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When all you can think of is transforming your car or probably every other car around into a pimped out piece of art than you should maybe first try your hand at the Pimp My Ride game. Based on the immensely successful MTV show of the same name this game tries to get into the same groove and spirit as the show.

It features Xzibit who guides you through all the stages and the actual pimping process. Ghostride and Race through the alleys and dusty streets of Pimp City to raise cash in order to buy parts for the cars you have to customise. The Pimp my Ride PSP game features a couple of minigames like driving past some street kids and while you pass them you have to press a certain buttons in a sequence to send them squealing in a convulsive sprint towards wherever they came from. This automatically earns you some cash and when you have enough all you have to do is go to a customer with a terrible looking broken down ride. There are a total of 16 cars in the game that need to be customised. It features a bunch of nice hip hop tunes though the fact that they are few in number and are repeated quite often through out the game it turns quite annoying.

Now comes the shoddy part, the car controls are quite useless, you don’t do anything in the game except ride from one point to another and apart from the rapper Xzibit’s voice over all the other voice acting is completely silly with less than stellar unoriginal dialogue. The game could use a massive overhaul in every sphere and the fact that at the price it’s selling you have to be more than just a die-hard fan of this franchise to buy it for your PlayStation Portable.

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This is a simulation game which comes with steep learning curve. The PSP game features a lot of parameters and parts. The giant fighting robot can be customized and pitted against your friends as you play the multiplayer option.

Awesome firepower and metal is what comes to our mind when we start playing Armored Core: Formula Front Extreme Battle. This game from publishers 505 Games plays surprisingly well on the handheld. This game is in depth with a mech management filled with heavy stats.

As a player, you are in charge of a rookie team. The team consists of armored core or AC units numbering five. In order to equip yourself to square off with other mechs in the Formula Front, a futuristic sport, you assemble these AC units and tune them like an architect. As a player, you find yourself spending most of your time in the garage assembling the units with various parts and weapons.

You have to keep in mind various aspects as you build your robot. These include the mobility, heat, weight and energy output. One of the funnest parts of Armored Core: Formula Front - Extreme Battle is balancing the six different AC unit stats. Weapon targeting and radar disruption can be used to resist electronic countermeasures for the AC unit such as the cooling, energy supply, mobility, defensive power, attack power and VS ECM. By balancing all these effectively, it is possible to obtain an overall good rating.

It is possible to tune each AC unit for a specific purpose. As you go for a match, it is possible to study your opponents and determine the extent of their skills before choosing the appropriate AC machine for use.

When the AC machine’s basic structure is ready, it has to be equipped with weapons. Players are offered a wide range of weapons such as the sniper rifles, shotguns, rocket launchers, machine guns, plasma cannons and energy blades. For maximum efficiency, it is important to select the right weapon depending on your AC machine’s capability. Battles themselves are set in different venues and last for just about three minutes.

Excellent graphics add to the enjoyment of the game and you can have hours of fun tuning AC machines in the garage and competing in battles on your favourite Playstation Portable.

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‘Pocket Racers’ is an exciting car racing game which provide quite a bit of challenge for players. There are a variety of sports cars to choose from and tracks are also set with challenging levels of difficulty.

Story involves an evil magician who comes to your home to change all your friends ready to go to a party into miniature cars. As a player, you combat and challenge this wizard by racing along the house. Only if you manage to win the race by crossing the finish line first will you be able to successfully save the souls of your transformed friends.

At a time, around four cars can race around the fiery furnaces, freezers in the kitchen and sinks in the bathroom. Players race along the indoor scaffolding and stairs in frenzy. On track objects are laid at a random pattern obstructing your progress. There is no sense of realism or consistency, however, in the household objects placed on the tracks at intervals.

Cars come with different attributes such as handling, weight, acceleration and speed. Physics lacks in focus as jumps result in clumsy skidding of cars on their sides. Winning races in Pocket Racers PSP seems to be based more on luck than driving skills. While you race along on the tracks, you can pickup weapons such as a shield, freeze bolts, lightning bolts and rockets. You can obstruct the progress of your opponents with the help of the lightning attacks which can blow up the objects along the track side.

