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June Gaming Sees Host of Releases
Posted by
ScuttleMonkey
on Thu Jun 05, 2008 02:03 PM
from the rush-and-flush dept.
from the rush-and-flush dept.
June gaming is certainly off with a loud roaring noise that should leave your wallet empty and your thumbs tired. Seeing titles like Ninja Gaiden II, Grid, Bourne Conspiracy, Lego Indiana Jones, Kung Fu Panda, The Incredible Hulk, and a whole host of games for handhelds and download is bound to make game reviewers weep with exhaustion.
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News: Early Review Calls New Indiana Jones Film Dreadful 643 comments
bowman9991 writes "Hope this one isn't true! An early negative review calls the upcoming "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" movie predictable, lacking in tension, and a fan's worst nightmare. SFFMedia believes this new Indiana Jones movie could create a similar reaction a lot of people experienced after watching the first of the last three Star Wars movies, 'The Phantom Menace': you wait for years and years, the anticipation building, and then it's so awful it taints your view of the original movies. Of course George Lucas was involved with Star Wars too." The SFFMedia piece refers to this review on Ain't it Cool News. The trailer I saw (before Iron Man) actually looked great to me, so I'm taking this with a grain of salt.
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Ninja Gaiden II Needs to Level Up the Camera Work 48 comments
The team that brought you one of the more difficult games of all time (according to some) has come back for another round. According to one review Ninja Gaiden II serves up what looks to be an amazing addition to the franchise, at least what you can see of it through the very counter-intuitive camera work. "The hybrid aesthetic - high-tech Technicolor Japan mixed with muted feudalist Japan - might sound dissonant but looks sharply coherent. In fact, in the hands of a skilled player NGII looks nothing less than exhilarating, and occasionally surpasses any martial arts movie you might care to name. And this is why the camera is such a surprisingly big issue. This isn't a problem with it getting caught on a corner occasionally, nor the odd confusing switch of perspective. It is a constant problem: obscuring foes, breaking up combos, losing track of Ryu, and flicking back and forth between positions."
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Ninja Gaiden's Itagaki Leaves Tecmo, Sues for Damages 12 comments
Gamasutra is reporting that Ninja Gaiden developer Tomonobu Itagaki has resigned from Tecmo and is suing for damages in the neighborhood of 148 million yen ($1.42M USD). "In recent press interviews for the just released Xbox 360 exclusive Ninja Gaiden II, Itagaki had repeatedly stated that it would be the last game in the series he would work on, while also disparaging Ninja Gaiden Sigma on the PlayStation 3 - with which he was not directly involved. At the same time he began to make reference to work beginning on a new action title unrelated to Ninja Gaiden. It now seems likely that these comments were made with the knowledge that the title would not be created at Tecmo, although Itagaki has given no indication of what his future plans might entail."
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Lego Indian Jones? (Score:3, Funny)
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Yeah, then someone else will wondering when the Lego racing game will be out.
ScuttleMonkey is competing (Score:4, Funny)
June Sees Crappy Movie Tie-Ins... (Score:4, Insightful)
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I'm looking forward to more lego tie-ins in this series. In addition to the Indy, there's also a lego-batman game coming out too -- apparently its based more on the animated series/comics rather than being a direct movie tie-in. (So much the better if you ask me...)
Why are... (Score:3, Insightful)
That being said, the Kung-Fu Panda game does look interesting. The real questions are if the Wii controls really work as well as the previews suggest, and if the developers really put the time and effort into making the game interesting rather than a quick cash-in.
(Anyone remember back when Capcom used to NAIL Disney properties? Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers & Duck Tales are some of the best games ever made for the NES.)
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Though personally I'm more excited about downloading the demo for Civ: Revolution tonight.
PS2 GITS! (Score:3, Interesting)
[Movie-based games] are the games most likely to suck!
Yeah, a lot of movie-spawned games are pretty banal. On the other hand, one of my favorite console games was the PS2 Ghost In The Shell game -- jumping and skimming around as fast as you can in a fuchikoma. Sweet! The whole game felt well thought-out, from basic controls and game play, to level design, and niceties such as being able to replay any cut-scene you've already seen in the game(*). Even the practice mode was essentially a great little sub-game.
(*) It boggles the mind that publishers ever don
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Most Japanese games have this, particularly RPGs. For them gaming is a means to a story, whereas storylines in Western games tend to be there for the sake of gameplay.
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Racedriver GRID (Score:3, Interesting)
Codemasters might redeem themselves with this one.
Just say no to slashvertisements (Score:4, Insightful)
This is idiotic... (Score:5, Insightful)
And you spout a bunch of movie spinnoffs? And Ninja Gaiden II, which has been totally pwned by critics and in which the creator immediately resigned from the company in disgrace.
You just showed your lack of knowledge on the subject, prepare for a barage of hate mail.
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I actually was not sure; I haven't kept up with all the movie releases lately. (I had to RTFA.)
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The only issue with NG2 that I have seen is the camera. Its typically been give reviews in the 80 to 90 range. Besides being a bit of a retread of all the other 3d NG games, it a fun game.
I'm also fairly certain you have no idea why Igitaki left that company.
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All I'm say
Lego Indian Jones? (Score:5, Funny)
That and Metal Gear Solid 4 (Score:2)
sequel, license, license, license, license, licens (Score:2)
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But man... goldeneye was a damn good game.
All of the lego starwars games I have played have been very good. I wouldn't be surprised if the Indiana Jones game was as well. Even if it is based on a movie.
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