MLB 2K11
For people who want something slightly more egaging than watching people hit balls with sticks, but don’t have the energy to go hit balls with sticks on their own, were getting two new baseball games this week. First, MLB 2k11 has right-stick pitching and hitting, and a revamped fielding system. Also, they are offering a million dollars to the first person who gets the “pitch a perfect game” achievement, which I think is when you get the wicket past the goalie enough times to score twenty volleys in the endzone.
MLB 11:The Big Show
The other is MLB 11: The Show, which seems to have the better claim on new features, as it offers “analog pure hitting, pitching and fielding” (whatever that means), a co-op mode that allows for 2v2c over the internet, and a RPGish mode called “Road to the Show” which takes your player through a career. It doesn’t say specifically that you get to start in little league, but one can only hope. The platform availability is slimmer, however, and they aren’t giving anyone a million dollars.
Dragon Age II
The Icrontic Spotlight this week illuminates the blood-spattered armor of Dragon Age II. Here’s the thing: As much as I like this franchise, I’m not sure how I feel about the pricing structure. This is the second Dragon Age game in which DLC was released at the same time as the base game, but for an additional cost. It’s one thing to develop DLC after you discover your game is popular, and to charge for all your hard work, but BioWare isn’t even trying to disguise the fact that they have amputated part of the game they made, in order to charge us more than the usual cost of the full game. If you want the entire package, too bad, the “Signature Edition” is not for sale anymore, you’ll have to buy The Black Emporium and The Exiled Prince separately. As I did with Dragon Age: Origins, I’ll probably wait for the game and its add-ons to go on sale—maybe at the holidays. Look at that, I spent the whole paragraph talking about the pricing, instead of the game. Oh well, you know that the game is super rad, so buy it when it hits your price threshold.
Windows
- Egypt The Prophecy Part 1
- Dragon Age II
- Major League Baseball 2K11
Wii
- Bomberman Hero
- Heavy Fire: Black Arms
- Top Shot Arcade
- Major League Baseball 2K11
- Pirate Blast
- The $1,000,000 Pyramid
- Maximum Racing: Drag & Stock Racer
- Maximum Racing: GP Classic Racing
DS
- G.G Series: Horizontal Bar
- GO Series: Earth Saver
- JellyCar 2
- Beastly Frantic Foto
- JumpStart Deep Sea Escape
- Major League Baseball 2K11
- Petz Bunnyz Bunch
Xbox 360
- Dragon Age II
- Major League Baseball 2K11
- Yoostar 2
- Torchlight
PS3
- Dragon Age II
- Major League Baseball 2K11
- MLB 11: The Show
- Yoostar 2
PSP
- Major League Baseball 2K11
- MLB 11: The Show
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