5941

DoW 2 and DoW 1 are actually somewhat more different despite their inherited similarities and themes. DoW 2 is a much tighter, crisper game with far, far fewer units, with squads that must retreat to base to reinforce (like Company of Heroes). DoW 1 is a much messier, larger, bombastic game with better audio (the unit responses in DoW 1 + Expansions have become almost the default representation of Warhammer 40k). Not to mention virtually all of the Warhammer races at this point. DoW 2 has an excellent Single player campaign - DoW 1’s only scripted campaign worth anything is it’s first one, and then it goes to an increasingly colorless “Dynamic” campaign for it’s last two expansions, the design flaws of the last being most apparent. DoW 1’s skirmish AI is better than DoW 2’s. DoW 2’s AI can only put up a show of resistance when on the hardest AI setting which gives it basically 2x the resources a player receives.

5942

This week’s XBLA deal is R-type dimensions down to $10 from $15 in real money. Did anyone here try the game? Is it worth checking out?

5943

The bargains these days are crazy! I don’t recall bargains like these being common 5 years ago. Not that I’m complaining…

5944

If you like R-Type, it is fantasic. you can even jump from classic to fancy graphics on the fly.

5945

I enjoyed the demo, but didn’t pick it up because of the high price at release. Time to take another look.

5946

Direct2Drive has some good deals this week.

Fallout 3 is $24.95
Prototype $39.95
Call of Juarez Bound in Blood $34.95

5947

Can Quake Wars be played as a single-player game with bots?

5948

Sacred 2 Collector’s Edition for PC on Amazon is $19.99, which is the same price as the normal version.

5949

It can, in theory. I’d try the demo first Robert. That’s what I did, and I didn’t find to be very good as a game I was playing with bots.

5950

Will that Steam activate?

5951

No it won’t.

5952

I ordered it anyway. :P

5953

TrackMania United Forever is $19.99 on Steam until August 10.

Fun game, especially if you have a few friends with the game to compare times with.

5954

My local Target got rid of the glass cases for the mostly-full-price games and put all of them out on the shelves in giant individual plastic cases. This takes up a lot of space, and so they apparently took the bargain games that used to be on the shelves and crammed them all into the single clearance endcap.

The result? Well over a hundred games, at around 40% off. There were far too many packed far too tightly for me to conduct an accurate survey of what they had. I picked up Bangai-O Spirits for $10 (down from $15) and I’m going to go back and tear those shelves apart.

5955

Pre-order Batman: Arkham Asylum from Amazon for $48 on X360 & PS3 or $40 on PC using coupon code 5OFFARKM. Dunno if this can be combined with the ECA 10% discount.

5956

It worked for me on the PC version, for $35.50 I thought why not.

5957

Sweet! Thanks for the heads up! I missed the last sale they had for this!

5958

Empire Total War for 10 pounds on
zavvi.co.uk

They have plenty of supercheap games, Bioshock/Oblivion pack for 12, ArmA 2 for 15…awesome shop.

5959

I did well at a couple Target stores here in Tampa, FL, today:

MotorStorm (PS3) - $14.98
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (360) - $14.98
Ninja Blade (360) - $9.98
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. (360) - $14.98

Still looking for 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand (360), Battlestations: Pacific (360), Burnout Paradise (PS3), Bionic Commando (PS3), Dead Space (PS3), F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (360/PS3), MotorStorm: Pacific Rift (PS3), NHL 09 (360), Saints Row 2 (360), and Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (360) for $14.98 max.

5960

The world ends with you for the DS is $9 for 3 more hours on Amazon, amazing deal for that game.