Sports

There's a crucial choice that every game based on real-world sports has to make. That choice is whether the game will aspire to simulating the real-world sport as closely as possible or whether to create an entertaining gameplay system that calls to mind a sport without really hewing close to the reality of it.

Game Description:  EyeToy: Anti-Gravity lets you ride your hoverboard and blitz through interactive skylines. Blaze past 1,000 foot tall skyscrapers, flying cars and sky rails as you use antigravity launch pads for pulling off insane aerial tricks. Prepare for a revolutionary physcial entertainment experience!

According to ESRB, this game contains: Mild Language, Violence

Let's face it: every sci-fi geek's most fervent wish is that someday, some genius will invent Star Trek's holodeck in real life. What could be better than going into a sterile little room and suddenly finding yourself at the peak of Mount Everest looking out at the roof of the world? Or better yet, slinging a mean six-iron in the old West with tumbleweeds in the background?

As far as I'm concerned, there's nothing wrong with being a horndog (to use Chi's term), and there's nothing wrong with games that appeal to the libido. Granted, there has to be some kind of gameplay there for such games to be justified, otherwise they become interactive pornography.

Game Description: Rumble Roses is the first and only all-female wrestling game. This sexy grappler delivers intense girl-on-girl wrestling action with jaw-dropping graphic detail. Choose your wrestler and use her arsenal of moves to win. Fight dirty or fair, be nice or naughty -- the choice is yours!

According to ESRB, this game contains: Violence, Suggestive Themes

Almost every wrestling attack results in gratuitous fan service panty shots, compromising spread eagle positions and many other sexualized S&M submissions and holds that make the Kamasutra seem simplistic. The trashiest attacks fill the appropriately titled "Humiliation" meter.

Game Description: World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 delivers a wealth of new moves, tricks and more in-depth gameplay. This includes new free kick and penalty kick techniques, an innovative indirect free kick move and a new dribbling system that offers more control as gamers go one-on-one against opposing players. Winning Eleven 8 will also include an on- screen referee - another first in the series. Further adding to the realism of the game, Winning Eleven 8 will feature 136 club teams, 57 national teams (including the Italian, Spanish and Dutch leagues under the official license), and control of up to 4,500 of the world's greatest soccer players. Players are brought to life through photo realistic graphics and authentically modeled features, as well as individual styles of play, movement and ball control.

Winning Eleven 8 is simply yet another step in the right direction, both for the advancement of quality sports games and for the slowly progressive principles to which Konami's series has held close—even throughout years of being outsold by the flashier, gimmicky FIFA games.