BioShock 2
The big cross-platform release this week is BioShock 2. The sequel to the best-selling, critically-acclaimed BioShock, this game puts players in the big steel boots of the prototype Big Daddy, ten years after the events of the first game. Reactivated during a time when little girls are being kidnapped from East Coast US and brought to Rapture, you bond with a little sister and explore the city of Rapture in search of answers.
New features include the ability to dual wield weapons and Plasmids, lots of new enemies, including the feared “big sister”, and a multi-player deathmatch mode set in Rapture’s civil war, a time when the original Plasmids were just being developed and tested.
The Daring Game for Girls
Based on the bestselling The Daring Book for Girls, the Wii release The Daring Game for Girls will focus on encouraging young girls to explore their more adventurous side. In the game, players create a custom avatar, choosing from many features and ethnicities, then play mini-games representing many of the activities in the book—like rock-climbing, spelunking, basketball, power-tool crafts, and street-stall management. The objective is to earn Daring Girl Badges, then to take the trip of a lifetime: either a Safari, a river exploration, or a mountain climbing expedition.
Dante's Inferno
Almost every adventure game is based—loosely, at least—on “Inferno”, the first part of Dante’s three-part Divine Comedy—as the ‘descent into hell’: a literary device which depicts a protagonist exploring and overcoming a progressively more evil environment—was first used there, and is the core of almost every video game plot. However, Dante’s Inferno for Xbox 360 and PS3 skips the middleman and uses Dante’s descriptions of hell as its primary setting. Of course, the protagonist here will be much more than Dante’s “tourist” in hell—forced to fight through each circle in an attempt to defeat the Devil and win back his captured woman.
Blaster Master: Overdrive
The Icrontic Spotlight release this week is Blaster Master: Overdrive for WiiWare. This is not another lame sequel in the classic franchise—nor is it really a reboot of the story. This is a remake of the original Blaster Master with improved graphics and updated interface, but otherwise left intact as remembered. The fact that it has a subtitle suggests that it’s only the first in a new sequence, but only time will tell.
For those unfamiliar with the classic game, players take on the role of Alex, a biologist in control of a SOPHIA, a modular exploration vehicle—this is a departure from the original, admittedly weak, NES plot in which Alex was a boy chasing his pet frog who jumped down a sewer and became radioactive. The player must navigate some levels from inside SOPHIA, while others require that Alex leave the safety of the vehicle and fight on foot. Throughout the game, the player can collect upgrades for Alex and SOPHIA to improve their weapons and energy.
As always, you can purchase these games from Ye Olde Icrontic Gaming Shoppe.
PC
- BioShock 2
- Galcon Fusion
- N.E.O. Online
- Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity
- Square Logic
- Stargate Resistance
- Windchaser
Wii
- Blaster Master: Overdrive
- Bloons
- Family Party: 30 Great Games Winter Fun
- Rock Blast
- Shiren the Wanderer
- Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll
- Tomena Sanner
- Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom (VC – NES)
DS
- Best Friends Tonight
- Bookworm Adventures
- Extreme Hangman
- Fieldrunners
- Link ‘n’ Launch
- Oscar in Movieland
- Scene It? Twilight
- Sudoku 4Pockets
- The Daring Game for Girls
- World Cup Of Pool
- Zorro Quest For Justice
Xbox 360
- BioShock 2
- Dante’s Inferno
- Darwinia+
- World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars
PS3
- BioShock 2
- Dante’s Inferno
- Star Ocean The Last Hope: International
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