Video Games Fun:ATV: Off-Road Fury 2 (PlayStation 2)

11+ ATV models--choose a two stroke, four stroke or 650 bike from top manufacturers; Each bike offers performance ratings for acceleration, top speed, traction and stability; 20+ tracks with an abundance of diverse terrain enviroments; ustomise your ATV in the garage, with options such as shock reaction, tyre friction, steering and braking; The Waypoint Editor allows you to create your own races within an Enduro Series environment.

Hop on and get offroad in this rough-and-tumble ATV experience. Choose whether you want to view the action from a first- or third-person angle, then see what kind of damage you can do in each of 40 enormous racing environments. Create original races using the waypoint editor, or build your own racer right down to the helmet and jacket.

Realistic physics are the focal point here, though there are plenty of bells and whistles to make things extra exciting. Additional mini-games include Tag, Soccer, King of the Hills, and Treasure Hunt, and four players can compete at one time. more...

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Video Games Fun:Area 51 (PlayStation 2)

HAZMAT operative Ethan Cole must save earth from the viral outbreak that has infected and mutated the staff of AREA 51 in the PS2 installment of the popular shooter series.

AREA 51 features a cast full of Hollywood talent, including Powers Boothe, Marilyn Manson, and features THE X-FILES David Duchovny as Ethan Cole.

The AREA 51 series first began as a light gun-based arcade shooter game, and now Midway has brought the series to the Playstation 2 as a first person shooter along the lines of HALO and DOOM. The game revolves around HAZMAT operative Ethan Cole, who has been summoned to Area 51 to discover the source of a deadly virile outbreak. He soon discovers that the staff of the secret alien research base has mutated into deadly, dangerous enemies. Even worse, Ethan himself quickly becomes infected. While the game is a fairly straight-forward first person shooter involving blasting everything that moves while searching for keys, secret codes, and other clues, it does have some interesting twists. Once Ethan becomes infected with the virus, he gains the ability to mutate into a stronger form complete with two ranged attacks. The visuals also change, taking on an almost infra-red interface. Once the single-player missions are finished, AREA 51 offers gamers a multiplayer mode that accommodates up to 16 players. Several different options are available, including deathmatch, capture the flag, and infection, in which players can play as mutants and attempt to infect the human players. There are also unlockable secrets that can be found by scanning objects, , computer workstations, and corpses. While AREA 51 has been absent from the arcade for awhile, first person shooter fans will immediately latch on to its Playstation 2 version. Fans of THE X-FILES should also check it out to hear star David Duchovny voice Ethan Cole. more...

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Video Games Fun:Arc The Lad: Twilight of the Spirits (PlayStation 2)

ARC THE LAD: Twilight of the Spirits is the first game in the series to be presented entirely in real-time 3D, and breaks significantly with the connected storyline of Arcs one through three. Set some thousands of years after that story concluded, it tells the story of two brothers, one demon, one human, whose lives intersect across a 60-hour quest. more...

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