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Late Night Consoling

by jason bergman, Oct 29, 2002 8:30pm PST
Related Topics – Sega, Games: Console

So I just returned from Nintendo's Metroid wrap party here in NYC. It was mostly a social event, and a good one at that, but I did get to do more than admire the Samus ice sculpture and fine booze. Metroid Prime is still the same game it was at E3 -- very pretty, with a control scheme that will definitely take some getting used to. I didn't play enough of it, since I really want to be able to sit down and take it all in at once, but everything I see looks encouraging, and it's still at the top of my most wanted list for the season. There were other games on display, although sadly missing was Metroid Fusion, which is my #2 game of late (especially since completing one opens the original Metroid in the other). Still, I did check out Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, which is looking great, as well as 007: Nightfire which is looking like a solid console FPS. I did ask a Nintendo rep about the untranslatable Zelda title, and unfortunately they haven't heard anything yet, and officially it's still just The Legend of Zelda in this country.

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Xbox Unreal Championship Preview A new preview of Unreal Championship is up at GameSpot tonight. The preview provides plenty of details about this Xbox Live launch title, although I must say that even though I've pre-ordered this one, I'm still not totally sure how it differs from Unreal Tournament 2003 (enough so where I'm starting to consider picking up Mech Assault instead, despite my E3 preference for UC).
GameCube Zelda Media Cube.IGN has posted a slew of new media from The Legend of Zelda: <untranslatable>. There are lots of new screenshots and five gameplay movies, all showing off that love-it-or-hate-it cel-shaded style.
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Console Game of the Evening: Mortal Kombat Trilogy for the N64. This is hardly a great game, in fact it's a pretty shoddy one, but I must admit, at the time I thought it was decent.


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