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Goosebumps: Enter HorrorLand is a web browser mini-game collection hosted at enterhorrorland.com. It is based on the Goosebumps: HorrorLand book series which released simultaneously with the website where the game collection was updated regularly as new books were made available. The games featured in the collection are built in Flash and contain a variety of gameplay such as fighting games or trivia contests. Players are required to create an online account in order to access the games and preserve their progress.
Goosebumps: What's-Different Challenge is a DVD game released in 2006 as a kids' meal item by Wendy's Restaurants. The game is part of the restaurant's Family DVD Games series. Gameplay takes the form of a spot the difference challenge in which players are presented with various images displaying book covers from the Goosebumps kids' horror book series. Players must compare images and highlight the differences between them in order to accrue points and win the challenge.
The Da Vinci Code 3D is a 2006 adventure game. It is based on the novel by Dan Brown and its subsequent movie adaptation. In the game, the player takes on the role of symbologist Robert Langdon as he attempts to solve the mystery behind the murder of the curator of the Louvre museum.
Gameplay takes place in a 3D environment and requires the player to navigate the levels using character-relative controls, or "tank controls," which was a common control scheme for systems that do not support analog sticks. The game's primary objective is to explore the environments, examine various objects, and speak with characters in order to advance the plot. While there are no action sequences, the game does include various puzzles that employ different mechanics, such as entering numbers into keypads or turning lock cylinders to pick door locks.
Inferno: Journey Through Hell is a browser-based ARG (alternate reality game) derived from the novel Inferno by Dan Brown and its subsequent 2016 movie adaptation. The player must journey through Dante's nine circles of Hell and use myriad external online sources to solve clues and move toward the center of Hell for the final riddle.
Developed as a promotional game for the movie, each level of Hell presents a unique riddle based on the content of that section of Dante's Inferno. For instance, the second level of Hell is Lust, a place in which souls are damned for allowing their lust to overcome their reason. To find the answer to its riddle, the player must follow a link to a painting that depicts the answer to the riddle. By completing all levels of Hell and the final riddle in the center, players could enter a contest to win cash prizes or a trip to Italy.
Angels & Demons is a mobile game based on the novel by Dan Brown and its subsequent 2009 movie adaptation. The game takes place in and around Vatican City as symbologist Robert Langdon attempts to stop the murders of Catholic cardinals while progressing through levels of increasingly challenging puzzles.
Gameplay is based on a puzzle game known as marble solitaire in which the player must clear rows of marbles by jumping a marble from one end to the other, and continuously removing marbles until only one or a few remain. This mobile game introduces a scoring system in which the player receives a higher score for removing multiple marbles with one jump, and elemental marbles which grant bonus points when like marbles are removed together. There is also a level type in which the player must end the level with the final marbles in a specific tile.
The Da Vinci Code: Helix is is one of four mobile games based on Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 movie adaptation. The player takes on the role of an applicant seeking to join the secretive Priory of Sion by completing a series of puzzle challenges throughout France and England.
Gameplay incorporates the bubble shooter genre introduced in popular games of the era such as Zuma. The player moves their targeting reticle left or right along the bottom of the screen and shoots colored bubbles toward long rows of bubbles that move along predetermined tracks. As in most match-tree puzzle games, the player must connect three or more bubbles of the same color in order to clear them from the level and score points. Each level is completed when the all of the bubbles are removed from the level. Special bonuses are granted for clearing many bubbles in a short period, including the ability to shoot bolts of lightning or remove all bubbles of a specific color from the level.
Nerf N-Strike is a rail shooter game where the player moves through a shooting gallery with different challenges aiming at both stationary and moving targets with a nerf gun. N-Strike refers to a line of toys of Hasbro for nerf guns. The game is set in a secret training facility with different levels and there are over 25 different nerf weapons to unlock. The selection of guns includes real and fictional ones. Each guns has a different handling and ammo includes balls, darts and bullets. As with a real nerf gun, bullets do not travel into a straight line and the player has to compensate the floating by aiming a little higher for enemies in the distance.
