Platformer (Action)

A type of game popularized by "Super Mario Brothers" in which the character traverses obstacles in a physical world. The genre names comes from the act of jumping from one platform to another, to cross pits or chasms. This is often done while avoiding and/or attacking other obstacles or enemies.

Sheep, Dog, 'n' Wolf

Sheep, Dog, 'n' Wolf (also known as Sheep Raider in North America) is a puzzle-platform style game/stealth style game developed by Infogrames in France. Unlike a standard platformer, the game incorporates stealth and strategy.

The game is based on the popular Warner Bros. series of cartoons Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf. Controlling Ralph Wolf, the player must steal Sam Sheep-dog's sheep while navigating through a series of levels including two secret levels and a Bonus level.

Psychonauts

Psychonauts is an action game from Double Fine Productions and Majesco, with design by Tim Schafer, famed designer of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. You play Raz, a kid attending a summer camp, where students are trained to harness their pyschic powers for combat and intelligence purposes. You must develop your own mental abilities through mental training, and use your abilities to solve a kidnapping case in the summer camp.

Another World

Another World (UK, Australia) / Out of This World (Rest of the world) is a DOS-era shooter from Delphine Software and Interplay. You play as Lester Chaykin, a physics professor, stranded in an alien universe after an experiment goes haywire. This re-release, which uses the game's European title of Another World, is fully WinXP compatible, has support for high resolutions, and has all-new artwork designed to take advantage of the high resolutions that can be turned off if desired.

Peter Jackson's King Kong

Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie is a first person shooter action adventure game based on the 2005 film King Kong. It is a collaboration between the film's director Peter Jackson and famed videogame designer Michel Ancel (Rayman, Beyond Good & Evil), remarkable in that such true cross-medium creative partnerships are rare in the realm of game development. It was released on sixth generation platforms on November 17, 2005.