Xbox 360 Games Slated for September 2009 Release
August 23, 2009 45 Comments
Wondering what games are expected to hit store shelves next month? Here is what you can expect for the month of September, assuming there are no delays.
Guitar Hero 5 – 09.01.09
Music – Rated Teen
Features (from Xbox.com) :
Living room legends will rock any way they want in Guitar Hero 5. The entire set list is at your fingertips from the start, featuring genre-defining hits from some of the biggest rock artists and bands of all time, including The Rolling Stones, The White Stripes, Kings of Leon, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Santana, and Vampire Weekend. Take complete control, personalize and customize how you experience music by choosing any in-game instrument combination —multiple vocalists, guitarists, bassists, and drummers, in any game mode. Elevating the Guitar Hero series to new heights with unmatched social gameplay, an enhanced style, new in-game artists, and more rock legends, Guitar Hero 5 features new surprises and challenges to fire up long-time fret board fanatics and create a new generation of enthusiasts.
Mini Ninjas – 09.01.09
Action – Rated E10+
Features (from IGN.com) :
Prepare yourself for a Ninja adventure like you have never seen before! Join Hiro, the smallest hero on the biggest adventure, as he embarks on an epic and electrifying quest to restore harmony to a world on the brink of chaos. Use your skills and mighty Ninja training to battle a magical army of evil Samurai. Harness the power of your Kuji magic and utilise the special skills of your Mini Ninja friends as you travel through a perilous world to reach the final confrontation with the Evil Samurai Warlord in his Fortress of Doom.
Section 8 – 09.01.09
First-Person Shooter – Rated Teen
Features (from Xbox.com) :
On the war-torn planets of tomorrow, mankind’s greatest battle is about to begin. With its frontier colonies devastated by a growing insurrection, Earth dispatches the elite 8th Armored Infantry (nicknamed Section 8) to repel the coming onslaught. The nickname refers to an old United States military regulation where a soldier would be dismissed from service through being mentally unfit for duty.
The near-suicidal missions that this division volunteers for brands them as insane by other military units. Section 8 deploys by “burning in” from their orbital drop ships tens of thousands of feet above the battlefield, utilizing the most advanced arsenal of military hardware.
Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures – 09.08.09
Hunting – Rated Teen
Features (from IGN.com) :
Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures features North America’s top outdoor destinations, over 50 hunting and fishing adventures and intensive use of gear and tactics, such as animal calls and stealth skills. Emphasis is placed on moments that are instinctively associated with hunting and fishing, like stalking the animals, squeezing the trigger, hooking a fish or snap-shooting a flushed bird, all while respecting real life hunting rules and regulations. Players can also upgrade their hunting gear with authentically branded real life equipment.
Darkest of Days – 09.08.09
First-Person Shooter – Rated Mature
Features (from IGN.com) :
In Darkest of Days, players travel back and forth through the annals time to relive some mankind’s most dire hours, when human society was at its lowest points. By fighting through terrible events such as The Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest conflict of the Civil War, and the volcanic eruption in Pompeii in the year 79, the player attempts to save certain key individuals who were never meant to become involved in these truly monstrous events and thereby change human history for the better.
Dirt 2 – 09.08.09
Racing – Rated Teen
Features (from Xbox.com) :
Melding turbo-charged off-roading with extreme sports attitude, DiRT 2 takes off-road racing to a new level, with thrilling new race types, big event atmosphere, stunning locations, a new breed of off-roading heroes, and features a line-up of super-charged licensed speed machines covering seven vehicle classes.
Heroes Over Europe – 09.08.09
Flight Action – Rated Teen
Features (from IGN.com) :
The sequel to the mighty World War II flight combat game Heroes of the Pacific, Heroes over Europe takes aspiring combat pilots into the bullet-ridden heart of major World War II European air battles in glorious, dogfight-friendly high definition. Heroes over Europe follows the Allied campaign from the attacks on London to the destruction of Berlin, with players under orders to strap themselves into the authentically rendered cockpits of the campaign’s iconic aircraft. Their mission: to survive the most intense dogfights ever seen in a flight combat game.
Raiden IV – 09.08.09
Shooter – Rated E10+
Features (from Xbox.com) :
The roar of thunder is back with Raiden IV! One of the most beloved franchise shooters makes its way onto the next generation console utilizing the power of Xbox 360 to enhance the graphics, gameplay and style like never before. The screen fills with countless sorties that you must shoot, evade, and destroy, utilizing amazing new weaponry, along with fan favorites.
The Beatles: Rock Band – 09.09.09
Music – Rated Teen
Features (from Xbox.com) :
Experience The Beatles’ music and legacy like never before, utilizing the core Rock Band game play in The Beatles: Rock Band. Follow the legendary career of The Beatles from Liverpool to Shea Stadium to Abbey Road. Play drums, lead guitar, and bass guitar, and sing three-part harmony with up to three microphones. Feel what it’s like to perform The Beatles’ classic songs, on stage and in the studio. In addition, The Beatles: Rock Band will offer a limited number of new hardware offerings modeled after instruments used by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr throughout their career.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – 09.15.09
Action – Rated Everyone
Features (from IGN.com) :
Have you ever fought with food? Then join the most hilarious food fight ever with Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs video game! Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is the video game based on the CG family movie. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs video game offers kids and parents an entertaining experience that they can share together while reliving their favorite moments from the film.
