Making a repeat appearance this week to, what we’d think, repel potential buyers from its stench further is Vampire Rain: Altered Species which sucked it up on Xbox 360 and is looking to do the same on PS3. It never bodes well when a game’s demo is only released in Japan (like Vampire Rain did) and Americans never get a taste of it…tsk, tsk.

Other than that, we get some quality games this week with Mercenaries 2 and the long-awaited Spore. We’ve heard that the former’s online co-op might be a bit limiting with friends needing to be in close proximity to work, but we’re still looking forward to blowing shit up with a buddy in beautiful high-def.

(The following scores were “aggregated-tive-ized” as of September 1, 2008 via Metacritic)

The Good…

• GTR Evolution (PC) - Metascore: 88
• Spore (PC) - Metascore: 85
• Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise (360) - Metascore: 83
• FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage (PC) - Metascore: 79

The Bad…

• Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (360, PS3) - Metascore: 73
• Infinite Undiscovery (360) - Metascore: 70
• Spore Creatures (DS) - Metascore: 68
• NFL Head Coach 09 (360, PS3) - Metascore: 66
• Combat Mission: Shock Force - Marines (PC) - Metascore: 62
• Warhammer: Battle March (360) - Metascore: 59
• Facebreaker (360, PS3) - Metascore: 56
• Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball (360) - Metascore: 46
• Vampire Rain: Altered Species (PS3) - Metascore: 32

The Unrated…

Xbox 360

• Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
• Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise
• Warhammer: Battle March
• Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball
• Rapala Fishing Frenzy
• Facebreaker

PS3

• Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
• FaceBreaker
• Rapala Fishing Frenzy

Wii

• Rapala Fishing Frenzy

PC

• GTR Evolution
• Spore

DS

• PictoImage
• Spore Creatures

written by Carlos Macias \\ tags: Altered, Fishing, Flames, Japan, Mercenaries, Metascore, Rain, Rapala, repeat, Species, Spore, tsk, Unrated, Updated, vampire, Viva Piñata, Week, world, Xbox