I love PSM's annual reports from E3. Being a born-again videogame junkie, I love the allure of a new game, with new challenges and new problems to solve. That being said, here's few titles that may be worth checking out ... granted, my tastes may or may not run the same as everyone elses (I bypassed "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" only to break my right arm to get a copy of "Rocky: Legends"), so do keep this in mind.
+ Bully (Made by Rockstar Games, this mission-based game has you play as a kid who treats the weaker kids in his school like shit, flushing their heads down the toilet, pantsing them, using slingshots and dodgeballs to create mayhem ... oh, feel the goodness.)
+ King Kong (Graphically, this game looks like it kicks ass ... it also looks like a first-person shooter, which seems somewhat odd to me.)
+ Capcom Classics Collection (Can't wait to get a chance to play "Final Fight" and "1942" without plunking down a blue-billion quarters to do so.)
+ Evil Dead: Regeneration (Don't know if this will be a budget $20 title like its predecessor, but the first one was a nice little game, so maybe this'll be the same.)
+ Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (Subtitles seem to be the vogue this year. Anyway, Incredible Hulk + Grand Theft Auto mechanics = the way a Hulk game should be from the get-go ... definitely a promising title.)
+ Jaws: Unleashed (You play as the shark ... HAHAHAHAHAHA!! No seriously, you do.)
+ Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams (Big fan of the Onimusha series here ... I'm playing "Blood Will Tell," which could almost be from the same family of games. Anyway, this is #4 in the trilogy [okay, who dug up Douglas Adams?], and hopefully it will be a faithful continuation of the series.)
Not a whole lot coming out this year, unless you're a fan of WWII games, urban fighting games, or cel-shaded RPGs. Cream of the crap this year appears to be the following: 50 Cent: Bulletproof; Mark Ecko's Getting Up; True Crime: New York City (which probably stars Snoop Dogg); Devil Kings & Genji: Dawn of the Samurai (which look like exactly the same game); Frogger: Ancient Shadow; and ... yes ladies and gentlemen ... The Bible Game.
Saturday, June 25, 2005
New Video Games on the Horizon (acc. to PSM)
2 comments:
Fantastic--I will definitely chack out those games. I was wondering what is the name of the PSM book that you have that just has the reviews?? I want to get my hands on that.
I believe it's called "The Ultimate Review Guide;" it's magazine form, retails for $9.99, and can probably be found at an EB. When I went on the big game-buying spree a few months ago, I perused copies of the book in-store to help my purchasing movements.
I think there might be another edition coming out soon, only because it seems like that last one was out around summer. Don't take my word for it, though; I'd still snag the same copy I had, just on general principle.
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