Heads Up — 11/13

Welcome back to our weekly online column, Heads Up. If you’ve ever searched around the internet looking for a current report on everything the Xbox 360 has to offer, you’ve no doubt hit numerous dead-ends. Heads Up attempts to alleviate your frustrations by offering a quick and complete guide to what you may have missed over the past week, online and in stores.

It’s another great week for gamers! A classic RTS hits the Xbox, our favorite bear-bird duo makes a comeback, and Call of Duty heads back in time to fight the Nazis. But if snatching jiggies or shooting baddies isn’t your idea of a fun time, the Marketplace has another weekly dosage of game videos, demos, and movies to tide you over. And of course, we can’t forget our sparkling Jewel of the Week.

 

JEWEL OF THE WEEK:

Mirror’s Edge

Sometimes mashing buttons, triggers, and thumbsticks actually gets a bit tiresome. So what if there was a game that made you completely forget that you’re just a gamer with a controller in your hand? What if you became the character on the screen? Mirror’s Edge does just that. Leap across rooftops and flow around obstacles as the free-running badass Faith in a game that takes the term “first-person” to a whole new level. Gorgeous, thrilling, and totally immersive, Mirror’s Edge is not only our Jewel of the Week, but a full-fledged OXM Editors’ Choice.

 

NEW RETAIL GAMES:

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
OXM Review Score: 9.0

Pro Evolution Soccer 2009
OXM Review Score: Not yet finalized

Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
OXM Review Score: 8.0

Mirror’s Edge
OXM Review Score: 9.5

Call of Duty: World at War
OXM Review Score: 7.5

 

NEW GAME DEMOS:

Left 4 Dead (FREE)

 

NEW GAME VIDEOS:

Call of Duty: World at War trailers

Gears of War 2 – Getting Started with Gamerscore #1-3

Endwar trailer and how-to videos

Tomb Raider: Underworld “Beneath the Surface” video

 

NEW DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT:

Battlefield: Bad Company Map Pack
Price: FREE

Rock Band

“The Color and the Shape” album by the Foo Fighters
Price: 1600 MS Points /160 MS Points each

“New Way Home”
“Walking After You”
“February Stars”
“Enough Space”
“See You”
“My Hero”
“Up in Arms”
“Wind Up”
“My Poor Brain”
“Hey, Johnny Park!”
“Monkey Wrench”
“Doll”

 

NEW MOVIES:

Ray
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)/360 MS Points (HD)
Rated: PG-13

Land of the Dead
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)
Rated: Unrated

Planet B-Boy
Price: 320 MS Points (SD)
Rated: Unrated

The Blues Brothers
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)
Rated: R

Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Price: 320 MS Points (SD)/480 MS Points (HD)
Rated: PG

Brotherhood of Blood
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)/360 MS Points (HD)
Rated: R

Dark Floors
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)/360 MS Points (HD)
Rated: R

The Substitute
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)/360 MS Points (HD)
Rated: R

Room 205
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)
Rated: R

The Last House in the Woods
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)
Rated: Unrated

Iron Man
Price: 320 MS Points (SD)/480 MS Points (HD)
Rated: PG-13

No Man’s Land: Rise of the Reeker
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)
Rated: R

Trackman
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)/360 MS Points (HD)
Rated: Unrated

Dance of the Dead
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)/360 MS Points (HD)
Rated: R