Sunday Evening New Releases and ShackReviews

by Chris Remo, Oct 30, 2005 5:59pm PST

Related Topics – Atari, Namco, Tecmo, Capcom, Sony, Cryptic Studios, Konami, Pandemic, EA Redwood Shores

Well, I got back from BlizzCon today. Here's your release schedule. I'm working on the database entries, but I've been pretty busy lately so they're lagging a bit. Gotta get you guys your BlizzCon previews!

This Week's New Releases

PS2

Guitar Hero (Harmonix | Tue.) Trapt (Tecmo | Tue.)

Portable

Mega Man Battle Network 5: Double Team (Capcom | Tue. | DS) Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 3: Night of the Quinkan (Krome | Tue. | GBA)

PC

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Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (Treyarch | Tue. | PS2, Xbox, GCN) Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (Konami KYO | Tue. | PS2, Xbox) From Russia With Love (EA Redwood Shores | Tue. | PS2, Xbox, GCN) The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer (Heavy Iron, Helixe | Tue. | PS2, Xbox, GCN, DS, GBA, also PC, PSP later '05) NBA 06 (989 Sports | Tue. | PS2, PSP) Star Wars: Battlefront II (Pandemic | Mon. | PS2, Xbox, PSP, PC) Star Wars Galaxies: Trials of Obi-Wan (Sony Online Ent. | Tue. | PS2, Xbox, PC) Without Warning (CiRCLE | Tue. | PS2, Xbox)

Featured ShackReviews:

The increasingly prolific Masem is responsible for a good number of those reviews, writing up his take on Nintendo's Yoshi's Touch & Go (DS), Killer Game's Frantix (PSP), Taniko's Retro Atari Classics (DS), Namco's Pac-Pix (DS), Mitchell's Polarium (DS), Reflections' Stuntman (PS2), EA Canada's SSX On Tour (Xbox), and Wideload's Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (Xbox).
Some more F.E.A.R. reviews from Vermouth and SixDemonBag.
Boomstickah checks out Epic's slightly overlooked Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict (Xbox).

The past few days have been mainly World of Warcraft and StarCraft: Ghost (PS2, Xbox) for me, for obvious reasons. I have, however, been sneaking in some Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (DS) during Gryphon rides. You know how it is.

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How is Ghost anyway ?

Oct 30, 2005 6:53pm PST

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  Much better than I expected, but still needs a lot of work. I'll have a preview this week. : Chris Remo
  - Can't wait to read it. I've been wondering how this has been doing since it changed hands. : SixDemonBag

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City of Villains was sitting in Gamestop when I was there on Friday...

Oct 30, 2005 6:59pm PST

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  Yeah, most games aren't street dated. They have official dates but for stuff that isn't mega huge, store... : Chris Remo
  - Yeah, I knew that...I just thought it strange that it's being released on a Monday...seems fairly unusual... : Vincent Grayson
- You can't activate the game until tomorrow so there's probably no real street date for it. : Bull

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Don't overlook CoD: Big Red One. It's good stuff.

Oct 30, 2005 7:40pm PST

Don't overlook CoD: Big Red One. It's good stuff. : Zann

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Anyone that has a modded/jap ps2 should get Taito Memories (the Japanese version) instead of Taito Legends. it has more games for a start, and also has Elevator Action Returns, which is infinitely superior to the original. Although the first Taito Memories doesn't have The New Zealand Story, it's on the second one, yet Taito Legends does, so maybe you can get both. The second Taito Memories is otherwise pretty meh from what I can tel.

Oct 30, 2005 7:31pm PST

Anyone that has a modded/jap ps2 should get Taito Memories (the Japanese version) instead of Taito Legend : paganritual

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what about x3: reunion!

Oct 30, 2005 6:44pm PST

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  - ah thats odd =\ I think that other release date was for europe actually as they have it since last week. : kelerian

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Just for the record, I'm not trying to spam the review list; the 5 portable games I've got there, I've had for a while, they were all 'shorties', and I found myself with a good hour of time to write out the basics for all 5, details added later.

On the other hand, I'm finding that all the new console releases are awfully short, making reviewing rather easy.

(And I did the Stuntman one just so that people know what I consider to be a really bad game...)

Oct 30, 2005 6:59pm PST

Just for the record, I'm not trying to spam the review list; the 5 portable games I've got there, I've ha... : Masem

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I've been playing:

Resident Evil 4 PS2 10/10
I played the game at a friend's house (after owning it for Gamecube) and watched the Separate Ways cutscenes. Impressive. Must buy if you haven't gotten the game yet.

Shadow of the Colossus 10/10
I didn't like Ico that much because it felt a bit dull in places (tried twice to finish it) but this game is great. Really short but the battles are exciting. The graphics and music all come together to create an incredible atmosphere. The flying monster (Boss 13) was just amazing, currently on #14.

Oct 30, 2005 6:57pm PST

I've been playing: Resident Evil 4 PS2 10/10 I played the game at a friend's house (after owning it f... : Bob422

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no diablo3?

Oct 30, 2005 6:49pm PST

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