Wheelman £29.99
10 Jul
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Here’s a somewhat interesting fact for you - did you know that Vin Diesel owns his own game company? Tigon Studios produce games which star the bald behemoth, and Wheelman is the next release featuring him.
In it you play the part of an undercover agent who must infiltrate the Barcelona underworld to gather intelligence about a covert heist. Posing as a driver-for-hire, you end up caught between corruption and chaos…
HMV have this PS3 title up for pre-order at the price-point of £29.99 - click here for more details.
Battlefield: Bad Company is another first-person shooter - before you run to the hills screaming "when will it end?", I should point out that it’s actually quite good. Maybe not as good as Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, but still miles better than many other games in the genre.
The single player campaign is fairly standard stuff, however it’s the online multiplayer mode where this title comes into its own. With support for up to 24 players (!), I can only imagine how great the battles are.
Click here to buy the PlayStation 3 version of this game for £28.99 from ShopTo.
FIFA Street 3 £17.99
09 Jul
The FIFA games have improved greatly in more recent times (take FIFA 08, for example), so why EA insist on bringing out FIFA Street games, I’ll never know. "It doesn’t work, move on" would be my advice to them.
For a start, none of the players even slightly resemble their real-life counterparts - Peter Crouch looks like a bloody giraffe, for crying out loud! Add this together with some dodgy gameplay and you have one stinker of a footy title.
Play.com have both the PlayStation 3 (click here) and XBox 360 (click here) versions available for £17.99 each. Not a couple of cheap games that I can recommend, unless you want a laugh at how bad it is.
Burnout: Paradise £19.98
09 Jul
Burnout: Paradise is one of the best racing games available on either the PlayStation 3 or XBox 360. I think that the ability to absolutely destroy your own car and others around you is one of the things that make it so good.
Even with the appearance of Race Driver: Grid (which is still priced at £29.99, by the way), the online mode alone is worth buying this for. The chance to smash up your friends around the world is something I myself cherish dearly. I am a bit weird though.
To get the PS3 version click here, or for the XBox 360 release click here - both of which are £19.98 delivered each from DVD.co.uk.
NASCAR 08 £16.39
06 Jul
With a next-generation console you would expect next-generation graphics and next-generation gameplay, so when developers drop the ball it’s very disappointing (I’m looking at you Iron Man and Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer!).
Such is the case with NASCAR 08 on the PS3 - the graphics would have looked out of place in 1996, never mind 2008. The cars handle like a 1946 Lada as well, which doesn’t help.
Click here to subject yourself to this torture for £16.39 from Forget The Rest.
Turning Point: Fall Of Liberty sees you playing the part of a resistance fighter in a first-person shooter than is quite different from the norm - part World War II shooter, part alternative history examination.
I say alternative history as the story is based around what would have happened if Winston Churchill had died after being run over by a taxi in 1931. Basically, we would have been up shit creek without a paddle.
Click here to buy the PS3 version of this game for £19.99 from Woolworths - XBox 360 owners can get their version for the slightly cheaper price of £17.99 as part of the more reduced games at Choices UK deal.
The original controller that came with the PlayStation 3 had the rumble feedback removed, for reasons only known to whatever idiot decided it was a good idea at Sony. Thankfully they’ve rectified this mistake with the Sony PlayStation 3 DualShock 3 Wireless Controller.
It’s basically the same as the previous one, but here’s an interesting fact for you - did you know that the PS3 can support up to seven controllers at one time? Well you do now!
Amazon are currently selling this for £29.99 - for more information, click here.
How much do I love Guitar Hero, let me count the ways… I’m not going to do that, as I’d be here all day (and I’d bore you half to death in the process) - what I will say that it’s one of the best series of games in quite some time.
The basic premise behind the game is to strum along in time to the music, just as you would with a real guitar - except that this one doesn’t have strings, but buttons instead.
Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock is the latest in the series (well technically Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is, but hey ho!) and is available for £44.71 instore at Tesco. The good news is that it comes with a wireless guitar, the better news is that this price is valid for all console releases (PlayStation 3, XBox 360 and Wii).
UPDATE: The PlayStation 2 version is also available for the same price.
The Buzz! games have been very popular on the PlayStation 2, so now it’s time for the PlayStation 3 to get a version of its own. Buzz! Quiz TV is the first to appear on the console, and what a debut it is.
With over 5,000 brand new questions to answer, as well as the ability to download extra quiz packs, this is the biggest title in the Buzz! series yet.
Click here to buy Buzz! Quiz TV, with 4 wireless buzzers, for £32.97 from Tesco - remember to enter the voucher code Freedel at the checkout to get free delivery.
One of the best driving games this year has undoubtedly been Race Driver: Grid. With some of the best graphics seen yet, as well as a great racing experience, this comes very highly recommended.
Play.com have their own Race Driver: Grid - Special Edition which contains a copy of the game, a "making of" DVD, and a hardback artbook. Oh yes, and an exclusively unlockable car as well - the Aston Martin DBR9 (get it by entering the code P47203845).
Click here to buy the PlayStation 3 release, or click here for the XBox 360 version - both of which are £29.99 each.
