The uitstelvirus has never been so fierce around themselves caught as in 2009. One after the other toptitel is postponed out of fear that the game will be overwhelmed in the midst of so many potential lwa le top titles.
Every year we see it happen: games where many people can only anxiously look forward to, be postponed. So was Killzone 2 last year, rolled over in the waters of Resistance 2. Two exclusive PlayStation 3 titles in the same genre was indeed not so useful – and I think that I, with a certainty bordering probability can argue that Resistance 2 set to benefit from the delay has had.
But this year is a different story. The uitstelvirus has never been so fierce around themselves caught as in 2009. One after the other toptitel is postponed out of fear that the game will be overwhelmed in the midst of so many potential top titles. Almost every week, announces a publisher name that you have one or more titles are sequenced at a later stage to shine. In the meantime there are so many, that it would be wise, she seemed to agree to list and they comment on.
Take 2/Rockstar stretches currently the crown by Max Payne 3, Red Dead Redemption, BioShock 2, and Mafia II all by scrolling to the fiscal year 2010. That means that all four titles for July 2010. That Mafia 2 and Max Payne 3 delayed, was perhaps to be expected, but that BioShock 2 and Red Dead Redemption later appear, comes as a disappointment. Probably were the games simply have not. The lukewarm reactions to the first screenshots of Max Payne 3 may have do decide the game is still far to tackle.
Take 2 has if great title for this autumn, now only the previously deferred Borderlands, but that game is what concerns me really is the least brother of the above five. The forced cell shading-jacket the game from one moment to the other custom was, in my opinion, the original raw Mad Max-vibe of Borderlands not well done.
Activision recently made it known that his shooter Singularity is moved to the beginning of 2010. This in itself is still logical. If you as a publisher in four months ‘ time three shooters releases – Wolfenstein, Singularity, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – then you are your own competitor. Moreover, it is the thinking man’s shooter Singularity a better fate. It would be a sincere shame as this game in terms of atmosphere and elements inspired by both Half-life 2 as BioShock ondersneeuwt in the overpowering Modern Warfare 2-offensive that soon erupts.
SEGA’s only really big hit for this fall – the over-the-top third-person action game of unravelling the secrets – not more, in 2009. Very much longer have we to wait: in January, the game in Europe. SEGA is afraid that the game gets little attention in the traditionally busy najaarsperiode. Nevertheless, I believe that unravelling the secrets of a unique game that is very capable had held, if only because it in the coming months in this genre is little competition.
Sony sees a lot of titles for its PlayStation 3 slippage. God of War III would already not come true, but the rumors and vague statements of PlayStation dignitaries that MAG and Heavy Rain 2009 also not more, are becoming more and more persistent. Does Sony only have the (otherwise very promising) Uncharted 2 and the ever-roguish adventures of Ratchet & Clank in the brand-new A Crack In Time. Or that enough to the floating consolekiezer this fall en masse to switch to the PlayStation 3? I doubt it.
EA has a number of titles never really made clear when they were fulfilled, but people who think this autumn Mass Effect 2, Army of Two: The 40th Day and Battelfield: Bad Company 2 to play, come a rude awakening. That be, if they were not, titles for 2010. Not that EA this fall to nothing will release – Need for Speed: Shift, FIFA 2010, Brutal Legend, Dragon Age, Rock Band: The Beatles and Dead Space Extraction – but EA’s line-up is even more spectacular.
Only, Ubisoft, Nintendo and Microsoft have, as yet, nothing postponed. Already many have hoped for this autumn finally Alan Wake to play, but no, that is the spring of 2010. Ubisoft seems to be anyway on roses to sit down with Assassin’s Creed II and Splinter Cell: Conviction, and a diverse palette of Wii titles. Also Codemasters has strong najaarstroeven with DIRT 2, F1 2009 and Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. Though I would on that last one yet, no money dare to turn; you do know but never.
Anyway; the initially action packed autumn 2009 is significantly thinned and the first half of 2010, is busier than ever.