Ps3 games in 2008

They wait for the day that the "Almighty" will return, to lead them against their enemies and bring them back to their homeland. Finally, their wait has come to an end as the drums of war are heard once again. Rhythm and Action Collide — Master up to six different drumbeats to command the Patapon troops to march, attack, defend, power up, retreat, and use magic.

Combine the various chains of drumbeats to address each unique level, leading the Patapons to victory over the Zigoton enemy forces. Strategic Gaming — Patapon delivers a strong element of strategy by requiring players to properly customize and build up the Patapon army, arm each soldier with particular weapons and armor, and position them correctly for battle. Mission Variety — Take part in more than 30 specific missions including hunting, escort, and boss battles, and explore numerous vivid environments along the way.

Players will discover and access more than items and weapons throughout the adventure. Unique Art Style — French graphic artist Rolito, noted for his abstract art style seen in collectible toys, animation, and websites, lends his skills to create a variety of unique characters and environments, bringing the Patapon world to life. Mini-Games — Five music-based mini-games allow players to earn bonuses and upgrades to further customize the Patapon warriors. Music — Captivating and dramatic original music builds dynamically as players march and encounter enemy battles throughout each level.

Guitar Hero World Tour marries Guitar Hero's guitar gameplay, with a cooperative band experience that combines the most advanced wireless instruments with revolutionary new online and offline gameplay modes. The game features a slick newly redesigned guitar, a genuine electronic drum kit and a microphone, as well as an innovative Music Studio music creator that lets players compose, record, edit and share their own rock and roll anthems, along with online Band Career and 8-player "Battle of the Bands.

Additionally, the game offers significantly more localized downloadable music than ever before on all of the next-generation consoles. Featuring three drum pads, two raised cymbals and a bass kick pedal, the drum controller combines larger and quieter, velocity-sensitive drum heads with soft rubber construction to deliver authentic bounce back and is easy to set up, move, break down and store.

Virtual musicians can live out their rock and roll fantasies by playing either a single instrument, or any combination of instruments, in addition to the full band experience. Guitar Hero World Tour introduces Battle of the Bands mode which allows eight players to join online and challenge each other band-to-band to determine who is the best of the best.

In the Band modes, up to four players can jam together, online or off, as they progress through the game, and in single-player Career Mode, players can jam on any of the instruments in branching venue progression enabling them to rock out in the order of their choice. The game's Music Studio lets players express their musical creativity by giving them access to a full compliment of tools to create digital music from scratch, utilizing all of the instruments, and then play their compositions in the game.

Music creators can share their recordings with their friends online through GHTunes where other gamers can download their unique compositions and play them. It is a desperate time for the Emperor. A terrible Chaos Plague defiles his lands, ravaging the populace and weakening his armies. Meanwhile, the Dwarf holds in the nearby World's Edge Mountains have come under siege by a massive greenskin horde. Honor-bound by an ancient oath, the ruler of the greatest nation of men in the Old World has dispatched several regiments to assist the embattled Dwarfs, further depleting the Empire's already thin defenses.

In this dark hour, a new threat appears. Under a sky darkened by a crimson eclipse, a great warhost erupts from the wastelands of the north. Bearing the banner of Tzeentch, Changer of the Ways, the army of Chaos marches south for the borders of the Empire, crushing everything in its path. With the Dwarfs fighting desperately to slow the ferocious greenskin "Waaagh! Upon receiving the Emperor's dire plea for help, Finubar, Phoenix King of the High Elves, sets sail at the head of a mighty fleet of warships laden with battalions of High Elf warriors.

Advance Wars has been reinvented. Set amidst a world in chaos and featuring new characters and settings, a gritty look, an engaging storyline, and online Wi-Fi battles and map trading.

Try you hand with new COs and units, realistic graphics, and a new environment. Use Nintendo WiFi Connection and battle against a friend halfway across the world, or use the map editor to create, trade and battle on your own custom maps. Several of the modes give users the chance to take advantage of the unique point-and-shoot capabilities of the Wii Remote controller.

The party doesn't stop there, though. Take the Tetris fun online via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, where you can play multiplayer Tetris against up to five friends at a time. You can also see how your Tetris Party skills stack up against the rest of the world using the global ranking system.

