Ubisoft

According to ESRB, this game contains: Violence

According to ESRB, this game contains: Comic Mischief, Violence

Game Description: Beyond Good And Evil takes you into an adventure beyond your wildest imagination. On an alien world, one woman will uncover a conspiracy with only a boundless desire for the truth. You will help her uncover this truth & stay alive in the process!

In a medium still groping for unique narrative techniques, I can only celebrate the arrival of a game like Beyond Good & Evil, from the heedless mind of Ancel. Ancel has taken many chances with this game. Not only is it a non-franchise (for the time being anyway), but it marries a myriad of gameplay styles that miraculously fit with each other and the storytelling.

According to ESRB, this game contains: Blood, Violence

 Rainbow Six 3 is distinguished from the PC versions as much by what it takes away as what it adds.

Game Description:  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 puts you in charge of an elite combat unit, Team RAINBOW. Made up of several nations' best soldiers, they are an anti-terrorist unit as dangerous as the terrorists themselves. Now they'll face an all-new threat to the world, to protect all civilians. Enter and clear a room of terrorists, rescue hostages, defuse bombs, and recover vital intelligence to help you in later missions Amazing squad-based multiplayer for hours of extended fun!

It's odd. The platforming genre hasn't seen much in the way of innovation lately. Super Mario 64 wrote most of the rules of 3D platforming, and just about everything that came after followed those rules rather diligently. But despite this, I think the last couple years have been a renaissance of sorts for the genre.

In the last few years I have become more and more impressed with the steps taken forward by designers to enhance the experiences provided by military simulations. Everything from accurate weapon representation to the "one shot one kill" motif, have brought these games to a much higher level. And as Mike suggests, Tom Clancy's titles are the cream of the crop in this regard. They capture an urgency and essence that other's cannot seem to duplicate and for me is an exciting, enticing, and challenging experience.

But in spite of all the nifty light effects and techno-doodads the game sports, the core experience is still the same rigid, unconvincing formula it was the last time around. Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow's single player mode has some great moments, but for every great one, there are three or four that are pretty lame.