It’s a good week for both Wii and PSP owners, but mostly for the former. On Nintendo’s white opus there’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, The House of the Dead, Dancing Stage Hottest Party, Sega Bass Fishing and the sadly offline-only Worms: A Space Oddity amongst others. Then over on PSP there’s the God of War: Chains of Olympus and the budget-priced Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops Plus. God of War has been getting high review scores despite not being by the developers behind the PlayStation 2 originals, although EDGE pointed out that a lot of enemies and such have been recycled.

Review scores for Sega’s Viking: Battle for Asgard on the other hand haven’t been too hot. Sega are also releasing another two titles on Xbox 360 this week – Football Manager 2008 and a conversion of the PC RTS Universe at War. The PlayStation 3 gets the long awaited and also cheap Gran Turismo 5 Prologue and Everybody’s Golf World Tour.

The slew of virtual pet games continues on DS with the awfully named Bunnyz, while Sony have rather silently shoved out the rather rubbish Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters on PlayStation 2. It only got a 5 from Eurogamer earlier this week. Looks like they should have left it on PSP.

Lost’s drug addict ex-hobbit Charlie wasn’t pleased about being pushed aside in the latest season of Lost, and so went and snagged a role in the upcoming X-Men: Wolverine movie. His character? Beak – a humanoid birdman with feathers, talons and a beaked face. Call us cynical, but going from an edgy addict in one of TV’s most popular shows to a feathered freak that’ll probably end up being used for comedy value doesn’t sound like a wise career move.

But we digress – Ubisoft’s Lost game has been a long time coming, so much so that when it was first announced PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions were planned and season three was just starting in the US. Based on seasons one and two, you play as a random survivor of the plane crash who is suffering from memory problems and not only has to rediscover his past but find a way off the island.

The beach acts as a basic hub where you can interact and trade mostly useless items with the likes of Kate, Hurley and Locke and also witness their shoddy voiceovers. A few aren’t bad – you can at least tell who they’re trying to sound like – but others are hilariously poor. Whoever does the voice for Charlie sounds like they’ve just walked off the set of 80’s cartoon The Nessies.

A handy journal keeps track of progress and also provides clues for what to do next, while there’s plenty of variety in the missions, each having a central theme. Things like trying to carry dynamite from the Black Rock over to the Hatch without being shot by The Others; following markers in the jungle while hiding in bushes to avoid the smoke monster and a couple of fast-paced chase sequences. There’s also the chance to rummage around the inside of the Hatch and the dank Hydra station. And yes, you do have to input ‘the numbers’ if you’re in the Hatch and the alarm goes off. It’s all pretty simple stuff, made slightly infuriating by some rather ‘old school’ style random deaths. Walk too close to one of the plane engines on the beach and it’ll explode, killing you instantly, or if your torch goes out when navigating some maze-like caves then it’s also game over.

The sections that by far show the most innovation involve the series’ infamous flashbacks. These short sections are set in black and white and run on a loop, with the idea being to take a photo at the right time and place to unlock part of their memory.

Rather than including several ingenious puzzles to solve the developers have instead included just one and lazily repeated it. It entails collecting fuses of various shapes and voltages, then plugging them into a switch board accordingly to light up various LEDs. We soon grew to hate these as the fuses have to be collected beforehand, and annoyingly there’s no way of telling that you’ve found all the fuses in an area.

At least fans of the show are well looked after – the characters look the part, the Hatch is faithfully recreated, right down to the blood stain on the ceiling, and the presentation mimics the TV show. The jungle looks great too, although you’re not exactly able to roam free. Non-fans though might be a little bemused in places. A good example is to why it’s never explained why Sun speaks Korean one moment then English the next. A lot of key moments that occur in seasons one and two also happen behind the scenes – it’s just casually dropped into conversation that Michael, Sawyer and Jin leave the island on a raft. Given that everything can be seen and done in around five hours, you’d think that the developers would have bulked up the story as much as they could.

Thought you’d had enough Wii puns to last you a lifetime? Wrong: it’s the Mario Kart Grand Wii!

Unfortunately, it’s just a competition being held at 30 Game stores on Saturday 5th April, before the release of the game the following Friday. There a ridiculous looking Mario Kart Volkswagen Beetle up for grabs, amongst other things.

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 has become Ubisoft’s first #1 of the year and is also the fifth Tom Clancy game to take the top spot. More facts: sales were split 77% Xbox 360 and 23% PlayStation 3, and it’s the fourth fastest selling Xbox 360 game so far.

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games drops down to #2 while Army of Two has dropped from #2 to #8. Sega Superstars Tennis goes in at #10, which makes it the second game staring Sonic in the top 10. Our friend Game Party is also on the way down – from #11 to #19 – but the biggest loser is the aptly named Turning Point: Fall of Liberty which has gone from #17 to #35.

Spiderwick Chronicles goes in at #26 in its second week of release and Resistance: Fall of Man is also back in the chart at #30. Halo 3 is back in as well, at #34.

The price of Virtual Console games is a regularly debated topic, but things look set to improve slightly for those after a retrofix – Sega has announced that their Master System back-catalogue will cost just 400 Wii Points (£3) a pop.

