Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops is the third Metal Gear title to appear on the PSP and the first to retain the series’ action-based gameplay. Set in 1970s South America, six years after the events of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the game follows the exploits of Naked Snake after his former unit, FOX, goes renegade.
Silent Hill: Origins is a prequel that delves into the backstory to the eponymous town where the game is played out, and follows truck driver Travis Grady who finds himself becoming involved in the events of Silent Hill when he rescues a young girl from a burning house – investigating the mystery behind her fate, he uncovers some long-forgotten truths about his own childhood…
The Hut are selling a Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops and Silent Hill: Origins double pack for £13.73 – click here for more details.
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith is the first band-themed Guitar Hero game to appear on the market, with the next one scheduled for release later this year – and it will be Guitar Hero: Metallica. That should be excellent, just so long as they include some older stuff and quietly skip past St Anger.
The soundtrack in the game consists of a total of 41 songs, with 29 coming from the group and the remaining 12 from bands that they have played with in that past or that have inspired them. Just don’t expect "I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing", OK?!?
Click here to buy Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (with a custom wireless guitar), on the PS3, for £29.99 from ShopTo.
Whilst many reviewers like to give the Need For Speed series a bit of a hard time, I always try to have an open mind about everything – thus, in my opinion anyway, Need For Speed: Undercover is nowhere near as bad as you may have been led to believe.
A great selection of cars to choose from, along with much tighter handling than in previous entries, make this well worth considering. It’s also quite a bit easier than before, so newcomers won’t feel as though they will have needed any experience.
CD-WOW have the XBox 360 version available for only £5.55 (which looks suspiciously like it might be a misprice) – for more information, click here. DS owners can click here to get their release for £17.99 from ShopTo.
Although there’s sadly no way to compete with other players around the world via the wireless network, Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games is still a very enjoyable title either alone or with friends (single-card and multi-card gameplay options are available).
Alongside the standard athletics, gymnastics, shooting, archery, rowing, aquatics, fencing, and table tennis events, there are also alternative versions called "Dream Events" – these allow you to use special abilities in order to defeat opponents, as opposed to the expected manner of winning through sheer effort.
If you fancy this DS game, click here to buy it for £9.99 from Comet.
Argos Gaming Bargains
20 Mar
There’s a few Argos gaming bargains that seem well worth taking a look at.
Many are console deals, but there are one or two games as well…
DS
E.A. Playground, Sim City DS, FIFA Street 3, and Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix Pack £19.99
PS2
Rock Band Drum Kit Controller £34.99
PS3
40GB PlayStation 3 Console £219.99
Rock Band Drum Kit Controller £34.99
Wii
Harvest Moon: Magical Melody £7.99
WarioWare: Smooth Moves £14.99
The obvious highlights here are the double pack of Wii Fit and Super Smash Brothers: Brawl, plus any one of the three console offers – the DS Lite in particular looking fantastic.
Although it has a slightly smaller hard drive than the one found in the current Premium model, the XBox 360 Halo 3 Special Edition 20GB Premium Console does look a lot smarter than the standard white system.
Not only do you get the console itself, but both the wireless controller and wired headset are in matching colours as well. Plus, this version comes with a play and charge kit and a one-month Gold subscription to XBox Live.
Game are selling this for £169.99 – click here for more details.
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. £29.99
20 Mar
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. is an aerial warfare game that takes place in the same universe as Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter (more specifically, between Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 and Tom Clancy’s EndWar).
Cutting-edge technology, devastating firepower, and intense dogfights combine to make this a title deserving entry in the Tom Clancy series. No multiplayer is a bit of a letdown, but there is a very good co-operative mode to go with the single player campaign.
To get this PlayStation 3 game for £29.99 from Comet, click here.
Sendit.com 10% Discount
19 Mar
Just for a change (and by change I mean "as regular as clockwork"), there’s another Sendit.com 10% discount floating its way around the Internet.
This one expires at midday today (Thursday the 19th of March), so you better get your skates on to make the saving!
Oh yeah, and you need to enter SENDIT10 at the checkout to activate the discount – click here to see what they have on offer.
When you see the range of titles available for both the PlayStation 3 and XBox 360, it’s easy to dismiss the Wii as a non-gamers console. I would counter with the argument that The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Super Mario Galaxy, and Super Smash Brothers: Brawl are all fairly intensive games – its version of Resident Evil IV is also arguably the best on the market as well.
The beauty of the system is that anyone can pick up and play right away. Wii Sports is included with every sale, along with a Wii Remote, and demonstrates exactly what makes the Wii a unique experience like no other.
If you fancy a Nintendo Wii, with Wii Play, click here to buy one for £176.16 from Amazon. There are a few other different titles to choose from if Wii Play doesn’t sound that exciting (but bear in mind that it includes an extra Wii Remote).
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is the long-awaited sequel to one of the best first-person horror shooters in recent years, F.E.A.R. Known for its intelligent enemies, this follow-up bumps the pressure up another notch to make them even more challenging and aggressive.
Although it has excellent atmosphere and scares, visually awesome gameplay, and fun weapons, this is perhaps not as good as the original – however, it’s certainly far from being awful.
Click here to get the PlayStation 3 release for £19.99 from Gameplay, or click here to buy the XBox 360 version for the same price from ShopTo.
