Devil May Cry 4, PC - £17.98 delivered
Project Gotham Racing 4, Xbox 360 - £11.75
Project Gotham Racing 4, Xbox 360 - £11.75 delivered
Apply code "B4U" for 2% off
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Rayman Raving Rabbids 2, Wii - £12.99
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2, Wii - £12.99 delivered
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Top Spin 3, Xbox 360 - £26.99
Top Spin 3, Xbox 360 - £26.99 delivered
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3.7.08
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Civilisation 4: Complete, PC - £6.98
Civilisation 4: Complete, PC - £6.98
Spend £15 for free p&p
Includes both Warlords and Beyond the Sword expansions.
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2.7.08
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Alone in the Dark - Review
Alone in the Dark, PC - £19.99 delivered
Alone in the Dark, Xbox 360 - £29.99 delivered
Alone in the Dark, PS3 - £34.99 delivered
Review by Rook
Waking up with no memory to see the man beside you murdered by occultist thugs is a strange start to Atari's last hurrah for big budget single player games. A gritty story, told in the style of a TV series complete with cliff hanger endings to chapters along with DVD styled menus to skip to your favourite parts and the cutscene's could almost make you buy into it. But Alone in the Dark as a game finds itself in something of a conundrum, and the usual review community has had a difficult time pinning the game down. When a game's reviews manage to evenly cover 60% of the scale then there's always something up, something that some people could see, and drag out of the game and other bits that some people couldn’t get over. Alone in the Dark manages to be a game with ideas and vision, and it has them in spades. It just never quite knows how to play its hand.
It doesn't waste much time throwing you into the action, a quick glance at a mirror let's you take a good look at yourself and really shows off the engine, the detail in the facial textures is amazing. Carnby, aged and ever so flawed, least to mention is the scar splitting his face apart still manages to look rugged and handsome. Around you the building is blazing, and it's not long before a second of Eden's many tricks are shown off, fire creeps towards you, a slowly spreading mass of flames consuming much that's in its path. A couple you've just saved argue at you, but you want to play around, in the sluggish first person view the fire extinguisher slowly beats back the flames but the audio strangely mutes out making it difficult to hear what they said... something about needing to double back, but that's all you hear. Looking back the couple that had once been so animated stand there mutely, no button press seems to engage them to replay their dialogue.
In fact the opening acts seem to lay almost all of the games cards on the table at once, rooms that you're walking around in are suddenly ripped out, twisted and hung over the Manhattan streets before being torn apart. Catching a ledge means you're suddenly scaling down a building that's half ablaze while bits of it collapse around you. On the streets a car chase against the very city itself as buildings crumble, cars are thrown into the air and the road is shredded by an unknown force is unlike anything you’ve played before. Yet all of this is dampened by the dogged persistence of a number of issues that never go away. The car has trouble mounting pavement sized gaps and often gets stuck to other cars forcing you to repeat the same sequence over and over. On foot the problems multiply. Trying to play in first person and the camera will arbitrarily rip you out into third person and push you back in with no warning. The controls jump between character relative and camera relative similarly with no warning. And many actions can only be done in one view or the other, leading to a lot of fumbling trying to remember how to do a specific task and melee attacks are downright painful to perform.
Yet this is a game where getting through a door can mean shooting out the lock, bashing the door down or setting it on fire. Where making your own explosives, weapons and traps are all necessary for survival (although curiously, monsters will mostly leave you alone as you fumble in your jacket), where you'll end up weighting down a bus with corpses to stop it from tipping or removing another's hand (did I really do that?) just to get through a scanner. A game where easing through the backseats of a car dangling over the edge of an abyss offers up a far more unsettling experience than any monster closet has ever managed. But annoyingly it's never really enjoyable, where a success just meant you managed to trick the game into doing what you wanted it to do and usually after a less than cooperative first couple of attempts.
