Oct 17th - 23rd

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Looking at this week's release list I can name at least five games I would have no trouble picking up on day one if not for the fact they are all shipping at the same time. The Warriors, Shadow of the Colossus, Pro Evolution Soccer 5, Stubbs the Zombie, F.E.A.R, AOE 3, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and even Blitz: The League looks like it might be good. It's completely nuts but you know what? I love it. Welcome to the bounty that is Fall gaming! With all these awesome games hitting the shelves Elysium suggested that Quicken would be the smartest buy of all this week, if only so you can figure out how you're going to pay for it all. Throw in the Xbox 360 shipping in just a month and you have a recipe for financial disaster.

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On DVD this week we have Batman Begins, Big Lebowski, Land of the Dead, Legend of Zelda: Complete Animated Series and more!

PC:
F.E.A.R. (10/17)
Shattered Union (10/17)
X3: Reunion (10/17)
Age of Empires III (10/18)
Quake 4 (10/18)
Zoo Tycoon 2: Endangered Species (10/18)
Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection (10/18)
Ultima Online: The Eighth Age (10/18)
Sniper Elite (10/18)
World War II Combat: Road to Berlin (10/18)
SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! (10/19)
Disney's Chicken Little (10/20)
Pro Evolution Soccer 5 (10/21)

XBOX:
Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (10/17)
Warriors, The (10/17)
Shattered Union (10/17)
Blitz: The League (10/17)
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy (10/17)
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (10/18)
World Poker Tour (10/18)
Major League Baseball 2K5: World Series Edition (10/18)
Sniper Elite (10/18)
IHRA Drag Racing: Sportsman Edition (10/18)
Bible Game, The (10/18)
Crash Tag Team Racing (10/18)
Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball Max'd (10/18)
World War II Combat: Road to Berlin (10/18)
SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! (10/19)
Disney's Chicken Little (10/20)
Pro Evolution Soccer 5 (10/21)

GAMECUBE:
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (10/17)
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (10/18)
Crash Tag Team Racing (10/18)
SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! (10/19)
Disney's Chicken Little (10/20)

PS2:
Warriors, The (10/17)
Blitz: The League (10/17)
Shadow of the Colossus (10/18)
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi (10/18)
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (10/18)
World Poker Tour (10/18)
Major League Baseball 2K5: World Series Edition (10/18)
Sniper Elite (10/18)
Jak X: Combat Racing (10/18)
IHRA Drag Racing: Sportsman Edition (10/18)
Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life Special Edition (10/18)
Crash Tag Team Racing (10/18)
SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! (10/19)
Shining Force Neo (10/20)
Disney's Chicken Little (10/20)
Pro Evolution Soccer 5 (10/21)

GBA:
Tony Hawk's American Sk8land (10/18)
World Poker Tour (10/18)
CandyLand / Chutes & Ladders / Memory (10/18)
Mousetrap / Operation / Simon (10/18)
Life / Yahtzee / Payday (10/18)
Spyro the Dragon SuperPack (10/18)
Crash & Spryo SuperPack (10/18)
Crash Bandicoot SuperPack (10/18)
SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! (10/19)
Disney's Chicken Little (10/20)

DS:
Scooby-Doo! Unmasked (10/17)
Dig Dug: Digging Strike (10/18)
Spyro Shadow Legacy (10/18)

PSP:
Con, The (10/18)
X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse (10/18)

Comments

If anyone picks up Pro Evolution Soccer for PC, let us all know how it runs. I've got a gamepad I'd be willing to break back out for a solid Konami soccer title.

If anyone picks up Pro Evolution Soccer for PC, let us all know how it runs. I've got a gamepad I'd be willing to break back out for a solid Konami soccer title.

I am similarly interested in hearing about Blitz: The League.

SOCOM came out last week. All other games are inconsequential!

Hmm X3 looks intriguing, didn't realize it was due. I'll have to scrounge around for some previews.

I have to choose between Warriors, Stubbs and that Union game where the state are all fighting each other. Dammit. Why did I give up that high-paying job?

Staats wrote:

If anyone picks up Pro Evolution Soccer for PC, let us all know how it runs. I've got a gamepad I'd be willing to break back out for a solid Konami soccer title.

I may buy a DVD-ROM just for this, just so I can play the PC version, and update all the Teams/Kits.

Geez, what a week.

F.E.A.R. (10/17)
Shattered Union (10/17)
X3: Reunion (10/17)
Age of Empires III (10/18)
Quake 4 (10/18)
Pro Evolution Soccer 5 (10/21)

Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (10/17)

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (10/17)

Shadow of the Colossus (10/18)

Yeah, I'm picking up FEAR, considering Quake 4, buying Batman on DVD, and I want Stubbs the Zombie for the Xbox too.

Ugh.

I just want Civ IV. Now.

Lebowski gets rel-released? I wonder if its anything better/different from the one a few years ago..

I may buy a DVD-ROM just for this, just so I can play the PC version, and update all the Teams/Kits.

