[Multiplatform] What's out in August?

Guarunteed purchases underlined, others included in quotes are talked about.

Originally Posted by Rocca

Xbox 360:
August 8, 2006 Dead Rising
August 16, 2006 N3: Ninety-Nine Nights
August 29, 2006 Saints Row
August 29, 2006 Bomberman: Act Zero
August 29, 2006 Enchanted Arms

I've played both the Dead Rising and Saints Row demos on Live and both are EXTREMELY disappointing. The former is basically State of Emergency: Zombie Edition, and Saints Row is yet another supremely dull GTA rip off. And Bomberman...well, let's just say that has potential but is looking pretty iffy right now. =\

I was surprised that the demo for N3 was actually that fun. It went from a mere curiosity to a definite purchase for me.

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PS2:
August 15, 2006 Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
August 29, 2006 Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra
August 29, 2006 Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories
August 29, 2006 Fast and the Furious, The

I'm told by importers that DoC is absolutely attrocious and should be avoided like the plague. Unfortunately we'll have people like Soldier buying 15 copies and propelling it to greatest hits status by the end of the year.

Disgaea 2 had a preorder thing going on at the NIS website on the 1st. Their site got hammered to hell, I guess people really wanted those artbooks. I managed to snag two, one for me and one for a buddy. This game should be a lot of fun.

It's a shame Xenosaga III is the last one in the series. I am a huge fanboy for this stuff but it's a frowny situation that it has to come to an end. ;___;

Fast and the Furious, although a movie title, could be interesting if it plays anything like NFS MW or the arcade Initial D machines. From gameplay vids, it looks like it might, so I'm going to have to go out and rent this.

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DS:
August 8, 2006 Deep Labyrinth
August 28, 2006 Star Fox Command
August 29, 2006 Cooking Mama

Starfox is gonna be hilarious over wifi. I can't wait to start that up again. A few people in chat saidit's not the best thing ever though. But we'll see, as they haven't related stories of the wifi experience yet. Which seems to be the whole point.

Deep Labyrinth is looking pretty neat, but is one of those gamefly-first sort of things. I'm interested but don't feel like shelling out the bucks right off the crack.

And I didn't even know Cooking Mama was coming out this month, how did I overlook that. It looks like a bonafide riot.

Once again, the PSP, Xbox and GC has a grand total of NOTHING. How AWESOME. ANd my PC isn't up to snuff to play much of anything right now, so my experiences with those will have to wait.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by SouthJag

And rightfully so, as they didn't play the NA version. They've made a lot of changes to the core gameplay for the NA release, and dare I say it's building up to be a nearly different game overall.

They are going to have to change it a LOT, as I know more than a few people who were extremely disappointed with that one. From what I hear, unless they completely overhauled the entire combat system, it's still not going to be anywhere near good.

Then again, after I heard about how shitty the import was, I didn't bother keeping up with the changes they have made to the NA version. Care to elaborate?

How ya doing, buddy?