IL-2: Sturmovik: Birds of Prey – 09.15.09
Flight – Rated Teen
Features (from IGN.com) :
IL-2: Sturmovik: Birds of Prey brings the hit flight game IL2-Sturmovik to console owners for the first time, with all new graphics, missions, physics and planes. The game includes large-scale aerial combat and ground based military operations from World War II. Players will participate in some of the war’s most famous battles piloting fighters, battle planes and heavy bombers across a range of thrilling missions.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 – 09.15.09
Action RPG- Rated Teen
Features (from Xbox.com) :
The largest army of Super Heroes is back in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 … and being torn apart! Powers collide as Super Heroes take sides over becoming registered government agents. Choose between Pro-Registration and Anti-Registration forces as you assemble your four-member dream team from more than 24 playable heroes and villains. Harness more power than ever before with more than 250 super-charged fusions, massive destruction in a fully interactive environment, and exciting new character and team customizations.
Need for Speed Shift – 09.15.09
Racing – Rated Everyone
Features (from Xbox.com) :
Need for Speed SHIFT delivers an authentic racing experience that replicates the true feeling of driving high-end performance cars. SHIFT is being developed by Slightly Mad Studios which includes developers and designers on the critically acclaimed games, GT Legends and GTR 2.
NHL 10 – 09.15.09
Sports – Rated E10+
Features (from Xbox.com) :
EA SPORTS welcomes you to NHL 10 and the franchise that has redefined sports video game excellence. On the heels of capturing 12 Sports Game of the Year awards with NHL 09, NHL 10 builds off of its Best in Class momentum by delivering an enhanced gameplay experience featuring more innovation, polished fundamentals, and deeper game modes. Utilizing a new board physics engine, use your body to shield the puck on the boards, then kick-pass it to teammates as winning one-on-one battles for possession along the boards becomes a test of will. An all-new first-person fighting engine enables you to trade punches and grab an opponent’s jersey to land a punch that sparks your team to victory. With more than 200 gameplay refinements replicating the skill, power, strength, and finesse of authentic NHL action, plus a new Battle for the Cup mode, an evolved GM Mode, and improved Be a Pro and EASHL modes, your chance to prove you’re tough enough begins now.
NHL 2K10 – 09.15.09
Sports – Rated E10+
Features (from IGN.com) :
2K Sports brings the fun back to hockey video games with an intuitive control scheme and hard-hitting action in NHL 2K10.
Wet – 09.15.09
Action – Rated Mature
Features (from IGN.com) :
Beautiful, graceful, brutal, and deadly … Rubi is a problem fixer. She fixes problems. She’s good at it. But when she agrees to fix a wealthy man’s problem by finding and bringing back his wayward son, she thinks it’s all going to be cut and dry. She thought wrong. The job wasn’t so simple. And the man who hired her isn’t who he appears to be. Now Rubi’s on the run, needing to find the man who left her for dead, leaving a massive body count in her wake.
Double-crosses. Enemies. Allies. Guns. Swords. Drugs. Old books. In an adventure that spans three continents, two warring factions, and one very pissed off problem fixer, Wet is a sexy, super-stylish action game that will keep the adrenaline pumping. Rubi is focused. Rubi is determined. Rubi is a problem fixer. Rubi is Wet.
Halo 3: ODST – 09.22.09
First-Person Shooter – Rated Mature
Features (from Xbox.com) :
Halo 3: ODST returns players to familiar ground on a vital, top-secret mission. The gripping story, cooperative campaign and new multiplayer content will have Halo fans “Preparing to Drop” in Fall 2009. Originally titled Halo 3: Recon, the new game brings the perspective of new characters to the Human-Covenant struggle, as it explores the ODST, or Orbital Drop Shock Troopers.
Bass Pro Shops: The Strike – 09.29.09
Hunting – Rated Everyone
Features (from Xbox.com) :
Bass Pro Shops: The Strike puts the fishing rod in your hands as you head out to your favorite fishing holes, including ten of North America’s greatest lakes. Featuring realistic lake bottom topography, advanced graphic life-like fish behaviors, fully customizable characters, and an abundance of boats, lures, rods, and reels, The Strike offers virtual anglers the most realistic fishing game experience to date. Participate in a variety of modes including Quick Fish, Career, and Bass Pro Shops Invitational Tournament, or you can compete with friends in boat racing and casting challenges.
WHOOOO ODST
Also Wet and Beatles Rock Band, even though i’ve never been much of a music games person.
ODST ftw.
“… Rubi is Wet.”
Uhh….
I want to get that game just to see her “wet”.
ODST! ODST! ODS-
…Wet? Er. Crap.
Bass Pro Shops: The Strike! Can’t wait!
I lold
LOL!!
I am so with you on that!
