Xbox 360 Games Slated for October 2009 Release

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.

NBA 2K10 – 10.06.09
Sports – Rated Everyone

Features (from Xbox.com) :

NBA 2K10 raises the bar again with another championship season. NBA 2K9, the number one-selling and rated NBA video game, set the standard for all basketball video games, and NBA 2K10 surpasses that by delivering an even better basketball experience this year with all-new gameplay components, out-of-this-world graphics, even more realistic Signature Style animations, all-new presentation elements, and an unrivalled online system. This season you won’t just play the NBA, you’ll take over.

NBA Live 10 – 10.06.09
Sports – Rated Everyone

Features (from Xbox.com) :

Elevate your game to the highest level with NBA LIVE 10, the most complete NBA basketball experience. With enhanced user control increasing the realism of gameplay on both ends of the court, utilize the fundamentals of basketball to dominate the boards, fill the lane, and run the point as the most dominant player in the league. Get even closer to the real world experience as Dynamic DNA technology merges stats and trends from the real NBA into your game. From authentic tattoos, armbands, and shoes to emotion-filled crowds, NBA LIVE 10 is the authentic basketball experience.

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising – 10.06.09
First-Person Shooter – Rated Mature

Features (from Xbox.com) :

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is set to take you as close to war as you’ll ever want to get. In a first-person shooter (FPS) that recreates the brutal reality of the modern combat experience in stunning detail, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising challenges you to survive the chaos and rapidly evolving situations of modern warfare in a new contemporary theatre.

Experience the intensity, diversity and claustrophobia of a present-day conflict from the unique perspectives of an infantry marine and a Special Forces officer, each engaged against the full force of the Chinese PLA on the huge open-world island of Skira.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars — Republic Heroes – 10.06.09
Action – Rated Teen

Features (from IGN.com) :

Fans of the popular Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series can continue the battle for galactic peace in this videogame that puts players right in the middle of the Clone Wars. Take up arms on behalf of the noble Galactic Republic, pursuing the mysterious bounty hunter Cad Bane and combating the all-new Skakoan super villain Kul Teska.

Players fight as both Jedi Knights and Clone Troopers through over 30 unique missions, all created incorporating the same ground-breaking, stunning visual style from the TV series. Featuring a brand-new storyline, players will get the chance to take part in the key events that lead directly into the second season of the TV show. Jedi characters can slice and dice their way through countless enemies, commandeer droids and show off their combat prowess on foot and in a variety of vehicles. Clone Troopers fire things up with a heavy weapons armament that includes rocket launchers, thermal detonators and even jet packs in levels built specifically to take run-and-gun gameplay to exciting levels.

Brütal Legend – 10.13.09
Adventure – Rated Mature

Features (from Xbox.com) :

Jack Black stars as Eddie Riggs, a roadie who’s sucked into a mythical Age of Rock to fight evil, liberate an army of headbangers from a life of oppression, find love, and discover his life’s purpose. Heavy stuff until one realizes the universe of Brütal Legend has sprung from the mind of legendary game director Tim Schafer.

Brütal Legend marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom, set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap. It’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which is full of imitation cover bands. The game is brought to life through a spate of chrome, leather, rocker babes, epic music, fire-breathing/stud-wearing beasts, mountains made of guitar amps, and more. Follow Eddie as he embarks on a tour of epic destruction with an axe, a guitar, and his minions as he commands the power of rock in epic band battles. It’s lighter-flicking awesomeness that will melt your face clean off.

Cars Race-O-Rama – 10.13.09
Racing – Rated Everyone

Features (from Xbox.com) :

In the Cars Race-O-Rama video game, get ready to race against new characters through action-packed tracks to win the Race-O-Rama trophy as your own personalized Lightning McQueen. Join Lightning McQueen in Radiator Springs as he prepares his academy of student racers for the Race-O-Rama competition. Lightning finds out that Chick Hicks has his own set of academy student racers who don’t always compete fairly. These student racers are preparing to race in the same competitions in order to propel Chick Hick’s academy to the #1 spot.

The races take place at various tracks from the beaches, into the cities, and off to the Baja desert. Along the way, racers are upgrading their abilities and customizing their look. The finale consists of a fully modified, ultimate Lightning McQueen racing against a fully modified Chick Hicks for the Race-O-Rama trophy. Let the race begin!

