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What's New - Game Releases for Week Ending 18/3/05

18th March 2005, 8:21pm
Lots of neat stuff to grab this week.

PS2

Eyetoy Carry Bag
The official Eyetoy Carry Bag has ample room to store software, a console, controllers, Memory Cards, SingStar Microphones and an EyeToy USB Camera.

Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
Based on a true story. Set during the famous airdrop before the invasion at Normandy, Sgt. Matt Baker and his squad of 101st Airborne paratroopers were scattered over the French countryside. As the story unfolds, the player (Baker) must choose between the success of his mission and the lives of his men – his brothers in arms. Also available on Xbox and PC.

Altered Beast
As a special military operative, you are sent to investigate a deadly genetic outbreak in a small West Coast town. Operating alone and with minimal information, you quickly realize that your mission will ultimately become a battle for survival. Hunted by unspeakable horrors and haunted by your past, you soon discover that in order to overcome evil, you must become more than evil.

Rugby 2005
Lightning-fast backs, 300-pound forwards, huge hits, and no pads... this is rugby in its greatest glory. Build team momentum with a shoulder charge or a high-impact collision, or avoid being tackled with creative side-steps or jukes - the power is in your control. Also available on Xbox and PC.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
In the struggle to achieve world peace and world dominance, rivaling governments are secretly developing weapons technology that could threaten the future existence of life.


Xbox

Fight Night Round 2
Get ready for the ultimate knockdown as Bernard Hopkins, the undisputed Middleweight Champion of the World, takes over as cover athlete for EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 2. The power of the punch is in your corner this year. Also available on Gamecube.

Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors
Otogi 2 takes place directly after the events chronicled in the original Otogi - Myth of Demons. Like its predecessor, Otogi 2 is set in Japan and steeped in real-life folklore and mysticism. Raikoh, the famed undead warrior, managed to temporarily save the Japanese population from an onslaught of demons, but had not been able to vanquish them all before returning to his grave.


PC

Freedom Force Vs. The 3rd Reich
Freedom Force faces off against the original Axis of Evil!

Darwinia
Combining fast paced action with strategic battle planning, the game features a novel and intuitive control mechanism, a graphical style ripped from 80's retro classics, and a story concerning a tribe of video game sprites trapped in a modern 3d game world.

Black & White Deluxe
Be good. Be evil. Be a god! As a god in Black & White Deluxe, you have the ultimate power over your worshippers. Will you be a benevolent deity, ruling with a fair hand over your adoring tribes? Or will you be a tyrant, terrorizing your subjects with an iron fist? Will you be a good or evil god? The choice is yours.

Silent Hunter III
Command the cunning and deadly U-boats of the North Atlantic and experience the tension-filled atmosphere of a WWII submarine movie. The king of submarine simulations returns with an all-new 3D game engine, new crew-command features, and more realistic action than ever before.


Nintendo DS

Project Rub
The game’s hero is doing everything he can to score a date with a sunny beauty. He enlists the help of the Rub Rabbits – a suave gang of super performers who wear plastic, members-only rabbit ears – to help him get her attention.

Zoo Keeper
One of the most addicitve puzzle games on any platform, now comes as one of the launch titles for the new Nintendo DS games console. Using the Touch Screen, players tap the Nintendo DS stylus to swap the positions of animals on the screen to create lines of three or more of the same type.

Rayman DS
The fearless and friendly Rayman heroically arrives on the Nintendo DS to defeat the pirate terror that has enslaved his world.


GBA

Robots
Experience the exciting world of Robots the Movie! Live the adventures of a genius inventor robot named Rodney Copperbottom as he moves to the big city to work for the company founded by his childhood hero.

DK: King of Swing
Donkey Kong and friends are back to swing their way through the game as they must retrieve the medallions stolen by the evil King K Rool.

Double Packs:
Get two for one in these packs: Scooby Doo or Sponge Bob Super Sponge + Rugrats Go Wild.

GBA Video:
Watch television on your GBA! Grab one of these two Pokemon cartridges: For Ho-oh The Bell Tolls or I Choose You!

Rayman: Hoodlum's Revenge
This time it's WAR!


So much to choose from! So many platforms! And it's all thanks to Games Warehouse.
by Nick Schaedel
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