5 Years of Us!

You'll be able to find all our 5-year celebrations up here. There's going to be some great stuff.

2005 brought us the Xbox 360. 2006? The Wii & Twilight Princess. 2007 was the year of Super Mario Galaxy, Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, the PS3, Halo 3 and Metroid. 2008 presented us with Smash Bros. Brawl, Gears of War 2, Mario Kart Wii, LittleBigPlanet, Resistance 2, The World Ends With You, Fallout 3, Fable II and more besides. 2009 is set to be even better. Sin & Punishment 2 leads the charge, with Punch Out!!, Gran Turismo 5 and Resident Evil 5 also looking very, very impressive. Infact, there’s tons of great-looking titles. So here we’ve got XXX Previews, to drip-feed you all.

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2009: Ones To Watch 2

Bonus Previews!

Resident Evil 5

PS3 & 360, Febuary (Capcom/Capcom)

Microsoft’s press conference at E3 this year was probably better than Nintendo and Sony’s, but it was still riddled with errors: They had a dev from Fallout 3 fail to connect the controller, for example, and Fable II’s creator said “Here’s my wife! Yeah!!” for no reason. And as embarrassing as watching Cliffy B talk about ducking behind walls was, nothing was worse than Bill Gates’ evil corporation setting a brutally short time limit on the demo of what could turn out to be the best game to be realise in 2009.

This game is the direct sequel to Resident Evil 4, one of the best games on the GameCube, and equally as good when it reappeared on PS2 and GameCube. And this time, we’re skipping all the light gun nonsense and port stuff that’s plagued the Wii & DS for the past few years, and we’re headed straight for another encounter with chainsaw-obsessive zombies. Bring. It. On.

Anticipation: 5/5

Nintendo finaly decided to make the new Brain Training more appropriate for the Hardcore.

Dynamic Slash (Wii)

This came out of Nintendo's fall press confrence. The same one as Sin & Punishment 2 and Punch Out!! Wii. Yeah, that one. It looks rather good visualy, but we know very little about it, but it's gonan be dynamic, and you're gonna slash stuff. Ace.

Fire Emblem DS (DS)

Shadow Dragon -The latest in Nintendo's long-lasting Fire Emblem series- is already out in Europe, and being British, we're therefor leaving it out of the main previews, but any American readers can rest assured it'll be worth the wait. And then most British readers will also have to wait for 2009, as not even GAME and Gamestation are sellnig it, let alone Asda and Tesco. *Sigh*. It's brilliant, though, so you can expect a review soon.

Strong Bad Episode 5: 8 Bit is Enough (WiiWare)

Simular reasons for Fire Emblem, this. It'll be out in American next week, but not out here untill January. Dangeresque 3 (Epsidoe Four) is the best game currently avalible on WiiWare, and with any luck the series finaly will be even better.

We've also got our fingers crossed for a second season of Strong Bad. Five mroe episodes in 2009 would be great, espechialy if they somehow manage to top the first season. Which will be hard, when the first has Dangeresque's dad and a some of the lines Strong Bad rattled off. Telltale and The Brother Chaps have hinted at it, and we realy wouldn't be suprised. We'd be pleased.

Sigma Harmonics

DS, "Q1 or Q2" (Square-Enix/Square-Enix)

The team working on this is the same team responsible for The World Ends With You, and their again trying to create a fresh experience using the DS. If that one sentence doesn’t get you ready to explode, then there’s something wrong with you. TWEWY is the best game on the DS. If any game beats it, it’ll be this. We doubt that this detective-style RPG will manage it, but with any luck the plot involving “Returning the world to normal” will lead us to returning to the much gushing praise we gave TWEWY in our review. DS game of the year, here we come…

Anticipation: 5/5

This is a realy hard picture for us to come up with a sarcastic comment on.

Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2

TBA, Fall (Activsion/Infinity Ward [Yay!])

Call of Duty 4 was massive among teenage school kids. Because most of them can’t appreciate the originality of Halo or Metroid, they ended up playing that game, and assuming it was the best thing ever. Series creator Inifty Ward had finally managed to pull off what the games had threatened to do since the beginning: Being brilliant.

COD5 had the game handed back to COD3 and infinitely (LOL) worse dives, Trechyard, and they took the series backwards both in time and quality, returning to World War 2, and while it was far, far better than the first three games and all of Trechyard’s back catalogue, COD4 was still superior, and always will be.

….Or will it? See, Activision confirmed awhile ago that the sixth Call of Duty was once again being made by Infinity Ward, and so we where struck by a flamethrower of anticipation. But then they said it’s coming back to modern style. Which is a step forward for the series, but only because it’s already taken a step back. Here’s hoping they just improve the DS version. If it inevitably gets a user-voted award from blooming fanboy who are too aregent to vote for a game that actually deserves the flippin’ award. Ahem.

Anticipation: 4/5

Holy Smoke, Batman! As above, but we managed it.

KNIGHT NUI

Celebrating 5 years!