Cheap Games

The DS version of Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures is slightly different from the others. Special abilities and elements can be controlled using the touch screen, the built-in microphone is used to blow out torches or inflate rubber rafts, and Star Wars characters (including Wicket the Ewok and Luke Skywalker) make special appearances.

All other releases feature six chapters per movie, with notable scenes from each being recreated in the tongue-in-cheek way that only Lego can do. 83 regular characters are available to play as, and these can be mixed and matched to create all-new characters.

Zavvi have the DS release available for £15 – click here for more details. PlayStation 2 owners can get their version for £17.99 from Woolworths by clicking here, or if you have a PS3 click here to buy it for £19.97 from Currys (which is also part of the Currys instore games sale, by the way).

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Burnout: Paradise is different from many other driving games, as it features an open world where you can pretty much race wherever you want. There’s also no loading screens, online lobbies, or game menus – this is because the makers of the game hate unnecessary clutter with a passion.

Races and events are started by simply pulling up at any of the 120 traffic lights around Paradise City and applying the accelerator and brake at the same time. A nice little extra thing is that you can also get bikes to race on by simply connecting to the online network and downloading an update.

If you fancy the PlayStation 3 version, click here to get it for £19.99 from Gamestation. The good news extends to XBox 360 owners as well, as they can get their release for the same price by clicking here.

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No matter which way you look at it, Half-Life 2: The Orange Box represents fantastic value for money. There’s five games in this collection, and every single one of them is a belter – with puzzle game Portal being the best of the bunch.

The other titles are Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, and Team Fortress 2. All these first-person shooters are fairly similar, although the last one is actually a multiplayer team-based affair.

Sendit.com are selling this PlayStation 3 title for £12.89 – for more information, click here. If you’re after the XBox 360 version, click here to get it for £14.99 from ShopTo.

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Every year brings with it some guarantees – the weather will be awful, Newcastle United will be in turmoil, and there will be a new Tiger Woods game. I wonder what will happen when he retires?

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 has a few new features that look quite good though. Tiger Woods’ real-life coach Hank Haney acts as your performance coach, clubs can be tuned to maximise the effectiveness of every shot, and the online mode has an all-new engine (it performs much better).

Game are selling both the PS3 and XBox 360 versions for £29.99, but we can get them for lower than this. Add either game to your basket, along with this wrapping, and enter the voucher code NW04GME4 to knock £3 off the total.

Click here to get the PlayStation 3 release, or click here to buy the XBox 360 version for £27.98 (when using the method above) – either one of these cheap games are well worth getting, by the way.

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Even though a bigger 80GB version has been released fairly recently, the PlayStation 3 40GB console should still have enough hard drive space to satisfy the ardent gamer.

With an ever-growing impressive list of titles available for the system, it’s fair to say that the PS3 has overcome it’s initial problems and cemented itself as one of the best consoles around.

Click here to get this for £249 delivered from Digital Direct.

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With a whole truckload of third-person shooters available, it’s quite often the case that many of them are pretty poor. Dark Sector, whilst not being the best game ever made, is ever so slightly better than the majority – this is perhaps due to the great weapons and decent combat on offer.

In a fictional Soviet-bloc country in the near future, you must work your way through a world where biological weapons have been unleashed on an unsuspecting populace. Play as CIA clean-up man Hayden Tenno and help save the world…

Asda have both the PlayStation 3 and XBox 360 versions of this game available for £9.93 each – click here for the PS3, or click here for the 360.

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With 20 different world-class players to choose from, and 40 different venues to play on, Top Spin 3 is probably the best tennis title available at this moment.

The PlayStation 3 and XBox 360 versions feature a career mode and online multiplayer, but for some reason these have both been removed from the Wii release.

If you fancy the Wii version, click here to get it for £19.99 from ShopTo. Alternatively, click here for the PS3 release or click here for the XBox 360 version – these too are £19.99 at ShopTo. Cheap games like this are recommended for fans of the sport and people who like multiplayer fun, which I suppose is pretty much everybody.

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Civilizations has long been a franchise that has been predominantly a PC-only affair for some time, so the appearance of a specially designed console version called Sid Meier’s Civilization: Revolution is a welcome one.

This is a turn-based strategy game where you take control of one civilisation from a total of 16, and lead them through from prehistory all the way up to the near future. Also, gameplay has been simplified to make it easier for newcomers to get to grips with.

Click here to buy the PlayStation 3, or click here to get the XBox 360 release – both of which are £19.99 each over at ShopTo.

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The Game Collection usually have a good selection of titles, so here’s a list of the best The Game Collection offers that are currently available.

As usual, I’ve listed them alphabetically and in order of console – I’m too good to you!

DS

Crash Of The Titans £9.95
Myst £9.95
New Zealand Story: Revolution £3.50
Orcs & Elves £7.99
Sonic Rush £9.95

PS2

Bionicle £6.95
Black £7.95
Burnout 3: Takedown £6.95
Demon Chaos £9.95
LMA Manager 2006 £2.99
NBA 2K8 £3.99
Obscure £4.95
Pac-Man Rally £4.95
Scrabble: 2003 Edition £4.95
Star Trek: Encounters £4.95

PS3

Motorstorm £7.99
Ratatouille £9.95
Tony Hawk’s Project 8 £8.95

PSP

Alien Syndrome £4.95
Ape Academy 2 £9.95
Dead Head Fred £9.95
Every Extend Extra £4.95
Lumines £7.95
Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble £4.75
X-Men Legends II: Rise Of Apocalypse £5.95

XBox

And1: Streetball £1.99
Burnout 3: Takedown £3.99
Club Football: Aston Villa £1.75
Club Football: Juventus £1.75
Doom 3: Resurrection Of Evil £4.99
FIFA 06 £1.99
FIFA Football 2005 £1.99
Final Fight: Streetwise £3.95
Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers £1.99
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent £1.99
Half-Life 2 £4.99
Madden 2004 £1.99
Madden 2005 £1.99
Madden 06 £1.99
Midway Arcade Treasures 99p
NBA Live 06 £1.99
NBA Live 2005 £1.99
Need For Speed: Underground £1.99
NHL 2003 £1.99
NHL 2004 £1.99
NHL 2005 £1.99
R: Racing £1.99
Rugby Challenge 2006 £1.99
Total Club Manager 2004 £1.99
Total Club Manager 2005 £1.99
UEFA Euro 2004 £1.99

XBox 360

Army Of Two £17.95
The Bourne Conspiracy £17.95
Call Of Duty 3 £9.95
Forza Motosport 2 £6.99
Grand Theft Auto IV £26.95
Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal £9.95
Monster Madness: Battle For Suburbia £5.75
NHL 2K8 £4.99
Phantasy Star Universe £3.95
Stuntman: Ignition £4.95
Timeshift £7.95
Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground £7.95

Looks like an excellent opportunity to stock up on XBox games, if you still have your original console.

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Most games based on films are average, and Ratatouille is no different – I’m sure that kids will love it though. I suppose that’s the main point as well, considering that it’s based on the hit Disney Pixar movie of the same name.

This standard platformer has a similar story to the one in the film, although there is a new area not seen in it. There’s also the option to take part in a bunch of mini-games with your friends.

The Game Collection are selling the PlayStation 3 version for £9.95 – for more information, click here.

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