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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Wonder if Beijing 2008 will feature photorealistic smog effects or take incorporate the stupefying algae bloom in the nautical events. Still, pretty ambitious of Sega to put out a sports game featuring events that even sports fans don’t follow except for two weeks out of a four year span (and dropping it less than a week before NCAA Football 09). If the spirit of brotherhood and competition isn’t your thang, Unreal Tournament 3 comes to 360 this week also. Or maybe you prefer Sports Party on the Wii. Or Purr Pals. Let us know what you’re buying/renting in the jump.
Thin week for The Week in Games. You can sense the pattern, big week of console releases, then thin week with mostly handheld drops. The pattern continues. Let us know if any of these get your gamer coin.
Alone in the Dark takes you to Central Park this week. Also Guitar Hero comes to the DS and Aerosmith to Guitar Hero. Then you have major drops like Battlefield: Bad Company for the PS3 and 360, plus Supreme Commander for and Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath for the 360. And a Hellboy movie adaptation. If tennis is your game, 2K’s Top Spin 3 is out.
Yes, gamer, you will consuuuuuuuume. Or at least rent. Tell us in the comments if you’ve been waiting on any of these.
Quiet week for consoles, but the DS has seven titles dropping in the coming week, and Secret Agent Clank for the PSP also hits the street. Also, if this Deadliest Catch game doesn’t go out this week, I am de-listing it. So, spending your coin on handheld toys this week? Let us know in the jump, or tell us what you’re playing instead. My guess is it rhymes with Shmetal Shmear Shmolid.
Monday (June 16) The Political Machine 2008 (PC) Requiem: Bloodymare (PC) 1701 A.D. Gold Edition (PC)
Tuesday (June 17) Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm (360, PC) Secret Agent Clank (PSP) Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard (DS) Space Invaders Extreme (PSP, DS) Code Lyoko: Fall of X.A.N.A. (DS) Wacky Races: Crash & Dash (Wii, DS) Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 3 (DS) Arkanoid DS (DS) Imagine Rock Star (DS)
Metal Gear Solid 4 dominates the releases this week, dropping on Thursday. NASCAR 09 and Dragon Ball Z pick up the leftovers on Tuesday, plus there’s the Don King-branded boxing game which, come on, how can that game not have an ultra-realistic litigation engine built in, if it’s Don King. So, if you game on the PS3, this is pretty much your week to shine. Let us know what you’re buying, and if you’re buying a PS3 just to play MGS4, in the comments.
This week looks like the second wave of big summer-season releases, dropping Ninja Gaiden II, GRID, Lego Indiana Jones, and The Bourne Conspiracy on Tuesday, followed by The Incredible Hulk on Friday. Oh, and let’s also not forget Activision payday movie tie-in Kung Fu Panda: Shovelware edition, which accompanies the animated, thinly veiled Nacho Libre redux hitting screens this week. Consistent readers of the site will know I despise two things: Yap dogs, and animated movies with a colour-by-numbers stranger-in-a-strange-land narrative. Hate them like Colbert hates bears. And a panda is a bear.
Buying/renting any of these? Hit the comments.
Monday (June 2): Dracula: Origin (PC) Stronghold Crusader Extreme (PC)
Tuesday (June 3): Ninja Gaiden II (360) GRID (PC, 360, PS3) Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy (360, PS3) Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (PSP, 360, Wii, PS3, PC, PS2, DS) Kung Fu Panda (360, PC, PS2, Wii, PS3, DS) Summon Night: Twin Age (DS) Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 (PSP) Fatal Inertia EX (PS3)
Wednesday (June 4): Roogoo (360)
Thursday (June 5): The Incredible Hulk (360, PS2, Wii, PS3, DS)
Age of Conan goes out this week, thus ending, if not exactly rectifying the early server access fiasco. UEFA Euro 2008 is the major cross-platform release. And in the props department, there’s SingStar, which comes with a USB karaoke mike — and Wii Fit, which finally arrives to insult out-of-shape Americans. So, anyone out there getting in shape, or are you still sitting on your arses to play any of these other games? Let us know in the comments.
New games releasing the Week of May 18:
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (PC) Haze (PS3) Wii Fit (Wii) Dracula: Origin (PC) Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness (PC, X360) UEFA EURO 2008 (X360, PS3, PS2, PSP) Theatre of War (PC) Dr. Mario Online RX (Wii) SingStar (PS3) The Immortals of Terra: A Perry Rhodan Adventure (PC) Star Soldier R (Wii)
New Game Releases [Gamespot]
Major League Eating comes to DS this week, so you can, I dunno pack your face using the stylus while you chow down at a McDonald’s on a lunch break or something. Remind me to tell you all sometime about the abortive fried chicken eating match contest I nearly got into at West Wendover, Nevada back in 2001.
After last week, I’m not sure how anyone could possibly be thinking about new game purchases this week. If you bought Iron Man, Mario Kart Wii or GTA IV, there’s no way you’ve gotten your fill of them yet. Unless you were waiting on Boom Blox? Here’s the roster of releases for the coming week. Is anyone picking any of these up, or are we still gorging silly on other games?
Of course I am talking about LET’S PILATES for the DS! Woot! This amazingly deep sandbox-MMO-driving-multiplayer-movie tie-in lets you build flexibility, strength, endurance and coordination IN REAL TIME! An exclusive review gave it 11/10! Best game since Shaq Fu!
Oh yeah, Mario Kart Wii is out, Iron Man is coming Friday and uh, Grand Theft Auto IV or something. So which of these gets your hard earned gamer coin?
