EA Sports Active
Not satisfied with the amount of activity encouraged by your Wii Fit? Add EA SPORTS Active to your Wii fitness game collection. This title comes with a giant rubber-band, into which the WiiMote and nunchuk fit for resistance exercises, and an LED strap for the nunchuck for tracking the player’s running and kicking motions. It comes with multiple activities including free-throw practice and cardio-boxing. Also, if you already have the WiiFit board, you can use it to add additional functionality to the activities and the progress tracking.
Steal Princess
Atlus has been doing some great things for DS gamers lately, and hopefully, their latest entry, Steal Princess, will follow the trend. This is a 3D logic and fighting puzzle game, a la Legend of Zelda. Push blocks around, defeat bad guys, stop demons from taking over the world, and so forth. If you’re into that sort of thing, you already know it, so I won’t expound. The real pleasure in this title comes from the writing. If the website is any indication of the humor and playfulness of the game’s writers, then we’re in for a treat.
Terminator Salvation
This week’s movie tie in is the cross platform Terminator Salvation. The story takes place between the Rise of the Machines and Salvation movies. Its features include ‘Unrelenting Intelligent Robotic Enemies’, ‘Advanced Destructible Cover Gameplay’, and ‘Rugged Armored Vehicles Gunfights’. That’s all well and good, but after my disappointment with the non-renewal of Sarah Connor Chronicles, I’m not sure I can force myself to care about Terminator anymore.
Punch-Out!!
Old-school Nintendo and arcade players may recognize Punch-Out!!. This new version of the classic boxing game features vastly improved graphics, and motion-sensitive controls, using the WiiMote. Fans of the original will appreciate the ability to choose the classic, button-mashing controls and the inclusion of many of the old favorite enemies of the protagonist, Little Mac
Warrior Epic
This is quickly becoming the year of the free MMORPGs, and this week gives us Warrior Epic. Free to play, but micro-pay for exclusive items and options. Time will tell if this is a good business model, but in the meantime we can try these games before we decide if we want to pay for them, and they have significantly higher production values than other free MMORPGs. Like Free Realms, and others of the ilk, A player can get through a significant portion of the game with no payments, and only must pay if they want special items, or if they want to play past a certain level threshold. The gimmick for this one is interesting: When a character dies, the player gets to choose whether to resurrect them or send them back to the ‘warrior hall’, where you can send them back out as spirit fighters or imbue your weapons with their life-force. Sounds odd, but it couldn’t hurt to hit them up for a copy of their client and see what it’s about.
BOOM BLOX Bash Party
This week’s Icrontic Release Spotlight finds BOOM BLOX Bash Party at center stage. If you’ve played BOOM BLOX (and you certainly should have by now) you know how much fun it can be for four players. It might be one of the best four-player pick-up-and-play console games ever (although that might not be saying much considering the selection). This sequel to Steven Spielberg’s first attempt at designing a video game updates the game with several improvements: Thankfully, the ‘shooting’ mechanic has been de-emphasized in favor of a new slingshot mechanic. Of course, the ‘throwing’ and ‘grabbing’ type mechanics are still the most prevalent. In addition, this version includes new block types and shapes, new environments, and support for downloadable add-on content, including fan-crafted levels..
A full list of this week’s releases follows:
PC
- Slide Colors
- Terminator Salvation
- Warrior Epic
Wii
- Aqua Panic
- Big Family Games
- BOOM BLOX Bash Party
- Dawn of Discovery
- EA SPORTS Active
- Farmyard Party
- Punch-Out!!
- Urban Extreme: Street Rage
- Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask (VC – N64)
- Silver Star Chess (WiiWare)
DS
- Dawn of Discovery
- Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy
- Steal Princess
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Stardust Accelerator: World Championship 2009
- Art Style: PiCTOBiTS (DSiWare)
PS3
- Bionic Commando
- Terminator Salvation
- UFC 2009 Undisputed
XBox 360
- Bionic Commando
- Terminator Salvation
- UFC 2009 Undisputed
- Gel: Set & Match (Live)
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