It's getting to be about that time again. Its halfway through the year, and well.. pictures are starting to pop up of games that won't be showing up until Christmas or early January. These are the hopes and dreams of video game company's wanting to try and get their games out by the Christmas holiday so that their games will fly off the shelves into the sticky little hands of video game players everywhere.

So, why do most games that hit during the Holiday season still suck? Is it because they are rushed like candy to the rows of Wal-Mart to be snatched up, eaten, then cause food poisoning? Or is it delightfully tasty? Here.. let me take a small look at last years 'big hitters' during the Christmas Season. This covers early November to December.

Top Hitters:

Call of Duty 4 (Released: Nov 5th)
Super Mario Galaxy (Released: Nov 12th)
Contra 4 (Released: Nov 13th)
Assassins Creed (Released: Nov 16th)
Uncharted: Drakes Fortune (Released: Nov 19th)
Mass Effect (Released: Nov 20th)
Rock Band (Released: Nov 20th)


Games that everyone ignored until AFTER Christmas:

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games
Empire Earth III
Cooking Mana 2
Medal of Honor Heroes 2
Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles
Sonic Rivals 2
Kane and Lynch: Dead Men
Need for Speed: Pro Street
Crysis (Because people were still getting computer parts to play said game..)
Sim City Societies
Mario Party DS
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
Time Crisis 4
Master of Illusion
Universe at War
Nights: Journey into Dreams.

--

Jus' compare that list. But ignore Crysis.. I stated my opinion above on that issue. A majority of the top hitters, Crysis aside, were announced months before they were released. Pictures everywhere, blah blah blah. Of course, they ended up being top games, and rocking our world in many directions. (Some all the way a whole year at E3 before that, Assassin's Creed in particular.)

Assassin's Creed for example I remember all the way back before the E3 before last summers, and the game came out and sold like candy, got awesome reviews, and all that.. ONLY if you can stand the repetitiveness of the gameplay. Pick pocket, run away, kill soldiers, run away, overhear conversation, run away, climb tower, dive into hay, repeat.
You play a majority of the game.. in the first frikin level! Now I will say... Ubisoft went back and changed a ton in the PC version, but thats not the point. Its the point that when someone wants a Christmas Release.. you really shouldn't push it.

But.. I guess money overrides all huh?

We'll see what E3 gives us to see so we'll see what'll be out by Christmas eh?