Week o Games, 1/10: Army of Two 2, Sky Crawlers, Serious Sam HD, Sands of Destruction

slash000

Another week, another 7 days of new game releases!

Welcome to the 97 edition of G&T's newly traditional "Weekly Games Release Thread!" - Week 1/10/10 - 1/16/10 !

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

Sands of Destruction



Windy X Windam

Touch Solitaire

Daniel X: The Ultimate Power

PC

Twin Sector retail release - may not show up on shelves til next week; is out on Steam now


Mary Kay Andrews: The Fixer Upper

The Sims 2 Fun with Pets Collection

Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis

PS2

nothing

PS3

Army of Two: The 40th Day

PSP

Army of Two: The 40th Day

Wii

Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces




Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (WiiWare)



Chronos Twins DX (wiiware)


ShadowPlay (WiiWare i think)

Crazy Chicken Tales

Walk It Out

Xbox360

Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter




Army of Two: The 40th Day

Second real week o' games of the new year and the games keep a'comin'!


We have a Sega RPG called Sands of Destruction for NDS. Could be another decent JRPG for the system.

Then, the HD consoles and PSP have Army of Two: The 40th Day, the sequel to EA's previous coop-centric third person shooter featuring gratuitous fist-pounding.

Next the Wii gets Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces, a flight combat game from the Ace Combat people, based on the books/anime in Japan. It looks like it'll be pretty good; the Wii needs another good flight combat game. Also on Wii we have Capcom's Phoenix Wright on WiiWare, which should please the many fans of the attorney non-sim. Lastly I believe Chronos Twins comes out for WiiWare, which is a really cool concept and based on a previous DS reslease, which was good in concept but poor in execution so hopefully the new one is better.


Last but not least we have Serious Sam: The First Encounter HD coming to the Xbox 360 this week! Woooo! Or should I say, AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaahhhh yourself!

LewieP

The demo of Army of Two: The 40th Day was a bit of a shitfest.

Edit: iirc, the version of Chronos Twin on Wiiware is a straight up port of the DS version, not a new game.

lowlylowlycook

Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces is such a terrible, terrible name.

Henroid

I expect an Army of Two comic this or next week on PA.

Bartholamue

So Phoenix Wright is just the first game, but now on the Wii?

Henroid

Bartholamue wrote: »

So Phoenix Wright is just the first game, but now on the Wii?

And finger-pointing waggle, instead of yelling OBJECTION.

slash000

Henroid wrote: »

Bartholamue wrote: »

So Phoenix Wright is just the first game, but now on the Wii?

And finger-pointing waggle, instead of yelling OBJECTION.

For clarification (for whoever may or may not know), waggle to object is optional, as the objection command can be set to a button press.

But why wouldn't you want finger-pointing waggle!??!

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces is such a terrible, terrible name.

Everyone thinks it's got something to do with babies unfortunately.


If the reviews continue to be decent I'll probably get the game though.

Bartholamue

I'm also curious about that Sands Of Destruction game. Is it an RPG?

hmm, it looks like Yasunori Mitsuda worked on this game. Might be worth checking out.

UnbreakableVow

slash000 wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

Bartholamue wrote: »

So Phoenix Wright is just the first game, but now on the Wii?

And finger-pointing waggle, instead of yelling OBJECTION.

For clarification (for whoever may or may not know), waggle to object is optional, as the objection command can be set to a button press.

But why wouldn't you want finger-pointing waggle!??!

This is how they will get me to purchase a Wii again!

It's so fucking ingenious

Htown

Phoenix Wright Wii apparently just uses the GBA sprites again, or so I've heard.

Not gonna be pretty.

Also, Sky Crawlers is "another" good flight combat game for Wii? What was the first one?

UnbreakableVow

Htown wrote: »

Phoenix Wright Wii apparently just uses the GBA sprites again, or so I've heard.

Man, that's awesome still, I don't even care

I had a Game Boy Player, I'm prepared for that shit

BTP

Posting ust to show some people some Phoenix Wright WiiWare stuff. It seems straight from the DS version, condensed back into one screen.