As you win races, you can capture the soul gems to retrieve the souls of your friends. In the practice mode, you can run your car on a time trial to practice your skills. Once you complete races at the bronze level, you move on to conquer the silver and gold levels. Online modes include the domination, soccer and race mode which you can play with one or more of your friends.

Cars are attractive with a wide range of variety. Good visuals make up for lack of frame rate. Sound track is techno flavoured and quite good. Pocket Racers for the PlayStation Portable is on the whole quite a good racing experience for the budget price.

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Need For Speed Carbon: Own the City brings you the same type of exciting races filled with lots of adventure and action we all know and love from other NFS games. The PSP version of this title is slightly different as compared to the PlayStation 2 and other console’s version, but the basic game play and theme is the same. Need For Speed Carbon: Own The City is basically a revengeful sequel to its last part in which you and your brother, Mick, face a vicious enemy during a hardcore street race who that delivers a fatal accident to both of you. Consequently you are left in a prolonged state of amnesia and Mick is dead.

Now, after six months you are again on your feet and join the car gang again to figure out the guy who killed your brother and ruined your career. In this mission the Mick’s ex-girlfriend Sara will be assisting you. Her soul too is full of agony and revenge. Now it’s up to you to co-ordinate with her in the best possible manner and re-gain the pride and honor for yourself, Sara and Mick by pressing the accelerator of your car.

The environment, racing platform and the graphics details are worth watching. Like the other NFS versions the Carbon: Own The City also offers true to life racing experience with action packed sequences. As far as psp games are concerned, the Need for Speed series is among the best racing experience out there, and this title more than lives up to that legacy. The missions are fairly satisfying as the AI of your competitors is sharp enough to understand your moves and reacting to it proactively. Apart from your hunt for the main villain you will also face some other arrogant racers who will challenge you on the spot and yes, this time also you have to keep a distance from the cops who never treat the street racers with humanity in any case. As far as the dynamism is concerned, Own the City did not have much to offer. Although you will be exposed to a number of standard circuit, sprint, and knockout races there is a little variety in the types of events. Overall, if you are a NFS fan then you must get it on your Playstation Portable.

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Dynasty Warriors is one of those gaming series that never die. New games come out as you get older, and it’s always a pleasure to play. Now venturing into the PlayStation Portable, the Dynasty Warriors Volume 2 provides some improvements over its predecessors to bring the fans some fine gaming.

As expected, the PSP version is a smaller, cut down version of the console version. The console versions of Dynasty Warrior had such large levels that took a long time to complete even on horseback, providing great levels of detail during those epic battles that take place. Well, considering the hardware limitations, the PSP version has been cut down into a board game style of playing, with missions becoming smaller and fights in mini arenas with just a few hundred enemies.

Killing everyone isn’t the point here, as the clock is still ticking, and finishing faster is better. So advancing from one section really relies not on killing everyone there, but rather on finishing key goals quickly, like taking out the leader of the enemies, or just demoralizing the opposing army. Battles range from a minute or two for small ones, and up to six for large ones.

Battles against the scrubs of the army can get boring and repetitive, as most soldiers don’t even fight back, and just wait to be taken out. The battles against leaders and officers, however, are more spaced out, putting those combos to good use.

Other notable changes from the old game are that you can now pick our horse, but that isn’t much of a deal right? Morale is given more importance, which can really speed up battles, by demoralizing soldiers by taking out their leaders or officers.

Dynasty Warriors Volume 2 lives up to the expectations of the fans to some extent. Though there are some areas in which Dynasty Warriors 2 lags behind, it’s still a good improvement over the previous title. It’s basically a great hack ‘n slash for those looking to just kill some mindless pawns. The game will definitely keep you occupied for a lot of time, but without much variety.

