{"id":1918,"date":"2009-03-08T10:29:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T16:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamesanityblog.com\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2009-03-08T10:29:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T16:29:18","slug":"this-week-in-games-march-8-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/08\/this-week-in-games-march-8-14\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Games: March 8 &#8211; 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1919 alignright\" title=\"residentevil5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamesanityblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/residentevil5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"residentevil5\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/residentevil5-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/residentevil5.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Wait a second here &#8230; after three weeks in a row, I&#8217;m beginning to think that the game industry is starting to &#8216;get it&#8217; and spread their releases around the year more!  Well, whether or not it is true (I still expect a fall deluge), this is yet another week of strong releases.  The XBOX360 and PS3 get the hotly anticipated and highly controversial <strong>Resident Evil 5<\/strong> while the PSP gets <strong>Mana Khemia: Student Alliance<\/strong>, the Wii gets MadWorld, and there is a decent list for every other platform.  Well, except that there looks to be a massive amount of &#8216;shovelware&#8217; for the Wii and DS.  Check out the list!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/360.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1365\" title=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/360.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resident Evil 5<\/li>\n<li>Trivial Pursuit<\/li>\n<li>SBK Superbike World Championship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ps3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1366\" title=\"ps3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ps3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resident Evil 5<\/li>\n<li>Trivial Pursuit<\/li>\n<li>SBK Superbike World Championship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wii.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1367\" title=\"wii\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wii.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MadWorld<\/li>\n<li>MySims Party<\/li>\n<li>New Play Control! Pikmin<\/li>\n<li>New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis<\/li>\n<li>Trivial Pursuit<\/li>\n<li>Totally Spies: Totally Party<\/li>\n<li>Marble Saga Kororinpa<\/li>\n<li>Vacation Sports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ps2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1368\" title=\"ps2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ps2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trivial Pursuit<\/li>\n<li>Totally Spies: Totally Party<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/psp.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1369\" title=\"psp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/psp.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mana Khemia: Student Alliance<\/li>\n<li>SBK Superbike World Championship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ds.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1370\" title=\"ds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ds.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My Pet Shop<\/li>\n<li>Avalon Code<\/li>\n<li>My English Coach &#8211; Spanish Edition<\/li>\n<li>ZUBO<\/li>\n<li>World Championship Games: A Track &amp; Field Event<\/li>\n<li>Docomodake BOING!<\/li>\n<li>Animal Planet: Emergency Vets<\/li>\n<li>MySims Party<\/li>\n<li>Jake Power Handyman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pc.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1371\" title=\"pc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pc.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Codename: Panzers<\/li>\n<li>World in Conflict: Complete Edition<\/li>\n<li>Eve Online<\/li>\n<li>Tom Clancy&#8217;s HAWX<\/li>\n<li>Men of War<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for last week &#8230; well, <strong>Halo Wars<\/strong> is apparently solid, but is just as apparently a extremely scaled back version of a RTS &#8211; so it is one of those games that earns the title ;good &#8230; for a console game&#8217;, which is nice but also means it is nothing of interest for grognards.  Which is fine, since they got the massively excellent <strong>Empire: Total War<\/strong> for the PC, which is better in every way than Halo Wars, but the lack of the fanboy title will ultimately mean lower sales &#8211; and will send the wrong message to publishers.  Oops &#8230; won&#8217;t start on that soap-box &#8230;  the bottom line is this: <strong>Empire: Total War<\/strong> is excellent and any PC RTS fan should grab it NOW.  Most other stuff was pretty unremarkable, such as the multiplatform <strong>Tom Clancy\u2019s HAWX<\/strong> and <strong>Phantasy Star Portable<\/strong> for the PSP.<\/p>\n<p>I have played loads of stuff, but the one I said I&#8217;d comment on was <strong>Puzzle Quest: Galactrix<\/strong>.  I have it for both the DS and PC, and have been playing it quite a bit this week.  It remains asolid &#8216;match 3&#8217; puzzle system with an interesting sci-fi story attached, yet it lacks much of the fun of the original.  It remains a good game and I don&#8217;t regret my purchases, but there is no chance of me buying more versions (as a reminder I own 8 versions of the original).  My advice &#8211; try the demo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I&#8217;m Currently Playing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>PC:<\/em> <strong>Drakensang: The Dark Eye<\/strong> &#8211; absolutely loving this game &#8211; they have done loads of things right with this one, it deserves so much more attention than it will ever get in the US (and playing it just again highlights how out of whack the scores and coverage for stuff like Fallout 3 was.)<\/li>\n<li><em>PC:<\/em> <strong>Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate<\/strong> &#8211; I was very fortunate to get a pre-release copy to play from the wonderful Alan Miranda of Ossian and am thoroughly immersed.  I played an hour and realized I hadn&#8217;t fought a battle yet &#8211; was solving mysteries and uncovering information and so on&#8230; great stuff!<\/li>\n<li><em>DS:<\/em> <strong>Retro Game Challenge<\/strong> &#8211; one of those things I meant to play more, and am not plowing ahead full speed!<\/li>\n<li><em>DS:<\/em> <strong>My DoItAll<\/strong> &#8211; I love PDA&#8217;s and electronic organizers, so was intrigued &#8230; sadly, this is complete junk that is poorly done.<\/li>\n<li><em>PSP:<\/em> <strong>Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII<\/strong> &#8211; still working on the replay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy gaming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait a second here &#8230; after three weeks in a row, I&#8217;m beginning to think that the game industry is starting to &#8216;get it&#8217; and spread their releases around the year more! Well, whether or not it is true (I still expect a fall deluge), this is yet another week of strong releases. 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