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Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker WP.JPG
In Metal Gear Solid:  Peace Walker, Snake has to manage his own independent offshore nation, assigning captured soldiers to different groups and researching new weapons. This part of the game is in-depth enough that one of the game's educational strengths is in business skills. It is also notable in the areas of people skills and creativity.

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The main appeal of Monster Hunter Tri is hunting monsters in groups. Players can take their characters online and join groups of up to four hunters to take on the game's most powerful beasts, collecting money, resources and monster parts more quickly. Working as a team with other hunters to take down monsters can be challenging and highly rewarding, making people skills one of the game's biggest educational strengths.

Pokemon HeartGold SoulSilver WP.JPG
HeartGold and SoulSilver's biggest educational strength is certainly in player creativity. The biggest point is that players choose their own Pokemon to raise, and with the huge number of species available - as well as the fact that every individual Pokemon is also unique - every player is sure to have their own special team. The series is popular for the depth of its mechanics to the incredible accessibility that it has always provided. HeartGold and SoulSilver add several layers of polish to the series, offering satisfying new interface systems and exciting new ways for players to interact with their Pokemon.

 New Super Mario Bros. Wii WP.JPG
New Super Mario Bros. Wii's people skills are one of the game’s biggest strengths. Players need to be very careful around one another in order to just survive, and taking advantage of the skills available to a group takes finesse and cooperation.

Modern Warfare II WP.JPG
Educationally, Modern Warfare 2's biggest strengths are in people skills and creativity. The game places a huge emphasis on multiplayer play. Many of the multiplayer game types are team-based, including a number that feature various special objectives, and players are always encouraged to work together.

Scribblenauts WP.JPG
Scribblenauts' educational strengths are in creativity, problem solving and classroom facts. Players are given more creative freedom in Scribblenauts than in perhaps any other videogame ever made, able to solve any problem in hundreds of different ways, and their knowledge of how things work in the real world is enforced by the behavior of the items in-game.

Plants vs. Zombies WP.JPG
Plants vs. Zombies emphasizes collecting and managing sunlight which helps enforce business skills as one of the game’s primary educational strengths. Players start each stage of the game with just enough sunlight to produce a few plants, and must carefully balance sunlight collection and plant production.


Valkyria Chronicles WP.JPG

Valkyria Chronicle's biggest strengths are in creativity and problem solving. The combination of standard strategy-RPG design with real-time unit control is a unique one, and the level design is constantly changing things up with new enemies and challenges to overcome. Each of these battles offers something totally fresh, from the wide-open desert battle during which a sandstorm erupts to the nighttime sneaking mission through the streets of a small town.

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