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Shippin' Out September 24-28: Halo 3, Opposing Fronts

By Staff, GameSpotPosted Sep 24, 2007 9:15 pm PT

Microsoft unleashes 2007's top 360 title alongside Company of Heroes expansion; sixth Settlers game joins five PS3 games and three Wii VC titles.

Unless you've just come back from a three-year stint researching jungle fauna in the deep Amazon, there's probably a good chance you know Halo 3 is coming out this weekend. Microsoft has dropped over $10 million dollars to promote the Xbox 360 exclusive, which will go on sale at over 10,000 locations at midnight--including hundreds of GameStop and Best Buy outlets. GameSpot's own Halo 3 Launch Center has extensive amounts of information on the title, including an extremely positive review and the video of the campaign's first hour.

If you don't own a 360 or aren't partial to foiling an interstellar crusade by fanatically religious aliens, the week does have some notable alternatives. A trio of high-profile games previously released on other platforms hit the PlayStation 3: Midway's Stranglehold, Electronic Arts' Skate, and Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII. Another game originally slated to arrive last week, THQ's racer Juiced 2, arrives on the PlayStation 3 (and the PSP) on Tuesday, alongside Sony's first-party basketballer, NBA 08 (PS3, PSP).

The days ahead also offer something to PC gamers whose thirst for Nazi blood has not yet been slaked. Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, the first stand-alone sequel to THQ's critically acclaimed real-time strategy game, ships out Monday. Other offerings for the mother of all gaming platforms include The Settlers: Rise of an Empire, the sixth installment in the city-building strategy series; and Loki: Heroes of Mythology, an action role-playing game that mingles deities from four pantheons.

With no new releases scheduled for Xbox Live Arcade, and Thursday's PlayStation Store update still unannounced, the Wii's Virtual Console is the only console service with any confirmed new games for download. Super Nintendo Entertainment System classic Kirby's Avalanche teams up with the Sega Genesis favorite Streets of Rage 3 and TurboGrafx-16 throwback Legend of Hero Tonma on the Wii Shop channel.

This week's new releases are listed below (list taken from retailer information--actual dates may vary).

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts (PC)
Hour of Victory (PC)
Jackass the Game (PS2)
Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights (PS3, PSP)
Kirby's Avalanche (Wii VC)
Legend of Hero Tonma (Wii VC)
Skate (PS3)
Streets of Rage 3 (Wii VC)

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007
Bratz: The Movie (WII, PS2)
Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII (PS3)
Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA 2
Dewy's Adventure (WII)
Halo 3 (X360)
Hot Pixel (PSP)
NBA 08 (PS3, PSP)
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire (PC)
Stranglehold (PS3)

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Hard Evidence (X360, PC)

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007
No releases announced.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007
Loki: Heroes of Mythology (PC)

67 Comments

  • commando611

    Posted Oct 1, 2007 2:30 pm PT

    overall this has been a crap week other than halo 3,all the sales of others where prob 1 sale every store. due to halo 3. lol

  • Dan2002sk8er

    Posted Sep 30, 2007 8:50 pm PT

    Jacob-Goodlich - I have to disagree with you on the Halo thing, Halo multilayer will always be fun, then I will agree Assassins Creed will be thew best game this year, but why would anyone care about stranglehold when Halo 3 is released this week. this was a horrible strategy by the makers of Stranglehold, first the game is horrible you slide over all objects and the graphics look like a launch title for the dreamcast. Then they release it along side Halo 3, the people who made this game are a bunch of geniuses. the only game other than Halo that is worth looking at that released this week is Skate.

  • p00phead

    Posted Sep 30, 2007 8:43 pm PT

    i love halo 3 but it was to short in campaign

  • ParanoidSarge

    Posted Sep 27, 2007 3:54 pm PT

    Wow, I can't believe halo sold that many copies!! I have mine and I'm already addicted.lol.

    [How come every comment that refers to Halo 3 it has a negative rated comment?(Sony fanboys anyone...)]

  • playstation_wii

    Posted Sep 26, 2007 2:19 pm PT

    Halo 3 is so awesome!

  • comthitnuong

    Posted Sep 26, 2007 12:31 pm PT

    I think it is understood that all eyes will be on Halo 3.

  • NerdboyHimself

    Posted Sep 26, 2007 4:44 am PT

    Any particular reason they're not listing Soul Nomad for the PS2?

    Despite, y'know, being advertised right there on the PS2 page, in a very visible location, the legend "SEPTEMBER 25" plainly visible?

  • jacob-goodlich

    Posted Sep 26, 2007 1:22 am PT

    its kind of difficult to find the actual release date for stranglehold, but anyway im really glad that halo3 is out........should only take a few days to get bored of and then the REAL game of the year comes out(assassins creed)

  • Homerj

    Posted Sep 25, 2007 9:33 pm PT

    Thanks for the clarification wolf...I saw that and said..theres no way Stranglehold is ready for PS3 so soon.

  • jakndaxter7223

    Posted Sep 25, 2007 7:05 pm PT

    ewww

  • Pablo620

    Posted Sep 25, 2007 6:39 pm PT

    OMG now i know why there is Halo 3 stuff just about everywhere. Cause it came out today. NO jk really

  • legend_01

    Posted Sep 25, 2007 3:30 pm PT

    Halo 3 will own

  • thewolf619

    Posted Sep 25, 2007 2:30 pm PT

    Stranglehold got pushed to next month, Blazing Angels is being listed as November and NBA08 is next week. Silly Gamespot.

  • _NeoN

    Posted Sep 25, 2007 2:17 pm PT

    Gotta say, glad to see Halo 3 isn't the only title available this week that has me interested. There's Juiced 2, really enjoyed part 1, and then there's Loki.

  • Jebril

    Posted Sep 25, 2007 12:44 pm PT

    Halo is doomed Brats and Dewey are both released in the same week, everyone will forgot about their 360s and play with their Wiis this week.

    Yeah I know, but it never gets old for me.

  • Yojimbo8

    Posted Sep 25, 2007 11:55 am PT

    Think the stores will stay open and do another midnight release for CSI? =P

  • andrewhateme

    Posted Sep 25, 2007 11:53 am PT

    Wow another CSI game?? thats Craptastic.

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