What's in our gaming wallets this week?
By GameSpy Staff | Feb. 10, 2005
Sony PSP mania has hit the GameSpy office … finally! After parting with some outrageous sums of cash for a couple of imported units, Ridge Racers mania and Lumines lunacy has completely taken over. Well, at least it has for one of the console editors -- he's too miserly to let anyone else get in on the hot, portable lovin' action. On with those darned lists once again!
Bryn "hardcore_pawn" Williams
Senior Editor
Dave "Fargo" Kosak
Executive Editor
Phil Theobald
Associate GBA Editor
Bryn "hardcore_pawn" Williams
Senior Editor
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What I'm Playing As you can probably tell, I've been up to my eyeballs in handheld gaming of late; this has mainly been due to the fact that I'm the proud owner of a PSP at long last. As such, my time has been equally split between fawning over Namco's brilliant Ridge Racers -- look for a full import preview soon -- and Bandai's excellent puzzler, Lumines. Two very different games, but both rock me pretty hard. Can't wait for the U.S. release of the system at this point. Other noteworthy moments include WarioWare: Touched! and a little Fox McCloud action in Star Fox: Assault. Such a shame there wasn't more of the old-fashioned flying levels in there.
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Executive Editor
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What I'm Playing Ah, at last some games have conquered the World of Warcraft hegemony! My playtime has been pretty scattered this past week. Last weekend we partied hard at a massive LAN party at the GameSpy headquarters, and in between stretches of WoW I returned to my old favorite Unreal Tournament 2004. My favorite way to play is speed-enhanced insta-gib capture-the-flag. Sweet. Simple. All skillz. SWAT 4 Multiplayer has been pretty fun so far. Naturally we play co-op, since these types of games aren't really meant for deathmatching. It's hysterical to try to coordinate an assault with Sergeant Sluggo and a bunch of n00bs. I'll have to write a PlanetFargo column about it...
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What I'm Playing Well, the game that I bought the Nintendo DS for has finally arrived. WarioWare: Touched! has all the craziness of the original WarioWare for GBA, but with the addition of touch-screen control. Sure, the DS's dual screens aren't used to their fullest here, but the new selection of microgames utilizing the system's stylus and microphone are a blast. Considering the spartan DS library, I expect this one will be stuck in my system for a while. I'm also slowly but surely nearing the end of RE4. What an outstanding game. If I didn't have to play all these other games for work, I would have finished ages ago, but I don't mind savoring a game this good. I also just picked up Fullmetal Alchemist for PS2. It's certainly not a great game by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm such a huge fan of the anime that I couldn't resist. I'm having some fun with it, but non-fans certainly wouldn't. I hear the sequel is much better -- hurry up and bring that one out, Square Enix!
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