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The game often goes for around sixty or seventy dollars. A spin-off of the Persona series, which is itself a spinoff of the Shin Megami Tensei series, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax is a stylish and surprisingly well-rounded 2D fighting game that comes across as simultaneously familiar and radically different when compared to other games bearing the Persona title.

A sequel to 's Persona 4 Arena , Ultimax 's rarity should come as no surprise to fans of Atlus, the series' publisher. Most of their works are incredibly expensive today, and, going for upwards of sixty dollars , Persona 4 Arena Ultimax on the PS3 lives up to that legacy. A darker entry in the traditionally lighthearted Spyro series, 's Dawn of the Dragon was the final entry in the Legend of Spryo trilogy. An excellent showcase of how far the franchise had come since its debut on the original PlayStation, it served as a send-off for the character until his return in 's Reignited Trilogy.

The popularity of the one-time Sony mascot meant that most of the games in which he stars are highly sought-after. That said, this is easily one of the most valuable, with copies regularly going for anywhere between sixty and eighty dollars.

A reboot of the classic arcade game from which later spawned a slew of sequels, 's Splatterhouse was a gore-soaked grindhouse rendition of the '80s classic. However, with gameplay bearing distinct similarities to the popular God of War games , critics panned the title for its derivative nature.

Though it's perhaps not the best representation of the franchise, Splatterhouse is still a fairly rare and valuable title on the PlayStation 3. Often going for between seventy and ninety dollars as per PriceCharting. A fighting game based on the famously strange shounen anime series Jojo's Bizarre Adventure , 's All-Star Battle released very late in the lifecycle of the PlayStation 3.

Boasting only niche appeal in Western territories, it was never destined for major success, and it's now one of the rarest standalone titles on the PlayStation 3. Reminiscent of some of the games in the King of Fighters or Soul Caliber series, it should satisfy the interests of fans of the anime franchise.

However, collectors will be asked to spend upward of eighty dollars on a copy of the game. In it, gamers are tasked with traversing the African safari and snapping images of animals in their natural habitat. Despite the unique premise, the game didn't receive much attention, and, as a result, it's one of the rarest PS3 games to see release in North America. Selling from a loose price of over eighty-five dollars , Afrika would be a prized possession for any PlayStation collector.

College Hoops 2K8 proved to be the final entry in the series, and it's currently one of the most expensive video games on the PlayStation 3 console. Episode four of a five-part game series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkmans award-winning series. Paranoia engulfs the group as they find themselves being stalked by an unknown threat. Battle your rivals 7-on-7, fight your way through a season of the Blitz Gauntlet, take over the online leaderboards in Blitz Battles, or create a true dream team by collecting player cards in Elite League.

Challenging to master, yet easy to pick up and play, NFL Blitz is reborn as the ultimate HD arcade football experience for a new generation. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive features new maps, characters, and weapons and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content.

Battlefield 3: Armored Kill ups the ante for vehicular mayhem as only Battlefield can do. Featuring new drivable tanks, ATVs, mobile artillery and more, this expansion pack also delivers huge battlefields for an all-out vehicle assault. Armored Kill also includes the biggest map in Battlefield history. User Score: 4. In order to find him, players will need to use an Interdimensional Shift Device, allowing them to manipulate space and objects.

While on the journey, becoming adept at switching between dimensions will help them trek from one bizarre room to the next. The Unfinished Swan is a videogame about exploring the unknown. The player assumes the role of a young boy chasing after a swan who has wandered off into a surreal, unfinished kingdom. The game begins in a completely white space where players can throw paint to splatter their surroundings and reveal the world around them. Behold New York Zero. Prototype 2 extends the experience of becoming the ultimate shape-shifting weapon.

Powered by revolutionary shapeshifting powers, you must hunt, kill and consume your way across the ravaged wasteland of New York Zero to take revenge on the man responsible: Alex Mercer.

With one of ten former Heismans on your roster, see if you have the confidence and poise to utilize his legendary skill set to capture the Heisman Trophy—this time for your school. Experience the game like never before with an all-new passing game in which players track and fight for the ball, and feel the excitement of gameday as ESPN Studio Updates bring the game to life in a dynamic football environment.

