Wondering what games are expected to hit store shelves next month? Here is what you can expect for the month of October, assuming there are no delays.
Mobile Ops: The One Year War – 10.01.08
FPS – Rating Pending
Features (from IGN.com) :
A next-generation mechanized shooter that retells the story of the One Year War of Gundam lore with detailed next-gen graphics, a wide array of giant mobile suits, and intense multi-player combat. The story of “Mobile Ops: The One Year War” opens with the space colonists’ brutal battle for independence from The Earth Federation. Included missions are told from the perspective of the Federation and Zeon sides, as you take control of a soldier on a large simulation play field. You’re free to fight against enemy soldiers and mechs using hand weapons, or you can up the scale by boarding a Mobile Suit. Gamers can also modify mobile suits with a robust customization options, including beam sabers, heat hawks, and other melee weapons. Over Xbox Live, “Mobile Ops: The One Year War” puts players right in the cockpit of their very own mobile fighter for thrilling battles online as they fight in teams through multiple scenarios and battlefields.
Crash Bandicoot Mind Over Mutant – 10.07.08
Action – Rated E10+
Features (from Xbox.com) :
In Crash’s latest adventure Crash Bandicoot Mind Over Mutant, the villainous Cortex has teamed up with N.Brio and created a monstrous mind controlling device that has taken over all the bandicoots and mutants on Wumpa Island. Crash sets out to stop the madness by destroying Cortex’s evil device using his quick wits, lightning agility, and the hijacked mutant in his pocket!
Disney Sing It – 10.07.08
Music – Rated Everyone
Features (from Xbox.com) :
Disney Sing It is a new video-based karaoke game featuring a mix of popular fan-faves and the hottest new Disney talents. The first game in this rockin’ new franchise features songs and videos from Hollywood Records artists, Disney Channel Original Series, and Disney Channel Original Movies. Players can belt it out to some of today’s chart topping tunes and have a blast along with their friends and Disney stars!
Fracture – 10.07.08
Action – Rated Teen
Features (from Xbox.com) :
The world is in chaos. After years of neglecting the environment, nature has fought back with devastating effect. Earthquakes, floods and tornadoes have reduced the United States to a mere shadow of its former self, effectively cutting the East and West coasts off from each other. And with division has come dissent. Thousands died and those that survived were forced to adapt to a new way of life. In the East, the path to survival was paved with technology and cybernetic enhancement. In the West, survival of the fittest took on new meaning with stem cell research and genetic modification. These two ideologies and ways of life lead to a division so great that war is the only course of action.
In Fracture, take on the role of Atlantic Alliance soldier Jet Brody as he goes against the genetically enhanced Pacificans and their fanatical leader General Nathan Sheridan. Unleash the power of terrain-deforming weapons that literally reshape the battlefield before your very eyes, and decimate your enemies with a wide array of weapons with earth-shattering effects.
Reshape the battlefield. Reshape the battle. For the sake of mankind and the future of humanity.
NBA 2K9 – 10.07.08
Sports – Rated Everyone
Features (from Xbox.com) :
With Kevin Garnett on the cover, NBA 2K9 bursts onto the sports gaming scene with updated adaptive A.I., and exciting online features including the Reelmaker and the all-new Player DNA element. Hit the hardwood with 2K Sports!
NBA Live 09 – 10.07.08
Sports – Rated Everyone
Features (from Xbox.com) :
NBA LIVE 09 is back with the game that rewrites the book on authenticity and connectivity, but is still accessible enough for new fans to get in on the ground floor.
New features like Pick and Roll Control, Defensive Lockdown Control, Signature Playcalling, and Quickstrike Ankle-Breakers make the Xbox LIVE experience fun, long-lasting, and satisfying. For those in need of some extra coaching, NBA LIVE 09 takes you to training camp with the NBA Academy that gives you a chance to hone your skills.
