New Releases 5/16-5/22: Pariahs and Polyps Edition

With antagonists as varied as outlaws, tumors, and photosensitive ne’er-do-wells, you can be sure that this week’s collection of new releases has a bit of something for everyone.  Take solace that any expeditions to vanquish this odd assortment of enemies will be guided by some familiar faces – roughly seventy percent of this week’s titles are sequels.

360
Alan Wake
AQUA – Naval Warfare (XBLA)
Attack of the Movies 3-D
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Red Dead Redemption
Shrek Forever After
Split/Second

PS3
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Red Dead Redemption
Rocket Knight (PSN)
Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Episode Two – The Tomb of SammunMak (PSN)
Shrek Forever After
Split/Second

Wii
Attack of the Movies 3-D
BIT.TRIP RUNNER (WiiWare)
City Builder
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Shrek Forever After
Trauma Team

DS
Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow
Frogger Returns (DSiWare)
Imagine: Animal Doctor Care Center
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Shrek Forever After

PSP
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

PC
Legio
Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Episode Two – The Tomb of SammunMak
Shrek Forever After
Split/Second

DesertEagle’s Pick: For the first time in months, I’m anticipating several new releases. While Split/Second already has me captivated, I’m compelled to go with Red Dead Redemption as my pick. The guys from Rockstar rarely disappoint, the this title offers an amazingly detailed Wild West playground for players to explore. Bad guys, consider yourself warned- there’s a new sheriff in town.

SeanNOLA’s Pick: Although I disagree with DEagle that Rockstar “rarely disappoints” me, one game that surpassed my expectations was Red Dead Revolver.  Although Redemption seems to have very little in common with the original title, I am easily swayed by westerns and great soundtracks. I just hope that Red Dead Redemption is less “Grand Theft Horse” and more “A Fistful of Shooters.”


TideGear’s Pick: There’s a lot of promising titles being released this week. Red Dead Redemption sounds great, but I agree with Sean. I’m out if it’s too much like Grand Theft Horse. I’m a fan of the Prince of Persia series, but movie tie-ins always scare me. I’m not usually one for racing games, but Split/Second reminds me of Burnout, and that’s a good thing. I can’t ignore the stand-out indie titles BIT.TRIP RUNNER and AQUA – Naval Warfare either. It’s hard to pick one, but I’m going with Trauma Team. An intense and varied cooperative game sounds like good medicine.

About 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.

69 comments

  1. Got Read Dead preordered. I cant wait.

  2. Yeah Desert, Ping Pong and Midnight Club were weaksauce. I agree with NOLA on this one.

  3. I hope Alan Wake isn’t Alan Weak.

    RIP DIO!

  4. Frogger Returns?

    I wish he’s crawl under a truck and just DIE.

  5. Red Dead Redemption and if I have any credit left over, Split Second.

  6. You mean croak?

    Couldn’t resist 🙂

  7. I’m wondering if Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is going to be any good. I’ve heard nothing on it at all.

  8. I’ll be getting my Trauma Team on this week 😉

  9. Is there or is there going to be a Split/second demo?

    Internet has been down in my city for a week now.

  10. Desert, no interest in Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow? Did you like the 360 version?

  11. I doubt they’ll ever make a decent Shrek game.

  12. Quarterpounder

    BIT.TRIP RUNNER will probably get my money.

  13. I think the formatting on NOLA picks got messed up.

  14. Cosmic Busdriver

    Alan Wake special edition is ready to go. How come you didn’t review that one, guys?

  15. That RDR screenshot in pretty underwhelming. I dunno.

  16. NOLA, which Rock* games didn’t you like? I know Manhunt 2 was just ok, but so many other rocked.

    GTA Series
    Bully
    Midnight Club
    Table Tennis
    Max Payne series (published)

  17. Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, IF the reviews are solid.

  18. Protip: Most licenses games suck. Stay away unless you’ve read 5t good reviews.

  19. BreakfastSchmalz

    Nice site- thanx for the info.

    I’m buying Split/Second this week.

  20. Let me know how it is…

  21. You guys regularly ignore the Sam and Max games

    🙁 🙁 🙁

  22. NOLA gets pun of the week.

    And just so you dont feel lonely, Adam…Where’s KARNOV?!?!?

  23. Adam Milecki - TideGear

    Aww, my picks up now!

