Lots of Games, Nadda Money.
Just saw the list of games to be released this week over on Joystiq. Their full list is amazing, there’s going to be over 20 games released this week. Here is just a sample, the ones I might actually be interested in:
- Baten Kaitos Origins (GCN) - this is a must have for me.
- Mario vs Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (DS) - will wait on reviews but this looks great.
- Just Cause (PC, Xbox, PS2, 360)Â - liked the demo for this for 360, might try the PC ver.
- Mage Knight: Apocalypse (PC) - I’m mainly interested in this so i can get the cool dragon pack-in.
- DEFCON (PC) - this is from the makers of Darwinia. Might be good, I’ll wait and see though.
- Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria (PS2) - this is a must have for me.
- Caesar IV (PC) - will look at reviews.
- ParaWorld (PC) - will look at reviews.
I am really getting behind on my RPGs, There are now like 6 or 7 out for the PS2 that I haven’t aquired yet. I am kind of obsessive about collecting all of them so I will probably be dishing out some dosh soon. But on the downside, I really wanted to save my money to get a Wii in November. 
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I’m pretty stoked about Just Cause too. xbox360fanboy just didn’t get it (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2006/08/31/just-cause-just-lame/) which I thought was kind of, well off.
Anyhow, it should be a very fun alternative sandbox game… as long as the: “stay on target because the game ends at dusk whether you’re done screwing around or not” mechanic in the demo, is just that.
Comment by Khidr — September 26, 2006 @ 11:06 am
The physics did seem off (very unrealistic) but I can forgive that if the stunts and stuff really end up being as cool as it looked like they could be in the demo. But yes, the time limit for the demo really sucked so I hope that the real game doesn’t have a time limit or only on a small percentage of the missions. In the demo I managed to kill the first guy you do the parachute over and then I managed to liberate some village. That’s about as far as I got before running out of time. One thing that seemed off to me also was the sound effects. But we’ll see how it turns out. I doubt I’m buying this for full price but pick it up when it gets cheaper. Also I’m probably going to go with the PC version because I can see this as a really cool game to mod so hopefully we’ll get some mods.
Comment by virtuadept — September 26, 2006 @ 12:30 pm