Some good
games at excellent prices — Joe Danger, Lara Croft & Pac - Man Championship Edition DX all PSN essential purchases (Just look at Metacritic).
Not exact matches
Nintendo's new console may be fast, and it may be decently
priced at just $ 300, and it may have a new, massive,
excellent Zelda
game as a launch title, but it has some tremendous limitations.
Cardiff to Win & Over 2.5 goals
at 14/5 looks
excellent value and with Birmingham in a period of transition this
game against a side in form may have come a few weeks too soon, we're happy to to take that
price.
Made by the same developers who brought us the
excellent Halo Wars, Robot Entertainment this year gave us the perfect blend of high quality
game mechanics
at a budget
price.
Originally intended to be an XBLA release, the decision was made to bump the
game up to a full retail release, although it should be noted when the
game does drop on September 16th, it will be
at a reduced
price of # 29.99, which will include a free code for the
excellent Fruit Ninja Kinect as well.
It's a shame they haven't updated this to factor in the
excellent LEGO Movie or Marvel Super Heroes
games, but it's still a damn fine package
at a damn fine
price.
I just looked
at the PS Blog Europe post about what they have coming up in the next two months and they look like they have some
excellent content coming soon — Zen Pinball as the free
game next month, Sam and Max: Devil's Playhouse full season the following month, half
priced Metal Gear Solid PSOne, et cetera.
We've joined forces with our friends
at Humble to bring you Crusader 2 (and many other
excellent games)
at their lowest ever
price!
I wish Virtue's Last Reward was included in this sale, but Zero Time Dilemma is an
excellent game and I would purchase it now if I didn't already pick it up
at full
price on release day!
However, if you're a casual fighting
game or indeed Tekken franchise fan, the limited life span of this title probably doesn't warrant its current Xbox Store asking
price of # 49.99 because as a fighting
game (which is what it is
at the end of the day) it's
excellent, but as a AAA title with a long life span?
Super Bomberman R for the Nintendo Switch was a pleasant surprise, a revival of a classic property released for a budget
price, and then supported with
excellent free post launch content and updates that not only addressed issues the
game had had
at launch, but added oodles of content and features to it for no
price.
Users moaned about the
games but when I heard what was being released — Escape Plan, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and SteamWorld Dig are three
excellent games, all for the
price of nothing
at all (if you don't count the PSN subscription fee).
Featuring
excellent emulation of 30
games — many of which are some of the most important
games ever made — and being sold
at fair a
price of # 50, it's easy to understand why the console has been selling like hot cakes.
Similarly long and
excellent game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is on sale
at 30 per cent off for a # 34.99
price.
Sure, they make stacks of money, but Value are not huge corporate c*ck suckers like M$ and Sony, who seem perfectly happy to ream consumers
at any given opportunity (although massive props to Sony for PS + — an
excellent service) and seem to delight in gaily charging exorbitant
prices for online
games and services.
Other than the other
games in the MechWarrior series, there are the Heavy Gear PC
games (also developed by Activision, and also based upon a Western company's wargame / role - playing
game property), the
excellent Armored Core series, Earthsiege / Starsiege, the Gungriffon series, and the Xbox's Steel Battalion — which actually shipped
at the retail
price of 200 dollars, because Capcom apparently felt the simulation experience necessitated the largest peripheral controller for a console ever.