Another new exclusive Sonic game for Wii is in the works, Sonic and the Black Knight is the second game in the storybook series that started with Sonic and the Secret Rings. Now that wasn’t very good, and let’s face it, neither has any sonic game in the last few years, but this one could be different. I’ve never imagined Sonic becoming a sword wielding Knight of the realm but hey, if Sega think they can pull it off I’m might interested in seeing the results. So far there is only a very vague Sonic and the Black night release date of spring 2009.

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Sega let slip some hot looking new screenshots from Golden Axe last week, it looks a trifle better than the original which I owned many years ago. I wonder if they can recreate the magic for Golden Axe on the Xbox 360 and PS3?

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We got hold of Draglade for the Nintendo DS recently but with so many other top games coming out this spring it was unfairly put on the back burner. However with this month’s pre E3 game drought we had a bit of time to see what it had to offer, so here just for you is our review of Draglade.

Developed by Dimps, the team behind Sonic Rush and co developers of Street Fighter IV, Draglade for DS (or Kasutamu Bito Batoru Doragureido as it’s known as in Japan) is a side scrolling fighting game that uses music beats along with button bash timing to form attacks. There are 4 main characters to choose from in the game, each with their own separate but similar storyline which overlap here and there but generally remain individual enough. Each characters quest revolves round them needing or wanting to become a Major Grapper. Grapping is a new form of combat that uses bracelet type jewellery called G-Cons which magically turn into weapons called Glades when mixed with one of the four matter elements (fire, earth, lightning and water); these weapons are extra special because upon impact with the opponent they produce a musical note, hereby bringing music beats into the violent scenario (it’s just no fun beating anyone up without putting it to a funky rhythm anymore). Let me use just one of the characters, Hibito (the Fire Hero) as an example for this review.

Hibito is a ginger haired young lad who has always wanted to be a Grapper; he lives with his grandpa and sister helping out in the family repair business. Grandpa doesn’t want Hibito to become a grapper and whenever the topic is brought up he quickly puts a stop to it. After one row too many, Hibito and grandpa fall out and naturally the young scallywag is going to defy the old codger and head off to become a major grapper anyway. Just to add to the tension some nasty dudes arrive and kidnap Hibito’s sister, what better way to go and prove your grapping skills to the world than by rescuing your sibling eh?

Draglade has fairly straightforward gameplay, your character of choice heads from town to town chatting to locals (who offer no real advice – and follow you everywhere), defeating baddies, completing challenges and special tests (at G-Centres) to improve your grapper standing. As you travel between towns you come across dangerous enemies called variants, these are wild animals driven to insanity by absorbing too many matter elements. In the same way an overdose of matter can affect animals - humans can get dosed up turn nasty too, combine this with the evil dark glade and you have trouble just waiting to fall into the wrong hands. Defeating these nasties requires not only use of your glade but also a device called the dragon sequencer, this interactive boom box contraption (which looks just like a Nintendo DS) shows you the short musical rhythm you need to follow to perform maximum damage to your foe, this is called the Beat Combo which is activated with L, you then get tapping the X button for small fast hits and Y for more powerful but slow whacks. You can block with R, jump around with B and use special weapons called Bullets with A. These bullets are really just special moves from any other beat em up but they can be pretty handy in battle, and with over 100 to find or buy at Bullet Shops, provide decent battle variation and strategy.

Graphically Draglade is nothing special, I don’t know if the developers deliberately tried make the game look like it was on the Super Nintendo in 1991 but they succeeded. This isn’t necessarily bad; graphics don’t make a good game all on their own of course, but buying a modern day game at modern day prices makes me expect something to push the Nintendo DS a little harder. However the manga-ish art style whilst not being my favourite, does suit this genre of game somewhat.

The game sounds fine through my ears but is nothing to write to Auntie Gladys about; don’t expect to be humming any tunes from Draglade an hour after playing, not unless you regularly recall ditty beepy tunes all day that is. However it is possible for you to create your own beat combos using the dragon sequencer and touch screen, it’s a bit limited and unnecessary because it’s possible to finish the game using the default beat combo (I should know, I did it), but it’s possible to have fun building your own beat combos (Blur’s Song 2 anyone?) up and testing them out against baddies. Oh, I wonder if anyone knows why the theme song wasn’t translated to English instead keeping the Japanese vocals and providing no subtitles.
With four different characters and storylines this game will take you a good while to complete; there isn’t much incentive to complete the game four different times (with each character) if I’m honest but fans of side scrolling fighting games may disagree, you’ll have to be pretty dedicated – put it that way. If you’re feeling lonely you could play some multiplayer action either offline via wireless single/multicard action or online via the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection – I couldn’t find a friend willing to play offline and the game felt pretty boring online, well maybe that’s just because I was being beaten senseless all the time.
Whilst having some interesting new ideas for a side scroller, the generally repetitiveness and predictable dialogue make Draglade a bit of a trial to play (especially four times) so we have to give it an average 6 out of 10.

