Game Releases: Week of Feb. 5th

[Velorath]

First week of February is looking to be a pretty big release week.  Anything in particular anyone here is excited about?  Any definite purchases?  Games you're waiting to see the reviews on?  The list of releases for the week is (more or less) as follows:

Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles - UbiSoft - (DS)

Blokus Portable: Steambot Championship - Irem Software Engineering - (PSP)

Culdcept Saga - Omiya Soft - (360)

Devil May Cry 4 - Capcom Production Studio 1 - (PS3, 360, PC)

Downstream Panic! - Eko System - (PSP)

Karaoke Revolution Presents American Idol Encore - Blitz Games - (PS2, Wii, 360)

Nobunaga's Ambition: Rise to Power - KOEI - (PS2)

Sins of a Solar Empire - Take 2 - (PC)

Spaceforce Captains - Provox Games - (PC)

Target: Terror - Konami - (Wii)

Turok - Propaganda Games - (PS3, 360)

Twisted Metal: Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition - Eat, Sleep, Play - (PS2)

Zoo Tycoon 2 - THQ - (DS)


- Circuit City is currently offering $10 Gift Cards with a pre-order of Turok or DMC4 (both the 360 and PS3 versions).  You get the gift card when you pick the game up.

- Target is offering a free strategy guide with DMC4 (both 360 and PS3 versions).

- EBgames is offering a free T-shirt with a pre-order of Turok, as well as a demo disk with an in-store pre-order (both 360 and PS3).

- Culdcept Saga and Nobunaga's Ambition are both releasing at $40.  Twisted Metal will be only $20.

- The Collector's Edition of DMC4 includes the following:

Capcom® Entertainment, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today announced the contents of the Devil May Cry® 4 Collector's Edition package, which includes volume 1 of ADV Films' Devil May Cry: The Animated Series, a Steelbook™ case and a bonus DVD filled with extras. The $79.99 Devil May Cry 4 Collector's Edition will be available February 5, 2008, for both the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.

The Devil May Cry: The Animated Series anime disc will be packed with the Steelbook case, and will include the first four episodes of the 12 episode anime series. Volume one of the four-disc DVD anime series will be available from ADV Films at the same time the game launches. Inside the case will be a second bonus DVD alongside the game that users can slip into their computers. The bonus DVD will contain a "making of" feature on the game, music from the Devil May Cry 4 soundtrack, a digital art book with images and sketches from the development team, wallpapers, icons and screen savers.

[schild]

Blokus Portable: Steambot Championship - Irem Software Engineering - (PSP)
Culdcept Saga - Omiya Soft - (360)
Devil May Cry 4 - Capcom Production Studio 1 - (PS3, 360, PC)
Nobunaga's Ambition: Rise to Power - KOEI - (PS2)
Turok - Propaganda Games - (PS3, 360)
Twisted Metal: Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition - Eat, Sleep, Play - (PS2)

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel.

[AngryGumball]

Sins of a Solar Empire - Take 2 - (PC)


Craving totally something new RTS...its a Day one purchase right now. Not going to wait for reviews or impressions.

Just watched G4TV's preview http://www.g4tv.com/xplay/previews/19985/Hands_On_Sins_of_a_Solar_Empire.html


My last 3 RTS purchased were, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts....Supreme Commander(Original) C&C3. All 3 currently uninstalled, never finished any of the 3. Couldn't justify purchasing the xpansion for SupCom, when I never fully got full play out of original even if it was major upgrade from everythign i read. C&C3 I shoulda not bought got to much hype and bought it. Company of Heroes I got enough playtime, that I'm fine with, I just realized I couldn't hang with any skill with the online players.

So I put SupCom on my pile of shame game table want to finish it play it more just never did, I put C&C3 into my angry that I bought it, more fuck you EA. Opposing fronts glad i bought it since I missed original, glad I support Relic, would play it more if i didn't need my HDD space to download more Naruto and Bleach, although I know full well I'd never master it to be a compentent 2v2 4v4 partner.

[Moaner]

I'm sort of broke at the moment and will only be picking up Culdecept Saga.  I just bought Burnout Paradise (which rocks) and I'm hoping that keeps me entertained for a while.

I hope Nobunaga's Ambition is good and doesn't sell out in a week.

[Mazakiel]

Culdcept, Turok, And DMC4 are definites for me.  Thankfully, I'll have my birthday the day after they hit, so I'll have the spare money. 

On the Nobunaga game, I'm not sure, I'll have to see how the gameplay is.  I love RotTK, but mostly the ones with the more detailed officer modes, like X was. 

[Riggswolfe]

Culdcept I will probably get. I want to read reviews of Nobununga's to see if the officer mode is detailed since I'm like Mazakiel and prefer that greatly.

I am on the fence about DMC4. I liked the first one but each sequel seemed less fun to me. So I don't know if I'll pick this one up or not, probably not.

[Yegolev]

Culdcept.
Sins.
Blokus, apparently.
New battery cover for my PSP.

I played the DMC4 demo, and while it is fun it's just not that much fun that I have to get it now.  Played Uncharted last night until my PS3 locked up, giving me a bout of deja-vu and depression at how long ago I saved, so that's what I'll be doing when not playing Advance Wars, Folklore or Digital Devil Saga.

[Soukyan]

Devil May Cry 4 - Capcom Production Studio 1 - (PS3, 360, PC)
Sins of a Solar Empire - Take 2 - (PC)

Yum. Yum.

[Sky]

Why is Spaceforce Captains written by an ESL dev house? Goddamned lack of quality turn-based strategy. Boo on Stardock, RTS crap. 

