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Video Game release 6-21
by drakenfyre75 » Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:38 am
DYNASTY WARRIORS 6: EMPIRES
Developer: KOEI/Omega Force
Publisher: KOEI
Platform: Xbox 360, PS3
MSRP: $39.99
Keep in mind that there aren't actually six Dynasty Warriors Empires games. Each Dynasty Warriors game from the fourth one on has seen an Empires spin-off focused on strategy, and the latest uses the engine from Dynasty Warriors 6. It's similar to the Xtreme Legends spin-offs for the regular Dynasty Warriors games or the Strikeforce game for the PSP or the original Dynasty Warriors, which was a 3-D fighting game and OH GOD MY BRAIN. Well, the Empires version of Dynasty Warriors 6 offers two paths. As a warlord, the player assumes a strategic role similar to that portrayed in KOEI's Romance of the Three Kingdoms series, in which governance and army-building are key (they're also symbolized by cards, but hey, it's a video game). The officer's path, on the other hand, puts the player in battles inspired by the usual chaotic Dynasty Warriors combat, with the external options of advising warlords or even betraying them.
Get Excited If: In actual historical China, you'd betray your warlord for a beer and a sandwich.
MONSTER HUNTER FREEDOM UNITE
Developer: CAPCOM
Publisher: CAPCOM
Platform:PSP
MSRP: $29.99
Well, Monster Hunter, here you are again in America. Over in Japan, you're a bold new firebrand of the industry, bending subway passengers and sales charts and even national productivity to your multiplayer will. In the West, you're just a reasonably popular PSP series with a devoted niche following. That niche will doubtless want Freedom Unite, as it lets players of Monster Hunter Freedom 2 bring their characters into an another action-RPG. Aside from the various new quests and a lineup of original monsters, the most interesting new feature is a computer-controlled partner for those tired of relying on other players. Like Resident Evil 5, Freedom Unite turns the Monster Hunter franchise's catlike felyne characters into sidekicks for the player's main character, a feature that CAPCOM swears up and down won't screw up your fights by making partners do the exact opposite of what you want.
Get Excited If: You're already got a character from past Monster Hunters.
RESIDENT EVIL ARCHIVES
Developer: CAPCOM
Publisher: CAPCOM
Platform: Wii
MSRP: $29.99
For those who own no current systems but the Wii and want Resident Evil 5, you can take comfort in getting, well, the GameCube remake of Resident Evil. It's called Resident Evil Archives and it sports some basic Wii remote control, but it's basically the same Resident Evil that came out for the GameCube years ago (and actually runs on a Wii just fine). Just in case you've never played Resident Evil, the Gamecube version was a pretty, easily playable revamp of the game that kick-started “survival horror” back in 1996. While the zombie-filled mansion feels confined now, it's still an enjoyable trek through gruesome, awkward combat and untaxing puzzle solving. It's probably not worth another $30, though.
Get Excited If: You're a diehard collector with every last version of every last Resident Evil game arrayed on your mantle.
SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI: DEVIL SURVIVOR
Developer: Atlus
Publisher: Atlus
Platform: DS
MSRP: $29.99
When Devil Survivor was first announced, Shin Megami Tensei fans complained long and loud about Suzuhito Yasuda providing the character art instead of longtime SMT illustrator Kazuma Kaneko. I was getting a little tired of seeing Kaneko's art in every single Shin Megami Tensei game myself, but Yasuda's work is the same simple, stock-anime style he used in his Yozakura Quartet manga. That aside, Devil Survivor breaks some interesting new ground for the franchise, as it adapts demon alliances, character relationships, and other SMT traditions to the battle grids of a strategy-RPG. The game's already been compared to Square's The World Ends With You, due to a visual style that finds lanky teenagers stranded in a gloomy stretch of Tokyo, sealed off by the government because of demon outbreaks. Those demons, by the way, are still designed by Kaneko.
