Shipping this week: it begins edition

by Richard Mitchell { Oct 13th 2008 at 3:45PM }

And here ... we ... go. We're halfway through October and it's finally started. The industry imposed holiday game torrent is upon us. We hope you've saved up some cash (or tidied up your GameFly queue) because, starting now, you're going to need it. Just look at all of these games:

Yeah, this is going to be a tough couple of months.

[Via Joystiq]

Tags: blitz, blitz-the-league-2, dead-space, fifa, fifa-09, fifa-soccer-09, golden-axe, golden-axe-beast-rider, rock-revolution, saints-row-2, shipping-this-week

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Momer @ Oct 13th 2008 3:51PM

How did Rock Revolution just come out of nowhere like this? I checked and you have only 1 post about it, also it's selling for discount price. Guess it's made to suck.

Ghoti @ Oct 13th 2008 4:38PM

Rock Revolution is a bit interesting in that only the game is coming out this week. If you want their drum set to go with it, you'll have to wait another month, or use your Rock Band and/or Guitar Hero World Tour drums with it (assuming they have coded it to work with them).

One thing to keep in mind with Rock Revolution though. There's around 40 songs on the disc, but they are ALL COVERS. No original master tracks at all.

I'm not going anywhere near it.

Dirk Dorkelson @ Oct 13th 2008 5:59PM

Also, a few of Rock Revolution's covers are covers of songs whose originals already appear in other games. I found this odd, given that you have to use other games' controllers to play Rock Revolution. It seems like a head scratcher all around.

Dirty @ Oct 13th 2008 3:55PM

wish they had more options in the gamefly Q. My whole queue is filled with unreleased games. I want to stop shipping of all games except a particular new release or something like that.

Loban @ Oct 13th 2008 4:24PM

This is why I only keep 1 or 2 games in my Q at any time. I keep my entire list of games I wanna play in a spreadsheet on my PC, and add them 1 or 2 at a time to my Q as I want them. This way I have more control of which games I get and in what order, rather than relying on when they become available.

psychohog @ Oct 13th 2008 5:26PM

That's exactly what I do as well. Even notepad will work for that.

dylan @ Oct 13th 2008 3:57PM

And yet the upcoming releases bar to the right still hasn't been updated...

xFenixKnightx @ Oct 13th 2008 4:05PM

"And here ... we ... go."

Anybody else get a UFC announcer Mike Goldberg kinda vibe from reading that at first? No? Just me? :P

It really would have gone nicely with it too...

Loban @ Oct 13th 2008 4:32PM

LLLLLLLLet's get ready to rumblllllllllllllle!!!!!!

Andrew @ Oct 13th 2008 4:54PM

That's boxing...

Edboy @ Oct 13th 2008 11:49PM

The Joker, perhaps?

mirage @ Oct 13th 2008 4:44PM

I will be renting Dead Space (Gamefly) and buying Saint's Row 2 but not until after the big game blitz.

josh @ Oct 15th 2008 3:37PM

damn at this rate i won't get a copy of dead space from gamefly :(.. this sucks..

DBoyFlex @ Oct 13th 2008 4:48PM

Saints Row 2, but not yet. Next buy: Fallout, then Gears. SR2 and Fable for navidad. Priorities, I guess.

Conor @ Oct 13th 2008 4:50PM

hmmm might get me some dead space but fable 2 and fallout are on the horizon!!

Fire Fawkes @ Oct 13th 2008 5:01PM

Dead Space gets a "no buy" from me only because Fable and Fallout are so close. Then the new COD, Banjo oh and Gears...yeah. My poor wallet.

Cytech @ Oct 13th 2008 7:51PM

Fable 2?

boo boo @ Oct 15th 2008 3:37PM

fire fawkes, I do igree with you.. things are tight dead space is a very good game. but is not one that you could play over and over again. unlike gears war 2. But, if they would of release it a month with no good games that would be the biggest sale out game. i would buy it and im sure you would of too..

Bootleg Zani @ Oct 14th 2008 12:10AM

It begins indeed.

Dead Space this week.
Far Cry 2 next week.
Fallout 3 week after.
new Bond depending on reviews; still not sold on TreyArch no matter how surprisingly good it looks.
Vigilante 8 Arcade on XBLA.
Then Gears of War 2.
Mirror's Edge.
Left 4 Dead.
Huxley (supposedly 11/25; oh wait cancel that back to having no release date)

Not to mention so many others that I just don't want.

Mikey @ Oct 14th 2008 1:05AM

And I thought last year was going to be horrible for my wallet.

Games I definitely getting:
Dead Space
Fable II
Gears 2
Left 4 Dead
Prince of Persia
Mirror's Edge
Call of Duty: WaW
Blitz the League 2

Games that are still meh:
Far Cry 2
Fallout 3(However moving towards a definitely)
Saints Row 2
Guitar Hero WT

There's no way in hell that Rock Revolution is going into my 360.

Hatredkopter @ Oct 14th 2008 2:21AM

Dead Space looks promising.

Neuromancer @ Oct 14th 2008 10:01AM

It's horrendous, I have four games I want to buy in the next three weeks. I don't even have time to play that many games. =)

Sircut @ Oct 14th 2008 10:42AM

Yeah i'll be skipping lunch for the next three months so I can afford all these:

Rock Band 2 Bundle
Fable II
Spiderman: Web of Shadows
Gears of War 2
Need For Speed Undercover
Mirrors Edge
Prince of Persia
Banjo Kazooie
Call of Duty WaW

Eric Carter @ Oct 18th 2008 1:24AM

This game is looking fricken awesome. There are so many good games coming out to bad we are in a recession. Saved $150 by fixing my red light myself at least http://redlightxbox360.com

tony @ Nov 20th 2008 8:16PM

ive already preordered and paid off most of my games. im getting:

dead space
saints row 2
far cry 2
fable 2
midnight club la
legendary
bond
call of duty
gears of war 2
mirrors edge
fallout 3
need for speed undercover
already got fracture
brothers in arms
and silent hill
too many games im getting and so little time to play but oh well got to have em all.
also going to get left 4 dead and end war and maybe tomb raider.
im playing the cod beta right now and let me tell ya even though its treyarch its some bad ass stuff. its basically just like cod4 but with wwii weapons. if you loved cod 4 its a must buy.