The opponents are generally robots and the player only needs to shoot, the camera and general movement is done automatically. In most of the sequences the gun is visible but at specific moments a scope-like zoomed in view appears. In the main mission mode the goal is to beat the score of a challenger. There are also mini-games and smaller challenges that involve painting rolling spheres to make them explode and nailing a target cube through a stack of blocks. It is possible to team up with up to three other players to defeat the N-Strike Elite rivals and B.O.B. the cybernetic training bot.
The game is bundled with the Nerf Switch Shot EXE-3 gun. The game is also compatible with regular N-Strike guns as the pneumatic pod can be removed to introduce the Wii Remote and to turn it into a light gun. The bundled gun can also be used to shoot regular darts.
Littlest Pet Shop: Garden stars the characters from the Hasbro line of toys of the same name. Players can play with each of the pets in a garden environment. New pets can be unlocked by progressing through the game. Kibble Coins can be collected in mini-games to unlock accessories and dress up the pets in different outfits. The game includes 16 mini-games for a single player or with up to three other friends via a wireless connection. Mini-games include ball balancing, card match, coin toss, digging, swinging, and even flying in the clouds.
Littlest Pet Shop: Jungle stars the characters from the Hasbro line of toys of the same name. Players can play with each of the pets in a jungle environment. New pets can be unlocked by progressing through the game. Kibble Coins can be collected in mini-games to unlock accessories and dress up the pets in different outfits. The game includes 16 mini-games for a single player or with up to three other friends via a wireless connection. Mini-games include ball balancing, card match, coin toss, digging, swinging, and even flying in the clouds.
Littlest Pet Shop: Spring stars the characters from the Hasbro line of toys of the same name. Players can play with each of the pets in a spring environment. New pets can be unlocked by progressing through the game. Kibble Coins can be collected in mini-games to unlock accessories and dress up the pets in different outfits. The game includes 20 mini-games for a single player or with up to three other friends via a wireless connection. Mini-games include ball balancing, card match, coin toss, digging, swinging, and even flying in the clouds.
Littlest Pet Shop: Winter stars the characters from the Hasbro line of toys of the same name. Players can play with each of the pets in a winter environment. New pets can be unlocked by progressing through the game. Kibble Coins can be collected in mini-games to unlock accessories and dress up the pets in different outfits. The game includes 16 mini-games for a single player or with up to three other friends via a wireless connection. Mini-games include ball balancing, card match, coin toss, digging, swinging, and even flying in the clouds.
Littlest Pet Shop is a game based around the Hasbro line of toys and the animated series of the same name. The world the pets inhabit is a green meadow full of houses and up to 16 mini-games to play. The object of the game is to play with pets as the player unlocks them during the course of the game. Although there are only three pets to start, the player progressively unlocks more pets and accessories with the goal of collecting them all. Players visit the shops in the central Pet Plaza to unlock up to 100 accessories and 29 playsets. To acquire new pets or accessories, Kibble Coins are used as a currency. Coins are collected by exploring the environment and doing well in the mini-games. These for instance include Dance Dance Revolution-like sequences, a swinging game, a flying game, a balancing game, and more. After each game the score is shown along with the collected Kibble Coins. The performance is also rewarded with a ribbon.
There are 32 pets in total and the Windows and Wii version contain all pets of the three Nintendo DS games that were released separately around the same time:* Littlest Pet Shop: Garden
Those of the fourth DS title Littlest Pet Shop: Spring that was released a few months later, are not included.
SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate is the official expansion to 2005's SWAT simulation game, SWAT 4. In the expansion players resume the role of a SWAT commander leading a team of officers into situations where restraint and accurate police techniques garner more points than shooting everything. Like in the original game, players have a variety of restraint devices such as zip ties, flash bangs, tear gas, in addition to a variety of guns and heavy weaponry and new equipment for the expansion.
The Stetchkov Syndicate's campaign is different from the original game's in that the missions connect and lead up to a confrontation with a Russian crime syndicate, while in the original the missions were separate from each other with no common enemy.
