I just wrote a much longer and more awesome post, but Firefox crashed and I lost the whole thing. But like ol' Bill Shakespeare said, "Brevity is the sould of wit," so here's the gist.
My wife Jess spends more time playing games than I do, but since it's not teh Haloz and teh Mawdurhn Kombatz, I'm still considered the more hardcore gamer (discrimination, anyone?). She's great at puzzle games, probably because she's Korean. She beat every puzzle in Picross DS (300+ puzzles), so I bought her Picross 3D. She likes it, I have no idea what the hell she's doing (again, Korean).
It's an interesting collection of arcade titles this week, which sees the release of Things On Wheels on XBLA, and the HD update of 16-bit classic, Rocket Knight on PSN and XBLA.
Things On Wheels is exclusive to XBLA, and is a racing title in which you race around tracks in miniature remote-controlled cars. The game is set to retail on May 12th for 800MSP. In addition to the single-player campaign, the game features split-screen co-op, and up-to 4 player online play over Xbox Live, and looks like it could be a lot of fun.
Rocket Knight on the other hand, is a a 2.5D revival of the original Rocket Knight series, and has been developed by Climax Entertainment (the developers behind Silent Hill: Shattered Memories), and the game is said to combine the best features from the original series, alongside some fresh new ideas.
Rocket Knight is set to release on the North American PSN store for $15 on May 11th, and will land on the European PSN store on May 12th for the price of €12.99 (£10 UK). As ever, XBLA will be keeping things simple, and the game will release globally on May 12th, for the price of 1200MSP.
As usual, videos for both titles can be found after the break. Enjoy!
I got chills watching this trailer. It reminds me of the Halo 3 ad campaign (and the ODST and Reach ones as well, actually) that was took the subject matter ot combat so deadly seriously. Almost half the video is without images and just voice-over. No ice pick climbing, no AC-130s. No "Ramirez! Go take out that tank with this bayonet and save America!".
There's quite a full docket of releases on PSN and XBLA this week. Check out the details below:
PSN This week sees the release of Lead And Gold: Gangs Of The Wild West on PSN. The game released yesterday (May 4th) in North America, and retails for $14.99 US. The game is set to release in Europe on May 5th, and will retail for €14.99 (£9.99 UK).
XBLA There are two games hitting XBLA this week; Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition, and Raystorm HD. Zeno Clash is a first-person brawler similar to Condemned, though the game aims for more of a fantasy element than its forebear, whilst Raystorm HD is an old-school shmup, recently given an HD coat of war-paint. Both games are scheduled to release in North America and Europe on May 5th, and both will retail for 1200MSP.
Videos for all three titles can be found after the break.
Tyler and I both picked up copies of Halo: ODST (used natch) today in order to gain access to the Halo: Reach beta that just launched. I am currently downloading the 1.15gig file, and may get a little pay time in before bed tonight, and then as much as I can in the next week before I have to Gamestop Shuffle back my copy of the game.
I'll tell you one thing I won't be doing in the next week, though: playing Halo: ODST. No interest whatsoever.
The game Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Old West has for the most part flown under my radar, but I'm starting to become interested. I've heard it described as "Team Fortress meets the Old-West" which doesn't sound too shabby to me. It's available on Steam right now (just like everything that's fun but I can't play), but it drops on the US PSN May 4th, and I need a quick-in-quick-out multiplayer shooter for my bedroom-based PS3 since I've pretty much gotten over Battlefield 1943.
For Download this week, we have a different game on each platform -- namely Tecmo Bowl Throwback on XBLA, and NormalTanks on PSN.
Tecmo Bowl Throwback is an HD remake of SNES classic Tecmo Super Bowl and will be available on XBLA on April 28th, for the price of 800MSP. Tecmo Bowl Throwback is currently only available on XBLA, in North America and Canada at present. The game will be making its way to PSN, though no date has been released yet.
NormalTanks on the other hand, is a top-down, multi-directional shooter, which received an "honourable mention" in this years Independent Games Festival. It's set to release on PSN on April 29th, though again, no price has been announced yet.
If you're curious about either of these games, videos for them have been embedded after the break, so feel free to check them out.
A demo for Split/Second, the new arcade racer from Pure devs, Black Rock Studios, is now available to download now on Xbox Live. However, the demo is only available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers, so it looks like Silver subscribers and Playstation owners will have to wait until May 11th, when the demo gets a full release.
Now that Criterion Games have stopped supporting Burnout Paradise, there is definitely a place in the market for a good arcade racer. The question remains though, will racing fans opt for this, or for Bizarre Creations powered-up racer, Blur? I personally am looking forward to both (a lot!), so it looks like May is going to be an interesting month.
The demo for Split/Second is available on Xbox Live now, whilst the retail game ships in North America on May 18th, and in Europe on May 21st.
As reported on Joystiq, Capcom held an event -- called "Fight Club" -- in LA over the weekend to promote the soon-to-be-released Super Street Fighter 4. However, what was probably the high point of the event, was a match-up between two of the worlds best Street Fighter players: DaigoUmehara and Justin Wong.
Match-ups between these two players are always pretty intense (just look on Youtube for proof!), so anyone interested in the game would do well to check out the videos of their fights, which are posted after the break.
The first video is a three-match warm-up, in which Daigo and Justin are only allowed to use the new characters, whilst the second video is the actual fight. Watching two high-level players go at it like this is nothing short of exhilarating, and it's always good to see the game being played the way it's supposed to be.
Super Street Fighter 4 is set to release in North America on April 27th, and in Europe on April 30th.
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