The gaming year is coming to a close, but it’s going out with a bang! There are lots of great games available this week for all the major platforms. Assassin’s Creed 2, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and God of War Collection are just some of the titles you can pick up. Here are this week’s PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation Portable, and Nintendo DS releases…along with some brief commentary. I’ve taken out most of the garbage and kids games (unless I found them funny). As always, let me know if you’re planning to buy any of this week’s new releases.
PlayStation 3
Assassin’s Creed II
God of War: Collection
LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues – The adventure will continue…until Indy needs hip surgery.
NCAA Basketball 2010
Planet 51
Scene It: Bright Lights Big Screen — It’s not Buzz.
Tony Hawk: Ride Skateboard
Xbox 360
Assassin’s Creed II
Left 4 Dead 2
LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues — You call him Dr. Jones, doll!!!
NCAA Basketball 2010
Planet 51
Scene It: Bright Lights Big Screen
Tony Hawk: Ride
Nintendo Wii
Disney’s The Princess and the Frog
EA Sports Active: More Workouts
Formula One 2009
Just Dance
Kamen Rider Dragon Knight
LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues
New Super Mario Bros
Planet 51
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles
Scene It: Bright Lights Big Screen
Tony Hawk: Ride
PlayStation Portable
Assassin’s Creed: Bloodline
LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues
LittleBigPlanet
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Tag Force 4
Nintendo DS
Assassin’s Creed 2: Discovery
Disney’s The Princess and the Frog
Kamen Rider Dragon Knight
LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues
Planet 51
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I have been waiting for Assassin's Creed II for quite some time. I am VERY happy and can't wait till tomorrow.
@N8R
Yeah, Grateful Dead are horrible in my opinion. I have incited a few arguments with them.
@ Mr. Padilla;
O.K. New idea. I have mentioned before that I think you should have a few reviews on this site to bolster it up a bit and get more publicity. You mentioned that it would be too time consuming as you are very meticulous with your reviews (or something to that extent).
Here's my idea: Why not let the users of the site review the games? Hear me out on this one. I know this may seem a little experimental at first, but I really think the idea has potential and it is simply an evolution of what I have seen on some other sites. All you have to do is make a profile page for each game (or whatever games you want). Next, you have the user pick one of the following options: "Never played game", "Played game a little and stopped", "Played game halfway or more, but did not finish", and "Finished the game." Next, you have them rate the game between one and three stars. One means it sucked, two is average and three means the game is good. Lastly, you give the user 50 words (or 100 if you are feeling generous) to briefly write a little blurb on their experience with the game. You could, of course, set all the rules and let people know what guidelines you want them to follow, etc., etc. If they don't, you simply erase/delete their entry.
If you can pull this off, we'll all know what games each other has played and if they liked/disliked the games. Also, I think it would help drive new traffic to the site if you were to allow ordinary users say their piece about a game (within reason, of course.)
Just throwing it out there. I am, after all, a marketing guy. It’s what I do.
-M
@Ice – I like it and would gladly participate.
Assassin's Creed II is a priority, along with GoW3. I tried my very best not to watch the 40 min live presentation of AC2 on Gamespot last week. I only managed to maybe watch 20 min of the gameplay. Very impressive. I'm loving the not so repetitive game play. I can imagine myself being pretty frustrated with the more "intelligent" guards poking their noses where I hide lol.
Everytime I see the new Tony Hawk skateboard game I die a little inside. How I miss the old TH 1 and 2. Idk, the graphics look sub par for the most part. *shrug*
@Ray
I'm interested in hearing your idea for how game reviews should work if you were to do them. Maybe there is a way for us to help make it reality.
Part of the fun of being able to play a Skateboarding or Snowbarding game…or really any sports game in general is the ability to excel at something you suck at. Making me get on a "skateboard" to play a video game screams of fail and actually will cut their audience signifigantly.
I missed this at the top… Tony Hawk: Ride comes out this week. I'd love to hear everyone's opinion on this, but to me, it seems like this is a game that was made to fail. The price point is huge for something that looks like it could be quite spotty with gameplay. It looks like an awful risk, and I think given the recent failure of DJ Hero in sales, that this may be doomed as well. On top of that, there has been little to no word of mouth about this. This will not end well.
@Iceman That's a fantastic idea. Maybe I'll start with something simple.
@Sandrock323 We shall see. I'm going to play around with Iceman's idea.
I would second Iceman's idea.. or something like it
the idea of iceman is great. It is excellent marketing as it will cover a wide range of gamers.
It will cover beginners, intermediate and advance gamers. You can also incorporate a forum among them to solicit solutions for hard to bit games and how to advance to the next level. Try this approach.
O and the last game I'm buying this year comes out tomorrow, L4D2. Dragon Age is on hold until spring when FFXIII and Mass Effect 2 come out. This should give me enough time to gather as much accurate info on the PC version to decide on which version to buy.
i think iceman's idea is a good one. I doubt that I have played as many games as plenty of the other people on this site, but I'd be glad to review what I have used.
@iceman I'm curious, what do you do with marketing? I'm going to school for advertising and anthropology (double major).
I got a magnet in the mail today. It had a picture on it of some guy, but whoever designed the picture was brilliant!
@bsukenyan;
Right now, not much, to directly answer your question. I graduated from the University of Miami with a major in marketing, and I have to tell you that it's pretty damn useless (even when the economy was "good"). I'm working with my sister and father in a great little family business my dad started back in '87. Thankfully my father is a marketing genius and taught me a lot about how everything that is successful is the result of good marketing. It taught me how to see the world through different eyes.
@ Everyone;
Thanks for your support of my idea. I've already got the 2.0 version of it in my head, but I think the original has to be established and be successful for me to even talk about the 2.0 version. I'll do my part, but the only way this site will thrive is if more people come join in and/or click links to buy stuff… or Mr. Padilla wins the lottery.
Either way.
-M
LOL!@N8R
I'm sure you think the guy who designed it is also a good-looking, virile, sexy chick magnet, too, huh?
-M
P.S.- Our bet is still on. I'll extend it to this site as well (if it’s O.K. with you) in order to ensure your maximum humility in sporting a '72 Dolphins logo Gravatar when we hand Big Ben his last loss of the season.
@N8R That's a sharp looking magnet! I think it should be called CM Pad. (Punk was originally in a tag team called The Chick Magnets, ergo CM.)
@Iceman I like this idea of winning the lottery. I'll go buy a ticket today.
@ Iceman
It's on, I think I referenced that a few weeks ago but apparently you didn't see it. Also, all those adjectives completely apply. I'd also like to add masculine, alluring, and non-bovine.
@ R Pad
I was aware of the CM reference and that's an awesome moniker for the Pad. It could also mean Color Magnet… but we just won't reference that.
i HATE iceman's idea
jk, just wanna be different