For passionate Madden NFL fans, this year's iteration promises to take authenticity and depth of gameplay to an entirely new level with more than 85 new features and enhancements, including the all-new Virtual Trainer tutorial mode. Utilizing a holographic environment, this mode teaches gamers simple concepts about playing football and how to use the controls in quick, fun and stylized drills.

In Madden NFL 09, the game engine is continually assessing the player's performance and adapst a custom experience to every type of gamer, from newcomer to the veteran Madden NFL player. Madden NFL 09 also features a network-inspired broadcast presentation. Players benefit from the authentic football knowledge of an in-booth play-by-play and color commentary team featuring Cris Collinsworth and Tom Hammond.

In addition, numerous graphical enhancements have been made, including realistic weather and grass, sleeker player models and exterior stadium views. Madden NFL 09 gives gamers the ability to create online leagues. Avid Madden NFL fans can now take their rivalries online and compete in leagues with up to 32 teams. Online league play features in-depth stat tracking, player trades and a flexible scheduling option.

User Score: 4. Judgment day is at hand, and it's time for a showdown with the guy downstairs to bargain for Bosco's soul. But in the corporate wasteland known as Hell, not even the Freelance Police are safe from eternal damnation. Providing players with some additional performance incentives, the MLB franchise introduces the new Progressive Batting Performance feature, which both rewards players for superior performance and penalize them for hitting slumps.

Specific to each individual batter, players are rewarded with slight contact bonuses, or punished with slight decreases in contact, based on how that batter that performs beyond his "natural ability" while under user control. Thrill seekers race against skilled rivals and performing gravity-defying aerial tricks in Pure, an extreme sports off-road racing video game.

Featuring vertigo-inducing massive aerial jumps and spectacular airborne tricks in photo-realistic real-world locations all over the globe, Pure delivers heart-pounding experiences unique to the genre. Players start by choosing among a variety of male and female character riders.

They can then either race against deft A. This enormous underground cavern in north-western Middle-earth, comprises an immense network of tunnels, chambers, mines and huge halls that run beneath and ultimately through the Misty Mountains. For the first time, players of The Lord of the Rings Online enter this ancient city which has served as the foundation for the modern-day dungeon-crawling adventures to battle the hordes of goblins and the Nameless of the Deep and journey through hundreds of new quests within six new kinds of stunning environments.

Players advance their characters up to level 60, gaining access to new traits, virtues, skills and class quests.

The crafting system will also expand, giving players the ability to craft even more powerful items. The Rune-keeper and the Warden, the first new classes to be introduced since the launch of the game, allow players to build exciting and powerful new characters in The Lord of the Rings Online in diverse new ways. Delivering new gameplay modes, characters and enhanced features with unprecedented 3D modeling and animation, Soulcalibur IV strives to be the definitive fighting game experience.

The unrelenting pursuit of two legendary swords continues as Soulcalibur IV re-introduces classic warriors from the series as well as debuting new characters bringing new conflict and intrigue. Soulcalibur IV propels the fighting genre into the next-gen era with visually realistic environments, interactive stages, enhanced AI, and a new battle system.

Utilizing the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare engine, Call of Duty: World at War throws out the rulebook of war to transform WWII combat through a new enemy, new tactics and an uncensored experience of the climatic battles that gripped a generation. Marines and Russian soldiers, players employ new features like cooperative gameplay, and weapons such as the flamethrower in the most chaotic and cinematically intense experience to date.

Call of Duty: World at War introduces co-operative play, bringing fresh meaning to the "No One Fights Alone" mantra with up to four-players online for Xbox , PS3 and PC, or two-player local split-screen on consoles. Nintendo Wii will also support a unique co-op mode for two players. For the first time ever players can experience harrowing single-player missions together for greater camaraderie and tactical execution.

The co-op campaign allows players to rank up and unlock perks in competitive multiplayer by completing challenges and earning experience points, adding continuous re-playability and team-based gameplay. Whether playing competitively or cooperatively — if players are online with Call of Duty: World at War — they always gain experience points.

