Sega Nerds

Much success! Sega ships five titles this week

by Chris on March 19th, 2007

This is the week all the Sega Nerds (Well, at least the ones in North America) have been waiting for since Sonic and the Secret Rings was released. Sega is shipping five … count ‘em, five games this week!

I like that Sega is supporting several platforms in this batch of releases:

• After Burner: Black Falcon (PSP)
• Full Auto 2: Battlelines (PSP)
• Shining Force EXA (PS2)
• Virtua Tennis 3 (Xbox 360, PS3)
• Armored Core 4 (Xbox 360, PS3)

I’ve heard mixed reactions about After Burner, which is developed by Planet Moon Studios. Apparently, a lot of people just don’t like it very much, but IGN did enough to give it a 79, and that ain’t that bad.

Now, Full Auto 2 is the only game out of the batch that is a port of its console big brother. But if this PSP title is anything like what Warren has played on the PS3 version, we should all be in for a nice treat.

Shining Force EXA looks to be an interesting game, but like After Burner, it’s received mixed reviews thus far. But with all the changes Sega has implemented since the last iteration, it looks to be worthy of a look.

We’ve played the Virtua Tennis 3 demo on Xbox Live, so we know what to expect. I just can’t wait to get into those awesome mini-games, check out the player creator and finally beat Federer’s weak ass again.

Lastly, we have Armored Core 4, which also ships last, on March 23. Now I’ll admit that I’ve never been the family AC guy, no, that title has gone to my younger brother who has some pretty damn good mech-fighting skills. I know he’s excited for this game, so may have to check it out if only because of the eight-player online multi-player.

This is quite a big week for Sega. When was the last time you guys remember any publisher releasing four games on the same day and another a few days later? So now that we know what Sega has in store for us, which of these games do you fellas plan to pick up?

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