Apocalypso's Atomic Arcade: Video Games Coming out this Week - 11/29

2009/11/30

Picks of the Week: Avatar, Rogue Warrior

This week after Thanksgiving and Black Friday sees two major releases: James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game and Rogue Warrior.

Avatar is obviously based on the movie of the same name, written, directed, and produced by James Cameron (Terminator, Terminator II). Besides mysteriously taking place in the same world as Borderlands (Pandora), I’ve been seeing quite a bit about this game lately. Whether it turns out to be any good, we’ll have to see. As you all know, most of these video game to movie adaptations and vice versa rarely turn out good. One of them has to suck.

The other title that seems to have snuck onto the scene this week is Rogue Warrior. I was just reading the other day that this game might suck, seeing as it has had virtually no marketing. Buy when you look at the main character, Richard “Demo Dick” Marcinko, a guy who is a former Navy Seal, and who commanded Seal Team 2 and 6, I can’t help but think of other games like Soldier of Fortune, which featured John Mullins. Yeah, granted, most of that series, especially the last one, was pretty bland, but you never know.

Black Friday& Cyber Monday Deals at Amazon

As always, the links below (the ones I could find) go to each game’s detail page at Amazon, D2D, Steam, etc.

Altitude (Steam)
Avatar: The Game
DiRT 2
Elven Legacy - Magic (D2D)
GREED
Heileen 2: The Hands of Fate
Luxor Adventures
Playmobil 2 Pack
Puzzle Chronicles
Rogue Warrior
Strike Force Red Cell
Zombie Driver (Steam)
The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood
The Seventh Dragon
World of Zoo