Cities in Motion
Cities in Motion is a new business sim from Paradox. Players lay road and rail in 12 scenarios across 4 vastly different cities as they build a transportation empire. The graphics are slick, and the simulation is heavily detailed, so anyone who’s wished that they could quit worrying about the rest of their SimCity and really buckle down into the mass transit system might want to take a look at this one.
Grey Matter
The writer of the once popular Gabriel Knight series of adventure games is returning to game writing after years away, and has penned Gray Matter—a psychological mystery set in Oxford that follows the adventures of Samantha, a traveling street magician who gets tangled up in the doings of a mysterious scientist who seems to be experimenting on live subjects. The game-play is typical point-and-click adventure style, though more reminiscent of the late age Sierra games than the new Telltale style. Pick this one up if you’re looking for a serious story in your adventure game, and are tired of everyone but Telltale making crappy adventure games which are more hunt-and-find than point-and-click.
Bulletstorm
Bulletstorm‘s big gimmick is this: Players are rewarded for killing enemies with trick shots—which seem mostly to do with combining the weapons’ bullets and rockets with what seems to be a physics gun of sorts, allowing the player to hit multiple enemies simultaneously or fling them around the room first. It also seems to be a lot about foul language.
de Blob 2
The Icrontic Spotlight this week bounces across the flanks of de Blob 2, in which players revisit the role of the amorphous revolutionary. Trapped in a grey city, de Blob and his friends in the resistance fight to bring color to the world, mostly through dipping the protagonist in paint and slamming him around against the walls and streets. The game follows a series of mission-based chapters, in which certain objectives (like “Paint the courthouse blue!”) must be completed to move on—but most of the gameplay consists of frantically painting things, and escaping from the drably-colored police. The motion controls on the Wii will make this game particularly easy to control—and this, combined with the frantic action and loose objective structure, make it a good game for a mixed group of casual to hardcore gamers.
Following is a full list of this week’s announced North American releases:
Windows
- Bulletstorm
- Cities in Motion
- EverQuest II: Destiny of Velious
- Gemini Rue
- Gray Matter
- Painkiller: Redemption
- Trapped Dead
Wii
- Cozy Fire
- de Blob 2
- Trackmania: Build to Race
- Faxanadu (VC)
DS
- Arctic Escape
- de Blob 2
- Radiant Historia
- Rec Room Games
- Remote Racers
- TrackMania Turbo
Xbox 360
- Bejeweled Blitz Live
- Bulletstorm
- de Blob 2
- Knights Contract
PS3
- Bulletstorm
- de Blob 2
- Killzone 3
- Knights Contract
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