New games this week: Silent Hill Homecoming edition

by Justin McElroy on Sep 29th 2008 8:45AM

So maybe this week doesn't quite provide the Horn of Plenty of Sept. 22. But it's a charming little week all the same, with a new Silent Hill game (made by dirty, clumsy gaijin hands) and the return of the Harvest Moon series with Tree of Tranquility.

If you're looking for something a bit more visceral you can get totally pumped for MK vs. DC with Mortal Kombat Kollection on the PS2. Check out the full list after the break.

Silent Hill: Homecoming (Xbox 360)

Silent Hill: Homecoming (PS3)

Xbox 360:

Silent Hill Homecoming
Mobile Ops: The One Year War

PS3:

Silent Hill Homecoming

Nintendo Wii:

Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility
We Cheer

PS2:

Mortal Kombat Kollection

PSP:

Valhalla Knights 2

Nintendo DS:

Unsolved Crimes
Sonic Chronicles: Dark Brotherhood
Tornado
Margot's Word Brain
Pop Cutie: Street Fashion Simulation
Princess Debut
Pipe Mania

PC Games:

Pipe Mania
Sniper: Art of Victory
Zoo Tycoon 2 Ultimate
Baseball Mogul 2009
SAS: Secure Tomorrow
Dark Horizon
Hardy Boys: The Hidden Theft

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Tags: newgames, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, silent-hill-homecoming, Wii, Xbox-360

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As much as I love Zombie-nurse tits, Sonic Chronicles really should have been game of the week. Without being too over the top, I believe this game will not only be game of the year, but possibly game of the decade.

In 20 years time we'll be talking about that great Bioware Sonic game that redefined an entire genre, not anything else released this week. No disrespect intended to fans of Zoo Tycoon, and the like.

For the love god, don't you think you over did it a little bit?

I really hope you're joking about sonic.

I'm actually cancelling my reservation for Sonic Chronicles. Too many reviews are calling it average, and I refuse to play anything less than awesome. Especially when we're talking about Bioware.

Actually the only bad review was from IGN, the game is getting 8.0 for a lot of magazine, even 9.0 on some ones, Eurogamer with it a 7 or something ( and those guys are harsh).

The game is good but it certainly isn't the Second coming as the first poster say, it should have being done by SEGA :(.

i got the European version for my flash cart on my DS.

its a fantastic RPG, but "Nigeria" is over-doing it a little. Sonic fans will be shocked (in a good way), and RPG fans will have fun with it but not amazed.

its personally one of my favorite RPGs of all time now.

Just Sonic Chronicles this week for me.

Why'd FRocker get downvoted for this when samfish stayed the same? Is it bias against him? Sony fanboys? Do people REALLY love naked Peach that much?

360 box in front of the PS3 box?

Wierd...

Anyways just Wii Cheer for me this week. :P

I have to go with Silent Hill. Lets hope the reviews are kind.

Really? Its not on my radar. Dead Space, Far Cry 2 and Fallout 3 for me this month coming up. Still waiting for PURE from GF and I just got an email that SW: TFU was mailed to me so I'll be playing those till Dead Space releases.

Of course my Gears activity has ramped up as well. Have to get the rust out and stay frosty for Gears 2 :) Only 5 more weeks!!!1!

On second thought I just saw the preview for it on GT. Looks good, let me know whatcha think.

Maybe they order it by Japanese hardware sales..

Makes sense.

:)

I will give you my thoughts when I grab it. Not sure if I will get it this week though. My fiance got me Force Unleashed yesterday and I also rented Merc 2 (which is pretty fun). I think I'm gonna have little game time too since we have our wedding coming in 2 weeks.

Duke

My condolences...

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m110/drehaate/GAME-OVER.jpg

I kidd ;) congrats man.

Just sonic Chronicles for me.

I hate being a prophet...

It's depressing to me that Mortal Kombat Kollection is MK:DA, MK:D, and MK:A as opposed to something including Mortal Kombat Trilogy.

You have no idea how hyped I am for Hardy Boys: The Hidden Theft.

hard boys? that's just wrong. oh .. hardY boys.

This is the first time in a long time that I've been thinking about buying a Sonic game.

Who you callin' gaijin?? What are you, the Justin Timberlake of Japan?

Just Sonic Chronicles for me this week.

Peach jinx!

:D

...oh wait you repeated what Fernando said, not Samfish.

Oh well. Jinx!

*looks at the PS3 Silent Hill box*

PLIYSTATION 3?

PHOTOSHOP FAILURE.

I think I'm just gonna hold off for Fable 2 this month coming up.

Nothing for me this week thanks.

I already resolved to hold off on Sonic Chronicles and request it as a Christmas present, since my schedules a bit too crowded for an RPG right now. Wario Land currently, once i get Wii back online i'll get Bomberman and Megaman, hoping on that Disaster date, and Sonic Unleashed in November.

If I can get some MS Points, I'll buy Castle Crashers and some controllers since mates are soon coming for a sleep-stay-up-all-night-playing-video-games-over.

I think this is a rent only week for me. While Silent Hill: The Al Pacino Cover edition looks alright, SH4: The Room still leaves a bad feeling about where this series could be going.

SH4 was so underrated. The room was awesome. Yes, Silent Hill itself was a bit lame but the room more than made up for it in my mind.

The new one really has nothing going for it. Made in the USA by a crappy team working at a horrible company, the team saw total turnover like four times, every preview says it's lame and buggy.

I didn't think the previews were very damning at all.

I really really want silent hill to be good. But only 6/10 by xbox magazine? : /

Lets hope its not another alone in the dark...

6 is by no means a bad score. It's just decent. Now AitD was getting 4's so yeah, that was kinda bad. But even that is at least playable and they found something noteworthy there.

Sheesh modern gamers are so high maintenance :P

Modern gamers aren't the problem.

Okay.. actually, they're part of it. They gave birth to the wonky review system most sites use.

1 = 0
2 = 0
3 = 0
4 = 2
5 = 2
6 = 4
7 = 5
8 = 7
9 = 8
10 = 10

How current reviews are scaled. Scaled because, if anything, the reader base is too stupid to pay attention to anything below an 8. So if a game worthy of a 6 or 7 comes out, but is still pretty darn good, it can't be given a 6 or 7, else people are just going to write it off.

Nothing for me this week. Too many games I want are coming up and WipEout HD is keeping me happy anyway :)

I'm really tempted on Hill and Sonic, but there are so many games in the near future coming out that I want I just might have to show restraint.

Silent ****ing Hill.

I have it pre-ordered.

I can't wait for Silent Hill, I fucking love this game.

The review by OXM basically gave SH:Homecoming a low score because the story gets off to a slow start and there are parts of the game where you feel like you are wandering around looking for stuff...

Umm. This sounds like alot of survival horror games.

I'm getting it regardless, but I'm waiting to see if OXM scored it at the lower end of what most other reviews will give it.

It's Sept 30. Do you know where you Silent Hill is? Apparently not in Austin, TX, because none of the stores here will have it until tomorrow, it seems. I've never not seen a major release in stores ON its release date.

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New games this week: Silent Hill Homecoming edition

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