Anyone notice this massive onslaught of games being released over the last month now? Since at least mid February, there have been a number of high quality titles being released, as well as a few on their way out. Here’s a list off the top of my head –

Sonic’s Sega Geneisis Collection (over a month old but well made) – 360/PS3
Street Fighter IV (durr) – 360/PS3
Star Ocean: The Last Hope (slow first two hours, phenomenal 40+ hours, really bad end dugeon that killed the game for me) – 360
Grand Theft Auto: The Lost & Damned (my review can be found here)- 360
Resident Evil 5 – 360/PS3
Suikoden TierKreis (playing through now, and it’s blowing away any RPG I have played over the last five years) – DS
Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume – DS
Retro Game Challenge – DS
MadWorld – Wii
Killzone 2 – PS3
Pokemon Platinum – DS
Resistance: Retribution – PSP
Phantasy Star: Portable – PSP
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars – DS
Halo Wars - 360
PuzzleQuest: Galactrix – DS
FEAR 2: Project Origin – 360/PS3
LocoRoco 2 – PSP
The Godfather 2 – 360/PS3
Legends of Wrestlemania – 360/PS3
Guitar Hero: METALLICA – 360/PS3/Wii

Oh my GOD!

The amazing thing is that I know I’m missing a few titles, especially new releases that are coming out within the next few weeks (please feel free to fill in the blanks). You have a lot of genres represented here. You’d be hard pressed not to find at least TWO things that have recently been released, or are being released, that don’t excite you enough to make you yell like a little school boy. Everything I listed, other than maybe Godfather 2 (was very unimpressed at my Comicon play testing) and FEAR 2 (only really liked FEAR when it was on the PC) I want to play bad, I own, or plan on buying. Well, not Killzone 2….helps if I had a PS3 first!

I can give a thumbs up to the following — Sonic’s Sega Genesis Collection, Street Fighter IV, GTA: Lost & Damned, Suikoden TierKreis and Resistance: Retribution. MadWorld, Guitar Hero: Metallica, Legends of Wrestlemania and Valkyrie Profile are on my radar right now, and possibly Pokemon Platinum.

I can’t remember too many short time spans where there was a wealth of gaming goodness being released all at once, and it wasn’t the holiday season. A part of me wishes some of these games were held off until the summer, when we can all use a relief from the typical summer time drought. But hey, I can’t really complain right now. I’m too busy with all these games, and I hope (and know) you all find something from this batch that tickles your fancy!