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Sunday Evening New Releases and ShackReviews

by Chris Remo, Mar 19, 2006 3:55pm PST
Related Topics – Sega, Games: PC, Bethesda, Konami, Capcom, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Namco, Atari, Will Wright

Hey, a new release explosion this week. There's some game called Oblivion coming out, I think a few of you might be interested in that. I've seen a post or two, maybe a video here or there. I'll be out of town the whole week for GDC, so it's portable gaming all the way for me. And that means Metroid Prime Hunters (DS). I've been looking forward to this game for quite some time now, and I'm even more excited now that I know it has a Prime-length single player component. That Blazing Angels game looks interesting, though I've heard practically nothing about it. Hopefully it's good; there's a distinct shortage of good combat flight sims these days. Did anyone else play SimTower (PC) back about ten years or so when it was released? I really enjoyed that game. My assumption was always that it was by Will Wright and Maxis, just like most of the other Sim games, but it turns out it was actually designed by Yoot Saito. Saito is the rather unique (some say eccentric) designer behind Seaman (DC). He and his studio Vivarium are also working on the upcoming Yoot Saito's Odama (GCN), the crazy strategy/pinball/hamburgers game. The sequel to SimTower was called Yoot Saito's Yoot Tower (PC), which I think is pretty hilarious. Anyway, this week Sega is releasing a remake of SimTower for Game Boy Advance, entitled The Tower SP. I might have to check that out if the price is right.

This Week's New Releases

PS2
CMT Presents: Karaoke Revolution Country (Harmonix | Tue. | PS2) River King: A Wonderful Journey (Marvelous | Tue. | PS2) Suikoden V (Konami | Tue. | PS2)
Warship Gunner 2 (Koei | Tue. | PS2)
Xbox/X360
Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII (Ubisoft Romania | Tue. | Xbox, X360, also PC next week) Monster 4x4: World Circuit (Ubisoft | Thu. | Xbox)
Portable
Capcom Classics Collection Remixed (Capcom | Tue. | PSP) Catz (MTO | Tue. | GBA)
Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury and Dragon Ball GT: Transformation (Webfoot Tech. | Tue | GBA) Go! Sudoku (Sumo Digital | Tue. | PSP) Kao Challengers (Atari | Tue. | PSP)
Me and My Katamari (Namco | Tue. | PSP) Metroid Prime Hunters (NST | Tue. | DS) Splinter Cell Essentials (Ubisoft | Tue. | PSP)
Tao's Adventure: Curse of the Demon Seal (Konami | Tue. | DS) Tetris DS (Nintendo | Tue. | DS) The Tower SP (Vivarium | Tue. | GBA)
Worms: Open Warfare (Team17 | Wed. | DS, PSP) Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble (Capcom | Tue. | PSP, also GCN in Nov. '05)
PC
Crime Stories (Artematica | Tue. | PC)
SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars (Phenomic | Tue. | PC)
True Crime: New York City (Luxoflux | Tue. | PC; also PS2, Xbox, GCN in Nov. '05)
Multi
The Godfather (Electronic Arts | Tue. | PS2, Xbox, PC) Kao the Kangaroo Round 2 (Tate Int. | Tue. | PS2, Xbox, GCN)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks | Mon. | X360, PC)
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  • Masem is all alone this week, with the only review. He gave impressions of Sonic Team's The Rub Rabbits! (DS).
Finally finished Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (DS) soon after posting last week's New Release list. Once again, that last case was incredible. I also played a few rounds of Burnout Revenge 360 yesterday, but other than that I didn't have much time for games this week. Oh well!


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