WiiWare - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - First Look Part 1

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Japanese Advertising - Wii

And yes, this one is different.
Phoenix Wright - Gyakuten Saiban WiiWare Commercial

If you won't spend the points for this game for yourself, gift them to the less fortunate. :winky:

Henroid

Oh, it'll let you keep multiple save files it looks like. That's pretty neat.

slash000

Htown wrote: »

Also, Sky Crawlers is "another" good flight combat game for Wii? What was the first one?

Well.. HeatSeeker was okay. Not sure I'd call it good but it wasn't all that bad. It had a lot of cool controller options, and it was pretty fun dogfighting and target bombing action. Problem is that graphically it looks like a total turd. And the story is pretty laughable. Still, it has an awesome variety of jets to take control of, and they all feel very distinct. There's also a huge variety of weapon and missile types to choose from, the strategic choices of which heavily affect how well you'll do in the mission. Pick a poor jet and a poor load-out for a given mission and you'll have a hell of a hard time; pick a suitable jet and a good load-out for a mission and you'll rock. Anyway, blazing through the skies, chasing down and locking on and blasting down enemy fighters is just a really fun activity and it gets that right, even though the graphics are pretty bad.

brynstar

I'm probably going to pick up Phoenix Wright as I've never played those and have heard nothing but awesome.

Also, I'm still surprised that Army of Two got a sequel...and weirdly kind of interested in it. I should perhaps go play the awful-sounding demo.

cj iwakura

Sky Crawlers has one thing going for it: it's made by the Ace Combat team.

UnbreakableVow

Yeah, Phoenix Wright looks absolutely good enough on a big screen.

elliotw2

So, the PSP Army of Two is pretty decent, though keep in mind that it's an arena shooter with the story of it's big brother. Also for max lazy reuse story points, uses the same cutscenes as the PS3 version

Sky Crawlers gets it's name from that anime movie by that guy who made Ghost in the Shell, if it ends up good, I could always use more flight games.

HyperAquaBlast

cj iwakura wrote: »

Sky Crawlers has one thing going for it: it's made by the Ace Combat team.

Hopefully now that this is done they get to work on the next Ace Combat.

cooljammer00

elliotw2 wrote: »

So, the PSP Army of Two is pretty decent, though keep in mind that it's an arena shooter with the story of it's big brother. Also for max lazy reuse story points, uses the same cutscenes as the PS3 version

Sky Crawlers gets it's name from that anime movie by that guy who made Ghost in the Shell, if it ends up good, I could always use more flight games.

How does it control with one nub?

Also, the fist pounding seems to have been toned down for the sequel. You can still do it and whatnot, but I think the devs felt a little embarrassed at all the mockery their game got and made it a little more serious. I can't wait to see what Gabe and Tycho think this time.

elliotw2

cooljammer00 wrote: »

elliotw2 wrote: »

So, the PSP Army of Two is pretty decent, though keep in mind that it's an arena shooter with the story of it's big brother. Also for max lazy reuse story points, uses the same cutscenes as the PS3 version

Sky Crawlers gets it's name from that anime movie by that guy who made Ghost in the Shell, if it ends up good, I could always use more flight games.

How does it control with one nub?

Also, the fist pounding seems to have been toned down for the sequel. You can still do it and whatnot, but I think the devs felt a little embarrassed at all the mockery their game got and made it a little more serious. I can't wait to see what Gabe and Tycho think this time.

Not bad, and it has auto aim and a co-op mode, so the face buttons to shoot in 8 directions is better than on most games

brynstar

I tried the Army of Two demo on 360, and actually found it rather enjoyable. Well, until it crashed during a load screen after myself and my co-op partner died...I'm thinking he maybe quit and it crashed because he was hosting.

Anyway, I'm thinking of picking it up now.

EDIT: I also tried the PSP demo, and wow, it was really cool too. It reminds me of a mix of a dual stick shooter, Killzone Liberation, and Contra. It might also be the best looking PSP game I've ever played.

Shadowfire

Bartholamue wrote: »

I'm also curious about that Sands Of Destruction game. Is it an RPG?

hmm, it looks like Yasunori Mitsuda worked on this game. Might be worth checking out.

Gives me some definite Xenogears vibes with the combo-based combat. I'm psyched.

Also excited for Sky Crawlers.

Xenogears of Bore

cj iwakura wrote: »

Sky Crawlers has one thing going for it: it's made by the Ace Combat team.

You know what the last Nintendo game the AC team worked on was?

