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This Week's Games - 3rd Edition! 2/17
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Another week, another 7 days of new game releases!
Welcome to the third edition of G&T's newly traditional "Weekly Games Release Thread!"
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!
The Club (PC, PS3, X360)
Need for Speed ProStreet (PSP)
Dynasty Warriors 6 (PS3, X360)
FIFA Street 3 (X360, PS3, DS)
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (WII)
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (DS)
History Channel: Battle for the Pacific (PS3)
CABAL Online (PC)
MX vs. ATV Untamed (WII)
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N+
N+ comes out this week on XBLA for 800MSP. For those who haven't played it, the original N is one of the best freeware games of all time - take Lode Runner and add a physics engine, a stick figure ninja, and some insane levels and N is what you get. Among other things, N+ adds new levels, multiplayer features, HD visuals (not like it's a graphically intense game though), leaderboards, and achievements.
I'm also showing DDR Extreme pack and DDR MAX2 coming out for the PS2.
My guess is the good picks would be The Club, Apollo Justice, DQ Swords, and maybe Dynasty Warriors if you're looking for the typical hack'n'slash.
So, anyone looking forward to anything?
Welcome to the third edition of G&T's newly traditional "Weekly Games Release Thread!"
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!
The Club (PC, PS3, X360)
The Club is a new breed of third-person shooter, combining fast-paced run and gun gameplay, destructive environments, lethal weapons and an in-depth story structure. You will fight to survive in a shadowy underground blood-sport controlled by a faceless, obscenely wealthy and influential elite who place their bets on who will survive as the blood-bath ensues before them. Take control of up to eight uniquely trained killers motivated by greed, driven by pure insane bloodlust, and hell bent on earning respect on a global level. As one of eight fighters, blast your way through five single player game modes including: Standard Mode, Time Attack, Survivor, Siege, and Run the Gauntlet. Earn Respect Online. Shoot your way to the top of the leader boards in over nine cut-throat multiplayer modes. Face-off with 15 real-time opponents online or battle with your friends offline in 4-player split-screen action modes. Battle in eight unique real-world locations from around the globe, including war-torn cities, abandoned factories, steel mills and many more. Extreme Gun Battles in Hazardous Environments: A motion blur camera system intensifies the adrenaline rush in both open range and close quarter firefights. Destroy and manipulate objects in the environment to your advantage. A unique score-based accumulation system creates even more competition among players; the faster, more efficient and accurate that you are, the more points you will earn to unlock weapons, characters and maps. There are 17 high-powered assault weapons to choose from and customize, including Automatic Weapons, Sniper Rifles, High Caliber Pistols, Sub Machine Guns, and Mounted Weapons. Each Character has a Story to Tell. [Sega]
Need for Speed ProStreet (PSP)
Need for Speed ProStreet accelerates street racing culture by providing the ultimate stage for the pursuit of street racing supremacy. It is a game about building the ultimate performance-tuned battle machine, taking it to multi-disciplinary showdowns all over the world and pitting your skills and reputation against the very best street racers. Need for Speed ProStreet boasts impeccable precision and impressively detailed photo-realistic graphics, effectively transporting you to the center of the action. It pushes the Autosculpt technology to a new level, allowing you to directly impact your car's performance for the first time as well as personalize its appearance. Need for Speed ProStreet is a true taste of raw adrenaline and racing with consequences. Every dent, every scratch and every crumpled body panel is a battle scar, proof of your commitment and competitive mettle. With an aggressive and skilled AI system, you become immersed in an unmatched believable race experience. Add in a revolutionary online mode that will redefine the meaning of competitive social play, and Need for Speed ProStreet is the ultimate formula for an emotionally charged street racing showdown. [Electronic Arts]
Dynasty Warriors 6 (PS3, X360)
Set in Ancient China during the 3rd century, Dynasty Warriors 6 immerses gamers in a truly cinematic kung-fu action experience. Celebrated characters have been completely re-imagined with new weapons and fighting techniques motion-captured from some of today’s leading stuntmen and women in Asia. With the game’s new “Renbu” attack system and game controls, players can execute lightning-fast combos and the most dazzling fighting moves with ease. Developed from the ground up exclusively for next-generation platforms, the game's proprietary engine delivers the most chaotic and challenging Tactical Action experience to date. Players can use the landscape to elude the thousands of soldiers swarming the battlefield. But as players move and attack, adaptable enemy A.I. devises offensive and defensive combat tactics, and can retaliate with packs of fierce hunting dogs and patrol boats. All of the explosive action comes to life in high definition, 60 frames per second graphics. [KOEI]
FIFA Street 3 (X360, PS3, DS)
Featuring over 250 of the world’s best players representing 18 of the top international teams, each player has been rendered into a stylized caricature with heroic qualities. Decked out in authentic training kits, every player boasts their own, distinctive style of play with unique abilities to match. Whether you’re after brawn, brains, silky skills or crunching tackles to complete your team, the perfect street player is out there. Choose from Tricksters, Enforcers, Playmakers and Finishers to give you different options on the ball and make your mark on the street. Fill up your all-new Game Breaker to power your ultimate abilities and express yourself like never before. Maneuver your players to leap past defenders, flip off walls, or perform gravity-defying one-timers to score spectacular goals. From the urban playgrounds of South America to the rooftops in Asia to the streets of Europe, your players perform to an eclectic selection of music seamlessly infused into the surroundings, where the game’s environments pulsate, and explode to life with every well-timed tackle, outrageous trick move or unstoppable shot on goal. [Electronic Arts]