Towards the second half of the game it changes pace and opens up, leaving you alone in Central Park with a number of tasks to complete. With plentiful supplies (every car contains one useful item, and trashcans are overflowing with objects) you almost feel more Charles Bronson up against defenceless thugs, than a man who's worst nightmares are coming to face him. Outside of a few impressive bosses, the monster designs never quite work, and nor does the AI with them happily leaving you alone after all but the briefest of chases. The set pieces that had been a highlight previously are now few and far between, replaced mainly by a seemingly endless task to kill tree roots. The story and interaction with other characters also tapers off, replaced with text messages that rarely offer any insight or relevance to the situation. It's at this point you'll wish to skip ahead, but the last chapter remains stubbornly locked, and jumping forward means you lose all your items and is often more hassle than just looking up the answer online.
As it winds down, a final tomb raider style puzzle sequence comes and goes all too quickly, and the gameplay stops with probably one of the most visceral gunshot wounds depicted in a game. Sadly this leaves just the slightly unsatisfying ending to the story. With just that little bit more work this could have been a great game, paring down the control scheme so it wasn't 4 pages long, simplifying the inventory, getting rid of the ridiculously unnecessary object control scheme, a few more checkpoints, a more reliable save system, a decent camera, reworked script and perhaps a more complete story. There's an endless list of little details that may have seemed too much for Eden and Atari, yet this could have been a masterpiece instead of flawed swansong.
Rating – Pomegranate (http://xkcd.com/388/)
Alone in the Dark, PC - £19.99 delivered
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Alone in the Dark, PS3 - £34.99 delivered
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (Steelbook), Xbox 360 - £23
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (Steelbook), Xbox 360 - £23 delivered
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New Search Bar!
I have got rid of the blogger navbar, and added a search form to the right. It looks a bit prettier and a bit more professional.
Let me know if you have any problems with it.
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Race Driver: Grid - Special Edition, PS3 - £29.99
Race Driver: Grid - Special Edition, PS3 - £29.99 delivered
Comes with a 'Making of' DVD and a Hardback artbook.
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Race Driver: Grid - Special Edition, Xbox 360 - £29.99
Race Driver: Grid - Special Edition, Xbox 360 - £29.99 delivered
Comes with a 'Making of' DVD and a Hardback artbook.
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Shadow of the Colossus, PS2 - £10.28
Shadow of the Colossus, PS2 - £10.28 delivered
Apply code "B4U" for 2% off
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2.7.08
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Sega Rally, PC - £6.28
Sega Rally, PC - £6.28
Spend £15 for free p&p
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2.7.08
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Mass Effect:: Special Edition, Xbox 360 - £19.99
Mass Effect:: Special Edition, Xbox 360 - £19.99 delivered
From what I can tell, it comes with a Bonus DVD, a Soundtrack, a book, and a bunch of other stuff.
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Freshly Picked: Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, DS - £7.99
Freshly Picked: Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, DS - £7.99 delivered
For any USA folks after this PAL/Japan exclusive game, this will be by far the cheapest place to get it from.
Shopto charge £4.11 for international shipping, which by my maths is around $24 delivered.
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Megaman Starforce: Pegasus, DS - £6.99
Megaman Starforce: Pegasus, DS - £6.99 delivered
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Elite Beat Agents, DS - £9.99
Elite Beat Agents, DS - £9.99 delivered
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (Exclusive Steelbook), PS3 - £17.99
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (Exclusive Steelbook), PS3 - £17.99 delivered
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30.6.08
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Drawn To Life, DS - £6.99
Drawn To Life, DS - £6.99 delivered
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Sonic Rush Adventure, DS - £9.99
Sonic Rush Adventure, DS - £9.99 delivered
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Space Invaders Extreme, PSP - £12.93
Space Invaders Extreme, PSP - £12.93 delivered
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Me And My Katamari, PSP - £5.99
Me And My Katamari, PSP - £5.99 delivered
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Killzone: Liberation, PSP - £4.89
Killzone: Liberation, PSP - £4.89 delivered
Apply code "B4U" for 2% off
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Mario Strikers Charged Football, Wii - £13.99
Mario Strikers Charged Football, Wii - £13.99 delivered
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No More Heroes, Wii - £17.99
No More Heroes, Wii - £17.99 delivered
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Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis, Wii - £10.99
Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis, Wii - £10.99 delivered
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Service back to normal/Glastonbury write-up.
