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Although it’s somewhat out of date now roster-wise, World Snooker Championship 2007 is still an excellent representation of the sport. 104 of the world’s best players (at the time) are available to choose from to compete in ten official tournaments, including the U.S. Open and Mosconi Cup.

Familiar commentary comes from John Virgo, Steve Davis and John Parrot as well, which helps complete the authentic experience. All you’d need is the odd streaker and someone in the crowd coughing to have as accurate a games as possible!

If you fancy the PSP version, click here to buy it for £4.99 from Play.com. The same retailer also has the XBox 360 release (click here) at the same price, or the PlayStation 3 (click here) version for £5.99.

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Virtua Fighter 5 is the ninth entry in the long-running fighting series, and is a direct sequel to Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution. While the original release appeared on arcades in 2006 and was then ported to the PlayStation 3 as a launch title four Europe in 2007, many consider the XBox 360 version to be the definitive one.

Not only are all of the characters and modes from the PS3 release included, but there’s also an online multiplayer option as well as the ability to update the game. Apparently Sony have shown no interest in allowing users the same benefits, even though developers believe it could be possible through a patch.

Click here to get the XBox 360 version for £6.99 from Play.com, or click here to get the PlayStation 3 release for £9.99 from ShopTo.

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Playing as an inhabitant of Vault 101, a survival shelter designed to protect a small number of humans from the nuclear fallout after the events of Fallout 2, you must journey to the ruins of Washington D.C. to track down your father – receiving assistance from other survivors and battling enemies as you cross the "Capital Wasteland".

The Fallout 3: Collector’s Edition set sees a copy of the game found inside a snazzy metal lunch box – also included in this are a 5" Vault-Boy bobble-head figure, a full colour artbook and a "making of" DVD.

To get the PlayStation 3 version for £24.99 from ShopTo, click here. XBox 360 owners can click here to buy their release for the same price from the same retailer.

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After what seems like the longest time waiting in the history of the universe, Street Fighter IV is now out. The great news is that it’s quite possibly the best fighting game ever made – with it becoming very clear that it manages to appeal to a huge range of abilities and tastes without compromising its fidelity.

All of your favourite characters have been re-imagined for a new generation, including the original cast of Street Fighter II. Also of note are some new special moves that exceed even your wildest imagination, such as Focus Attacks, Super Combos, and the revenge-fueled Ultra Combo system.

Play.com have this PlayStation 3 title available for £17.99 – for more information, click here. This is definitely one of those cheap games you’ll be playing for some time to come (online fighting alone is worth the price of admission).

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When the PlayStation 3 was originally released, the only controller you could get was the SIXAXIS wireless one. It contains a battery which lasts for 30 hours before needing recharged, limited motion-sensor capabilities, and finer analog sensitivity. Sadly the rumble feedback was removed.

However, since then the Sony PlayStation 3 Dualshock 3 wireless controller has been unveiled – which is exactly the same as the SIXAXIS, but with the rumble feedback put back in. Madness!

Click here to buy this for £27.99 from Everything Play.

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Any title based on the Olympics has been a button-basher forever, I’m pretty certain. This means that you either get knackered after about half an hour, or come out with stupid ways to push the buttons faster – I’m sure everyone has tried using a coin or a pen lid.

Beijing 2008 has a new addition which makes it miles better than any other Olympic video game from the past though, in the form of an online multiplayer mode. Now you can get golds for old Blighty in every event, in a virtual sense anyway!

Click here to get this PlayStation 3 game for £9.73 from The Hut.

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Button-bashers may seem like a thing of the past, but rest assured that any game based on the Olympics will more than likely persist with using the method until the end of time. So that’ll mean one more then (if the nutters who think the world will end in 2012 are somehow right).

Beijing 2008 features 32 national teams and a total of 38 different events to compete in, and for the very first time you can also play online – something that’s been a long time in coming, I can tell you.

Click here to get the XBox 360 version for £7.50 from Amazon, or click here to buy the PlayStation 3 release for £9.73 from The Hut.

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I’m starting to sound like a broken record when I say that FIFA is – for the first time – head and shoulders above Pro Evolution Soccer, but it’s worth repeating again in the hope that Konami take notice (although by the looks of PES 2010, they haven’t)!

FIFA 09 plays much better and feels more realistic than ever before, and has a raft of very good new features. Goalkeepers have been improved, "Be A Pro" is longer than in previous titles, weather effects look great, and the user-controlled celebrations are as good as they were in UEFA Euro 2008.

To get this PlayStation 3 game for £9.99 from Choices UK, simply click here.

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From the many games available on the PlayStation 3, one of the best has to be Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. It combines 3D platforming and third-person shooting together to create an experience that you’ll never forget.

The game is actually so good that many have compare its production values to that of summer movies, with obvious comparisons to Indiana Jones being rife – the forthcoming sequel looks good too, so this will allow you to get the grip of things before its release.

If you fancy this, click here to buy it for £9.99 from Argos.

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It’s never going to win any awards for being original or excellent, but Mercenaries 2: World In Flames is quite competent in being a brainless and thrilling third-person shooter. Not much more you can ask for really!

There are a few nagging annoyances though, such as an unintelligent AI and some questionable gameplay mechanics, but these aren’t too much to get worked up about. A fairly decent co-op and excellent online multiplayer mode make up for any grievances you may have anyway.

Click here to get this PlayStation 3 game for £7.48 from Currys.

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