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In these troubled economic times we all have less money, join me as I set out to prove it's possible to get plenty of excellent games for only £5.
#1: Timesplitters, Zone of the Enders and Dynasty Warriors 3
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A Challenge. How Much Game Do You Get For £5?
njsykora | 10:18 AM on 04.30.2009 16 comments


As we all know, videogaming is an expensive hobby. In these troubled economic times even I have been forced down to only one oil tanker full of caviar a week. So I decided that since I didn't have the cash to buy one of this week's new releases (I'm lying, I bought Rhythm Paradise) I would see how much game I could get for just £5 of my English pounds.

The location chosen, CEX Gloucester. The format, I went in looking for anything and everything but all these games came from the PS2 section.



Timesplitters - £1

First thing I picked up was this. I love Timesplitters 2 but have never played the original game. I don't expect it to be as good but quite frankly I don't care when it's only £1.



Zone of the Enders - £1

The Crackdown of its day. It sold massive amounts because of the bundled in MGS2 demo however my friends that are into giant robots speak very highly of it. To be honest I've wanted to get it for a while yet there's always been something that's held me back. A £1 price tag must've silenced that problem.



Dynasty Warriors 3 - £2.50

I asked a little while ago that if I was going to get started on Dynasty Warriors where was the best place to start. The overwhelming majority held up #3 as the perfect entry point. £2.50 may have just bought me a newfound appreciation for one button combat.

I encourage everyone to try this themselves, take £5 (that's roughly $7.50) and go find some cheap games. GOOD GAMES as well, we're not giving points for £5 worth of crap here. I want to see what you can add to your collection that you genuinely want with just a small amount of cash.



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Jordan Devore's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/30/2009 10:55
Jordan Devore
TimeSplitters? I love you.
Bulkmailer's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/30/2009 11:07
Bulkmailer
Noice.
Mr Wrighty 987's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/30/2009 11:08
Mr Wrighty 987
I got Crackdown the other day for £4.50 preowned
MiOdd's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/30/2009 11:09
MiOdd
I just bought a PS2 last week (I've never owned myself) so I've been doing the same thing... snagged these titles all under $5 each:

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
Maximo: Ghosts to Glory
Ratchet & Clank
Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus
The Mark of Kri

They're all great games too, imo.
Freefall's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/30/2009 11:14
Freefall
I too have been looking for games on the cheap, A surprising amount of games have dropped under the £10 mark, so now is the time to buy them.
Simon's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/30/2009 11:24
Simon
I wish I had a CEX within less than two hours drive than me, sadly that's not the case, but great bargians none the less
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/30/2009 11:27
Char Aznable
Damn, that's an impressive amount of quality for 5 squiggly Ls with a line in the middle. Nice job.

I was always curious about Zone of the Enders, but never picked it up. I had always confused it in my mind with Xenosaga, and I was scared off by discussion of the overly long cutscenes in that game. Is it more of an RPG, or a robots + lasers action game?
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/30/2009 11:45
Excel-2011
My brother got Zone of the Enders for everything except the packaged demo. I don't think he even touched it.
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/30/2009 11:46
Excel-2011
The demo, that is.
Mushman's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/30/2009 12:00
Mushman
TS1 is great, but I prefer the second one due to it's awesome multiplayer.

ZOE is great, but it ends in a unfavourable fasion, TBH. Got get ZOE2 after you have finihed 1, it's miles better. :)
Anus Mcphanus's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/30/2009 15:24
Anus Mcphanus
I got ICO the other day for about a fiver and was well happy!
The GHost's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/30/2009 18:27
The GHost
Nice batch of games you have there. I really liked Zone of Enders, but I agree with Mushman: the sequel was superior.
Gibbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/01/2009 01:55
Gibbo
TS1 is awesome, especially if you can find some friends to play it with. So many memories of the China level.
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