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The field of gaming is flooded by games that handle puzzles and mathematical complexities. These games are widely suggested by parents for the growth of their children’s mental abilities. There are many highly complex ones too. These are opted for by people who are more inclined towards reasoning and logical thinking. Zendoku is a game with the functionalities of a puzzle, developed by Zoonami. The game is published by Eidos Interactive for the Nintendos and PSPs.

The history of China and Japan popularly speaks about a mathematical game called Sudoku. This game involves solving of a mathematical puzzle and arriving at the right grid of answers. Zendoku is an innovation on the ancient Sudoku, providing a slight combative experience. The players are supposed to use symbols than the usual numbers. The players also get an option to choose their characters and attack or defend against the opponent. Prior to the stages of attacks, the player should pass through mini games by filling numbers.

The most attractive feature of Zendoku is the theme. There can never be an expectation of such a theme for a refined version of Sudoku. Zendoku maintains a ‘light-hearted martial’ arts theme throughout the game and manages to hold the interest of the user. The real attacking experience of the game includes blowing obstacles away, spin vault handles, blocking punches, etc. The character set used in the game is also exciting. The ranges of characters include ninjas, samurais and much more, with their own story line and special abilities. The reputation of the character could be boosted by defeating progressively stronger opponents.

The Attack box contains a series of attacks to be unlocked by the player upon his progress in the game. The wireless mode in the PSP will enable multi player in Zendoku. The puzzle generator of the game will never run out of puzzles and the outcome is infinite. The well spun storyline of the game, progressive learning curve and the innovative idea will ensure a good standing for Zendoku in the gaming industry. It is an excellent advancement of the addictive Sudoku.

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The Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force 2 is yet another successful release from Konami. The earlier versions of the game have been widely recognized for its exciting features. The game is highly challenging and will test the adrenaline of the player in every level. The game includes battles through the myths and mechanics of various layers and reaching the success point. The mistakes committed in the game can make it really complex and difficult to finish.

The game has already gained fame based on the top-rated Yu-Gi-Oh! GX series from Cartoon Network. The Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force 2 is a combat version of the original series for the PSPs. The game is initiated at the Duel Academy and the Tag Duel Tournament is the most important event of the year. The tournament has participants from all around the world and they are highly competitive. The tournament will have hundreds of teams with two members each.

The player will be introduced in to the Duel Academy as a single. He has to explore the academy and find the perfect partner for himself. After doing so, the team gets to face its opponents. The team has to exhibit their fighting skills to pull it to the next level. The additional features of the game include more cards than ever before, and new cards and new deck recipes could be added and used. The Ad Hoc feature of the game enables the multiplayer option. Many exciting add on could be downloaded for the PSP and the game could be made more challenging.

However, the critics say that there was not much of work involved in developing the PSP version of the game. It was just a copy of the previous version. Lots of comments have been made on the complexity of the game. The game consumes more time in the player understanding it. Beginners should sit through long tutorials or read through pages of help menus to get hold of the basics. But once the game captures the interest of the player, it becomes a part of the everyday gaming schedule.

(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

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Luxor: Pharaoh’s Challenge is one of the products of the latest boom in the market of casual games. A number of companies have in fact capitalized on the flash game addicts in the market tweaking their hardware enough to provide them with loads of casual games.

Luxor: Pharaoh’s Challenge is a game along the mumbo jumbo lines designed around receptive hardware. Game play is extremely simple and accessible. Even those who are new to gaming find this easy to play and entertaining. This game in fact scores well as a casual game on the PSP.

Being at a beginner level, this game may not be ideal for those experienced and advanced gamers. Progression in the Luxor Pharaohs Challenge PSP version is pretty limited. One of the interesting tales here is about a Songstress. She is explained to about a person’s heart being weighed by a feather. As the heart purifies and reaches the feather light weight, the person is taken to a blissful afterlife. You go along the game and collect points enabling you to slowly climb the ladder to reach the strength of the power ups which are random.

