Split / Second and a bunch of other games...

I was trying to settle on two, just two games that are released tomorrow. The dilemma I face is that Forgotten Sands, Red Dead Redemption and Split / Second are all released on May 18th. I simply cannot justify buying all three, not only would that be a tremendous amount of money to drop on a single day, but I would not have time to play all three anyway. So I figured I'd pick up Sands tomorrow and then get Red Dead a week or two later, skipping Split / Second entirely.

Well I played the demo for Split / Second and I'm more than slightly hooked on it. Not to mention the fact that it has been getting a lot of pretty good press in the reviews (IGN, Gamespot and Ars Technica are all giving it a positive thumbs up). Ars review is available here. So now I am faced with picking up Forgotten Sands tomorrow, snagging Split / Second a week or two later, buying a copy of Red Dead further out (perhaps a month or more) and cramming in Alpha Protocol somewhere in-between.

Damn May/June is busy on the game front. Which is nice and all, but I'm enrolled in two summer classes that I expect to be pretty intense (what with 16 weeks of work crammed into 10). Thus I foresee some tough calls in the time management department in the coming months.