Inspired by the comic book series, The Darkness II is a first-person shooter that thrusts you into the role of Jackie Estacado, don of a New York crime family and wielder of an ancient chaotic force known as The Darkness.

The Ghosts are an untraceable unit of soldiers who hunt down high value targets in the highest-risk conflict zones around the world. In the near future, four of these elite soldiers form the tip of the spear in a hidden war simmering world-wide. As the Ghosts accomplish their objectives, they discover a far greater threat - one that could permanently alter the international balance of power. Join the Ghosts — Control Sergeant Kozak and his unit through fourteen missions in eight exotic locales, from Africa to the Arctic Circle.

Fight using the tech of tomorrow including optical camouflage, augmented reality and drones. Comandeer over 50 Weapons and customize them with Gunsmith Mode- Harness the formidable firepower of an army and optimize every aspect of your arsenal in the Gunsmith mode.

Intense Multiplayer- four game modes, ten maps and multiple classes along with Ghost Recon's classic siege mode. On the set of the greatest blockbuster "Movie" ever made, create your own action film scene by scene, performing every stunt yourself. Warp is a puzzle-based stealth action game from Trapdoor.

A legend is born in this open-world adventure. Assume the role of the Arisen, a legendary hero in a land haunted by a feared, omnipotent dragon. As you fight to protect your homeland, you will pick up companions, make enemies, and find yourself embroiled in an even deeper mystery.

Rick Rocket has just saved the universe! Unfortunately, the massive destruction he left in his wake has caused a temporal anomaly that has reversed the flow of time. The player must assume control of Rick's spacecraft and fight through the epic space battle in reverse! Players are forced to dodge enemy projectiles while positioning the ship to be in the correct place to fire their lasers when their shots come back to them.

Blending fast-paced, explosive action with tactical battlefield command, Anomaly puts players in charge of a military convoy tasked with fighting back against the mysterious alien war machines that have begun to spring up in many of the world's largest cities.

Players take part in battles personally to support and assist a hand-picked armor squad, utilizing their top-down tactical view to plot each and every turn of the convoy. As they progress through the story campaign and challenge modes, players will unlock upgrades and new units to build their ultimate destruction squad.

Starhawk is a 3rd Person shooter adventure in which you can instantly change the battlefield in the heat of combat. Caught in the middle is Emmett Graves, an outcast gunslinger who is drawn back to the planet that abandoned him, to face a fierce outlaw and his warband of followers. Gain the tactical advantage by calling upon an arsenal of weapons, vehicles, and fortifications, violently delivered from an orbiting drop ship to help turn the tide of battle.

Engage in epic player online battles and see maps dynamically change depending solely on each player's strategy or team up with friends and protect your claim against waves of AI opponents in online and offline Co-op modes. Skylanders Giants is a new adventure for existing Skylanders toys that adds twenty new characters--including 8 giant ones--to the roster.

Shank 2 returns with a story of redemption as Shank, a former mob hitman with a dark and vengeful past, is thrust back into action when the lives of those close to him are endangered. Expanding on the original game's intuitive combat and control system, Shank 2 continues Klei's tradition of making fluid brawling controls and stunningly beautiful visuals that leapfrogs the competition in the 2D side-scrolling genre.

The game also introduces an intense new, arcade-style survival co-op mode that has gamers working together to take down their foes, relying on the environment and weapon pick-ups for survival.

Spec Ops: The Line is a provocative third-person modern military shooter that challenges players' morality by putting them in the middle of unspeakable situations where unimaginable choices affecting human life must be made.

Spec Ops: The Line unfolds within the destroyed opulence of Dubai. Once the playground for the world's wealthiest elite, Dubai has fallen victim to a series of cataclysmic sandstorms. The city's ultramodern architecture lies half-buried under millions of tons of sand. The very sand that blankets the city plays a marquee role in altering combat situations and serves as a powerful but unpredictable force that will both help and hinder players throughout the course of the game. While most people have fled the now-barren wasteland before the sandstorms swept through, U.

