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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 / [...]
FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage / Xbox – $12
As part of their Early Black Friday Sale, Newegg has FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage / Xbox (80 at Metacritic) for $11.99. It’s a racing game, with a heavy emphasis on car-to-car contact.
In their ‘A’ review, 1up said:
Strip away all the glitz, glamour, and pretension from Electronic Arts’ Burnout series and you get FlatOut — a [...]
Guitar Hero: World Tour / Xbox – $13.92
Guitar Hero: World Tour for the Xbox (85 at Metacritic) is on sale at Walmart for $13.92 plus a couple of bucks for shipping, or opt for in-store pickup. This is the version of Guitar Hero that came out about a year ago, and supports the full band — drums, guitar, bass, vocal. This copy [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Shadow Complex – $15
One of the best things that’s happened in recent history for cheap gaming is the Xbox Arcade. There are hundreds of titles in a variety of genres — many of them quite good — most priced from $8 to $15.
One of the best recently (and perhaps ever) is an old-school, side-scrolling platformer with lots of [...]
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 [...]