Week oGames,9/13: SCRIBBLENAUTS, M&L:Bowser, PC late releases, MUA2, Wet, Pinball....

slash000

Another week, another 7 days of new game releases!

Welcome to the 81 edition of G&T's newly traditional "Weekly Games Release Thread!" - Week 9/13/09 - 9/19/09!

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

Scribblenauts




Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story




Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2




Bleach: The 3rd Phantom




Naruto Shippuden: Ninja Destiny 2


My Boyfriend
Princess in Love
Animal Planet: Vet Life
Ant Nation
Chicken Blaster
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force (Special Edition Bundle)
Dreamer: Top Model
Learn Geography
Our House

PC

Batman: Arkham Asylum



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Age of Empires III: Complete Collection







Need for Speed: Shift




Red Faction: Guerrilla




Resident Evil 5


Madballs in Babo: Invasion



RACE On
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim
Runes of Magic Chapter II: The Elven Prophecy
Time of Shadows
Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold

PS2

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
NHL 2K10

PS3

Wet




Pinball Hall of Fame - The Williams Collection




Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2





Need for Speed: Shift




NHL 10




NHL 2K10


Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Heroes Over Europe
Tornado Outbreak

PSP

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2




Need for Speed: Shift




Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Wii

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2




NHL 2K10




Animal Planet: Vet Life
Chicken Blaster
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Monster Trucks Mayhem
Our House Party
Pacific Liberator
Tornado Outbreak

Xbox360

Wet




Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2




Need for Speed: Shift




NHL 10




NHL 2K10




Pinball Hall of Fame - The Williams Collection



Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Heroes Over Europe
Qubed
Tornado Outbreak

Panzer General: Allied Assault

Oh boy. I'm glad I upgraded my PC a few months ago!

The PC is getting Batman Arkham Asylum, Red Faction Guerilla, Resident Evil 5, as well as NFS Shift.


The Nintendo DS is also getting at least 2 really awesome games:

Scribblenauts and Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story.


Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 comes out on every platform.

NHL 2k10 comes out on all the home consoles. NHL 10 on some of them.

Need for Speed Shift comes out for the consoles, PC, and PSP.


The game Wet comes out for PS3 and 360. I don't know much about it except that it looks pretty cool, so I'll have to find out more when I get a chance.

the PS3 and 360 also get the definitive classic Pinball simulation game, Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams Collection. This is already out on the Wii and everyone says that it's just about the greatest pinball game available this generation. Highly recommended for pinball fans.



Whoo... the fall crush continues...

brynstar

The Target stores in my area have had Resident Evil 5 for PC out on shelves for a couple of days now. I'm not really sure how they managed that, but I thought I'd post it for anyone interested.

slash000

Sweet.

I really want Resi5. The game benchmark ran like a dream with maxed out settings at 1680x1050... But I want to get Dead Space first!

But I also need Batman AA! I played the demo and the demo was practically GOTY material!

Meanwhile Red Faction Guerilla is also supposed to be one of the most fun FPS's recently released... another GOTY contender apparently...

But I still haven't had a chance to buy Muramasa! Or get Contra ReBirth! Or WSR, or Tiger10, or Beatles RB!



But I HAVE TO GET SCRIBBLENAUTS one way or the other! But I haven't had a chance to get Prof Layton either!


arghhhh i'm drowning.....

brynstar

Yeah it's starting to get crazy. Weirdly, I've started buying less games these days, which is opposite of what I usually do at this time of year.

I'd start with Muramasa out of that list, but it's a really tough call.

Henroid

Red Faction is only now coming out on PC? Huh.

I played it this past week, we had it on order from Gamefly. It was... alright. My roomie beat it in two days.

Dehumanized

Ach! Mein wallet!

It's now the part of the year where I must make some very, very hard choices. I already have a backlog long enough to require a minor to moderate miracle to clear through most of it.

But...

Scribblenauts.

slash000

brynstar wrote: »

Yeah it's starting to get crazy. Weirdly, I've started buying less games these days, which is opposite of what I usually do at this time of year.