There are three game windows on screen at the same time, allowing for three people to play different games simultaneously. But there is a twist — each game impacts the other players. Could it be? How could it happen? Could it be a kidnapping? What kind of inhuman monstrosity would want Bosco around badly enough to steal him? Caught between two rival factions in war-torn Africa, you are sent to take out "The Jackal," a mysterious character who has rekindled the conflict between the warlords, jeopardizing thousands of lives.

In order to fulfil your mission you will have to play the factions against each other, identify and exploit your their weaknesses, and neutralize their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion, cunning and, of course, brute force.

Real-time story telling, systemic auto-healing, minimal in-game interface are just few of the features that make you feel the tension of being alone against barbarous warlords that threaten thousands of innocent lives.

Choose from a wide range of weapons to make your way to your primary target. Meet the fight head-on with your machine-gun, go berserk with your machete or make stealth kills as a Sniper. If you feel that the atmosphere is not warm enough, light up your flamethrower and let your enemies and everything around them feel the heat. Also known as "Layton Kyouju no Fushigi na Machi" and "Professor Layton and the Mysterious Village" Marking Level 5's first foray onto the DS, Professor Layton is an old-fashioned point-and-click adventure which requires your use of skills such as reasoning, knowledge and creativity to solve various puzzles.

Ride your music. Audiosurf is a music-adapting puzzle racer where you use your own music to create your own experience. The shape, the speed, and the mood of each ride is determined by the song you choose. You earn points for clustering together blocks of the same color on the highway, and compete with others on the internet for the high score on your favorite songs.

Audiosurf on Steam includes The Orange Box soundtrack, integrated with the game to enable "Still Alive" surfing and more. In addition, Audiosurf is one of the first titles to leverage the recently announced Steamworks, offering full support for the Steam Achievements that appear on Steam Community profile pages. Boom Blox is the first game developed in collaboration between EA and director and producer, Steven Spielberg. This high-energy game features over three hundred levels, a variety of activities, a cast of over thirty wacky characters, and an easy-to-use in-game editor that allows players to express their creativity.

Fun for kids and the entire family, Boom Blox offers action-packed interactive activities that takes Wii play to a new level of creativity and fun with single player, co-op, and versus gameplay. They can interact with entertaining characters such as the Blox-laying chickens or the baseball throwing monkeys, who bring personality to the Tiki, Medieval, Frontier, and Haunted themed environments.

Additionally, players can remix any level of the game in Create Mode using props, blocks, or characters that have been unlocked during the game. Players can also virtually build anything they can dream up.

Plus, their designs can then be shared with friends or used to challenge others to solve their newly created puzzle via WiiConnect Four elemental Crystals, each possessing awesome power, lie scattered throughout the realm. However, men are quick to covet things which offer strength, and easily corrupted by the might which they possess. Seduced by the promised power of the Crystals, the kingdom of Baron begins employing unprovoked force to seize them from peaceful nations.

Stricken with grief at his own actions, yet burdened by his loyalty to his country and his personal sense of honor, Cecil at last decides to turn from the path of darkness and destruction. Enraged, the king accuses him of disloyalty, strips Cecil of his command, and sends him off to slay a mysterious beast that lurks in the nearby Valley of Mist.

Cecil embarks on a fateful journey that will bring trials, betrayals, friendship, loss and self-discovery. Can Cecil open his eyes and become the man of honor that he must be?

Train and customize Whytkin by playing a variety of mini-games and challenge another player to head-to-head battle via local wireless connection. The legendary Castlevania series is back in its 3rd installment on the Nintendo DS. This time you play as a member of the Ecclesia, an organization that has sworn to defeat the evil forces of Dracula. Use the brand new Glyph attack system which has more than different combinations to battle Dracula and his minions throughout 20 explorable areas.

Take part in side quests and collect items to power up your character in the next great Castlevania game produced by Koji Igarashi. Castlevania: The Order of Ecclesia features intense side-scrolling action gameplay as you quest to collect elements that will help you in your quest against Dracula. Explore all-new outdoor areas from the forests to the ocean. Sell and buy items and equipment you have found while playing with other players utilizing Nintendo DS Wi-Fi Connection.

