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Late Night Consoling

by Alec Matias, Oct 13, 2004 8:00pm PDT
Related Topics – Sega, Games: Console

Some rather decent and outstanding titles making it into Nintendo's Player's Choice lineup. I'm typically the kind of person that buys a game on release day and if I can't get into it right away, I hold on to it till I'm ready. This usually means I own all the titles that end up on those Choice/Greatest/Platinum lists. However, I've also become enamored with some games that I didn't feel like paying full price for; Final Fantasy X, Sly Cooper, etc. I would suggest checking out Animal Crossing. It's game my girlfriend and I have sunk literally hundreds of hours into. For most gamers, at $50, they'd pass over this. For $20, you just can't lose... unless you need that money for an operation or something.

GCN New Additions to the Player's Choice Lineup Six new titles have been added to Nintendo's Player's Choice series of games, qualifying them as the cream of the crop for its GameCube system. The six titles are Animal Crossing (with memory card), Kirby Air Ride, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, Super Mario Sunshine, and Wario World. Find them now at your local retailer for $20 each.
PS2 Xbox GCN Free Music with The Urbz If you're one of the first 700,000 buyers of EA's upcoming The Urbz: Sims in the City, you'll receive a special card that gets you free music downloads on iTunes. Can't pick any music, though. You'll get four tracks performed by Black Eyed Peas, who are lending their music and likeness for the game. One track will be a never-before-released song, in English, and will be accompanied by one of their prior hits, "Let's Get It Started." The other two tracks are versions of those songs spoken in Simlish, the gibberish language of all Sims games.
PS2 Xbox GCN This Week's Releases Yet another busy release week going on with the highlight title being none other than Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. On the multi-console front, we have BloodRayne 2 (PS2, Xbox), FIFA Soccer 2005 (PS2, Xbox, GCN, PSone, GBA), and Midway Arcade Treasures 2 (PS2, Xbox, GCN). The PS2 gets King of Fighters: Maximum Impact, Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, and Under The Skin. Xbox sees Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders.
PS2 Xbox GCN Misc. Q&As/Features Couple of dev diaries out there: TeamXbox has one for Unreal Championship 2 and GameSpy shares an entry for King Arthur.
  Misc. Media/Previews
PS2 IGN shares the intro video for Shadow of Rome.
Xbox A hands-on of the near-final version of Dead or Alive Ultimate can be found at 1up. GameSpot has updated impressions of MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf and an official movie of Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors.
GBA N-Gage GameSpot takes a hands-on look at Call of Duty (NG) and posts footage of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (GBA). Oh, and Maarten absolutely begged me to share these shots of the game he picked up today, Lizzie McGuire 2: Lizzie's Diaries (GBA). IGN has details of Yoshi Universal Gravitation (GBA) and images of F-Zero Climax (GBA).
PS2 Xbox GCN IGN takes a hands-on approach with Constantine (PS2, Xbox). They also have a video showing off NFL Street 2 (PS2, Xbox, GCN). Game Informer shares new footage of Fight Club (PS2, Xbox) and screens of Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition (PS2, Xbox). GameSpot has the first official trailer for FIFA Street (PS2, Xbox, GCN), screens of Miami Vice (PS2, Xbox), another trailer for The Urbz: Sims in the City (PS2, Xbox, GCN), and images of 12 Volt (PS2, Xbox, GCN). GameSpy gives us a look at Psychonauts (PS2, Xbox).
Console Game of the Evening: Flashback: The Quest for Identity for the Sega Genesis. "Absolutely brilliant platformer. The animation, cut-scenes, story and action were all first-rate, especially from a Genesis game. I miss the time when I could be wowed by 16-bit graphics." (submitted by BrodieMan).


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