Late Night Consoling
Featuring the return of the multiplatform post!
- Playstation 2 fans that were considering picking up one of the new consoles this season have two reasons to hold off on those expensive purchases: Soul Calibur 2 and the new Ridge Racer title will be released for the PS2 as well as the GameCube and Xbox.
- The GameCube's Japanese release is mere weeks away, and so GameSpot has posted an updated list of release dates. Note that if you import a GameCube, you'll have to get it modchiped (once one becomes available) to play local games (and vice versa).
- GameSpot has also posted a pretty in-depth preview of Luigi's Mansion, one of the three launch titles from Nintendo.
- Also at GameSpot tonight are new screenshots from Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, an Xbox launch title that was initially going to use the Unreal engine, and then was planned as a Playstation 2 launch title before winding up where it is now.
- PS2.IGN has some new information on the extra characters in Tekken 4 online.
- Cube.IGN played Sega's Super Monkey Ball, and have dubbed the game "the best thing ever." Hopefully this is a gross exaggeration, since I've only recently discovered the joy of sliced bread, and anything else would just be overload.
- Over at PS2.IGN they have a preview of Grand Theft Auto III, which looks so much different from the first two titles, it almost seems a shame it shares their name.
- GameSpot has a review of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 for the N64 online. Why should you care? Because it's one of, if not the last major N64 game. The system's had a good lifespan, despite a few hitches (*cough* 64DD).
- Finally, here's an unexpected sight: a giant "X" constructed out of Xbox boxes outside Nintendo's Seattle office (which is of course, just a stone's throw away from Microsoft).
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