Sunday Evening New Releases and ShackReviews

February 5, 2006 3:00 PM

Hey there, everyone. Don't forget to suggest games for inclusion in the database if there's one you were looking for but couldn't find. Of course, don't forget the looking part, either. We don't have every single game, but as of today we do have over 2,600 of them.

This Week's New Releases

PS2

Let's Ride: Silver Buckle Stables (THQ | Tue. | PS2)
Tales of Legendia (Namco | Tue. | PS2)

GameCube

Chibi-Robo (Skip, Ltd. | Mon. | GCN)

Portable

Drill Dozer (Game Freak | Mon. | GBA)
Finding Nemo: Escape to the Big Blue (THQ | Mon. | DS)
The Rub Rabbits! (Sonic Team | Tue. | DS)
Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX (Capcom | Tue. | PSP)

PC

Midway Arcade Treaures: Deluxe Edition (Midway | Mon. | PC)

Multi

Arena Football (EA Tiburon | Tue. | PS2, Xbox)
World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 (Konami KCET | Tue. | PS2, Xbox, PSP, PC)

Additional Database Entries

Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa (Pocketwatch Games, 2005, PC)

Featured ShackReviews:

Masem takes a break, but SixDemonBag sticks around with a look at Criterion's Burnout Revenge (Xbox).
Artartful quite enjoys Monolith's F.E.A.R. (PC).

Chris Remo

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Masem

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February 5, 2006 3:18 PM

I'm not taking a break, I'm trying to get through the gazillion hours of cutscenes on disk 2 of Xenogears!!!
- omnova
  
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  February 5, 2006 3:47 PM
  
  Xenogears is the best book I ever played.
  - Evangelion
    
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    February 5, 2006 9:25 PM
    
    God...I thought Baldur's Gate II was bad...
- Bob422
  
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  February 5, 2006 4:53 PM
  
  You didn't play Planescape: Torment?
  - Masem
    
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    February 5, 2006 5:23 PM
    
    I keep starting that, and while I love story based games, I guess I'm one that I don't want to spend a lot of time reading on a screen when, if possible, voice work and non-interact cut scenes can be used to carry the story.
    
    Effectively the same problem I have with Xenogears right now - right before I last put it down (for Super Bowl watching, natch), I think of the last hour, I only 'played' about 5 minutes, but I had to keep hitting the 'forward' button to keep the cut scenes moving. There's probably just as much story in newer games , but usually the cutscenes are automated *and* and be skipped.
- SixDemonBag
  
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  February 5, 2006 6:59 PM
  
  Getting to watch a sequence of cuts and then having the game asking for you to save before it started the next batch felt pretty crazy. I like cuts when they help tell a story in an RPG, but I was just blown away by how many of those there were in Xenogears. Still, I liked the game.
  - Evangelion
    
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    February 5, 2006 9:24 PM
    
    Xenogears isn't even a game, it's like a retelling of the Bible. I mean, I know that sounds stupid as hell, and forgive me, but I was just so taken back by the amount of information and cutscenes that had to be absorbed in that game. It took me almost a full semester to play through it once. Though kick ass game though.
- Masem
  
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  February 5, 2006 11:38 PM
  
  Oh, finally it's done. Review set off in the queue for Remo.
  
  Ow my head. That was almost MSG2 silly proportions.
  - Masem
    
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    February 5, 2006 11:39 PM
    
    Eerrr, MGS2 even.
  - megarust32
    
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    February 5, 2006 11:41 PM
    
    Oh no you didn't.
    - omnova
      
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      February 5, 2006 11:41 PM
      
      I think he did. >:(