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Retail Roundup: April 14, 2009 on Game and Player

Retail Roundup: April 14, 2009

Ed Kirchgessner  //  April 14, 2009


Giants tear up the PC arena.

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n a week that's filled with PC releases, one title stands out: Demigod is a strategy title which puts players in control of massive colossi — it's like Shadow of the Colossus, but told from the other side. Use your giant to lay waste to the competition the only way giants know how: smash 'em, bash 'em.

A pair of moody adventure games also make their way to Window's machines this week. Still Life 2 has players solving the case of a serial killer whilst Cryostasis takes players back to 1968 where they'll battle mutants at a Soviet arctic power station. The latter focuses more on shooting while the former will make you use your noggin. You decide which is more your style.

Ah, the flight sim. Remember when people actually used to play them? What better way to reignite the gamer's passion for this genre than by releasing a title focusing on a helicopter gunship no Westerner has ever heard of? Take-Two Interactive does just this with the release of DCS: Black Shark. Do I sound bitter? Perhaps, but I'm really just upset that I lack the time and patience to tackle a truly hardcore sim game.

PC gamers aren't having all the fun this week. SNK Playmore brings a hearty fighting compilation to the Wii in the form of Samurai Showdown Anthology. Revisit some of the greatest titles the folks at SNK ever brought to market. Even if the graphics don't always impress, bear in mind that these games will seem new to the vast majority of gamers. After all — who could actually afford a Neo Geo back in the day?





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