First, an apology. We intended to deliver these words somewhat earlier, back when we covered Football Manager Handheld. Both games are, after all, football management sims based on popular PC forebears and revised for PSP, both were released around the same time, and indeed we started our reviewing in tandem.
It's just that Championship Manager 2006 has taken a little bit longer.
There are three reasons for this. The first is that, well, it's rather extensive. Whereas Football Manager Handheld opted for a cut-down, retro approach, Championship Manager 2006 goes the other way. It's every bit as huge as its PC parent, covering 55 leagues from the 12 leading footballing nations.
Granted you can only play with the leagues of one country at a time, but each country has all the appropriate teams in all divisions, as well as reserve teams and youth squads. Each of the resultant 25,000 players has the usual mountain of statistics spread over five screens, detailing their skills, form and happiness, and they can all be t
In Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam, Tony travels to 6 far away locations to challenge each venue’s top downhill racer in a quest to add them to the team. The goal is to make it to the bottom of the hill with the best time! You will also be asked to complete other challenges as well.
The DS version supports up to 4-player Wi-Fi internet and local wireless play. There are over 20 online game modes to choose from. The game also supports voice chat with people on your friends list. This game also has a community website (ds.downhill-jam.com) where users can upload their high scores, bests runs and chat with other skaters.
Designed with the casual golf fan in mind, Eagle Eye Golf lets you play up to 4 players on 7 challenging courses in a variety of game modes such as Mission, Tournament, and even team-based games. The game also features a robust course editor where you can recreate some of the world's most famous courses with incredible accuracy or you can let your imagination run wild and design your own "out-of-this-world" fantasy courses. Also included is a mission mode featuring 100 tasks to clear and a training mode where you can choose your course and set the weather and wind. The game includes a robust character edit mode for creating your own character. You can make adjustments to clothing, hair style, body shape, voice and even shoes. Before finalizing your character, you assign points to various statistics, including power, control, impact, recovery, spin shot and fade/draw. These traits grow as you equip your character with items that you've unlocked in the mission mode.
This golfing simulation game is the 2007 multi-platform edition of Electronic Arts' Tiger Woods PGA Tour franchise. Although the game's features differ across platforms, most notably from next-gen to current-gen, it has a few things in common across the board: more licensed players, more courses, more game modes, and improved GameFace character creation.
Virtua Pro Football, known in Japan as World Football Climax, is a PlayStation 2 soccer simulation video game, released by Sega in 2006. The former Italian footballer Roberto Baggio endorsed the Japanese version, having appeared in the TV commercial, flyer and merchandising.
For more than 80 years, the "Clown Princes" of the hardwood, have thrilled and delighted worldwide audiences; more than 123,000,000 spectators in 118 countries have witnessed basketball, Harlem Globetrotters style. Now, the Globetrotters, the world's greatest showmen, take their high-flying athleticism, and audacious antics off the road, and right into your home! DSI Games brings the excitement of Harlem Globetrotters basketball to your favorite video game system. The "can't miss" 'Trotter's experience is now a "don't miss" video game!
Select the members of your female team, and win the trophee. Recruit the hottest chicks of the beach as you earn money from victories. And in an absolute hot summer environment, make sure your girls are in a good shape! Nothing beats a good massage.
FIFA 07 (also known as FIFA Football 07 and FIFA 07 Soccer) is the 2006 edition of EA Sports' series of football simulator video games. Developed by EA Canada, it is published by Electronic Arts.
It was the last game in the FIFA series to be released for the GameCube, Xbox, and Game Boy Advance, and the first to be released for the Xbox 360. The next-generation graphics and physics engine used in the Xbox 360 version will be exclusive to the console for a period of 12 months. It was also released for PC, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation 2.
There are seven different covers of FIFA 07, each with a different player, depending on which region the game is sold in. Ronaldinho (FC Barcelona) graced the cover of all the games and was joined by Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy) and Francisco Fonseca (UANL Tigres) in North America; Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Benelux; Lukas Podolski (Bayern Munich) in Germany; David Villa (Valencia) in Spain; Kaká (Milan)
The sixth game, and first tennis spin-off, in the Hot Shots Golf series.
"Finally, a Tennis game for everyone! Filled with classic Hot Shots personality and true tennis gameplay, Hot Shots Tennis delivers an experience both amateurs and pros can enjoy! Play a quirky cast of tennis pros then challenge friends and family in singles or even 4 player doubles matches.
The sport of Tennis will never be the same."
NHL 2K7 is an ice hockey video game made by 2K Sports, and published on the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Xbox 360 consoles. It features San Jose Sharks centre Joe Thornton on its cover. Bob Cole and Harry Neale return from NHL 2K6 to provide commentary.
New features in the game include improved animations that are mainly geared towards skating. 2K7 also includes a new gameplay setting called "Cinemotion". This feature uses close up camera angles as well as dramatic music to capture the intensity of the game.
The game was also the first ice hockey simulation to be made for the PlayStation 3.
Backyard Baseball 2007 is the fifth iteration of the best selling youth baseball video game of all time and the only kid's game to hold the coveted Major League Baseball (MLB) and Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) licenses. Backyard Baseball 2007 features a roster full of top MLB pros as kids and includes all 30 MLB teams, uniforms, and logos. In addition, the game's kid-friendly, non-violent format, and high level of diversity makes it especially popular with parents.