Ridiculing Releases: New Games the Week of 9/11

How is it possible to ridicule a title that’s the ultimate find-all-the-pickups, hide and seek adventure? Lego Star Wars is fun and all (and I’m excited for the sequel) but there are over 1,000 little pickups — in the form of one-dot Lego studs — in each stage. When a game goes that over the top it’s just hard to find an infantile alternate title to make fun of it so I’m not even gonna try.

Lego Star Wars II (PS2, Xbox, GameCube, PSP, Xbox 360)
Bomberman (PSP)

Bounty Hounds (PSP)
Fuel (Xbox)
IGPX (PS2)
NHL 07 (PS2, Xbox 360, Xbox, PC)
NHL 2K7 (Xbox 360)
One Piece: Pirate’s Carnival (PS2)
ProStroke Golf: World Tour 2007 (Xbox)
Rengoku II: The Stairway to HEAVEN (PSP)
Rule of Rose (PS2)

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