With Castle Crashers being released tomorrow, I figured I better get this up ASAP. Expect a October one in the next couple weeks.
Castle Crashers
X360 - August 27, 2008
This might be the
most awaited XBLA game ever. I’ve been looking forward to this for so long I’ve
almost lost interest! With a style all its own, The Behemoth is taking
everything it made awesome in Alien Hominid and expanding on it. It has the
same wacky feel, the same crazy old school game play, but now it has a huge
helping of RPG character building.
With so many huge
retail releases in the coming weeks (or months), this is actually a perfect
time for an awesome XBLA game. It snuggles in perfectly into both my time and
money budget, and is definitely a day one buy for me.
Mercenaries 2: World
in Flames
Various - August 31,
2008
I cannot calculate
how many hours I wasted in the first Mercenaries game blowing the shit out of
everything around me. It takes the fun, crazy and absurd action of GTA, wraps
in it a military themed wrapper and pushes it to extremes. GTA would be so much
easier if you could call in bunker busting air strikes and level Liberty city…
However, as good as
the first Mercenaries was, GTA IV has given me enough of this style game for a
little while. I would be definitely picking up Mercenaries 2 day one if there
wasn’t a certain other game coming out September 7th…
Viva Piñata: Trouble
in Paradise
X360 - September 2,
2008
The first Viva Pinata
was quite a gem. It was actually one of the first games I picked up for my 360.
Sure this IP has been milked for all it’s worth in Merchandising, but the game
it self is still quite good. There are not many new games like this out there,
and its style really shines on the current Gen consoles. Hopefully the sequel
will bring more awesome to the table.
But then I look at
the release date. The only way they could have picked a worse date to release
this game is if they chose Sept 7th. While Viva Pinata and Spore very different
games, they are also somewhat similar. They both are very open ended games with
huge time commitments. Why release it so close to a game that’s going to blow
it out of the water? This is one I’ll have to wait until some time next year to
pick up, it will be much cheaper and I’ll have much more time to play it.
Spore
PC - September 7,
2008
I honestly don’t
think I need to say much about this game. I’m just so happy it’s finally coming
out. This is going to destroy all my free time for weeks. My other games are
going to feel neglected.
Star Wars: The Force
Unleashed
Various - September
16, 2008
This is a game that
looks really cool, but it has a very large possibility of sucking. The premise
is pretty interesting – Darth Vader’s secret apprentice has an insane amount of
control over the force. Now go destroy everything and everyone you meet. But
over the years I’ve just lost hope with LucasArts.
I’m defiantly excited
for this game, but I’ll have to wait and watch the community’s reaction after
its release before I decide if I’ll be picking it up. Besides, I’ll probably
still be busy with Spore…
The Witcher: Enhanced
Edition
PC - September 16,
2008
About fucking time!
Even with all the warnings about this game being neutered on the North American
release, I still picked it up and played for a couple hours. Shortly after, I
heard of this much better sounding Enhanced Edition and promptly sold my copy
to quietly wait for this release.
My wait started many
months ago - its been long enough that with all these awesome releases coming
out around the same time… I can wait to pick this one up.