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EGM September 2008 Reviews and Rumors.

S

SuperSonic1305

Member
Cover Story: SoulCalibur IV

Next Month: Mirror's Edge Cover Story, LittleBigPlanet.

Too Human, Lego Batman, Mercenaries 2, and Baja reviews.

Features:

- Murder in Akihabara
- Domestic Object/Japan: Call of Duty: World at War
- Skate 2:

- Can get off your skateboard and push/pull objects to alter skate routes.
- Pedestrians move out of your way.
- No load times when teleporting to a session marker
- Play as a girl
- Tiger Woods-like character editor
- Default camera tweaked. New 3rd person camera
- Using EA's site for uploading videos again
- 60 fps
- Takes place 5 years later. City hit with unknown disaster and was rebuilt.

- Afterthoughts: MGS4
- Hironobu Sakaguchi Interview
- Nobuo Uematsu Interview
- Yoshitaka Amano Interview
- The Online World Ends With Square-Enix - How they are keeping FFXI alive
- EA All Play titles meant to ease non gamers into EA sports games with more casual cartoony sports games
- Diablo 3
- Roundtable: East Meets Rest
- Apple and Mobile Gaming
- Infinite Undiscovery, Last Remnant, Star Ocean: The Last Hope
- Bayonetta
- The Rise and Fall and Rise of Japan
- Kenji Eno Interview
- Itagaki Interview
- Seanbaby: Japanese dating sims
- A history of Japanese games
- Tokyo Gamers Guide
- LOLZ in translation

Rumor Mill:

- Banjo Kazooie and Tooie for XBLA will incorporate Stop N' Swap
- Konami bringing back a retro classic in 2D. Not Bucky O' Hare or Biker Mice From Mars.
- More Star Wars characters will come to SCIV as DLC
- LocoRoco 2 and Patapon 2. Q Entertainment making adventure game that is not a sequel to NNN.
- Halo Wars, Fable 2, and Call of Duty: World at War will not make it out in 2008
- Namco bringing back Dead to Rights
- Bungie making multiplatform and PS3 games

Reviews:

SoulCalibur IV - A, B+, B+
Good: Extreme fun and value
Bad: Darth Vader is pretty lame

Madden NFL 09 - A, B, A-
Good: Shockingly pretty
Bad: The play-by-play coach needs some coaching

NCAA Football 09 - A-
Good: Online Dynasty
Bad: Where are the weapons?

Beijing 2008 - B
Good: Gorgeous character models, lots of variety
Bad: The kayak-oh dear God the kayak

Alone in the Dark - B-, D+, C-
Good: Neat episodic DVD structure
Bad: Both endings are unsatisfying

Izuna 2 - B-
Good: Devious gameplay, witty script
Bad: Dated visuals, unforgiving difficulty level

Guitar Hero: On Tour - B-
Good: Small scale guitar hero mechanics work well
Bad: Hit and miss track list
 
F

FrankT

Member
- Bungie making multiplatform and PS3 games
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Hi Shane.

So Microsoft is their publisher still (as they admit) and their making PS3 games now. Keep the hope alive buddy.

- Halo Wars, Fable 2, and Call of Duty: World at War will not make it out in 2008
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Guess you got that one wrong too.


:lol :lol
 
S

schuelma

Wastes hours checking old Famitsu software data, but that's why we love him.
Pretty horrible rumors this time out. Try harder Shane
 
A

AndyD

aka andydumi
Sounds like a good issue. Mirror's Edge as cover story next month and not LBP? I thought Mirror's Edge was further away.
 
D

DuckRacer

Member
Rumor Mill:

- Banjo Kazooie and Tooie for XBLA will incorporate Stop N' Swap
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lol, already confirmed
- LocoRoco 2 and Patapon 2.
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also confirmed
- Halo Wars, Fable 2, and Call of Duty: World at War will not make it out in 2008
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Halo Wars is confirmed for 2009 already, Fable 2 was confirmed for Oct 2008. CoD5 in 2009 was a previous rumor they made.
- Bungie making multiplatform and PS3 games
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...aand Bungie has an exclusivity contract with MS for their first few games.


These rumors are absolutely terrible.

oh, and give us Skate 2 info.
 
Cardon

Cardon

Member
Hmm, I wouldn't mind seeing Dead to Rights come back as long as it isn't anything like the abomination that was DtR2.
 
F

FrankT

Member
RBH said:
LOL @ the "rumors."
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Indeed, I guess they didn't have time after E3 to maybe re-word some of them in light of the announcements. Shane's stirring of the pot pre and post E3 is unreal.

:lol


Come on Mielke you guys can do better than this.
 
Y

Y2Kev

TLG Fan Caretaker Est. 2009
All the effort that goes into making rumors are actually spent on the issue this time. Looks awesome in terms of content.
 
Q

Quazar

Member
Only thing that matters is the Sakaguchi interview and 360 RPG blowout. Details if you can please.

edit: These too

- Nobuo Uematsu Interview
- Yoshitaka Amano Interview
-Itagaki interview

And how's Bayonetta?
 
Y

Y2Kev

TLG Fan Caretaker Est. 2009
What makes you think Shane is behind the rumors this month? The Fable 2 rumor is definitely Garnett intellectual property.
 
E

Elbrain

Suckin' dicks since '66
Concept17 said:
Supposedly hes very slow, but isn't too bad once you get him figured out. So I've heard.
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Well I like using slow characters so that is not a problem for me.
 
Jinfash

Jinfash

needs 2 extra inches
SuperSonic1305 said:
SoulCalibur IV - A, B+, B+
Good: Extreme fun and value
Bad: Darth Vader is pretty lame
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:lol :lol :lol this is gonna be translated into sooo many things
 
F

FrankT

Member
Y2Kev said:
What makes you think Shane is behind the rumors this month? The Fable 2 rumor is definitely Garnett intellectual property.
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What? Shane was saying this mulitplatform Bungie stuff in the 1up Show before E3 as well regardless of Fable 2, please.
 
A

AndyD

aka andydumi
Concept17 said:
Supposedly hes very slow, but isn't too bad once you get him figured out. So I've heard.
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He is also supposed to be very powerful, so a fast powerful toon would be overpowered. One of the videos talked about how he is much like his movie persona, very powerful, and a slow calculating mover.
 
J

Jag22

Banned
I remember one time Shane outright admitted they make up rumors. I believe it was on the 1up podcast talking about either Splatterhouse or Bionic Commando.
 
F

FrankT

Member
Acosta said:
Fable 2 is finished, there is no way is not going to make 2008.
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Well considering they announced that at E3 and giving the October release month yea I would say that is pretty safe bet at this point.
 
S

schuelma

Wastes hours checking old Famitsu software data, but that's why we love him.
Jag22 said:
I remember one time Shane outright admitted they make up rumors. I believe it was on the 1up podcast talking about either Splatterhouse or Bionic Commando.
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I don't remember where, but I thought I remembered reading where EGM admits they make up some of the rumors and sprinkle in some stuff they really think is happening.
 
G

gregor7777

Banned
Negaiido said:
Didn't Bungie leave MS so it is possible right? :p
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How did you manage to accumulate so much fail in such a short time?

Negaiido said:
Probably all 360's will fade from earth in a RED flash
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Negaiido said:
This. Tell those Jrpg devs that PS3 users are better rpg fans then 360 users
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Negaiido said:
Isn't Gears the next Halo Hype of MS? :p
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Negaiido said:
LMAO @ Rumor Kingdom Hearts for Wii :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
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