Thanks to all of the SavyGuesters who posted interesting posts whilst I was away at Glastonbury (it was just Will..)
If any of the rest of you still have stuff you wanted to post, but never got round to it, I'll leave the SavyGuester account open for the next few weeks, let me know if you want more time.
Starting tonight I'll be posting bargains again, there'll be loads from whilst I've been away.
Anyway, Glastonbury was fantastic. I just got back a few hours ago, had a bath and have now emptied the car.
Here's a synopsis of my week at Glastonbury.
Saturday:
I arrived, set up the tents, unpacked my stuff, had a few chilled ciders and had a relatively early night. There was some confusion as to whether I was on the early shift or not, and in the end I wasn't technically on it, but if there was spare jobs, I would be offered them, instead of working later.
Sunday:
Had my first Oxfam stewarding shift, from 8am to 4pm. I spent about 2 hours sitting in the admin office, and I helped them out with a few computer stuff, then got sent to enforce a one way system at a junction near a bridge. Pretty boring work, but met a really nice guy (hey Nick!), who happened to be camped right near me, with a bunch of friends. After shift he introduced me to his mates, and we had a pretty heavy drinking session round the campfire.
Monday:
Second shift. I was officially 'floating', which from what I can tell means playing scrabble and drinking tea all morning. At about 11 I was sent to cover people who were doing the same job as I had been doing on Sunday on their lunch breaks, but then I was let off shift a little early (I technically hadn't had a lunch break, so they just let me off a half hour early). Queue another drinking session round the campfire.
Tuesday:
Things got a bit more interesting on Tuesday. I turned up at 8am to see if I could work another, final, shift. I was told by my supervisor that there was no shifts available for me today, so to just have the day off.
Like any responsible festival goer with nothing to do all day, I cracked open the first can of Cider.
Shortly after finishing, one of the Oxfam organisers tracked me down and said "Actually, it turns out we do have a shift we need you to do, can you get ready for work now?"
I replied "Sure, Iam very happy to work now, however, in case it matter, you should know that I have just had a can of Cider. I am sure I am perfectly fine to work, but I thought it would be best to be honest."
She said "At 8 in the morning?!?!"
I just laughed. In the end, they sent me away for a few hours to 'sober up', and I started at 12. It did become a running joke on camp that I turned up for work drunk and got sent away...
This time my shift was greeting and directing all pedestrians entering the site, for 8 hours. It was really dusty too, but at least no rain.
Wednesday:
Barely got out of bed. Just relaxed all day.
Thursday:
I went to see Santogold in the afternoon, really good live, you should all check out her album.
We made an interesting discovery on Thursday.
Oxfam staff have a slightly different wristband to punters.
Press have a slightly different wristband to punters.
Sometimes security staff struggle to tell the difference between press and oxfam staff.
If you are friendly and confident with security staff they will let you anywhere if you have a wristband that they assume is press.
Even into a private press party.
With KT Tunstall playing to a room of about 100 people.
And a free bar.
Me and my parents all snuck into this party in the hospitality area. They had sofa's, hard floors with carpets, nice toilets. I spent all night hanging out with people from Q Magazine, The Guardian, and the BBC. Brilliant night.
Friday:
I woke up with an awful hangover.
Still managed to catch most of Kate Nash and The Subways at the Pyramid Stage. Kate Nash was great, although The Subways didn't really impress me much.
Then I shot off to The Park, where a long time favourite of mine, John Cale (from The Velvet Underground) was playing, and after him a "Special Guest". But I also caught most of Edwyn Collins too, who despite struggling to even get on and off stage because of some pretty serious brain damage, was still incredibly full of energy, and a real inspiration.
John Cale was really great, the only dissapointment being that he didn't play his cover of LCD Soundsystem's "All my Friends" which would have no doubt gone down a treat with the festival crowd.
