In case you haven’t seen this on ATK or somewhere else, Valve have named the images used in this week’s EA Sale (do I need to explain?), allowing you to see what offers are coming up and plan accordingly. Here is the rundown for the week…
You’re too late for this one, it wasn’t a great deal £10 each for Crysis and Warhead.
Bad Company 2 for £20 is well worth it if you haven’t got it already. Pre-order Medal Of Honor and get access to the beta. If you already have BC2, then you get to play on the 17th (4 days earlier).
C&C4 is meant to be a poor end to the series, though some previous games may be on offer if you’re interested. Red Alert 3 isn’t a bad game.
Need For Speed Shift and Burnout Paradise are both great games. NFS:S is the first game to take the series in a realistic, track racing direction. If you like racing games, these could be well worth £10.
Mirror’s Edge is a great freestyle running game, shame the combat is so awful and unnecessary. Dead Space is a must if you like your scary games. I expect both of these to be less than £5.
Mass Effect will most probably be less than £5, while the sequel will be 50% off at £15. Both well worth picking up. Play the first one before the sequel if you can.
The pick of the crop, Dragon Age is the best RPG in decades. If you don’t have this, pick it up for most likely £15. Awakenings, the expansion to Dragon Age, is also worth picking up for £10, it provides an additional 15 excellent hours of gameplay.
#1 by Orix on 16 June 2010 - 09:06
I find it odd you say NFS:S is a good game. It’s design is to be a realistic racer over it’s traditional arcade routes. This means it’s in the same category as Forza and GT, both series of which I am a fan of.
I’ve played a reasonable amount of Shift, and from what I’ve played of it, it still clings onto it’s arcade roots, and over-simplifies things such as the customization, in order to cater to their base market of ‘OMG lol zoom zoom bigger power’. It only has 19 circuits which is absolutely terrible, and the 60 car selection doesn’t bode well as well. In races, the handling and be a bit clunky, and the advancement to very clusterbangish.
I think all the above links to one fact – it’s still an arcade based driving game, and with the competition it faces in the realism market between Forza and GT5 later this year, I don’t see why they would stick with what I think was a brief restbite from driving stupidity.
#2 by Sam on 16 June 2010 - 10:36
You’re right, but there is a spot in the genre between ‘hardcore realistic track racer’ and ‘casual arcade urban racer’. If you’re not into the whole fine tuning the suspension, tires deteriorating as you race sort of thing, then it is a good game.