Spore Creature Creator

Product Features

• Build using 228 drag-and-drop, flexible parts – is it fashion, function, or fashunction?
• Paint with unique patterns, make your creature stand out in a crowd
• Play with your creature as it comes to life with dances, poses, and emotions
• Share using built-in snapshot and video tools—make your creature a star.
• Plays on both PC and Mac

Design Your SPORE Creature

SPORE Creature Creator is a powerful yet easy-to-use creation tool that anyone with a PC and a mouse can enjoy. With a simple drag-and-drop interface, you can assemble your creature from a wide range of parts. How do you feel about tentacles? Why only two eyes? Pull and stretch those parts exactly as you choose, then paint your creature with unique colors and patterns—this truly unprecedented level of flexibility lets you make a limitless number of fun creatures. Bring those creatures to life—see how they dance, strike a pose, and much more. In just a few minutes, anyone can easily make incredible animated creatures. You can share your favorites with friends using simple built-in tools, then visit the SPORE website and look at all the other cool creatures your friends and people all around the world are making—and then pull them into your SPORE Creature Creator and play with them! What you create is entirely up to you—with SPORE, the only limit is your imagination.

	Key Features BUILD using 228 drag-and-drop, flexible parts – is it fashion, function, or fashunction? PAINT with unique patterns, make your creature stand out in a crowd PLAY with your creature as it comes to life with dances, poses, and emotions SHARE using built-in snapshot and video tools—make your creature a star. Creature Creator for SPORE Spore, the highly anticipated game from the creators of The Sims™, gives players their own personal universe in a box. Create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations, sculpt entire worlds and explore a universe created by other gamers. Spore gives players a wealth of creative tools to customize nearly every aspect of their universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even UFOs. Players can then seamlessly share their creations with the world or explore infinite new galaxies created by other gamers.	Create Your Creature View Image Paint with Unique Textures

ER

Product Features

• Based on the top-rated television series ER
• Features voice talent and 3D likenesses of Noah Wyle, Mekhi Phifer, Sherry Stringfield and others from ER
• Simple, yet elegant, strategy role-playing system and controls
• Designed for fans of the TV show and enthusiast gamers alike
• Full real-time 3D environments and characters with 360° camera rotation

Product Description
From the Manufacturer
As the new intern in the ER, you’ve got your work cut out for you. No sleep in 36 hours…you lay down for a well-deserved rest…then the call comes in…There’s been a freeway pile-up with multiple victims. The ambulance is 5 minutes out. You drag yourself up and prepare for the next onslaught. Welcome to the life and death drama that is Chicago’s County General Hospital!

Make the rounds alongside your favorite stars of the Emmy award winning hit TV show. Become part of the drama as you maneuver through the minefield of hospital politics, juggle your personal concerns, and race to save the lives of your patients on your path to prestige.

Key Features:

• Voice talents and likenesses of Noah Wyle, Mekhi Phifer and Sherry Stringfield
• Create your doctor and train in six different fields of medicine
• Unique character management sim / roleplaying gameplay
• Increase your prestige in the hospital by successfully treating patients, maintaining positive relationships and achieving your goals in each of the dramatic and sometimes humorous mission-based episodes
• Immersive gameplay features highly-detailed 3D environments and over 100 unique characters
• Utilize Perks and Special Abilities for the greater good, or just to spite your rivals! Give them as gifts or trade them with fellow staff members to build stronger relationships
• Experience a huge variety of patient disorders and group emergencies both inside and outside of the ER


Product Description
You are the doctor! Emergency Room Code Red, Legacy's latest interactive medical game, combines the best of television drama and realistic gameplay in an unprecedented CD-ROM experience. With all new cases and storylines, Emergency Room Code Red extends the popular Emergency Room series and thought-provoking gameplay. As an ER doctor in a community rife with riots and chaos, you'll confront dramatic emergency cases, use realistic medical tools and procedures, and witness photo-realistic injuries. Every decision is critical. Emergency Room Code Red is perfect for anyone, with or without medical training, who wants to know what it's really like to be a doctor. Time Triggers increase the pressure to perform critical procedures fast - After all, this is an Emergency Room

The Sims 2

Product Features

• Sequel to the hit lifestyle simulation
• Manage your Sim's dreams and fears over a lifetime
• Mix Sim genes and see physical and personality traits inherited down through Sim generations
• Movie-making feature lets you control the camera and capture the action into mini movies
• Also available in DVD Edition

Product Description
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The Sims was one of the most popular games ever made. In it, players micromanage the lives of a family of virtual people, or Sims, and influence their paths toward success or something akin to a nervous breakdown. Its open-ended blend of cartoonish behavior and everyday living is unique in an art form otherwise obsessed with carnage and sports. With The Sims 2, long-time fans now have a deeper game with lots of ways to customize and share their experiences. The game will also attract first-timers because the goal-oriented gameplay and the luridly fun starter families make it easier to get into the action right out of the box.