Blitz: The League II – 10.13.08
Sports – Rated Mature
Features (from Xbox.com) :
You’re in our league now. BLITZ: THE LEAGUE II continues the franchise legacy and award-winning football experience as the ultimate alternative to the watered-down competition. In addition to an all-new story mode penned by Peter Egan of ESPN’s Playmakers, BLITZ: THE LEAGUE II features include enhanced game modes, online multiplayer capabilities, expanded rosters with all-new personalities, and the return of a franchise cornerstone, late hits! Football legend Lawrence Taylor returns as the game’s cover athlete and star linebacker for the New York N
Dance Dance Revolution Universe 3 – 10.14.08
Music – Rated Everyone
Features (from Xbox.com) :
DanceDanceRevolution celebrates its tenth anniversary with DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE 3 dancing its way to you with an all-new sleek enhanced interface, fun new modes and settings for players of all skill levels, cool smash-hit songs, robust online and offline support, and exciting new exclusives!
Dead Space – 10.14.08
Action – Rated Mature
Features (from Xbox.com) :
When an immense mining ship, the USG Ishimura, comes into contact with a mysterious alien artifact in Dead Space, its communications with Earth are mysteriously cut off. Engineer Isaac Clarke is sent to repair the Ishimura’s communications array, but he arrives to find a living nightmare—the ship is a floating bloodbath, the crew unspeakably mutilated and infected by an ancient alien scourge. Clarke’s repair mission becomes one of survival as he fights not just to save himself, but to return the artifact to the planet … at any cost.
FIFA Soccer 09 – 10.14.08
Sports – Rated Everyone
Features (from IGN.com) :
Step onto the pitch and play professional football your way in FIFA 09. Powered by the third generation of the EA SPORTS football engine, FIFA 09 features more than 250 core gameplay additions and enhancements that deliver the most responsive, intelligent and realistic action ever for the series. Enjoy turning defenders with more controlled dribbling and ball control, snapping off precision shots with improved first-time shooting mechanics and firing beautifully timed passes with greater accuracy, placing the ball exactly where you want it. With new player momentum physics the speed and weight of the player determines everything from the distance of a slide tackle and the power of a header to the severity of player collisions and the height of a player’s jump. Plus, players now behave according to their physical attributes with larger, stronger players dominating collisions, battles for control of the ball, and position in challenges for two player headers.
Golden Axe: Beast Rider – 10.14.08
Action – Rated Mature
Features (from Xbox.com) :
One of SEGA’s most popular franchises storms onto the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system with Golden Axe: Beast Rider. As the unstoppable Tyris Flare, engage in vicious melee combat both on foot and atop massive mythical beasts, savaging enemies with blades and magic on a quest for vengeance.
Rise of the Argonauts – 10.14.08
RPG- Rated Mature
Features (from Xbox.com) :
As the King of Iolcus, Jason had everything—a prosperous kingdom, the respect of his peers, and a beautiful fiancée. When she was killed on their wedding day, he vowed to do anything to restore her life. Now, in order to accomplish this heroic feat, Jason must seek out the Golden Fleece, and with the help of Greek mythology’s greatest heroes, set sail on the most epic voyage of all in Rise of the Argonauts. This action/RPG immerses players in a gladiatorial adventure set in the vibrant and powerful world of Ancient Greece. Taking the role of Jason, players battle alongside Hercules, Achilles, and other Argonauts in brutal combat against formidable beasts and enemies, in a vast world alive with wondrous inhabitants and stunning panoramas. The search for the Golden Fleece is not only one of exploration but of transformation—from warrior king to exalted hero touched by the gods.
Saints Row 2 – 10.14.08
Action – Rated Mature
Features (from Xbox.com) :
Saints Row 2 brings true freedom to open-world gaming. Play as who you want, how you want, and with whomever you want in this sequel to the much-acclaimed and tremendously successful Saints Row.
Set years after the original, Stilwater is both familiar and strange. Bring the Saints back as the rightful kings of Stilwater and bringing vengeance to those who wronged you.
Monopoly – 10.20.08
Strategy – Rated Everyone
Features (from Xbox.com) :
From EA Casual Entertainment, MONOPOLY is reinvented with a party twist! With a host of current-day cities and landmarks from all over the world, this new version lets you wheel and deal and compete to own some of the most recognized locations on Earth. Host the ultimate MONOPOLY party with family and friends to experience classic and global versions of MONOPOLY with digital gameplay.
Fable II – 10.21.08
RPG – Rated Mature
Features (from IGN.com) :
Set 500 years after the original game, Fable 2 offers even more choices and features, while building on the core gameplay theme of Fable where every choice continually defines who you become, allowing you to truly live the life you choose. Fable II expands upon the scope and depth of the original by adding incredible new features and creating a wider, more complex kingdom of limitless choices and consequences. Players will have the option to play as a man or woman, get married, have children, and live a life of their own design — all leading to different destinies.