I'd start with Muramasa out of that list, but it's a really tough call.

Yeah I'm really excited about Muramasa. It sounds like it's right up my alley, and it seems to be something fresh compared to what I've played recently. So I'm getting it for sure. I'm also definitely getting Scribblenauts ASAP.

Henroid wrote: »

Red Faction is only now coming out on PC? Huh.

I played it this past week, we had it on order from Gamefly. It was... alright. My roomie beat it in two days.

Some people around here consider it a potential game of the year. I think it sounds good but it's lower on my to-buy priority list than other games this year.

Spoit

Huh, I already pre-ordered Red Faction. I guess that and M&L3 will have to hold me for a month until Uncharted 2 comes out, since I'm low on money.

brynstar

It's worth noting that the PC version of Red Faction Guerilla includes all of the DLC, which if I'm not mistaken is two MP map packs and a new SP campaign.

So yeah, it's coming out later, but it still sounds like a pretty good deal.

Xtarath

Jeeze this is a horrible week. Scribblenauts and M&L, and Red Faction on the PC!

Henroid

slash000 wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

Red Faction is only now coming out on PC? Huh.

I played it this past week, we had it on order from Gamefly. It was... alright. My roomie beat it in two days.

Some people around here consider it a potential game of the year. I think it sounds good but it's lower on my to-buy priority list than other games this year.

Oh hey, really? I didn't see the story much nor any online play. But it has purposeful limited sandbox elements, which was cool. And gaining upgrades was alright.

I dunno. I think maybe it was the setting / story of the game. Guerrilla warfare on Mars. Cool but it didn't hook me and keep me in.

Spoit

brynstar wrote: »

It's worth noting that the PC version of Red Faction Guerilla includes all of the DLC, which if I'm not mistaken is two MP map packs and a new SP campaign.

So yeah, it's coming out later, but it still sounds like a pretty good deal.

And if you get it from steam before it comes out, you get the first two Red faction games for free

slash000

Henroid wrote: »

slash000 wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

Red Faction is only now coming out on PC? Huh.

I played it this past week, we had it on order from Gamefly. It was... alright. My roomie beat it in two days.

Some people around here consider it a potential game of the year. I think it sounds good but it's lower on my to-buy priority list than other games this year.

Oh hey, really? I didn't see the story much nor any online play. But it has purposeful limited sandbox elements, which was cool. And gaining upgrades was alright.

I dunno. I think maybe it was the setting / story of the game. Guerrilla warfare on Mars. Cool but it didn't hook me and keep me in.

I have no idea personally. I haven't played it yet. But I have heard at least a couple of people around here talk about it like it's the best thing ever. I don't know what aspects of the game they were referring to specifically, or the game as a whole, or what.

I enjoyed the first RF, and I like the concept. After I get my high priority games I'll consider getting RF:G if I have time and money...... but by then we'll probably be steeped in the Fall lineup followed by the Spring '10 crush.....

DeathPrawn

I tried to read the OP, but all I could see was SCRIBBLENAUTS SCRIBBLENAUTS SCRIBBLENAUTS.

slash000

Anybody getting "Wet" this week? I remember seeing.. or reading.. something about it that sounded cool.. some gaming newsblogs tried to hype it up a little bit but otherwise it's been kind of under the radar or so it seems.

Anyone getting the Williams Collection? Everyone who enjoys pinball loves the version (Wii) that's out now, so a lot of pinball fans with 360/PS3 have been looking forward to it.

cj iwakura

As much as I want to play RE5, I get the impression they forced co-op into what was originally meant to be a single player game.

Bartholamue

Dehumanized wrote: »

Ach! Mein wallet!

Yeah, I didn't want to spend any money for the rest of the month...but...mein wallet!

Phoenix-D

Spoit wrote: »

brynstar wrote: »

It's worth noting that the PC version of Red Faction Guerilla includes all of the DLC, which if I'm not mistaken is two MP map packs and a new SP campaign.

