New PAL Releases Roundup Comments by Tom Bramwell

SSF2THD FTW \o/

"Babysitting Party (Wii)"

Two comments in and nobody's mentioned anything yet, I'm surprised.

Review please for Football Director DS? Pretty please?

I thought SOCOM as well as the official Sony Bluetooth headset is coming out on the 28th. Might get the headset, if it does come out.

Might get Resistance 2. and the keyboard thinger.

I downloaded the SSF2THD trial demo from the Xbox 360 Marketplace yesterday with the intention of trying it out before I possibly bought the PS3 version next week (its D-pad makes the format of choice an astoundingly easy one for me, simply because the 360's is so bloody awful!). Stupidly the demo doesn't allow you to try the single player mode at all and has no LIVE mode either, it will only let you play against a friend locally. So I had no way of trying it there and then which is absolutely ridiculous.

What's the point in having a trial demo that you can't even try on your own?!? :?

Oh noes!!!

Time to get fallout to occupy me over the winter hibernation.

I'm really looking forward to Sonic Unleashed, and have read alot about it. I'm slightly worried by the lack of review, but I know, based on what I have read elsewhere, that Sega have created a game much better than the catastrophe that was Sonic the Hedgehog 2006.

Although I'll come prepared to argue about Sonic in the review comments when it eventually pops up :O

Oh dear . its the ' comming next year ' time again .

Any juice on Armored Core?

Wasn't the Sony Bluetooth Headset also due out today? I know SOCOM was delayed but places have still been advertising the standalone headset for release tomorrow.

No, the headset is due out tomorrow along with the keypad.

EG missed Super Stardust Portable on the PSP. It's one of the smoothest looking PSP games I have ever seen. It's quite a decent purchase for £6.29.

Phew.. a quiet week. Nothing for me.

I've asked the missus for Resistance 2 for Xmas...bit of a wait now. :((

What, no love for Age of Empires Mythologies? :(

@CapnCloudchaser

Sonic Unleashed is utter crap mate. My reviewer friend has been banned from publishing until after it's release. I don't need to tell you what that means I hope. Half the game is these pointless werehog levels where you use your extending arms to kill creatures. No reason is given why a werehog has extending arms or anything logical like that. It's not even clear why sonic is a werehog in the first place. The speed levels are ok but, too few and far between so just as you get into the whole sonic vibe, you turn and have to plod about hitting stuff slowly.

If you have a PS3, then get resistance 2 instead.

I've seen a 7/10 review for the new Sonic game but I can't remember where I saw it. Didn't sound terrible like the previous version but the Werehog sections seemed to drag down what was otherwise considered the best Sonic game in ages.

Darren: "I downloaded the SSF2THD trial demo from the Xbox 360 Marketplace yesterday with the intention of trying it out before I possibly bought the PS3 version next week (its D-pad makes the format of choice an astoundingly easy one for me, simply because the 360's is so bloody awful!). Stupidly the demo doesn't allow you to try the single player mode at all and has no LIVE mode either, it will only let you play against a friend locally. So I had no way of trying it there and then which is absolutely ridiculous.

What's the point in having a trial demo that you can't even try on your own?!?"

I tried it last night, got destroyed by the AI and forgotten how completely crap I was at SFII!! I tried it on my own its worked fine but if you meant about trying it via live? You doesnt need to play against friend locally as it worked ok for me?

EDIT :Woops realised it wasnt the trial demo I downloaded for f**k sake, it was the full purchase option! My mistake!