Collecting bonus levels puts you in the middle of a snake puzzle action. Here you get do various things including destroying the balls and breaking little things with arrows. All this adds to your challenge and fun as you are the one controlling the snake.

As you compete and overcome challenges and finish at least ten levels without losing your life, you get to unlock badges makes this a value priced game.

Mediocre challenge is offered throughout this game reiterating the fact that this will not offer any fun or entertainment for those looking for mind numbing challenges. If you are a beginner to the gaming field and looking for fun and a little challenge along the way, Pharaoh’s Challenge is the right game for you. With pretty backgrounds and interesting story lines, the sound track complements the scene with lilting and melodious sound track.

Enjoy some hours of great gaming and excitement with the Luxor: Pharaoh’s Challenge on your favorite PSP.

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For those who love puzzles, Cube is the game for you to some interesting and quality time on your PlayStation Portable. There is enough content with more than 135 levels to keep you busy for hours. Levels are of different difficulty levels and very challenging and interesting.

You have the level editor to assist you and you can choose the ad hoc multiplayer mode to play the game with friends. Though it is not very difficult to find the keys, the trick is to race against time by reaching the exit after collecting them.

Cubes are transparent and can move about in all directions. There is a solid block on one side of the cube connected to it. The cube can be effectively moved on all sides of the block, as there is no gravity.

The first level provides you with the target or goal of reaching the exit panel. Finding the exit channel within the time frame is pretty challenging as they are skillfully hidden behind hazards and barriers or even floating somewhere on a block which is disconnected and far away.

Barriers can be made to retract by hitting at a switch. This also creates new blocks in order to create a pathway to reach the exit panel. Though a puzzle game, Cube is not really a mind teaser like Hot Brain, instead the difficulty lies within trying to navigate to the exit panel. Moreover, certain other levels require you to reach the exit panel by navigating through a path, which is made of cubes connected to each other, in order to reach your goal.

You have to be aware and skillfully avoid being crushed by certain hazards including quicksand, mines which are rolling or blocks which are on the move, etc. Challenge is enhanced by the fact that these hazards are not easily detectable as they are difficult to perceive. You have to be quick enough to rotate your camera around the block in order to have a better angle of view.

You will take anywhere between ten seconds and ten minutes to successfully clear a level and move on to the next. Once you execute all your moves perfectly and achieve your goal, you are awarded with a gold medal. Have endless hours of fun playing this exciting puzzle game on your PSP.

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In an attempt to provide an interesting puzzle game, Capcom has gifted a wonderful piece of work to the PSP. Capcom’s combined efforts with the developer Sensory Sweep have given us a great puzzle game that includes a set of five.

The Capcom Puzzle World is basically a set of fighter games, full of adventure and thrill. Along with the Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, the set also includes the two new modes that make it even more entertaining. Basically designed for fun-loving gamers, Capcom Puzzle World (PSP) allows players to create different patterns, like custom attacks, along with controlling the characters or rather fighters.

The game offers an option of personalized content and a screenshot mode, giving it more exceptional features. You can also unlock bonus content, as well as customize the Buster Bros. collection. Moreover, it is the first PSP game that allows you to take snap shots at any moment by stopping the game in between. Then there is ‘Block Block’ that is an all new concept for a block genre.

However, the key differences between the previous modes and the Capcom Puzzle World are evident. Buster Buddies launches ultimate characters while the Super Buster Bros. The game introduces a long-lasting panic mode as well. The challenging games are altered to fit the PSP screens. The music is also very catchy and leaves no room for boredom, but rather completely captures your attention in managing the awesome creatures while solving puzzles.

The Super Puzzle Fighter II version is especially appealing to the American fans with its alternate modes and special orbs. This makes it a fun to clear the gems and win more points. Nevertheless, you don’t get to directly control the super fighter, as they act appropriately in following your puzzle actions. It is also worth considering that the fighters selected by you will have a direct impact on the colors of the counter gems.

Try your hands on the game to see how well you can apply your brains in navigating through the Capcom world.

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