The Week In Games

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9:00AM November 23, 2009 | David Wildgoose

Hmm. I’d written up a run-down of all this week’s new releases. It was superb, perhaps the finest Week In Games post ever. And then I deleted it.

It was an accident!

Unfortunately there doesn’t appear to be any way I can recover said deleted post. And I don’t have time to rewrite the whole damn thing again. So I’ll keep this brief.

In short: this week’s release are pretty terrible. There’s a whole bunch of licensed nonsense, family-friendly music games, and mediocre movie tie-ins, none of which (except possibly if you dig the tracklists for Band Hero or LEGO Rock Band, pictured) would be of much interest to Kotaku readers.

Comfortably the best game this week is Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles for Wii. Pro Evo 2010 on Wii is decent, and so’s Tales of Symphonia, also on Wii and delayed from last week. Other than that though, it’s slim pickings.

(And if I manage to recover the lost post, I’ll replace this one.)

Comments

  • wepoo

    November 23, 2009 at 11:58 AM

    Not to worry.
    We’re all too busy playing Modern Warefare 2 to care.

  • ResonanceCascade

    November 23, 2009 at 12:20 PM

    Is PlayTV finally coming to Australia this week and is it worth getting?

  • oggob

    November 23, 2009 at 12:39 PM

    PlayTV for the PS3 owners also… that will be the only thing that will likely to get my money…

  • Jason

    November 23, 2009 at 1:16 PM

    Yeah PlayTV is looking good, did anyone else notice that ABC iView is now listed in the PS3 interface. It popped up on my PS3 yesterday morning. Works really nicely.

  • NegativeZero

    November 23, 2009 at 2:07 PM

    You’d have to be either very desperate or very nostalgic to consider Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World a decent game. The original was good, but that sequel, not so much.

  • RedIon

    November 23, 2009 at 2:09 PM

    All I have to say is… LET THERE BE BLOCK!

    (grin, duck and run)

  • Neil Williams

    November 24, 2009 at 6:26 PM

    David, you’ve mentioned that Guilty Gear 2: Overture for 360 had been coming in a few prior The Week in Games posts, but I haven’t been able to find it anywhere at all since. Do you happen to know whether it actually got released, or am I out of luck?

    • David Wildgoose

      November 25, 2009 at 12:19 AM

      I’ll put that question to the distributor tomorrow. It kept slipping on the release schedule and I’ve not seen a copy myself.

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