Weekend Games U Like [PC] (uk.videogames.games.yahoo.com)
There is what you might call a veritable smorgasbord of games lining up to pinch your pocket money this weekend. Around 52 of them, in fact, and some of them are even good! Of course the flipside of that coin is that some of them are rather less compelling but, y’know, it’s always been swings and roundabouts in this business and we’re fortunate that most of what’s on offer today is of decent, if not wholly essential, quality.
PC gamers are, as usual, the most over-choiced with a plethora of titles to suit every family member – from Barbie Diaries: High School Mysteries for the little sisters to, ahem, Airbus A380 Special Edition, which’ll suit the slightly mad uncle-types. The undoubted highlight of the week is Unreal Anthology, which compiles four of the finest first-person shooters ever created for PC in one box o’ value and multiplayer joy. From the same company responsible for Gears of War too. Nuff said? We think so...
The PS2 might be off the radar these days but it still sells by the skip-load and is ignored by publishers at their peril, especially in the run-up to Xmas. As such there’s a glut of decent stuff out today – Mercury Meltdown is the best puzzler to have graced the system in a long while and EA Sports Cricket 07 is as faithful a representation of the game as you could when the film hits next month, Thrillville is a promising combo of theme park strategising and daft multiplayer mini games and Call of Duty 3 is deserving of your attention because it’s hands-down ace. However our game of the week is Guitar Hero II which improves on the original with new multiplayer modes and lead, rhythm or even bass guitar parts to play. It features an even more rocktastic soundtrack too. Check it out.
The PSP has the best selection of the handheld titles available this weekend with Medal of Honour: Heroes and Mortal Kombat Unchained both worth seeking out. We like the look of Prince of Persia Rival Swords the best, though. In contrast the GBA and DS suffer from little-version-of-bigger-game syndrome and genuine highlights are relatively sparse. The easy pick of the bunch is the ninja stealth/action game Tenchu: Dark Secret, which features over 40 single-player missions and local wi-fi match-ups. There’s better in the pipeline for DS, though.
Finally anything coming out on the Xbox 360 between ‘Emergence day’ last Friday and mid-January (when Lost Planet hits the shelves) is going to look rather insipid, but there’s a moderately decent choice available for the system today. Superman Returns looks like a laugh and Sonic the Hedgehog is a reliably solid and, as ever, very nice looking platformer. But our choice is Sega’s role-playing epic Phantasy Star Universe. The game is also out for PS2 and PC on the same day but we’re picking the 360 version in view of its substantial online multiplayer component, which compliments an already weighty (40+ hours!) single-player campaign. It’s the closest thing the 360 has to an MMO and looks absolutely gawjuss!
More next week, but only if it’s any good. Shoddy games don’t pass muster on our watch...
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