EDGE #198 Feb 2009

[Dezm0nd]

Hype

Fuel
Ghostbusters
Wet
GTA: Chinatown Wars
Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce
Demigod
Race Pro
Blue Dragon Plus
Stormrise
Tom Clancy's Hawx
Danburo Senki
The Another World
Suikoden Tierkreis
Dragon Quest V

Reviews

Rolando - [7]
Rise of the Argonauts - [3]
Mushroom Men : The Spore Wars - [6]
Destroy all Humans : Path Of The Furon - [3]
Persona 4 - [9]
Fire Emblem : Shadow Dragon - [7]
Skate 2 - [7]
Away Shuffle Dungeon - [5]
King's Bounty : The Legend - [6]
Space Invaders Get Even - [5]
Big Bang Mini - [6]
Burn, Zombie, Burn - [6]
PuzzleGeddon - [7]

Time Extend

Ridge Racer Revolution

The Making of...

The Gabriel Knight Trilogy

Features

Flight Of Fantasy - The first look at Avalanches magical actioner.

Death From Above - Texas-based TimeGate Studios invites us to take the plunge into its new Battlefield-inspired FPS, Section 8.

Orchestral Madness - We join the Helghast to record Killzone 2's grand audio score.

Going Deep - This years theme? Stereoscopic gaming

At Home in the Dark - Starbreeze tells us how Riddick breaks free of the genre gulag to cross the boundaries of gaming and movies

[abigsmurf]

Other than maybe Persona 4, that's a completely uninspiring line up of reviews.

[Kaladron]

What's on the cover?

[Dezm0nd]

A very boring picture of a Rock Golem thing with the words GROUND BREAKING under him.

I think it's to do with the Flight of the Fantasy feature inside.

[Daragon]

Rise of the Argonauts was a destined failure - there's only room for one God of War, and even that's not perfect.

Watching all the previews I was thinking "this is nothing that's not been done better before"

[jimmbob]

Shame about the dodgy Argonauts score, I was quite looking forward to that.

[spagmasterswift]

What's Burn Zombie Burn?

[charlesr]

What did they say about Skate 2? What did they give the original?

[Atticus]

I was wondering why Skate 2 got a 7 ... they gave Skate an 8 iirc.

[TheForce]

Time Extend : Ridge Racer Revolution , nice, already looking forward to reading this one ! RRR, one of my all time fav arcade racing games.

[Orgun]

Glad to see the Persona 4 love

Looking forward to reading the Killzone 2 feature.

[egparadigm]

What did they say about Skate 2?

Yattah:

Skate was a reaction to sequels, a youthful breath of uncluttered thinking in the face of... incremental gimmickry. That puts Skate2 in an awkward position from the start.

Walking is "surprisingly awkward", but makes "navigation... noticeably easier". The construction kit is good fun, and respects the "admirable restraint" of the series.

The Hall of Meat mode "sugests that the franchise's descent into dangerous slapstick may already have begun." Sits awkwardly against the series' "quiet style" and lacks the "precision" of Burnout's Crash.

"Execution is... sharp", but the game "feels a bit pointless".

Here's the cover, for those interested. Quite a nice one to look at, an improvement on last month's.

[Ish]

Is that cover trying to be ironic because its one of the worst I can remember.

Edit: Wasn't trying to goad you into an argument Mr. Maniac - I'd posted my comment in the other Edge thread by mistake and copied it over here without reading your comment about it being an improvement over last month

[Tobal]

I can't help it, but im a fan of these games. Tell me about Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce, its the first i've heard of a new DW game outside of Gundam Warriors 2.

[Spatial]

What's Burn Zombie Burn?

A PSN title

http://www.console-arcade.com/2008/10/27/burn-zombie-burn-for-psn/