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THQ Nordic Painkiller Hell And Damnation PS3

In the world of pro skateboarding, there's always some cocky unknown kid coming up from nowhere, bidding to blow away the established stars using sheer outrageous trick-power. In the world of skateboarding video games, Skate was once that new kid on the block - but with Skate 3, it has honed its skills to such a huge peak of perfection that it's now the undisputed master.

So what's it like? 

Format-wise, it's reassuringly familiar - you design your skater (using an awesomely powerful editor), and a logo, then you're unleashed into the fantasy skaters' paradise otherwise known as the city of Port Carverton. Forget reconstructed bits of real cities - Port Carverton is what you'd get if skaters planned cities - it's huge, vertical and diverse, with skate parks galore, the biggest multi-storey car park you've ever seen, a deliciously rusty abandoned shipyard, all manner of overblown architectural features begging to be skated on, plus rails and stairs everywhere. No wonder, then, that it's full of virtual versions of all the world's top skaters - you'll recognise the likes of Ryan Smith, Rob Dyrdek (star of the reality show Rob And Big), Chris Cole, Joey Brezinski, Dennis Busenitz and pretty much all of their peers. Port Carverton is so skater-friendly that even the security guards skate.

No shortage of challenges After an insane intro movie, in which you see the process by which trees become skateboards, your mission begins: to sell as many skateboards as possible by inspiring skaters with your antics. There are vast numbers of challenges which allow you to do this, and of several types. To be specific: Death Race, Film, Hall Of Meat, Own The Lot, Own The Spot, Photo, Pros, Team Promos, Street Contests, Training and Contests. Within those basic categories, there is plenty of variation - in the Pro challenges, for example, you might have to track a pro as he heads to a new spot without falling behind, nail a specific trick on a specific object, or take him on at a game of 1-Up, in which you vie to land the highest-value tricks in a series of timed runs. For us, particular highlights are the Street Contests, which mix highest-value trick sequences with timed jams in which both teams occupy the street-furniture at once, and the vastly improved Hall Of Meat, in which you have incredible fine control over your body positioning once you've bailed, and some awe-inspiring vertical drops from which to break every virtual bone in your body. The Own The Lot challenges, in which you have to pull of lists of specific tricks, are a great test of your skills, too.

Social skating

Skating is a sociable pursuit and, for the first time, Skate 3 reflects that, with a bunch of seriously cool features allowing you to play it with your mates - helping each other out with your career progressions - and against other teams. Even offline, you get to build a skate team as you pass board-sale milestones - or you can draft in your mates to tackle those team challenges together. And you can build a team composed entirely of your online mates. Skate.Feed lets you keep tabs on all your team-mates and rivals, social network-style. And Skate.Create has been expanded - along with Skate.Reel, for capturing your team's exploits on celluloid and Skate.Graphics for defining your team's look, there's an all-new app called Skate.Park, which, as you might imagine, lets you and your homies generate the ultimate skate park.

What else is new?\

Too much to detail here, that's for sure. But there are new tricks to master - notably darkslides and underflips, both of which are very cool indeed. Underflips are when you catch a flip and flip it the other way, and in darkslides, you grind rails with the board upside-down - see you need to flip off the rail in order to land them. Also new is Skate.School, which lets you hone your skills before hitting the streets (under the tutelage of Coach Frank, who looks like a tennis coach but doesn't sound like one).

Skate 3 is massive, meaty and amazing to behold, and there's no doubt that the immaculately conceived and constructed Port Carverton (if it really existed, nobody but skaters would want to live there) takes centre-stage. The two-stick control system is as smooth and intuitive as ever, as you would expect. But one aspect that really stands out is the game's impeccable mixing of the realistic and the fantastic - its tricks are believable and flow naturally from your finger-movements, and thanks to the new online team elements, you really can lead a vicarious virtual skating life. But then there are the aspects which are simply better than real life, such as the hilariously ic Hall Of Meat or the huge ramps and vertical drops which let you take advantage of life-threatening amounts of air. Whether you spend half your life on a skateboard, or just dream of doing so, you will love it.

The definitive skateboarding sim is finally here, with a chance to take your skills - and your friends -online for the ultimate showdown. Already the most realistic skate sim ever, the Skate series returns with its innovative flick-based control system that gives you complete control of your board.

This sequel mixes things up with a whole new city to explore and two new play modes. One makes it easier than ever for first time players to get on board and the other ramps up the difficulty for a truly experience.

As you put together a crew of real friends or in-game pro skaters you can take on challenges wherever you find them, in new co-operative modes like Own The Lot or in competitive classics like the bone-crunching Hall of Meat. And whatever you do you can use the replay editor to record it all and show off about it later.