Magnacarta 2 – 10.13.09
RPG – Rated Teen

Features (from Xbox.com) :

The shadow of civil war looms over the kingdom of Lanzheim and Juto, a boy with no recollection of his past may be the key to ending the cycle of bloodshed. Magnacarta 2 delivers a unique role-playing experience that combines real-time action, timing-based attacks, over-drive combinations and the strategic use of skills, magical power, and critical attacks on a journey to discover one’s true destiny in the midst of tragedy and war.

Squeeballs Party – 10.13.09
Party – Rated Everyone 10+

Features (from Xbox.com) :

Launching in fall 2009, Squeeballs and Freedom bring motion-based fun and physical party play to Xbox 360 for the first time. Bundled with the Gametrak Freedom handset utilizing PDP’s proprietary and exclusive motion-based technology, Squeeballs is a unique compendium of 11 motion-sensing party games.

Squeeballs are adorable, small, cuddly toy characters manufactured on a remote and secret island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. As part of the requirements before they can be sold to happy children around the world, Squeeballs must be fully put to the test … to the point of destruction! Cook, slice, blow up, bat, bowl, shoot, and skim the Squeeballs through over 150 mini-game challenges, all the while using the Freedom motion handset to pull, stretch, throw, spin, shake, weave, fly, and slide your way through the games.

Way of the Samurai 3 – 10.13.09
Action Adventure – Rated Mature

Features (from IGN.com) :

The consequences of your actions will determine your fate. Choose to fight along side good or evil during the tumultuous time of the Sengoku Era and carve your name into history. Take the role of a samurai and choose your own path, blazing a trail of honor, loyalty and respect, or one of villainy, corruption, murder and greed. Become a hero or become infamous, the choice is yours.

Bakugan – 10.20.09
Battle – Rating Pending

Features (from Xbox.com) :

Bakugan: Battle Brawlers is the first video game based on the smash hit Bakugan toys, card game, and anime show. In it, players start off as an untrained Bakugan Brawler and must fight their way to the top of the heap. Combining the drama and story of the cartoon series with the skill and strategy of the card game, players will become completely immersed in this unique title. Throw Bakugan cards onto the battlefield, and then try to carefully shoot your Bakugan balls onto the cards to unleash their monstrous powers. When two Bakugans stand on the same card, they transform into gigantic creatures and fight to the finish!

Borderlands – 10.20.09
Action RPG – Rated Mature

Features (from IGN.com) :

A sci-fi / action RPG from acclaimed developer Gearbox, Borderlands combines the best in first-person action with player customization and vehicular combat for incredible layers of gameplay depth. The game features a groundbreaking content generation system allowing for near-endless variety in missions, environments, enemies, weapons, item drops and character customization. Borderlands allows for multiple players to share the same game experience simultaneously online in co-op gameplay. Players can freely join or leave each other’s games at anytime, or choose to play in the full single-player mode. The game also boasts lifelike character animations, impressive real-time physics, and customizable vehicles.

CSI: Deadly Intent – 10.20.09
Adventure – Rated Mature

Features (from IGN.com) :

In CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Deadly Intent, players help solve Las Vegas’ most gruesome crimes with the brand new characters and cast from the latest season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

FIFA Soccer 10 – 10.20.09
Sports – Rating Pending

Features (from IGN.com) :

FIFA Soccer 10 features core gameplay refinements based on responsiveness and intelligence, plus a completely overhauled Manager Mode that includes more than 50 major improvements. These enhancements and more deliver a high standard of authenticity, as FIFA Soccer 10 continues to set the benchmark in both innovations and gameplay as the most complete simulation of soccer.

Features include the 360° dribbling system, which provides finer dribbling control, more than 50 major improvements to Manager Mode, more accurate passing and and authentic shooting, improved trapping intelligence, advanced positioning, and much more.

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 – 10.20.09
Wrestling – Rated Teen

Features (from IGN.com) :

Get ready the get the smack laid down on you once again with the ’010 version of WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010. Stepping back into the virtual ring, players will experience unparalleled creation tools, a robust Superstar roster, key franchise improvements and even a few surprises in WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010.

The franchise’s renowned customization interface delivers a new look, improved graphical quality and a host of new parts in Create-A-Superstar Mode, allowing players to create Superstars who are comparable in quality with their WWE counterparts. Take creation one step further with a new Paint Tool to detail created Superstars with original tattoos, logos and other unique designs. And for the first time in franchise history, create alternate ring gear for Superstars by customizing the colors of shirts, logos, face paint, elbow pads, boots and much more. Save the alternate looks for use throughout the game and online to show off the Superstars in grand fashion. Share created content with the WWE Universe by uploading created Superstars, entrances, finishing moves, highlight reels, created storylines and more. Utilize the keyword search engine to view created content from around the world and download for use both offline and online.

