New Releases for The Week of Secret Agent Guinea Pigs and Evil Young Ladies

CB Droege 21 Jul, 2009 at 1:39pm ET Article published in Gaming

G-Force: The Video Game

Bruckheimer makes a 3D movie, but now they’ve got all these guinea pig models sitting around not doing anything, so I guess it’s time for G-Force: The Video Game. In this gadget-centric third-person adventure game, evil household appliances are trying to take over the world, and Darwin of G-Force and his companion Mooch the housefly are the only hope for rescue. The game features weapons and gadgets not seen in the movie. The DS version is the same plot with gameplay and graphics adjusted for the DS’s unique dynamics.

Tenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time - Re-Shelled

This week on Xbox LIVE arcade, we’ll have the opportunity to try Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time Re-Shelled. This is a full remake of the original Turtles in Time, with fully rendered 3D graphics (cell shaded for the cartoony look), and online co-op gameplay. If you remember playing through the Turtles games in the arcade with your friends nearly twenty years ago, this will be a great flashback that you can enjoy even if those friends now live thousands of miles away, and if you never enjoyed Turtles in the arcade, now you can find out what we’ve been talking about all these years without simultaneously wondering how we could tolerate the graphics (and without spending $75 of mom’s secret quarter stash and getting in a lot of trouble for it–ed.)

Little King’s Story for the Wii is an action RPG with features not normally seen in the genre. The protagonist is a small boy who finds a crown, and becomes the king of a small nation. He then follows some very expansionist policies, and attempts to unite the entire world under his rule, through the defeat of the other kings in the land. The little king does not act much for himself in the story, instead relying on a population of increasingly more skilled fighters and laborers. It seems to incorporate squad based combat into an environment similar to Kingdom for Keflings.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles My Life as a Darklord

Shining in this week’s Icrontic Spotlight is Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord for WiiWare. This is a strategy RPG from Square Enix taking place after the events of My Life as a King. this entry into the franchise brings the player into the shoes of Mira, the daughter of the defeated Darklord. In her attempt to subjugate the world, she must build towers in the hero’s territories, and defend them from legions of “goody-two-shoes”. Build floors and add monsters and traps in an attempt to stop the good guys from reaching the top of the tower, where Mira’s crystal is kept. The heroes will use all the races and classes available in previous games set in this world, and Mira can summon many of the foes encountered in those games. There is a lot here for fans of Final Fantasy games, and lovers of ‘bad guy defense’ games. One interesting feature of this title is its payment structure. The initial game is only $10, a very good price for a game which seems to have many hours of content and lots of replayability. However, in a rare move for WiiWare, players will be able to purchase additional maps, monsters, stages, and stat-boosting items for between $2 and $6, with new downloads becoming available every few days between now and the end of September. If you buy all the extras, it totals up to $67. As a side-note, the main character’s costume is fun, and I’m looking forward to the inevitable cosplay.