Now Sims are born with the traits of their parents, families grow, and Sims grow old.

The People in Your Neighborhood
The game starts at the neighborhood level. Here you can create a housing development from scratch or start with one of three premade neighborhoods, each with its own theme. From there, you'll settle on a house and a family of Sims to control.

Create your own Sim (above) or your own house (below) from scratch with advanced tools.

Aside from the basic needs carried over from the previous game, Sims now have aspirations, wants, and fears. The wants and fears are the day-to-day things that occupy their minds, like wanting to see friends or get married and fearing death or being rejected for a kiss. Satisfy their wants, and they become more efficient at completing tasks you assign them. Realize their fears, and Sims become lethargic, cranky, and unresponsive to your commands. Aspirations are the big-picture things, like raising a family, becoming wealthy, and gaining knowledge. Succeed here and you'll be able to buy odd gifts for your Sim to improve his or her life, like a money tree that pays dividends or a "fountain of youth" water cooler.

What Else Is New?

Of course, you wouldn't be able to juggle all that if it weren't for the improved "Free Will" option, which makes it easier for Sims to fulfill their basic needs. The artificial intelligence of the game is noticeably improved; they won't turn on radios just as a family member is going to bed but, strangely, they do occasionally put their dishes on the floor.

Another big change in the series is the concept of the lifespan. Now Sims are born with the traits of their parents, families grow, and Sims grow old. Not only does this go hand in hand with aspirations (growing up is the first aspiration that a baby Sim will have), it provides a limited time with which your Sims can achieve their goals.

The Universal Control Panel helps you manage your Sim family.

A Family Affair
The Sims 2 not only lets you create just about any type of Sim in any type of family, build elaborate houses, and even create a neighborhood from scratch, but it also allows you to start the game in medias res, with premade households. These families all have backstories that are smart spoofs of soap-opera plots--lots of scheming, romance, ghosts, and family fighting. Parents of teens shouldn't worry, though, because nudity is tastefully blurred out and "woo-hoo" between Sims takes place completely under the covers. The ESRB has given this a Teen rating. If The Sims 2 were a film, it would likely land between PG and PG-13.

The makers have included some nice tools to help share the universe you've created. For example, you can capture in-game stills and video to show friends the private moments, family interactions, and house parties of your Sims. You can even package a household to share as a blog or an album on a special Web site.

The Sims 2 is for patient gamers. Like life itself, the game is filled with mundane details, like getting ready for work and doing dishes. The game also demands a level of creativity from its players that the run-and-gun game genres wouldn't know what to do with. But those who stick with it will be rewarded with an absorbing, amusing diversion and a virtual family history that they've created themselves. --Porter B. Hall

Bus Driver

Product Features

• 12 buses to drive, very detailed models inspired by real-world buses.
• 30 routes arranged into 5 tiers with increasing difficulty.
• Multiple duties, such as driving a school bus, transporting tourists, sightseeing tours, and transportation of prisoners.
• High replay value based on sophisticated system of traffic rules and game-play related bonuses.
• Varying time-of-day and weather conditions

Product Description
Have you ever wanted to drive a bus? Now you can with Bus Driver for Windows. Your job is to transport passengers around an attractive and realistic city. You must drive to a timetable on a planned route, while obeying traffic rules, and taking care not to upset or injure your passengers. This makes Bus Driver unlike any other driving game - the experience of driving a bus is very different from blazing through a racing circuit. Bus Driver offers twelve different kinds of buses to drive, an expansive city environment with various districts, and thirty routes with varying weather conditions set at differing times of day.

Large city to drive in, with several districts of varying styles (modern, old-town, suburb, airport, harbor, and more) Living roads, with intelligent traffic controlled by our AI system Non-violent gameplay, bus game suitable for everybody

Minimum System Requirements CPU - 1GHz Pentium III or equivalent RAM - 256MB Video Card - OpenGL 1.3 compatible 64MB AGP with hardware T&L (see compatibility) Hard Disk - 300MB free space Operating System - Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista with DirectX 9 installed

Recommended system - CPU - 1.5GHz Pentium IV or equivalent RAM - 512MB Video Card - OpenGL 1.5 compatible 128MB PCI Express with hardware T&L (see compatibility) Hard Disk - 300MB free space Operating System - Windows XP or Vista with DirectX 9 installed Optional - DirectX compatible soundcard Optional - DirectX compatible gamepad or steering wheel

Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe

Product Features

• Choose to fly for the U.S., England, or the German Luftwaffe in 34 different and unique aircraft
• You'll battle against tough AI-controlled opponents in the European Theatre Of Operations, or form squadrons with friends and go on cooperative missions
• Switch positions between pilot, gunner or bombardier -- or fly in experimental jets that barely made it into combat
• Reactive game world reponds to your presence -- trigger new events, unlock aircraft, and much more
• Fantastic graphic displays with enhanced 3D modeling and textures, with realistic cloud and weather modeling make you feel like you're really 600 ft. in the air

Product Description
Book Description
Anti-aircraft fire blankets you. Blast debris hurls toward your propeller. And you wonder why you didn't join the navy. This ain't no free-flight, cloud-gunner, glory ride. This is ground assault: the real, gritty combat that can make or break a battle, and take your life in one massive explosion. Bombs shatter enemy airfields, trains, and tank columns as you streak across the European countryside in WWII's greatest planes, dodging small-arms fire, gripping your joystick with sweaty palms and white knuckles, pumped with adrenaline-living history.

As a U.S. Army Air Force, Royal Air Force, or Luftwaffe pilot in Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 3 you fly in the historical framework of the tactical air war in northwest Europe starting in mid-1943, but there's a significant difference. The skill and perseverance you and your squadron or Staffel bring to each battle can alter the tactical situation and the timeline of the campaign. This open-ended and flexible campaign means you can influence events, alter history, and extend the timeline to add new technology to your arsenal. How you handle these tactical and technological advantages will determine the outcome.

In Combat Flight Simulator 3, it's 1943, and no one knows what's going to happen.

New features include:

• Enhanced campaign play sends you on involved tactical missions in a campaign where success or failure can move the frontline, influence the quality of equipment available, and even change the outcome of the war
• New collection of 18 aircraft featuring bombers with crews (fly medium bombers and take control of the bombardier or gunner position), stunning 3-D cockpit detail, accurate performance and damage modeling, medium bomber operations, WWII state-of-the-art aircraft (including the first jet fighters)
• Custom graphics engine powers super-high detail ground-attack targets and improved scenery with enhanced 3-D modeling and texturing
• Cooperative multiplayer missions and free-for-all dogfights via the Internet and LAN
• Reactive world: areas of the campaign world will trigger events, spawn aircraft, generate flak, etc. in response to your presence
• Role playing elements: pilots have qualities like Bombing Skill, Vision, and Health
• Strategy: you make decisions that influence how the war is fought, where to put the pressure on the enemy, and what aircraft improvements are crucial to the war effort

D-Day

Product Features

• Play through the following scenarios - the first hours of the Omaha Beach landing, the paratrooper attack on Sainte Mere Eglise, the taking of the Cherbourg harbor, operation Cobra, the battle of the Falaise pocket, the liberation of Normandy in August 1944, and more!
• Over 60 Historically Accurate Units - including rifleman, paratroopers, artillery, tanks, transports, and air support
• During campaigns, you can call in the help of resistant forces to recon landing areas, take advantage of the Allies' air power (bomber, glider, & paratroopers), & more
• Multiplayer mode that uses GameSpy's online Matchmaking network - allowing up to 8 players to play simultaneously on 12 different maps, using 3 different modes
• Game Editor - allows you to create your own multiplayer maps

D-Day is a tactical strategy game that drops you into the role of the World War II Allied forces, during the final drive to liberate Europe. You must successfully plan and execute the turning points of the liberation of Europe, throughout 3 campaigns & 12 missions. The Normandie Memoire committee has given D-Day the distinction of being the official game for the 60th anniversary commemoration of the Normandy landings. Because of this, you'll find strategic charts from the real battles, films from historical archives, as well as veterans' and local inhabitants' testimonies - some of which have never been available before!

Desperate Housewives

Product Features

• Interact with characters from the show - Bree, Gabrielle, Lynette, Susan, Edie and more
• Solve mysteries - sneak through homes, flirt, entertain, charm, and spy your way to the truth
• Gossip with your favorite characters from Wisteria Lane
• Customize your appearance, decorate your house, shop for clothing and more
• Uncover secrets while still running your household - Looking after your family, home and garden

In Desperate Housewives: The Game, you'll live out the lifestyle you've seen&loved on the hit ABC show. You're a new housewife on Wisteria Lane, and as you explore your new neighbrohood you'll discover all-new stories and secrets. The storyline is divided into episodes, each with new points and secrets waiting to be uncovered. Get the truth behind some delicious scandals -- and reveal some shocking secrets of your own. Mini-activities include cooking, gardening, and Texas Hold'em poker with the other wives Features original script from Desperate Housewives writer Scott Sanford Tobis Brenda Strong reprises her role as narrator Mary Alice Young