STAR FOX ASSAULT.

cj iwakura

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

cj iwakura wrote: »

Sky Crawlers has one thing going for it: it's made by the Ace Combat team.

You know what the last Nintendo game the AC team worked on was?

STAR FOX ASSAULT.

And? I liked it.

elliotw2

cj iwakura wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

cj iwakura wrote: »

Sky Crawlers has one thing going for it: it's made by the Ace Combat team.

You know what the last Nintendo game the AC team worked on was?

STAR FOX ASSAULT.

And? I liked it.

Hey, I thought that I was the only one

Xenogears of Bore

It was mainly a joke. The flight combat in that game was the best the series had ever seen, but unfortunately they thought people liked the tank and on foot portions of SF64's multiplayer...

brynstar

I liked Star Fox Assault as well.

I still want a new Star Fox game.

Going to pick up Army of Two today. Switched my pre-order from Dark Void over to it yesterday.

Bartholamue

You know what I want? A new F-Zero game.

LewieP

Bartholamue wrote: »

You know what I want? A new F-Zero game.

With you there

Shadowfire

Do you want that with DS touch screen controls, or waggle?

But seriously, yes, F-Zero now please.

Htown

Waggle.

slash000

Shadowfire wrote: »

Do you want that with DS touch screen controls, or waggle?

But seriously, yes, F-Zero now please.

Balance board.

lowlylowlycook

slash000 wrote: »

Shadowfire wrote: »

Do you want that with DS touch screen controls, or waggle?

But seriously, yes, F-Zero now please.

Balance board.

If you mean for rudder controls then I can get behind this. Also for torso twist in a mech game.

Krathoon

Hey, guys. realMyst has been released on GOG.com for $5.99. Finally, no more highway robbery to get a copy.

brynstar

Krathoon wrote: »

Hey, guys. realMyst has been released on GOG.com for $5.99. Finally, no more highway robbery to get a copy.

I didn't realize that RealMyst required highway robbery in order to obtain. I haven't played my copy in years and would have perhaps considered selling it. Really cool that it's on gog.com, it's a pretty neat game.

I should actually try playing it again as I imagine I could finally run it well! It was a huge system hog at the time of release. I remember it looking amazing though.

Krathoon

brynstar wrote: »

Krathoon wrote: »

Hey, guys. realMyst has been released on GOG.com for $5.99. Finally, no more highway robbery to get a copy.

I didn't realize that RealMyst required highway robbery in order to obtain. I haven't played my copy in years and would have perhaps considered selling it. Really cool that it's on gog.com, it's a pretty neat game.

I should actually try playing it again as I imagine I could finally run it well! It was a huge system hog at the time of release. I remember it looking amazing though.

I think it was free on GameTap for a little while, but you had to sign up with them. Now you can get it cheap with no strings attached. People were charging ridiculous prices for used copy. Sometimes it was $50 for just the CD. Complete boxed versions go for about $120. It is kind of silly. It is just Myst.

brynstar

Krathoon wrote: »

brynstar wrote: »

Krathoon wrote: »

Hey, guys. realMyst has been released on GOG.com for $5.99. Finally, no more highway robbery to get a copy.

I didn't realize that RealMyst required highway robbery in order to obtain. I haven't played my copy in years and would have perhaps considered selling it. Really cool that it's on gog.com, it's a pretty neat game.

I should actually try playing it again as I imagine I could finally run it well! It was a huge system hog at the time of release. I remember it looking amazing though.

I think it was free on GameTap for a little while, but you had to sign up with them. Now you can get it cheap with no strings attached. People were charging ridiculous prices for used copy. Sometimes it was $50 for just the CD. Complete boxed versions go for about $120. It is kind of silly. It is just Myst.

Whoa crap that's crazy indeed...It's not so amazing as to fetch such prices. Must have been a small print run?

Brainiac 8

Someone get Sky Crawlers and tell me how it is! :x

brynstar

Brainiac 8 wrote: »

Someone get Sky Crawlers and tell me how it is! :x

I really want to know as well!!! I guess...I guess that doesn't really help you.

EDIT: IGN seems to have quite enjoyed it? http://wii.ign.com/articles/105/1059182p1.html

Bartholamue

So, has anyone picked up Sands Of Destruction yet?