Alone in the Dark was easily the most difficult review I’ve ever had to write. Eden Games created some amazing sights that are best experienced to understand how amazing they are. Alone in the Dark also sports a few unique features such as DVD style controls and a complex item system. Unfortunately, the game, much like Central Park, holds a dark secret. (SPOILER: The controls suck!) So, does Alone in the Dark deliver? Hit the jump to find out.
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Being the huge fans of the Guitar Hero series that most of us here at MEGATONik are, we’ve managed to stumble, and I do mean stumble, across the complete track listing for Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. I was pretty leary about picking this edition up because I thought it would be nothing but songs done by Aerosmith, but I’m glad to report that only about 63% of the 41 songs listed below are.
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After it was announced that the next Guitar Hero game would incorporate other instruments to the game, fans began speculating on the price. Well, GameStop placed the prices of the game up on its website, revealing that the bundles for the PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 will cost $20 more than Rock Band’s special edition bundle cost - $189.99. The PS2’s bundle will cost $10 less, at $179.99.

To purchase just the guitar and game, it will cost $99.99. The game is priced at $59.99 for 360 and PS3 owners, while PS2 and Wii owners can buy Guitar Hero: World Tour for $49.99. The game will release October 27, 2008.

[Via Kotaku]

When reviewing Buzz! The Hollywood Quiz for the Playstation 2, it was damned near impossible not to continuously compare it to the other major quiz show type game of the year, Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action on the Xbox 360. Surprisingly, however, Buzz! seems to do many of the things that Scene It? could not.

Taking this into consideration, is Buzz! worth a play or a pass? Hit the jump for the rest of my review!

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Neversoft is out to prove once and for all that they aren’t going to take all of their ideas from a certain other rhythm game. The fact that Guitar Hero 4 will support drums, guitar, bass, and vocals is old news. In a shocking turn of events, Guitar Hero 4 will support a new feature that is ridiculously awesome. What will this feature be? Learn all of this and more after the jump!
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SEGA announced today that a demo of their newest Marvel-based game, Iron Man, will be releasing tomorrow on the Xbox Live Marketplace. SEGA has also said that a demo for the PS3 will be coming “soon” to the PlayStation Store. Alongside the announcement, SEGA also released a new trailer for the game (extremely bad music included).

I’m pretty excited to see the release of Iron Man, being a big fan of the comic books and the superhero himself. Of course, the video game will be based on the highly anticipated movie starring Robert Downey Jr., who is also providing the voice of Iron Man in the game.

The game will be releasing on every console that’s currently accepted in today’s society, including the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PlayStation 2, PSP, Nintendo DS, PC, and mobile, on May 2nd.

This week of new games isn’t quite a “best week ever” when it comes to content, but we do see the release of three, maybe 4 quality games (in my opinion) that I have been somewhat buzzing to see come out. Click the jump below to be amazed with the content we get this week.
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One of the problems with being a (relatively) young gamer is the inability to get excited about older pop culture references and inspirations in the gaming industry. Such is the problem with the recent announcement of a Doctor Who Video game. I’m sure there are plenty of people that couldn’t be more thrilled that the long running British TV series is getting a video game title. But me? I really couldn’t care less. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll give the game a chance when it comes out, but there’s absolutely no hype in it whatsoever for me.

The details are sparse as of now, as an Eidos representative said they “haven’t announced a release date at the moment. It’s not too far away.” What we are sure about, however, is the game will be playable on the PS2, DS, and PC. More details will be posted as they come along.

[Via videogaming247]

[Author's Note: I left Brawl out because it technically does not come out this week(Sun-Sat), but since it will be out by the time the next MEGAMonday New Releases is published, I have decided to include it]

Welcome to another MEGAMonday New Releases, this one being more MEGA than the others because, of course, the new site layout is up and looks awesome! But what about the games you say? Oh yes, the games.

America’s favorite pastime is getting quite a bit of love this week, with a baseball game on almost every console with the releases of Major League Baseball 2K8 and MLB 08: The Show. If you’re more worried about academics than athletics, pick up Bully: Scholarship Edition and enroll in Bullworth Academy. Finally, for those with a taste for blood, the anticipated prequel to the God of War series, God of War: Chains of Olympus, is coming not to the usual Sony home console, but to the PSP.

Oh yes, and BRAWL! After multiple delays, and more months than we could count, Super Smash Bros Brawl is finally out! I’m not even going to tell you to go buy it, since everyone that owns a Wii (and some who don’t) already have this at the top of their lists.

What are you picking up this week?

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That’s a pretty sensationalist headline up there, so let me take a step back and say, no there won’t be any Nintendo games on your PS3. There is good news though for those of you who thought your PS2 gaming days were over on your new PS3, after Sony announced that they were pretty much abandoning backwards compatability in hopes of lowering the PS3’s price point a bit more. In an interview with EGM, PlayStation Network director Eric Lempell hints that there are ways that PS2 games may still be playable on the PS3.

