Topic: Game Releases and DLC for the Week Ending January 17

[NWR_Neal]

Rock Band 2 joins the DLC ranks while Personal Trainer: Math and Mastiff's Moon lead another quiet week of releases.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=17535

 This week's releases contain one Wii game and three DS games amongst a lot of downloadable content for rhythm games. Wii's lone release this week is THQ's Neighborhood Games which features neighborhood games with Wii controls. The DS gains three games with the releases of Nintendo's non-game Personal Trainer: Math, EA's Lord of the Rings: Conquest, and Mastiff's sci-fi first-person shooter Moon.    

Downloadable content saw a record 53 songs for Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2 as Rock Band 2 finally joined the DLC fray. Guitar Hero: World Tour received the Travis Barker Track Pack. Meanwhile, a smattering of 30 songs from the huge Rock Band DLC backlog were released alongside the 20 free downloadable songs.  

 

Wii Games

   

         

Neighborhood Games    Publisher: THQ   Cost: $29.99   ESRB Rating: Everyone       THQ's Neighborhood Games features 24 different activities that offer unique twists on pastimes such as Football, Golf, Tennis, Ladder Golf, Lawn Darts, Horseshoes, and Bocce. The games use the Wii Remote to do things such as toss horseshoes or throw footballs. Featuring customizable characters, Neighborhood Games' multiplayer allows players to taunt each other as they compete in the various games.

 

 

DS Games

   

         

Lord of the Rings: Conquest    Publisher: EA   Cost: $29.99   ESRB Rating: Teen       Developed by A2M, Lord of the Rings: Conquest is basically capture the flag featuring J.R.R. Tolkien's characters. Set during the popular trilogy, the game allows you to pick your allegiance (good or evil) and then attempt to defeat the other side while capturing control points as well as other minor objectives. It features four-player local multiplayer as well as video and a score taken from the movies.

   

   

         

Moon    Publisher: Mastiff   $29.99   Teen       Renegade Kid's follow-up to Dementium: The Ward is a science-fiction first-person shooter for the DS. Making use of their Renegade Engine 2.0, Moon puts you behind the eyes of Major Kane as he investigates erratic energy readings on the Moon. With rumors of aliens, this is the jumping off point for what promises to be an epic story.

   

   

         

Personal Trainer: Math    Publisher: Nintendo   Cost: $19.99   ESRB Rating: Everyone       Personal Trainer: Math is the second entry in Nintendo's Personal Trainer series and the latest in their Touch Generations line. It features Professor Hideo Kageyama's 100-Cell method, which features "fast-paced, high-speed arithmetic problems (that) keep your math basics fresh, from addition to subtraction and multiplication to division." In addition, there are also daily activities and support for up to 16 players on one game card. Check out our preview for even more information.

 

 

DLC

   

Guitar Hero: World Tour

   

Guitar Hero: World Tour adds three more tracks this week, this time featuring songs with Travis Barker. All three tracks are 200 Wii Points ($2) each.    

 
• "What's My Age Again?" by Blink-182
 
• "Lycanthrope" by +44
 
• "Low (Travis Barker Remix)" by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain
 

 
   
 

Rock Band 2

   

Rock Band 2 finally joins the party as this week sees the release of the 20 free downloadable songs promised to consumers along with 30 other songs from the game's enormous backlog.    

The following are the 20 free downloadable songs:  

 
• "Sons and Daughters" by The 88
 
• "No Regrets" by Authority Zero
 
• "Prequel to the Sequel" by Between the Buried and Me
 
• "Bounce" by The Cab
 
• "Get It On" by The Chevelles
 
• "Give It to Me" by The Cocktail Slippers
 
• "Database Corrupted" by Dealership
 
• "I Wanna Be Your Man" by Endeverafter
 
• "Ashes to Fire" by Ghost Hounds
 
• "Young" by Hollywood Undead
 
• "The Feeling" by Kutless
 
• "If I Ain't Got You" by The Len Price 3
 
• "I'm Gone, I'm Going" by Lesley Roy
 
• "Burn You Down" by Opiate for the Masses
 
• "Magnetic Baby" by Semi Precious Weapons
 
• "Like a Fool" by Shaimus
 
• "Crazy Tuesday" by Thenewno2
 
• "The Time Is Wrong" by Tickle Me Pink
 
• "Desperate Times, Desperate Measures" by Underoath
 
• "I.V." by X Japan
 

   

The following are available for 200 Wii Points each:  

 
• "The Kill" by 30 Seconds to Mars
 
• "Move Along" by The All-American Rejects
 
• "Afterlife" by Avenged Sevenfold
 
• "Shockwave" by Black Tide
 
• "All the Small Things" by Blink-182
 
• "Call Me" by Blondie
 
• "More Than a Feeling" by Boston
 
• "Rock and Roll Band" by Boston
 
• "Inside the Fire" by Disturbed
 
• "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" by Fall Out Boy
 
• "Cheeseburger in Paradise" by Jimmy Buffet
 
• "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
 
• "…And Justice for All" by Metallica
 
• "Saints of Los Angeles" by Mötley Crüe
 
• "Hysteria" by Muse
 
• "The Perfect Drug" by Nine Inch Nails
 
• "Wonderwall" by Oasis
 
• "Hammerhead" by The Offspring
 
• "Time Is Running Out" by Papa Roach
 
• "Crushcrushcrush" by Paramore
 
• "Message in a Bottle" by The Police
 
• "Snow ((Hey Oh))" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
 
• "Working Man (Vault Edition)" by Rush
 
• "Beethoven's C***" by Serj Tankian
 
• "Zero" by Smashing Pumpkins
 
• "Interstate Love Song" by Stone Temple Pilots
 
• "Sex Type Thing" by Stone Temple Pilots
 
• "Buddy Holly" by Weezer
 
• "El Scorcho" by Weezer
 
• "Baba O'Riley" by The Who
 

   

For Nintendo's Virtual Console and WiiWare releases for this week, check out our weekly article.

[NWR_Neal]

Please everybody, tell me how pretty she looks. Or tell me what plastic surgery I should use to make her better, faster, stronger...

Like I said last week, this is still a bit of a work in progress, so any suggestions are welcome.

[vudu]

I think the format is fine when there's only a few titles released in any given week, but it could get a bit unwieldy come Q4.

[KDR_11k]

Oh man, those games have pretty bad (as in cheap looking) box arts.

[nickmitch]

Can we put horizontal separators between the sections?  I think that could help with the heavy release seasons.  Otherwise, I think it looks great.