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.

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Next week is bigger...

[7Prime]

with just one title too (there may be more, but really, who cares):

Mass Effect.

Not to understate the release of Mario Galaxy, for that is a title almost a decade in the waiting. But for some reason, when it comes down to it, I'm probably even more excited about Mass Effect... even though I traditionally don't like American RPGs. If a jRPG/Wii freak like me can be converted to the dark side by this... I can only guess how huge this game is going to be.

Re:Next week is bigger...

[bigstrat2003]

You do yourself a disservice to not even count UT3 and Rock Band. Both are going to be huge. As a matter of fact, I'm not even getting Mass Effect right away, because I'm going to be spending so much time playing Rock Band. I'll get it eventually, of course.

Game Length

[roadkill_cr]

I used to think a six hour game length (CoD4) was much too short. I'm beginning to understand a little better now why we need them that low.