Alpha Protocol – 10.27.09
Action RPG – Rated Mature

Features (from Xbox.com) :

In the world of espionage, nothing is as it seems in Obsidian Entertainment’s blockbuster role-playing game (RPG) thriller Alpha Protocol. Assume the role of Michael Thorton, a highly skilled government operative trained to eliminate threats to national security. When a mission goes horribly wrong, Thorton is the only one with the information, skills, and audacity to stop an impending international catastrophe. To do so, he will utilize the very government directive that the enemy sought to use against him—Alpha Protocol.

Ben 10: Alien Force — Vilgax Attacks – 10.27.09
Action – Rating Pending

Features (from IGN.com) :

Ben 10: Alien Force: Vilgax Attacks, players take control of Ben and the popular alien forms: Echo Echo, Goop, Brainstorm, ChromaStone, Big Chill, Humungousaur, Spidermonkey, Swampfire, Jet Ray, and Cannonbolt to manipulate fire, harness electricity, freeze enemies and more. Players also adventure as alien form Upchuck exclusively in the Nintendo DS version for additional powers to command and explore.

Gamers journey to exciting alien home planets on Ben’s first intergalactic adventure as they travel in an upgradeable spacecraft and blast through asteroid fields and enemy ships. Offering a solid blend of combat, puzzle solving and platform gameplay, Ben 10: Alien Force: Vilgax Attacks provides hours of gameplay for players of all skill levels.

DJ Hero – 10.27.09
Music – Rated Teen

Features (from Xbox.com) :

The makers of Guitar Hero introduce an entirely fresh and innovative way to experience music. With DJ Hero features an amazing variety of music across genres—tracks that you love and reflect who you are. Using an authentic turntable controller, spin and scratch more than 100 songs into unique mixes and become the life of the party. Get ready for a whole new phenomenon in music.

Fairytale Fights – 10.27.09
Action – Rated Mature

Features (from IGN.com) :

A sick & twisted fighting game featuring many of your favorite fairy tale characters from childhood now acting like the crazy maniacs your deviant adult mind could only imagine them to be! Players choose one favorite fairytale character with whom they will try and save a fantasy world from certain doom. Luckily many different weapons lay around in this fairytale world, which players can use to shoot and carve up enemies… and this is where the fun begins! Cute fairytale characters will fight each other until nothing else remains than a big puddle of blood!

Foes are sliced and diced in real-time, thanks to Playlogic’s in-house “Dynamic Slicing” technology. Instead of using preset animations, players have the ability to slice up an enemy in any way they like by using the analog stick. Apart from this “cutting” edge technology, the game will also use the tested powers of the Unreal 3 engine.

Forza Motorsport 3 – 10.27.09
Racing – Rated Everyone

Features (from Xbox.com) :

Whether it’s an exotic sports car like the new Audi R8 V10, a classic American muscle car such as the Ford GT, or a hot Asian import such as the Nissan 370Z, everyone has a dream car. Now you can drive that dream with Turn 10′s latest racing epic, launching this October exclusively for Xbox 360, Forza Motorsport 3. The game makes it possible for everyone to experience the thrill of owning the world’s most exotic and exquisite cars. Live the most realistic racing experience ever as you take the wheel of more than 400 of the most-beloved cars on over 100 renowned real-world tracks and exotic road courses from around the globe. With breathtaking HD graphics and the most advanced vehicle performance modeling in a video game, Forza Motorsport 3 includes a host of driving assists and adjustable skill levels to make the game a gripping pick-up-and-play experience for audiences of all ages and skill levels. A love of cars lives in all of us. Forza Motorsport 3 is the automotive playground we’ve all been waiting for.

Tekken 6 – 10.27.09
Fighting – Rating Pending

Features (from Xbox.com) :

With over 33 million units sold worldwide, the number one fighting game franchise of all time soars onto Xbox 360 with unbridled vengeance. Tekken 6 is armed with jaw-dropping HD graphics running flawlessly at 60 fps, the largest character roster ever in Tekken gaming history, groundbreaking online game modes, and a robust character customization system.