Utilize multiple abilities and attacks simultaneously with the all-new Glyph attack system. Replay more than once to discover multiple endings. Set in a land rooted in ancient Persian mythology, the Prince finds himself caught in an epic battle between the primal forces of light and darkness: the God of Light, Ormazd versus his brother Ahriman, the destructive God of Darkness. The Prince arrives just in time to witness the destruction of the legendary Tree of Life - an act which threatens to plunge the entire world into eternal darkness.

Manifested in the form of the Corruption, a dark substance that physically contaminates the land and the skies, the Prince must partner with Elika, a deadly companion, to heal the world from the evil Corruption. Bionic Commando Rearmed brings the gameplay up to date with stunning new visuals, new weapons, online rankings, and a reworked musical score just for starters. Bionic Commando Rearmed delivers two-player co-op, a frenetic multiplayer mode for up to four players, and a series of over 50 devious challenge rooms to test your swinging skills.

Wire-tapping the enemy communication in Bionic Commando Rearmed gives you access to information about weaknesses for the newly-designed Imperial bosses in the game. Civilization Revolution offers players a chance to experience the epic empire-building world of Civilization in an all new accessible, visually immersive, and action-packed world specifically designed for the console and handheld gamer. Delivering Civilization's renowned epic single-player campaigns featuring vast re-playability and unmatched addictive gameplay as well as revolutionary features like real-time interaction with leaders and advisors, extensive multiplayer capabilities and integrated video and voice chat, it transports the Civilization series to a level of gameplay that fans have never seen before.

Some of the key features that resonate with fans of strategy games and the Civilization franchise include 16 civilizations to master and lead to victory, an array of famous historical leaders to play as or compete against, and accessible maps and streamlined time scale for quicker games, intense combat, and constant action. In online multiplayer mode, players compete for world conquest and glory among their peers as they battle in teams, head-to-head or epic free-for-all matches.

In addition, auto-matching, ranked games, leaderboards, achievements, downloadable extra content and integrated video and voice chat make the online play more versatile and fun than any previous version of Civilization and will allow players to see where they stand against the competition. Finally, the position of ruler of the world can be settled online. New Music: Get in the groove with up-beat techno tunes that are synched to gameplay.

New Mini-Games: Experience varied gameplay with mini-games Rounds that are launched mid-game — they add to the fun, and are a good way to rack up points.

New Twists: Discover exciting twists to the classic game that provide swift, fast-paced game play. New Multiplayer Element: Battle against a friend with the all-new multiplayer element, available on both platforms. A little Yakuza here, a pinch of Arkham Asylum there, a touch of Burnout , and many others. Sleeping Dogs was a surprise hit that many were hopeful for a sequel of, but that sadly looks further away than ever given recent events with the developer. It takes the best of the final fantasy series and makes it modern but without losing the feeling of nostalgia.

Making it accessible for consoles. The threat of permadeath helps shape your initially bland grunts into a pack of war heroes. Ones you may just end up feeling devastated by when they make one wrong move and end up dead forever. Endlessly replayable, and unlike anything else on PS3, Enemy Unknown re-released with the rather excellent expansion built in as Enemy Within a year later is superb. Killzone 2 So much hype, smoke and mirrors surrounded Killzone 2 prior to launch, with much fuss made over an early trailer looking significantly better than it did in later reveals even though it still looked pretty damn good in the end , and that did some damage to a franchise on the cusp of something bigger.

It was a worthy alternative to the Call of Duty juggernaut, but lousy timing, launching on the console trailing in the wake of the , and plain bad marketing scuppered the true potential of Killzone. Naturally Ubisoft returned to the Creed soon after with the start of a three-game long tale of Ezio Auditore da Firenze and his quest for vengeance against the Templars.

Hopping around the rooftops of Renaissance Italy, and slyly stabbing corrupt folk was a much more joyful thing now, and the various Italian cities were fascinating places to explore. Some argue this is as good as the series ever got, perhaps not, but it remains the most important chapter.

Catherine Taken at surface value, Catherine is a simple puzzler with an offbeat anime story. If you dig deeper into it however, Catherine is actually a great horror story about growing up and commitment. It has humour, a protagonist who you both feel empathy and disdain for, and a group of characters who feel like a typical group of friends.