I look forward to welcoming you to the 21st century. Maybe you can work on Elysium, next.

Wow, are they ever going to stop releasing stuff for Ultima Online?

Personally I'm having impulsive acquisitionous thoughts about F.E.A.R. and Quake 4. Given the rumours that Quake 4 is quite "blah", the scales are currently tipped towards F.E.A.R.

Fire Emblem, Shadow of the Colossus, and FEAR are the only ones that are of any interest to me.

Fire Emblem and "kinda maybe" on Quake 4.

Yay...nothing for me this week!

Big Lebowski...? Did this come out like 5 years ago?

Whoo--hooo I finally received a secret GamesWithJobs password and can register and make my first post. What a triumphant moment!

For shame that I'm going to ruin this joyous moment by tepidly touting another WWII game. Here goes... Sniper Elite is pretty good. I got to play through it already on Xbox and for a game that focuses solely on the role of a sniper, they keep it pretty lively and it's not a bad game. Its graphics are pretty bland and dated, but the simulation aspect of the bullet's reaction to gravity and wind and whatnot is pretty cool. Anyway, if you see it cheap... you might want to pick it up.

As for me, F.E.A.R, most likely, and definitely Fire Emblem and American Wasteland -- finally a Tony Hawk game that works with Xbox Live!

X3:Reunion sounds like it could be a winner... I'm just not sure I have enough time to give it justice...

I had no idea what Fire Emblem was, then I saw this on Gamespy...

Think of it was a cross between Advance Wars and Final Fantasy Tactics -- it plays very much like the former, from a tactical standpoint, but heavily utilizes RPG-style character building in a style similar to the latter.

Cha CHING! I'll definately be picking that up now!

Aren't any of you god damned heathens picking up the Bible Game? Sure, it's only old testament, but think of the children!

Aren't any of you god damned heathens picking up the Bible Game? Sure, it's only old testament, but think of the children!

Any time one of my local bible thumpers starts going on about violence in entertainment, I immediately think about the OT and giggle a bit to myself.

Oh, and things like

Quicken would be the smartest buy of all this week, if only so you can figure out how you're going to pay for it all

are one of the attitudinal leanings that keep this site on the first tab to open by default on my browser.

Again - your failure to make Civ IV the game of the week has been duly noted by the mothership - with great displeasure I might add.

I just want Civ IV. Now.

Dejanzie - you are a visionary!

Seconded!

And in theaters, the single movie that'll make you glad that the motion picture industry is dying a long and painful death: DOOM. Seriously, all the Batman DVDs and copies of Civ IV in the world can't cure that level of suck.

EB just called me.. F.E.A.R is in stock so I'm picking that up on my way home from work...

Maybe you can work on Elysium, next.

Even I have one, clearly defining the line of demarcation between 'Woefully Behind the Times' and 'Out-of-Touch Luddite'.

I'm sorry to hear the Prederick is still living in a thatch hut and playing solitare on his abacus.

I have to choose between Warriors, Stubbs and that Union game where the state are all fighting each other. Dammit. Why did I give up that high-paying job?

Fletch, I thought of you when I saw The Warriors advertised this weekend. Let me know how it is if you get it.

oldmanscene24 wrote:
I have to choose between Warriors, Stubbs and that Union game where the state are all fighting each other. Dammit. Why did I give up that high-paying job?

Fletch, I thought of you when I saw The Warriors advertised this weekend. Let me know how it is if you get it.

Will do. In fact, maybe I'll let EVERYONE know! Aha! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahhhehecthpuhackheck*wheeze*!

Pigpen wrote:

Again - your failure to make Civ IV the game of the week has been duly noted by the mothership - with great displeasure I might add.

I just want Civ IV. Now.

Dejanzie - you are a visionary!

Seconded!

If it came out this week, instead of next, I'd join your fanaticism.

Elysium wrote:
Maybe you can work on Elysium, next.

Even I have one, clearly defining the line of demarcation between 'Woefully Behind the Times' and 'Out-of-Touch Luddite'.

I'm sorry to hear the Prederick is still living in a thatch hut and playing solitare on his abacus.

Laugh all you want, when the machines rise up and start killing, you'll all come running to me and my butter churns.

Prederick wrote:
Elysium wrote:
Maybe you can work on Elysium, next.

Even I have one, clearly defining the line of demarcation between 'Woefully Behind the Times' and 'Out-of-Touch Luddite'.

I'm sorry to hear the Prederick is still living in a thatch hut and playing solitare on his abacus.

Laugh all you want, when the machines rise up and start killing, you'll all come running to me and my butter churns.

Butter churns...of DOOM!

God help me, but my wife wants to see DOOM because of the Rock.

cartoonin99 wrote:

God help me, but my wife wants to see DOOM because of the Rock. :(

Ok, see, now and forevermore, you are not allowed to complain that your wife won't watch action movies with you, or that you never get to see them because you end up watching a couple movie.

Use this to your advantage.