Welcome back to the GearGames weekly video game release feature here at Gear Diary! A couple of very different but highly anticipated releases this week. First, we have another ‘delayed from the fall’ game, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction. Early looks say that the changes made to gameplay have paid off nicely.
The other major release is the first episode of the third season of a modern reinvention of a classic adventure franchise – Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Episode 1: The Penal Zone. It has already come out for the iPad, and releases for Mac, PC, and PS3 this week. The cool thing with these games are they are great examples of truly episodic gaming! Actually, there are a couple of other things – read on to find out!
- Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction
- Final Fight: Double Impact
- Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City
- Final Fight: Double Impact
- Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Episode 1: The Penal Zone
- Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
- Arcade Shooter: Ilvelo
- Blood Bowl
- Easy Piano
- Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Episode 1: The Penal Zone
- Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City
- Dark Void Zero
- Rig’n'Roll
- Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
- Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned
Some notes from last week:
- Mass Effect 2: Kasumi’s Stolen Memory
- Borderlands: Double Game Add-On Pack
- The add-on is well done in general, but we find out that Kusami isn’t a particularly interesting character.
- These were already released on the consoles and were very good then, and the PC versions are also quite good.
What games am I playing now? Here is a sampling:
- DS: Secret Files: Tunguska – the North American release has been delayed again and again for two years, and didn’t happen again last week – so I grabbed the European English version.
- PC: Tron 2.0 – not quite done yet, but thoroughly loving this classic!
- Mac : The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom – hard to enjoy the actual game between the DRM and Cider performance hits, and so on … !
So what are you playing? Chime in below!
Enjoy gaming!