  24. Whats a polyp and what does it have to do with games?

  25. You guys are slacking. Only one “where’s Karnov” before he posts.

    Adam, you’ve liking a bit of everything. Has DEagle rubbed off on you?

  26. Adam, you cant recycle NOLA’s joke. Thats not cool, you know! He’ll say Knights of the Nightmare is garbage on the next podcast, you know!

  27. I actually like Table Tennis for what it was- an incredibly deep ping-pong sim.

    As for the last MC- we’ll that’s why I said “rarely” and not “never”. I’ll admit, the game was vastly inferior to Burnout Paradise, and was an average at best racer.

    BTW- I’ll also defend “The Warriors” if you so require 😉

  28. Adam Milecki - TideGear

    Haha, being interested doesn’t mean I’m going to necessarily like them.

  29. Adam Milecki - TideGear

    I cited him, though!

  30. Looks like a good week for gaming!

  31. 3 picks for Red Dead and 2 for Split Second. Nice!

    I’ll get BTR also.

  32. Cause Desert likes everything! LOL.

  33. I liked the first one and the price on this one is right.

  34. What games are you going to review?

  35. The Warriors was cool. It was the XBLA remake that sucked it hard.

  36. Hopefully, desert will review Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow.

  37. Good one. I approve of this statement.

  38. Wheres our Rocket Knight review.

    Straight up- total remake or not and is it worth the money?

  39. Whats that Smell

    NOLAs been sticking it to DEAGLE lately. It’s like the whole Garnett and Shane thing all over again, but I don’t know who is who.

  40. Every time all three of you guys don’t pick a Bit.Trip game, the world drifts one step closer to a Justin Bieber game.

    RUNNER is my pick-up!

  41. 8/10 is still a very good score.

  42. RockStar has always been a hit-or-miss publisher to me.
    I wasn’t a fan of the GTA3-series of games (3, Vice and Andreas) because I felt the core controls were busted. They fixed the controls in 4, but I still didn’t get into it (not because it was a bad game, it just didn’t hold my interest).
    Loved Max Payne, but not so much Midnight Club or ManHunt.
    Also, Earthworm Jim 3D was pretty unforgivable, but they get a slight pass for only publishing that turd.
    Remember the Austin Powers games?
    Surfing H30?
    State of Emergency?
    I’m not saying they are a bad publisher, but they certainly aren’t without a few blemishes in their resume.

  43. Slave 2d Stick

    Tell us about that 3D DS game, guys.

  44. When DEagle and I went to the Prince of Persia trailer event, Jordan Mechner said that there were no plans on a movie tie-in game. That was only 6 months ago. I don’t have high expectations for this one.

  45. He said that??? Dirty liar.

  46. I guess the difference is the Rockstar publisher games vs. the Rockstar developed games.

    Never played the Austin Powers games. Just the title sounds bad.

  47. Yeah VIS made State of Emergency, Opus make H30. Technically, they did make Austin Powers: Welcome to My Underground Lair! so no excuses there!

  48. You, sir, have it backwards. You have single handedly given the last 800 Wii Points they needed to make Bit.Trip.Bieber. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3354/4616324697_876ae7d9c1_o.jpg

  49. Lol does the score indicate the number of good songs he has made?

  50. Don’t give the develops any ideas, man!

  51. His head doesn’t spin (or is that DLC)

  52. Make some chiptune Bieber and I promise you will be famous.

  53. Adam Milecki - TideGear

    It’s a-comin’.

  54. RDR for me.

  55. I know you guys are hyped for Shrek Forever After.

  56. Alan Wake and Red Dead today. It feels good to be a 360 owner!

  57. A damn good week for games.

  58. No Red Dead review up yet? C’mon guys get off your horses 😉

  59. Got both in my hands right now. I wish I could post pics on this site.

  60. Eternal Grouch

    Will you guys be creating a posse for Red Dead?

  61. Thats an idea. We need to create a good name.

  62. Beibersaur Banditos.

  63. Nooooooo! That’s the new rickroll.

  64. You don’t seem to want a posse very badly if that’s your pick.

  65. TechWreckers?

  66. Are you guys on 360 or PS3?

  67. Oh, hell no!

    We’d be the enemy of every online clan.

  68. NOLA- you’re being copied by Metacritic’s writers!

    “It’s not exactly Grand Theft Horse, and it is certainly far more than just Red Dead Revolver 2.”

    http://features.metacritic.com/features/2010/red-dead-redemption-inside-the-reviews/?tag=topslot;title;1