Gordon Freeman, and you won’t need to have played the original Half-Life in order to understand what’s going on. That’s probably a good thing.

When Valve finished work on Half-Life 2, everyone expected the company to eventually work on Half-Life 3. Instead, Valve announced that it was going to make a trilogy of episodes that would follow-up Half-Life 2. Episode One shipped last year, and Episode Two will debut in the Orange Box, so we’re only two-thirds of the way through the trilogy at this point.

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Scheduled for release in September, Clive Barker’s Jericho is a squad-based first-person shooter game also you will be required to destroy and ancient evil that is threating the world in multiple time zones. At first glance you could be forgiven for thinking that Clive Barker’s Jericho is a little more than a garden-variety shooter with especially dark visuals, but the various abilities of the squad members promise to really it apart from the crowd.You only “die” in Jericho if your entire squad (bearing in mind that, at times, you might only be playing with two or three characters) is incapacitated, so as long as you have one character who’s able to move around and reach his or her fallen colleagues, there’s a chance that you can have everyone back up on their feet in no time. Healing incapacitated characters requires you to do nothing more than stand next to them and push a button which, even with enemies doing their best to stop you. Occasionally computers will heal each other.

Actually, as ugly and as intelligent as many of Clive Barker’s Jericho’s enemies look it’s the survival events that will hurt you the most. Survival events aside,Time to move on. Jericho’s controls (at least on the Xbox 360) are standard as far as squad-based shooters go.

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We all loved Brain Age for DS now prepare yourself for Brain Age 2! With success on the first Brain Age, the sequel might be Nintendo’s best game this year. Brain Age 2 is set to offer more than 10 new games. On first appearance Brain Age 2 looks just like the first game with the same layout for all the game options. First of all there are a series of quick exercises that you can play during a spare five minutes. Then there’s a Suduko the famous and widely popular game in Japan.

This game also includes new multiplayer modes and minigames, there are some really neat new single-player games. Like rock,paper,scissors, shoot and a speech-based take on the schoolground game where you have to say the answers into the DS mic. There are also plenty new additions to the daily training mode.

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Sweden’s Massive Entertainment may best be known for its Ground Control tactical games, which put you in command of sci-fi armies that battled with futuristic versions of tanks, helicopters, and artillery. World in Conflict, the company’s next game, lets you play with 1989’s versions of the same things. World in Conflict asks what if the Soviet Union didn’t just role over and die like it did? What if it saw the writing on the wall and decided to go out in a blaze of glory? As such you will be able to command Western or Soviet forces as you attempt to crush the other side for freedom or for communism. The best thing to me about World in Conflict is that it’s a real time strategy game and in a big multiplayer game the screen is packed full of action. Not only do you have have all the combat going on in the middle of the screen, but giant cargo planes continually stream in to deliver reinforcements at the edge of the battlefield. Meanwhile the action is non-stop as if it were a hyperaccelerated reality.

Thanks to nature of the battlefield it is likely that you will also need to work together. There are numerous nodes on the map that must be seized to generate tactical aid points. However the kicker is that often these points are linked together in groups.

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The newest Smash Bros. will feature several industry icons not seen before in the series. In addition to Wario, Pit from Kid Icarus, Kirby villain Meta night, Samus Aran sans heavy-metal duds and Solid Snake would lend his lethal stealth abilities to the game….cardboard box and all! Also multiplayer mayhem is a big part of this game. When the game releases on wii December 3, players will be able to jump into global or friend-only matches.

Players will be able to check the status of those in their wii friend network and then jump right into a match under a variety of modes.

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On part arcade sports game, one part RPG and one part stat-heavy baseball strategy game. 2K sports’ MLB Power Pros Baseball is nothing if not intriguing and extremely Japanese. Based on Konami’s long-running incredibly popular baseball game from Japan, Power Pros is no set to debut on American shores next month. If you’ve never heard of Konami’s arcade baseball efforts before, let’s set some expectations. First of all, forget the meticulous level of graphical detail that you see in other baseball games. Instead you’ll see cartoonish character, like a mii just a little bit more cartoony. Second, when controls come to mind this game is straight forward arcade baseball experience.

Luckily when you plug in your nunchuk to your wii controller, you have a good deal more control over the outcome of the game.

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Hot Pixel has a Wario Ware Like gameplay, except the gameplay options include: story mode which tasks you with playing through ten themed chapters, a theater mode which let’s you pick and choose the minigames you want to play individually and a playlist mode which let’s you create iPod-style “smart” playlist of the best levels that you’re best at or need practice. A big part of the minigames is figuring out what you’re supposed to do the first time you play. One of the boss levels are based on a classic arcade game. One a breakout-style game played on the side of a skyscraper an colorful organic-looking Asteroid clones.

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The story certainly doesn’t pull any punches. You’ll once again take up the part of tough-as-nails secret agent Gabe Logan. This time around he’s been dispatched to board the USS Mt. St. Helen, which has been overtaken in the middle of the Indian Ocean by a terrorist named Bitar. Bitar seems to be after some undisclosed sensitive cargo stored in the bowels of the ship–but Gabe’s contact in Washington, a smarmy pencil pusher named Cordell, won’t cop to the nature of that cargo. A major character dies in the first mission (I won’t say who), after which Cordell assumes control of Gabe’s unit and raticallt shuts it down col–but not before taunting him with photos of his longtime partner Lian Xing, photos that suggest she’s betrayed the team. Needless to say Gabe isn’t happy.

In additional to the traditional shooting and stealth action, the game’s second mission provides a good vehicle for showing off the new underwater gameplay. The US Military scuttles the MT. ST. Helens at the end of the first mission, but you’ll have to head right back to the site of wreckage in mission two, diving down to try to discover what was so important on board that ship.

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