MLB 08: The Show
MLB 08 THE SHOW is set to provide fans with the most realistic baseball experience to date with innovations such as a more immersive Road to The Show mode, enabling gamers to play both offense and defense from the created player’s perspective. Providing players with some additional performance incentives, the MLB franchise introduces the Progressive Batting Performance feature, which will both reward players for superior performance and penalize them for hitting slumps. Specific to each individual batter, players will be rewarded with slight contact bonuses, or punished with slight decreases in contact, based on how that batter performs beyond his “natural ability.” MLB 08 THE SHOW introduces SCOUT (SportsConnect Online User Tracking), which allows you to set and store your game preferences on the MLB server, and enables the system to look for a Quick Match with opponents that fits similar competitive criteria. Exhibition Mode/Quick Game - Gamers can select their favorite team and compete against the AI for a quick game on the go Historical Greats - Offers Historical Greats, giving them the opportunity to go against the legends of the past Release Point Pitching with Confidence Meter - The ultimate pitcher/batter interface returns Playmaker Fielding- The fielding interface brings the player attributes together with the user’s skill level Multi-Branch Fielding - Branch Point Technology goes to a new level as gamers can now take full control of fielders and break out of any animation in the process User Controlled Slides - Players can now control base runners in attempts to advance and/or score MLB Authenticity - Presents fans with finer details and nuances that make the game America’s past
List Price: $59.99
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Used Price: $49.95
Customer Review: What HD sports game fans have been waiting for!
Finally, an HD sports game that actually looks like it’s HD and takes advantage of the PS3’s abilities. This is hands down the best sports game to come out for the PS3. Madden fans will be wondering why the hell hasn’t EA come up with something that’s even close to MLB 08 The Show. This game blows the doors off of any other sports game in the graphics department. The game is a bit challenging to learn if you haven’t played it before, it takes a while to learn how to hit. It doesn’t have the zillion jerseys you get with the 2K franchise, but what it lacks in that department, it makes up for visually. Download the demos first from the Playstation store and you’ll see what I mean. It’s like apples and oranges. This game really is worth the 60 bucks. I’d put it up there with Drake’s Fortune. It is that good.
Customer Review: The best baseball game this season
Last year I went for MLB2K7, it was a good game so I was going to buy MLB2K8. Fortunately I saw the reviews first and found out about some problems with it (I also played a demo and I must recognize that the new pitching interface is very interesting, but still neds work). I decided to play safe and went for MLB08, and I am not dissapointed. Nothing revolutionary but a good and strong game. For this season look no further, this is the game to buy.

Alone in the Dark (PS3)
List Price: ?49.99
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Guitar Hero III (3) Huge 40″x22″ Framed Canvas Art Ready To Hang

Half Life: Orange Box
The Orange Box includes all the content of The Black Box for PC, plus the original Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One. Innovative games featured in The Orange Box include Half-Life 2: Episode Two, the second installment in Valve’s episodic trilogy advances the award-winning story, leading the player to new locations outside of City 17, as well as the pioneering type of single-player action game Portal, which rewrites the rules for how players approach and manipulate their environment, and Team Fortress 2 — an all-new version of the legendary title that spawned team based multiplayer action games with a daring new art style features the most advanced graphics of any Source-based game released to date.
List Price: $54.99
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Customer Review: Where are my feet???
There’s a lot to like about half-life 2. I tried playing half-life, but honestly, the frustration on the PC got out-of-hand. The issue wasn’t the PC, the computer is far more powerful than need be, but the issue was with the character moving like he’s on roller skates. Yes, I mean it. When I play Oblivion or Bioshock the screen looks and the movement feels like walking or running, when you play a Half-Life game, it’s like gliding. I would be okay with the “gliding” movement, but when you have to make some careful jumps, or you can fall off an edge you can’t “feel” your feet. I know it sounds weird but the character in Half-Life is just an arm with a gun mounted to a unicycle. So my issue with both games is that it doesn’t feel like human movement, it’s too slick and fast. When you get close up on an enemy and try to center on it the slightest touch to the joy-stick sends your site right past. Now, why do I like HL2? Well, for one, the PS3 control is easier to use for this game than “WASD” config on the keyboard. When playing the PC version I feel like every key stroke just moves the character too fast and too far and there’s no way to slow him down. Also, I like the PS3 has all five games on one disk, that’s lovely, and the quick-save is a must-have. The graphics look lovely through my 42″ Bravia 3LCD via HDMI 1.3 and the 7.1 LPCM sound is fairly intense, though some extra rear ambiance would have added to the experience. A warning, if you have your PS3 plugged into a receiver that does not process LPCM, you will likely get a 2.1 mix for sound. (suggestion, the new STR DG720 Sony is $299.00, excellent 7.1 LPCM playback!) Overall the one thing I can’t get around, no feet! I got stuck between to pipes and had to go back to the last save point, when I look down, no feet? WHERE’S the REST OF ME??? Really, all this work into the game and there’s no dude holding the damn gun. When you walk along a narrow ledge or pipe, he just glides, you look down, no feet, no body, nothing. So my issue with Half-Life 1 & 2 all episodes is that the guy has no feet. It doesn’t matter if your one a pipe, the dirt or concrete he moves exactly the same, like a wheel on a flat surface. To me, in a game like this control is everything to gameplay and when I feel like the character can’t be controlled gameplay is diminished. Also, a not to game developers: Could you please let us program the controller like we can the Keyboard and Mouse? Really? Please? I want to be able to look with the right and move with the left, but all the left axis does is strafe left and right, not turn. I hate this!!! I don’t need it to strafe! I want to be able to turn and look separately and not use to sticks just to move! All and all, an okay game, but I think enough issues to say that it could have been so much better.
Customer Review: Super great title for PS3!
If you have a PS3, then you need The Orange Box. Halflife has always been a favorite of mine, and since my computer stoped running it, I was very excited to get it on my PS3. The rumors that the critics and 360 fanchildren say about the framerate being bad and it having horible load times are complete lies. The framerate runs at a constant 30FPS which is what the game is designed to run on. I’ve only noticed a few, and I mean VERY few dips in the framerate. And as far as the load times go, if you can’t wait 10-15 seconds for a game to load, then perhaps you should not be playing video games. Halflife 2 and the other 2 episodes runs better on my PS3 than they did on my old PC. Also, Portal is one of the most inovative games out there, a must try. As far as Team Fortress goes, I don’t have my PS3 online so I can’t give a review on that, but I’ve heard its really good. Hands down this is one of the best titles for the PS3 to date. If you are an old Halflife fan, or a first person sci-fi fan then this game is for you!

Mad Catz NFL-AZC088561/04/1 Officially Licensed NFL Wireless Controlle
The Mad Catz NFL-AZC088561/04/1 Officially Licensed NFL Wireless Controller for PS3 - Arizona Cardinals Featuring unique quick-fire triggers, analog joysticks and a razor-sharp precision 8-way-D padErgonomic design and grips Lag-free 2.4GHz wireless signalPowered by 2 AA batteries
Price: $39.95