Friday, August 04, 2006

urgo2 daily xBox talk


The wait is over. Was it worth the wait? Or should we have begged them to let us keep on waiting? What am I even talking about? Oh, right. Street Fighter II for the Xbox 360. It's out there, waiting for you to purchase and download it. But should you?
Street Fighter II': Hyper Fighting is now available on Xbox Live Marketplace... unless you live in Japan. Why would a Japanese game of this stature not appear in its native country? Will it appear at a later date? We may never know. So, of course, the big question everyone's been asking pertains to the quality of Street Fighter II's online play. And now we have a final answer. Read the review for the full details, but I'll just briefly answer the online question by saying that it's sort of jacked.
That's the only release this week for the 360. Next week we'll get Pac-Man on Live Arcade and Dead Rising on one of those old-fashioned "DVD" type things. Dead Rising looks absolutely awesome. I just hope it's got a good amount of variety to it. Yeah, that's right. I'm the jerk saying that just hitting zombies with weapons over and over again might actually get old someday. I'm not too worried, though. We'll have a review of that game next week.
Little Orphan Xbox gets FlatOut 2 this week, which builds on the stuff found in the first game, so it's also a destruction-focused racing game. Next week the original Xbox gets... nothing. Man, the original Xbox just seems so totally obsolete now. It's sort of crazy how quickly the release schedule dried up. Of course, I can't say I'm eagerly awaiting very many PlayStation 2 games these days, either, so it's not like the grass is greener anywhere else.
Before you know it, summer will be over. Back to school sales seem like they're just about ready to kick in. Seriously, that's insane. But the good news is that we'll start seeing more game releases before you know it. August has Dead Rising and Madden NFL 07. And next month is the Tokyo Game Show and Microsoft's own European-focused event, X06. There will probably be some stupid huge announcements coming out of that show. OK, fine, I'll rephrase it. There will most definitely be some stupid huge new game announcements coming out of those shows.

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