Far Cry 2 – 10.21.08
FPS – Rated Mature
Features (from Xbox.com) :
Far Cry 2, the next-generation first-person shooter from Ubisoft, takes you deep into the most beautiful but also most hostile environments in the world—Africa! A true open-world shooter, every decision you make affects the outcome of the game.
Caught between two rival factions in war-torn Africa, you are sent to take out “The Jackal,” a mysterious character who has rekindled the conflict between the warlords, jeopardizing thousands of lives. In order to fulfill your mission, play the factions against each other, identify and exploit their weaknesses, and neutralize their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion, cunning and, of course, brute force.
Hei$t – 10.21.08
Action – Rating Pending
Features (from IGN.com) :
HEI$T allows gamers to become the leader of a group of renegade criminals as they rob and steal their way throughout San Francisco. In addition to robbing banks, players are motivated to pull off other jobs, including knocking off bars, restaurants, strip clubs, armored cars, and more in order to acquire bigger and better tools needed to penetrate increasingly more difficult banks. The goal? To one day be able to pull off the biggest heist of all: robbing the Mint.
Legendary – 10.21.08
FPS – Rated Mature
Features (from Xbox.com) :
All creatures of ancient myth, legend and lore are real. They’ve just been sealed away for thousands of years inside Pandora’s box, waiting … for you … in Legendary. When a thief named Deckard is hired to steal an ancient artifact, he unwittingly triggers a war between man and myth.
Griffons rule the skies, werewolves tear the innocent limb from limb, and cities are held under siege as creatures we’d dismissed as imaginings of our ancestors prove to be very real and very angry for being held prisoner for untold millennia. As the only person able to return these creatures to the box, Deckard finds that he must work with a shadowy secret society to save civilization before it is torn apart by tooth and claw.
Midnight Club: Los Angeles – 10.21.08
Racing – Rated Teen
Features (from Xbox.com) :
Race at breakneck speeds through the streets of modern-day L.A. recreated in stunning detail in Midnight Club Los Angeles. Drive the hottest range of real-world tuners, muscle and luxury cars, exotics and superbikes on the streets today. Customize your vehicle with the best after-market performance parts and custom kits. This is illegal street racing with no track, no load times, no rules. Welcome to the Midnight Club.
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows – 10.21.08
Action – Rated Teen
Features (from Xbox.com) :
When a deadly symbiotic invasion devastates the streets of New York City, only Spider-Man can seize control and bring salvation to the city! From the game’s direction to Spider-Man’s destiny, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows puts control in your hands.
Decide when to switch between the agile Red Suit and formidable Black Suit, whether to ally with Marvel’s honored heroes or ferocious villains, which of Spider-Man’s abilities to upgrade, and what missions to undertake in order to protect Manhattan from certain annihilation.
Guitar Hero World Tour – 10.26.08
Music – Rated Teen
Features (from Xbox.com) :
When the house lights go down this fall, a new generation of axe shredders, drummers and fearless frontmen will be born with Activision’s Guitar Hero World Tour. The latest installment from the number one best-selling video game franchise of 2007, Guitar Hero World Tour transforms music gaming by expanding the signature guitar gameplay into a cooperative band experience combining the most advanced wireless instruments with new revolutionary online and offline gameplay modes, including online Band Career and eight-player “Battle of the Bands,” which allows two full bands to compete head-to-head online for the first time ever. The game features a slick newly redesigned guitar, an authentic electronic drum kit and a microphone, as well as an innovative Music Studio music creator that lets players compose, record, edit, and share their original rock ‘n’ roll anthems.
Fallout 3 – 10.28.08
RPG – Rated Mature
Features (from Xbox.com) :
Vault-Tec engineers have worked around the clock on an interactive reproduction of Wasteland life for you to enjoy from the comfort of your own vault. Included in Fallout 3 is an expansive world, unique combat, shockingly realistic visuals, tons of player choice, and an incredible cast of dynamic characters. Every minute is a fight for survival against the terrors of the outside world—radiation, super mutants, and hostile mutated creatures.
