This Week's Releases - 16/3/09

PALGN Feature | Grand challenges of the musical and wrestling variety.

This week, Grand Theft Auto goes portable, making its debut on the Nintendo DS with Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Using the DS touch screen, players can make their way through a modern-day version of Liberty City. For the complete low-down on the game, check out hands-on preview. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is scheduled to arrive on store shelves this Friday, and our review will be published around the same time.

A number of musical and trivia games will be released over the next seven days, first with Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades on Nintendo DS. The second DS Guitar Hero title will be available as a standalone game and in a bundle with the guitar grip controller. SingStar Queen takes the stage on PS2 and PS3, with a track list featuring classics like ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and ‘Another One Bites the Dust’. Not to be left out, those with an Xbox can pick up the second Scene It title, Box Office Smash!

The next wrestling game vying for our attention (and dollars) is WWE Legends of Wrestlemania on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. Our recent preview of the game can be read here. Next up, the hardened soldiers of the US Navy SEALs take the battle online in the PlayStation 3's SOCOM: Confrontation, which finally sees a PAL release.

Beautiful ladies slaying zombies? Well, that's exactly the premise of Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers on Xbox 360 and Wii. Anyone with a PlayStation Portable can lead the colourful Patapons to victory with a mix of rhythm and action in Patapon 2, and finally, PC owners can take to the skies in Tom Clancy's HAWX.

Wednesday 18th March

Xbox 360:

Championship Paintball 2009

Wii:

Monster Jam: Urban Assault

PlayStation 3:

Championship Paintball 2009

PlayStation 2:

Championship Paintball 2009
Monster Jam: Urban Assault

Nintendo DS:

Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades
Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades Guitar Controller Bundle
Monster Jam: Urban Assault

Thursday 19th March

Xbox 360:

Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers
Scene It? Box Office Smash!
Scene It? Box Office Smash! Buzzer Bundle
WWE Legends of Wrestlemania
You're in the Movies Camera Bundle
You're in the Movies

Wii:

Army Men: Soldier of Misfortune
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
Jeep Thrills
Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers

PlayStation 3:

SingStar: Queen
SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation
WWE Legends of Wrestlemania

PlayStation 2:

SingStar: Queen

PlayStation Portable:

Patapon 2

PC:

Art of Murder: Hunt for the Puppeteer
BIA Road to Hill 30 / BIA Earned in Blood (That's Hot: Double Shots budget range)
Ceville
CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder / CSI: Dark Motives (That's Hot: Double Shots budget range)
Far Cry / Ghost Recon Complete (That's Hot: Double Shots budget range)
Imperium Romanum: Gold Edition
National Geographic: Herod's Tomb
Resident Evil 4 / Dark Messiah Might and Magic (That's Hot: Double Shots budget range)
Tom Clancy's HAWX

Nintendo DS:

Last King of Africa
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
Army Men: Soldier of Misfortune

Friday 20th March

Nintendo DS:

Henry Hatsworth and the Puzzling Adventure
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Coming next week: Blue Dragon Plus (DS), Buzz!: Brain of Oz (PS3, PS2, PSP), Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 (PS3), Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 (360, PS3), Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard (360, PS3), Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (Wii, DS), The Last Remnant (PC), MadWorld (Wii), Mario Power Tennis (Wii), Resistance: Retribution (PSP), Silent Hill: Homecoming (360, PS3, PC), Stormrise (360, PS3, PC), Tom Clancy's EndWar (PC), The Wheelman (360, PS3, PC).

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8 Comments

emech

2 years ago

I'm loving the staged release schedule - so much better then xmas game gluts - Last week Persona 4, this week GTA chinatown, next week echoes of time = a game a week suits me fine

sobriquet835

2 years ago

PalGN wrote

Beautiful ladies slaying zombies? Well, that's exactly the premise of Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers.

Is anyone going to actually BUY that? More to the point, has anyone even heard of it until now?

samiboi

2 years ago

^ I've heard of it. On X-Play's "Made in Japan" segment iirc.

renegadesx

2 years ago

sobriquet835 wrote

has anyone even heard of it until now?

I had, and I was excited until I saw this review: http://www.gametrailers.com/player/46219.html

Apparently its nothing but a cheap non-stop wagglefest. Lucky this game sucks, otherwise it would be a leading cause of RSI

If you want a good Wii game, MadWorld comes out next week

Toastfarmer

2 years ago

Legends of Wrestlemania has been released early. It is out as of today.

waz79

2 years ago

Onechanbara is a remake of a PS2 game, its about as good or better than Dead Rising wii but thats not saying much.

T-ts and ass but game mechanics are just waggle, alot of waggling instead of pressing buttons.

MADWORLD is the correct answer renegade. Hype mag just gave it 9 dead chainsaw victims out of 10

Even the Onechanbara movie is meant to suck, and not in a good japanese bikini B grade zombie killing way either

MADWORLD comes out on the 26th i believe. Jesus, we have to wait forever

Pod EDIT: 3 posts consolidated into one.

Toneiiblue

2 years ago

Yesterday, I grabbed Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades and it's brilliant. Thanks to finding a gift card at home which had a $60.05 value on it I am able to grab that AND GTA Chinatown Wars this week.

GHOT: Decades is really fun, I don't know if it's just me but the grip seems made for even smaller hands this time. It's still prone to slipping out but my first playthrough is always on Easy - then I work my way up the scale - so I've been able to use my other two fingers to press it lightly to the DS. Has anyone with large hands had problems on higher difficulty settings? At least you can access all the songs on Easy.

Chinatown Wars looks like the best DS action game ever - it's good to see how much touchscreen functionality there is and I know I'll be whistling for a taxi every time!