SoftUK Discounts
20 Nov
There’s a couple of SoftUK discounts which are well worth mentioning, as there are big savings to be made.
Any items £16.99 or less can get a 20% saving, whilst any purchase over £16.99 is in line for a 10% discount.
Click here to visit their site, and enter SOFTUKXMAS at the checkout to make your saving.
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.
Fable II £29.99
20 Nov
With so many excellent games being released, it’s difficult to find the time to play them all! It’s my opinion that you should make at least a little bit of room for Fable II though, as it’s easily one of the best role-playing games in the last couple of years.
Fans of the original will feel right at home, whilst newcomers shouldn’t be intimidated by the depth of scale. Special mention must go to the graphics (which are beautiful), and the brilliant online co-operative mode.
Click here to get this XBox 360 exclusive for £29.99 from Game. You might be able to get this cheaper by using the Game £3 off a £30 spend voucher, but I can’t 100% guarantee that it will work.
Sometimes it seems as though the DS is more like a motivational tool than a games console, as there are a fair few titles to help improve your memory, etc. My Health Coach: Manage Your Weight is another one of these, except this helps you to lead a more healthy lifestyle.
Developed with a fitness coach and nutritionist, it aims to assist you in taking control of your weight efficiently and making you feel better. The included pedometer helps measure your real physical activity level and balance it, although you’ll need a fair amount of willpower ti continue!
Argos are selling My Health Coach: Manage Your Weight (with pedometer) for £14.99 – for more information, click here.
Beautiful Katamari £9.99
19 Nov
Beautiful Katamari is the fourth game in the Katamari series, and is notable for being originally planned for the PlayStation 3 until development was abandoned – making this the first to not appear on a Sony console.
In it you control a "katamari" to collect smaller objects, which in turn allows you to grow and collect even larger objects, as to meet various objectives given by the King Of All Cosmos. As well as a single player mode, there’s a competitive or co-operative multiplayer option than can be enjoyed either online or off.
Click here to buy this XBox 360 game for £9.99 from Play.com.
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
Battle Of The Bands £4.99
19 Nov
Rhythm games like Guitar Hero and PaRappa The Rapper are two examples of how to do the genre well. Sadly, Battle Of The Bands is a good way to show how not to do it – even if it is a budget title.
Notes roll up from the bottom of the screen, and you must move the Wii Remote in time to these. Unfortunately it’s both far too easy and potentially painful (a strained wrist wouldn’t be surprising), although the track list is quite impressive.
Click here to get this Wii game for £4.99 from Play.com. One of those cheap games that might make a decent stocking filler for Christmas, I suppose.
Naruto: Rise Of A Ninja is an XBox 360 exclusive title that is specifically based on the English dubbed version of the anime series. There’s also a free download available that allows you to change the in-game voices to Japanese, if you so wish.
The single player mode is a cross between one-on-one fighting and role-playing games, and alternates between the two in the main story mode. There’s also a decent online multiplayer mode which sees you building up the stats of a character by fighting other players from around the world.
Click here to get this game for £9.99 from Play.com.
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.
