After an accidental week’s hiatus, our regular round-up of agreeably-priced videogames to while away a lazy weekend returns. As always, Savygamer’s marvellous marquis of money-saving LewieP has his hand at the till. This week, a fair few modern classics rethink their pricetags…
Killing Floor – £11.24/€13.49/$14.99
The trailer up on Steam was enough to get my interest. Killing Floor is from the makers of a previous bargain bucket game, Red Orchestra. It certainly doesn’t look all that much like a traditional survival horror game to me, more like a “shootey fun” game, like Serious Sam takes a trip to silent hill. I’m surprised to see any coop horror games turn up on Steam to be honest, going directly up against Left 4 Dead is certainly brave. 25% off when you pre-purchase.
King’s Bounty: The Legend – £17.49/€21.99/$26.99
Not as cheap as it has been, it was £9.29 on GamersGate a while back, but this is still a great price. UK Gamers can get it for £11.99 delivered instead. Alec’s favourite game of last year. RPS Coverage here, and demo here.
Rise of the Triad – £4.01/€4.51/$5.99
Part of Good Old Games Apogee promotion. Use promo code “APOGEE” during checkout to get this price. This game started off life as a sequel to the original Wolfenstein 3D, but ended up becoming something completely different. Probably still worth a look today.
Beyond Good & Evil – £3.99/€4.99/$4.99
A wonderful action/adventure/puzzle/stealth/photo ‘em up game from Michel Ancel. You’ve still got time to play it now before the sequel comes out too. Probably the closest to The Legend of Zelda you’ll get on a PC, this games has a brilliant overworld, great characters and locations, interesting puzzles, and bucketloads of charm.
Deal of the Week
Left 4 Dead – £16.19/€17.99/$23.99
Not only is Valve’s coop zombie video game free to play until 5pm (GMT) on Saturday, it is also on special offer this weekend, with 40% off. Alec’s write up of the new survival mode can be read here. RPS Steam group here.
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@Bigfoot_King: I just bought King’s Bounty at this price. It is definitely worth it. It’s a long game, and the game play is a nicely unique take on the action-RPG genre.
Was anyone else disappointed with Zeno Clash? For me, it was one of those games that, more than being awesome in itself, is a warmup for the sequel, which will be a zillion times better (see Diablo 1, or about a million other games). The setting, characters and the art were amazing, but the gameplay was clumsy.
@PaulMorel: uh, i thought Diablo 1 was pretty much self contained other than not “really” killing Diablo (the game wasn’t really about a story, they did that with D2, which i felt was a bad choice that took some of the randomy goodness out of it)
But yeah, i agree, way too many games are leaving waaaay too many lose ends for the “sequels” (aka the trilogy stiffy) that might never get done, is it that difficult to finish a story and then start a new one with the same character or side ones ?
I can understand episodic gaming doing it (i guessed that release method would end in stories that never get finished from the beginning), but full games are doing the same freaking thing, Mass effect had enough plot for about 3 pages in a novel but hey, its a “trilogy*
Even episodic games like the Sam&Max can do standalone episodes (with a few nods to old ones), publishers,devs : follow their example
A new deal if you’re interested: Stardock’s offering a buy one get one half off sale for Demigod as part of their “relaunch” efforts:
All people who have bought Demigod at retail or direct up [until] May 10th (and didn’t return the game obviously) will be getting a coupon that will let them purchase a second copy of Demigod for 50% off for a limited time as a way for us to show appreciation for this community that has put their faith and trust in us.
they should show appreciation for “the community” by releasing more content, i’ve played demos with more content than Demigod
In a somewhat suicidal move, I have to admit that Beyond Good and Evil isn’t doing it for me. I totally get where all the love is coming from, but since I’m expecting this masterpiece of sheer brilliance, a lot of the issues I’d have been prepared to suck up, such as the camera, controls and general appalling interface, are really bugging me, and my progress through the game is a slow crawl. I had far more fun playing Psychonauts on the keyboard than I’ve had playing BG&E with a controller.
@Janto: Yeah, it takes some getting used to on PC. The controls and interface are pretty weird. I got used to it after a while though. Out of curiosity, how far into the game are you?
Anyone notice that ‘Men of War’ is on major sale at D2D right now? I can’t buy it because I want to physically murder all World War II games, but after all the hype here I’m sure many would be interested by this!
Oddly enough, I recommend the same thing for BG&E and Psychonauts (and the first 3-D Prince of Persia too) – Pinnacle Game Profiler if you have a 360 controller. X-Padder works wonders too, but you have to make those yourself usually.
Also, thanks for the advice on getting it to run. This is the first time I’ve seen it not flicker since I played it on my Game Cube. Cheers!
BG&E is available through gog.com as well. and then you have it DRM free !!!!! just sayin……
Radiant says:
I can’t believe I missed out on the Orange box for 6 quid.
I feel like a fool!
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:49 pm
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Me too………gutted Absolute bargain……..damn Ebay for emptying the coffers first!
Great deal but wasnt worth £50 unauthorised overdraft…Double damn you FirstDirect….lol
@jalf I’m somewhere in the Slaughterhouse, taking photographs.
yeah, i popped in to mention what matzerath already has. men of war (and cryostasis – which i’ve been curious about) are both half-off right now @ d2d.
i THINK the deal applies to whatever prices normally are in your region, but obviously cant be sure.