Xbox 360 Games Slated for June 2007 Release

Wondering what games are expected to hit store shelves this month? Here is what you can expect for the month of June, assuming there are no delays (Forza 2, how we love you!).

Call of Juarez – 06/05/07
Action – Rated Mature

Features (from Xbox.com) :

Fight your way through the Wild West, birthplace of the term “shooter.” Call of Juarez is the only game to give you an authentic look into the Old West and all its glory, through the eyes of the hunter AND the hunted.

Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia – 06/12/07
Action – Rated Teen

Features (from Xbox.com) :

Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia is a top-down multiplayer cooperative shooter in the vein of such hits as Smash TV. Based in a setting of typical modern-day suburban America, Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia presents an offbeat riff on pop-culture horror with a vast collection of humorous looking mythical and paranormal creatures.

Playing as one of the four main characters, match wits with an onslaught of ghosts, goblins, ghouls, zombies, demons, and the like with unique weaponry to slaughter your enemies.

The game can be played with up to four players on one machine, multiple players online in the form of death match and capture the flag modes, or any combination of local and remote players.

Tenchu Z – 06/12/07
Action – Rated Mature

Features (from Xbox.com) :

Become the ultimate ninja assassin in Tenchu Z. Eliminate unsuspecting guards using stealth kills or your favorite ninja weaponry, or even go straight for the big boss! Use sound, sight, and scent detection as you search out your opponents and unlock deadly new moves and weapons.

Fantastic Four : Rise of the Silver Surfer – 06/15/07
Action – Rated Teen

Features (from Xbox.com) :

Experience the incredible movie action and beyond in the new Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer game! Play as any member of the Fantastic Four and fight against enemies including the Silver Surfer, Red Ghost, Super-Skrull and more!

Hour of Victory – 06/18/07
Action – Rated Mature

Features (from Xbox.com) :

Sneak into enemy territory as a Covert Operative, storm the gates as a British Commando, or snipe from afar as an Army Ranger. Each character’s unique attributes will be needed to complete your overall objective. Only with these skills working closely together, will you be able to say that you helped define the Hour of Victory.

Dirt – 06/19/07
Racing – Rated Everyone

Features (from Xbox.com) :

Dirt is a next generation rally game coming to the Xbox 360 this June. The game is more arcadish then Forza but its not a full blown arcade racers. The graphics are some of the best yet on the 360 and the game play is top notch. The game will include over 45 cars and nine different styles of off road racing. One of the coolest features of the game has to be the all new damage system! The damage system is so in dept to the point where you can Damage your car so bad that you will not be able to finish the race.

The Bigs – 06/25/07
Sports – Rated Everyone

Features (from 2Ksports.com) :

The Bigs elevates America’s favorite pastime to new heights with larger-than-life ballparks, heroic gameplay and incredible player models. Setting this MLB experience apart from anything you’ve ever seen before are spectacular power-ups, stunning special effects, and a totally unique career mode. Featuring fantastic pitching, batting and fielding animations, the Bigs brings new meaning to the term highlight reel.

The Darkness – 06/25/07
Action – Rated Mature

Features (from Xbox.com) :

The Darkness is a first-person action/horror shooter with a twist: You are the horror! You are Jackie Estacado, a mafia hit-man who becomes the latest bearer of the Darkness, an ancient demonic force passed through the generations, on his twenty-first birthday.

Having been set-up by your “Uncle” Paulie Franchetti, don of the Franchetti crime family, grapple with your old mob while learning to control the Darkness … before it controls you. Featuring an assortment of both earthly and otherworldly guns, as well as powers that allow you to conjure demons and manifest the Darkness into a variety of lethal elements, The Darkness takes the first-person shooter genre to the next generation.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – 06/26/07
Family – Rated E10+

Features (from Xbox.com) :

Harry’s fifth year at Hogwarts is shaping up to be his most dangerous yet in Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix. Fearing that Hogwarts’ venerable Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, is lying about the return of Voldemort in order to undermine his power, Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge appoints a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher to keep watch over Dumbledore and the students.

But Professor Dolores Umbridge’s ministry-approved course leaves the young wizards woefully unprepared, so Hermione, Ron, and Harry form “Dumbledore’s Army” with the goal of preparing themselves and other courageous young wizards for the extraordinary battle that looms against Voldemort and his Death Eaters.

Overlord – 06/26/07
Adventure – Rated Teen

Features (from IGN.com) :

Taking control of a mysterious figure that has inherited the legacy of the long-dead evil Overlord, the player emerges near death from the ruins of the old Overlord’s Dark Tower. Only the player’s actions will determine if they will rise to become the new all-powerful Overlord; it’s all up to how bad they want to be in order to succeed … evil or really evil! With a dark sense of humor, the game immerses players in twisted parodies of classic fantasy stories and characters. In a unique twist, players will have control over an army of an army of Minions that will use their unique skills to fetch, fight and die for their new Overlord. Throughout the game players will actively control a horde of these gremlin-like creatures that will follow every bidding no matter how whimsical or life threatening it may be.

Ratatouille – 06/26/07
Action – Rated Everyone

Features (from Xbox.com) :

In Ratatouille, relive all the film’s most thrilling and hilarious moments as you assume the role of Remy. From the underground sewers to the bustling streets of Paris, dash, swim, glide, and slide through five action-packed, visually stunning worlds filled with dangerous enemies, intense heists, and perilous missions.

Transformers – 06/26/07
Action – Rated Teen

Features (from Xbox.com) :

Control the outcome in the battle for Earth this summer with TRANSFORMERS: THE GAME, the official game of the upcoming blockbuster film from Producer Steven Spielberg and Director Michael Bay.

Protect civilization as Autobots or destroy it as Decepticons as you lead the TRANSFORMERS in the epic battle for control of planet Earth!