February Gets Busy

In years gone by the start of a year meant lean times for videogame fans. Companies made their big pushes for the all important Q4 end of year, which meant more games than you have time for and a somewhat reduced bank balance, or greatly increased credit card bill depending on your persuasion.

2008 was no different, but having a month off work I managed to plough through the mini mountain of titles that sat on my desk, with the thought that some of the larger games I would play during the leaner times in early 2009.

But it would appear that the publishers didn’t get that memo, and there are a host of titles due for release in February (mainly shifted from Q4 so as not to get trampled in the Christmas rush). I’m sure there are plenty more but these are the releases that I’m most interested in (NOTE: These are the UK release dates).

13^th – F.E.A.R. 2
17^th – GTA IV: The Lost and Damned
20^th – Street Fighter IV
26^th – Prince of Persia DLC
27^th – Killzone 2

That’s going to be pricey. Top of the list for me there are the two DLC packs for GTA and Prince of Persia. Regular readers and followers of my Twitter feed will know that I spent a LOT of time playing it last year, but the ending was decidedly…underwhelming. A typical “to be continued…” ending and given that Ubisoft grumbled about the games sales recently (apparently 2.2 million copies worldwide is a “slow burner” these days) I feared we may not get a conclusion to the story.

But IGN is reporting that an Epilogue DLC pack will be coming on the 26^th of February that adds a new location, ramps up the difficulty, gives a new attack for the Prince and a power for Elika as well as another couple of unlockable character skins. Prince of Persia was something of a palette cleanser for me after a procession of shooters I warmed to the rather more pedestrian and considerably easier gameplay. I just wish it wasn’t being released a day before I go away on holiday! At least I’ll have something to play when I get back to try and kill the jetlag.

As for current gaming, I have just completed Fable II for a second time with my evil character, who is now attempting to make amends and return to the light side. It’s fascinating to watch as you slowly become a more popular person around Albion again, the scars are going, the devil horns have finished and the eyes have changed from green, to red and back to blue.

I love Fable II, it’s the game that most surprised me last year and I can’t wait for more DLC, which must surely be on the way.
My next sojourn could be on the PC, I bought Sam & Max Season One which was a special offer on Steam one weekend. It’ll be a change of pace, which right now I could definitely do with.

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