Cheap Games

Until not that long ago, the middle-sized XBox 360 package came with a 20GB hard drive – however, Microsoft must have been feeling generous as it’s now been tripled to a 60GB hard drive.

You also get a wireless controller, which is a hell of a lot easier to use than the previous XBox one was. To think that anyone thought a circular pad would be a good idea!

Click here to buy the XBox 360 60GB console for £139.99 from ShopTo (an incredible deal, as this is only about a tenner more than the smaller Arcade model).

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The Amazon video game Christmas sale has begun, which seems very early – I’m not going to complain though!

There are a fair few bargains to be had, but please note that this is only on for 12 days and will end on the 28th of November.

DS

Brain Challenge £8.97
Hell’s Kitchen £17.97
Imagine Fashion Model £16.97
SimCity Creator £14.97
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood £15.97

PS2

The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian £11.97
Mercenaries 2: World In Flames £14.97

PS3

Baja: Edge Of Control £15.97
Bioshock £22.97
Brothers In Arms: Hell’s Highway £19.97
Fracture £22.97
Grand Theft Auto IV £22.97
Midnight Club: Los Angeles £22.97
NBA 2K9 £19.97
NHL 2K9 £19.97
Pure £19.97
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 £19.97

PSP

Spider-Man: Web Of Shadows £15.97

Wii

Brothers In Arms: Double Time £19.97
Hell’s Kitchen £17.97
Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures £19.97
SimCity Creator £14.97
Soul Calibur: Legends £16.97
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 £19.97

XBox 360

Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 £5.29
Brothers In Arms: Hell’s Highway £19.97
Bully: Scholarship Edition £10.58
Clive Barker’s Jericho: Special Edition £8.52
F.E.A.R. Files £5.29
Fracture £22.97
Grand Theft Auto IV £22.97
Iron Man £15.97
Midnight Club: Los Angeles £22.97
NBA 2K9 £19.97
NHL 2K9 £19.97
Pure £19.97
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 £19.97

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FaceBreaker is a boxing game that looks very much like a hybrid between the graphics of Ready 2 Rumble Boxing and the fighting style of Punch Out!! (remember that?!?).

Sadly it’s not all that great, and the fact that the AI is incredibly difficult to beat makes single player a bit of a chore. There’s no online multiplayer either, but you can play an offline version with friends.

Both the PlayStation 3 (click here) and XBox 360 (click here) releases are available for £14.99 each from HMV.

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Those gamers who, like me, would rather have something they can pick up and play straight away might be interested in NHL 2K8. I suppose it would also help if you liked ice hockey, but that actually doesn’t matter as much as you would think.

There’s a few new additions to this entry in the series, which make it more exciting than ever before. Graphics have been improved, there’s a new skating engine, authentic equipment is now included, and goalies have much better reactions.

Click here to buy the XBox 360 version for £3.99 from The Game Collection, or click here to get the PS3 release for £7.05 from Amazon.

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There’s a variety of Wii games at £9.99 each from Play.com which I thought I’d bring to your attention.

Some are a bit rubbish, but one or two are worth adding to your collection.

Arctic Tale (National Geographic)
Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer
Fun Park
GT Pro Series
Jenga: World Tour
My Spanish Coach
Red Steel
Table Tennis
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

UPDATE: The list has been updated, with some titles disappearing and some new ones appearing. Like magic!

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Brothers In Arms: Hell’s Highway is the third in the series of games that follow the men of the 101st Airborne Division (502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment). You once again play the role of Staff Sergeant Matt Baker, this time during Operation Market Garden in the later stages of World War II.

There’s been a few new features added to this as well. New specialised units, including bazooka and machine gun teams, are available to use, and you can now cover behind objects and fire from a third-person perspective. The "health" system has also been overhauled, as too has the mapping system.

Click here to get the PlayStation 3 version for £24.99 from ShopTo, or click here to get the XBox 360 release for the same price from the same retailer.

Either of these cheap games are worth getting, especially if you enjoy Call Of Duty and the like.