The meat of the game takes place in the dreams of our main man Vincent Brooks where block puzzles must be solved to reach the doorway at the top so Vincent can escape his nightmares which get fleshed out in some disturbing ways. The now iconic moment where you emerge from a sewer tunnel and into the blinding sunlight and survey an intimidating and exciting amount of possibilities before you is a fond memory of many a player, and a trick never repeated with quite the same lustre since.

A sprawling RPG epic the likes of which was unheard of on consoles, Oblivion was one of the brightest beacons of hope in the early days of the generation, a real indicator of the scope that could be achieved.

The answer is a Deus Ex: Invisible War and b with spectacular failure. The upside is that by the time Human Revolution popped up years later, expectations were checked and everyone got to be just a little bit pleasantly surprised by the adventures of Adam Jensen.

The mix of stealth, RPG, combat and cyber noir was a genuine delight, made more so by some great world-building and sumptuous visual design. Tearing round the titular city of Paradise, smashing billboards,chaining Takedowns, and competing in online races, made for something approaching nirvana for those who want a extra dollops of fun with their racers. Noire was an especially curious beast as it focused on being a L. That on it own was an interesting hook, but it was the facial capture tech that got people talking.

Developer Team Bondi were sadly binned before they could get a crack at perfecting things in a sequel, but their legacy made quite an impact. The result was a barren period for the genre, which had one hell of a rain spell when EA Visceral Games gave the world Dead Space.

The use of audio gave Dead Space its horror credentials far more than any monsters though, with every creaking pipe, bowing floor and hiss of steam cranking up the tension before something ghastly inevitably burst out of a dark corner.

Oh and poor Isaac is going ever so slightly mad too, making for a trippy, brutal ride to rid the universe of the Necromorph menace. A peasant child finds out about the heroic past of the child's family. Once old enough, the hero decides to reclaim his or hers heritage. Votes: 2, E Action, Family, Fantasy. Mario and friends once again jump into the seat of their go-kart machines for the Wii installment of the venerable franchise. Now featuring an online racing mode, new motorbike vehicle types, and a special balancing system.

Votes: 3, Several new upstart gangs have been able to sweep in and make their mark on Stilwater. As leader of the Saints, you'll have to do whatever it takes to protect the members of your gang. M Action, Adventure, Thriller.

A mercenary is hired to travel to an African country to eliminate a notorious arms dealer called, The Jackal, only to be caught in the crossfire of a civil war. Votes: 4, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. Based on the film, with lots of new characters and enemies.

Bruce is let loose as the Hulk in New York with massive destruction and combat to fight his way to his decision; cure or embrace.

T Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi. Death awaits you in Dark Deception, a story-driven first-person horror maze game. There's nowhere to hide and nowhere to catch your breath. Run or die - it's your choice.

Trapped in a realm See full summary ». Votes: Crime, Mystery. For the first time in the CSI video game series, the game lets you play to play as the two core characters of the show, hardened detective Mac Taylor Gary Sinise and intelligent gumshoe Stella Bonasera Melina Kanakaredes.

M Action, Sci-Fi, War. Lara Croft continues in her search for her long lost mother in the legendary land of Avalon. The notorious criminals including the Joker, the Penguin, Catwoman, and Scarecrow have broken out of Arkham Asylum and are set to wreak havoc in Gotham City.

After meeting Elika, a princess, in the desert, the Prince is tasked with cleansing a corrupted land with the help of his new companion, all the while unraveling the power of dark lord Ahriman.

Director: Andrew S. When Dr. On the PlayStation Portable front, we're seeing a decline in the total number of games released each year. Numbering well under for , gamers don't have anywhere near the selection that you'll find on the PS3 or its main competitor, the Nintendo DS. That's not to say that there weren't great titles this year for the system; on the contrary, looking at the top handful of titles makes this seem like the PSP's best year yet.

Now if only more developers would make titles for it we might have a great system on our hands. However, the lack of software isn't the only thing missing from the PSP.

Over here in the US, we still haven't seen the release of the GPS add-on, nor the foldable keyboard promised so long ago.

These devices would do well to help expand the PSP's non-game functionality beyond a standard media player, but where are they? Over on the PS2 front, things are grim. The system is clearly on its deathbed and is struggling to take in one last gasp of air before it keels over and dies.