FIFA Street Essentials Game PS3

PS3 MOTORSTORM PACIFIC RIFT

You can play either as cops or racers, but both sides get ultra powerful cars and a range of power-ups to get them to the race's end. If you're a cop your job is to chase down your quarry using any means necessary, including roadblocks.If you're playing as a racer you'll often be in a slower car than your pursuer, but you won't be tied to any of their rules and get your own powerful power-ups like the radar jammer. With its own in-game social network you don't just get to race online you can live the whole Need for Speed lifestyle with your friends and rivals.

• Police Chase: Play as the cops and see how many racers you can bust, in both single player and online matches, using a range of specialized power-ups.

• Race Driver: Reignite the spirit of Need for Speed as you try to keep ahead of the cops. Use every dirty trick in the book, including power-ups such as a radar jammer.

• Facebook Driving: New Autolog social network lets you track your in-game career and brag about it with others, as personalized challenges are issued depending on your performance.

• Top Gear: Race in some of the most powerful road cars ever made, including the Porsche 918 Spyder, Lamborghini Reventn, and Bugatti Veyron.

• Trusted Source: Developed by Criterion Software, makers of the critically-acclaimed Burnout Paradise - with help from Battlefield developers DICE on the huge open world landscape.

To be Most Wanted, you'll need to outrun the cops, outdrive your friends, and outsmart your rivals. With a relentless police force gunning to take you down, you'll need to make split second decisions. Use the open world to your advantage to find hiding spots, hit jumps and earn new vehicles to keep you one step ahead.In true Criterion Games fashion, your friends are at the heart of your experience. In an open world with no menus or lobbies, you'll be able to instantly challenge your friends and prove your driving skill in a variety of seamless multiplayer events. Your rivals will do everything they can to stop you from getting to the top. In this world, there can only be one Most Wanted.

• Open world action: Lose the cops - your way. Hit jumps and shortcuts, lay low, or shake the cops in surroundings that play to your car's unique strengths. Freedom is everything. Drive anywhere with your friends, discover hidden gameplay or utilize your knowledge of the city to beat them in a never-ending supply of challenges.

• Non-stop multiplayer: Pick a car, hook up with friends and jump into a non-stop playlist of tight, competitive events. No lobby screens means the action never stops. Score big, rank up and earn endless rewards and upgrades. Keep the fierce rivalries going between events with endless opportunities to race, battle and explore in a huge open world.

• Beat your friends: Autolog 2 ratchets up the intense competition with personalized race recommendations and feeds broadcasting all of your most newsworthy scores, speeds and times to your friends. Earn Need for Speed points at all times on any system as you try to outdrive your friends and become the Most Wanted.

• Racing without rules: It's survival of the fastest as Need For Speed: Most Wanted fuses the franchise's, authentic "real car" feel with the intense speed and aggression of Burnout. Power down, slide out, and battle your way past cops and rivals using pure driving skill, and heavy doses of nitrous.

THE VIEW: 'Terraria is an incredible adventure that continually excites your imagination with the endless secrets that await' Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. The world is your canvas and the ground itself is your paint. Grab your tools and go! You can do many things in Terraria: make weapons and fight off a variety of enemies in numerous biomes, dig deep underground to find accessories, money, and other useful things, gather wood, stone, ores, and other resources to create everything you need to make the world your own and defend it. Build a house, a fort, even a castle and people will move in to live there and perhaps even sell you different wares to assist you on your journey. But beware, there are even more challenges awaiting you. Are you up to the task?

Set 50 Years After The Climactic Events Of The Original Red Faction, Red Faction: Guerrilla Allows Players To Take The Role Of An Insurgent Fighter With The Newly Re-Established Red Faction Movement As They Battle For Liberation From The Oppressive Earth Defense Force. Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Defines The Limits Of Destruction-Based Game-Play With A Huge Open-World, Fast-Paced Guerrilla-Style Combat, And True Physics-Based Destruction.

• Enjoy an epic Mars-based Sci-fi setting packed with weapons, vehicles and fully destructible open-world environments to explore.

• Join the Red Faction rebellion led by Alex Mason as the citizens of Mars seek to overthrow the oppressive regime of Earth Defense Force (EDF).

• Carve your path through an ever-changing Martian landscape as you improvise your combat tactics, mixing gameplay styles, vehicles, weapons and explosives.

• Develop a miner's aptitude for destruction, as you use ambushes, chain reaction explosions and a dynamic physics-based system to modify the game environment to your advantage.

• Engage in multiple online multiplayer combat modes supporting 2-16 players where there is no place to hide an your guerrilla warfare skills are the key to victory.

MX vs ATV Reflex PS3

• Dual analog stick controls allow you to control your rider as you power your vehicle independently. Lean in to take tighter turns and higher jumps

• Real-time deformation continuously changes the track beneath you with every lap. Dig up the track and force the competition to carve a new race line.

• New terrain engine provides unprecedented driving surface detail never achieved in any other racing game.

