3DO didn't have the largest selection of titles but what they were showing was simply stunning including a Post-Armageddon action thriller, a new street racing game that will blow the doors off the competition and a long-awaited evolutionary remake of the legendary Road Rash series.

Jacked (PS2/Xbox/GameCube)
With the Road Rash series behind us there has been a significant gap in the combat-motorcycle racing genre...until now. Jacked puts the pain back into racing as you fight off your opponents with more than 20 weapons including pipes, bats, cattle prods, shotguns, and anything else you can lay your hands on.

The tracks are quite inventive with plenty of environmental hazards, secret shortcuts, and plenty of stunt opportunites. The visual style of the characters is excellent as is the physics and animation that makes them look like they are really doing these stunts. Characters will even evolve (visually) as they progress through the game.

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SRS: Street Racing Syndicate (PS2/Xbox/GameCube)
With games like Midnight Club II and the upcoming Fast and the Furious games saturating the street racing genre I was surprised at just how cool and innovative SRS is going to be when it releases this Summer. With dozens of cars, hundreds of upgrades and parts, and a fine selection of hot babes, SRS will immerse you in the underground world of illegal street racing.

When you aren't racing in real-life cities like Miami, LA, and Philadelphia you will hold down a normal job, try to maintain a relationship with one of the gorgeous babes, and live a real life. All sorts of non-racing complexities have been added. For instance, all the girls talk to each other so if your girlfriend happens to be friends with a rival racer you can get inside info on upcoming races, etc. You can also try to steal other racers girlfriends to enhance your "rep" and lower theirs.

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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (PS2/Xbox/GameCube)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is an action game that follow the events after the Biblical "Rapture". You play as archangle Abaddon, and must take part in the ultimate battle of good versus evil. As you fight Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death, you must also protect the "Chosen", a group of three humans with supernatural powers that can help you in the final battle for mankind's soul.

To compliment this intriguing story are characters and creatures designed by movie legend, Stan Winston, and stars like Tim Curry, Lance Henriksen, and Traci Lords lend their voices to the cast of characters. The action and combat is intense and the level of gore, dismemberment, and overall destruction will appeal to anyone who enjoys adult themes and extreme violence. The finishing moves are some of the best ever, choreographed and mo-capped by the Smashcut Action Team (Matrix 1-3, Fight Club, The Crow).

Look for this supernatural thriller this October; just in time for Halloween.

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