Welcome to GWJÂ's new home! Hopefully everyone is getting here ok and we can carry on doing whatever it is we do. If wallets could breathe I expect yours would utter a sigh of relief, there really isnÂ't much anything coming out this week. Things are looking so sparse in fact that the game of the week was almost going to be pie. Instead weÂ'll go with ToCA Race Driver for the Xbox and PS2. Shipping on Tuesday for $29.99 it supports online play and the Xbox version includes Colin McRae 04 as well.ÂÂ
On DVD this week weÂ've got Aladdin: Special Edition, Fahrenheit 9/11 and more!
Yager
Platform: Xbox
Ships: Oct 5th
Price: $19.99
The Buzz: If itÂ's anything like the PC version I wouldnÂ't bother with it.
Wild Fire
Platform: PC
Ships: Oct 5th
Price: $19.99
The Buzz: A budget PC game that has you fighting forest fires! A Slambie special if I've ever seen one, it should be more exciting than farming with John Deer.
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
Platform: PC, Xbox, PS2
Ships: Oct 5th
Price: $29.99 (PC), $49.99 (Xbox, PS2)
The Buzz: No early review for this one so far, strike one!
Singles: Flirt Up Your Life
Platform: PC
Ships: Oct 5th
Price: $29.99
The Buzz: Average reviews, looks like the Sims only with more soft-core sex. Hubba. Hubba.
Robotech: Invasion
Platform: Xbox, PS2
Ships: Oct 10th
Price: $39.99
Get On Da Mic
Platform: PS2, Xbox
Ships: Oct 5th
Price: $49.99
The Buzz: The annoying press releases flooding my inbox combined with a stupid game title makes me hate it already.
SuperPower 2
Platform: PC
Ships: Oct 7th
Price: $29.99
The Buzz: The demo failed to impress anyone, wait and see.
SVC Chaos: SNK vs. Capcom
Platform: Xbox
Ships: Oct 7th
Price: $49.99
- Certis
Comments
Only Leisure Suit Larry and it will have to sit unopened for a bit...
And I so wanted to like Superpower 2, but it is SO boring and so poorly put together...
Wow. Two great games for that price. Don't see how anyone who considers himself a fan of racing titles could not pick up this one. And Race Driver 2 has an impressive amount of content and cars.
Did you forget about Mortal Kombat?
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Yeah... the new MK doesnt look half bad... I may pick that up
Aint nothing new about the world order..it's been playing since the day they put George Washington on a quarter
Delivering Truth while the 10% deliver lies.
Like Sim, I so very much wanted that SuperPower 2 demo to be good, but it wasn't. It was the opposite of good. It was... bad.
If there were any justice in the world, 'emoticons' would be a failed eighties Transformers spin off movie, in which all the bots transform into a symbol of an emotion, and which preaches gay rights.
Don't forget Counterstrike: Source!
Some of you guys will be playing it while I get married, bah!
PSN ID: Haul_N_Oats
If it's not on EB's release list I might have missed it, yeah.
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ― Howard Thurman
LSL this week? Sweet!
"I assure you, I have no -- nor have I had any -- ill will toward anyone in these threads aside from Green, but we all despise that aggrandizing turd." - ColdForged
Not our fault your priorities are all jacked up, Fluxie
If there were any justice in the world, 'emoticons' would be a failed eighties Transformers spin off movie, in which all the bots transform into a symbol of an emotion, and which preaches gay rights.
Wheeee doggie! There ain't nothin' better than pig farmin' with John Deere!
I just might take a look at Wild Fire but my budget game money's on Wanted: A Wild West Adventure this week (to be shipped on 10/3 when last I looked)....Ride 'em cowboy!
What's with the difference in the Leisure Suit Larry PC and console prices?
Final Warrior Quest - Play it for free!
Agent of Fate - Play it for free!
Extra breasts, i'd guess.
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Watch me learn to draw.
I ran through the demo for this game last night. It's available via The Adventure Company and I liked its use of 3D. It's easier for me than the classic Grim Fandango as it's all point-and-click.
Here's a link to Quardary Land's review of it.
Also, here's a link to IGN's LSL review -- it doesn't look as good as I had hoped: they give it a 72%. As an adventure game player, I'd rate it lower than that, from what I read.
"Gamers With Jobs will take over the world someday. I hope they're benevolent overlords." -- Bill Harris
That Lesiure Suit Larry game makes me flinch everytime I see it. Looks way too platformish with all those mini-games for my PC gaming sensibilities. There's a chance this might have been worth it had Al Lowe been involved in the creative process but as is it, I'm taking a pass on this week's edition of tit tweaking titillation.
I'll most likely still eventually buy it, but it's definitely not worth even the $30 for the PC version for me. (I'm as much a sucker for "tit tweaking titillation" as the next heterosexual male.) To bring in the other LSL point, I would assume that the higher price for the console version is simply because the market accepts $40/$50 as the typical price point there.
But, I expect that I'll be waiting quite a while for it to drop below $20. I had been thinking it was going to be one of my few exceptions to my usual $20/$25 per game limit, but no longer.
"Gamers With Jobs will take over the world someday. I hope they're benevolent overlords." -- Bill Harris
Nobody's said anything about Tribes: Vengance?
"$10 - Exclusive Sean-cam where he just shakes his head, over and over." From Pyro's Kickstarter, "Endless Pit of Human Misery Livestream"