High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance – 10.28.08
Music – Rated Everyone
Features (from Xbox.com) :
Experience the fun, music, and energy of all three High School Musical movies in High School Musical 3: Senior Year DANCE! Dance to the beat of your favorite High School Musical songs in familiar movie locations alongside your favorite characters. Featuring new music from the first theatrical release in the franchise, High School Musical 3: Senior Year DANCE! will keep the Wildcat fun moving.
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon – 10.28.08
Action – Rated E10+
Features (from Xbox.com) :
Three long years have passed since Spyro and Cynder were trapped in the crystal, and Malefor has continued to unleash his evil onto the world. In the third chapter of this epic, The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, Spyro must fulfill his destiny and face the Dark Master. As evil spreads over the world, Spyro and Cynder must discover new abilities and unlock their true powers to defeat Malefor and stop his scheme of destruction.
SBK-08: Superbike World Championship ‘08 – 10.28.08
Racing – Rated E10+
Features (from IGN.com) :
Superbike World Championship ‘08 promises a thrilling, accessible and engaging racing experience for both Superbike and race fans alike. This game is so unique because of the Superbike World Championship itself, a truly a global event. SBK Superbike World Championship is a unique experience in motorsport featuring ultra-realistic close up shots of the riders hugging tight turns while their bodies hang inches away from the track. Closely fought battles are guaranteed.
Scene it? Box Office Smash – 10.28.08
Trivia – Rated Teen
Features (from Xbox.com) :
Scene It? Box Office Smash for Xbox 360 brings movie and trivia fans together for a game that provides hours of laughter. Challenge your friends and family to see whose movie knowledge reigns supreme while you relive some of your favorite moments from the silver screen.
With all-new questions, more high-definition (HD) movie clips, and several new puzzle types, you have a trivia game overflowing with images plus audio and video clips from hundreds of films you know and love.
The new game lets up to four teams challenge one another from the comfort of your living room or across the miles via Xbox LIVE. With the new Xbox LIVE experience, Scene It? Box Office Smash is the first game that lets you virtually put yourself into the game through custom avatars that respond to your play and react to one another throughout the course of the game.
Posted by Ken Raves on September 20, 2008 at 5:06 am
Hmm, Saints, Fallout and Dead Space are all that look worth my cash, either as a rental or purchase.
Posted by AusQB on September 20, 2008 at 5:15 am
The two that stand out for me are Fable 2 and Far Cry 2.
Fable has been on my mind a lot and I haven’t been able to decide whether or not to get it. I figured that with GTA4 I wouldn’t need another open world sandbox game, but it seems I was wrong. I don’t think I’m completely sold though.
Far Cry 2 is a different story. The first game was pretty cool, but I only played the demo. I thought that Crysis was the unofficial sequel to it, but whatever. I hadn’t heard anything about the game until about a week ago. I started watching videos of it, and as soon as I saw the map editor in action I was gobsmacked. Not only is this game a lock, but give me the ability to fly a Cessna around the map and I might just buy two copies (just kidding…but seriously).
I also always like to download the demo of FIFA. It’s kinda tradition.
Posted by newguy2445 on September 20, 2008 at 5:18 am
Fable 2 FTW. I can’t wait.
I’ll most likely rent Far Cry 2, as I tend to not buy games that I have games in the same genre. Unless the gameplay is very different. But who knows, I still have to buy GoW2, so If I have money left over I might get Far Cry 2.
Posted by Aperture S on September 20, 2008 at 6:07 am
Fable 2, Far Cry 2 & Fallout 3
<3
Posted by TheChrisD on September 20, 2008 at 6:22 am
So, nothing good then? :(
Posted by Ragingterror on September 20, 2008 at 6:57 am
I saw a live demo of Far Cry 2 at PAX, showcasing the nearly complete campaign mode and the level editor.
AMAZING.
The fire effects were excellent, gameplay appeared smooth, and the level-editor design is takes things to an entirely different level.
Posted by Ragingterror on September 20, 2008 at 6:58 am
Gah… stupid editing errors.