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (WII)
Five years have passed since the defeat of the Deathbringer, and the kingdom of Avalonia joyously celebrates what seems to be an everlasting era of peace. However, a closer look reveals that things are amiss. Calamity arises within the kingdom, as unfamiliar and powerful monsters invade the outskirts of town. With the Deathbringer gone, what explanation is there for the onset of these monsters? And what of the queen, who has come to hide her face behind a strange mask? Make your way through the perilous journey, solve the baffling mysteries and return order to Avalonia. [Square Enix]
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (DS)
This is the fourth game in the series and the first developed specifically for Nintendo DS and sees a change of direction for the story line with the introduction of new defense attorney Apollo Justice and a host of new characters. Players star as rookie defense attorney Apollo Justice as he visits crime scenes, questions key witnesses and collects vital evidence before stepping into the courtroom to prove his clients' innocence. Facing Apollo across the courtroom is the highly talented and flamboyant prosecutor Klavier Gavin who, in addition to being a legal genius, is also lead singer with Gavinners, a highly successful rock band with a string of hits to their name. He may be young and inexperienced but Apollo's confident manner and passion, coupled with his unique ability to uncover witnesses' lies by studying their body language, will prove invaluable assets in the courtroom as he pleads the case for the defense. Thankfully, Apollo is not alone and is aided both in and out of the courtroom by his assistant Trucy, a mysterious female magician. Apollo also receives invaluable advice from his mentor the ultra-cool Kristoph Gavin, elder brother of Klavier, whose perfect logic and natural instincts have won him numerous cases and the respect of his colleagues. [Capcom]
History Channel: Battle for the Pacific (PS3)
The History Channel takes you to the Battle for the Pacific where you will experience history brought to life in one of the defining campaigns of World War II. Relive epic land battles fought on some of the most brutal and unforgiving battlefields in recorded history. Retake strategically important locations throughout the Pacific Theatre that are vital to the allies on the Road to Tokyo. Play through the eyes of an American GI as you experience intense, no holds barred action against an opponent for which surrender isn't an option! Fire authentic allied and axis weaponry including sub-machine guns, sniper rifles, anti-aircraft guns, pistols, and grenades Relive History - each level begins with a documentary video featuring actual battle footage, key facts and statistics, and the importance that the battle ultimately played in the allied victory. Fight from Henderson Field in Guadalcanal through the Philippines to Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Experience some of the most exotic and forbidden battlefields including dense jungles and barren volcanic islands. Face the harsh realities of war as you engage the enemy on the frontlines. Fight alongside squadron members reacting to the events of the battlefield, where fighting is often hand to hand and your objective is simple - defeat the enemy at all costs. Based on actual battles including storming the beaches in an amphibious assault, recapturing a strategic airfield, defending against an enemy assault, going on a search and destroy mission, fighting through fortified caves and scaling Mount Suribachi to plant the American flag. Play online as an American or Japanese soldier in your favorite individual and team based modes including elimination, team elimination, death match, team death match and capture the flag on battlefields painstakingly recreated from topographical maps and historical records. Battles come to life amidst exploding artillery, whistling bullets, falling comrades, unrelenting enemies and much more. [Activision]
CABAL Online (PC)
As everyone knows a game should be exciting and interesting and that means MMORPG as well. Well built battle/skill systems, clear quest systems and spectacular battle moves are the basic contents of an interesting game as well as fabulous 3D graphics and a high level of animation which bear a close resemblance to the real world. Even though it was difficult to achieve, the end result for the user is worth it. Within the game environment you should be the hero. After solving puzzles, tricks, traps,and beating tough bosses, you should feel fulfilment and delight. After all that look for new adventures and challenges. But the online gaming world means there are endless stories and infinite competitions. You become the hero and it is not easy to feel moved by the game. But, CABAL Online will make you a hero; we will give you your very own story. [Games-Masters]
MX vs. ATV Untamed (WII)
MX vs ATV kicks it up a notch and shifts into high gear as the best selling offroad franchise returns. MX vs ATV’s legendary Rhythm Racing lets players pre-load into massive jumps and clutch through hairpin turns at full speed all while retaining the smooth and authentic feel not found in any other game. Attempt to own the offroad by dominating the innovative new "X-Cross Tournament ". X-Cross brings together 6 unique racing series like Opencross, Supercross, Rally and Supermoto and then crosses them into one ultimate offroad championship. Brand new styles of racing are born as powerful vehicles tear through treacherous trails in the new Opencross mode, while then shifting gears to navigate asphalt and dirt in Supermoto. Players can take control of the Monster and Trophy Trucks as they blitz through rough rivers, rip though swampy everglades, and blaze through the desert dunes. Customize your ride with new sponsorship logos on your vehicle. Be the last vehicle standing as 6 players compete online. [THQ]
Added:
N+
N+ comes out this week on XBLA for 800MSP. For those who haven't played it, the original N is one of the best freeware games of all time - take Lode Runner and add a physics engine, a stick figure ninja, and some insane levels and N is what you get. Among other things, N+ adds new levels, multiplayer features, HD visuals (not like it's a graphically intense game though), leaderboards, and achievements.