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It’s about time CyberSports released a trailer for their intriguing footballing MMO Football Superstars and guess what, they have. It reminds us of the recent GTA4 commercial but with Second Life quality graphics and a splash of Pro Evo thrown in. Marvellous!

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This week on the Gamesweasel video podcast Matt Cuttle talks about:-

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• Final Fantasy XIII Xbox 360 version
• Unreal Tournament 3 Xbox 360 version review
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• Beijing 2008 review
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Strangely this is Sega’s second Olympics release over the past 8 months - their first one being Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games. This is the official game of this year’s Olympics and in fine tradition will have you waggling the analogue stick or mashing buttons until you develop RSI and, if you’re from the US anyway, try to sue. Brits will just complain quietly to the person next to them.

The game covers all 38 disciplines including the standard track and field events but also table tennis, judo, archery, cycling, weight lifting and swimming.

If you’re old enough to remember, this game takes ideas from both Konami’s Track and Field and US Gold’s Winter and California Games. Games are a mix of hitting buttons quickly and timing stick rotations , as well as matching button sequences as quickly as possible.

The game’s at its best when things are simple - waggle or mash to run and press buttons at the right time to jump and set your angle for jumps etc. Stupidly there’s an annoying charge system for running off the blocks which often leaves you doing a false start or leaving behind the pack and trying to catch up - absolutely useless if you’re doing the 100 metres.

It’s also annoying having to skip through all the animations before getting into a race or event. Games like these need to be instant especially if you’re playing with 7 others and taking it in turns. You can also play with 3 others online - and of course there’s online leaderboards for you to smash if you’re that obsessed with getting to the top of the tables.

This game’s like a Western - there’s a mix of good, bad and downright ugly and it’s all a little too disjointed. About ten of the events are enjoyable and for me that’s not enough to warrant buying this game at full price. Still, if you want to get into the spirit of the games and you want to rent it when they start on the 8th of August, then be my guest.

Beijing 2008 gets an average 5 out of 10.

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Finally the Unreal Tournament 3 Xbox 360 version - to be honest, this for me is the preferred format for a multiplayer game seeing as Xbox Live isn’t free and so has to have some degree of stability and speed.

Developed by Epic, the same people behind Gears of War, this sees you fighting a race called the Necris as you battle to save the Earth. Quite how you do this by capturing flags, getting as many frags over re-spawning teams and destroying glowing red or blue nodes is beyond me but suspend your disbelief and get into the game and you’ll thoroughly enjoy it.

The single-player campaign completely gets rid of the tournaments of previous games and uses the story as an excuse to play some arena-based battles. There’s Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Warfare, Vehicle Capture the Flag and more and it all rips along at a frightening pace with no drop in framrate.

The game differs from the PC and PS3 versions in that it has extra content - 5 new maps, new characters and split-screen co-op and versus mode. They did it in Gears of War on the 360 so why not in this game? You’ll also not ice all the characters look like they’ve come straight out of Gears. They all look like NFL players and talk in that gruff way you’ve come to expect.

There’s also a fantastic extended trailer for Gears of War 2 on there which shows off some cool multiplayer features like the new Meatflag mode and moving cover system - I can’t wait to play it!

UT3 multiplayer is also fast and furious and I’m really enjoying it thanks to the fact that I’ve always been pretty nifty at the series.

If you haven’t yet got it on another system then I highly recommend this for the Xbox 360. A fair few shooters have already come out on the 360 since its debut on the PS3 but it’s more than worthy of joining them. Unreal Tournament 3 gets an excellent 8 out of 10.

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It’s been announced Final Fantasy XIII is coming to the Xbox 360 after all. With this bombshell could we see other exclusives such as Metal Gear Solid 4 come to the 360 too? I’d bet my house on it.

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GTA’s coming to the DS. China Town Wars will be set in Liberty City, has the same free-roaming as we all expect and of course touch screen capability.

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Dead Rising’s coming to the Wii. This isn’t the sequel but a version of the original on the 360. Let’s hope they’ve changed the save system or there will be a lot of Wii remotes being hurled through windows.

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Id software have a released a teaser video for their new Wolfenstein game. All we know is you’ll be able to play it on the Xbox 360 and PS3 and of course, there’ll be lots of Nazis to shoot.

