The Video Game Revue

Odama video

My GameCube has not been seeing a lot of use lately, to put it lightly. With so many great games occupying my attention on the Nintendo DS (Tetris DS, Resident Evil DS, Mario Kart DS, Metroid Pinball), PS2 (MGS3: Subsistence, Ace Combat 5, a whole bunch of RPGs), PC (Day of Defeat, Counter-Strike, Rome: Total War, Age of Empires III), and even GBA (Final Fantasy IV Advance, Tales of Phantasia), the GameCube hasn't been able to sneak much time in--especially since it hasn't had a feature attraction in months.

Zelda: Twilight Princess looms on the horizon, but in the meanwhile another game has caught my eye. It's called Odama, and it's kind of a cross between pinball and Shogun: Total War, or something. It's not the concept that sold me on the game so much as the video that I found at the following URL:

http://odama.nintendo.com/

The EB Games web site has an estimated release date for this game of April 10th, which isn't even two weeks away. There's a good chance that I'll be looking into this game further.

Also worth mentioning is the 4X game Galactic Civilizations II (GalCiv II), which has been on my radar for a while, but which I haven't made any time for. I was looking at some of the scores that it got over on MetaCritic.com and was surprised to see that several critics are calling it an exceptional game that really goes above and beyond. I'll have to re-arrange my schedule to find the time to get into it.

posted by Parappa @ 5:20 PM