Then after that, the "Special Guest" ended up being Franz Ferdinand, who I saw at Leeds before and loved live. They played a lot of new material, and a few classics. It's amazing how many of their songs still sound fresh even now.
After Franz finished, I headed back to the Pyramid Stage for Kings of Leon, who are so much more mature that when I saw them on their Youth and Young Manhood tour.
Back to camp, relaxed by the fire for a bit, then off to bed.
Saturday:
Got up and ready in time to head for the Pyramid Stage, to see Martha Wainwright, who was pretty dull for the most part, but saved by a guest appearance of the superbly talented Shlomo. Shlomo is a fantasticly technically accomplished beatboxer, he does things his voice than no human should be able to do.
He provided the beat, whilst she was singing and playing the guitar, and the end product was fantastic. I made a note to make sure I caught his set later.
Then I headed back to The Park for Kool Keith (Founding member of the Ultramagnetic MCs, and also know as Dr. Octagon) and Kutmaster Kurt, who put on a great set. It was a little rude for me, considering the time of day and audience, but it wasn't a bit deal.
Then the next two hours was the single most entertaining performance I have ever seen at a music festival - Shlomo presents "Music through unconventional Means".
First it was just him on stage, he started off pretty simple, and without a repeater (so just him and a mic), but he just built it into something incredble. He was beatboxing classic like Seven Nation Army, and Outer Space, but doing the entire song, scratching, and remixing it at the same time. I actually saw a member of security turn around and clap!
Then he introduced his Vocal Orchestra. A team of seven beatboxers, who almost looked like they didn't think they deserved to be there, but that couldn't have been any further from the truth. They worked really well together, and with Shlomo coordinating the effect was incredible.
Then Shlomo started bring on the special guests to perform with him. Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Martha Wainwright, The Reverend, Lemn Sissay, DJ Yoda, and many more all turned up. Playing covers from a wide range of genre's, including classics by Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder, all with insane beatboxing going on.
It lasted two hours, but was interesting and exciting for the whole time. If you ever have the chance to see Shlomo, you owe it to yourself. He had a really endearing charm too. He is obviously a bit of a nerd, and almost looked like he thinks he doesn't deserve to be on stage at Glastonbury, but when he opens his mouth, magic happens.
Next up was "Very Special Guests" The Last Shadow puppets.
They were OK, but I don't really think they are a festival band. Although Jack White turning up to play a song with them was pretty cool.
After that was MGMT, who where great, but the most interesting thing was a little scrap between a member of the band and security.
Towards the end of the set, they decided to go stage diving. I thought this would be as good a time as any to jump over the barrier and head off to the Glade, my next destination, since there was no way I could have walked through the crowd. As I got over and ran down the side (in a sailor hat and tail coat if you are looking out for me on the coverage ;D) one of the security staff mistook a member of the band for a punter trying to get back on stage. The security guard grabbed him and threw him to the ground pretty forcefully. No idea what happened after this, but it got a laugh out of me.
After that, I avoided the immature Jay-Z backlash/anti-backlash and headed to the Glade to catch Squarepusher. I would have quiet liked to see Jay-Z, but Squarepusher trumped him, sorry Jigga. He was obviously having a lot of fun, and really interacted with the, very intimate, crowd.
Then back to camp for drinks and campfire.
Sunday:
I didn't really see many bands on sunday, but the ones I did see where fantastic.
I spent most of the morning in the Leftfield tent, listening to, amongst other people, living legend Tony Benn talk about how broken the world is, and what we should do to fix it. It was a bit heavy going, but interesting.
First band up was Crystal Castles, one of the most exciting bands I have seen in a while. I love their album, but live, I don't think it is much of an exageration to say they are the blueprint for the future of electronic music, and in 10 years time they'll be listed alongside Daft Punk and Aphex Twin.
Then I only really saw The Verve.
The Verve set was exactly what I expected. Very Good, a collection of hits, mostly from Urban Hymns, and a few new, decent tracks.
