Microsoft has announced today that a bunch of titles have been dubbed "Platinum Hits" based on their top-ratings by critics and sales. The games Microsoft have deemed are both good and have sold well are:
Grand Theft Auto IV, Street Fighter IV, Left 4 Dead, Saints Row 2, and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
Microsoft says these suckers will be available in stores with the new Xbox Platinum Hits packaging, "starting as low as $19.99." Select retailers are also participating in a "Buy 2, Get 1 Free" promotion for the titles through October 31.
My suggestion of which three games you should get, provided you don't own any of them?
Grand Theft Auto IV,
Street Fighter IV, and
Left 4 Dead. And even though it breaks up the whole "four" thing you'll have going on, you might as well pick up
Saints Row 2 while you're at it. That's pretty good, too.
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5:00 AM on 10.06.2009
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@Haizeus
Did you hate it because it wasn't GTA IV?
@All
Don't be duped into buying Force Unleashed just yet (if you even want it). The "Ultimate Sith Edition" for the PC has the paid level packs included, along with a special "Sith Edition Only" level.
Though they're all great games, that's probably a bad suggestions because they will all very quickly be outdated, arguably excepting GTA4. L4D2 is out in a month and a week, Ballad of Gay Tony will have the "complete GTA4 experience" thing coming out, and you're living under a rock if you haven't seen the SSF4 debacle going on.
Then again, if you were waiting for the price on these games to be low, now is your chance to strike.
But Saint's Row 2? It will love you long time.
That is all.
As for it being obsolete, that's only really applicable to online play. Myself, I doubt I'd ever play that online *shrug*.
@ MesonW
If you don't play SFIV online, you're missing out. Lots of comp out there.
SSFIV will be even bigger, mark my words. Get it while it's cheap and practice up now, you'll need the prerequisite course before you tackle the big times.
Yes, I am anal enough as to where I hate seeing different styles of case (i.e. The Platinum Hits cases) on my shelf.
I need pretty much all of these games though. Agghh.
That's fine.. I gotta find out where the buy 2 get 1 free is happening! =D
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