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Week o Games, 9/6: Muramasa, Beatles, Contra RB, Raiden IV, DIRT2, Sturmovik, +more
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Another week, another 7 days of new game releases!
Welcome to the 80 edition of G&T's newly traditional "Weekly Games Release Thread!" - Week 9/6/09 - 9/12/09!
Where we discuss what we're looking forward to, what we're going to buy, and what we're just now realizing is being released this week that we had forgotten about!
Welcome to the 80 edition of G&T's newly traditional "Weekly Games Release Thread!" - Week 9/6/09 - 9/12/09!
Where we discuss what we're looking forward to, what we're going to buy, and what we're just now realizing is being released this week that we had forgotten about!
NDS
DiRT 2
IL 2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey
Ant Nation
Imagine Detective
Mini Ninjas
PC
War Leaders: Clash of Nations
Darkest of Days
DiRT 2
Fallen Earth
Heroes Over Europe
Mini Ninjas
Time of Shadows
Women's Murder Club: Twice in a Blue Mo
PS2
nothing
PS3
DiRT 2
IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey
The Beatles: Rock Band
LittleBigPlanet: Game of the Year Edition
Mini Ninjas
PSP
DiRT 2
Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days
IL 2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey
Wii
Muramasa: The Demon Blade
The Beatles: Rock Band
Contra Rebirth
DiRT 2
Arcade Zone
ColorZ
Jump Start Pet Rescue
Mini Ninjas
Xbox360
Darkest of Days
DiRT 2
IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey
Raiden IV
The Beatles: Rock Band
Mini Ninjas
Qubed
Sonic & Knuckles
The great fall crush is getting its start!
There's MURAMASA for the WII, it's out THIS WEEK, it may ALREADY BE OUT if you are READING THIS. SO GET IT
We've got DIRT 2, sequel to the excellent racing game, on all platforms.
The Beatles Rock Band is out on the consoles.
Shmup Raiden IV comes out retail for 360, maybe only at gamestop though.
Contra ReBirth came out for WiiWare today and it looks AWESOME for those who enjoyed Contra 3 or Contra 4.
Disgaea 2 for PSP.
edit: Trine may or may not be out for PS3 this week.... no idea.
There's some other good/potentially good games up there so check it out.
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My bad. Is it out for PS3 yet?
Steam ID: slashx000______Twitter: @bill_at_zeboyd______ Facebook: Zeboyd Games
Because said article would make lots of days to lots of people.
Edit: Er, it's not out for PS3, and I really haven't heard anything. I'm just almost positive Trine is getting a retail release. For PC. In a Box.
The Beatles!
I honestly felt a little let down by the previous Vanillaware games I've tried, less because of the games themselves, and more because they had a few too many elements that just weren't for me. This one seems to be right up my alley though.
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I saw it on Saturday at GameStop.
Can someone explain it to me a little more in depth? Like what all does it have that separates it from "Rock Band 2" and how many tracks are there etc etc?
Steam ID: slashx000______Twitter: @bill_at_zeboyd______ Facebook: Zeboyd Games
1. The setlist is ALL beatles. Many of the tracks have special dreamscapes that are designed for the songs, which work kind of like the music videos from RB2 but with special choreography for the song.
2. The vocal system is expanded with the ability to sing harmonies, using up to three vocalists.
3. The interface contains a bunch of updates and improvements, with a bunch of really slick looking Beatles skins.
4. Game content/DLC will be fully seperate from the rest of the RB platform, with full Beatles albums to be available soon as DLC.
5. The career mode is supposed to be very Beatles themed, and supposed to have a lot of awesome nice touches for Beatles fans to notice.
The core gameplay is basically all RB2, though. It's kind of like the AC/DC track pack but given an insane level of polish and attention.
It adds in three-part harmony for vocals, making it a potentially six-player game.
There are 45 tracks, all Beatles, none of that Guitar Hero-style "bands they inspired" kinda thing.
Roughly the first half of the game is played in live venues, based on real performances. However, The Beatles stopped touring shortly before Revolver was made and so the latter half has stages that the guys at Harmonix thought up. They call them "dreamscapes", and they're psychedelic-type stages that react to the music being played both instrumentally and along with the themes.
There's a stand-alone disc version and a ridiculously expensive ($250) version that comes with...uh...a bunch of stuff.
EDIT: What he said!
Steam ID: slashx000______Twitter: @bill_at_zeboyd______ Facebook: Zeboyd Games
(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)
Only one review of it that I can see, and the review can be summarized as, "This game is shit."
Steam ID: slashx000______Twitter: @bill_at_zeboyd______ Facebook: Zeboyd Games
The weapons briefing preview video of Darkest Days was good for a laugh, at least. They had me at "use muzzle loaders and make bayonet charges at enemy trenches" and lost me at "mow down a roman cohort with a futuristic machinegun." Gotta love the glaring flaw in the logic behind the game's premise, too. So you're going back in time to save some people who weren't supposed to die in these pivotal battles? Uh, I'm pretty sure the hundreds of sword-wielding centurions you just cut down weren't supposed to be vaporized by a pulse laser rifle, either. Great job enforcing the timeline there, dipshit.
I ended up getting Darkest of Days in addition to Muramasa, as I enjoyed the PC demo. It's a fun shooter, and I'm a sucker for crazy time travel stories.
PSN ID : Xander51 Steam ID : Xander51
Awesome.
If you liked 3 or Hard Corps, Rebirth is the shit. If Contra, Super C, or Contra 4 is your game, then it is still the shit.
Does it really matter how the people in Pompeii died? They were buried under searing hot lava and ash anyway.