Sierra Online has announced that "Battlestar Galactica", a space combat game based on the SciFi Channel TV series, will be available in stores on October 23rd for $19.99, and on the 2th via download on Xbox Live Arcade for about half the price. Ripten's Rob Way is not impressed.
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Gaming Steve writes: "In just about the best year for gaming ever, there were far more disappointments than one would expect. The following are by no means the worst games of the year – those I know well enough to avoid – but these still left quite the perturbing taste in my mouth."
Lair is clearly the winner here. I don't know why the developers don't just release some sort of directors cut with a different control scheme rather than giving up on a title with so much potential. oh well.
And Two Worlds is a good close second for my money.
right on target with darkness i liked stranglehold it was fun but didnt touch after a week of it .
There have been plenty of great years for gaming, but 2007 may very well top them all. Halo 3's "biggest media launch ever" is obviously at the forefront of newsworthy events, but it's far from the only item worth talking about. New IPs were a big theme this year as well, with titles like Crackdown, Overlord and, of course, BioShock impressing the hell out of gamers the world over. Many also see 2007 as the year of the casual gamer, with ever-escalating enthusiasm for Nintendo's Wii and DS devices driving a newfound mass public interest in video gaming.
However you choose to look at it, the medium has made some tremendous evolutionary leaps in the past year. As with when sound was added to film and color to TV, gamers must now wrestle with a number of less tangible unknowns as the face of video gaming continues to mature. Before leaping into the great unknown of 2008, join UGO now for a look back over the greatest hits, misses and head-scratchers of the past year.
Feature by Russell Frushtick and Adam Rosenberg.
