EGM November 2008 - Reviews & Rumours

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Cover Story: Resident Evil 5

The next month section doesn't mention the cover story. It just says "It's a secret to everybody (except us) and has a picture of a sundial in a field of flowers. It also says it's a Manhattan sized announcement.

Also Batman: Arkham Asylum, Prototype and reviews for Gears of War 2, Guitar Hero:World Tour, Resistance 2, Saint's Row 2, SOCOM: Confrontation, Fallout 3, LittleBigPlanet, and Spider-man: Web of Shadows.

Features/Previews:

- Foreign Object - Thunder Force VI
- Monster Hunter PSP online at last through PS3
- The return of co-op and where it's headed
- Far Cry 2
- 5 things you need to know about R2's co-op campaign
- Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers for Wii and Bikini Samurai Squad for 360
- The House of the Dead: Overkill
- Seanbaby's rest of the crap - reviewing games based on their box
- Retronauts - History of co-op games, good and bad
- Blu-Ray section
- Videogame politicians

Rumors:

- Devil May Cry style Strider game
- Lucas Arts handing Rogue Squadron rights to new publisher. All games released on one Wii disk with enhanced visuals and Wii controls. -
- Kojima wants to make a FPS game. Has been seen talking to Infinity Ward, Guerilla Games, and Treyarch
- Fast domestic release of the Disgaea side scroller
- non-Sony property LittleBigPlanet DLC coming very soon including Disney and characters from 3rd party games
- Every single 2009 PSP game will also be offered as a download

Reviews:

Wario Land: Shake it! - C+, A-, C+
Good: Classic Wario playability, sumptuous artwork
Bad: Lackluster levels, tired design

De Blob - B
Good: Simple, colorful fun
Bad: Too-similar levels, unnecessary motion controls

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames - B+, B-, B
Good: Endlessly satisfying destruction
Bad: Gimped co-op, lacks polish

Megaman 9 - B+
Good: Old-school aesthetic and challenge
Bad: Difficulty sometimes borders on masochistic

Silent Hill: Homecoming - B, C+, B-
Good: Silent Hill never looked so good
Bad: Slow framerate, clunky controls

Fracture - C-
Good: Terraforming works well enough
Bad: Ridiculously derivative

Midnight Club: Los Angeles - B
Good: Solid controls, addictive leveling system, amazing re-creation of LA
Bad: inconsistent difficulty, some visual glitches and framerate

NBA Live 09 - B
Good: Daily roster updates
Bad: Way too many blocks

NBA 2K9 - A-
Good: 5-on-5 online games
Bad: Complicated controls

FIFA 09 - B+
Good: Improves a lot of stuff that FIFA 09 did wrong
Bad: Goalkeeper A.I. is still frustratingly incompetent

Infinite Undiscovery - B, B, C+
Good: Seamless real-time battles
Bad: Clunky menus and interfaces

Rock Band 2 - A-, A-, A
Good: Enormous setlist
Bad: Unlocking songs is taxing

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood - A GOTM
Good: Fantastic action-lite RPG in the spirit of Super Mario RPG series
Bad: BioWare's buyout by EA may mean no sequels

The Legend of Kage 2 - B-
Good: Classic ninja gameplay
Bad: Rudimentary level design

Away: Shuffle Dungeon - B-
Good: Clever core gimmick with solid action on top
Bad: Not much going on beyond the gimmick

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia - A-
Good: Deep gameplay, spooky graphics and music
Bad: Confusing puzzles, cut-and-paste levels

Kirby: Super Star Ultra - A-
Good: Plenty of powers to absorb
Bad: Forgettable DS-specific features

Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise - B+
Good: Addictive as always!
Bad: Addictive as always...

Star Ocean: The First Departure - B+
Good: Addictive item creation, relationship bulding
Bad: Archaic storyline and presentation

Spore - B+
Good: Seeing you and your buddies' creations
Bad: An imperfect mix of genres

Nabbed from GAF, credit for the info goes to SuperSonic1305.

Will post the magazine when it becomes available.

- Devil May Cry style Strider game

Please be true and then a BCR style update for XBLA/PSN

- Lucas Arts handing Rogue Squadron rights to new publisher. All games released on one Wii disk with enhanced visuals and Wii controls.

Wow so the games can handle like gooseberry fool to add to the all round shitness of the games.

- Kojima wants to make a FPS game. Has been seen talking to Infinity Ward, Guerilla Games, and Treyarch

Why doesn't speak to people like Crytek or Bungie instead?

- Every single 2009 PSP game will also be offered as a download

Finally.

suzzopher wrote:
- Lucas Arts handing Rogue Squadron rights to new publisher. All games released on one Wii disk with enhanced visuals and Wii controls.

Wow so the games can handle like gooseberry fool to add to the all round shitness of the games.

Were you not a fan of the Rogue Squadron games? The first 2 were pretty enjoyable. The Gamecube one in particular was actually quite astounding at the time.

Mockmaster wrote:
suzzopher wrote:
- Lucas Arts handing Rogue Squadron rights to new publisher. All games released on one Wii disk with enhanced visuals and Wii controls.

