Sunday Afternoon New Release and ShackReviews

July 16, 2006 1:00 PM

As a couple people pointed out, I missed Outerlight's The Ship (PC) in last week's list. Rather than add it into that list later and have few people notice, I figured I'd give it a proper mention this week. It's out on Steam now!

Also, NinjaBee's Cloning Clyde comes out this week on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360. I'm looking forward to getting some co-op in with that one. It's a sadly neglected feature these days, so it's nice when developers go out of their way to support it. If you aren't familiar with the game, which wouldn't be a huge surprise, check out our preview.

This Week's New Releases

PS2

Super Dragon Ball Z (Crafts & Meister | Tue. | PS2)

Xbox/X360

Cloning Clyde (NinjaBee | Wed. | X360)

Portable

Blade Dancer: Lineage of Light (Hit Maker | Tue. | PSP)
Miami Vice (Rebellion | Tue. | PSP)
Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth (tri-Ace | Tue. | PSP)

Multi

Monster House (THQ / A2M | Tue. | PS2, GCN, NDS, GBA)
NCAA Football 07 (EA Tiburon | Tue. | PS2, Xbox, X360, PSP)

Additional Database Entries

The Ship (Outerlight, PC, 2006)

Featured ShackReviews:

Another week with three from Masem; this time it's GlyphX Games' Advent Rising (Xbox), Microsoft Game Studios Japan's Phantom Dust (Xbox), and Human Head and 3D Realms' Prey (X360).
From SixDemonBag we've got two: Treasure and Game Arts' Silpheed: The Lost Planet (PS2) and EA Redwood Shores' The Godfather (Xbox).
Chazums has a quick review of From Software's Chromehounds (X360).
Dedgecko checks out Human Head and 3D Realms' Prey (X360).

Once again, very little gaming for me this week. I'm slowly chipping away at Backbone's Age of Empires: The Age of Kings (NDS).

Chris Remo

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July 16, 2006 1:23 PM

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- Chris Remo
  
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  July 16, 2006 1:32 PM
  
  More like an awesome feature now!
  
  The reason you've yet to have a fun co-op experience since then is that nobody puts it in their damn games! If more developers did, it would be easier to find good ones.
  - aasyranth
    
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    July 16, 2006 9:26 PM
    
    If someone designed a decent game that was entirely designed for 2-player co-op, I'd be all over it.
    - Chris Remo
      
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      July 16, 2006 10:42 PM
      
      EA's upcoming Army of Two is pretty much that.
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    July 17, 2006 12:56 PM
    
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- godm0de
  
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  July 16, 2006 1:32 PM
  
  coop in halo1 was pretty good... me and my kuzin played for 20 hours straight first day and beat it on legendary
  - WARLORD48
    
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    July 16, 2006 6:19 PM
    
    HALO 2's co-op is fantastic too. Also, Perfect Dark Zero has some great co-op action (each player can bring different gadgets for a more diverse experience, a few levels even have the characters doing different things altogether for much of them, and a good number of objectives change to require both players to do something together/differently).