• Flaunt your latest battle scars as truck body panels shatter and break away

• New event specific MX bikes and ATV's as well as newcomers Sport Buggies and Trucks

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Own the competition as you wrestle for position with tightly contested racing in the fifth iteration of the MX vs ATV franchise. Feel the realism of the revolutionary real-world physics engine which has defined the racing genre. Live the sport as Alive captures the spectacle of motocross and the essence of competitive racing while providing the best riders and gear from the latest manufacturers.

• Definitive Realism Experience total control of both rider and bike with easier controls

• An advanced real time deformation continuously changes the track beneath you with every lap

• Wreck avoidance lets you correct collisions and landings to race like a pro

• Elbow to elbow Action Go bar to bar with in your face motocross racing

• Rider to Rider collisions and win/loss conditions through a new bar banging system.Awe inspiring Sports Experience Real riders, real gear, and real licensors.Compete in the Nationals and claim the Motocross Championship le

MX vs ATV: Untamed kicks it up a notch and shifts into high gear as the best selling off-road franchise returns. Rainbow Studios has evolved their legendary Rhythm Racing engine to include throttle based power slides, near upside down whips and new scrubs. Compete in the first ever "X-Cross" tournament, which brings 8 unique racing series and crosses them into one ultimate off-road championship. X-Cross demands players master a variety of powerful vehicles through treacherous trails in the new Open-cross mode, while then shifting gears to navigate boulders, logs, and water pits in Endurocross, and then conquer 6 other championship modes. Players can take control of the new ORV Sport and other vehicles, including Monster and Trophy Trucks, as they blaze through massive environments to determine which vehicle owns the off-road.

• X-Cross - An innovative career mode brings together 8 unique racing series (Endurocross, Opencross, Supercross, Outdoor Nationals, Supermoto, Freestyle, Waypoint, and Minimoto) and crosses them into one ultimate off road championship

• Championship Mode - Earn trophies in 8 individual event championship series and master each unique racing style

• Own the Offroad - The 8 baddest all-terrain machines battle it out to determine which vehicle owns the outdoors

• MX vs ATV Rivalry - Go bar to bar against the top MX and ATV professional riders in SX, Outdoor Nationals, Supermoto, and Freestyle

• Rhythm Racing - Rainbow Studios' revolutionary real world physics has evolved to handle tougher terrain, turns, and weather by introducing an all new "edge of control" power slide, whip, and scrub

• Massive Outdoor Environments - Rip through swampy everglades in a Monster Truck, blitz through rough rivers with a Trophy Truck, and blaze through the desert dunes in the brand new ORV Sport

• Freestyle Challenges - Natural environments provide launching pads that can't be created elsewhere to throw down more than 50 tricks

MX vs ATV Supercross

• 17 Supercross Tracks for both MX and ATV riding

• Career mode with 3 series (250 East, 250 West, 450 Championship)

• More than 80 licensed motocross companies in the game to ensure authenticity

• Over 40 professional riders licensed to race against

• New improved physics and control system including reinterpreting the fan favorite "pre-load"

• Practice/Time Trial Mode

• Multiplayer with up to 12 players

Sleeping Dogs is a gritty and visceral open-world cop drama set in the vibrant city of Hong Kong. Sleeping Dogs catapults players into the role of undercover cop Wei Shen, tasked with taking down one of the world’s most fearsome criminal organizations from the inside... the Hong Kong Triads. As players explore the bustling and crowded Hong Kong island, through its neon-lit side streets and sprawling street markets, an incredible story unfolds of loyalty and betrayal, where Wei begins to question his own motives as he is sucked in deeper than he could ever imagine. Offering players an island packed with action, every street corner, market stall, harbor dock or city skyscraper can become an opportunity for intense shoot-outs, adrenaline-fuelled street races and intense, brutal martial arts combat. Featuring one of the most intuitive and imaginative combat systems, Sleeping Dogs empowers players to perform an extensive set of martial arts moves, single handedly taking on numerous opponents. Players perform bone-crunching kicks and combos, vicious counters and a cinematic set of environmental takedowns making use of countless real-world items from circular saws to phone booths, incinerators to refrigerator doors.

Hannah Montana comes to the big screen in a larger-than-life journey that takes Miley back to her Tennessee roots, and ultimately forces her to choose between the rock star life she loves and the hometown she left behind. In the film, Miley Stewart struggles to juggle school, friends and her secret pop-star persona. When Hannah Montana's soaring popularity threatens to take over her life - she just might let it. So her father takes the teen home to Crowley Corners, Tennessee, for a dose of reality, kicking off an adventure filled with the kind of fun, laughter and romance even Hannah Montana couldn't imagine. Step into the secret dual life of Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana in Hannah Montana: The Movie! Join Hannah Montana and live the rock star life while you get to know Miley Stewart as an ordinary farm girl and explore the world she left back in Tennessee. Customize Hannah and Miley's wardrobes with outfits seen in the movie and more. Journey beyond the movie to complete tasks around Crowley Corners and unlock music, accessories and concert venues. Live the Best of Both Worlds!