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

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This week we see more than a few good games (didn’t game companies get the memo that summer is drought time?) with the release of Unreal Tournament 3 for Xbox 360 (sans the ability to add mods like the PS3 version) and the PC port of Dante’s latest adventures with Devil May Cry 4. Mandatory plug: DMC4 review by yours truly. Tsk, tsk…shameless.

Besides that, Civilization Revolution also drops which marks the first Civ game Sid Meier’s actively programmed for since he created the original in 1991. You can try out the turn-based strategy game for yourself by downloading the demo readily available on PSN and Xbox Live.

Check out the full list of games dropping this week after the break…

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