“the level editor design takes things to an entirely different level”
There, better. >_<
Posted by Mjonir on September 20, 2008 at 7:46 am
My buying plan for this fall:
Fable 2 collector (Xbox 360) -> 24/10
Fallout 3 collector (PC) -> 31/10
Gears of War 2 collector (Xbox 360) -> 7/11
Mirror’s Edge (PC) -> 14/11
I week interval between each game and PC/Xbox alternance (I’m buying some on PC for better graphics), looks like a conspiration! :P
Posted by davyboy94 on September 20, 2008 at 8:01 am
cant wait for high shcool musical :D …yh that was a joke
cant wait for fable 2 its gonna be awesome :o
Posted by -S- on September 20, 2008 at 8:26 am
-Rise of the Argonauts-
“As the King of LOLcus…”
*Rise of the internetz*
Posted by Captain Spark on September 20, 2008 at 8:31 am
Midnight Club and Fracture looks interesting. Dead Space looks good too. I’m looking forward to Gears Of War 2….I just hope they didn’t carry over the horrible grenade throwing from the original Gears game though.
Posted by AusQB on September 20, 2008 at 8:57 am
PC’s are good for only two types of games: strategy and simulation.
Posted by SaM on September 20, 2008 at 9:21 am
You guys should download the Fracture Demo from XBL. I thought the game was going to be kinda stupid, but then after playing the demo Im seriously considering the buy.
Posted by ashame on September 20, 2008 at 9:22 am
Fallout ^^
Posted by queuebit on September 20, 2008 at 9:27 am
Where did you get a release date for “Scene It?” Does that mean that the NXE will be out before there since I am pretty sure that avatars are a big part of that game. It wouldn’t make much sense to build the game to handle with and without avatars if it didn’t need to.
Posted by Qix on September 20, 2008 at 10:31 am
Fallout 3, Fable 2, FarCry 2 (PC for the insanely awesome editor). I wanted these to begin with, then I saw them at PAX. Now I’m frothing at the mouth for them. And I rarely get that excided about any game more than a week before its out.
Dead Space and Saints Row 2 look good as well, but those 3 will take a while, i’ll get them later and cheaper hopefully.
Im still waiting for an Xbox arcade version of UFO X-Com. That with multiplayer might be a bad thing though, cause I’d never need to buy another game.
Posted by TTL Tortacular on September 20, 2008 at 11:18 am
Fable 2 and Fallout 3 will spend many hours in my xbox.
Posted by bs angel on September 20, 2008 at 11:28 am
I got it from IGN. :)
Posted by Assassin on September 20, 2008 at 12:50 pm
I am going to be very broke after October…
Posted by Disco on September 20, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Monopoly FTW! I wish they would make a Rampage World Tour game for the xbox arcade.
Posted by Rhamsey on September 20, 2008 at 1:02 pm
so many great games, not enough money…
Posted by frogger on September 20, 2008 at 1:05 pm
yeah, money is gonna be tight this month.
Posted by Jillybean on September 20, 2008 at 4:18 pm
fablefablefablefablefablefablefablefablefable
“Ooooohhh, you arrrr handsom!”
Posted by Caelan96 on September 21, 2008 at 4:44 am
Fable II, Fallout 3, Dead Space and GH4 are my most wanted.
Posted by Socket on September 21, 2008 at 12:16 pm
High School Musical? *gag* *barf*
Not buying anything, I don’t like any of the games, and I don’t have enough money…never do….
Posted by RIFT on September 21, 2008 at 11:12 pm
There’s too many games that have come out and are coming out that I want… at some point or another… I’m not putting up a list, it’s too long.
Posted by DaChiefOfOwnage on September 21, 2008 at 11:31 pm
SR 2, fable 2, fallout 3, red alert 3.
Those are my most wanted in october.
Posted by DaChiefOfOwnage on September 21, 2008 at 11:33 pm
oh and of course farcry 2 and midnight club LA.
Posted by bs angel on September 21, 2008 at 11:41 pm
LOL, … of course!
Too many awesome games and a horrible economy are not a good mix. Bah.
Posted by Silvercube on September 23, 2008 at 2:46 am
I pre-ordered DDR Universe 3 last month!
I can’t wait for the game : )
Scene It 2 looks pretty good as well. I might pick it up if I have the funds.
See ya around, angel ^_^
Posted by Emmsy on September 24, 2008 at 4:12 pm
I can’t wait for Guitar Hero 4 the Guitar Hero World Tour with their interesting features.