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Anybody who’s ever played a football management simulation will tell you that they can quite literally take over your life. Marriages and relationships have ended because of them, and it’s even been rumored that real-life club managers use them to look for new players!

Football Manager is the undoubted king of this world, and every new season brings a brand new release with fully updated transfers and club data. Football Manager Handheld 2009 is a condensed version of the PC game, which for the first time includes a 2D match engine.

Click here to get this PSP title for £17.73 from The Hut.

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There are some decent XBox 360 console bundles around just now, which is maybe a little surprising when you consider how close Christmas is. But with the economy in the toilet, maybe it’s not that shocking!

The XBox 360 Arcade is the smallest system of the three available, but it’s also the only one that comes with games included (Boom Boom Rocket, Feeding Frenzy, Luxor 2, Pac-Man and Uno). It doesn’t come with a hard drive, although Microsoft are still selling the XBox 360 20GB hard drive for £12.99 – a very cheap way of making a worthwhile upgrade.

At Currys you can get two packages for £129.99 each:

XBox 360 Arcade set with a copy of Fable II

XBox 360 Arcade set with a copy of PES 2009: Pro Evolution Soccer

Meanwhile over at Comet you can get the XBox 360 Arcade set with a copy of just-released-the-other-day title Call Of Duty: World At War for the same price of £129.99. Click here for more details.

Finally, there’s a slightly complicated deal at Amazon which is well worth the hassle.

Add the XBox 360 Arcade set, the new XBox 360 Wireless Entertainment Pack (which contains a wireless controller and copies of Kung Fu Panda and Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures), and a choice of game from a selected list to your basket, and enter the code XBXGME10 to get the whole lot for £129.98 – click here to see more information on this confusing, but decent, offer.

You might be glad to know that there’s only a couple of XBox 360 60GB Premium console deals around, and these are both identical to a couple of the XBox 360 Arcade offers featured above.

As you can tell by this system’s name, it comes with a 60GB hard drive. This used to be 20GB, until Microsoft decided to be generous and boost the size up to this new level.

Click here to get the console with a copy of Call Of Duty: World At War for £159.99 from Comet.

Over at Argos you can still get an XBox 360 Premium with three games, and an extra controller, for £169.95 – the titles are Kung Fu Panda, Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, and Viva Pinata, by the way.

Finally, the potentially baffling Amazon deal mentioned in the Arcade section above is also available with an XBox 360 Premium console for the higher price of £169.98. Click here for more details on it.

The top-end XBox 360 system is the XBox 360 Elite. It’s the only one with a completely black finish, and it’s also the only one to come with a massive 120GB hard drive.

Me thinks that if this isn’t big enough for you, then nothing will be!

Comet have the XBox 360 Elite console, along with a copy of Call Of Duty: World At War, priced at £229.99 – click here for more information.

Lastly, that damn Amazon deal is back again! Read the bottom of the Arcade section above, and then click here to see the full details on how to get a very good bundle for £229.98.

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In a strange move, many versions of Spider-Man: Web Of Shadows are different from each other. It’s a 2.5D side-scrolling brawler and platformer on the DS, a side-scrolling beat ‘em up on the PlayStation 2 and PSP, and a full-3D action game on every other console.

What’s consist with every one of them is the ability to choose whether to align with the good guys or the bad guys, which is similar to Spider-Man: Friend Or Foe. The new combat system is worth mentioning as well, because you can now actually fight on walls – giving Spidey a distinct advantage.

To get the DS release for £14.99 from Game, simply click here. PS2 owners can get their version for the same price, from the same retailer, by clicking here.

Game also have the Wii (click here) release available for £17.99, and the XBox 360 (click here) version priced at £24.99.

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Today there’s been a few Play.com game reductions that seem worth mentioning.

I’ve arranged them in alphabetical order, for no reason other than to be nice. How lovely of me.

DS

Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword £9.99

PS3

Haze £9.99
Little Big Planet £29.99
TNA: iMPACT! £11.99

Wii

TNA: iMPACT! £11.99

XBox 360

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion £9.99
TNA: iMPACT! £11.99

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