Sports Games

This game was the long awaited sequel the blockbuster, smash hit, Skate. When this game was announced that it would be coming soon for the Xbox 360, I got all tingly inside with anticipation. And, after having a chance to spend a few hours behind the controller checking out this game and what it has to offer, I must say that Skate 2 does not disappoint in the slightest bit, seriously!

The game takes place in a brand new, virtual city, New San Vanelona. After being destroyed a few years back, the city has been rebuilt. Now you must restart your career and help to bring back the local skate scene to where it once was in this great city. And you will have about double—several hundred at least—new tricks that you can learn and implement during game play.

This game offers unparalleled graphics, fast loading times, lighting quick frame rates and some of the best rendering that you will ever see in an Xbox 360 game. Read more

A Creation of Yuke's Media Creations and THQ, WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007 for the Xbox 360 is actually one of the best wrestling games that I have ever laid my grubby paws upon the controller over. The graphics are the best part of the game, by far, and are smooth, fluid, realistic and sick. The frame rates are fast, and the high definition vibes that the graphics exudes are simply hard to top, especially considering that this game was released in 2007. While the online play is glitchy and hampered by poor servers and the bandwidths of whomever you are challenging that day, the rest of the game is more ripped than Sly Stallone when he played Rambo.

You can play as any of your favorite wrestlers from the entire WWE roster, and this time around they don’t like plastic molds. Read more

This game was touted as the most expansive and inclusive soccer title ever, but in the end fails to delivered anything more than the lauded 259 teams that they boasted during the pre launch phases of this game. You will almost never hear this blogger bashing EA Sports because they tend to bring to use the best sports games ever made for the next generation consoles; Madden, NCAA, and so forth. However, with regards to UEFA Champions League 2006-2007 this is entirely not the case!

This game does have a few nifty features, however. You can choose from all 259 teams worldwide, and there are about fifty other side missions that you can complete in the team managerial modes. However, if you screw up too many missions, you will get fired and have to start all over again. The graphics are okay, but the controls need some vast improvement. Read more

There has been seemingly a great lacking of good boxing games for the Xbox 360 gaming console. Ask me why, and I really cannot tell you because I don’t know. I myself was never the biggest fan of boxing video games, but I have dabbled in them from time to time—enough to know that for a long while there were not very many boxing games were that all that great for the Xbox 360. That was, of course, until EA Sports released Fight Night Round 3, which changed the way that I thought about boxing games on the next generation consoles.

Fight Night Round Three is actually a rather intense game that is filled to the brim with superlatives. You begin as a character that you can create which is essentially a rookie that has poor boxing skills. You will have to train your character, via training modes, and add skill points to them in order to even get them to the point where you will be able to go six rounds without hitting the floor. Read more