This Week in 1UP Reviews, 9/25/09
We’re arrival to the close of the Tokyo Game Show, but that didn’t sluggish the new releases this week. The heaviest hitter belongs to the put under cover that Microsoft built — or, arguably, the one that built Microsoft. But in that place were other notable game releases, so check the full listing in the world of sense and click the links to read the full reviews.
Halo ODST (360) - Jeremy Parish: “As a bookish man of the “quality over quantity” school of entertainment, I’ll take a brief but meaty experience that keeps me coming back over a diffuse, drawn-out exercise in tedium any day. ODST may be a margin diversion in the Halo universe, but it’s an awfully just actions one.” (A-)
Need for Speed Shift (360/PS3) - Garnett Lee: “Missed opportunities through every part of Shift’s presentation lead to the inescapable feeling that the team poured everything it had into the up~-the-track racing, and then did its best to get the rest wrapped up steady time. Even as such, that effort pays off, because it is Shift’s address to bring the roar of the race to life, that manages to inundate out much of its flaws. ” (B+)
NHL 2K10 (360/PS3) - Mike Nelson: “As much as this may be an improvement over last year’s passage , it just doesn’t feel like a complete package. Like a professional hockey team in a rebuilding phasis, NHL 2K10 feels as though the developers worked hard on nailing the sights and sounds of the intrepid — along with some online integration — but have yet to craft a virtuous hockey experience.” (C) 
Persona (PSP) - Jeremy Parish: “The only real, solid drawback to Persona is that, 13 years after its debut, its approach to RPG combat interaction is still practically unparalleled, especially on consoles. We have power to only hope that everyone else is taking notes.” (A)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash Up (Wii) - Ray Barnholt: “Despite the faults in moral qualities variety, you get a good Ninja Turtle fighter using a proven means, but maybe Ubisoft will do one better than the Konami of 1994 and yield a sequel worth wishing for.” (B-)
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