The first games down for a re-release in the US are Wonder Boy and Fantasy Zone. Hopefully the likes of Psycho Fox, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Wonder Boy III and Phantasy Star won’t be too far behind. Chances are though that we won’t get all of the best that the system had to offer – such as classy platformers Asterix and Mickey Mouse and the Castle of Illusion – due to licensing issues.

In other download related news, the highly regarded PC and incredibly hard to define Darwina is coming to Xbox Live. It’s not just a standard conversion either, but is being bundled with the upcoming sequel Multiwinia: Survival of the Flattest. Have a look at the screenshots on the official site.

SEGA Tennis Superstars and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 are this week’s big ones, although to be fair there isn’t much else out. SEGA Tennis Superstars has been getting good reviews, which isn’t surprising seeing it’s by Sumo who had a hand in the last Virtua Tennis games. Rumour has it that both Alex Kidd and Gilius Thunderhead from Golden Axe are hidden characters.

If you can’t get enough DS RPG goodness then you’re in luck as there’s another two to try – Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates and Sega’s budget priced Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer. There’s also Maths Play from Ubisoft, but that’s about numbers and stuff. Over on PSP the often delayed Spinout and King of Clubs finally make an appearance, but seeing they’re both on the poor side it’s doubtful that anybody will notice.

If you’re still hunting for a good pre-order deal for GTA IV though, then you might like to know that HMV are doing it for £39.99 with a free 1,000 Xbox Live Points. Not long to go now…

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There’s also him out of The Green Mile as Balrog, someone who looks like an old Matt Damon as Bison, and not Will.i.am out of Black Eyed Peas as Vega.

Having a pop star in the cast ensured top quality in the last Street Fighter film, so we’re set for another box office smash!

Good news motor fans – the European edition of Gran Turismo 5: Prologue will have a special bonus, in the form of an unlockable Ferrari F1 car. It’s the one from the 2007 season, and it looks very nice indeed.

So there, almost a justifiable reason to go out and pay money for a game demo. Gran Turismo 5: Prologue will be released this March 27th in both Blu-ray and download forms, for an almost acceptable £25. Strangely the downloaded version costs exactly the same as the boxed Blu-ray copy though, the cheeky bastards.

It is admittedly a glorified demo that they’re charging money for, but it does include 70 or so cards and half a dozen tracks, and at this rate the full version of Gran Turismo 5 will be lucky to make it out before 2010, so it’s possibly worth letting Sony rape your soul just this once.

Does Midas’ new DS game ring any bells with you?

Don’t let the similar name fool you though – it’s weapon based, so it’ll probably play more like a shoddy clone of Wipeout than Nintendo’s rip-roaring racer.

It’s out in April – £11.99 from Play.com if your interest is piqued.

If this week’s chart is anything to go by, people are desperate for rubbish war games and painfully dire mini-game collections for Wii. Carnival: Fun Fair Games is up from #16 to #6, while Game Party is hanging around just outside the top ten at #11. Turning Point – which seems have to scored mediocre review scores across the board – goes in at #17, while Army of Two is at #2, having been knocked off the top spot by Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games. The Wii-exclusive No More Heroes makes an appearance at #18.

Lost: Via Domus is on a slippery slope – maybe because word is finally spreading about how poor it is – and has dropped from #10 to #25. Lost Odyssey has also dropped from #11 to #21, and Dynasty Warriors 6 from #19 to #34. Ben 10 is on the rise though, up seven from #19. Presumably Mr 10 is in fashion with ‘da kidz’ at the moment.

The biggest surprise though is that Spiderwick Chronicles has only just managed to get into the top 40 at all. But then again, the movie isn’t out yet. Harvest Moon: Magical Melody goes in at #18 in the Wii chart, while Odin Sphere enters the PlayStation 2 chart at #9.

The Video Appeals Committee today announced that the result of their reconsideration of the Manhunt 2 appeal remains that the appeal against the rejection of the work by the BBFC is upheld.

It’s a very convoluted sentence, but one that means just one thing: Manhunt 2 is being released in the UK. The BBFC is clearly delighted, as their director David Cooke explains:

“We twice rejected Manhunt 2, and then pursued a judicial review challenge, because we considered, after exceptionally thorough examination, that it posed a real potential harm risk. However, the Video Appeals Committee has again exercised its independent scrutiny. It is now clear, in the light of this decision, and our legal advice, that we have no alternative but to issue an ‘18’ certificate to the game.”

Translation: “We’ll give it a certificate, but we’re going to sulk.”

Matt reviewed the PSP version last year. It’s quite good, apparently.

Does the world need another Wacky Races game? Eidos must think so, having announced Wacky Races: Crash & Dash on Wii and DS earlier this week. It’s the third Wacky Races game in recent memory.

In fact, Blast Entertainment shoved one out just last year on PlayStation 2 for £9.99, which gives us some idea of how much the license was knocking around for.

Before that, Infogrames had a crack at cel-shading Dastardly, Mutley and their rivals back in 2001 on Dreamcast and PlayStation 2. It got some good reviews.

I’ve uploaded an image from each just to show how far things have come over the last seven years. Or not, as is the case; the Dreamcast version still looks superior to the rest.

2001: Dreamcast

2007: PlayStation 2

2008: Wii