Return to Middle-earth in this tactical RPG and decide the fate of The Third Age. Build a Fellowship of heroes or create a force of evil with hundreds of skill, weapon, and ability upgrades. Send your armies into battle across legendary locations from the film trilogy and J.R.R. Tolkien's fiction. A simultaneous turn-based multiplayer system delivers a combat unrivaled by any Tactics game. The board is set, the pieces are in motion. Middle-earth awaits you.
Samurai Warriors: State of War is a portable version of Samurai Warriors, however, it is not a straight conversion and is made to more resemble Dynasty Warriors, giving it an "Samurai Warriors Empires" style of playing. The gameflow is mainly separated into two stages: the Strategy phase and the Action phase. During the first stage, the map is separated into colored squares and the player is asked to move their character in a turn-based fashion. Terrain affects how the player can act during this stage. What usually follows is the action phase, which asks the player to defeat as many opponents possible within 60 seconds. These stages can tip the battle in the player's favor. There are four main armies for the player to participate in: the Takeda (Western), Uesugi (Eastern), Nobunaga, or the solo army. Completing the game with these four factions unlocks the final stage in the game. It guest stars characters from Dynasty Warriors 4. The game features a Story mode, Free mode and VS mode.
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Metal Gear Acid 2 enhances the card based tactical gameplay of the original game while delivering even more explosive action from the Metal Gear universe. Featuring over-the-top visual effects, deeper strategic gameplay, and a new tutorial mode. Acid 2 is the best portable Metal Gear game to date.
The Sims 2 for PlayStation Portable delivers a unique third-person experience that blends life simulation with role-playing elements, offering a more substantial storyline compared to other versions. Players navigate various goals to unlock content while customizing their pre-built homes with furniture and decor. Interactions and jobs are executed through mini-games, maintaining a dynamic gameplay flow.
In this version, characters do not age, marry, or have children; however, they can pursue significant relationships and WooHoo. Goals largely dictate relationship dynamics, with close friends potentially moving in as the game progresses. As players complete objectives, their sanity meter, symbolized by a Plumbob, increases, while failing to meet goals leads to rapid depletion, resulting in hospitalization or alien abduction. Unique to this version are "Sanity Points," awarded for completing tasks to unlock special perks, and hidden "Secrets" found in Strangetown, enhancing exploration and social interaction.
Prince of Persia: Revelations is the PSP port of Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. The port featured a some bonus content including bonus levels and some extra artwork unlocked in those. The rest of the levels and gameplay is pretty identical to Prince of Persia: Warrior Within with minor to no differences. The game also has considerably lower quality of both graphics and textures thanks to the memory limitations of the PSP.
Known as "Monster Hunter Portable" in Japan, Monster Hunter Freedom is essentially a PSP version of the preceding expansion to the original game, Monster Hunter G. As such it features very similar content, reworked to be a portable experience. Monster Hunter Portable does not features Minegarde Town from Monster Hunter and Monster Hunter G, and was focused around local multiplayer rather than online. As such, the game was completely rebalanced to be more friendly to solo players. The game features a single new monster that was not in the series prior, Yian Garuga.
The game revolves around the player completing quests and gathering materials to upgrade their equipment in order to advance. The more rare the items and equipment, the stronger the main physical aspects of the character will be. Unlike other hack 'n' slash games, this game requires planning and skill in order to overcome large monsters instead of brute force. There are many weapons which the hunter can use to bring down the monsters, these are sword and
This first release of Harvest Moon on the Sony PSP is a port of "Harvest Moon: Back To Nature" and "Harvest Moon For Girl", play either with a 4:3 or the new PSP 16:9 resolution. You can either play as a boy (Destiny), or a girl (Fate) to bring life to Mineral Town in this comfy farming stimulator.
Immerse yourself in the first officially licensed handheld FIA World Rally Championship. WRC features 16 official rallies from around the world, including Japan and Mexico, plus 19 bonus stages and downloadable content. Now you can jump into the driver seat of one of 30 cars, including Evolution and Extreme spec cars. The game includes a total of six official car manufacturers and 17 official drivers from 2004. Test your skills against the best WRC drivers in the world, or link up to other PSPs via Wi-Fi for multiplayer battles.
You can play as a rookie cop battling five different gangs spread throughout Capital City in Pursuit Force. The game features 30 cases for you to close, using 55 different vehicles and 25 types of weapons. Each gang has a unique boss and lieutenant with their own specialized vehicles and missions. Taking down gangs fills up your justice bar, which can be used to slow down time for key stunts, fill up your life, or repair your vehicle. The game features Hollywood-style chases and gunfights to keep the action going during missions.
Unlike most other, action-oriented Armored Core titles, this installment is a strategy game. The player has no direct control of the mech in the action but can customize the mech as always, implementing additionally an AI that will fight on its own. The role of the player is to customize the mech and train the AI on training arenas. The "Extreme Battle" international release of the game included additional combat scenarios.
A portable version of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, 5-1-0 pits the player against the Blacklist, where the best street racers in the city compete in races and police pursuits.
Not your ordinary shooter, Infected lets your avatar invade your opponents' PSP systems with each of your multiplayer victories. In single-player mode, you play as Stevens, a New York City police officer with immunity to a virus that's spreading across New York. Only you can stop the virus from spreading by shooting infected individuals with a special "viral gun" that's loaded with bullets filled with your blood. Eliminate the virus in single-player mode, or use the PSP's Wi-Fi capabilities to spread your own virus in multiplayer combat.
SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo is the first entry in the SOCOM series for the PSP, developed by Zipper Interactive. It features tactical third-person shooter gameplay with support for up to 16-player online multiplayer, voice chat, and multiple game modes.
Kao Challengers is an action-adventure video game featuring Kao the Kangaroo. Challengers is an enhanced port of Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2, released a year earlier in Europe. It includes additional racing and deathmatch multiplayer minigames.
NBA 06 deviates from other traditional NBA titles with the addition of the Life Mode. While it does include classic features such as exhibition, season, franchise, and multiplayer modes, the life mode is a take similar to the MLB: The Show.
The life mode has the player take control of an NBA rookie right out of college and just being drafted. As in the MLB Show series, the player may only control one character and cannot control others on their team or make any management decisions. The player's role of the team will be determined by their performance on and off the court. The better the player is at playing basketball and being a teammate, the more likelier they will be a huge part of the team and receive better contracts and endorsement deals.
Likewise, the decisions the player makes off the court will determine who they are perceived as well, such as how they interact with teammates, what they buy or who they hang around with. The player can also train their character through a series of 20 mini-games, e.g. on
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories is an action-adventure game set in Liberty City in 1998, serving as a prequel to Grand Theft Auto III. Players assume the role of Toni Cipriani, a member of the Leone crime family, as he returns from hiding to reestablish his position within the organization. The game features open-world exploration, mission-based progression, and various side activities, maintaining the series' hallmark gameplay elements.