Argos Video Game Sale
22 Nov
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There’s an Argos video game sale on at the moment, with some excellent titles on offer.
Here they are in alphabetical order, for your convenience.
DS
My Health Coach: Manage Your Weight (With Pedometer) £14.99
PS3
Guitar Hero: World Tour (With Wireless Guitar) £49.99
Saints Row 2 £19.99
Soul Calibur IV £24.99
WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2009 £24.99
Wii
Guitar Hero: World Tour (With Wireless Guitar) £49.99
Need For Speed: Undercover £24.99
WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2009 £17.49
XBox 360
Guitar Hero: World Tour (With Wireless Guitar) £49.99
Mass Effect £9.99
Saints Row 2 £19.99
Soul Calibur IV £24.99
WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2009 £24.99
As you can see, there are a wide variety of cheap games that are sure to appeal to everyone - with Mass Effect and Guitar Hero: World Tour looking particularly good value.
The release of Rock Band meant that the team behind Guitar Hero needed to come up with something good for their next game, and they have - by copying Rock Band! There’s different tunes to play along to in Guitar Hero: World Tour, but the introduction of drums and a microphone is an obvious attempt to replicate Rock Band’s success.
As you can imagine, the track list itself is the most important aspect to any rhythm-based title. Thankfully, the songs included here are as good as ever, with something for everybody to enjoy.
If you fancy Guitar Hero: World Tour, with a wireless guitar, Argos are selling it for £49.99. Click here for the Wii version, click here to get the PS3 release, or click here for the XBox 360 version.
UPDATE: The same three format versions can be had for the same price instore at Tesco this weekend (22nd of November). Useful if you’re doing your shopping, I suppose!
Little Big Planet £24.79
20 Nov
Little Big Planet has been praised so much that you would think people were being paid to gush so much, but the reality is it’s genuinely one of the most innovative and fun games to have been released on any console in quite some time. Even the BBC seem to like it, and they don’t like anything halfway decent!
Not content with looking absolutely stunning in high definition, this is both challenging and silly at the same time. Controlling small avatars through a variety of platforming scenarios is good enough, until you realise how much more there is to this - from the ability to create huge new levels yourself, to trying out someone else’s via the online sharing capabilities.
To buy this PlayStation 3 game for £24.79 from Simply Games, click here. It’s perhaps also worth mentioning that the same retailer has another PS3 title, in the form of MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, available for the same price.
Saints Row 2 £19.99
19 Nov
The first Saints Row game was very good, but the sequel has improved to the point where it’s right up there with Grand Theft Auto in terms of fun. It’s also nice to see a game not take itself too seriously, as there’s no pretension just enjoyable mayhem.
Saints Row 2 picks up from where the first game left off, with you waking up from a trauma-induced coma in a prison hospital. Escaping the prison island, you learn that the Saints have fallen apart and that three new gangs have risen to power in Stilwater.
Argos have this PlayStation 3 title available for £19.99 - click here for more details. XBox 360 owners can also get their version for the same price from the same retailer by clicking here.
The great thing about the PlayStation 3 is that it not only has a growing catalogue of decent games, but can also play Blu-Ray films as well. When you consider that a stand-alone Blu-Ray player can cost a similar price to the console, it becomes an absolute no-brainer.
Some may say that the XBox 360 has many more great titles, both exclusive and multi-platform, and I would agree to an extent - but it has been out quite a bit longer, and at least Sony don’t charge you more to be able to watch high-def movies and get a wireless Internet connection!
Play.com have three different PlayStation 3 console (with two games plus a Blu-Ray movie) packages available for £299.99 each:
PlayStation 3 with copies of Grand Theft Auto IV and Little Big Planet, plus 300 on Blu-Ray
Dead Space £29.99
18 Nov
Although sales for Dead Space have been disappointing for such an excellent game, I think this is more to do with the raft of other decent titles that have been released recently - it’s always going to be difficult going up against behemoths like Gears Of War, FIFA, and Call Of Duty.
This survival horror game sees you battling with a polymorphic, virus-like, alien infestation called the "Corruption", which turns humans into grotesque alien creatures. Oh yeah, and you’re stranded on an interstellar mining ship deep into outer space…
ShopTo are selling this XBox 360 title for £29.99 - for more information, click here. PlayStation 3 owners can click here to get their version for the same price from the same retailer.
FaceBreaker £14.99
17 Nov
FaceBreaker is a boxing game that looks very much like a hybrid between the graphics of Ready 2 Rumble Boxing and the fighting style of Punch Out!! (remember that?!?).
Sadly it’s not all that great, and the fact that the AI is incredibly difficult to beat makes single player a bit of a chore. There’s no online multiplayer either, but you can play an offline version with friends.
Both the PlayStation 3 (click here) and XBox 360 (click here) releases are available for £14.99 each from HMV.
NHL 2K8 From £3.99
17 Nov
Those gamers who, like me, would rather have something they can pick up and play straight away might be interested in NHL 2K8. I suppose it would also help if you liked ice hockey, but that actually doesn’t matter as much as you would think.
There’s a few new additions to this entry in the series, which make it more exciting than ever before. Graphics have been improved, there’s a new skating engine, authentic equipment is now included, and goalies have much better reactions.
Click here to buy the XBox 360 version for £3.99 from The Game Collection, or click here to get the PS3 release for £7.05 from Amazon.
If you have a PS3 and don’t particularly enjoy scrolling around when entering your name, etc. into games, then the Sony PlayStation 3 Wireless Keypad could be just the thing.
It’s a mini keyboard that slips on to your controller (which isn’t included, by the way) and works in much the same way as the XBox 360 Messenger Kit does.
Play.com have this up for pre-order at £17.99 - click here for more details.
Brothers In Arms: Hell’s Highway is the third in the series of games that follow the men of the 101st Airborne Division (502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment). You once again play the role of Staff Sergeant Matt Baker, this time during Operation Market Garden in the later stages of World War II.
There’s been a few new features added to this as well. New specialised units, including bazooka and machine gun teams, are available to use, and you can now cover behind objects and fire from a third-person perspective. The "health" system has also been overhauled, as too has the mapping system.
Click here to get the PlayStation 3 version for £24.99 from ShopTo, or click here to get the XBox 360 release for the same price from the same retailer.
Either of these cheap games are worth getting, especially if you enjoy Call Of Duty and the like.
