The Rumble Pack | 2010 | March

Episode 127: Baby Master

ThePack

– March 3, 2010Posted in: Main, Podcasts

You can come out of your fallout shelter now; the ApocalyPS3 is over and there’s a new podcast to download. This week, Tony delves deeper into the story and multiplayer of BioShock 2 and Nick channels Poseidon’s Rage in the first half of the God of War Collection. Tom and Justin follow that up with a Heavy Rain deluge that touches upon everything from rocking babies to tying shoelaces…oh, and there’s a story in there, too. Plus, a plea to dust off your Wii and the final word on the PS3 brouhaha.

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Neil LaBute’s Heavy Rain promotional video (courtesy of /Film)

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Doing What Nintendon’t (Week of 3/1)

Justin

– March 3, 2010Posted in: Blogs, Doing What Nintendon't, Justin, Main, Nicolo

Wii owners, live it up while you can! This week, you get first dibs on Mega Man 10, another NES throwback that should bring in big bucks for Capcom. You also get a legitimately old (good) game in the form of Fatal Fury Special. DSi owners are less fortunate. However, I am curious about EA’s tween-focused Flips series, which appears to be the DSi’s first batch of visual novels. The “genre” has an audience in Japan, but not so much in the states.

Special thanks to Nick for the Fatal Fury Special assessment.

Mega Man 10
WiiWare/Capcom
1,000 Points

Mega Man 10 doesn’t need a cheerleader, but I’ll still give it the full Justin endorsement. Whether it’s a worthy successor to the ninth installment remains to be seen, but it’s definitely fun…if your idea of fun is falling into bottomless pits and spike traps, that is. You can expect a full review in the next week or two once I’ve bested the game’s robot masters – which are not as goofy as they could have been – but this is a pretty safe investment. I also don’t think it’s quite as slapdash as the 1up review would lead you to believe.

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PSA: Read GameSpite

ThePack

– March 2, 2010Posted in: Main, Update

Between the “ApocalyPS3″ and the Infinity Ward scandal, it may be hard to take your attention away from Kotaku, Joystiq and the like today. However, if you have a few minutes to spare every now and then, you should do yourself a favor and mosey over to Jeremy Parish’s GameSpite blog. He recently asked his readers to help shoulder the promotional duties for the print version, GameSpite Quarterly, and it only seems right for our site to answer his call to arms. After all, Mr. Parish has been hugely influential on how the five of us discuss and appreciate video games.

For the past 10+ years, the 1up editor and his cohorts have been writing thoughtful essays on games new and old. While some may visit for his musings on Mega Man 10‘s Sheep Man and those brutal roguelikes that Tony enjoys so much, we’ve always been more impressed by his retro analyses; it takes real insight to find something new to say about a game that came out more than a decade ago. We’re not necessarily asking you to go purchase all four issues, but we do urge you to browse the site and express your appreciation. The books fill a niche that even venerable publications like EGM and Edge never could.

Happy Trombone! We’re on the Zune Marketplace!

ThePack

– March 2, 2010Posted in: Main, Update

It only took us a few years of inaction, but The Rumble Pack podcast is officially available for download at the Zune Marketplace. Be sure to stop by our Zune page to review our show and help us climb the charts.