LEVEL review scores
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Super Mario Galaxy 2 – 10
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker – 9
Blur – 7
3D Dot Game Heroes – 7
Red Dead Redemption – 8
UFC Undisputed 2010 – 8
Alpha Protocol – 6
Giana Sisters DS – 5
Rocket Knight – 5
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands – 7
As an added bonus, here’s this month’s cover of the magazine. It’s a bit odd, don’t you think?
Mario mania hits UK at official launch of Super Mario Galaxy 2
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– Superfans queue for hours to meet Charles Martinet, voice of Mario, at GAME, Oxford Street –
11 June 2010 – To celebrate the launch of the hotly anticipated Super Mario Galaxy 2, hundreds of fans dressed as Mario queued for up to 8 hours outside GAME, Oxford Street last night. Super keen fans donned their best Mario outfits to be first in Europe to get their hands on this year’s most critically acclaimed video game, Super Mario Galaxy 2 on Wii!
People travelled from all corners of the UK to meet Charles Martinet, the legendary voice behind Mario, get Mario merchandise signed by Charles, play the game and collect their exclusive Mario goody bags.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 is set to be the smash hit of the summer and launches across the UK today. Receiving rave reviews across the media, Mario mania has hit the capital as fans scramble to pick up their copy of this highly acclaimed game this weekend.
Top 5 game sales worldwide (Amazon)
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Nintendo Wii
North America:
1. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)
2. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)
3. Just Dance (Ubisoft)
4. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Nintendo)
5. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
Japan:
1. Xenoblade (Nintendo)
2. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)
3. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Nintendo)
4. Xenoblade Limited Edition (Nintendo)
5. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)
UK:
1. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)
2. Just Dance (Ubisoft)
3. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Nintendo)
4. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)
5. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
Nintendo DS
North America:
1. Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
2. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
3. Pokemon HeartGold Version (Nintendo)
4. Mega Man Zero Collection (Capcom)
5. Puzzler World (Atari)
Japan:
1. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 (Square Enix)
2. Rockman Zero Collection (Capcom)
3. Tomodachi Collection (Nintendo)
4. Zelda no Densetsu: Daichi no Kiteki (Nintendo)
5. Maru Goukaku Shikaku Dasshu! Gyouseishoshi Shiken (Media5)
UK:
1. Rooms: The Main Building (Hudson)
2. Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box (Nintendo)
3. Pokemon HeartGold Version (Nintendo)
4. Pokemon SoulSilver Version (Nintendo)
5. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
The best-selling games of 2010 thus far
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1. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (14.7 million worldwide)
2. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (14 million worldwide)
3. Battlefield: Bad Company 2
4. Final Fantasy XIII (5.5 million worldwide)
5. Wii Fit Plus
6. God Of War III
7. Pokemon SoulSilver Version (8.4 million combined worldwide)
8. Wii Sports Resort
9. Mass Effect 2 (1.6 million worldwide)
10. Pokemon HeartGold Version (8.4 million combined worldwide)
Rock Band 3 official announcement, partial track listing, DS version in development
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HARMONIX, MTV GAMES REINVENT MUSIC GAMES WITH ROCK BANDTM3
Rock Band 3 Features Announced, including amazing soundtrack plus access to the most music available in any video game with more than 1,500 tracks and growing; new keyboard gameplay and three-part harmonies for up to seven players rocking together; Rock Band Pro Mode and much more!
GUILDFORD, UK., – 11th June, 2010 – Harmonix, the world’s premier music video game developer and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B) today announced features for Rock BandTM3, the next generation of the ultimate social and interactive music gaming platform.Featuring an incredible 83-song setlist and access to far more music than any other music game, as well as innovative new gameplay modes and instruments, Rock Band 3 will change the way fans think about and play music games. This next iteration in the Rock Band platform has something new for everyone and also supports traditional Rock Band gameplay with players’ existing instruments.
Blaster Master: Overdrive heading to Europe
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BLASTER MASTERTM OVERDRIVE EXPLODES ON TO WiiWare
AICHI, JAPAN (June 11th, 2010) – Sunsoft, a division of SUN CORPORATION (JASDAQ: 6736), today announce that Blaster MasterTM:OVERDRIVE will be available through the WiiWareTM channel across the PAL territories from the 18th of June 2010 for 1000 Wii Points.
Released back in February for North America, Blaster MasterTM:OVERDRIVE is an action-shooting game that takes place on an Earth infected by an aggressive, polymorphic virus. Poor, defenseless animals worldwide infected by the virus have been turned into flesh-eating, hemoglobin-swilling terrors. Fortunately, the world has Alex. And, even more coincidentally, he happens to be one of the world’s foremost biologists – specialising in viral mutation profiles and genetic manipulation.
Monster Hunter Tri review
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Game Info:
System: Nintendo Wii
Category: RPG
Players: 1-2 (offline), 1-4 (over wi-fi)
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Monster Hunter Tri is the latest game in Capcom’s Monster Hunter franchise, a series of RPGs that have never really taken off outside of Japan. Well known for multiplayer co-op allowing for up to four adventurers to team up and take down colossal foes, the series now finds itself on the Wii —a system often criticised for its approach to online play. Is Tri the series’ best game to date or is there still something that has been lost in translation?
There’s really no plot to the game. In the single player mode, you’re a wannabe adventurer who is asked to save a small seaside village from a massive leviathan lurking in nearby waters. The storyline only really serves to add new gameplay elements, which is fine by me. After the first few tutorial missions, you can start opening up new missions courtesy of the Hunter’s Guild. Over time, more areas open up, and you can gain access to things like a farm providing you will common (but useful) items and ingredients, a shipping fleet offering to trade commodities and a cat-run canteen that serves up meals which grant temporary stat boosts and abilities. A few quests in, your lonely hunter is joined by Cha-Cha, this weird masked midget who serves as a constant companion both in and outside of quests. He can help gather resources, learn different techniques from different masks and, most importantly, act as a diversion for drawing monsters’ attention.
