New Releases for the Week of October 21st, 2012

Photo of Robert Allen Robert AllenOctober 19, 2012
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Medal of Honor Warfighter

Evidently, hunting season has begun. Beyond the abundance of Cabela games, with each consoles receiving two different animal-tracking titles, this week gamers will also be tracking a variety of different vermin. Beyond Medal of Honor: Warfighter‘s eradication of terrorists across Pakistan, Philippines and Somalia, others will be scouting a more elusive prey: Skylanders figurines. With eight new, super-sized statuettes to collect, players might need to scout a advantageous position at the front of their nearby retail to nab one of these cherished creatures.

360
Cabela’s Hunting Expeditions
Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2013
Dark Souls: Artorias of the Abyss (XBL, DLC, $15.00)
Forza Horizon
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus (XBL, $15.00)
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit ‘Pimp My Rabbit’ (XBL, DLC, $3.00)
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit ‘The Virtual Rabbit Missions’ (XBL, DLC, $5.00)
Just Dance: Disney Party
Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Skylanders Giants

PS3
Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2013
Cabela’s Hunting Expeditions
Dark Souls: Artorias of the Abyss (PSN, DLC, $14.99)
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit ‘Pimp My Rabbit’ (PSN, DLC, $2.99)
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit ‘The Virtual Rabbit Missions’ (XBLA, DLC, $4.99)
Killzone HD (PSN, $14.99)
Killzone Trilogy
Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Skylanders Giants
The Unfinished Swan (PSN, $14.99)
Winback: Covert Operations (PS2 Classic, $9.99)

Wii
Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2013
Cabela’s Hunting Expeditions
Just Dance: Disney Party
Skylanders Giants

3DS
Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?!
Imagine: Babyz Fashion
Liberation Maiden
NightSky (eShop)
Skylanders Giants
Style Savvy: Trendsetters
Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward

DS
New downloadable releases announced 10/25

PSP
Centipede (PS1 Classic, $5.99)
Missile Command (PS1 Classic, $5.99)
Pong (PS1 Classic, $5.99)
Virtual Pool (PS1 Classic, $5.99)

Vita
DJMAX Technika Tune
Frobisher Says! (PSN, Free)
Hotline Miami
Orgarhythm (PSN, $29.99)
Street Fighter X Tekken
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz
Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward

PC
A Game of Dwarves
Elemental: Fallen Enchantress
Farming Simulator 2013
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
Lucius
King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North
Medal of Honor: Warfighter

Robert’s Pick: With the release of Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec a decade ago, I was one of the franchise’s biggest advocates, certain that Polyphony Digital had a lock on the console racing market. Of course, within the next year years the emergence of the Burnout and Forza franchises would prove me wrong. Despite the loss of Forza Motorsport 4‘s tuning and auction components, this week’s release of Forza Horizon looks to satisfy my lust for down and dirty, off-road racing. Just maybe, the integration of Project Gotham-esque Kudos system can make be forget about the reduced number of competitors as well.

Forza Horizon

Jeremy’s Pick: If you missed Stardock Entertainment’s Elemental: War of Magic, either accidentally or purposely, you would probably be forgiven. It didn’t exactly set the world on fire the way the studio wanted… and you have to hand it to them because they’re going back to make it better.  In Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, some key components are being updated for usability and fun. Battles, tech trees, and city building are all being revisited to make them more enjoyable and less obtuse; pretty important for a “civ” style game. The overworld and tactical magic systems are being reworked too, to improve the “personality” of the game and bring it up to snuff in a genre that includes the great Master of Magic and Age of Wonders. Personally speaking, Elemental was a big, fun timesink, so I’m excited (and a bit concerned) to see what magical devastation Fallen Enchantress will wreak upon my schedule.

Elemental Fallen Enchantress

BlueSwim’s Pick: Pinch me, I must be dreaming! The new release floodgates are wide open this week. As big of a Forza 4 gearhead as I am (hell, I drive a Sailor Moon Chevy Camero), it’s the oddly-titled Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core Plus that gets my approval. Long before BlazBlue rebelled against the fighting genre, Arc System Works’ Guilty Gear was rocking faces with its off-the-wall characters and heart-pounding Daisuke Ishiwatari soundtrack. The fast and furious fighting series has seen numerous iterations over the years, with Accent Core Plus being the most recent console release. This digital version will feature online play, as well as a post-launch balance patch based on the 2012 arcade revision, Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core Plus R. With any luck, this will lay the groundwork for Guilty Gear X BlazBlue. Heaven Or Hell! Let’s Rock!

Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core Plus

Photo of Robert Allen Robert AllenOctober 19, 2012
32 1,528 3 minutes read
Photo of Robert Allen

Robert Allen

Since being a toddler, Robert Allen has been immersed in video games, anime, and tokusatsu. Currently, his days are spent teaching at two southern California colleges. But his evenings and weekends are filled with STGs, RPGs, and action titles and well at writing for Tech-Gaming since 2007.

32 Comments

  1. Woah, mental overload looking at all those new games. Where are stores going to put all those Skylanders boxes?

  2. Artorias of the Abyss is really $15? Man, that’s a bit high considering the game is about $20-$30.

  4. I still need to pick up Code of Princess!

    Hopefully, there’s a The Unfinished Swan demo so I can try that for myself.

  5. Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus is a nice surprise. Since the game is hard to find on disk (popular with fighting game fans) it makes sense to see a download.

  6. Lucius sounds like a really cool idea for a PC game. Seems like an October release is perfect for a game where you are the devil’s son.

  7. Des, did you not see Medal of Honor: Warfighter on the list? How could that not be your pick? You don’t like guns anymore?

  9. Since the font change, I noticed less anime girls and more guys with guns on the front page? Coincidence?

    I remember Pong for the PSOne being pretty one. If there was any kind of PS+ sale, I might have to bite.

  11. I like Forza too but the DLC grab is a turn off.

    Why can’t I use my purchased Forza 4 cars in Horizon?

    1. Cool. I heard there’s over $500 in content now. The rumor of Activision buying the world may just be true.

    2. Looks dope, dude.

      No need for the reissues because I heard the new big ones kick all kinds of ass.

  13. Here, Wal-Mart has Medal of Honor: Warfighter for $40 this week. That’s too good a deal to pas up.

  14. Forza Horizon. I’m with you Des- I thought GT was the greatest. But Burnout 2 and Forza 3 were both so much more fun that license tests. I hasn’t gone back to sims.

    Now, if Criterion would make a Burnout proper with a real 3D crash mode, GOTY.

  16. since I don’t have any of the Killzone games anymore, getting 3 on a disk sounds good to me.

  19. The last thing I expected to see on this week’s release list was Winback: Covert Operations as a PS2 Classic. When I was growing up, my friends and I would spend hours playing the multiplayer in the N64 version. At the time, tactical 3rd person shooters with four-player split-screen were rather uncommon, so we soaked it up like sponges. Whenever we played, two of my friends and I would stick another friend of ours with a character in the game that we so lovingly called “Chubby Legs”. Popular battlecries of the Winback Four-Player Wars included “IT’S CHUBBY LEGS! SHOOT HIM!”, “THE SHOTGUN IS MINE!”, and the all-time classic, “FUCK YOU!”. Good times.

    2. Who had the chubby legs? I don’t remember anymore. It’s been years since I played Winback for N64.

  20. Blue, your new nickname should be BlazBlueSwim. If you like it give me a shoutout on the show.

  22. This is the Sailor Moon Chevy Camero in Forza 4 I mentioned in my pick, just in case you thought I was joking.

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