This Week's Releases - 12/1/09

PALGN Feature | Here we go for 2009.

There were plenty of games to keep us occupied over the holiday season, and there are even more to watch out for in 2009. So, to kick off the year in video games, we present the first round of titles to land on store shelves.

First up for the week is Pandemic's Lord of the Rings: Conquest on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and Nintendo DS. In the tradition of the Star Wars Battlefront games, players can battle their way across Middle-earth as either the forces of good or evil. Lord of the Rings: Conquest promises all the epic locations and battles from J.R.R. Tolkien's series of novels and Peter Jackson's movie adaptations. The demo for the game is currently available on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.

Mirror's Edge is delivered on PC this Thursday (our review of the console versions can be found here), and finally, game adaptations of animated movies Igor and Bolt are released.

Thursday 15th January

Xbox 360:

The Lord of the Rings: Conquest

Wii:

Igor: The Game

PlayStation 3:

The Lord of the Rings: Conquest

PC:

Bolt
Bratz Super Babyz (budget)
Igor: The Game
Mirror's Edge
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest

Nintendo DS:

Igor: The Game
My Chinese Coach DS
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest

Coming next week: 100 Classic Book Collection (DS), Skate 2 (360, PS3), Trauma Centre: New Blood (Wii).

Related Content

The Lord of the Rings: Conquest announced
08 May, 2008 Pandemic hard at work on another game.

This Week's Releases - 10/12/07
10 Dec, 2007 Gold everywhere.

EA announces next-gen Lord of the Rings RPG
14 Jul, 2006 For all platforms except the One Wii.

18 Comments

benspyda

3 years ago

Lotr Conquest looks alright but not a game I'd buy full price.

Nietzsche

3 years ago

Anyone played the demo for LotR: Conquest?

DrTim

3 years ago

^ On the ps3, it was alright. I found it kinda gimpy on the console though. I have played the SW BF games on PC and they were great, so I can only assume this will be much better on PC.

the doag

3 years ago

Looking forward to Skate 2. If it reviews well i'll be all over it.

matrix-cat

3 years ago

Freedom until Killzone 2 for me. Well, freedom to whittle down my ungodly backlog, that is.

ugh the boot

3 years ago

Wow that sux, I was looking to buy something this week.

Might have to finally take that No More Heroes plunge on the Wii.

Skiller

3 years ago

ugh the boot wrote

Wow that sux, I was looking to buy something this week.

Might have to finally take that No More Heroes plunge on the Wii.

Thats exactly what I was thinking, but I still can't decide wether to go homebrew region free for blood and risk an update that stops me from playing though or just get the safe local ver.

ugh the boot

3 years ago

Look in all honesty if it's just the blood it doesn't bother me one bit, but I heard there is heaps of swearing and stuff cut out from it. Can anyone confirm that?

Keeping any of my consoles offline just isn't an option for me unfortunately.

Dani

3 years ago

Going to give LOTR Conquest a whirl, hopefully it's good. There's a lot of whinging about the multiplayer, but I don't play many multiplayer games as it is (though I might give it a try), so that doesn't really bother me. I want to experience my favourite parts of the movies; epic widespread battles.

I hate using the word "epic"...

ObsoletE

3 years ago

^ i'd advise buying it somewhere with a return policy.

just quietly.

Benc82

3 years ago

I played the x360 demo of LOTR Conquest and thought it was naff.

Was kinda a LOTR meets dynasty warriors, which might appeal to some!

Dani

3 years ago

ObsoletE wrote

^ i'd advise buying it somewhere with a return policy.

just quietly.

Have you tried the demo?

ObsoletE

3 years ago

yeah - and was disappointed. (hence the advice)

i was looking for a LOTR version of SW: Battlefront, and it doesn't look like it was delivered (admittedly, i haven't played the full game, which again is the reason for the advice).

STANKY J

3 years ago

i played a few matches online and found it to play exactly the same as SW: Battlefront. If it has lasers and the force id buy it for sure.

Dani

3 years ago

ObsoletE wrote

So what were the drawbacks of the demo? Or what made it incomparable to Battlefront?

Gizmocreative

3 years ago

My Chinese Coach DS might have been useful a few weeks ago, maybe ill pick it up when i get back for my next trip....

?oe?oe

3 years ago

Trauma Centre: New Blood... next week? Wow that's unexpected. Must pick that up.

Does anyone know when We Ski and Snowboard is released in PAL? I was sort of unsure about the first one but this one looks amazing!

Skiller

3 years ago

?oe?oe wrote

Trauma Centre: New Blood... next week?

HOLY ****!!! How did I miss that!? AWESOME

!!!