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The video game Iron Man is based on the film of the same name as well as the classic iterations of the character.  The game is published by Sega, and was released on Playstation 3, Xbox 360 (developed by Secret Level), Playstation 2, Playstation Portable, Nintendo DS, Wii, PC (developed by Artificial Mind and Movement) and Mobile Platforms.  It features the voices of Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, and Saun Toub, reprising their roles from the movie.

The enemies are Advanced Idea Mechanics, the Maggia and the Ten Rings terrorist group.  The super villians in the game includes Blacklash, Controller, Titanium Man, Melter, and Iron Monger. 

As the game starts, Tony Stark is kidnapped by the terrorist group Ten Rings, who orders him to build a missile for them.

The video game Soulcalibur IV is the latest installment in Namco’s Soul series of fighting games, and was released on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.  

Character Creation from Soul Calibur III  returns in Soul Calibur IV.  Instead of including original weapon styles for use with certain classes of fighters, Soul Calibur IV now only allows players to simply choose which character from the series they would like to have their created character mimic (excluding Algol, bonus characters, and the Star Wars guest characters).

Armor, weapons, and accessories may increase health, attack or defense; they may also grant skill points that allow the character to equip special traits that affect the character’s playstyle.  These traits range from automatically triggered guard impacts, the ability to cause damage against a blocking opponent, or even a stat increase based on parameters such as an opponent’s alignment or gender.

Soul Calibur IV features an all-new Critical Finish system.  Next to a player’s Health Meter is a colored gem that represents the “Soul Gauge”.  The gem changes color when the player guards and is attacked.  The color gradually changes from blue to green and eventually to red and then flashing red.  The player’s own Soul Gauge will regenerate if he or she makes an attack and hits the opponent (guarding or otherwise).  If the character manages to empty out the opponent’s Soul Gauge, he or she will get a short chance to perform a powerful Critical Finish move, which will defeat the opponent instantly, by pressing all four face buttons at the same time after the player destroys a piece of armor or breaks the opponents guard.  Each character has his or her own personal Critical Finish move.

A lot of people fret over what to get their friends and family for any major gift giving event. And it can be particularly intimidating to try to find the perfect gift for a teenage boy. Whether he’s your brother, son, nephew, or grandchild, let’s be honest—teenage boys are notoriously difficult to please. It seems like they always fall in one or more categories. Either they are disinterested in everything, or they already have everything. This makes the thought of giving them a gift particularly unappealing. But thankfully, in the age of technology, there’s a tried and true fallback gift.

Now that everyone is so dependent on technology and so connected to their electronic devices, just look into any number of entertaining electronic products. If they are always talking or texting on a cell phone, look into cell phone accessories, or if you’re really generous, an entirely new phone. And if they are always connected to their video game console, just pick up one or several top video games. Just make sure you always save the receipt or give a gift receipt, just in case the teenage recipient has already been given that particular video game.

The video game F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is a horror first-person shooter video game, developed by Monolith Productions and published by Warner Bros, for Microsoft Windows, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360.  It is a sequel to F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon. 

F.E.A.R. 2 does not allow the player to manually save and features a single save slot.  However, the game allows the player to replay any level from the main menu after first completing that level.

The second heart-stopping shooter by Monolith (after F.E.A.R.) continues the spine-tingling supernatural suspense story of an escalating paranormal crisis that threatens to destroy a major American city.  At the center of the calamity is the mysterious Alma, whose rage against those who wronged her triggered a chain of events that has spiraled completely out of control.  Now that she has been loosed upon the world, the consequences will be unimaginable.

You must utilize the world interaction enhancements to create instant cover or remove obstacles.  The game include iron sight aiming, creating cover by pushing objects, and the ability to use mechs during vehicle segments.  You can play with and against friends in multiplayer competition.  Enhanced graphics engine takes action horror to new heights through enhanced visuals and effects.  Enemies behave realistically and use the environment against you through vastly enhanced enemy.  Artificial Intelligence maintains the authenticity of the Alma storyline.

The video game Resistance: Retribution follows the story of British Royal Marine James Grayson in the weeks following the destruction of the Chimeran tower in London at the end of Resistance: Fall of Man.  

After being forced to kill his brother Jonny inside a Chimeran conversion centre, James suffers a violent nervous breakdown.  He goes around and destroys 25 conversion centers before he is caught and is imprisoned, awaiting execution for desertion of the Armed Forces.

The European resistance – the Maquis – enlist Grayson’s help, and he joins Cartwright and Parker in Operation Overstrike to retake the European continent from the Chimera.  Grayson immediately embarks on a vendetta to eliminate every conversion centre he can find to avenge his brother.  He plans to destroy the Chimeran Tower once they have eliminated every conversion centre in Europe.  However, he learns that the Chimera have evolved a new method of converting humans in Western Europe.

The video game Suikoden Tierkreis is a traditional console role-playing game where the player must navigate through three-dimensional environments and complete story-based objectives to advance the narrative. 

You play as a young boy from the border village of Citro.  You must gather the combined forces of 108 heroes and defeat a powerful villian known as The One King, leader of The Order of the One True Way, who seeks to control the world by spreading his doctrine that all fate is predetermined and all people have no control of their lives.