Ah, well. Probably only get worse, I don't see attention spans getting longer. Some show on the effect of the internet had some kid who was saying he doesn't have time to read, so he uses some Cliff Notes-style website. "Yeah, I can read a book in five minutes!" No, douchebag. You can't. I'm old, crotchety, and happy as hell to be that way.


 

[Mazakiel]

Played Uncharted last night until my PS3 locked up, giving me a bout of deja-vu and depression at how long ago I saved, so that's what I'll be doing when not playing Advance Wars, Folklore or Digital Devil Saga.

Same thing happend to me, and at a very hectic plot twist moment.  I had to go away for awhile to calm down, but when I came back and hit continue, it'd dropped me to moments before from where it locked up.  It saved it at the last checkpoint basically, so I didn't have to replay several hours worth of the game. 

[Yegolev]

Oh, that's a relief.  I somehow got the idea it didn't autosave checkpoints.  Probably because the last time Uncharted locked up, my PS3 took a dirt nap.  This "new" one (a 60GB, mua-ha-ha) has been unwrapped for about a week.

[Velorath]

I'll definately be picking up Culdcept.  I'm reluctant to pick up any PS2 games (until such time as a BC PS3 becomes cheap enough to justify purchase) since my PS2 has one foot in the grave.  I'll likely pick up Twisted Metal anyway, but I'll wait on Nobunaga's Ambition.

[Azazel]

I'm very interested in seeing some reviews of Twisted Metal. And DMC4 for that matter. I'm back at work now, so I don't have nearly as much time to laze around the house, gaming when it suits me, so am less likely to go out a-buying too much stuff for the unplayed pile. At full price, anyway.

Isn't Turok another FPS, like on the N64?

[Rasix]

Culdcept will be bought.  I have a preorder for Nobunaga but may wait on it.  Of course, the title alone almost demands I but it, but I haven't played anything from KOEI since the SNES.  I am also afraid of PS2 rarity, when it so strikes. 

I just got in  so my gaming time just got a lot tighter.

[Murgos]

About the only one I'm really looking forward to is Sins of a Solar Empire.

The rest I will probably pass on.

[Stormwaltz]

Nobunaga's Ambition: Rise to Power - KOEI - (PS2)
Sins of a Solar Empire - Take 2 - (PC)
Spaceforce Captains - Provox Games - (PC)

These.

[schild]

oh hello

SpaceForce Captains is a traditional square based tactics title for the PC? Interesting.

[Yegolev]

I looked over the screens of SpaceForce Captains.  Gamer Sense says "buy".

[schild]

Jerk sense says read the comments. Patch before release. And people are saying it's absolutely buggy as fuck.

Which makes sense since our gamer senses are aligned.

[Yegolev]

Yea, I did say after screenshots but I didn't read the comments.  Those replies in the patch thread are brutal.

[stray]

Turok :\

Too many PS3 shooters as it is.

[edit] Y'know, I might just forgo DMC for a bit (even though I've been waiting for a long time), and go crazy with Nobunaga. I don't need both right now.

[Dtrain]

Ah Culdcept - for the first time I have a title that is really tempting me towards the purchase of an Xbox 360.

I still enjoy Culdcept on the PS2, but one card and one card only ruined this game for me. Mostly because nobody would play me after I got it. Old Willow.

Getting that thing down on an important square at max level was just about a guaranteed win. In retrospect, I should have just admitted to everyone that it was cheap and just not used it.

[schild]

What did it do? I simply don't remember the entire library of available cards.

[Khaldun]

I'm still mulling over Burnout Paradise. I didn't like the demo all that much, and I know some people are  having a really negative reaction to the major change in the formula.

[Azazel]

I'm feeling very similar. I really wanted a proper next-gen Burnout of the established formula -  Burnout 3: Takedown is a better game then Burnout (4): Revenge. And Revenge is really a PS2/XBox port rather than a native 360/PS3 game (for what I'm talking about, compare the visuals of Tomb Raider: Legend to Assassin's Creed)

If we'd gotten a "proper" new Burnout for the 360, I'd have not cared at all if they want to explore new ground with the franchise in following years.

meh

[Morfiend]

Turok for 360, if they ever ship my 360 back to me.

[naum]

Turok for 360, if they ever ship my 360 back to me.

What is the deal with all the broken 360's…?

[Azazel]

Apparently the pixies they catch and set to work inside them can drop dead from heat stroke.

[Sky]

 



You bastards!

[Dtrain]

What did it do? I simply don't remember the entire library of available cards.

Old willow is a defensive only fire card, with a high defense stat. It's special power was that anyone passing over it's square had to fight it no matter if they landed on it or not.

So put it on a fire tile near the start point, level the surrounding lands up to max, and the thing has like 120(?) defense just on it's own. Now add to it any number of the +defensive cards you could pull and the thing was an unstoppable money making machine raking in thousands of mana from anyone passing over it. Basically they're forced to choose between a quick and brutal death or a slow lingering death of attrition as they wander some forgotten corner of the board without mana hoping despirately to shake you down for some mana with one of their few remaining cards.

In short, PURE EVIL. 

[MrHat]

Oh man, I was all set to play Culdcept Saga all night tonight.

WRONG.

[Dtrain]

What happened? 

[Yegolev]

February 6th, right?

[MisterNoisy]

Looks like the 'Cheap stuff' thread has been unstickied, so I wanted to tell anyone that's interested that the 360 camera bundle is $40 at Toys R Us this week.  Basically, it's $10 off a year-long sub to Live and they throw the camera, 200 points and a couple of XBLA games in for free.

[Surlyboi]

Karaoke Revolution Presents American Idol Encore - Blitz Games - (PS2, Wii, 360)

Dear god, why?