Sunday Evening New Releases and ShackReviews

April 9, 2006 4:10 PM

Yoot Saito's Odama (GCN) comes out this week. That game is, by far, one of the strangest I have ever played. It's a strategy game, sort of, but the battlefield is equipped with huge stone pinball flippers, which you use to manipulate a huge stone ball which will crush your enemy's troops and yours alike. It also features voice recognition so you can direct your troops to advance, flank, fall back, or what have you by speaking commands. To add to that, it has utterly random features such as giant hamburgers you can acquire and throw onto the field to distract enemy soldiers. Oh, and it's hard. It is a challenging game.

This Week's New Releases

PS2

Monster Rancher EVO (Tecmo | Tue. | PS2)
Samurai Champloo (Grasshopper | Tue. | PS2)

GameCube

Yoot Saito's Odama (Vivarium | Tue. | GCN)

PC

Auto Assault (NetDevil | Tue. | PC)
Bone: The Great Cow Race (Telltale | Wed. | PC)
Condemned: Criminal Origins (Monolith | Tue. | PC, also X360 in Nov. '05)
The Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff (Maxis | Tue. | PC)

Multi

Major League Baseball 2K6 (Kush Games | Tue. | X360, PSP, also PS2, Xbox last week; GCN in two weeks)
Real World Golf (Aqua Pacific | Tue. | PS2, Xbox, PC
Tomb Raider: Legend (Crystal Dynamics | Tue. | PS2, Xbox, X360, PC, also PSP in May '06, GCN in Q3 '06)

Additional Database Entries

Crash Bandicoot (Naughty Dog, PS1, 1996)

Featured ShackReviews:

Another week of nothing but Masem, this time with reviews of Nintendo's Super Princess Peach (DS) and Rare's Kameo: Elements of Power (X360).

Lately, I've been making an effort to go back and finish up important games I never completed. So while this week was peppered with a few extended Tetris DS sessions, most of my game playing went into Nintendo's Yoshi's Island (SNES). This weekend I continued playing Capcom's Resident Evil 4 (GCN) again, and I am somewhat baffled as to why I stopped in the first place.

Chris Remo

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April 9, 2006 4:25 PM

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- RikiTiki2
  
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  April 9, 2006 10:43 PM
  
  don't know if steve could afford to pay him though :P
- Balboa
  
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  April 10, 2006 3:49 AM
  
  He does a good write-up. The games he's covered are good though... I'd like to see him review some bad games.
  - Masem
    
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    April 10, 2006 9:39 AM
    
    Thing is, since I'm buying my games, I'm less likely to be doing a 'bad' game. I think the worst game I have is "Stuntman" which I have reviewed already just to indicate how bad game comes out. I, for example, very much doubt I will review 50 Cents' game, as I would never buy that at all.
- Dingbat
  
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  April 10, 2006 8:20 AM
  
  Yeah I've always thought they should make him part of the team. However I don't think they like the idea of an official member of the team doing the reviews. That changes it from "Masem said it was excellent" to "Shacknews officially declares this game to be excellent". I just think they're rather not have an official line of most games. But seriously someone out there needs to pick Masem up. He's a great reviewer.