WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2010 is the eleventh entry in the WWE Smackdown series, and is named after two of the professional wrestling promotion's three brands – although it should be noted that ECW performers are included too (they just get shoved to the bottom of the cover art!).
Lots of new features have been added this year, with the most interesting probably being the story designer mode where you can design storylines using a variety of preset options. Two new exciting match stipulations, in the form of Championship Scramble and mixed tag team, also look like worthy newcomers.
Click here to get the DS version for £16.85 from ShopTo. Zavvi have the PlayStation 3 (click here), XBox 360 (click here) and Wii (click here) releases for £17.95 each.
In a move that I really wish more developers would consider, Burnout Paradise has been updated on a fairly regular basis since its original release in 2008. Not only have some glitches been fixed, but Criterion Games have also added bikes as vehicles to race on.
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box contains the game along with nearly all of the free expansions and patches. You also get the "Party Pack" premium downloadable content stuff, which has a range of new single-console multiplayer modes that up to eight players can take part in.
Click here to buy this PlayStation 3 game for £9.99 from Gamestation. Definitely one of the best racing cheap games around, with lots to keep you coming back for more.
Tropico 3 £17.89
01 Dec
Tropico 3 marks the very first time that the construction and management simulation series has appeared on any other system than a PC – which just goes to show that the differences between consoles and home computers must be getting smaller by the second.
Ruling as "El Presidente", you must decide the complete outlook for your new country – from whether it should become a tropical paradise, to preparing your people for crisis with Cuba (think of it like a Cold War version of Sim City).
Simply Games have this XBox 360 title available for £17.89 – for more information, click here.
Fallout 3 From £12.95
30 Nov
Fallout 3 is an action role-playing game that takes place 30 years after the setting of Fallout 2, and 200 years after the nuclear war that devastated the game's world.
You play the role of one of the inhabitants of Vault 101, which is a survival shelter designed to protect a small number of humans from the nuclear fallout. When your father mysteriously disappears, you must escape from the vault and journey into the ruins of Washington D.C. to find him…
If you fancy the PlayStation 3 version, click here to buy it for £12.95 from ShopTo. XBox 360 owners can click here to buy their release for £12.99 from HMV.
Also worth noting is the fact that the XBox 360 version of Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition (with five extra DLC packs) is available for £17.95 as part of the Zavvi Mega Monday games sale.
Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage is a Wii exclusive, and is the sequel to Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip. Not only is it fully compatible with the Wii Balance Board, but the Wii MotionPlus accessory too – although it will work just as well without either.
75 new unique challenges are in this across eight mountains from around the world, which can either be played through alone or with up to three others via the co-operative mode. Definitely something to get excited about if you enjoyed the brilliant original…
Gameplay are selling this for £15.99 – click here for more details.
Pure £8.99
30 Nov
If standard racing games aren't your thing, then maybe you should look into the off-road genre – there's still the driving element, but you can perform all sorts of mad tricks and mental stunts.
Pure is probably the best to appear in quite some time, with vertigo-inducing vertical jumps and spectacular tricks being the order of the day. These, combined with a pumping soundtrack, make this well worth taking a look at.
Click here to buy this PlayStation 3 game for £8.99 from Gamestation.
In a move that might annoy some people, Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits is out now – and contains songs from almost all of the first batch of titles in the series, except that this time they are all based on master recordings and include support for full band play.
48 songs have been taken from Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, Guitar Hero: Rocks The 80s, Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock and Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, and rejigged to play in an identical fashion to Guitar Hero: World Tour.
Click here to buy the PlayStation 3 version for £19.85 from ShopTo, or click here to buy the XBox 360 release for £30.10 from Amazon.
Overlord II £7.95
27 Nov
Whilst the original was criticised by many for being unoriginal and pretty boring, Overlord II is a much improved effort – the combination of great humor and a unique combination of action and strategy make this something well worth adding to your collection.
Taking control of the previous Overlord's son, you must battle against a Roman-inspired civilisation known as the "Glorious Empire" – who are hell-bent on eradicating or enslaving known magical creatures…
Click here to get this PlayStation 3 title for £7.95 from ShopTo. Remember to use the ShopTo £1 voucher in order to get the price down to £6.95.
When you see the XBox 360 and PlayStation 3 (yes, there are some) with a fair smattering of A-list games, it would be easy to dismiss the Wii out-of-hand. However, I've never yet seen a console so easy to pick up and play – which is an opinion a huge majority of people seem to agree with.
It doesn't matter how old you are, or even if you've never so much as glanced at a video game before – you'll be up and running in next to no time. Oh yeah, and Super Mario Galaxy and The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess are easily up there with the best titles on other systems (and the Wii release of Resident Evil 4 is the definitive version to own).
Click here to buy a Nintendo Wii, with Wii Sports, for £134.99 from HMV.
After proving a massive success across multiple platforms, it should come as no surprise to see a sequel to Marvel: Ultimate Alliance in the shape of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 – I can imagine it took absolutely ages to come up with that title though!
The game features a whole range of different characters from the Marvel Comics universe, including old favourites like Spider-Man and Hulk, and the story follows two story arcs from the series' "Secret War" and "Civil War" (which should be recognisable to long-time fans).
To get the PlayStation 2 release for £9.99 from ShopTo, simply click here. PlayStation 3 (click here), Wii (click here) and XBox 360 (click here) owners can get their versions for £24.99 each from Play.com.
