PAL New Releases Roundup - 17/09/09
Batman PC! WET! NFS Shift! Katamari!
Hello autumn, with your orange leaves and conkers, and bye bye summer with your sweaty armpits and sunburn. You have brought us a busy schedule, so let's look at what's in the Friday store.
There's WET, the Bethesda-rescued action game starring a sultry hero who uses guns, acrobatics and swords to kills swathes of goons. Ellie's full analysis will be on Eurogamer later this week.
There's a new Need for Speed and Shift is its name; apt, given the slide away from urban rhymes to traditional race-track times. It's an admirable start, but weak against giants Forza 3 and Gran Turismo 5. Our Need for Speed: Shift review dissects.
There's Batman: Arkham Asylum on PC, which swoops in a couple of weeks late but adds fancy PhysX treats for NVIDIA owners to a bloody brilliant game underneath. Buy; our Batman: Arkham Asylum review tells why.
Other PC latecomers arriving this week are Red Faction: Guerrilla and Resident Evil 5 - the latter adding stereoscopic 3D to the zombie mix.
There's SingStar Motown, which excites people like me, and Katamari Forever, which brings the beloved collect-'em-up series to PS3 for the first time.
MotorStorm makes its mediocre PSP debut in Arctic Edge, and there's World War II dogfighting in Heroes over Europe - few reviews of which have surfaced, which is a worrying sign. Same goes for Square Enix's strategy game Order of War.
Oh, and there's an ice-hockey showdown as NHL 10 and NHL 2K10 slide into the rink together.
Friday 18th September in shops:- Need for Speed: Shift (PC, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360)
- WET (PS3, Xbox 360)
- Heroes over Europe (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
- SingStar Motown (PS2, PS3)
- Raven Squad (PC, Xbox 360)
- NHL 10 (PS3, Xbox 360)
- NHL 2K10 (PS3, Xbox 360)
- Blood Bowl (PC, PSP)
- Katamari Forever (PS3)
- MotorStorm: Arctic Edge (PSP)
- Batman: Arkham Asylum (PC)
- Red Faction: Guerrilla (PC)
- Resident Evil 5 (PC)
- Order of War (PC)
- Majesty 2 (PC)
- Dawn of Magic 2 (PC)
- DJ Star (DS)
- Spectrobes: Origins (Wii)
- Toy Story Mania! (Wii)
- NewU Fitness First Personal Trainer (Wii)
- Wacky World of Sports (Wii)