Bully Time

Big day for game releases tomorrow. Will hopefully get my hands on a copy of Army of Two for the 360, so i will post up some early impressions here. From what I've seen it looks more interesting than exciting, the concept of the co-op play seems interesting and kinda demands you play with a friend rather than team up with the AI. Also released is Bully: Scholarship Edition, a re-release of the PS2 game with a bunch of extra content. Having extensively played the original back on PS2 I'm not sure there is enough content here to warrant buying it for that, but i may end up getting it just to play through the game again with the improved graphics and what not, also seems like a good way to spend some time while holding out for GTA4. Dynasty Warriors 6 is also out, which I'm not at all bothered about.

Many more games announced for Play.com Live next weekend. Most notable for me are Street Fighter 4, Res Evil 5, Prototype, Ghostbusters, LittleBigPlanet, Star Wars: Force Unleashed and Lego Indiana Jones. I'll have write-ups on these games and the event in general during and after the event.

Thinking about picking up Jumper and Lost: Via Domus on rental just for the easy achievements. I need to boost my gamerscore somewhat so seems like a good idea. Have been working on getting some more achievements on PES 2008 and Virtua Fighter 5 but the remaining achievements all require you to slog out 100 or more matches for some minor number of points so i've packed that in, the points to hour ratio is just not working out.

Will not be getting Rocketmen: Axis of Evil for Xbox Live Arcade after playing the demo. The whole game seems to be kinda on the lazy/cheap side of things. Rocketmen is a fairly basic top down, dual stick shooter that is relentless in it's lack of imagination and diversity. The combat is incredibly dull, when compared to other dual stick shooters on XBLA such as Geometry Wars and Mutant Storm Empire, and consists merely of blasting your generic enemies with blue balls (that i presume are supposed to be some sort of futuristic projectile) while you try to dodge their attacks. No skill or tactical nuance required. There's also some RPG elements thrown in, you can level up your characters and specialise in different areas, you'll probably not be playing long enough to notice any of the effects of this. I know I've only played the demo, but from what I've played and read on the game, it seems like it's just more of same until the end of the game.