Monday, January 17, 2005

The Curse of January

Here's a good reason to hate January if you're a gamer:
1/17: The Punisher
1/18: SeaWorld Adventure Parks Tycoon 3D
1/18: Spider-Man and Friends
1/25: Playboy: The Mansion
1/30: Aerial Strike
1/31: Enigma-Rising Tide: Special Edition

Ouch. That's the rest of the month for PC releases.

Here's an excerpt from the IGN review of The Punisher (which got an 8.0 and is the most promising title listed):
The Punisher is not a particularly complex game. Each of the 16 missions features the same basic concept: Go from point A to point B and kill every single thing in your path.

Wow. I've never played that kind of game before, so this is a real genre-breaker, huh?

If you're desperate for something to play, you might take a look at one of the games that got buried last fall by other releases, like Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, which was an excellent game. Dawn of War received uniformly outstanding reviews and vanished without a trace. If that game had been released in January, it would have received all the attention. Instead, it got almost none.

Oh, and I'm never going to play a game with the phrase "and Friends" in the title, because that means it's in the Kirby's Magic Ride to Cotton Candy Mountain genre.

Or maybe...
Kirby's Magic Ride to Cotton Candy Mountain is not a particularly complex game. Each of the 16 missions features the same basic concept: Go from point A to point B and kill every single thing in your path.

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