US Sees Blockbuster Games Release Week

If you've been looking forward to a game's release, odds are that it's coming out this week. Gamasutra has the full list of titles hitting stores in the next few days, and it's a tsunami of gaming goodness. Assassin's Creed, Mario Galaxy, and Crysis are probably the three headlining titles, but no console is spared the deluge. PC Highlights: EverQuest: Secrets of Faydwer, EverQuest II: Rise of Kunark, Kane and Lynch, SimCity Societies. PS3 Highlights: Assassin's Creed, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Kane and Lynch, Beowulf. 360 Highlights: America's Army: True Soldiers, Assassin's Creed, Beowulf, BlackSite: Area 51, Kane & Lynch. Wii Highlights: Mario Galaxy, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, Geometry Wars: Galaxies.

Comments

Re:assassin's creed

[Jaqenn]

In 2008. (it's still delayed until 2008, right?)

Poor choice of article title

[British]

With use of the word "blockbuster" I thought this article would involve Blockbuster Video. And, well, Blockbuter Video is going the way of the dinosaur. Would have used any word but blockbuster. Wait until the company dies out for a few years, than we can use it as a generic non-TM word. :)

Re:Next week is bigger...

[vorwerk]

I urge you to download the UT3 demo and try it out for yourself before buying it.

As a huge fan of UT2k4, I was really looking forward to playing the demo for UT3... and I was extremely disappointed. For numerous reasons, I feel that Epic really slaughtered what was once a great game series. And I'm not alone; there are a ton of unhappy folk over at the UT3 Beta Feedback forum.

I've since played the COD4 demo and the Crysis demo. And Crysis will be getting my business. Its gameplay is awesome, the AI is great, and the graphics are stunning. (I really didn't enjoy FarCry very much, but Crysis has me hooked -- I've played through the demo several times already and am just amazed by how well-refined and fun-to-play it is.) Get a copy of the demo and check it out.

Re:Next week is bigger...

[bigstrat2003]

Interestingly, I'm a huge fan of UT2k4 as well, and UT3 delivers for me. Crysis, on the other hand, irritates the hell out of me. On my computer, there's a 3-sec control lag in the demo (and it's not FPS, I'm pulling 30 FPS). Maybe the release version will be better, but until I try that (I'm gonna have to yarr-harr it to test it out, I'm not about to risk my money to test if a bug I experienced is gone), my faith is shattered.

COD 4, on the other hand, is amazing. That's really where your business should be going. I just finished the single-player, and am now trying to get into multiplayer (but having issues), and I have to say, the single-player alone is worth the cost of admission. It rocks HARD.

Re:assassin's creed

[Jaqenn]

I should have said that the PC version is delayed until 2008.