It's been on life support for a long time now, with things like the LEGO Batman pack helping to put the hardware back in the news. But why is the price still so high? Persona 4 looks to be the system's swan song, a fantastic eulogy for the system, but Sony should starting piling the dirt on it already. Games of Now that is over, we can see quite clearly that the PlayStation 3 has a much stronger and more impressive library -- especially compared to last year.

Let's take a look at the top ten highest rated games of Not much more can be written about MGS4 than you've likely seen a million times. It is undoubtedly one of the best games of the year, and in many folks' opinions, one of the best games ever made.

Nay, crafted. Kojima Productions put such care and passion into the title that it seeps out of the screen and into your veins. Taking Snake through his latest and supposedly last adventure was as gut-wrenching as it was nerve wracking and exciting. It's only the second game we've given a 10 to since Ocarina of Time, and for very good reason.

Games don't get much bigger than a Grand Theft Auto title, and the fourth installment absolutely blew us out of the water. Everything seemed incredibly cohesive, from the way Niko interacted with the world through its physics-based controls to the pedestrians and passersby on the streets. The story was great, and the voice acting phenomenal. No open world city has ever been more engaging and alive than this take on Liberty City, which wound up being as important a character as Niko himself.

This is the new high-water mark for open world games, bar none. Media Molecule's platformer has been hyped since its debut at GDC a few years back, but amazingly, it lived up to and perhaps even surpassed those expectations with flying colors. The included content put together by MM is nothing short of brilliant, featuring some of the most original level and art design we've ever seen.

But when you step over to the creator and have a go at making your own content, that's where things really start to blossom. LittleBigPlanet is an instant classic and a title that no gamer should pass up. Insomniac delivered the first Resistance as the PlayStation 3's uncontested best launch title, and its follow-up was pretty much everything we hoped it would be.

The single-player portion is strong, pushing Nathan Hale's tale to the edge. But the online component was even better, featuring cooperative play for up to eight players and competitive online play for an unheard of on consoles 60 players. The fact that Insomniac was able to contain the chaos and make everything work and run like butter is an achievement in and of itself. No one knows how to make open world RPGs like Bethesda. When we first heard that the studio had picked up the Fallout license and began work on the third installment, dreams of bliss began popping into our heads.

Fortunately, that's exactly what it delivered. The Wasteland was so meticulously crafted and packed with content that gamers are still uncovering new stuff to this day. Scavenging for ammo and cigarette cartons has never been more fun or engaging, which says a lot.

We're still itching to get back to the Wasteland at this very moment. Featuring the new Survival mode and the option to download Challenge Rooms, which put very interesting twists on your abilities from the main game, there are now two more reasons to journey back to Rapture. And if you never played it the first time around, well, now here's your chance to play one of the best titles in recent years. Oh, and with the sequel on its way, you have even more reason to get soaked. One of the most beloved games from the NES made its return this year in a big way.

Acting as something of a refresher for the proper 3D follow-up coming next year, Bionic Commando Rearmed re-imagines the original in a fresh way while keeping its original charm fully intact. The art direction is spot-on, making perfect use of the same designs and color pallets from the original, and the new uses of your bionic arm, like being able to pick up and throw barrels, is put to fantastic use. This is easily one of the best downloadable titles released on any system to date and is a must-have in your collection.

Ubisoft's latest take on the PoP series goes back to its roots, hinted at by its subtitle-less name. Focusing almost entirely on platforming, with battles broken out into their own focused sections, the game is a wall-runner's dream. The art direction is simply stellar, as is the level design.

Its casual-friendly way of handling death in that there really isn't any was an interesting change to the formula, but it helps you get right back to the good stuff - running up a wall, jumping across a gap to hang from a ledge, scurrying around a corner and leaping to grab a jutting bar. Gymnasts welcome. We didn't want to play yet another World War II game, but then we got our hands on Call of Duty: World at War and were sucked back into the mess yet again.

While much of the experience is very reminiscent of Call of Duty 4, that game was so good that playing through a different take on its formula is perfectly A-OK by us. With soldiers who are hell-bent on stabbing you in the neck, dogs that want to eat your jugular for breakfast and none other than Jack Bauer himself lending vocals to the mix, what's not to love?