This week’s Scoop! starts off with a brief breakdown of the IGN office’s favorite games of the year so far. While everyone on the podcast voted for different games, the rest of the IGN staff is clearly in favor of Mass Effect 2. Charles voted for Starcraft 2 and shares his experience with it, highlighting the well balanced gameplay, traditional systems, and level of polish.
Being the resident comic book fan, Greg talks a little about the announcement of Batman: Arkham City. The Game Informer cover raises the question of whether or not the game will feature co-operative gameplay, which raises a couple of eyebrows about how well that could be implemented.
After briefly hitting on some Metroid: The Other M and DJ Hero 2 woes, the show closes out with a game code giveaway and listener mail.
Covered games and topics: favorite games of the year so far, Starcraft 2, Civilization 5, upcoming MMORPGs (DC Universe, Final Fantasy IV, Cataclysm), Batman: Arkham City, Metroid: The Other M, DJ Hero 2, listener mail, Halo 2600
Welcome back to Game Scoop!, your weekly dose of gaming news and massive LOLZ. Your shepherds this week will be Daemon Hatfield, Greg Miller, Craig Harris, and the Ragin’ Canadian, Charles Onyett. Now that Charles’ StarCraft II review is up, he finally has time to hang out with us again.
On tap this week:
We’ll discuss our favorite games of the year so far.
George Lucas is partially making up for all the evil he has committed.
Daemon and Greg have been playing DJ Hero 2.
Craig has been playing Metroid: Other M.
True Crime: Hong Kong has been bumped to next year.
The sequel to Arkham Asylum has been named.
Plus, we answer a bunch of listener mail about Civilization V, Friday the 13th, and sexy cosplayers. Don’t forget, we’re available on iTunes. Remember to rate the show while you’re there.
Runtime – 57:28
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