Army Colonel John Konrad and his loyal squad remained behind to protect those incapable of escape. Unable to reach anyone in Dubai after the storm hit, the U. Army feared Konrad and his team dead until they picked up a weak distress signal and launched a rescue operation.

Army Captain Martin Walker, you and your elite Delta Force team are sent to infiltrate the treacherous region to bring Konrad home. It is the line they cross when death and duty become one and the same.

It is the end -- of self and sanity -- when their duty is done and only they remain. In this newest title, the feelings such as "preserving one's faith", "saving their precious ones" and the destiny of raising the storm between three countries which form the setting, are portrayed.

The PS3 version shows the story more in depth having many new elements including a "Lineage to the Future Episode" where a new tale after the main story is told. This follow-up to 's War for Cybertron depicts the final hours of the civil war that led the Autobots and Decepticons to abandon their home planet. With four factions battling for control, players step into the combat boots of a twisted disciple in a high octane, highly destructible world. Players fight for the prize of one wish fulfilled by the stylishly evil Calypso, the mastermind behind the Twisted Metal tournament.

Disciples strategically dismantle opponents in vehicles loaded with weapons of Twisted destruction. Powered by the revolutionary FIFA Soccer gameplay engine, and introducing Street Ball Control, FIFA Street will deliver an arsenal of groundbreaking street dribbling styles and trick moves that ignite the one-on-one battles within matches. Whether performing one panna after another without breaking a sweat the way street soccer is played in Amsterdam, or a physical, fight-for-possession style the way players compete in London, fans will enjoy a superior fidelity of ball control and responsiveness than anything ever experienced in a soccer videogame.

Plus, for the first time ever, utilize aerial skills to maneuver past opponents, an all-new sophisticated one-touch passing system for quick, precision passes, and over 50 never-before-experienced skill moves. Jet Set Radio lets players join the GGs, an up-and-coming street gang in the futuristic city of Tokyo-to, fighting for the right to self-expression against an overbearing, corporate-controlled police force.

Rolling and leaping through crowded urban environments on magnetically driven inline skates, players take control of gang leader Beat and his growing posse of deviant artists as they steal turf from the local gangs by covering the city with colorful graffiti.

The game features the most awesome mercenaries in the galaxy in their fight for territorial supremacy. Awesomenauts brings Russian monkeys with jetpacks, giant robots, and lots of other mighty aliens to the two-dimensional console battlefield. Combining classic platforming-action with modern online multiplayer functionality, the action-packed gameplay offers everything the bit generation and modern gamers love.

One year after a worldwide cataclysmic event that wiped out most of the human race, a man struggles for his survival in a desolate city as he tries to reunite with his long lost family. Will you cling to your humanity and help strangers or are you ready to sacrifice others in order to survive?

Fast tempo will add more distance to shots. Slow tempo will result in less distance. Shot Setup — Create all possible shot types from one shot setup. Affect the launch trajectory by moving the ball forward or backward in your stance to create flop and punch shots. The possibilities are endless, allowing any real shot to be created in the game. Strike Meter — Using the all-new Strike Meter, place the sweet spot of the club precisely where you wish to hit the ball. While a center strike is the most common, you can use low and high strikes to alter power, spin and trajectory.

Use this arc as a guide to execute your swing with the proper power, trajectory and shot shape. Dirt Showdown is an arcade spin-off of the Dirt series featuring over-the-top Hoonigan, Demolition, and Race events.

These Syndicates have revolutionized the way consumers interact with the digital world. Consumers no longer require a device to access the world's data and control their technology - they can achieve this with the blink of an eye after a neural chip implant.

Civilians clamored to be "chip'd" and to enjoy all that their selected syndicate has to offer. Housing, medical, banking, insurance, education, entertainment, and employment. One complete package - one complete lifestyle. In return, the syndicates gained unprecedented insights, and control, over individuals and their behavior.

