Patapon 3

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Pata-pata-pata-pon. Just reading those familiar beats is enough to send any Patapon obsessive into a shivering wreck of withdrawal symptoms.

Patapon - a tactical strategy game that has you calling out offensive and defensive moves to your cycloptic army by banging out different drum beats - is fiendishly difficult, both in its demanding tactics and unending rhythm. But if you get hooked, you’ll be really hooked.

A big deal for Patapon 3, alongside the 'Superhero Patapon' who actually beats the drum on screen, is a massive multiplayer mode. You can play in four way battles, tackle every single stage co-operatively with up to eight players, and you can team up locally or over the web.

Patapon 3 so far has little more than a vague spring 2011 release date. A little later than the previously announced winter 2010 date, but we need time for our thumb callouses to heal anyway.