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Release This: Heavy Rain, Endless Ocean 2 Premiere Stateside
by Danny Cowan [PC, Console/PC, Mobile Console, Columns]
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February 22, 2010
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Gamasutra's regular round-up of worldwide video game releases, "Release This!", takes a look at every game title we know to be shipping to stores this week, in a custom compiled list.
This week brings Heavy Rain and Endless Ocean 2 to North America, while Japan gets Espgaluda II Black Label and BlazBlue Portable.
The following list covers all of the game software we know to be available -- across all platforms and regions -- for the week ending February 27th, 2010.
Games Released in the United States:
Nintendo Wii:
- Endless Ocean: Blue World
- Mouse House (online)
- Pony Friends 2
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
- Winter Blast: Snow and Ice Games
Xbox 360:
- Greed Corp (online)
- Lazy Raiders (online)
- Risen
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
PlayStation 3:
- Greed Corp (online)
- Heavy Rain
- Hyperballoid HD (online)
- Last Rebellion
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
Nintendo DS:
- Deca Sports DS
- Flight Control (online)
- Flipper
- Hello Kitty: Birthday Adventures
- Lovely Lisa and Friends
- Pony Friends 2
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
- Super Speed Machines
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s World Championship 2010 Reverse of Arcadia
PlayStation Portable:
- Age of Zombies (online)
- Metal Slug XX
PC:
- Achtung Panzer: Kharkov 1943 (online)
- Arsenal of Democracy (online)
- Art of Murder: Cards of Destiny
- Dawn of Discovery: Venice
- Legends of Norrath: Vengeful Gods (online)
- Napoleon: Total War
- Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity
- WarBirds: Dogfights
Quantic Dream's cinematic adventure title Heavy Rain headlines this week's PlayStation 3 lineup. Wii owners can expect to see a sequel to Nintendo's undersea exploration game Endless Ocean, as Sega's mascot racer Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing premieres across multiple platforms.
Games Released in Europe:
Nintendo Wii:
- Pop'n Rhythm
- Safar'Wii
- The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
Xbox 360:
- Crash Time III
- Indianapolis 500 Evolution
- Lips: Party Classics
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
- Superstars V8 Next Challenge
PlayStation 3:
- Heavy Rain
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
- Superstars V8 Next Challenge
- White Knight Chronicles
Nintendo DS:
- Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes
- Music for Everyone
- Puzzle Chronicles
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
PlayStation Portable:
- Dante's Inferno
- Echoshift
- Puzzle Chronicles
- Undead Knights
PC:
- Anno 1404: Venice
- Dawn of Discovery: Venice
- Farewell to Dragons
- The Farm
- Napoleon: Total War
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
- The Stronghold Collection
- Superstars V8 Next Challenge
- Theatre of War II: Africa 1943
- XIII Century: Blood of Europe
Heavy Rain and Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing will also debut in the UK this week, arriving alongside region-exclusive releases like Superstars V8 Next Challenge, Crash Time III, and Lips: Party Classics.
Games Released in Japan:
Nintendo Wii:
- Daikaijuu Battle: Ultra Coliseum DX - Ultra Senshi Daishuuketsu
- GTI Club World: City Race
- Radirgy Noa Wii
- Super Monkey Ball Athletic
Xbox 360:
- Borderlands
- Espgaluda II Black Label
- No Fate! Only the Power of Will
PlayStation 2:
- Kiniro no Corda 3
- Wand of Fortune: Mirai e no Prologue
Nintendo DS:
- Cooking Idol I! My! Main! Game de Hirameki! Kirameki Cooking
- Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods
- Fushigi no Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren 4 - Kami no Hitomi to Akuma no Heso
- Game Book DS: Aquarian Age Perpetual Period
- Gendai Daisenryaku DS: Isshoku Sokuhatsu - Gunji Balance Houkai
- Gyouretsu no Dekiru Houritsu Soudansho
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kizuna: Dai Yon Kan - Kizuna
- Nazotte Oboeru Otona no Kanji Renshuu Kaiteiban
- Otona no Renai Shousetsu: Harlequin Selection
- Shounen Oni Ninden Tsumuji
- Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Mugen no Frontier EXCEED
- TOEIC Test Super Coach @DS
- Utatte Touch, Utouchi!!
- WiZman's World
PlayStation Portable:
- BlazBlue Portable
- Cross Channel: To All People
- FairlyLife: MiracleDays
- Himehibi: New Princess Days!! Zoku! Ni-Gakki Portable
- Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! Kizuna no Tag Battle
- Kenka Banchou 4: Ichinen Sensou
- Kiniro no Corda 3
- Koori no Bohyou Ichiyanagi Wa, 3 Dome no Junan
- Minna no Tennis Portable
- Nizu no Senritsu Portable 2: Hi no Kioku
- No Fate! Only the Power of Will
- Power Pro Success Legends
- Qix++
- Yoake Yori Ruriiro na Portable
Cave's arcade shoot'em-up Espgaluda II Black Label gets a region-free release on the Xbox 360 in Japan this week. The Nintendo Wii will host Milestone's upgraded shooter Radirgy Noa Wii, Konami's arcade racer GTI Club World: City Race, and the Ultraman franchise crossover fighting game Daikaijuu Battle: Ultra Coliseum DX.
Portable highlights for this week include the Shiren the Wanderer series sequel Fushigi no Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren 4, a PSP port of Arc System Works' 2D fighter BlazBlue, and Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods, a remake of the Super NES-era RPG Lufia II.
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The developer's claims that they show the same character naked in the game for "artistic merit" is also laughable. Just admit that you don't think your game could sell without sexing it up for teenage boys. It's not your fault, that's just the state of the industry that we've created.
The shower scene in particular I think really adds to the game's artist credibility...