Wow so the games can handle like **** to add to the all round shitness of the games.

Were you not a fan of the Rogue Squadron games? The first 2 were pretty enjoyable. The Gamecube one in particular was actually quite astounding at the time.

Compared to the Tie Fighter series it was utter tosh.

suzzopher wrote:
Mockmaster wrote:
suzzopher wrote:
- Lucas Arts handing Rogue Squadron rights to new publisher. All games released on one Wii disk with enhanced visuals and Wii controls.

Wow so the games can handle like **** to add to the all round shitness of the games.

Were you not a fan of the Rogue Squadron games? The first 2 were pretty enjoyable. The Gamecube one in particular was actually quite astounding at the time.

Compared to the Tie Fighter series it was utter tosh.

There's a TIE Fighter series?

If you mean the X-Wing series (of which TIE Fighter was one game) they were entirely different styles of game.

RS3 was poo though.

Hexx wrote:
suzzopher wrote:
Mockmaster wrote:
suzzopher wrote:
- Lucas Arts handing Rogue Squadron rights to new publisher. All games released on one Wii disk with enhanced visuals and Wii controls.

Wow so the games can handle like **** to add to the all round shitness of the games.

Were you not a fan of the Rogue Squadron games? The first 2 were pretty enjoyable. The Gamecube one in particular was actually quite astounding at the time.

Compared to the Tie Fighter series it was utter tosh.

There's a TIE Fighter series?

If you mean the X-Wing series (of which TIE Fighter was one game) they were entirely different styles of game.

RS3 was poo though.

Ok well the X-Wing series but the TIE fighter game was the one I liked the most. Rogue Squadron games were awful in fact Factor 5 haven't made a decent game since Super Turrican 2 on the SNES.

suzzopher wrote:
Hexx wrote:
suzzopher wrote:
Mockmaster wrote:
suzzopher wrote:
- Lucas Arts handing Rogue Squadron rights to new publisher. All games released on one Wii disk with enhanced visuals and Wii controls.

Wow so the games can handle like **** to add to the all round shitness of the games.

Were you not a fan of the Rogue Squadron games? The first 2 were pretty enjoyable. The Gamecube one in particular was actually quite astounding at the time.

Compared to the Tie Fighter series it was utter tosh.

There's a TIE Fighter series?

If you mean the X-Wing series (of which TIE Fighter was one game) they were entirely different styles of game.

RS3 was poo though.

Ok well the X-Wing series but the TIE fighter game was the one I liked the most. Rogue Squadron games were awful in fact Factor 5 haven't made a decent game since Super Turrican 2 on the SNES.

X-Wing Alliance>TIE Fighter (which had the best SP campaign)>X-Wing>X-WingVsTieFighter.

I loved Rogue Squadron on the N64 and the first one (Rogue Leader?) on the GC. They're trying to be different games from X-Wing. The last one was really poo though.

suzzopher wrote:
- Lucas Arts handing Rogue Squadron rights to new publisher. All games released on one Wii disk with enhanced visuals and Wii controls.

Wow so the games can handle like gooseberry fool to add to the all round shitness of the games.

I can't see how they'd handle worse. It'd still be using the analogue stick to pilot the ships, while the remote would presumably be used to aim and fire, actually making the controls better. And while RS2 wasn't as good as some people made out, it was far from 'all round gooseberry fool'.

Also, "enhanced" visuals? :lol:

Hero of Canton wrote:Also, "enhanced" visuals?

Bloom.

X-Wing Alliance>TIE Fighter (which had the best SP campaign)>X-Wing>X-WingVsTieFighter

QFT.

It's good to see I'm not the only one who still holds a deep love of the old X-Wing/Tie Fighter games.

And I'd count Tie Fighter as a seperate series, because I seem to remember that's how it was marketed. It had its own expansion pack, and it was a completely stand-alone game. It wasn't called "Larry Holland's X-Wing : Tie Fighter" or anything daft like that. Still, both really good games, but the series really went out on a high with Alliance.

It actually makes me quite sad thinking about how good they could be now on the 360 or something, with a great plot backed up by full HD graphics. It needs to happen :cry:

Away: Shuffle Dungeon - B-
Good: Clever core gimmick with solid action on top
Bad: Not much going on beyond the gimmick

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia - A-
Good: Deep gameplay, spooky graphics and music
Bad: Confusing puzzles, cut-and-paste levels

Star Ocean: The First Departure - B+
Good: Addictive item creation, relationship bulding
Bad: Archaic storyline and presentation

Wallet cries :cry:

With the HUGE amount of great games coming to consoles this year i'd completely forgotton about the portable stuff >_<

happy with the silent hill score.

Leave Rogue Squadron alone you crazy Tie Fighter fans! It's like hating House of the Dead for not being Halo.

I don't know how someone can compare the RS games to the X-Wing series considering they're completely different games.

It's like comparing Joe and Mac: Cavemen Ninjas to Turok because they both have dinosaurs in.

EGM November 2008 - Reviews & Rumours

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