This Week's Releases - 08/06/09

PALGN Feature | Battle of the superpowers and tennis rackets.

Superhuman abilities are once again centre stage this week. inFamous landed last Thursday, but now its Prototype's turn to stand in the spotlight. Prototype stars Alex Mercer, who awakes in the middle of New York, infected with a mutating virus and no memory of his previous life. Players roam the city as Alex, speeding over structures and defeating enemies with superhuman abilities as they attempt to unravel the mystery behind the game's story. Prototype is scheduled for release this Wednesday on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

Next up, after several delays, is Battle Fantasia on Xbox 360 and PS3. With a cast of manga-inspired characters, the arcade fighter takes more of a role-playing approach than that of a traditional fighting game. For example, instead of the usual health bar, fighters have hit-points that drain away as they take damage. Battle Fantasia supports a number of modes, including story, practice, survival, time attack, versus and online multiplayer, and is finally set for released on Thursday. Our review of Battle Fantasia can be read here.

Finally this week, EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis is ready to be served on Nintendo Wii. Players can create their own character before working through each Grand Slam competition – the Australian Open, the US Open, the French Open and Wimbledon. From next week, EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis can be purchased together with the Wii MotionPlus attachment.

Xbox 360:

Wednesday 10th June:

Prototype

Thursday 11th June:

Battle Fantasia

Wii:

Thursday 11th June:

Diva Girls: Princess on Ice
EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis
We Cheer
WSC Real: 2008

Nintendo DS:

Thursday 11th June:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sacrifice
Diva Girls Diva Dancers
Fashion Designer 2
Lux Pain
Sushi Academy

PlayStation 3:

Wednesday 10th June:

Prototype

Thursday 11th June:

Battle Fantasia

PC:

Wednesday 10th June:

Prototype

Coming next week: Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings (PS2, PSP, Wii, DS), Lego Battles (DS), Let's Tap (Wii), Valhalla Knights 2 (PSP), Virtua Tennis 2009 (Wii, PC).

Release dates were correct at time of publishing but are subject to change.

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20 Comments

BurnZ

2 years ago

Prototype will be mine!

Muhahaha.

Nic_231

2 years ago

Oh no!
I have inFamous already, which means, according to the internets, that I can't possibly like Prototype.
Damn, it looked really good too

Phreakuency

2 years ago

Seems to have been hidden away from reviewers though, which is never a good thing...

Peveus

2 years ago

Phreakuency wrote

Seems to have been hidden away from reviewers though, which is never a good thing...

Oh felgercarb. I remember about a year ago nigh every game coming out had an embargo on it's reviews, including very successful games like Saints Row 2.

It's entirely possible Prototype might suck, but and yes embargoing reviews does seem to be to stop people basing purchases on them, but it can't possibly be worse than inFAMOUS and that game is doing okay XD

Phreakuency

2 years ago

What do you mean can't be worse than infamous? Quality of the game you mean?

If so, infamous is averaging 85% or more I think and I doubt Prototype will come close to that based on the comments of everyone who has pirated the 360 version.

A l e x

2 years ago

woooo prototype is going to be awesomeeeeee, now just to wait like 6 extra days for it to arrive from over in one of those countries that you know doesn't get edited games, yea **** you Mr Atkinson ill just import the thing.

Cyph

2 years ago

Wow, I was surprised to see Battle Fantasia coming out this week. I might pick this up if I see it on the bargain bin!

the doag

2 years ago

I remember reading ages ago about a Indiana Jones title hitting the next-gen consoles. Anyone know happened to that title?

Charly

2 years ago

I'm a little curious of the structure of the article. Currently it leaves me with a feeling of struggle. I find myself having to collate the information into days so surely a listing by day would be more cohesive?

Wednesday 10th June:

360 Prototype

PS3 Prototype

PC Prototype

Thursday 11th June:

360 Battle Fantasia

PS3 Battle Fantasia

Wii Diva Girls: Princess on Ice
Wii EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis
Wii We Cheer
Wii WSC Real: 2008

NDS Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Sacrifice
NDS Diva Girls Diva Dancers
NDS Fashion Designer 2
NDS Lux Pain
NDS Sushi Academy

I might just come across as a bitch, but I just thought it would work better. I use a different site to keep tabs on releases so it doesn't matter too much to me, so feel free to tell me to sod off.

On Topic: this weeks release of Lux Pain is like a kick in the panties. The translation of the game is apparently so bad that the game is essentially broken, yet in it's native form was supposed to be really, really good. If anyone picks it up, I'd love to here some thoughts.

Tetsuwan

2 years ago

I agree with Charly, day by day is bestest.

the doag

2 years ago

I like the formatting the way it is. Keep up the good-work lads.

kartanym

2 years ago

I went into my local EB and according to them, Battle Fantasia has already been 'deleted', i.e. cannot be reordered, and their stock has not been shipped as yet. Can someone confirm if they've seen this anywhere?

legend166

2 years ago

Grand Slam Tennis will be mine.

DarkYoshii

2 years ago

Kartanym: Trying to find it myself. It's deleted at EB and GAME however at Dick Smith (Where I work) I've seen games go from Discontinued back to Active. Because the release date was pushed back, that may happen.

And sorry, Dick Smith isn't stocking it. =(

kartanym

2 years ago

How can a game that hasn't even come out yet become deleted or discontinued? What's worse, I can't find an import on xbox either.

Phreakuency

2 years ago

If you've played the Battle Fantasia demo you wouldn't want to buy it anyway. Very shallow fighting engine, hyped RPG elements that are non-existent.

DarkYoshii

2 years ago

Kartanym: Dungeon Crawl might be stocking it, gave 'em a buzz and checked.

I'll keep people updated if I find it.

aubergine

2 years ago

Oh, I only just noticed you are now arranging this by platform instead of grouped into each day. Thank god, it's so much easier to see relevant information!

Lord Haart

2 years ago

Looking forward to the PALGN Prototype interview.

(please?)

Skiller

2 years ago

aubergine wrote

Oh, I only just noticed you are now arranging this by platform instead of grouped into each day. Thank god, it's so much easier to see relevant information!

Unless like me you have every platform

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