Fallout 3 New Vegas: Dead Money
Another slow week in game releases, but I would like to discuss a select few. I’d love to be able to talk about Dead Money, the Fallout 3: New Vegas expansion, but as I’m a bit backlogged, and haven’t played New Vegas yet, I’m not going to be looking up anything about it. Sorry. Besides, it’s not out for PC yet, so why bother?
World of Keflings
World of Keflings might be worth mentioning. Kingdom for Keflings received much praise when it was released, and the tiny people are back for further adventures—this time moving away from the single kingdom and out into several different biomes. Players will build cities out in tundra, desert, and wilderness, with many different quests and building types to work with.
Back to the Future: The Game
More interesting still is the Icrontic Spotlight, Back to the Future: The Game. Back in October, when I first saw this game’s title, I thought, “How sad that someone let the ‘Back to the Future’ IP into the hands of some crappy developer who’s going to make some dumb spin-off adventure that doesn’t even make sense.” I almost passed it over without research, but something made me look just a little bit deeper, and the first thing I discovered was that the developer is Telltale, makers of the new Sam & Max and Monkey Island adventure games, which is a bit exciting, as I know they’ll at least do it right. Still, I thought, “But I already know the Back to the Future story by heart, won’t an adventure game based on the movies be too easy to figure out?” Soon after, a trailer was released, in which the story is revealed: Doc Brown is in trouble somewhere in time, and Marty has to find him, and figure out a way to rescue him. The plot is an entirely new adventure in the Back to the Future universe, taking place soon after the end of the third movie. Christopher Lloyd returns to the role of Doc Brown for this game, which I’m sure I’ll be telling you a lot more about as each of the five chapters (one per month for the next five months) are released.
Following is a complete list of this week’s announced North American releases:
Windows
- Back to the Future: The Game
- DarkLight Dungeon
- Silkroad Online: Legend VI Forgotten World
Wii
- Frobot
- Inkub
- Darius Twin (VC)
- Mario Party 2 (VC)
DS
- Cosmo Fighters
- Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp
- Just SING! Christmas Vol. 2
- Paul’s Monster Adventure
Xbox 360
- A Game yOu can’t BEAT! 2
- A World of Keflings
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam
- Costume Quest – Grubbins on Ice
- Fallout: New Vegas – Dead Money
- Polar Escape
PS3
- A Space Shooter for Two Bucks!
- Alpha Mission II
- Art of Fighting
- Baseball Stars Professional
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam
- Costume Quest – Grubbins on Ice
- echochrome II
- Fatal Fury
- League Bowling
- Magician Lord
- Metal Slug
- Samurai Shodown
- Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner
- Super Sidekicks
- The King of Fighters ’94
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