section by: Justin Clark and SCOTT!
TRANSFORMERS: WAR FOR CYBERTRON
High Moon Studios/Activision
360, PS3
6/22
MSRP: $59.99
While the guys who made the solid, if repetitive, Bourne Conspiracy wouldn’t be my first choice to tackle a Transformers game (especially since I still owe someone there a supreme bitch-out for not getting Extreme Ways for the end credits), the last couple of trailers and the demo seem to indicate they could be up to the task. It’s basically Unreal Tournament, with a splash of Call of Duty 4, but with giant robots and Peter Cullen as announcer. Aside from the potential for the online to have an overabundance of snot nosed brats/adults stuck in the 80s whining that some obscure Autobot’s exhaust pipe is in the wrong place, not seeing the downside there.
OOOHHHHH: ON THE DLC TIP
XBox Live, Playstation Network
6/22
Free
In a continuing motif of Red Dead Redemption putting GTA IV to shame, RDR‘s free roaming multiplayer, while not without its prime candidates for the suggestion box (read: multiplayer poker should’ve been a no brainer), is fun, rewarding, and far beyond the amusing but slight afterthought of its spiritual predecessor. Rockstar adding a free mission-based co-op missions with new Achievements and Trophies to boot is just above and beyond the call of duty, and more ammunition to the idea that Game of the Year may very well have been decided early, short of a goddamned miracle. Judging from this years underwhelming E3, that miracle’s likely not coming. Without controller waggle, anyway.
ROCK BAND TUESDAY
Miley Cyrus Pack 01 ($8.50/680 MS pts)
- 7 Things +
- Can’t Be Tamed
- Fly On the Wall +
- See You Again +
- Start All Over +
$1.99/160 MS pts per track
+-Available in Lego Rock Band
I wonder how much furry/Final Fantasy VII slashfic exists about Miley Cyrus in the black wings from that Can’t Be Tamed video? Rule 34 being what it is, and all.
Wait….I don’t want to know.
Wait. Let me rephrase that: I don’t care.