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# gaming silly season 2009
- URL: https://wootangent.net/gaming-silly-season-2009/
- Published: 2009-09-24T11:00:33.000Z
- Updated: 2009-09-24T11:00:33.000Z
- Author: Leigh Dyer
- Tags: Games, brutal legend, forza 3, littlebigplanet, modern warfare 2, nsmbw, odst, xmas, zelda spirit tracks, #Migrated-1792830072870, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-24 08:21

With September nearly past us, we're once again moving toward the silly season, and that means another Mega Holiday Gamesplosion -- in fact, you could probably argue that Tuesday's release of *Halo 3: ODST* marked the season's official start. A tonne of games that were due before Xmas have since been pushed back to early 2010, but there's still a solid line-up of stuff that I'm interested in (though I may have forgotten something):

- September: *Halo 3: ODST*
- October: *Forza Motorsport 3*, *Brutal Legend*
- November: *COD: Modern Warfare 2*, *New Super Mario Bros. Wii*
- December: *Zelda: Spirit Tracks*

I'm as surprised as anyone that there are two Nintendo games in that lot -- for all its talk of Wii Sports and Vitality Sensors Nintendo is actually pulling out a couple of big guns this season. *New Super Mario Bros. Wii* (forever henceforth known as NSMBW) is aimed squarely at the 2.5D co-op platformer space that was so neatly filled by the infinitely charming *LittleBigPlanet* last year, and I have no doubt that it'll inspire the same crazy four-player sessions in our house.

Beyond that, I'm trying to limit myself to one game a month, and the only other guaranteed buy there is Forza 3, which is easily my most anticipated game of the year. Brutal Legend will be an eventual must-buy as well -- maybe I'll get that in December instead of Zelda.