Week o Games, 8/16: Wolfenstein, Shadow Complex...

slash000

Another week, another 7 days of new game releases!

Welcome to the 77 edition of G&T's newly traditional "Weekly Games Release Thread!" - Week 8/16/09 - 8/22/09!

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

Marker Man Adventures

All Star 5-A-Side Football

Sudoku Ball Detective

PC

Wolfenstein




Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay





Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger



Delta Force: Xtreme 2 (GameStop Limited Edition)

Pizza Morgana: Monsters and Manipulations in the Magical Forest

Osmos


War Leaders: Clash of Nations

PS2

nothing

PS3

Wolfenstein

PSP

nothing

Wii

Spectrobes: Origins

Speed Zone

Paws & Claws Pet Vet

Xbox360

Wolfenstein




Shadow Complex



Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger

Meh okay week I guess.

We've got Wolfenstein on the HD platforms / PC! Raven-developed, based on the latest iteration of ID Technology. Looks like fun, bu will it do enough to stand out from other FPSs and WWII-based games? Looks like fun, but I don't know if it'll stand out enough. We'll see.


I think the new Monkey Island comes out for the PC this week but I'm unsure.



Last but certainly not least is the first big "metroid"-style action game on the XBLA, as Shadow Complex comes out for the digital distro system this week! Looks fantastic. Must-buy!


The Raven Squad game sounds interesting (360 and PC game), as it's supposedly a mix of RTS and FPS... but I've heard nothing about it besides that...


Not much else this week; hopefully the digital distro games will be good.....

Dehumanized

Will be buying Shadow Complex day one, putting Wolfenstein on the "to get later" list, possibly a rental.

slash000

Yeah Wolfenstein is still up in the air for me, too. I just.. I still have quite a large back log, and I need to cut through it. My backlog might take priority over Wolfenstein. Heck other games I haven't gotten around to buying yet might take priority...

It looks like a good, solid, fun game, but I haven't seen anything about it yet that just screams to me, "This is awesome! Here's why you should buy this ASAP!" But I've seen plenty of things that have made me go, "Huh, that looks like fun, I should get that at some point eventually."




Also I never got into the RTCW multiplayer. No idea if this game will have anything like that either. But I do know the main draw of the last Wolf game was its multi.

UnbreakableVow

Waiting for reviews on Wolfenstein.

Roughly 30 hours to go until Shadow Complex hits...not that I'm counting or anything...but yeah, it's the game that threw me over to the edge on getting a 360, so I'm sure I'll love it.

UnbreakableVow

Wait I am wrong about Shadow Complex.

It's on Wednesday? What the- why the- when the fuck did Xbox start putting out games on Wednesday instead of Tuesday?

Steev

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Wait I am wrong about Shadow Complex.

It's on Wednesday? What the- why the- when the fuck did Xbox start putting out games on Wednesday instead of Tuesday?

Pretty sure it's been that way ever since I got my 360.

I got my 360 in June of last year.

Also, I didn't realize the new Wolfenstein game came out this week. I know almost nothing about it. I seem to recall podcast chatter indicating that it is an open-world game? Anyway it'd take a lot to get me to buy it this week, what with my backlog and also Shadow Complex coming out.

-SPI-

Yay Shadow Complex!

Wolfenstein doesn't appeal at all, it looks like horrible imagination starved rubbish half heartedly retreading the same ground as Return. "Sub-Prey" would be the best way to sum up what the quality looks like. Regardless it seems odd that there hasn't been much build up for it.

Spoit

I'm kind of tempted by people favorably mentioning wolfenstien's MP being similar to RTCW, and the $10 GC from best buy for the PC version is tempting, but it has markdown to $30 before the end of the year written all over it, and I really should be saving my money for the huge glut of games in october...

LewieP

I am getting Shadow Complex.

Hell, I might even pay for it.

devoir

Tales of Monkey Island is out on the 20th, so this week.

That's about the only thing I'm getting. I might check out the Shadow Complex demo depending on how big it is.

Mikesta

I am going to buy Shadow Complex and fornicate with it until it becomes pregnant. I want that game so badly.

Sterica

Another Monkey Island episode already?

-SPI-

Rorus Raz wrote: »

Another Monkey Island episode already?

That's how it works. One a month.

Mikesta

In fact, I have been playing Symphony of the Night on XBLA this week partially in anticipation of Shadow Complex's release.

Steev

Wolfenstein actually got a good review over at Giant Bomb: http://www.giantbomb.com/wolfenstein/61-21119/reviews/

Still not really going to bother with it for at least a year, I suspect.

Spoit

-SPI- wrote: »

Rorus Raz wrote: »

Another Monkey Island episode already?

That's how it works. One a month.

It's actually been more like a month and a half, so I'm feeling overdue for my next fix.

I decided that I'm going to wait to see how the MP community is on wolf before jumping. Or if gogamer has it for a good sale

brynstar

I bought Wolfenstein not knowing too much about it. I always pick up ID games though and I've liked many of Raven's titles. For an ID Tech 4 powered game, it's pretty neat! The game starts out really dull but then quickly introduces all of the supernatural elements and some powers. I thought this was a clever way for it to distance itself from other shooters, plus I really like the open world hub town sequences. It reminds me a bit of the town stuff in Far Cry 2. I've been pleasantly surprised by it, enough that I finally picked up the port of the original game from PSN.