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This Week's Big Releases
Or not. Though this week’s selection includes some of the biggest games of the year for all platform holders, nothing can match the sheer size (and indeed noise) of a LittleBigPlanet-sized hole in our schedule.
Delayed worldwide for featuring a song that recites phrases from the Quran, LBP is being predicted for a staggered worldwide release from Oct 28 to Nov 14. That could in some way be a relief to those involved with the following:
Fable 2
Lionhead Studios
360
US Release: 21 Oct
“Fable 2 is,” says Peter Molyneux, “as good as anything I’ve ever worked on.” We’re not quite sure what this means anymore. On one hand you have the Lionhead creative director’s whole archive of whopping exaggerations, and on the other you have a beautiful looking action-RPG which seems as wide as it is deep. From what we’ve seen so far, it looks like Molyneux won’t be issuing any apologies this time round.
Far Cry 2
Ubisoft Montreal
PS3/360/PC
US Release: 21 Oct
Far Cry 2 is so ambitious that we’re tempted to say its development has been an arrogant endeavour. New series developer Ubisoft Montreal is hoping to deliver a game with 20 square-miles of a lovingly detailed and diverse African playscape that aims to be fundamentally sandbox, also with a range of weather conditions that will alter the physicality of the environment and your weapons within it, as well as an AI-affecting day/night cycle, along with destructible scenery and vehicles, and also with a comprehensive map editor. The biggest question will be if it can possibly hold together so many heavy promises.
Wii Music
Nintendo
Wii
US Release: 20 Oct
Nintendo’s policy of leaning on the clean-living, vaguely-self-help software continues apace with its newest excuse to shake a remote in front of the family. However the reviews go (a mixed bag so far), nothing can stop the definitive reason for the game’s existence: it will sell millions of copies to people who will love it.
Guitar Hero World Tour
Neversoft, Vicarious Visions, Budcat Creations
PS3/360, Wii, PS2
US Release: 26 Oct
Never saw it coming. A periphery-led rhythm-action game where you can be a, er, rock band. Oh yeah.
World Tour is the first game in the increasingly tired Guitar Hero series to use drum and microphone controllers. The game will supposedly allow gamers to create new songs which can be recorded, uploaded and shared online. By songs, we mean instrumentals, as players aren’t to allow to record lyrics.
Midnight Club: 
Rockstar
PS3/360
US Release: 20 Oct
Originally scheduled for release a fortnight ago, Midnight Club:
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I saw a trailer of Midnight Club and the visuals looked terrible. Maybe the trailer wasn't from final code, but the game didn't look all that impressive.
Far cry may turn out to be awesome if the AI holds up.
It disgusts me, but I think I'll pick up that Wii music game for my 3 year old. She really can't play my 360 at all yet, but I think she'd have a blast with a game that requires no talent/skill or cognitive thought, just the audience Nintendo is aiming for. (had to, sorry).
I can't help but notice a bit of disdain the author of this article has for GH. "increasingly tired Guitar Hero series" and "The game will supposedly allow gamers to create new songs "
I don't know about it being any more tired than Rock Band is (espcially 2 with its weak online modes, no proper band vs band multiplayer just band vs leaderboards, it offers no real online coop career as only the lead member of the band can play that particular band offline, if you're a permanent member of that particular band but not the leader, you can only play in that band while online with the leader, and not at home offline by yourself. So the idea of an online band you and your buddy can share and play offline as well is nice, but broken. Hopefully GHWT gets online coop band carreer right. And RB2 ranked online matches do not allow you or the other player to pick the songs, and you can only do 1 song sets and then you're done. Lame. No one every pointed most of these things out when reviewing rock band 2, oh well). And supposedly allow you to create music...supposedly? What, like activision is allowing neversoft to lie about features all the way up until the game launches?
"a game that requires no talent/skill or cognitive thought,"
and you're basing this on........................................????? Game movies? E3 footage? a Beta test maybe?
I was partly exaggerating, but not really that much. The game requires no accuracy at all. Pretty much any game website/magazine who has previewed the game have said that the game does not require any accuracy whatsoever. Essentially swinging it around randomly will generate perfect music. There are no note charts in the game, you just hold the wand the same way you'd hold the instrument it’s replicating in real life. So, a violin you'd I guess hold it up to your chin, then I don't know, wiggle it around. I'm not trying to be funny, but you pretend the wand is the instrument and just wiggle it around. Visualize and attack probably would work out just as well. Now when you're playing as the conductor you have to wave the wand around and the nun chuck as if it were the conductor's sticks (don't know what they're called) and the band will move to the speed of the sticks you’re moving. You can also control up to 4 instruments at the same time (which is pretty much impossible in real life). I'm picking the game up, and I'll give a personal review of the "game" from actually "playing" it. But since I personally never played it, I can't say from experience how the game really is. But I'm pretty sure I know what to expect. I got my current opinion of the game from multiple gaming site/magazines, but some of the info I got, I got from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Music
edit: In the matter of fairness to Wii Music, it seems the game requires a bit more accuracy in SOME of the game types it offers, so maybe theres a baby version where you can just flail around to your heart's content, and there's a version that requires more accuracy for those who want it. My bad...
Midnight Club has really made a leap
FarCry 2 Looks awsome