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Shippin' Out: December 11-15: Zelda GC, lots of Wii

The GameCube receives perhaps its last notable title as Nintendo's new system ramps up with new releases.

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In March of 2004, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker director Eiji Aonuma referenced a "Wind Waker 2" in a presentation at the Game Developers Conference. That project eventually became The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and helped launch Nintendo's Wii last month. The original GameCube version sees release this week and appears ready to go down as the last notable title for Nintendo's aging system.

As Nintendo's previous system goes the way of the dodo, the Wii is entrenching itself at retailers around the country with a slew of new releases. In addition to a quartet of Virtual Console games--Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Gunstar Heroes, Ice Hockey, and Alien Crush-- the Wii sees a handful of titles for all age levels refreshing store shelves.

Konami's first-person hide-and-seek game Elebits offers a bit of E for Everyone-rated entertainment, while the E10+ for Everyone 10 and Older crowd can kick back with new games like Super Swing Golf and Chicken Little: Ace in Action. The cartoonish military shooter Metal Slug Anthology and World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions have been given T for Teen ratings, while older gamers might enjoy the first-person shooter Far Cry Vengeance, rated M for Mature.

Things are mostly quiet on the Sony front. The PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 get one title each in the form of College Hoops 2K7 and Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII, respectively. The PlayStation Portable is slightly busier, playing host to Blitz: Overtime and Shrek Smash and Crash. The Xbox 360 new-release section is similarly quiet this week, with only Rapala Trophies, Star Trek: Legacy, and the Xbox Live Arcade game Assault Heroes to call its own.

This week's new releases are listed below (list taken from retailer information--actual dates may vary).

DECEMBER 11, 2006
College Hoops 2K7 (PS2)
Rayman Raving Rabbids (PC)
Alien Crush (Wii)
Gunstar Heroes (Wii)
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Wii)
Ice Hockey (Wii)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (GC)

DECEMBER 12, 2006
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII (PS3)
Blitz: Overtime (PSP)
Disney's Chicken Little: Ace in Action (Wii)
DMZ: North Korea (PC)
Elebits (Wii)
Far Cry Vengeance (Wii)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas (PC)
Star Wars: Lethal Alliance (DS)
Shrek Smash and Crash (PSP)
Super Swing Golf (Wii)
World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions (Wii)
Lionel Trains On Track (DS)

DECEMBER 13, 2006
Assault Heroes (Xbox 360)

DECEMBER 14, 2006
Metal Slug Anthology (Wii)
Rapala Trophies (Xbox 360)
Star Trek: Legacy (Xbox 360)

DECEMBER 15, 2006
Alexey's Dwice (PC)
Football Mogul 2007 (PC)

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i knew their was a reason was a reason why i still had a cube!

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Wow...Slim pickings.

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Wow, bad week.

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I'll probably try out twilight princess on my gamecube while I wait to find a Wii under my Christmas tree December 25 th.

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I'm getting Far Cry Vengeance for sure. I may get Elebits later, but I'm taking a 'wait-and-see' approach on that one.

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well, nothing good this week......

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There is nothing odd about that. :P

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You fail.

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Nothing on there that I'd buy

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Whoopie...GOLDBERG!!! No seriously, good job Nintendo (geez i'm lame. Oh well)

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Only one more PS3 game in that list? Lame

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Oddly, I think the Metal Slug Anthology is the most exciting thing on this list.

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I'm glad there are no games coming out this week. I need to cath up. assault heroes i'm going to get though

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my last game cube game... thanks aonuma, thanks miyamoto, thanks everyone at nintendo, thanks for everything. rest in peace Gumpei Yokoi.

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cool still not that many good games for wii though....

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Zelda GC FTW! SF

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Nintendo looks strong on that list.

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7 Metal Slugs on one disc is great espcially since I just played through GunStar Heroes.

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Cant wait till Metal Slug and Far Cry. Hope they get good reviews

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i have to say zelda is amazing and it did deserve a rating of 9.0 at least. i am sick of hearing people complaing about the wii mote speaker, i think its an exellent feature that no other controller has. the sound is good, wot do you want surround sound or something better, so stop bashing the speaker its kinda petty if u do. there maynot be voices of speece in the game but hey has any zelda done it, no so its not a big concern unless u cant bothered reading coz ur intellectually lazy. plus when u read something u take it in better than u would hearing it. lol i have to say red steel is good but could be better, if it had puzzles, that make u think more on how u are going to get by a level. rather than making ur way through the game just shooting an enemies, and ubisoft were lazy that they didnt give the game fmv's but rather pictures with sound, now that was a bad move. over all i think the rating that red steel got was harsh coz the game still gets u wanting to advance through it. i would give it a rating of 8.0 which is fair, i hope when they bring the new ones they learn from their mistakes.

