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Sunday Evening New Releases and ShackReviews

by Chris Remo, Dec 04, 2005 4:15pm PST

Related Topics – Gauntlet, Ubisoft, XBLA, Tecmo, Games: PC

This week's distribution of new releases is a bit odd. Most of this week's games are for the portables, with a few on PC, and aside from one GameCube title there's nothing on the big consoles.

This Week's New Releases

GameCube

Super Mario Strikers (Next Level | Mon.)

Portable

Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo | Mon. | DS) Battles of Prince of Persia (Ubisoft Montreal | Tue. | DS) Bust-a-Move DS (Happy Happening | Tue. | DS) Dragon Booster (KCE Hawaii | Tue. | DS) Mario Tennis: Power Tour (Camelot | Mon. | GBA) Pinball Hall of Fame (FarSight | Tue. | PSP, also PS2, Xbox in Nov. '04, GCN in Mar. '05) Prince of Persia Revelations (Pipeworks | Tue. | PSP) The Sims 2 (Maxis | Tue. | PSP, also PC in Sep. '04, PS2, Xbox, GCN, DS, GBA in Oct. '05) Tokobot (Tecmo | Tue. | PSP)

PC

Chaos League: Sudden Death (Cyanide | Tue.) Hammer & Sickle (Novik & Co. | Tue.) Star Chamber: The Harbinger Saga (Worlds Apart | Mon.)

Multi

Pac-Man World 3 (Blitz | Tue. | DS, PSP, PC, also GBA in Sep. '05, PS2, Xbox, GCN in Nov. '05)

Featured ShackReviews:

Masem takes a long look at Nintendo's Mario Kart DS (DS).
SixDemonBag has the first ShackReview of Rare's Perfect Dark Zero (X360).
First-time reviewer K1Bond007 takes a look at, appropriately enough, EA Games' From Russia With Love (Xbox), and fellow first-timer SolrFlare reviews Alphadream's Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (DS).

This week I played a bit of Xbox Live Arcade stuff, mainly Smash TV. I'd like to be playing Gauntlet with Shackers, though! (hint, hint) I also started playing through Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (DS) and it's a lot of fun, as expected. Oh, and I played Harmonix's Guitar Hero (PS2), and it made me really want to pick up my own copy.

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You forgot to mention that Mario Kart DS is released in Japan this week!

Dec 05, 2005 6:02am PST

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You forgot to mention that Mario Kart DS is released in Japan this week! : Kenshin_
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*@#$@#$ Animal Crossing.

There goes ALL my free time now.

Dec 04, 2005 4:53pm PST

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*@#$@#$ Animal Crossing. There goes ALL my free time now. : Masem
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  Yep... I'm getting it. It will be tons of fun, though. : Bingo
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    hum interesting. : barichnikov
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  Can someone tell me what it is about animal crossing that is so great? ive watched all the vids and read ... : thewindcriesmary
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    No, it's quite different. You don't control people in Animal Crossing, you yourself live in the town and... : Chris Remo
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      tbh, it sounds really lame to me..but its like advance wars, everyone freakin loves it!? : thewindcriesmary
      
      Like I said, it's hard to explain why it's fun. But yeah it has very wide appeal. : Chris Remo

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Hey what was the name of that breakout/Dxball style game that was on the frontpage a few weeks back?

Dec 04, 2005 5:39pm PST

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Hey what was the name of that breakout/Dxball style game that was on the frontpage a few weeks back? : Svperstarr
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      was that real tough ? http://www.nurium.com/ : barichnikov
      
      LOL no you said nurium so I went to nurium.com. That is why I said thanks :) : Svperstarr

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I love my DS, don't get me wrong, but the difference between its version of Prince of Persia and the PSPs is lollertastic.

Dec 04, 2005 4:55pm PST

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      But that'd require to much thinking by the likes of EA, which cannot be permitted! :P : thewindcriesmary

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Dude. Anytime I'm available, I will play Gauntlet. Seriously. Xbox Live Arcade saves me SOOOO many quarters.

Gamertag = skewbSMN.

Dec 04, 2005 9:10pm PST

Dude. Anytime I'm available, I will play Gauntlet. Seriously. Xbox Live Arcade saves me SOOOO many qua... : scoobSMN

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I sure hope you setup pic was a joke. Surely you don't have the 360 vertivally on the edge of your desk, lol!

Dec 04, 2005 5:34pm PST

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- You sure are right: it's probably not vertival at all. : Bingo

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I'm pretty excited for Tokobot. I'll surely be picking that up on Tuesday.

Dec 04, 2005 6:18pm PST

I'm pretty excited for Tokobot. I'll surely be picking that up on Tuesday. : Yanks

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After reading Joystiq's short preview and seeing a gameplay video, I'm looking forward to Super Mario Strikers. Got it on my Gamefly list now.

Dec 04, 2005 4:35pm PST

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- yeah i saw some gameplay on g4 a few weeks back; it looked suprisingly fun : andy5000

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Did anyone try the Hammer and Sickle demo? What did you think?

Dec 04, 2005 5:16pm PST

Did anyone try the Hammer and Sickle demo? What did you think? : CasbahBoy

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Remo you just missed some awesome Burnout.

Dec 04, 2005 4:42pm PST

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Remo you just missed some awesome Burnout. : TastyWheat
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