With insufficient government oversight, business has become war. The Syndicates stop at nothing for ultimate market dominance. On the front lines of this war are the Agents, the syndicates' bio-engineered and chip-augmented enforcers. They can breach anything in the wired dataverse including their enemies, their weapons, and the environment surrounding them, making them the most efficient and deadly technological weapons in the world. Assume the role of Miles Kilo, Eurocorp's latest prototype Agent, and embark on a brutal action adventure of corruption and revenge.

Guardians of Middle-earth brings up to 10 players together in five versus five competitive multiplayer battle arenas in the epic setting of Middle-earth. The game offers more than 20 iconic guardians, including Gandalf, Sauron, Gollum, Thrain and many more, for players to control in player versus player PVP matches.

Gamers will have the ability to connect with other players via an in-game voice communication system, as well as access to a comprehensive online stat and leader board system where they can track friends' victories and defeats, and more. Resident Evil favorites Leon S. Kennedy and Chris Redfield are joined by new characters such as Jake Muller to face a world-wide bioterrorist threat, as the action moves between North America, the war-torn Eastern European state of Edonia and the Chinese city of Lanshiang.

The title will power the series into the future by revolutionizing online play and ramping up the number of playable and support characters far beyond any NARUTO game in the wildly popular franchise.

These are just a few of the many new ninja in the game. Fight on through impactful stages as you knock your opponents off of an exotic waterfall, into an exploding oil rig and more. Over twenty of the most popular characters in fighting games including ninjas, assassins, roughnecks and wrestlers.

The enhanced story and training modes will acclimate newcomers to the signature Dead or Alive Triangle System, and the online modes will enable the best fighters in the world to compete with one another. A hunting game for the PlayStation 3 is finally here! The story takes place in the year 20XX, where you are an animal fighting for survival in the deserted city of Tokyo which was once a lively metropolis.

At times, you can be a Pomeranian who has given up a domesticated life for its independence, be a racehorse on a mission to find fellow competitors or even be a lion, the king of all beasts, seeking the warmth of home. You can choose to be a carnivore or herbivore, to survive alone or as part of a herb. You must hunt all the animals in sight for your own survival.

See what challenges await you Battle Royale is a brawler featuring a broad array of PlayStation characters and worlds. From Kratos to Sly Cooper, Sweet Tooth to Parappa the Rapper, Sony characters from throughout Sony history are brought together in a brawling adventure that's simple to pick up and tough to master. Bring the battle online for competitive multiplayer fury, or go head to head with a group of opponents at your pad to prove who's the top dog.

Zombie killing mayhem returns in this latest installment of House of the Dead. Race through your favourite themes from the world of LittleBigPlanet, using a variety of gadgets to bounce, grapple or grab your way into 1st place. Battle your friends online via PSN or in split-screen mode, complete challenges or dive into the community to discover new player-created tracks.

Under Defeat HD is an arcade shooter that has players assuming the role of a helicopter pilot as they are caught in a struggle between the Empire and the Union. The game features destructive realism and dual stick compatibility, making it ideal for any shmup fan. EA Sports' tennis sim makes its high-definition debut with a roster of 25 players and all four Grand Slam Championships next year. Get ready to strap in, go back in time and take stick in the most pivotal battles in the history of air combat.

This original IP blends next gen supremacy and the fine details of aerial combat into a historical recreation fit for flight sim fans and history buffs alike.

Use your skills to pilot the top planes from all combatants in WWII to recreate history or to change the outcomes of the most prolific battles in history. Join the Unbounded team, a group of lawless badass racers, terrorizing the streets of Shatter Bay and expand your ever growing territory. Go online to Dominate and race an unlimited supply of user created maps. In the game, Derrick cavorts around the globe munching on paper creatures and destroying everything he confronts under the auspices of avenging the death of his parents.

You can sample his unique fast paced arcade action stylings, and profuse burping, on PSN. Rayman's universe has fallen into a chaotic world of wicked powers, bizarre characters, and merciless combat. When Globox accidentally swallows the Lord of the Dark Lums, a fanatic army of trigger-happy Hoodlums wreaks total havoc to get their Lord back. Rayman's only chance is to purge the Dark Lum Lord from the manic Globox, scour the lands for new powers, and battle with hordes of Hoodlum soldiers.

