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Street Fighter IV – old school fighter made new – $20
Street Fighter IV / PS3, Xbox (93 on Metacritic) brings together the old-school fighter with all of the characters made famous from the franchise with lots of great newness: online match-making, high definition 3D, moves, and a bunch of characters. It’s a full-on button-mashing party, and everyone’s invited.
Here’s what HardcoreGamer said in their 4.75 / [...]
Valkyria Chronicles / PS3 – Strategy in 1930’s Europe Fantasy
From DealNews: GameStop is having a sale on Valkyria Chronicles / PS3 for $20 (86 at Metacritic). (Make sure to hit DealNews for the details on free shipping.)
Valkyria Chronicles is a well-produced squad-based strategy game that walks the line between something like Final Fantasy Tactics and a first-person shooter. It’s set in a ‘Europe in [...]
Trine – fantasy platformer on the PS3, PC: $20
Trine / PS3 and PC (83 at Metacritic) is a very pretty 2d action platformer, in which the action shifts between a thief, a knight, and a wizard. In the single-player game, you flip between these characters. In the co-op mode, up to three players can join up and fight the good fight together. Each [...]
Rock Band 2 on sale for $20
Best Buy has Rock Band 2 / all platforms (91 or so at Metacritic, depending on platform) on sale for $20. Visit DealNews for the platform links.
If you haven’t already played the title — and you have any interest at all in musical games — go! Now! Rock Band 2 is one of the best [...]
Rainbox Six Vegas 2 drops to $20
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 / Xbox, PS3, PC (81 or so on Metacritic, varies by platform) just dropped to under $20 on Amazon.
Rainbox Six Vegas 2 a tactial first-person shooter. It’s the seventh in the Rainbow Six series (nineteen if you count expansions), but it’s only the second where you get to lead [...]
F.E.A.R. 2 drops to $20
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin / Xbox, PS3, PC (78 or so on Metacritic, depending on platform) just dropped below $20 on Amazon.
It is a first-person shooter in the horror genre.
In marketing speak — “The sequel to F.E.A.R. continues the original game’s spine-tingling supernatural suspense story of an escalating paranormal crisis that threatens [...]
Fallout 3 / PS3 – $19.99
Amazon’s Videogame Deal of the Day is the almost universally loved Fallout 3 (90 at Metacritic). It’s $19.99 for the PS3. PC and Xbox are still around $37. (Be sure to click through to the ‘Standard’ version.)
It’s a shooter with strong role-playing elements set in a — say it along with me! — a post-apocalyptic [...]
Virtua Fighter 5 / XBox, PS3 – $12.14 or $23
Virtua Fighter 5 (89 at Metacriic) is a fighting game that specializes in quick, technical combat. There’s not much of a story, no character development (outside of buying items to hang on your fighter), no levels to unlock, no hidden bosses to reveal.
But what it does, it does really well.
It’s fast, it’s responsive, and it’s [...]
Dead Space / Xbox, PS3 – $22
Dealnews brings word that Buy.com is offering the survival horror title Dead Space for the PS3 or the Xbox 360 for $22, delivered.
Deadspace is a well-reviewed survival sci-fi horror game (88 or 89 at Metacritic, depending on platform). You play a communications engineer set out to find out what went wrong with a mining vessel [...]
Midnight Club: Los Angeles – $20 or less
Midnight Club: Los Angeles is a handsome racing game set in a detailed model of Los Angeles, “the most authenic and stunning … ever created,” according to the Rockstar marketing team.
It offers:
40 different vehicles, including motorcycles, exotics, and, my personal favorite, muscle cars.
All the customization you can eat: from suspension systems and engine internals to [...]