Crackdown is the latest Xbox 360 release to be made available on Xbox Live Games on Demand, as you can see here.
15 quid's the asking price for the excellent Realtime Worlds crime spree and if you're keeping an eye on your hard drive space it weighs in at around 6GB. If you don't already own it, it's definitely worth the download.
The sequel is due on Xbox 360 next year. Read all the known Crackdown 2 details to date now - we demand it. We Games on Demand it.
Crackdown 2
Official trailer
1:18Better than Night Cops?
Crackdown 2
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Or you could buy it second hand from a games shop for a tenner or less...
Amen, you beat me to it by a matter of seconds. Microsoft need to sort out their pricing post haste. Who actually buys the full games at these prices? I can bet every game thats up can be bought at a lesser price online or in a shop.
£8.98 on Amazon brand new. Hopefully Sony and Nintendo will add their own service to drive the prices down even further, but that might be hoping for a bit too much!
It's a shame, as I've just managed to get a 120 GB HDD for £50 and I'd use the service if the price was right.
I remember reading somewhere that the develoeprs set the prices and not MS, but the prices seem very MS to me.
Still, we can always not buy them. Chances are if you live miles and miles away from shops, you're BB will be so slow to download them would take an eternity anyway. And there's always ordering them second hand online...
in theory its not a bad price. However the 2nd hand market kills GOD stone dead.
with one exception, which is psychonauts. Haven't seen that anywhere for less than £15. then again the xbox originals are cheaper than the 360 games by quite a bit.
Its a shame that MS have decided not to put brand new releases up. even if it was a couple weeks after launch if you coould get the latest games from the service at the same price i'm sure people would snap them up. I know i would.
I can't see how every developer is setting near on identical sky high prices (compared to what you can pick these games up for online anyways). I'm sure it's MS that's setting the prices. Some devs want to give away DLC but MS normally force a charge for it.
I am beginning to come around to the idea of getting a PS3 again.
in theory its not a bad price. However the 2nd hand market kills GOD stone dead.
with one exception, which is psychonauts. Haven't seen that anywhere for less than £15. then again the xbox originals are cheaper than the 360 games by quite a bit.
Its a shame that MS have decided not to put brand new releases up. even if it was a couple weeks after launch if you coould get the latest games from the service at the same price i'm sure people would snap them up. I know i would.
I'd have thought they'd put up their 1st party games sharpish at least, but I'd imagine they don't want to p**s off the retailers just yet.
I just received Mass Effect in the post, which I bought on eBay for £5.80. No way I'd buy a full game on Live, it's a rip off.
Mass Effect is a steal at that price. As for GOD, the prices are still too high but they do seem to be coming down all the time, maybe six months down the line they will be competitive.
If you ignore the 2nd hand market and consider the RRP of games then. GOD is reasonably priced as the boxed versions of all the games on here have a reccommended retail price of £25 or more.
MS have to tread a fine line becasue they don't want to p**s off retailers. Something Sony seem to of had no problems doing with the PSPgo! which coinsidentally is probably the biggest rip off in games land.
It's not just MS, they're all in it for the money.
Lambast Microsoft all you want but the shops are all the ones taking the p**s. They make a shed load of cash for buying and selling on games, for doing very little.
It's Game etc.... that are ripping off the consumer more so than the software companies. Remember that for every preowned sale the developers aren't getting a penny.
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