Wet looks good, but I’m gonna want to play a demo first of it.
ODST, can’t wait to drop I and kick some covenant @$$.
Other than that, none of the other games excite me :|
ODST (obviously) and The Beatles Rock Band are the two I’ll be picking up this month.
Of course I’ll buy ODST, but the “darkest days” game peaked my interest. How ever if for some what in the game during the civil war period I have to reload my rifle after every shot, then no.
Then I take it you never snipe in Gears, either? Really, reloading is the only thing that turns you away from that game. That’s lame.
Nah I played gears and the sniper rifle is a bolt action, so the reload is faster.
What concerns me in the game is if the civil war-era rifles are historically accurate ie. reloading sequence: fire, place the charge in the rifle, then the mini-ball, take out the ram rod and ram the mini ball home, replace the ram rod, move the hammer to half cock, place the firing cap over the nipple (that’s what it is called), move the hammer to full cock and fire, repeat. then no too cumbersome for me.
Also I wrote a paper on the civil was in college if you are asking.
i’d imagine… since that’s a game…. all that tedious stuff will be replaced with…move the bolt action up then down…
btw bs, i personally think you should do this kind of thing every month… i was looking for one of these lists in the beginning of august…(couldn’t find one) it’d really be a helpful thing (at least i’d find it so)
I usually do them every month, typically about ten days before that month is due to arrive. :)
LOVE THE AVATAR!
i’ll try to remember…
I KNOW… IT’S GREAT!!!
‘Bout time NFS Shift came out.
Didn’t that game get a trailer like last year?
Yeah they had one at E3.
Honestly, it looks good and all, but they should seriously stop chasing after Forza and Project Gotham. Go back to the Underground/Most Wanted theme.
I’m probably going to get Sturmovik. Did anyone try the demo?
What is Wet? Looks…interesting.
Yup, the demo for Sturmovik is ace. Definitely getting it.
Nice, thanks.
IL2 looks great, especially after having played all three of MS’s CFS games and a couple of other sims, but damn, putting it on SIM difficulty felt like was harder than any of them.
ODST and dirt 2 for me!
yeah same here
Woo hoo! Mini Ninjas!
I cannot resist the combination of heroic ninjas, evil samurai, and cute little forest animals. I think I’ve played the demo every day since it came out.
Trying that demo is one of the first things I will be doing when I get back in town.
I’m picking up Section 8, ODST (It’s inexcusable if you don’t buy it.), and MAYBE Mini Ninjas, I don’t know about that one.
ODST of course!
But I’ve also been playing the Section 8 Demo. Once you figure out what you are doing it’s really fun/addicting. It’s a little like combining Halo 3 with a little of GoW2 in a way and adding in a lot of it’s own spin on different things. Super Sprinting across the map and then jumping in on your jet pack is loads of fun. Plus you spawn by dropping out of the sky like an ODST. Very awesome concept for a game. I don’t know how the campaign is gonna work though. The graphics are pretty decent too. But if it lags the game becomes not fun very fast.
I got the Dirt 2 demo, and for someone who casually plays Forza it’s really hard, but definitely realistic and cool. I really want Darkest of Days, I mean COME ON, who hasn’t wanted to use futuristic weaponry in the Civil War or Roman times? Or against Nazis? ODST looks good but I’ll wait to get it for my birthday or Christmas. No big deal. Il-2 I will get ONLY if it isn’t crucified by its reviews, maybe a rental.
November, on the other hand…11/10/09
Yeh, Modern Warfare 2 FTW.
Can’y wait till ODST, but I need a chance to pre-order it. Probably won’t until about a week before it come out. Can you do that, anyway?
darkest of days, ODST, and preorder Brutal Legend And Borderlands…(i have faith to pre-order)
At the moment only ODST but a lot of these have caught my eye
I’ll definitely be getting ODST, but Section 8 and Marvel Alliance 2 look pretty sweet, too.
I liked the first Ultimate Alliance. I may just rent this one though.
I’ve already pre-ordered ODST, and I’m definitely getting Section 8 and Wet.
I’m definitely gettin’ ODST (pre-order, Johnson FTW!). WET looks pretty fun, but I wanna play a demo first. Might get Beatles Rock Band and GH5 around Christmas or whatever. Other than that, not much else.
I wanted so much for ODST to have a Fishing mode, looks like I will have to settle for Bras Pro Shops: The Strike for now.
Rubi is wet eh? well well well ;P
Can’t wait for firefight!
STILL no Tekken 6. :(
Never mind, ODST will cheer me up in the mean-time.
I’m not sure if I’m more excited for Scribblenauts of ODST… I might be more excited for ODST if it didnt come out the DAY I leave for Japan. Gah. Now I have to stay up all night to play it >.>
ho hum, more tedious games
only raiden & wet worth looking at
odst worth a rental i suppose, though i suspect it’l be another overated halo game that can be played one handed and blindfolded and completed in 2 hours
DIRT 2,i have play the demo,is just awesome.I have read it doesn’t have Hill Climb,like in Dirt 1.
ODST, and if I had the money, Beatles Rock Band.