So yeah, it's coming out later, but it still sounds like a pretty good deal.

And if you get it from steam before it comes out, you get the first two Red faction games for free

On the other hand you don't get to see if it got a shitty port first.

The buy now thing works for Impulse too, BTW.

slash000

Phoenix-D wrote: »

Spoit wrote: »

brynstar wrote: »

It's worth noting that the PC version of Red Faction Guerilla includes all of the DLC, which if I'm not mistaken is two MP map packs and a new SP campaign.

So yeah, it's coming out later, but it still sounds like a pretty good deal.

And if you get it from steam before it comes out, you get the first two Red faction games for free

On the other hand you don't get to see if it got a shitty port first.

The buy now thing works for Impulse too, BTW.

Well the reviews don't mention any "problems" with the game being a port.

slash000

Also I looked up some gameplay vids of Wet.

It looks like Max Payne meets Kill Bill, essentially.

The style looks great but until I read some reviews and see more gameplay I'm not sure I would be 100% sold on it; meaning it looks good based on what little I've seen but without knowing and seeing more that's not enough to go by.

Still the concept is great so I guess we'll have to wait and find out what the reviews talk about.

Bartholamue

I really didn't expect the waterfall of games to come this early .

DeathPrawn

slash000 wrote: »

Anybody getting "Wet" this week? I remember seeing.. or reading.. something about it that sounded cool.. some gaming newsblogs tried to hype it up a little bit but otherwise it's been kind of under the radar or so it seems.

Anyone getting the Williams Collection? Everyone who enjoys pinball loves the version (Wii) that's out now, so a lot of pinball fans with 360/PS3 have been looking forward to it.

I played the demo at E3 and it was very solid. Not the sort of game that I personally would buy at full price, but it was a very well-done shooter with boatloads of style and a really clever control scheme.

UnbreakableVow

Hmm, nothing interesting this week...

Though I guess that's good, my wallet deserves a break before October.

Trus

Scribblenauts, M&L 3, NHL 10

expensive week

Skull2185

cj iwakura wrote: »

As much as I want to play RE5, I get the impression they forced co-op into what was originally meant to be a single player game.

Not at all.

You can play single player, and essentially have a pack mule followingyou around. But the two player co-op works very well and doesn't feel forced.

UnbreakableVow

cj iwakura wrote: »

As much as I want to play RE5, I get the impression they forced co-op into what was originally meant to be a single player game.

It's the opposite.

Co-op is pretty much the only way to play it. They sadly pretty much killed any good single-player offering.

cj iwakura

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

cj iwakura wrote: »

As much as I want to play RE5, I get the impression they forced co-op into what was originally meant to be a single player game.

It's the opposite.

Co-op is pretty much the only way to play it. They sadly pretty much killed any good single-player offering.

That's what I was afraid of.

Graviija

Yay Scribblenauts. Though I've have 'til the weekend to play it.

Kelor

cj iwakura wrote: »

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

cj iwakura wrote: »

As much as I want to play RE5, I get the impression they forced co-op into what was originally meant to be a single player game.

It's the opposite.

Co-op is pretty much the only way to play it. They sadly pretty much killed any good single-player offering.

That's what I was afraid of.

I said this earlier, but I would like it if they revived the Outbreak series (who had online for the PS2 anyways?) and used that for their multiplayer RE games while using the regular for the single player experiences.

mastrius

cj iwakura wrote: »

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

cj iwakura wrote: »

As much as I want to play RE5, I get the impression they forced co-op into what was originally meant to be a single player game.

It's the opposite.

Co-op is pretty much the only way to play it. They sadly pretty much killed any good single-player offering.

That's what I was afraid of.

I found singleplayer to be fine myself. The game was fun and co-op is excellent but you dont HAVE to play co-op.

Also, I dont know, I got that tv like I posted in the Wet thread and Im not sure if I can spend the money on it. I MIGHT because honestly. I have a soft spot for games that are awesome. And man is the game damn fun. The demo was excellent. Wanna play the full game. OH! I know. Im cancelling my order for Aion so Ill just put it on Wet! Bam. There we go. Reserve and its only 50 dollars so 10 bucks off. It works perfectly.

