{"id":31811,"date":"2012-03-20T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=31811"},"modified":"2017-05-12T12:18:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T19:18:43","slug":"videogames-mar-18-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/videogames-mar-18-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Videogame Releases: Week of March 18th, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nest of sequels and spin-offs carry the game industry this week, but that&#8217;s not necessarily a bad thing. We get a chance to take it to Umbrella once again, the opportunity to play as one of the world&#8217;s greatest ninjas and, of course, we get to fulfill the childhood dream of piloting a giant mech.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h5>Ninja Gaiden 3 (360, PS3)<\/h5>\n<p>Ever since the &#8216;Ninja Gaiden&#8217; series was rebooted, Tomonobu Itagaki has been the man at the helm, but that&#8217;s been changed for &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B005DVAB0A\/panandscathed-20\">Ninja Gaiden 3<\/a>&#8216; .The new lead is Yosuke Hayashi, who took care of the &#8216;Sigma&#8217; games. Early reviews fall on complete opposite sides of the spectrum. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ps3.ign.com\/articles\/122\/1221070p1.html\">IGN<\/a><\/em> gave the new game a 3.0, while <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxmonline.com\/ninja-gaiden-3-review\">Official Xbox Magazine<\/a><\/em> went with an 8.0.<\/p>\n<h5>Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (360, PS3)<\/h5>\n<p>You can play as either a U.S. Special Operations agent or an Umbrella Security Service officer in &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B004UDB9SA\/panandscathed-20\">Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City<\/a>&#8216;, a third-person shooter that takes place between the second and third &#8216;Resident Evil&#8217; games. One of the interesting aspects of the game is the ability to make theoretical, &#8220;What if?&#8221; decisions, such as killing off beloved characters from other &#8216;Resident Evil&#8217; titles.<\/p>\n<h5>Armored Core V (360, PS3)<\/h5>\n<p>I freaking love mechs. After &#8216;Robot Jox&#8217;, I started preparing for a future career as a mech pilot, ready to defend my country in a totally awesome robot. That being said, the &#8216;Armored Core&#8217; series just hasn&#8217;t grabbed me. It doesn&#8217;t have the right feel to it. &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B004NRN5D0\/panandscathed-20\">Armored Core V<\/a>&#8216; is said to be more tactical and less twitch-oriented, though, and that sounds like the kind of mech play I dig.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nest of sequels and spin-offs carry the game industry this week, but that&#8217;s not necessarily a bad thing. We get a chance to take it to Umbrella once again, the opportunity to play as one of the world&#8217;s greatest ninjas and, of course, we get to fulfill the childhood dream of piloting a giant&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[4847,344,91,5206,4,1398],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31811"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35871,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31811\/revisions\/35871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}