Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2

Set in a dark and distant future, Rengoku places you into the role of A.D.A.M., a battle android fighting your way up a great tower. Your mission is to annihilate your enemies while improving your skills and armaments. Featuring strategic weapon configurations, a random level generator, and a competitive wireless multiplayer mode, there can only be one master at the top of the tower!

Much like the original Jagged Alliance before it, Jagged Alliance 2 offers a tremendous mix of strategy and role-playing. Players take charge of a team of mercenaries and attempt to rid the fictional island Arulco of its tyrannical dictator. After recruiting your team from a vast and often entertaining corps of mercenaries (each with his or her own unique personality and verbal quips), you create a merc to represent yourself in the game and then hit the beach on Arulco.
The game play is much like the original Jagged Alliance and the earlier X-COM games from Microprose. You control the action from an overhead, isometric angle and move your troops about in real time until an enemy is spotted. At that point, the game shifts into a turn-based mode, where everyone moves and fires their weapons by spending action points. Though the pace is slower and more deliberate than real-time strategy games, the turn-based mode also allows for more tactical planning, and works exceedingly well in this game.

You move through the game by clearing the bad guys from each individual sector of Arulco. As you do, the support of the people grows and you can then recruit and train militia to support your cause. Combined with the need to find a source of income to finance replacement mercs and additional equipment, your to-do list for Jagged Alliance 2 becomes quite full.

With a solid story, a great array of entertaining mercenaries, addictive game play, and enormous depth, Jagged Alliance 2 is an excellent all-around package. It can be extraordinarily difficult as you near the end of the campaign, but aside from that, it's tough to find fault in this game.

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is the only game that lets players experience first-hand the misadventures of the savvy and resilient Baudelaire orphans as they narrowly escape from the clutches of the villainous Count Olaf who is after their inheritance. In the game, players switch between the three orphans, mastering each one's skills to solve puzzles and collect various items to build ingenious inventions. Players make their way across 20 levels filled with puzzle-solving and platforming challenges. Each of the three kids has their own unique talents and skills. There's Violet, the oldest child and the inventor of the family. Then there's the middle child, Klaus, the bookworm. And lastly, there's baby Sunny, who has a penchant for mischief and four very sharp teeth.

Enter an alternate WWII-era world where history and fantasy collide! Leading an army of ruthless officers and unearthly creatures, Adolf Hitler marches through Europe, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction. With his powers on the rise and his armies on the move, it falls on you and your team of elite soldiers to cut deep into the heart of the Third Reich and strike a fatal blow to Hitler's ever-growing legion of evil!