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nice.............

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Finally, Twilight Princess was originally scheduled to come out nearly a year ago. Just another day left, woo.

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WOOHOO

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Well, it's Dec 12 and I still don't have my Zelda. Oh well, what's one more day when I've had it reserved for over a year?

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i want to see how twilight princess does for teh gc

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i read that FarCry Vengeance is a remake of FCI Evolution, which was an ADDON for the Xbox, so they're charging full price for a game that wasn't even full price on the Xbox? terrible. It should have been a remake of FCI Predator which was both FCI and FCI:E. ubi soft really have something against Nintendo.

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I've been looking forward to Far Cry for the Wii, I hope it doesn't disappoint.

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since I ain't got a Wii..YET, i''l buy the GC version of TLOZ, but if I had a Wii i'd buy Far Cry and Elebits...

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I'm interested in seeing what Metal Slug gets for a review as i've never played it yet. Also can't go wrong with Ice Hockey.

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FAR CRY FTW!!!!!

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Isn't Far Cry Delayed to January???????

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Except for Elebits that list is chock full of garbage imo.

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Wow a GC game! Too bad I don't have one! (There's a reason for that). Nothing exciting this month damn! And if I hear one more person saying the 8.8 review for Zelda wasn't fair enough I'ma shoot someone! It's not the greatest game in the world people! I thought it was plenty fair. There isn't a subcategory in the review score for fanboyism.

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Zelda. What Can I say about it? Well it should have come out a long time ago. What hurts Zelda the most is the fact that the story still feels like N64. Which by all means is a good thing about 8 years ago in 1998. The time RPG action games was the year after ps2 launched. The incredible games like FFX and other ones like Devil May Cry really destroyed Zelda. Twilight Princess is amazing but it lacks what other games and gamers consider stables. No voice acting? Bad sound out of the Wii mote? Wow I can tell you I've seen it for myself and Gamespot's Jeff should be thanked for noticing its flaws. And it is flawed this game should have destroyed every other release this year and yet I find myself playing games like GEARS OF WAR instead. Perhaps Nintendo will learn and evolve in software just like they evolved in Hardware.

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awesome!!!!!

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YUMMY! :D ELEBITS! :D WII! :D

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"gnbfd paranoiasurviva where is the review for Zelda GCN? I'll tell you one thing, if it's higher than an 8.8 I'LL NEVER TRUST GS REVIEWS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted Dec 12, 2006 10:11 pm GMT -3" You certainly dont know nothing about games, since GC is a weaker console but the games is better for it, meaning that is the best it can give, it will receive more than 8.8

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Please release more PSP games, PLEASE!!! I'm almost done with Lumines II and Daxter. Okay, I could buy portable ops but I'm not into metal gear...oohhh...killzone liberation is fun but I'm almost done with that as well. Seriously, where are the PSP games, SERIOUSLY!!! FINAL FANTASY PLEASE!!!

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>>skemaal I don't think the VC games should be included in the new releases. However, with every console having some sort of Virtual Console themselves, there should be a new section called something like "New downloadable retros this week" or something like that. I agree with you. Alien Crush and Mario Bros. is FAR from new.

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paranoiasurviva where is the review for Zelda GCN? I'll tell you one thing, if it's higher than an 8.8 I'LL NEVER TRUST GS REVIEWS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Elebits, FarCry Vengeance, Star Wars: Lethal Alliance, Super Swing Golf...I'm liking the looks of December 12th...wait...thats today!

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Bye, my GameCube. I'll be playing you all of Christmas Holidays. Then you'll be stashed away in my closet. :(

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The Wii version of Zelda is soo much better than the GCN version its not even funny. I feel sorry for the people buying it for the GCN.

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I await a Wii Far-Cry review before I decide to buy it, Ive played it so much on my PC I'm almost sick of it lol. Also, RIP Gamecube your days are officially over now that Zelda is being released.

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I must get Far Cry Revenge :D

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I want to see how FCV turns out...

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where is the review for Zelda GCN?

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Woo. Elebits, Far cry, Metal slug! and Super Swing Golf! All shipping this week!

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