New game releases of March 4-10

Plummeting towards us next week, doubtless getting impaled on poles and rebar on the way down, is the shiny new Tomb Raider reboot. We'll also see the launch of the new SimCity, Magicka creator Arrowhead's The Showdown Effect, and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate. The impending baseball season brings MLB 13: The Show and MLB 2K13 too.

Alice O'Connor

March 3, 2013 11:30 AM

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March 3, 2013 11:30 AM

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Plummeting towards us next week, doubtless getting impaled on poles and rebar on the way down, is the shiny new Tomb Raider reboot. We'll also see the launch of the new SimCity, Magicka creator Arrowhead's The Showdown Effect, and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate. The impending baseball season brings MLB 13: The Show and MLB 2K13 too.
- DragonSire
  
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  March 3, 2013 1:39 PM
  
  Castlevania here I come!
  - EnhancedInterrogator
    
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    March 3, 2013 7:37 PM
    
    I bet it's gonna suck. Not in the tradition of the sprite-based 2D exploration. Going to be a lot of generic 2.5d "action"
    - Derringer
      
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      March 3, 2013 8:35 PM
      
      2.5D games are amazing. Shadow Complex says Hi.
      - pyide
        
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        March 3, 2013 11:16 PM
        
        They can be amazing. The can also be crummy. All depends on the gameplay and controls.
    - Conan
      
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      March 3, 2013 10:47 PM
      
      The demo is on the eShop. It plays like a 2D Lords of Shadow. Not my first choice, but I wouldn't call it generic.
      - pyide
        
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        March 3, 2013 11:16 PM
        
        Wasn't the action in the 3D Lords of Shadow was already generic?
        
        Conan
        
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        March 3, 2013 11:17 PM
        
        Not nearly so much as reviews made out. The game had some real issues, but it was fun and I didn't find it to be a God of War clone like some people said.
        
        pyide
        
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        March 3, 2013 11:29 PM
        
        You don't have to be a God of War clone to be generic. There are lots of mediocre combo based 3rd person action games out there, by all accounts this was another one of those. What I played in the demo was incredibly rote anyway.
        
        I'm sure the full game has some redeeming qualities, and I do want to play all of it for various reasons, but stuffing the same middling style of action combat and ruining the classic 2D Castlevania formula in the process is not something I can get behind. I hate to even suggest wanting to see a game fail but I really do hope this is the only one of these on the handhelds, especially if we're never going to get a proper console 2D Castlevania again.
        
        Conan
        
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        March 3, 2013 11:31 PM
        
        You say "by all accounts", but no, by my own personal account I didn't see it that way.
        
        My issues with the game actually have very little to do with its combat and much more to do with other aspects.
        
        As far as not wanting to see more, well, don't worry. Mercury Steam has already said that their take on Castlevania ends with Lords of Shadow 2.
        
        Conan
        
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        March 3, 2013 11:33 PM
        
        And for the record, yes, I would prefer a badass HD 2D metroidvania, not just on the handheld, but on the consoles. I've always been puzzled why Nintendo hasn't tried that with Metroid given the success of the NSMB series.
        
        snubble100
        
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        March 4, 2013 8:04 AM
        
        A NSMB game is something that has a much larger audience and much larger budget to profit margin than a good HD 2D metroid game would need.
        
        As much as I love me some metroid, I'm being realistic when I say that it's the 3rd string franchise for Nintendo that only sells in the west and Japan is still a very important territory for the company. Even if you just take US and EU sales into account, you're not going to get the same volume of people that buy NSMB games and keep buying them for months and years after they release.
        
        snubble100
        
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        March 4, 2013 8:05 AM
        
        *profit margin to budget ratio
- the archvile
  
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  March 3, 2013 1:48 PM
  
  Hmmm, the 3DS game "Kersploosh!" seems to be listed in the Shack games database as "Kerpsloosh!"
  
  The gameplay video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wKzrBeL0dU ) reminds me of an ultra-mellow version of GRiN's "Ballistics": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaJiPpLzbNg
- EnhancedInterrogator
  
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  March 3, 2013 7:40 PM
  
  I'm really curious about Tomb Raider. I have a free copy coming with a new GFX card, along with Bioshock Infinite, and I'm wondering if I should sell the key or play it. Not really interested in Bioshock Infinite either, as I haven't played the first two.
  
  If the gameplays don't look that different from Uncharted, I'm probably going to sell.
  - EnhancedInterrogator
    
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    March 3, 2013 7:41 PM
    
    Wow, really bad grammar in that last sentence, meant gameplay videos.
  - Mecha Tofu Pirate
    
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    March 3, 2013 8:01 PM
    
    Bioshock Infinite isn't really related to 1 and 2
  - commanderxp90
    
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    March 3, 2013 8:30 PM
    
    You can sell the code for your more profits. :)
- Alpha Geist
  
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  March 3, 2013 10:44 PM
  
  Isn't the new ANIMAL CROSSING game coming out for the 3DS this month too?
  - OzzieMejia
    
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    March 3, 2013 11:31 PM
    
    Not sure, but Luigi's Mansion definitely drops this month.
  - snubble100
    
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    March 4, 2013 8:06 AM
    
    June 9th

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