When asked if the PS3 was going to offer PS2 games through the Playstation Store, Lempel responded, “We haven’t talked about that yet, but there are possibilities through technology and software emulation to make that possibles.” The problem, from what I can gather, is that you can’t just plug in and play the game on the PS3. Special things would need to be done to make PS2 games work (special things that can’t be done with original Playstation games at all) on the PS3. In the end, we’d be getting charged for a library of games we probably already own and could play for free on any PS3 with backward compatability. I guess something is better than nothing, but at this point this is another place where the massive technological leaps the PS3 took is hindering more than helping.

Thank God this week got here when it did. If you remember, last week wasn’t exactly thrilling (unless you were a die hard Bomberman fan), and the biggest release the week before was a Wii exclusive. This week we’re getting into some good stuff. The anticipated Devil May Cry 4 is coming out for both the 360 and PS3, which I will be picking up tomorrow.

There also seems to be a strange theme of animal games this week, with My Horse & Me, Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure, Zoo Tycoon 2, and Downstream Panic! all coming out.

Finally, if you didn’t notice, The Spiderwick Chronicles is being released for the 360, PS2, DS, PC, Wii, SNES, Atari Jaguar, and Turbografx 16. OK, maybe not those last ones. But geez, can they feed us that shit any harder?

What are you picking up this week?

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I am a strange person. I’ve heard it all throughout my life. There was nothing more fun to me as a child than getting up on a Saturday morning, watching cartoons with a big-ass bowl of cereal and then spending the rest of the day gaming on any and all systems that I had access to. Growing up a gamer in the early eighties has enabled me to see the rise of every game console except for the original Pong. I’ve been gaming since I learned to read at the age of three, when I learned how to run my old man’s Commodore 64 all because I wanted to play Time Pilot.

Many of you have been fervently reading and commenting on my other posts that I’ve done since my inception to MEGATONik, and I can’t thank you enough for your support. In thanks to you, the community, I’ve decided to put in a ton of work and bring you a special post that near and dear to my heart, my Top 50 Console Games of All Time.

I will try my damnedest to explain the reasons why I think why a certain game is deserved of it’s spot. Certainly many of you will disagree with the order I have put the games in but I always welcome your comments and suggestions. It is thanks to all of you in the community that I have been able to hone my craft by subjecting you to my subjective opinions about video games. Without any further ado… let’s get this thing started! Hit the jump to be defeated by a wall of text designed to titillate and please you.

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It’s not hard to see that I love playing shit games. A ton of my reviews on MEGATONik have all been extremely bland titles. Hell, even the boxart on most of the titles are enough to tell you to stay away. Why do I review these games? The answer is plain and simple: I love bad games. It’s as appealing to me as the grindhouse film genre. I enjoy laughing at terrible plots, generic names, and pointless tasks. Superman 64 may have been utter shit to you, but in my eyes, it was a pile of gold.

Some of you may think I just have poor taste in games, while some may also share my love. I know several readers out there have seen games at their local GameStop and dismissed them because of their title or boxart. People like me purchase them. I see something that looks like total ass and I buy it. I find more comedy in these budget games than most huge titles.

I know there are people out there who would like to know about the games that sites like IGN and GameSpot don’t review. Licensed Nickelodeon games, odd Japanese games that have been translated into English and forgotten about, Barbie titles; whatever crap you can think of, I’ll write about it.

This is why I’m presenting a new weekly article written by yours truly. The Garbage Collector will be a weekly article about bad, uninteresting, and/or extremely cheap titles that you’ve probably seen or heard about, but ignored. Brace yourself as I dig into the massive shitpile I call my game collection and pull out bargain bin nightmares.

Read on for the first game for me to babble about, Mobile Light Force 2.

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FINALLY, EA has announced that they will be selling Rock Band drums and Rock Band guitars separately. The drum kit will be arriving in stores two days before Valentine’s, February 12th, for the price of $79.99, while the guitars are coming in April for $59.99. This marks the first time wireless guitars will be of use on the Xbox 360 version of Rock Band. There is no word on whether or not the company will be selling microphones yet.

Money-milking EA sure has put a steep price on their controllers, especially since the game bundle with a guitar, mic, and drum kit included, costs $169.99. If you do the math, or if you simply glance at the prices for the equipment, you’ll notice that this is a total ripoff. If you don’t already own the game, you’re better off buying the bundle. If you do and you’re looking for another instrument, I suggest using Ebay. These prices are just too bad.

Finally. After weeks and weeks of healthy doses of nothing and crap, we receive a solid line-up of quality games. There’s something for everyone this week, most notably No More Heroes for the Wii, brought to us by Suda 51. Anyone who has played a Suda 51 title can tell you that, while obscure, Suda’s games are masterpieces in their own right, and should satisfy anyone who wants something more than minigames and E+ games for their Wii.

360 and PS3 owners can look forward to Burnout: Paradise, the next installment in the acclaimed Burnout series. Unlike the previous Burnout games, however, Paradise takes place in a sandbox type world, with players able to freely drive around Paradise City and engaging in races at their own will.

The last, but certainly not least, game of note is the anticipated Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, available for the DS. Days of Ruin is the latest in the popular Advance Wars series, and features the ability to create your own custom maps, play friends online via Wi-Fi, and a campaign mode with a significantly darker plot than the previous Advance Wars games.

What are you going to pick up this week?

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