...we've got a couple thousand years of human history under our belt, folks. Don't just make shit up and call it a name, unless it's a name for a robot.

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None of them can ever be better than the Jason from Power Rangers. :)

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At least Jason is a normal name that a child can have without having to live with embarrassment. It's a cheesy ploy for a contest, yes, but I've seen far more insulting instances of it.

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Or Killzone.

Or MadWorld.

Hell, I would even be happy if people called me Mister Jack in real life. It sounds badass.

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But still... there are better reasons to name your children Jason.

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I love games like this.

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Ok ok, I'll stop.

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Oh and slightly off topic. The one who did the review for 1UP was Giancarlo Varanini...I don't know why but I hate it whenever he reviews something. It's less reviewing and more griping on why things aren't done this way or that.

It's like he's penalizing games because some some game mechanics,graphics,etc are not suited to his tastes...

Oh and I've seen him on the 1UP show as well. Lord knows that was the only time I wanted to sock someone in the face just for talking...

@Fahey: Can you do it for me? I promise to send you cookies! Oh and maybe a comic book or two if you can kick him on the nuts!

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I tried it on PC and was hugely disappointed by EVERYTHING.

Typical crap game.

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Is it not possible that with a few months to tune and polish, Codemasters could have had a stronger, more marketable title on their hands?

Even Tomb Raider has fared poorly in sales thus far, and that's an established IP with global brand recognition. If it can't compete with the Call of Duty's and the Gears of War's of the world, what chance does a new, unproven IP from a relatively unknown developer have during the most crowded release window of the year?

These publishers need to look at Capcom's business model a little bit closer, methinks. Launching new IP around the crowded holiday release window is brand suicide, with Assassin's Creed as the only exception I can think of, (which had more to do with great marketing than it did the game itself).

Look at what Capcom were able to do with Lost Planet and Dead Rising... even Devil May Cry 4 benefitted heavily from a lack of competition when it was released. Why can't more publishers get this through their heads?

Even Resident Evil 5 could be held until next Holiday succeed, but Capcom knows better. So does Rockstar. Hence GTA4's staggering first week sales figures.

Hardcore gamers? We game all year long. Not just at Christmas, and a game like Rise of the Argonauts or Valkyria Chronicles isn't going to resonate with the soccer mom/christmas list set, so why even bother if what you risk is retail suicide?

Why not give these titles a chance for the spotlight at any time throughout the first 3/4th's of the year? When we gamers are bored out of our collective minds for lack of quality new releases?

Hell- I paid full retail for Bullet Witch I was so desperate for new content at the time. I'd definitely give some of these titles more attention if they were released in a period of the year I actually had time to play them... as it is they all become also-ran releases that are lost in the fray before they even hit store shelves.

And that's a real shame.

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Another Action RPG failure for the xbox. Goddammit. I WANT A GOOD ONE, not this too human conan argonauts crap.

For the record, I enjoyed conan, but Im not quite sure why. Boobies and Ron Pearlman? Probably.

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