Sunday Afternoon New Releases and ShackReviews

February 12, 2006 4:00 AM

Xbox 360 gets a new retail game this week. It's also a good week for strategy fans, with Empire at War coming out and that Age of Empires DS game getting much better reviews than I expected, to be completely honest.

This Week's New Releases

PS2

Drakengard 2 (Cavia | Tue. | PS2)
Grandia III (Game Arts | Tue. | PS2)
State of Emergency 2 (DC Studios | Tue. | PS2, also PSP TBA in 2006)

Xbox/X360

Full Auto (Pseudo | Tue. | X360, also PS3 TBA in 2006)

Portable

Age of Empires: The Age of Kings (Backbone | Tue. | DS)
Exit (Taito | Tue. | PSP)

PC

Rome: Total War Gold Edition (Creative Assembly | Tue. | PC)
Star Wars: Empire at War (Petroglyph | Thu. | PC)

Multi

Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure (The Collective | Tue. | PS2, Xbox, PC)
Rugby 06 (EA Canada | Tue. | PS2, Xbox)

Additional Database Entries

Death Rally (Remedy, 1996, PC)
GT Legends (SimBin, 2006, PC)

Featured ShackReviews:

Masem is back with reviews of Square's Xenogears (PS1) and SCEI's Ape Escape 3 (PS2).
SixDemonBag takes a long look at Raven's X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse (Xbox).
Guava D considers how Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 2 (PC) fits into the vast panorama of WWII games.

Chris Remo

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vertdang

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February 12, 2006 2:24 PM

Empire at War.... sweeeeeeeeeeeet.
- dantastic
  
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  February 12, 2006 3:06 PM
  
  BRING IT ONNNNN!
- Darkfox76
  
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  February 12, 2006 4:17 PM
  
  Yeah, hopefully the local Target will have it on the day it comes out. It took them 1-2 months for them to get BF2 in the shelves.
- [deleted] 744961335
  
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  February 12, 2006 4:34 PM
  
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  - Darkfox76
    
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    February 12, 2006 5:29 PM
    
    Sweet, but the nearest Best Buy is 30-40 min. away