Darian

Reminder: Toys R Us is giving a $10 gift card TODAY (Sunday) only with the purchase of the new Mario and Luigi, and a $15 gift card with purchases on Scribblenauts on Tuesday.

slash000

That's right. Buy M&L today and get $10 (giftcard) to go towards Scribblenaughts on Tuesday for which you'll get $15 more dollars (giftcard).

In a way it's like buying M&L and then getting Scribblenauts for $5.

Bartholamue

Guessed I missed out since it's US only, eh?

Lunker

Kelor wrote: »

cj iwakura wrote: »

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

cj iwakura wrote: »

As much as I want to play RE5, I get the impression they forced co-op into what was originally meant to be a single player game.

It's the opposite.

Co-op is pretty much the only way to play it. They sadly pretty much killed any good single-player offering.

That's what I was afraid of.

I said this earlier, but I would like it if they revived the Outbreak series (who had online for the PS2 anyways?) and used that for their multiplayer RE games while using the regular for the single player experiences.

I loved RE5 and I played it single the entire way through on Normal, and I'm about a third of the way through a Hard mode run. The co-op partner thing didn't really change too much for me; it's definitely even far more on the action end of the spectrum instead of survival horror than RE4 was, but if you liked the gameplay of RE4 you'll still find it in RE5. The real-time inventory management and weapon swapping was really cool and made for some tense moments, and keeping all of your equipment and items for subsequent playthrough, plus being able to go back to earlier chapters for speed runs or to raise more cash made it feel more RPG-ish.

darleysam

Red Faction: firstly, it's not an FPS, it's third-person. Secondly.. well I personally fail to see how someone couldn't love it, but I guess that's possible. The first time I blew a hole in a wall and watched a building collapse, It was love. I strongly suggest if you're even remotely interested in the best destruction physics available to date, then give it a look.

Wet: I'd written it off entirely based on what I'd read about it, from the name (yes I know it's about 'wetwork', killing people, but you try telling me that 'A2M' aren't playing up the sexuality of the game and I will punch you in your dirty lying whore mouth) and lead character, and what sounded like uninspiring gameplay, it sounded like easily-dismissable nerdbait.
Frustratingly, the demo is actually kinda fun. It's basically what would happen if the Stranglehold team oversaw development of Kill Bill: The Game.

Brainiac 8

Woo, Scribblenauts....I'm trying to find a way to work getting that as well as M&L3.

Lunker

I will be snagging Scribblenauts at Toys R Us. I was initially going to hold off, but I was going to scrounge up some loose change to buy a new $20 MS Points card, so I can just put that money toward Scribblenauts and use the $15 card for my points. Win-win! I fear that and RB Beatles will be the last games I buy for myself in ... well, a very, very long time. Saving up for grad school is rough.

Dodge Aspen

That Toys R Us deal, is that in Canada land as well?

RainbowDespair

Don't know how long it'll take in review, but my XBox 360 Indie game, Molly the Were-Zompire, should be coming out this week or next. It's an Interactive Novel (like the old Choose Your Own Adventure books) where depending on your choices, the plot changes drastically. Since it's me, it parodies a lot of gaming elements (especially RPGs). 80 MS points to download.

Darian

Dodge Aspen wrote: »

That Toys R Us deal, is that in Canada land as well?

No idea; it was in the local ad for the week, which you should be able to check online.

brynstar

RainbowDespair wrote: »

Don't know how long it'll take in review, but my XBox 360 Indie game, Molly the Were-Zompire, should be coming out this week or next. It's an Interactive Novel (like the old Choose Your Own Adventure books) where depending on your choices, the plot changes drastically. Since it's me, it parodies a lot of gaming elements (especially RPGs). 80 MS points to download.

Neat! I'll be sure to check it out, thanks for mentioning it.