They got to Bittersweet Symphony, which I assumed was the end, and I was overall pleased with the performance.
Then they played one more new song.
They dropped the phatest rave song I heard in a long time. Completely out of the blue. Nothing like anything else they have ever done. The crowd were going insane. I am now really excited for their new album.
Monday:
Packed up, got home, ready lots of email and spend an hour or so on my RSS reader, then posted this.
There is a tonne of Glastonbury coverage on the BBC iplayer, if you want to check it out.
Sorry for the downtime then, normal service has resumed as of now.
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SSBB: Warning
I just got a PAL-release copy of Brawl, and I thought I'd let you know that nothing from the US game is compatible. You cannot use your previous save, you will get a new Friend Code, and you can't even load custom levels between each version of the game.
I can't fathom who thought this was a good idea. Either it's just a byproduct of the Freeloader, or it's someone at Nintendo who thought 'importers? F them one more time!'
Yeesh.
~Will
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PS3 'Real Triggers' - £3.49
PS3 'Real Triggers' - £3.49 delivered
I just found out about these, and they're brilliant. They turn your PS3 shoulder buttons into concave shapes rather than convex ones. One of my main issues with the PS3 has been solved - I can't believe I didn't think that someone would have made them already. According to a friend, GAME are supplying them free with PS3s and controllers, but that's just hearsay.
~Will
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Community Spirit
I was looking at the improvements planned for Burnout Paradise earlier (£28.99 delivered on PS3 and 360), and what they're doing to prolong the life of the game is something that I can't remember seeing in any other game. Not only is the game extremely solid in itself - I recommend picking up a copy if you can, it's possibly my most-played game this year so far - the way that Criterion are committing to their game and their audience is just astonishing. You can read all about the changes and listen to their weekly podcast at the Criterion website.
As well as listening to the fans and working in modes that should have been in the game originally, such as online Road Rage and Marked Man events, there are also a host of features that most developers simply wouldn't bother with after launch. Motorbikes, for example, being added into the mix. Extra challenges for online play. And possibly my favourites of the new features - completely rebooting the ranking system to make it fairer based on community response, player-created or suggested liveries and routes, and the ability to assign special cars to whoever they feel deserves it.
The sense of community is something that I wish more developers would embrace. There is only the most thin veil of support for so many games, but the few who do support it do it so well that I'm surprised that no-one puts the effort in otherwise. For example, as well as Criterion, Bungie support the Halo 3 community constantly with their DoubleEXP Weekend events and the Bungie Favourites playlist, where they post their favourite films, snapshots, gametypes or level variants, downloadable straight from the game. Their integration with their website is also stellar - you can earmark any film or gametype from the website for download, and it'll automatically fire itself over to your Xbox the next time you boot up Halo 3 (£17.99 delivered).
And yet, some of the biggest games of this generation completely half-arsed its community features. As you'll know if you used the Rockstar Social Club in the first few weeks, it was criminally slow to update your statistics, and still doesn't register songs tagged in-game correctly. It's disappointing, especially since all it really is is a glorified leaderboard which displays information that is already available in-game n a different format. For something calling itself a social club, it's surprisingly closed off to anyone else. There's no forum for discussion about anything in-game, and as excited as I was about it when it was announced it just feels very hollow.
It seems like this sense of community is so very important now for gaming - not that GTA IV (£37.83 delivered on PS3 and 360) needed it to sell any copies, of course. But the reason I love my Xbox 360 so much are the community features that the others simply don't have. It's the first console I've owned where I don't simply go straight into the game as soon as I boot up - I'll spend five minutes seeing what my friends are doing, how they've progressed in certain games, whether they've beaten my high-scores or are further than me in the game I'm playing. And it's something that the PS3 can't quite match (at least until firmware 2.40 and Home are released), and the Wii will apparently never do.
I like that I can get together with my friends for Rock Band, but why can't I post a Drummer Wanted ad online and play with someone I would never get a chance to otherwise? We're coming up fast on E3 2008, and I really hope that instead of the hard and fast 'more immersion, better graphics' angle that we always seem to get, we also get a healthy sprinkling of 'community focus'.
