2010 Video Games of the Week

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February 28, 2010

Heavy Rain - Playstation 3

A PlayStation 3 exclusive featuring accessible gameplay via intuitive, contextual controls and interface.

An evolving action adventure thriller featuring mature content, reflecting a realistic world setting and powerful themes, in which you shape the story with every decision made.

Action featuring four playable characters that allows you to continue playing as one of the other characters if your initial character is killed.

Savable chapters that allow you to replay the actions of the past, while maintaining the continuity of the events of earlier chapters.

Stunning graphics, animation and technology support an emotionally driven experience.

Rated mature.

Available at Amazon

January 31, 2009

Cooking Mama 3: Shop & Chop - Nintendo DS

Earn bronze, silver, and gold medals from Mama based on the quality of your cooking.

Use the stylus as your ultimate cooking utensil to chop, grate, slice, stir, spread, sprinkle, roll, and much more in over 200 different mini-games.

Create 80 new recipes including: chili con carne, mushroom quiche, Eggs Benedict, tulip chicken, pumpkin gnocchi, and many more.

Six gameplay modes including old favorites and new additions to the series.

Recipes progress from simple to complex, from small to large dishes, so do your best to meet Mama's expectations and impress your friends.

Available at Amazon

January 24, 2009

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Xbox 360

Epic single-player campaign picks up immediately following the thrilling events from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

The definitive multiplayer experience returns, with a host of new perks and enhancements

New cooperative SpecOps mode, the perfect combination of Modern Warfare's single player intensity and the addictive replayability of its multiplayer

Special Ops Mode allows two players, either alone or with a friend, to engage in unique mission play and features split-screen functionality.

`Modern Warfare 2¿ contains new and updated weapons, new weapons attachments, and a variant of the multiplayer weapons customization system from `Call of Duty 4¿, now available in the single player campaign.

Available at Amazon

January 17, 2010

Just Dance - Nintendo Wii

Burn calories, stay fit, and enjoy a fun workout all while having a blast with your favorite songs.

Just Dance features more than 30 licensed tracks, ranging from iconic dance hits such as "You Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer to modern day pop with "Hot N Cold" by Katy Perry.

Scrolling lyrics lines so players can sing along to the beat.

Step to the beat and learn real-life dance moves from music spanning the 80's, 90's, Disco, Rock and more.

Raise the roof with anyone and everyone you know via fun 4 player party modes – with simple controls, anyone can pick-up and play.

Available at Amazon

January 10, 2010

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks - Nintendo DS

Helpful interactive map functionality that players can draw notes on the using the stylus that allows players to quickly mark spots in the game world for later exploration, or to note them as already explored.

A whole new adventure in the Legend of Zelda series set in the years following the events of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.

Links new AI ally, The Phantom (from the previous game in the series), whose bulk and immunities to dangerous elements like fire and magma, make him valuable in combat and in subterranean lava-filled levels.

New propulsion and problem-solving game mechanics through Link's new in-game train which he uses as transport, and must be maneuvered and utilized to deal with obstacles.

New in-game items and weapons like the Whirlwind, which Link uses to move items and overturn enemies, a whip, useful both in combat and in platforming, as well as his train's cannon, which can shoot bombs into the distance.

Available at Amazon

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