I'm also showing DDR Extreme pack and DDR MAX2 coming out for the PS2.
My guess is the good picks would be The Club, Apollo Justice, DQ Swords, and maybe Dynasty Warriors if you're looking for the typical hack'n'slash.
So, anyone looking forward to anything?
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This timing is most unfortunate. I am still trying to finish about 6 other games. Hmm....
I played the demo of the Club, it seemed alright. That and Swords are the most intriguing to me out of this bunch, though with my current backlog I may hold off on picking them up for a while.
Man. What happened to February having no releases?
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The Club has gained a significant following, if you haven't tried it I'd recommend giving it a shot. Personally I didn't like it but it definitely seems a bit of a marmite game.
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As for those up there, I'd consider Apollo Justice, but there's already a whole lot that I should still go and play first. Other than that, not a lot up there that really interests me, but I accept that I'm not normal.
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I edited it onto last week's list on Monday iirc.
Anyway, I might get DQ Swords, but I'm going to wait just a little gain some more info on it before I take the plunge.
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EDIT: FUCK.
Next Week.
Dammit
DW 6 has a new engine, and it has new game mechanics. I really like the Three Kingdoms period, and I've always been a fan of the DW concept, which is why I got into it in the first place, but goddamn, they've completely squandered whatever potential the series had up until this game (and FUCK Samurai Warriors). I sincerely hope it's good.
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Phantasy Star II
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Ninja Gaiden III
Great week if you feel like you've been bad and need to punish yourself with cardiac stressing balls to the wall hard as shit games.
Also, I'm going to get Apollo Justice on Wednesday.
There should be more hours in a day, like 32 or so. You know, just to offset that pesky work thing.
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Hey, some people get to eat cat/dog food for a living, to check it's okay. Some people get paid to take part in medical research. You're in good company.
that was always awesome
Other than that, I would like me big screen N, but 10 bucks is a little much for what is likely a slightly pumped up version of a game I played to death for free. Ill be grabbing the trial version, for sure, though.
Also, I'm a little perturbed by the reviews of DQS: Really long subtitle. It seems like a cool idea, but it seems to be getting a pretty meh response. I definitely can't justify grabbing it when I haven't even got No More Heroes yet.
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Anyway, The Club is gonna be my big gaming expenditure for this month. I'll need to pick up Apollo Justice soon, though.
DQ Swords was quietly bumped up one week; I made a thread about it a few days ago but it's been shuffled off the first few pages.
I'm really torn over Swords; it sounds like a game that's right up my alley once I've decoded the reviews, but funds are tight and I have to choose between this or Crisis Core next month. Plus I'd love to grab Apollo Justice, but I already got Layton last week, so that's my DS expenditure for the season. It sucks being financially responsible.
Here here. I have pledged to not spend any monies on anything until Brawl hits. Just because I know everything I get into now will all be shelved for the rest of this year, once I get into Brawl, and then GTA IV in April. I will stick to getting through Crackdown and Psychonauts until March 9th, as tough as it is.
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This is the wise decision, although it's always brutal seeing a new and awesome game on the shelves and not being able to run out and buy it ASAP. Stand firm, good man! Once the New Year rolled around, I swore to myself and my wife that I wouldn't buy anything new outside of some GameStop credit I had saved up and a leftover gift card, so about $90 worth of credit for games to last me the first half of the year.
I'm actually going through Psychonauts on my own backlog too.
I hope Nanostray 2 comes out next week.
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