New PAL Releases Roundup - 30/01/09

By Tom Bramwell Published 29 January, 2009

Saints Row 2, SimAnimals, er...

Your wallets may be fixed expectantly on the end of next month, but there's still the small matter of this Friday's new releases to deal with, not to mention all the others in the meantime. That said, tomorrow's line-up really is a small matter.

Best of a boring bunch is the delayed PC release of Saints Row 2, which you can get through Steam or any shops that haven't died out yet. We weren't massively impressed - it's a pretty average port of a deliciously indecent game, and the things on your screen seem to bear no relation to the massive coronary unfolding in the brushed aluminium heart of your pimped-out gaming rig (and did you really need the window, or the neon lights?).

We don't know what will be on WiiWare tomorrow yet (and it's probably a WiiWare week, given last Friday's Virtual Console double), but it stands a good chance of outshining Xbox Live Arcade at least. PSN may surprise us later, although Psyonix's Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars (they tell us it's out today) will probably have to be flanked by others to get there.

Still, next week there's Chrono Trigger on DS, Pikmin's Wii reissue and the chance for Rise of the Argonauts to stand up for itself after a few brutal reviews surrounding its US release late last year.

This week:

  • CSI: New York (PC)
  • FunTown Mahjong (Xbox Live Arcade)
  • Saints Row 2 (PC - shops and Steam)
  • SimAnimals (DS, Wii)
  • Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars (PSN)
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  • DFawkes #1 3 years ago

    My brain just can't comprehend that Mahjong. I don't know why. I read the rules, I understand what I'm supposed to do, but mostly I'm only doing stuff because a prompt offer to let me Pung. What's Pung! It is good enough that I want to persevere though.

  • muscleblade #2 3 years ago

    According to reviews Mahjong isnt good at all.

  • charliemouse #3 3 years ago

    I read Rise of the Argonauts as Rise of the Robots and thought I was 14 again.

  • Eraysor #4 3 years ago

    Chrono Trigger is going to be very nice next week.

  • mrmonkey1980 #5 3 years ago

    Need ... decent... new realeases!... Dying of... thirst! [Pop] Ooh there goes my last kidney. Hurrk-Blerrrgh!

  • dirk_aircool #6 3 years ago

    when is Lawnwower simulator due out , I heard it has several makes simulated in great detail . I cant wait to tune up my John Deer and get the shark mouth vynal ( cant spell it ) on the front , set it to a 24mm cut and takle that 15 degree wet lawn . OOH YEAH .

  • neonemesis #7 3 years ago

    And so the post-christmas slow-down continues...

    February is looking nice though...

  • HiddenAway #8 3 years ago

    Pung = 3 of a kind. Basically, if you hold 2 of the same tile in your hand and a third one is chucked out, you can do a pung. If you want information on the finer points of Mahjong, just PM me (because I love it in real-life and have been looking for an online PC version of it so I'm slightly jealous :p)

  • Stu1972 #9 3 years ago

    I thought Rock Band 2 was getting released for the PS3 tomorrow?

  • muscleblade #10 3 years ago

    "February is looking nice though... "

    Too Nice actually. DLC for some great games and a couple of unmissable games. How do i get the time for this? Damn.

  • CapnCloudchaser #11 3 years ago

    Damn, I was gonna buy a random game tomorrow just for the Hell of it but if Chrono Trigger is out next week, I shall delay that thought ;)

  • Sean.Aaron #12 3 years ago

    I'm surprised to see a proper Mahjong game on X-Box Live; yet in Wii-land Yakuman Wii remains Japan-only...

  • keyboardmonkey #13 3 years ago

    And so the post-christmas slow-down continues...


    And long may it continue, huge backlog of games to go through, I have obviously been slacking and not putting the hours in that my gaming addiction demands.

    /Confesses to still having not completed GTA 4, Fable 2 hasn't even been in the disc drive... damn you CoD and your multiplayer goodness.

  • stevetuck #14 3 years ago

    SimAnimals... Wii?... best selling game of the week right there

  • spudsbuckley #15 3 years ago

    'I thought Rock Band 2 was getting released for the PS3 tomorrow?'

    This. Most of the online stores seem to think it is. Confirm, deny, anything?

  • FenderMaster #16 3 years ago

    I have yet to finish Valkyria Chronicles, Odin Sphere, Valkyrie Profile 2 or Persona 3.... man I'm getting slow... but i think i can weather a week or two!!

    And Street Fighter 4, Killlzone 2 and Resident Evil 5 all coming out in the next two months. We're in the eye of the storm, I say this week is a much needed breather!!
    Edited by FenderMaster at 29/01/09 @ 22:06