Heads-up: New games out this week (March 23)

Welcome to Heads-up, our weekly feature which gives you an at-a-glance run-down on the games you’ll be able to buy or rent this weekend. Every Monday we’ll pick out the best of the bunch, link to our reviews and previews and keep you in the video game loop so you have enough time to pre-order for Friday’s post. Time to smash open your piggy bank so you can spend its coin-shaped guts.

Recommended

SEGA and The Creative Assembly’s Total War: Shogun 2 is the pick of this week’s new releases, offering an amazing mix of samurai and riflemen. Wii and DS owners also have the excellent BIT.TRIP Complete and SAGA, which rounds up all six of the excellent WiiWare releases.

• Total War: Shogun 2 – Fall of the Samurai – PC
• BIT.TRIP SAGA – DS
• BIT.TRIP COMPLETE – Wii

Worth a look

It’s a high-profile collection in ‘Worth a look’ this week, although that’s not exactly a good thing. Our verdict on Resident Evil: Raccoon City, Ninja Gaiden 3, and Kid Icarus are coming soon, although our impressions so far aren’t exactly positive.

Armored Core 5 is one for the fans of the series, while Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure is the latest family-friendly title from Microsoft for Kinect – it combines running, driving and flying inside the worlds of Cars, Up, Ratatouille, Incredibles, and Toy Story.

• Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City – Xbox 360 and PS3
• Ninja Gaiden 3 – Xbox 360 and PS3
• Armored Core 5 – Xbox 360 and PS3
• Kid Icarus: Uprising – DS
• Tropico 4: Modern Times – PC
• Kinect Rush – A Disney-Pixar Adventure – Xbox 360

And the rest…

• Poképark 2: Wonders Beyond – Wii
• Alien Breed Trilogy – PS3
• Construction Simulator – PC
• Dive To The Titanic – PC
• Coloropus – PC