~Will
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Wii - £29.99 (and contest)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Wii - £29.99 preorder
For those of you near one of the Gamestation stores listed below, they're having a Brawl contest on June 28th (day after release). First prize is a 40" Samsung HDTV, with a DivX DVD player and 5.1 Dolby Digital speakers. Runner-up prize is an iPod nano. There's one of each prize per store.
Characters you can use:
Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Samus Aran, Kirby, Fox, Pikachu, Diddy Kong, Zelda, Pit, Meta Knight, Pokémon Trainer, Ike, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Ice Climbers, King Dedede, Bowser, Wario, Olimar & Lucas.
Stores participating:
Birmingham, Bracknell, Burton-on-Trent, Cambridge, Canterbury, Crossgates (Leeds), Dundee, Edinburgh Princes St, Erdington, Gateshead (Metro Ctr), Glasgow Sauchiehall St, Gloucester, Hull (Prospect Ctr), Lewisham, Liverpool (Lord St), Merry Hill, Middlesbrough, Newport (Wales), Sheffield, Telford.
Don't forget to choose your city at the top of the page when signing up. You'll also be entered for a draw to win a Wii.
I think it's a bit odd that they chose an HDTV when the game's on the Wii, but hey, if I win I won't be complaining. No-one good go to the Cambridge one, please.
~Will
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21.6.08
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I'm going to be away for a bit - SavyGuester Hijack
I have a busy ten days ahead of me. I'm going to be stewarding at Glastonbury festival for Oxfam.
That means there is going to be some downtime for the bargains, as I won't be around to post. However, I have recruited a capable team of SavyGuesters, who will be posting some (hopefully) interesting articles for you guys to read.
I'll be back on the 30th, although I will probably be out of commission for a day or two...
SavyGuesters, Assemble!
Since I won't be here to moderate comments, unless you have a google account your comments won't get posted until I get back, but don't worry, I will go through them all soon after I do get back.
The opinions represented by the various SavyGuesters in no way represent those of SavyGamer, and should only be treated as novelty posts.
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20.6.08
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Mass Effect, Xbox 360 - £13.95
Mass Effect, Xbox 360 - £13.95 delivered
Cheers to Will for the tip off.
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20.6.08
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Xbox 360 Pro + GTA4 - £219.47
Xbox 360 Pro + GTA4 - £219.47
Apply voucher "GTA4LESS"
For an extra tenner you can also add either Halo 3 or Gears of War.
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20.6.08
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Sega Superstars Tennis, Wii - £16.99
Sega Superstars Tennis, Wii - £16.99 delivered
It's also in their 2 for £30 section.
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20.6.08
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Xbox 360 - £4.99
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Xbox 360 - £4.99 delivered
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20.6.08
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Sins of a Solar Empire, PC - £22.04
Sins of a Solar Empire, PC - £22.04 delivered
Apply code "B4U" for 2% off.
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20.6.08
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Lost Planet: Colonies Edition, Xbox 360 - £15.65
Lost Planet: Colonies Edition, Xbox 360 - £15.65 delivered
Apply code "B4U" for 2% off.
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20.6.08
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Jam Sessions, DS - £2.96
Jam Sessions, DS - £2.96
Spend £15 for free delivery
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20.6.08
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Mercenaries, Xbox - £5
Mercenaries, Xbox - £5 delivered
Boom!!!
Explodey!!!
Such a fun game. It's 360 BC too, and the sequel is on the way soon. Has a soundtrack by the same composer as Black (Chris Tilton) which I posted before, and it's just as good.
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19.6.08
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Panzer Dragoon Orta, Xbox - £2.99
Panzer Dragoon Orta, Xbox - £2.99 delivered
It's 360 BC too, although I have heard reports of a game breaking bug (any idea's on how accurate this is?)