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Ubisoft have announced its new survival action game called I Am Alive. Produced by Jade Raymond of Assassin’s Creed fame, the game takes place in a ruined Chicago.

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After seeing Microsoft’s pretty successful conference and Nintendo’s fairly poor performance, what did Sony do to convince us that Sony would be the one to watch this Christmas? As expected Sony concentrated less on sales figures than Microsoft or Nintendo, after all they are still lagging behind in overall unit sales by a fair margin.

Resistance 2 looked amazing; with a Cloverfield style looking action scene where a huge skyscraper sized nasty monster needs dispatching. The game features 8 player co-op online and 60 in standard the standard multiplayer frag fest.

Little Big Planet, the cute creator platformer really stands out in terms of graphics and physics when Sony showed off a custom built level to help demonstrate their market performance. The real games emphasis is firmly set online, build, show and share exciting levels with your friends and everyone else on the PSN community.

Sony finally announced a proper PS3 budget range, called Greatest Hits, these titles will sell for under $30). With games like; Warhawk, Motorstorm, Assassins Creed, Oblivion and Ninja Gaiden, we’re pretty sure they’ll be a big spike of sales for these top titles.

A new 80GB PS3 is on its way and seemingly set to replace the current 40GB lower spec model which doesn’t feature PS2 backwards compatibility. The bigger hard drive will come in handy for the exciting new movie download service announced.

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More interestingly is the addition of voice chat, yes you heard right, voice chat on Wii. The game is compatible with a brand new peripheral called the WiiSpeak microphone, a crescent moon shaped device which plugs into a USB socket and by default sits upon your sensor bar - though it probably could sit anywhere around the TV. Unlike the 360 and PS3 this microphone isn’t a headset but a community microphone, Nintendo say the microphone is sensitive enough to pick up a whole family’s chatter so they can all interact with your online buddies.

Nintendo haven’t told us if the Wii Speak microphone is backwards compatible with other online Wii games such as Mario Kart and Smash Bros but somehow we doubt it is, having said that it would technically possible even on the Wii, imagine the WiiSpeak software not being hard coded into each game you buy but installed as a Wii Channel that can run in the background before you load a game, much like a VOIP application such as Skype does on your PC.

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It does look fun and graphically pretty good however it seems to be lacking the challenge factor of other music games and downloadable content but perhaps this could be just the ticket for those of you overdosed on Guitar Hero and Rock Band. We must mention graphically this game is superb, a big step up from the other Mii orientated games and its well worth checking out the Wii Music trailer on the official WiiMusic page.

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• We now know that Resident Evil 5 has an online co-op mode and that many of the puzzles will require teamwork from both parties.
• Valve software’s Portal returns in the form of “Portal: Still Alive”, an exclusive expansion of levels, scenarios and achievements for Xbox Live.
• The leaked Karaoke style game Lips allows you to use songs stored on your console or iPod and lets you sing over the song as if it were a backing track. The game also has its own set of wireless motion sensing microphones which have pretty glowing lights on.
• The former Sony exclusive Final Fantasy XIII for the Xbox 360.
• A new dashboard update will totally transform the way you use your Xbox 360. There will be more high definition movie content from major film studios to download, the ability to interact with your friends in new activities and games and best of all, the previously leaked Mii like avatars with clothes, hats and much more.
• You’re In The Movies comes bundles with an Xbox vision camera and literally lets you star in the movies. You watch yourself interacting with various happenings on screen (such as swatting wasps, dancing and running from monsters) in similar way to Sony’s Eye Toy, only this time it’s recorded to your system and you can play it back to watch in all its embarrassing glory.

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On this weeks Gamesweasel gaming video podcast we discuss:-

• Alone in the Dark review
• Ferrari Challenge for the PS3
• The Incredible Hulk review
• Guitar Hero: On Tour

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I haven’t seen the new The Incredible Hulk movie, partly due to the fact that I found the Ang Lee one really boring and partly because I’m not sure why we need another movie. Well, another film means another official videogame - but what is there to do with the big green bogeyman that hasn’t already been done?

Once again this game puts you in a free environment similar to the Ultimate Destruction game. This time you’re in the Big Apple as you play loosely through the plot of the movie and do lots of other missions along the way. Just find the icon on the map and press a button to activate the mission. Completing missions and other objectives gives you more points and new abilities with which to smash stuff up with. Standard punches and grabs will do for most enemies but you can also fill up your rage meter by smashing stuff up and go proper ballistic on your approaching enemies.

