Added by Brad on Oct. 31, 2008
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Let me distract you from your Halloween costumes for a minute to remind you that November starts tomorrow. That means a whole new mess of games you'll have no time to play!
November is typically the month when all the year's biggest, most hyped games come out, but this year I thought October was going to upset the competition with
Fallout 3,
LittleBigPlanet,
Fable II,
Guitar Hero,
Far Cry 2, and a bunch of other stuff. Look at that lineup: that would be a healthy plate of games all on its own, even if nothing else was coming out for the rest of the year.
But...uh...I looked at the list for November, and, well, yeah. Take a look. This here's just a smattering of the releases I consider to be the most important, not even close to everything that's coming out. Gird your wallets!
11/3
Explosions!
Animal Crossing: City Folk11/4
Resistance 2Tom Clancy's EndWarQuantum of Solace11/7
Gears of War 211/11
MK vs. DC Universe 
Zombies!
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & BoltsCall of Duty: World at WarMirror's Edge11/13
WOW: Wrath of the Lich King11/18
Left 4 DeadNFS: UndercoverSonic Unleashed 
Werehogs!
Lips11/20
The Last Remnant11/25
Chrono Trigger DSMan, that is a scary list. Time to get choosy. I'd also like to remind you that our release list has what I consider in my
entirely unbiased opinion to be
a damn fine calendar view. I recommend using it if you want to see a summary of what's coming out every month and plan your spending accordingly.
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Resistance still looks like Resistance, and I was bored to tears by that game. That big monster looks cool but it's so scripted and fake that it really just feels like a marketing gimmick to show folks.
LBP planet is Spore, in every way, hollow and over-hyped with nothing but peni and tits to keep it going.
Mirrors Edge is a FPS Dragon's Lair with some Prince of Persia thrown in. It may do well in Europe, it has a very Euro feel to it with the techno and style.
Call of Duty has the odds stacked against it, but I think it may find a niche with people wanting something new after playing CoD4 all year.
Left 4 Dead is painfully undersold. It looks like a great little game that takes what was attempted in RE: Outbreak years ago and finally does a multiplayer zombie game that's never been done. I think it might've been helped if it either made it into the orange box last year, or some new game was boxed with it like HL2 Ep3 or Portal 2. As it is, it probably should've been a $40 game since it really feels like a Source mod instead of a full game.
Gears 2 worries me of suffering from "more of the same syndrome". I've heard rumors that it really goes beyond what the original did and it's closer to Resistance in scope than people imagine, but it's probably got more preorders than many of these other games will sell all year so Epic doesn't want to spoil the story like Resistance did.
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