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Gamebrink has released a very detailed review (including 11 hours of video) of Phantasy Star Universe, the new multiplayer online followup to Phantasy Star Online. Sounds like it will be a fantastic game, and includes a full 30 hour single player mode. Release is currently set for October 24th in the US.

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Call of Duty 2: Big Red One should not be confused with the game bearing nearly the same title, released for PC and XBox 360. “Big Red One” has been released for PS2, XBox, and Gamecube. Yet another WWII first person shooter, Call of Duty 2: Big Red One doesn’t quite do enough to distinguish itself from everyone else in the genre.

One good thing about the game is the variety of the missions. You’ll drive tanks, and shoot down planes with antiaircraft guns. The major complaint across the board seems to be that the single player campaign is just too short, at maybe 7 or 8 hours.

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Last week, Ubisoft released the first Prince of Persia game for the PSP: Price of Persia Revelations. A good part of the game is simply a port of Warrior Within, but there’s also a good amount of new content. Prince of Persia series executive producer Yannis Mallat says that a good 1/3 of the game is actually new, so it might be worth looking at, even if you’ve already played Warrior Within on PS2.

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Soul Calibur 3 is being called one of the best fighting games around. That’s impressive, considering the previous title of “best fighting game” went to none other than Soul Calibur 2. The third game in the successful franchise introduces some really interesting features. Most notable is “Character Creation Mode”, in which you can create a completely customized fighter from scratch.

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If hack and slash interests you, Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows is the perfect game. There is hacking, there is slashing, and then there is some more hack and slash thrown in for good measure. It’s really a love it or hate it sort of game. If you need engaging story lines to make you happy, stick with Final Fantasy. If, on the other hand, online multiplayer bloodshed is your thing, this is your game.

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Released last week, Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones has been well received. It’s the third and final installment in the Sand of Time series. It’s basically more of the same great platforming and puzzle fun, with a few new tricks thrown in for good measure.

Oh, and you get to play as the Dark Prince. Cool.

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The PSP version of Rockstar’s tremendously popular Grand Theft Auto series has to be one of the best games available for the PSP. As always, plenty of sex, swearing, and wonton violence round out the picture. Ok they are the picture. If you don’t already have this game, you must get it.

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It’s currently not scheduled for release in the US until August of next year, but it’s still not too early to start talking about the next installation in the massively successful Final Fantasy series. Final Fantasy XII, which will be released in Japan in March, looks to be the next big thing in console role-playing games.

Dragon Quest VIII, the latest in that other Square Enix RPG franchise, was released a couple of weeks ago. It included a playable demo of Final Fantasy XII.

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Scheduled to be released in the second quarter of 2006, Pursuit Force should be a rockin good police chase game. It received the Gamespot “Editor’s Choice” award for the best PSP game at E3 2005.

In the game, you play a rookie cop in the fictional Capital City. Your job is to clean up gang-infested streets in the five districts of the city. The best way to get that done, of course, is with lots of interesting vehicles and large weapons. Cars, motorcycles, trucks, speedboats and helicopters will be available for your enjoyment. And what fun you’ll have with 25 different weapons to use to complement the vehicular mayhem!

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In case you’ve been sealed up in your cave for the last few months, I should mention that next week Peter Jackson’s King Kong is being released for PS2 (and every other console, if you care). Seems that making a game from a blockbuster movie (or vice versa) seldom works, but Ubisoft, with a little help from our friend Peter Jackson of course, has gotten something right this time.

You play Jack Driscoll, the screenwriter type who tags along with filmmaker Carl Denham and actress Ann Darrow to the mysterious Skull Island. Here you’ll find dinosaurs, crazed natives, and of course our favorite enormous gorilla. The first person perspective as Jack is quite different. There is no heads up display at all, an attempt to more fully immerse you in the game.

You’ll play as Driscoll for about 70 percent of the game, but in critical moments control switches to King Kong, whom you play in the third person perspective. Kong can climg cliffs, swing from branches, smash obstacles, and generally do all sorts of other things that our Mr. Driscoll could not on his own accomplish.

Sounds like a winner to me.

Peter Jackson’s King Kong is Games Digest Game of the Week. Make sure to pick it up!