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09-21-2011, 12:40 PM
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Still a bit of a slow week in Japan in terms of quantity, but two major releases coming this week are likely to dominate the hearts and minds of gamers over there for a while to come:
- Gears of War 3 (http://www.evilavatar.com/games/xbox360/gears-of-war-3) (10/10/9/10, 39 points): The latest of what's become quite a large number of Western-developed games to miss a perfect score in Famitsu by a single point. Like most M-rated games, the Japanese version of Gears 3 has been censored to get rid of some of the most visceral gore. Some hardcore FPS fans over there have imported the US version in order to get around this...only to find that the censorship still kicks in when the US Gears 3 is loaded on a Japanese 360, causing some consternation on Internet forums over there. Imagine spending the extra cash to import this game, only to find that not only is it still censored, but there's no Japanese-language support, either. You'd be crying in your curry, no doubt.
Regardless, Famitsu cares more about gameplay than decapitation, and they loved what they saw. "The graphics are top-of-the-line on the 360," one editor said, "and you can immediately lose yourself in the game world. It's top-level SF action, and with the well laid-out multiplayer support, there's not a single blind spot to it."
More... (http://www.1up.com/news/japan-review-check-gears-war)
Still a bit of a slow week in Japan in terms of quantity, but two major releases coming this week are likely to dominate the hearts and minds of gamers over there for a while to come:
- Gears of War 3 (http://www.evilavatar.com/games/xbox360/gears-of-war-3) (10/10/9/10, 39 points): The latest of what's become quite a large number of Western-developed games to miss a perfect score in Famitsu by a single point. Like most M-rated games, the Japanese version of Gears 3 has been censored to get rid of some of the most visceral gore. Some hardcore FPS fans over there have imported the US version in order to get around this...only to find that the censorship still kicks in when the US Gears 3 is loaded on a Japanese 360, causing some consternation on Internet forums over there. Imagine spending the extra cash to import this game, only to find that not only is it still censored, but there's no Japanese-language support, either. You'd be crying in your curry, no doubt.
Regardless, Famitsu cares more about gameplay than decapitation, and they loved what they saw. "The graphics are top-of-the-line on the 360," one editor said, "and you can immediately lose yourself in the game world. It's top-level SF action, and with the well laid-out multiplayer support, there's not a single blind spot to it."
More... (http://www.1up.com/news/japan-review-check-gears-war)