New PAL Releases Roundup - 03/07/09 News
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Tom Bramwell
Do we play hot and muggy games when it's hot and muggy? I have warm (stiflingly warm) recollections of playing Far Cry through a projector at the height of summer in 2005, sweat dripping accurately down my back as I crept through the jungle, before giving away my position with a telltale sneeze that knocked the keyboard over and ran me straight into a munitions dump.
Well, if that sort of thing tickles you, and the prospect of rain that actually makes things worse this weekend has you scurrying for the couch under cover of desk fans, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood might be the answer. On the one hand it's a straightforward shooter. On the other, it's a very handy western, "set in a tangibly real Wild West, with proper, honest-to-goodness cowboys, Indians and bandits in it", as Oli put it before awarding it a handsome 7/10. Sweat. Sorry, sweet.
Elsewhere this week, it's a little dry (sorry). There's the latest Tiger Woods to consider, or next week's potential number one, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (assuming the kids haven't moved on to glue-sniffing and rape by now), but despite the length of the list below the majority are quirky downloadables. And the rest of July doesn't look much more inspiring.
Time perhaps to look to the past for inspiration.
This week:
- Bit Boy (WiiWare)
- Bomberman 94 (Wii Virtual Console - Turbografx)
- Brain Challenge (DSiWare)
- Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
- Detana Twin Bee (Wii Virtual Console - Turbografx)
- Donkey Xote (PSN - PSP)
- Gradius Rebirth (WiiWare)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (DS, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360)
- James Pond 2: Codename Robocod (PSN PSone re-release - PS3, PSP)
- Kirby's Dream Land 3 (Wii Virtual Console - SNES)
- King of Fighters '98: Ultimate Match (Xbox Live Arcade)
- Mario Calculator (DSiWare)
- Mario Clock (DSiWare)
- Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (PSN - PSP)
- Musha (Wii Virtual Console - Megadrive)
- Numblast (PSN - PS3, PSP)
- Punisher: No Mercy (PSN - PS3)
- Red Baron Arcade (PSN - PS3)
- Smash Table Tennis (Wii Virtual Console - NES)
- Super Hind (PSN - PSP)
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 - also on PSN for PSP)
- topatoi: The Great Tree Story (PSN - PS3)
- Virtua Tennis 2009 (PC)
- Worms 2: Armageddon (Xbox Live Arcade)
- Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II (Wii Virtual Console - NES)
P.S. Street Fighter IV is supposedly due out today for PC, but most of the shops we've tried claim to have no stock. Any joy out there for any of you?
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Slight related note, GfK-ChartTrack for UK console sales over the last 12 months:
DS - 2.7 million Wii - 2.3 million Xbox 360 - 1.7 million PS3 - 900,000 PSP - 500,000 http://www.mcvuk.com/news/34906/Official... |
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GamesConnoisseur
03/07/09 @ 16:23
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The gap between X360 and PS3 is wider than I had presumed... still rest of Europe is where PS3 is doing better... still as everyone sings the same hymn... not until PS3 price cut then PS3 will not catch up anywhere pretty soon. The Bit Boy for me is the greatest game this week! Mainly cos its perfectly summed up the various ages of the Gaming and really captures the heydays of the pioneering gaming times!
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I would definitely have bought Call of Juarez but for one tiny issue.... no co-op! What is it with developers and their insistence on leaving such a fun feature out of games. Co-op allows a game to be played time and time again, that single player just isn't capable of. I find it hard to believe it's difficult to incorporate this into games. The age old excuse of 'ruins story' or 'loss of atmosphere' are just plain weak. Co-op never hurt the Rainbow Six or GRAW series. Left4Dead has, by all accounts, done pretty well utilising co-op. It's really very easy... leave the single player in place, and if necessary remove cut-scenes or specific single player only sections (that's how Doom 3 handled it). I refuse to waste money on a game that's only single player. So here's one lost customer from Call of Juarez, waiting for Operation Flashpoint, who's developers can be bothered to add co-op.
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