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As a longtime semi-fanboy of Pro Evolution, it almost pains me to say that this year’s FIFA is much better than PES 2009: Pro Evolution Soccer. Konami simply haven’t done enough to improve on the last one, whereas E.A. appear to be listening to what the fans want to see.

The "Be A Pro" mode is a great little idea, where you take control of one player throughout his career and help build up his stats. Combined with some excellent online multiplayer play, as well as the standard career options, this is football gaming at its best.

Click here to get the PS2 version for £14.93 from Asda. They also have the DS (click here) and PSP (click here) releases for the same price.

Wii owners can get their version for £17.73 from The Hut by clicking here, whilst HMV are selling the PlayStation 3 (click here) and XBox 360 (click here) releases for £24.99 each.

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Fighting the undead is always fun, and Left 4 Dead promises more of this – just now you’ll be able to do it as part of a team. Let’s see if it can come anywhere near to matching Resident Evil 4, which is easily one of the best titles of all time.

Working with three others (either human or AI controlled) you must fight through various scenarios to make it to safety which could be difficult as the futher you progress, the more harder to kill the evil buggers become.

If you fancy this XBox 360 game, click here to preorder it for £29.97 from Amazon.

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There are a couple of XBox 360 60GB Premium offers, that look very good, available at the moment. This is the medium package out of the three 360 systems on the market, but should be suitable for pretty much everyone – especially now that it has a hard drive three times the size of the last one.

Pop in to Asda to pick up the console with a copy of either FIFA 09, Mercenaries 2: World In Flames, or Saints Row 2 for a total price of £177.

Or you can click here to buy the console with copies of Fallout 2, Gears Of War, and Gears Of War 2 for £199.99 (select the free postage option when you get to the checkout).

UPDATE: Blockbuster have another offer worth considering. For £169.99 you get the console plus copies of Dead Space and FIFA 09 (and £20 worth of rental vouchers).

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SimCity Creator follows the same basic SimCity formula that sees you managing a city and placing residential, commercial, and industrial buildings alongside facilities such as police stations, hospitals, and stadiums.

However, you can also now customise the look of the buildings by giving them different themes – from Egyptian or Roman styles through to ones that look like confectionary.

The Hut are selling the DS version for £12.71 – for more information, click here. Wii owners can click here to buy their release for £17.99 from Game.

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Out of the three different systems available, the XBox 360 Elite is considered the choice for the hardcore gamer. This is because it comes with a much bigger hard drive, one that is in fact double the size of the Premium at 120GB.

The other noticeable difference is that everything comes in black. The console itself, the wireless controller, and the wireless headset are all this colour, and look very nice too.

Instore at Gamestation you can pick up the XBox 360 Elite, with two games and an extra wireless controller, for £239. The two titles in question are great, as they’re Fable II and Fallout 3.

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There are some cheaper ways to connect to XBox Live than using the XBox 360 Wireless Network Adapter, but these are much more difficult to set up – this just plugs into the back of your console, and then you’re pretty much ready to go.

Why Microsoft couldn’t have included it inside the system to begin with, I’ll never know. You’d think that at least the Elite might have one, but sadly this isn’t the case.

Click here to buy this for £59.99 from Game – but wait, as we can get it much lower than this.

They’re currently running an offer where you get the dongle for £44.99 when bought with anything else, so just add this wrapping to satisfy the requirement. Further more, use this Game £3 off a £30 spend voucher to take the price down to a very reasonable £42.98.

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After the massive success of Gears Of War, a sequel was inevitable – and Gears Of War 2 has finally arrived. Expect more of the top-notch third-person action that the first one provided, just with a fresh new look and a huge amount of nasty bastards to blow to pieces.

The Locust have found a way to make giant emergence holes capable of sinking entire cities at once, so Marcus Fenix and the rest of the COG Delta Squad are now drilling underground to "take the fight to the Locust".

Instore at both Morrisons and Sainsburys you can get this XBox 360 game for £29.99.

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Samba De Amigo is a rhythm game that first appeared on the Sega Dreamcast, but has recently been updated for the Wii generation. The Wii Remote and Wii Nunchuk are used to simulate the maraca-shaking from the original, or you can just use two Wii Remotes for completely wireless play – maraca-shaped attachments are also available to provide a full experience.

Characters and stages are the same as the original, although they have much better graphics than before. A "Career" mode is also exclusive to the Wii version, and there are some 23 new songs to master (with more to buy as downloadbale content).

Game have this title available for £17.99 – click here for more details.

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Owners of either an XBox 360 Arcade or XBox 360 Core console will be very interested in the forthcoming release of an XBox 360 60GB Live Starter Kit.

In it you’ll find a 60GB hard drive, wireless headset, network cable, and a three month subscription to XBox Live. I believe that Microsoft are trying to get as many people as possible to upgrade to a hard drive, as a future update is going to take up a lot of space (much more than the 256MB memory card anyway).

Click here to preorder this set for £49.97 from Amazon.

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It was on the cards since last year, but FIFA has finally surpassed Pro Evolution Soccer in the fight for top football game. FIFA 09 is great fun in either single player or with a friend, and runs much faster than I remembered it did previously.

Goalkeepers have improved tremendously, and actually appear to want to save the ball – which has always been something of a problem in the past! The online mode is as good as ever, and "Be A Pro" has been extended to run for a total of four seasons.

If you fancy the PlayStation 2 version, click here to get it for £14.97 from Amazon – click here to get the PSP release for the same price from the same retailer.

Also at Amazon you can buy the PS3 (click here), Wii (click here), or XBox 360 (click here) versions for £22.97 each.

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