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19.6.08
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Mount and Blade, PC - £17.63
Mount and Blade, PC - £17.63 delivered
Apply code "B4U" for 2% off.
I really can't believe that it took so long for this to get a retail release.
Really great medieval RPG, with fun realtime combat.
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19.6.08
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Opoona, Wii - £23.02
Opoona, Wii - £23.02 delivered
Apply code "B4U" for 2% off.
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19.6.08
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Devil May Cry 4, PC - £18.61
Devil May Cry 4, PC - £18.61 delivered
Apply code "B4U" for 2% off.
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19.6.08
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Dewys Adventure, Wii - £12.99
Dewys Adventure, Wii - £12.99 delivered
If you spend £30 or more, apply voucher "gugheq6xe" for £5 off.
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19.6.08
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Ghost Squad, Wii - £14.99
Ghost Squad, Wii - £14.99 delivered
If you spend £30 or more, apply voucher "gugheq6xe" for £5 off.
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Heatseeker, Wii - £12.99
Heatseeker, Wii - £12.99 delivered
If you spend £30 or more, apply voucher "gugheq6xe" for £5 off.
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19.6.08
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Black, PS2 - £6.99
Black, PS2 - £6.99 delivered
One of my favourite console FPSs in a long time, it looks fantastic, very atmospheric, really classy cut-scenes and a superb soundtrack. It gets pretty intense later on too. Very replayable.
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19.6.08
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Speed Racer, Wii - £14.99
Speed Racer, Wii - £14.99 delivered
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19.6.08
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Drawn To Life, DS - £11.99
Drawn To Life, DS - £11.99 delivered
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19.6.08
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Mass Effect, Xbox 360 - £14.99
Mass Effect, Xbox 360 - £14.99 collect in store
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19.6.08
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Space Invaders Extreme, DS - £12.93
Space Invaders Extreme, DS - £12.93 delivered
If you were ever going to buy a game just from my recommendation, make it this one. Not only is it dirt cheap at release, but it is bloody good.
I don't care if you like(d) Space Invaders. This is not the same game as Space Invaders. It is pretty, it sounds fantastic, it is a really modern design. I cannot sing it's praises highly enough. I imported it, and I am thinking of rebuying the UK release, it's that good.
Check out this trailer:
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18.6.08
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Bangai-O Spirits, DS - £15.67
Bangai-O Spirits, DS - £15.67 delivered
Apply code "B4U" for 2% off.
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16.6.08
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Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia, Xbox 360 - £6.99
Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia, Xbox 360 - £6.99 delivered
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16.6.08
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Metal Gear Solid 4 - Guns of the Patriots, PS3 - £32.99
Metal Gear Solid 4 - Guns of the Patriots, PS3 - £32.99 delivered
Apply code "gugheq6xe" for £5 off.
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15.6.08
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PaRappa the Rapper, PSP - £2.99
PaRappa the Rapper, PSP - £2.99 delivered
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13.6.08
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Sega Rally, Xbox 360 - £8
Sega Rally, Xbox 360 - £8 delivered
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13.6.08
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Farcry, PC - £1.99
Farcry, PC - £1.99 delivered
For those of us who can't run Crysis, this is the next best thing. Looks pretty great on a modern machine, with all the woofers and tweeters turned to 11.
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13.6.08
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Timeshift, PC - £1.99
Timeshift, PC - £1.99 delivered
Based on the demo, it's pretty bad, but £1.99 for a modern popcorn FPS with an interesting gimmick is probably a good price.
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13.6.08
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No More Heroes, Wii - £17.99
No More Heroes, Wii - £17.99 delivered
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13.6.08
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NiGHTS: Journey Of Dreams, Wii - £9.99
NiGHTS: Journey Of Dreams, Wii - £9.99 delivered
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13.6.08
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Project Gotham Racing 4, Xbox 360 - £13.71
Project Gotham Racing 4, Xbox 360 - £13.71 delivered
Apply code "B4U" for 2% off.
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12.6.08
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The Darkness, Xbox 360 - £7.98
The Darkness, Xbox 360 - £7.98 delivered
Should I get this?
