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• Solve elusive puzzles and enlist the help of others as you uncover secrets left buried since the original Myst
• Travel to rich and vital worlds and enjoy astonishing new visuals, opulent landscapes and live-action cut scenes that advance the plot
• Record your discoveries – Capture clues by taking photographs of the Myst environments, and keep an in-game journal
• New multi-layered help system lets players bring along a guide to ZIP your around the island and provide illuminating flashbacks
• Original soundtrack by Peter Gabriel

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Myst IV: Revelation is the final chapter in the best-selling computer adventure ever published. Travel through environments that pulse with life, as you unearth a treacherous scheme involving two of Myst’s most sinister villains. Solve the challenging puzzles carefully consider your options… and attain the Revelation…. More >>

Myst IV: Revelation

• From Tony Stark¿s base of operations, direct R&D efforts and prepare for your selected mission by building and customizing your suit and weaponry
• Accomplish super heroic deeds and battle epic villains as large as skyscrapers while in the maelstrom of a global crisis
• Feel the impact of Iron Man¿s weaponry. Blow holes through walls and bring down huge enemy structures and vehicles.
• A unique story crafted by renowned MARVEL comic writer Matt Fraction brings you into Tony Stark¿s world with new locations, scenarios and villains.

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Suit up and take to the skies again. This brand-new story thrusts you deep into the Iron Man comic world adding to the excitement of the upcoming Iron Man 2 movie. Battle epic enemies, like the classic Iron Man villain Crimson Dynamo, only featured in the game. In this original story penned exclusively for the game by renowned Iron Man comic writer Matt Fraction, billionaire playboy and tech genius Tony Stark gifts the world with new technology in order to make it… More >>

Iron Man 2

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• Action-comedy with hilarious, sprawling, and mind-busting storyline crafted by TV show’s Emmy Award-winning writers
• Full cast of voice actors from the TV show and movie lend to the ultimate authenticity and realism of the game
• Play as all members of your favorite dysfunctional TV family as you battle to save them from video-game purgatory
• Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa use exciting, all-new powers to save the world from rising chaos
• Journey through all of Springfield, vanquish an array of villains, and fight through parodies of multiple popular games

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The Simpsons Game X360 This is the first time you can play through a new season of the Simpsons. The Simpsons Game features a hilarious, sprawling, and mind-busting storyline crafted by the TV show’s Emmy Award-winning writers. In this action-comedy, the full cast of voice actors from the TV show and movie reprise their roles to lend the ultimate in authenticity and realism to the game. In The Simpsons Game, Homer, Marge, Bart,and Lisa use exciting, all-new powers t… More >>

The Simpsons Game

During  the time I have been playing video games, I have played  some really under rated games. Games that made me almost want to kick myself  for investing  time and money in them.

And with that said I am here to tell you that  if you have invested in video games such as Zubo and Avalon Code for the Nintendo DS, they are not bad games, just maybe a little misunderstood.

Take Zubo, for example. It’s a light RPG with a difference. It is stylus driven. But if you have played The Legend Of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, that too, is stylus driven. And in Zubo, you, the hero literally crash into a place known as Zubalon.

Furthermore, just like any RPG, the object here is to defeat villains or Zombos in this case,  solve puzzles and rescue and collect other Zubos (55 in all) in order to set things right in the land of Zubalon.

You also get to choose the gender of your hero when the game starts. I chose to play as a girl because, you know, I am a girl. But maybe in my second playthrough I will play as the boy just for fun.

While your hero does not do any of the fighting, your Zubos do. And each of them come equipped with their fighting skills and abilities. You fight the Zombos to the tune of music and if you tap the touch screen in time when the outlines meet around your Zubo, you can score  a high hit rate on the enemy.

Now prior to playing Zubo, I read lots of reviews about the game. Reviews that I found to be a little harsh. But having invested about two hours into it, I found Zubo to be entertaining, engaging and not as bad as the reviewers said it could be.

All right, so maybe it’s not a Final Fantasy epic. But it does come with beautiful 3D graphics,  great music and sound effects and has ten worlds for you to explore and conquer.

In addition, you also make full use of the Nintendo DS functions in the game. For instance, in one scenario, you might find yourself blowing cobwebs to clear the way in the Horror House.

Or you might also have to  shout out something in the system’s microphone to wake up someone, or a Zubo.

I am glad I did not pass up Zubo for the Nintendo DS. I like it. And I know most of us avid RPG fans have been spoiled by the Final Fantasy series of video games, but maybe the Final Fantasy games  should not be the measuring stick by which all other  RPGs should be judged.

Up next. Another misunderstood game for the Nintendo DS that came out in 2009. That game is Avalon Code.