Heads Up — 11/6

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.

With Halloween past, the holiday shopping season is officially in full swing, and boy do the releases reflect that. We've got all sorts of cool stuff coming out to talk about, including a bunch of new retail games, some awesome new demos for upcoming games, and one classic vehicle-based shooter in the Arcade. So start your weekend off right with Heads Up!

JEWEL OF THE WEEK:

 

Tom Clancy's EndWar

An RTS game for a console? A good one even? That's right, Ubisoft has finally managed to do the impossible and gives us a command-shouting, enemy-destroying romp of a good time. There's not a whole lot more fun than shouting "Unit 3 attack Hostile 5" and watching your group of army men actually go through with blowing up a tank. So go grab a headset, put your general's hat on, and pick this bad boy up.

 

NEW RETAIL GAMES:

 

Tom Clancy's EndWar
OXM Review Score: Not yet finalized

 

Legendary
OXM Review Score: Not yet finalized

 

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
OXM Review Score: Not yet finalized

 

James Bond 007: Quantam of Solace
OXM Review Score: Not yet finalized

 

Namco Museum Virtual Arcade
OXM Review Score: Not yet finalized

 

NEW XBOX LIVE ARCADE GAMES

 

Vigilante 8: Arcade
OXM Review Score: 6.0

 

NEW GAME DEMOS:

Mirror's Edge demo (Free)

 

Lego Batman: The Videogame demo (Free)

NCAA Basketball 09 demo (Free)

 

NEW GAME VIDEOS:

Left 4 Dead Intro Video (Free)

Gears of War 2 Top 5 Weapons Trailer (Free)

 

Guitar Hero World Tour Tool, Hayley Williams, and Zakk Wylde Vignettes (Free)

Mortal Kombat VS DC Universe Story Mode Preview

 

NEW DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT:

 

Rock Band

Presidents of the United States of America Pack 01
Price: 440 MS Points/160 MS Points each

"Ladybug"
"Feather Pluckn"
"Dune Buggy"

The following tracks are 80 MS Points each:

"I Don't Care" by Fall Out Boy
"Use Me" by Hinder

 

NEW MOVIES:

Inside Man
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)/360 MS Points (HD)
Rated: R

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

How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
Price: 320 MS Points (SD)
Rated: R

Hot Boyz
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)
Rated: R

Happy Endings
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)/360 MS Points (HD)
Rated: R

Goldfinger
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)/360 MS Points (HD)
Rated: PG

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

Cheech and Chong's Next Movie
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)
Rated: R

The Spy Who Loved Me
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)/360 MS Points (HD)
Rated: PG

The Foot Fist Way
Price: 320 MS Points (SD)/480 MS Points (HD)
Rated: R

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)
Rated: PG-13

The River Wild
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)
Rated: PG-13

Village of the Damned
Price: 240 MS Points (SD)
Rated: R