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12.6.08
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The Witcher, PC - £9.93
The Witcher, PC - £9.93 delivered
I believe a pretty major patch is out soon too, it's going to improve the load times massively, improve performance, and add a bunch of content.
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12.6.08
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Shadow Of The Colossus, PS2 - £9.83
Shadow Of The Colossus, PS2 - £9.83 delivered
One of the most beautiful games ever. It's getting pretty hard to get it new too, especially at a decent price.
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12.6.08
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow Of Chernobyl, PC - £7.93
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow Of Chernobyl, PC - £7.93 delivered
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12.6.08
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Peter Jackson's King Kong, Xbox 360 - £4.93
Peter Jackson's King Kong, Xbox 360 - £4.93 delivered
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12.6.08
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Power Stone Collection, PSP - £8.93
Power Stone Collection, PSP - £8.93 delivered
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12.6.08
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Condemned: Criminal Origins, Xbox 360 - £8
Condemned: Criminal Origins, Xbox 360 - £8 delivered
I'm just playing through this on the PC, and it's pretty great. Really compelling melee combat, incredible atmosphere, and creepy as hell. Recommended highly.
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12.6.08
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Bioshock, Xbox 360 - £11.93
Bioshock, Xbox 360 - £11.93 delivered
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11.6.08
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Listen to the new Sigur Ros album
It is pretty
Edit:
Wow, that player plays automatically when the sound loads, what is this, 1998?
I guess I will just link to it.
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10.6.08
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Update those bookmarks!
I am no longer small time!
SavyGamer is now free of the .blogspot shackles, as I have managed to secure a .co.uk domain for SavyGamer. All old links should still redirect correctly, so don't worry too much, but you might want to switch to the new address in your bookmarks, since it will be a little faster.
You can now contact me at LewieP@savygamer.co.uk if you even want to email me with requests, or indeed just to say hi.
Big thanks to Grim... over at Be Excellent to Each Other forums for helping me set it up <3
The RSS feed is unaffected by this, although you might get a load of old posts come up as unread from when the changeover occurred, but new posts will be unnaffected.
Thanks!
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10.6.08
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Final Fantasy - Crystal Chronicles: Ring Of Fates, DS - £14.93
Final Fantasy - Crystal Chronicles: Ring Of Fates, DS - £14.93 delivered
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10.6.08
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Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII [Special Limited Edition], PSP - £17.93
Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII [Special Limited Edition], PSP - £17.93 delivered
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10.6.08
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Zombie Ninja Pro-Am, PS2 - £6.99
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Zombie Ninja Pro-Am, PS2 - £6.99 delivered
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10.6.08
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Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, PS3 - £19.99
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, PS3 - £19.99 delivered
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10.6.08
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Half-Life 2: The Orange Box, Xbox 360 - £19.99
Half-Life 2: The Orange Box, Xbox 360 - £19.99 delivered
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10.6.08
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Assassin's Creed, Xbox 360 - £19.99
Assassin's Creed, Xbox 360 - £19.99 delivered
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10.6.08
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Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Xbox 360 - £24.99
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Xbox 360 - £24.99 delivered
In an exclusive Steelbook
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9.6.08
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Beyond Good and Evil, PS2 - £2.50
Beyond Good and Evil, PS2 - £2.50 delivered
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9.6.08
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Mass Effect, Xbox 360 - £16.99
Mass Effect, Xbox 360 - £16.99 delivered
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8.6.08
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Rebelstar: Tactical Command, GBA - £3.93
Rebelstar: Tactical Command, GBA - £3.93 delivered
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8.6.08
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Pokemon Ranger, DS - £12.99
Pokemon Ranger, DS - £12.99 delivered
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8.6.08
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Viking: Battle For Asgard, PS3 - £24.93
Viking: Battle For Asgard, PS3 - £24.93 delivered
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8.6.08
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Overlord, Xbox 360 - £15.93
Overlord, Xbox 360 - £15.93 delivered
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8.6.08
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