The Simpsons: Night of the Living Tree House of Horror was released in 2001 as the last in a long series of platformers that were based on The Simpsons television series.
The premise is odd, but fits well with the license: the Simpsons were out in Bart's tree house telling scary stories on Halloween night. As the night wore on they fell asleep and fell prey to the spirits living in Bart's tree house. Now each member of the family must fight through his or her nightmares to return to reality.
The game re-creates tales from the annual Treehouse of Horror Simpsons episodes. Each member of the Simpson family has his or her own levels, including Marge in a zombie tale, Maggie as a fly, Lisa fighting cannibalistic teachers, Bart rescuing his dog in a haunted house, and Homer as a vampire killer, a robot, and Homer Kong.
Bart's reality goes virtual when he is strapped into Martin Prince's Virtual Reality experiment at the elementary school science fair. Each virtual reality program represents a stage in the game that Bart must play through in order to escape the machine before the programs crash.
The game consists of three side-scrolling platform stages and three stages that take place from a rear view. Bart assumes the roles of a pig, dinosaur, and baby for the platform stages. He tosses tomatoes and eggs, slides down a water slide, and drives a motorcycle in a post-apocalyptic Springfield for the three remaining stages. They are all accessed by chance via a wheel-of-misfortune.
When a sweltering night arrives in the summer of 1930, New Way City is visited by a creature of extraterrestrial origin. He is not there it conquer or to make first contact; he is there to hunt, and his prey is Man. After taking on warring mobsters the Predator is shot in the eye and hastily escapes, but leaves some of his equipment behind. While attempting to escape from the city in his ship, rubble falls onto the wounded hunter and pins him in place. In a suicidal attempt at preventing his remaining gear from being pilfered by humans, the Predator causes his ship to self-destruct; However, he survives and is rescued by his clan-folk. By committing the grave taboo of allowing his prey to obtain Predator technology, the one-eyed Predator is exiled to a hostile desert planet.
Fast forward one hundred years and the Predator, now known as Scarface, returns to the city of his botched hunting trip. New Way City has grown into the futuristic Neonopolis, where gangs still reign in terror. In order to regain his honor, Scarface must regain his captured hunting gear and will not let anyone stand in his way. Just like the natural variant, the concrete jungle is a competitive and unwelcoming place where only the fittest survive. Scarface faces brutal gangs, hulking robots, heavily armed soldiers, cyborgs, and even his own kin in his quest to retrieve his lost technology. The hunt is on.
In Predator: Concrete Jungle the player assumes the role of Scarface, the dishonored Predator on trail of his stolen equipment. It is a 3rd-person action game where the player often has to resort to hand-to-hand combat. Players make use of various upgradeable weapons such as glaives, mauls, a combistick, and famous wrist blades to take on enemies of increasing difficulty and specific weaknesses. Projectile weapons include a spear gun that can pin enemies to walls and the notorious shoulder-mounted plasma caster. Scarface also has access to the iconic cloaking device and a helmet with thermal vision. The player can tear the skulls and spinal cords out of certain enemies to claim as trophies to display in Scarface's ship. The city is "level" based, often requiring the play to complete certain objectives before moving on to the next "level". Players can also unlock special costumes for Scarface, many of which are from the various Predator / Aliens vs. Predator films.
Based on the live action film released in 2004 (which in turn was based on the 1960s series starring marionettes), Thunderbirds stars Alan, Tin-Tin, and Fermat, three children whose guardians are part of the International Rescue team. The player takes control of all three children as they go through training and are then forced to travel around the world to save members of International Rescue from an evil villain known as The Hood.
The game takes place in locales such as the International Rescue island, Africa, and even outer space. Each of the three characters has his or her own unique abilities that the player must use to solve puzzles and advance through a level. Alan has strength and jumping ability, Tin-Tin has telekinetic powers that are used to move objects, and Fermat can hack computers and roll through holes. While the majority of the gameplay is primarily composed of solving puzzles from an overhead view, there are also flight action sequences where the player can fly one of the many vehicles known as the Thunderbirds.