Even without arms or legs, Rayman can still unleash an arsenal of special powers and fighting moves. Gotham City Impostors is a multiplayer game unlike any other, giving players the opportunity to rebel against conformity as they customize their own characters. Posing as amateur vigilantes or villains, gamers will create their very own Bats and Jokerz characters using unprecedented customization options including insane costumes, homebrewed gadgets and a wide range of traditional and imagined weapons.

As players progress, Monster will react differently to their actions based on his current desires. Binary Domain puts players in the middle of a fast-paced and intense battle for humanity in robot-invaded Tokyo. Fighting through the derelict lower levels of the city, players control an international peace-keeping squad that soon starts to question their surroundings and the choices they are making. Are the robots becoming more human, or are humans becoming more like machines?

In Choplifter HD, players take on the role of an up and coming rescue pilot asked to join the elite, international helicopter rescue team C. Coordinated Helicopter Operations, Preservation and Rescue. Pilots will be trained to command a variety of helicopters deployed on more than 20 different missions ranging from captured military prisoner extraction to saving survivors of viral outbreaks. Pilots must bank, hover and touch-down in perilous conditions in order to make their rescue and complete their mission.

Set briefly after the events of the new film, The Amazing Spider-Man injects New York City's brand new hero back into free-roaming, web-slinging action, as he protects the Big Apple from a deluge of significant threats. Battle all-new versions of classic Super Villains as well as original, larger than life enemies while racing to save Manhattan.

Essential Links. Highs and Lows. Highest of the Month. Lowest of the Month. Metascore: 93 User Score: 5. Journey Platform: PlayStation 3 March 13, Enter the world of Journey, the third game from indie developers thatgamecompany creators of "flOw" and "Flower". Borderlands 2 Platform: PlayStation 3 September 18, Play as one of four new vault hunters facing off against a massive new world of creatures, psychos and the evil mastermind, Handsome Jack.

Metascore: 91 User Score: 8. Far Cry 3 Platform: PlayStation 3 December 4, With Far Cry 3, players step into the shoes of Jason Brody, a man alone at the edge of the world, stranded on a mysterious tropical island.

Metascore: 90 User Score: 8. NBA 2K13 Platform: PlayStation 3 October 2, For the first time ever, all dribble moves have been mapped to the right analog stick, as well as shooting, passing, and post moves. XCOM: Enemy Unknown Platform: PlayStation 3 October 9, Lead your troops in fierce battles to defeat the alien front, and rescue civilians in crowded cities and remote outlands around the world.

Metascore: 89 User Score: 8. Dishonored Platform: PlayStation 3 October 9, The action in Dishonored takes place in Dunwall, an industrial whaling city where unusual steampunk-inspired technology and other-worldly forces coexist in the dark shadows. Metascore: 89 User Score: 7.

Metascore: 88 User Score: 6. Metascore: 88 User Score: 8. Max Payne 3 Platform: PlayStation 3 May 15, In addition to an expansive single-player campaign, Max Payne 3 is the first entry in the series to introduce a thorough multiplayer experience. Metascore: 87 User Score: 7. Metascore: 86 User Score: 7. Persona 4 Arena Platform: PlayStation 3 August 7, Persona 4 Arena uses hand-drawn, high definition 2D anime-style fighters and colorful, over-the-top special effects to bring to life a roster of fighters from Persona 3 and Persona 4.

Metascore: 86 User Score: 5. Metascore: 85 User Score: 6. Metascore: 84 User Score: 5. Metascore: 84 User Score: 8. Metascore: 84 User Score: 7. Metascore: 84 User Score: 6. Madden NFL 13 Platform: PlayStation 3 August 28, Powered by the all-new Infinity Engine, true player impact and authentic momentum transfer ensure that no two plays ever look or feel the same. Metascore: 83 User Score: 5. Metascore: 83 User Score: 8.