And smash things up you do - a lot. Everything in the game can be destroyed and it’s great fun leaping from building to building, picking up taxis and throwing them at people, or picking up people and throwing them at other people. If Nico Bellic from GTA 4 were big and green, he’d be in this game.

Unfortunately, it’s just not quite as much fun as Ultimate Destruction. You can’t rip taxis in half or surf down the street on buses, which is a great shame. You can however knock down buildings and there are ones dotted round the city which give you a special token for doing so - you’re like an incredibly angry tourist at times.

When it comes to presentation the game really doesn’t look like it’s playing on a next-gen console - I’ve been playing it on the 360. The Hulk has quite a bit of detail but even characters in cut scenes look a bit ropey and Tim Roth and Edward Norton providing the voices of the main characters sound like they really couldn’t be bothered.

In all it’s a pretty average action adventure game based on a movie. It’s not terrible and it’s always fun smashing stuff up - especially when it’s as fluid as this. An average game gets an average score so The Incredible Hulk video game gets 5 out of 10.

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I have fond memories of the original Alone in the Dark on the PC where the game began with a polygonal Edward Carnby being chased from the attic by a rectangular blue wolf thing jumping through the window.

Things have changed a lot since then and Atari are now able to deliver scares and action with Hollywood-style effects and they do this on the next-gen consoles to great effect. You begin the game in first-person mode waking up with a groggy head with some geezers discussing all manner of dark things. Next thing you know there are cracks in the walls eating people up and the building you’re in starts to collapse. The game switches into third-person as you try to walkthrough and escape - walls burning around you and things exploding everywhere. The sense of peril is amazing - however, you soon realise all this great atmosphere is spoilt by a control system that makes you as much use in an action situation as Professor Stephen Hawking.

You see, you have to switch between first and third person modes depending on what you want to do; first-person mode is for putting out fires, firing guns etc and third-person for climbing, smashing down doors and moving objects. First person is a little clunky but when you’re looking over Carnby’s shoulder you have to move and turn using just the left analogue stick as if you were playing the original Resident Evil games. This just does not work nowadays and whoever let the game go out of the door like this needs to be left Alone in the Dark for several years themselves.

The game even lets you skip parts you’re stuck on as if you’re skipping through the chapters of a DVD. A strange decision indeed and one you may find using just because you get so frustrated with the action and combat.

The fire and burning mechanics are fantastic but the inventory system is poor as it makes you look into your jacket to equip and combine items whilst everything happens in real-time around you. Frankly another annoyance.

The Alone in the Dark video game is really annoying mainly because it had so much potential to be great. Wonky controls let it down hugely so Alone in the Dark only gets an average 5 out of 10.

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Hooray, we now have an official Wario Land Shake Dimension release date! On the 26th of September we can all get shaking our Wii Remotes up and down looking ridiculous whilst we pull off Wario’s spectacular ground punch move. I was quite excited by the first screenshots but now after seeing the game in motion I am quite convinced that this Nintendo 2D game will make up for the totally dreadful Super Paper Mario.

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• The game will be running on a brand new custom built engine with full 3D character and environment support.
• A reworked control system allowing for simple and intuitive mouse use.
• There will be five character classes, all of which have Male and Female gender choices.
• Havok physics as seen in Half Life 2 and Bioshock are now fully implemented.
• A full single player quest is included along with the cooperative online play via Battle.net.
• Both Windows and Mac versions will be launched at the same time.

Hopefully there will be some more details about the game at E3.

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A lovely looking new trailer for EA’s Zubo is floating around the interweb. Zubo is primarily a kid’s music and rhythm based adventure game but it features some nice turn based RPG style battles as well as some top notch graphics. Apart from the art style it doesn’t differ too much from the classic Pokemon/Final Fantasy/Dragon Quest formulae; your job is to defeat the evil guys who want to take over the world by befriending various creatures (Zubos) and putting them into battle against the Zombos. You do all this via the power of music and music beats, you tap away with the stylus in time to perform the moves and hopefully, smash the bad guys! No firm Zubo release date yet but you can expect it in the autumn.

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If you missed the Wii version last year and are interested in what will probably be a cheaper, better looking and more fully fledged edition of the game then you only have to wait until October for ‘My Sims made for the PC’.

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Whilst that is good news in itself, this does also mean there could be great chance to pick up the current 20GB premium model at a bargain price if stores decide to clear stocks. I’m certainly going to be checking those bargain bins for a cheap 360, you can never have too many £200 red ringed doorstops in my opinion.

Expect official news of the Xbox 360 Pro release date on the 13th of July, with a rumoured price of $299 USD (£4 GBP).

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