Backbreaker
The Xbox 360 and PS3 release Backbreaker is a football game which strives for realism. Completely customize your football team, right down the the name and logo, then get down and dirty and on the field with each play. The gimmick here is that most of the game play takes place at the personal level, rather than the tactical level. Take control of an individual footballer, and use the right moves to run the ball across the field. The claim is that this will let you feel what it is really like to run the field and get pummeled by gigantic men. I, frankly, hope that’s not true.
City Builder
In the Wii release City Builder, players try to build the largest city possible, but, despite appearances—this is not a city simulation game, it’s a pipe-laying puzzle game. Each level has three Pipe Dream-esque layers of tile placement: The sewers, the streets, and the power lines. Each layer must connect from one end of the board to the other, and use as many tiles as possible to build a wacky, dancing cityscape
Planet Minigolf
On the PS3, we’re getting Planet Minigolf, a minigolf game with a wide variety of courses and gimmicks. Of course without motion controls to simulate a real putter, it’s just a button timing game.
Alpha Protocol
The Icrontic Spotlight this week shines in the night-vision goggles of the cross-platform release Alpha Protocol. This third-person role-playing game brings a heavy dose of espionage to the RPG table. Agent Micheal Thorton has been burned by his government, and now he’s alone against a world of bad guys, as he must discover the conspiracy behind his own fate. As it is an RPG, the character will earn experience points, which he can use to enhance his abilities—which become more complex and deadly as the game advances. The dialog system will be real-time, forcing the player to make conversation decisions on the fly without taking too much time to consider how it may affect the plot. Each mission will begin and end in one of Thorton’s many safe houses, where he will have access to a weapon and equipment market, communications tools, and side quests. The big thing here is that Thorton is expected to be sneaky, rather than brutal, and the player will not be penalized for completing tasks in a stealthy manner rather than a bloody one.
Following is a list of this week’s announce North American releases:
PC
- Alpha Protocol
- Hearts of Iron III: Semper Fi
- SEGA Genesis Classics
- The Sims 3: Ambitions
- Vampireville
- Wizardology
Wii
- America’s Next Top Model
- City Builder
- Let’s Paint
- Wizardology
- Wild Guns (VC-SNES)
DS
- America’s Next Top Model
- Diamond Trust of London
- Farm Frenzy: Animal Country
- Mind Over Matter
- Telegraph Sudoku & Kakuro
- Wizardology
- X-Scape
Xbox 360
- Alpha Protocol
- Backbreaker
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – Resurgence Pack
- Pure Futbol
PS3
- Alpha Protocol
- Backbreaker
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – Resurgence Pack
- Planet Minigolf
- Pure Futbol
PSP
- Hexyz Force
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