As a member of a peacekeeping group, it’s your job to protect the village from bandits and monsters.  Your adventure begins as you and your fellow peacekeepers head out on a monster expedition.  While exploring the mountains near your village, you come upon a strange light, which marks the start of the story.

The video game Killzone 2 follows the events of Killzone and Killzone: Liberation, and entirely takes place on the planet Helghan, the home-world of the Helghast, who invaded an Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (ISA) colony.

Two years after the Helghast assault on Vekta, the ISA is bringing the fight to the enemy’s home world of Helghan.  Taking the role of Sev, the battle-hardened veteran of the special forces unit known as the Legion, players will embark upon a mission to the planet Helghan to capture the Helghast leader, Emperor Visari, and bring the enemy’s war machine to a halt.  For Sev and his squad, the invasion of Helghan is just the beginning.

Tasked with securing Pyrrhus, the Capital City, the team quickly discovers that the Helghast are a formidable enemy on their home planet.  Not only have they adjusted to the planet’s hostile conditions, they have also harnessed a source of power from the environment that can be used against the ISA.  Sev and his team soon discover the fight is greater than simply addressing the enemy forces; the Legion must also learn how to handle the effects of the fierce enemy planet.

Characters include Sergeant Tomas “Sev” Sevchenko, the main character and part of the ISA Special Forces Alpha Team; Corporal Dante Garza - a member of the ISA Special Forces Alpha Team; Sergeant Rico Velasquez - a veteran of the ISA; Corporal Shawn Natko - the demolitions expert for the ISA Special Forces Alpha Team;  Colonel Jan Templar - the commander of the ISA fleet and the cruiser ‘New Sun’; Emperor Scolar Visari - the leader of Helghast forces and ruler of Helghan planet; and Colonel Mael Radec - the commander of the Helghast Imperial Guard.

Left 4 Dead is a co-operative survival horror first-person shooter video game.  It is an epic struggle between survivors and zombie-like aggressive infected people.

There are three game modes: a single player mode in which allied characters are controlled by artificial intelligence (AI); a four-player, co-op Campaign mode; and an eight-player Versus mode.  In all modes, an AI, dubbed “The Director”, controls level pacing and item spawns. 

The game is experienced through four campaigns that take place in various urban and rural locales.  Each campaign is divided into five chapters marked by safe rooms, which are checkpoints where players can heal, re-arm and revive players who were killed.  Specifically, the four campaigns are: “No Mercy”, an urban setting culminating in a hospital; “Death Toll”, a small-town and countryside setting; “Dead Air”, an airport setting; and “Blood Harvest”, a woodland and farm setting.

There are four playable human characters in the game: Francis, a tattoo-covered biker; Zoey, a college student and horror movie enthusiast; Louis, a junior systems analyst in his company’s IT department; and Bill, a former Green Beret and a Vietnam veteran.  

Weapons that the survivors can use include a M1911 pistol, an Uzi submachine gun, a pump-action shotgun, a M16A2 assault rifle, a Benelli M4 Super 90 semi-automatic shotgun, and a scoped Ruger Mini-14 hunting rifle.  

Alpha Protocol is an upcoming third-person action role-playing video game, developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by SEGA.  The game will be released in February 2009 for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.  

The game revolves around the adventures of rookie CIA field agent Michael Thorton.  After a mission goes awry, Michael Thorton is cut off from all of his contacts and betrayed by his superiors and is being hunted by the United States government.  In response, Michael uses the ”Alpha Protocol”, though it is normally reserved for more senior agents, and begins to operate undercover, to uncover the conspiracy.

The tools at the player’s disposal include numerous firearms, hand to hand combat using American Kenpo and spy gadgets.  Players also earn Advancement Points, which can be placed into any of the ten different skills in the game.  These skills will increase Thorton’s ability to use certain weapons and grant different abilities to him.  These abilities are free to use, but require a “cooldown” period before they can be used again.

Alpha Protocol has a hub structure, in which Thorton must utilize safe houses in each of his hub cities in order to lay low between missions.  From a safe house, Thorton can change clothing, access a weapons locker, telephone contacts, and attempt missions.

Thornton will be encountering different characters throughout his missions and depending on his specific reactions to them will determine the bigger picture in the long run so who he aligns with will be particularly tricky since he does not want to let a bad guy go free!

Dead Space is a third-person survival horror-action video game, developed by Electronic Arts for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and PC and released in October 2008.

The player takes on the role of an engineer named Isaac Clarke, who battles a polymorphic, virus-like, alien infestation which turns humans into grotesque alien monsters called “Necromorphs”, on board a stricken interstellar mining ship named USG Ishimura.

Information is relayed to the player via holographic projections, which hover over or in front of Isaac’s weapons and suit; his armor also plays as an indicator, the ‘health meter’ which is integrated into his spine of his armor indicates how much life he has left which ranges from red (indicating low/critical), yellow (half) and blue (full or near-full).

Weapons in the game are mostly improvised from mining tools, such as a plasma cutter, a hydrazine torch used as a flamethrower, a force cannon emitting powerful shock waves, and a triple-barreled automatic military rifle.