This year is going to be ridiculous, just as last year was, for video games. As blu ray takes hold, the PS3 sales are bound to increase, the 360 just keeps getting cheaper and Wii is becoming more and more available. Titles to look forward to? Well I thought you'd never ask. Let's start with the ridiculously popular Wii. There isn't much that has been announced that is considered a "big title" for the Wii but there are some. Boom Blox, EA's surprise hit with help from Steven Spielberg, is going to have a sequel out this year. Will it take the game in a new direction or will it be add ons to the hilarious fun that was the original? Only time will tell. There's rumors going around that a new Zelda game is due out this year. Nintendo is by far the best keeper of secrets in the industry, so we probably won't know for sure until about 2 months before it gets released, but I say it couldn't be a better time for it. Based off the time frame in which the last few Zelda games were released, this year a release would be following the trend perfectly and the Wii is overdue for the hardcore gamer's big title. Those titles along with an all new House of the Dead make for, well to be honest, a pretty weak lineup but that is nothing new for the Wii. I'm hoping at least that the Zelda rumor will be true so I can dust off my Wii and get some all night sessions in like when I got Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3, and Mario Galaxy. The Playstation 3 has some big titles coming out this year including on of its most anticipated hits, Killzone 2. I hope this doesn't become an over hyped POS like Haze, but it certainly looks good so far. With more and more Little Big Planet DLC coming out, Gran Turismo 5 is supposed to be finally coming out, and a nice list of PSN titles, the PS3 is looking at a good year ahead. The Xbox360 is also going to have a good year which in turn would make 2009 an all around great year for consoles. Exclusive DLC coming to Grand Theft Auto 4 and Fallout 3 on the Xbox 360 gives it a nice boost considering that these two titles consumed the majority of the Game of the Year awards given out for 2008. This coupled with the fact that is has landed itself a piece of former Playstation exclusive titles such as Tekken and Final Fantasy (which both have new titles coming this year: Tekken 6 and Final Fantasy 13) thing are looking up for Xbox. The smash hit racer Forza Motorsport is rumored to be released its third installment towards the fall of '09 and is rumored to be boasting 2 discs of content including over 400 cars and over 100 tracks. The combination of Forza 3 and Gran Turismo 5 being released in the same year will be a huge treat to gear head gamers such as myself. Let's not leave out the third party titles. Resident Evil 5 and Skate 2 are big titles coming out right in the beginning of the year. We know EA is working on a sequel to the Horror hit Dead Space, but whether we will see it this year or next is a mystery. Bioware is releasing a new KOTOR, though that's PC and not console gaming, and has been working on a sequel to Mass Effect for quite some time now. Will we see that this year? I certainly hope so! Bioshock 2, a sequel to Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Dead Rising 2, FEAR 2, Portal 2, and Doom 4 are just a few among the massive list of sequels that we are hoping will come in '09. If this doesn't get you excited for the year ahead... nothing will.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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