Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen DECEPTICONS
Coming in three distinct flavors is Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The non-subtitled release is a crossplatform FPS which plays very much like a dark TF2 with robots. Players choose one of 13 morphing robots, each with their own weapons, special abilities, and clearly defined teamwork roles. It also has a single player campaign, but frankly it just doesn’t look as appealing or replayable as the multiplayer combat. Then, we have Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen DECEPTICONS and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen AUTOBOTS, both for the DS. These single player games each run the player through a story-based campaign, with the former allowing the player to choose from among the evil, destructive robots, while the latter allows players to choose one of the nice, protective robots. All three of these movie tie-ins looks interesting, and represent a good argument that movie tie-ins cannot simply be dismissed out of hand.
The Conduit
For the Wii this week, we’ll get to see The Conduit, another game which is supposedly going to restore the ‘hardcore’ gamer’s faith in Nintendo. Why? It’s a sci-fi FPS with lots of cool futuristic weapons a la Perfect Dark. It will have single player campaign, and online multiplayer… wait, let me double check that… yes online multi-player on the Wii. That means calling your friend, and getting his 16 digit Wii friend code, and giving him yours, then both of you entering the code, and waiting two or three days to appear on each other’s list (if you ever do), then doing the same thing with the 12-digit The Conduit friend code, then wishing that you had more friends who were willing to go through the whole rigamarole with you because you have 30 friends with Wiis and 28 of them tell you to sod off when you ask to be their Wii friend. It’s not because they don’t like you. I mean: You have 45 LIVE friends, 22 PSN friends, and 2 Wii friends. In all honesty, I’m pretty sure that everyone really has given up on Wii Online by now, and I don’t think that this game is going to revitalize the service.
Overlord II
Overlord: Minions
Commanding this week’s Icrontic Spotlight is Overlord II. If you haven’t played Overlord yet, you have to. Drop whatever game you’re playing now, and go get Overlord. Here: I’ll even link you to the Steam store page. It’s only $20. You have no excuse. Overlord represents the pinnicle of “be the bad guy” video game stroytelling, with an engaging anti-hero, and several fun and intuitive mechanics. The only issue with the first game was the lack of a reverse mouse y-axis for free look (no word yet if this has been fixed in the new title). Overlord II represents more minion-guiding action with lots of new features, and changes in response to fan requests. New stuff includes improved minions, who have many new abilities, including mounting and riding various wild animals; more destructable, burnable environments; additional ‘people’ species (elves and dwarves and the like) to be subjugated; and some mention of “enslavement”, andthough how literal that will be in the game is unclear. In addition, the established formulae of ravaging the lands, destroying foes who are more evil than you, and upgrading your residence along the way, seem to be intact. This game, like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, will come in two additional tie-in flavors. Overlord: Minions for the DS will serve as a mobile, more puzzle oriented version of the destructive tale, while Overlord: Dark Legend for the Wii provides us with a twisted prequel to the Overlord franchise, where we get to see that the games take place in a world much like the land of fairytales, complete with the characters we know from those stories.
Following is a list of all announced releases for this week:
PC
- Anno 1404
- Ice-Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
- Mahjong Zodiac
- Overlord II
- Sudoku Ball – Detective
- Superstars V8 Racing
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
PS3
- Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires
- Guitar Hero Greatest Hits
- Ice-Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
- Overlord II
- Superstars V8 Racing
PSP
- Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
- Pangya: Fantasy Golf
- Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero?
Wii
- Another Code R: A Journey into Lost Memories
- Guitar Hero Greatest Hits
- Ice-Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
- Little League World Series Baseball 2009
- Overlord Dark Legend
- Resident Evil Archives
- Sudoku Ball – Detective
- The Conduit
- NEVES Plus
- Drill Sergeant Mindstrong (WiiWare)
- Family Mini Golf (WiiWare)
- NEVES Plus (WiiWare)
- SimEarth: The Living Planet (VC – TG16)
DS
- Classic Word Games
- Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits
- Ice-Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
- Imagine My Boutique
- Little League World Series Baseball 2009
- My Cooking Coach: Prepare Healthy Recipes
- Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
- Sudoku Ball – Detective
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: AUTOBOTS
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: DECEPTICONS
- ArtStyle: BOXLIFE (DSiWare)
X360
- Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires
- Guitar Hero Greatest Hits
- Ice-Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
- Overlord II
- Superstars V8 Racing
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