Now we’re talking.  We’ve got lots happening this week with more full-retail games than you can eat and a long-awaited XBLA title as well.  Sure, the quality may be, at best, variable but it’s the quantity that counts this week.  Let the gorging begin!

The ‘big’ release this week is Too Human, a hacking ‘n slashing Diablo-esque title that’s been in development for the best part of a decade.  If you read my article a few weeks back you’ll have noticed that I wasn’t exactly fussed by the demo.  The graphics were crummy, the fighting was random and uninteresting and it had more cutscenes than any demo could ever really need.

The Metacritic average of 69% tells you everything you need to know.  After all the hype and big promises this game looks average at best (going by the 70% = average scale that most sites seem to use).

Fairing even less well is Hail To The Chimp, a collection of party games that seems to be aimed squarely at the kids.  A 59% average and comments like ‘the game is full of good ideas, all implemented poorly’ suggests that this will be one for undiscerning gamerscore whores and clueless parents everywhere.

Now, when you think of the big exclusives that Microsoft have stolen from Sony in recent times I’ll bet you don’t think of the Smash Court Tennis series but anyway Smash Court Tennis 3 is now being served on the 360.  Hopefully it can outplay the risible Virtua Tennis 3 and the Top Spin games,  It’s getting some fairly bleak reviews (between four and seven out of ten across the board), so yeah… probably better than Virtua Tennis 3.

Finally, we’ve got Tiger Woods ’09 from the rapidly improving EA games stable.  Despite being yet another sequel to EA’s popular golfing series, this one has a few new ideas and better controls (I don’t care unless I can do a PGA Golf-style three-click shot).  It’s attracting lots of praise across the gaming press, so this might be worth checking out.  These games don’t tend to drop in price very quickly for some reason so don’t expect it to go sub-£20 so far.

So, nothing amazing but if you need parting from your cash, you’ve got options.