Get Excited If: You want to play Final Fantasy Tactics and Persona at the same time.
Developer: KOEI/Omega Force
Publisher: KOEI
Platform: Xbox 360, PS3
MSRP: $39.99
Keep in mind that there aren't actually six Dynasty Warriors Empires games. Each Dynasty Warriors game from the fourth one on has seen an Empires spin-off focused on strategy, and the latest uses the engine from Dynasty Warriors 6. It's similar to the Xtreme Legends spin-offs for the regular Dynasty Warriors games or the Strikeforce game for the PSP or the original Dynasty Warriors, which was a 3-D fighting game and OH GOD MY BRAIN. Well, the Empires version of Dynasty Warriors 6 offers two paths. As a warlord, the player assumes a strategic role similar to that portrayed in KOEI's Romance of the Three Kingdoms series, in which governance and army-building are key (they're also symbolized by cards, but hey, it's a video game). The officer's path, on the other hand, puts the player in battles inspired by the usual chaotic Dynasty Warriors combat, with the external options of advising warlords or even betraying them.
Get Excited If: In actual historical China, you'd betray your warlord for a beer and a sandwich.
MONSTER HUNTER FREEDOM UNITE
Developer: CAPCOM
Publisher: CAPCOM
Platform:PSP
MSRP: $29.99
Well, Monster Hunter, here you are again in America. Over in Japan, you're a bold new firebrand of the industry, bending subway passengers and sales charts and even national productivity to your multiplayer will. In the West, you're just a reasonably popular PSP series with a devoted niche following. That niche will doubtless want Freedom Unite, as it lets players of Monster Hunter Freedom 2 bring their characters into an another action-RPG. Aside from the various new quests and a lineup of original monsters, the most interesting new feature is a computer-controlled partner for those tired of relying on other players. Like Resident Evil 5, Freedom Unite turns the Monster Hunter franchise's catlike felyne characters into sidekicks for the player's main character, a feature that CAPCOM swears up and down won't screw up your fights by making partners do the exact opposite of what you want.
Get Excited If: You're already got a character from past Monster Hunters.
RESIDENT EVIL ARCHIVES
Developer: CAPCOM
Publisher: CAPCOM
Platform: Wii
MSRP: $29.99
For those who own no current systems but the Wii and want Resident Evil 5, you can take comfort in getting, well, the GameCube remake of Resident Evil. It's called Resident Evil Archives and it sports some basic Wii remote control, but it's basically the same Resident Evil that came out for the GameCube years ago (and actually runs on a Wii just fine). Just in case you've never played Resident Evil, the Gamecube version was a pretty, easily playable revamp of the game that kick-started “survival horror” back in 1996. While the zombie-filled mansion feels confined now, it's still an enjoyable trek through gruesome, awkward combat and untaxing puzzle solving. It's probably not worth another $30, though.
Get Excited If: You're a diehard collector with every last version of every last Resident Evil game arrayed on your mantle.
SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI: DEVIL SURVIVOR
Developer: Atlus
Publisher: Atlus
Platform: DS
MSRP: $29.99
When Devil Survivor was first announced, Shin Megami Tensei fans complained long and loud about Suzuhito Yasuda providing the character art instead of longtime SMT illustrator Kazuma Kaneko. I was getting a little tired of seeing Kaneko's art in every single Shin Megami Tensei game myself, but Yasuda's work is the same simple, stock-anime style he used in his Yozakura Quartet manga. That aside, Devil Survivor breaks some interesting new ground for the franchise, as it adapts demon alliances, character relationships, and other SMT traditions to the battle grids of a strategy-RPG. The game's already been compared to Square's The World Ends With You, due to a visual style that finds lanky teenagers stranded in a gloomy stretch of Tokyo, sealed off by the government because of demon outbreaks. Those demons, by the way, are still designed by Kaneko.
Get Excited If: You want to play Final Fantasy Tactics and Persona at the same time.
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