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Xmas isn’t just about families and giving. It’s also a time for minor reductions on Xbox Live Arcade and this year is no exception with the following titles available for less moon dollaz than usual.
Said games are cheaper from 21st Dec to the 31st. Also, other daily deals will be occuring which, if they are anything like last year will means excellent games for Japan and shitty film deals for us in the UK. Dunno about you Americans, do we even get any Americans here? If so, we think you’ll be trapped in the same ‘rent a shitty movie for 240M$P’ hell as us.
Weekly deals:
Super Meat Boy Discounted Price: 800 (from 1200). A neat-but-punishing platformer, similar to N+ but disguising its hatefulness behind a cuter exterior. Our review HERE.
Comic Jumper Discounted Price: 800 (from 1200). Clever, side-scrolly fighter/shooter with echoes of Comix Zone. Our review HERE.
Toy Soldiers Discounted Price: 800 (from 1200). Popular twist on the tower defence genre. If you can be arsed with another one of those.
Banjo Tooie Discounted Price: 600 (from 1200). Popular N64 title in reasonable port. Dunno. Our review HERE.
Castle Crashers Discounted Price: 600 (from 1200). Overrated dogshit scrolly fighter that tricked everyone with its cute visuals.
The UnderGarden Discounted Price: 400 (from 800). Ignored it when it was released a couple of months back and so did the rest of the world. Platform/puzzler with echoes of Braid and Limbo. Possibly.
Risk Factions Discounted Price: 400 (from 800). A lovely reinvention of the old board game with some good power-ups to keep it fresh. Let down heavily by absolutely rubbish AI. Review-oh.
Afterburner Climax Discounted Price: 400 (from 800). Exciting reinvention of the ancient, and rubbish, ’80s coin-op. Blistering speed and great visuals can’t hide the limited gameplay. Plays like a less accurate, less tasteful Rez. A very easy achievements max though. Reviewage
Borderland’s Claptrap New Revolution Discounted Price: 400 (from 800). Go fuck yourself Borderlands. A great game ruined by AWFUL downloadble content. We gave up after the first three, this is the fourth and it got panned by reviewers and loved by idiots. Would download it for free. Fact.
Carcassonne Discounted Price: 400 (from 800). An absolutely charming strategy game that shows its board game roots but takes out the chore of manual scoring. A steal at 400M$P and our XBLA game of the year back in 2008.