So, it has been a week since the release of one of my most anticipated games of the year, and while I can’t review it(there will be a ‘cast for that)I can tell you that OTHER people’s reviews of the game make me sad. Focusing on whether or not the game was worth 60 bucks, or if the story fit snugly in the Halo timeline like it should, or my favorite, the conspiracy theory that Bungie just magically shit this game out. As if all the toilets at Bungie are clogged with semi-finished Halo games, and this is the one Microsoft decided to release. My full review is inbound, but just know that I liked it, I liked it a lot.
The PSPgo comes out this week, and we’ve done our fair share of bashing on the product on Bullshot!, but seeing the in the wild shots of it, it is a sexy device, which makes it all the more depressing that it’s so expensive, and completely worthless to current PSP owners. I can kind of forgive the UMD thing, kind of, I’ve admitted before to being a fan of digital distribution, and the go is a step in the right direction for that, but it’s so over priced. So, terribly over priced.
Dead Space: Extraction comes out tomorrow, and from what I’ve heard, it’s really good. From some people I have even heard Game of the Year contender good. I can only hope cause the reviews are decidedly mixed, with the game currently at a 82 on Metacritic, which isn’t terrible, in fact it’s only 7 points off from it’s predecessor. Reviews are still coming in for the game as well, I loved Dead Space, and I’m hopeful that the Wii version can be as much fun, and tell as good of a story as last year’s game. The term on-rail shooter doesn’t frighten me, Doom Resurrection is an “on rails” shooter and that was a blast on the iPhone. Extraction just seems perfectly suited to the Wii, plus it’s rare that the Wii gets a game of this caliber. Just looking at releases for the rest of the year on the Wii, this seems like it might be the last Wii game to interest me in aught nine. My fingers are crossed, we will have a full review in the beginning of October.