Great Xbox360 Games under $25 (lots of linkage, keep em coming)

CarolinaBBQ

Saw some folks asking to start a thread about some cheap 360 games, I'm always looking for some good deals so I'm trying it out. First time I've done a thread so any help would be appreciated. I know gamestop sucks, but its there best place I can think of. Here goes.....

edit: trying to make a page that will allow folks to actually find prices....so links are helpful when available.
edit: More added....nice quality suggestions. Keep em up

Rules:
Games should be able to find games around or below the $25 range.
Games should also be fun to play! I mean, really fun. Looking for bargains, not shovelware.


Crackdown
Climb some buildings, throw some cars, harpoon people to cars. Great times.
Can buy here for 24.99

Call of Duty 2
Oh man, if you gotta shoot nazis, why not do it here.
Looking like 12.99 this time

Earth Defense Force 2017
Save the world for giant alien ants, hundreds of weapons to choose from.
Yours for 17.99

Saint's Row
Keasy would be proud. Satisfy your urge for GTA for cheap. Nice controls from what I remember. Fairly custom characters too.
Breaking the bank at 26.99

My character always looked like this guy

Condemned
If you like to swing a mean pipe and play with dead birds, this was made for you
Looking like 14.99, expect a drop when part 2 hits.

Dead Rising
This game drove me mad. 6 restarts and I still suck. Even though, can't beat running over zombies with a lawn mower.
A whole mall of zombies for only 26.99, a buy for me at 20

Rockstar's Table Tennis
This is a fun little game, with a fairly decent multiplayer. I couldn't tear my ADD buddy off of this one. Love the ball handling.
Can't really beat 14.99

Fight Night: Round 3
Playing this at BestBuy made me have to get the 360. Great controls, beautiful damage!
Looks like 26.99, I think a pawn shop could beat that price
Pic doesn't do justice

Fear
Crap your pants freaky-horror shit right here. Your shot gun won't keep you safe, at least you have duct-tape and a flashlight.
Starting at 18.99 on Amazon

more coming

Xenogears of Bore

Hey look, a poll thread!

Anyways, I'll help.

Viva Pinata.

and that's about it.

arcath

Well, I will help out.

Its not under $25 but........

Target is having a sale until this Saturday, 19 Jan 2008.

Assassin's Creed for $38.

Just happened to walk by this today when I got paid and had to pick it up.

Kuribo's Shoe

Condemned.

Deviant Hands

Earth Defense Force 2025

Lunker

Earth Defense Force can be had for about $15 to $25 if you look around used, and it's well worth every penny. You can also get Crackdown for about $20 used, and I'm sure if you dig around you can find Burnout Revenge for $20 to $25 (it's a Platinum Hits title). If you're desperate, Perfect Dark Zero is about $10 used.

Alternatively, buy shit-tons of awesome Live Arcade titles at $5 to $10 a pop.

minor incident

Crackdown ~$20
Saint's Row ~$15
The Darkness ~$25
Tony Hawk's Project 8 ~$15
Dead Rising ~$20
Marvel UA / Forza 2 ~$20
Fable TLC ~$10 (oXbox, but well worth it)


Gears of War can probably be found used for around 25 bucks. If so, it's worth a buy.

Pancake

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter is probably under $25 now.

It's not an amazing game, but it's still a fun, solid game.

Local H Jay

GRAW 1 and 2 are probably both cheap by now.
Rainbow 6 Vegas? Probably.
Oh, and PGR 3.
Saints Row! And maybe that Hitman game...

Local H Jay

Oh and Battlefield 2, Condemned and FEAR!

powersurge

Can't recall any certain games on sale right now but http://www.cheapassgamer.com tends to have good info on sales. I think I picked up GRAW2 for about $10 a month or 2 ago.

Daedalus

Dead Rising goes at the top of the fucking list.

Dead Rising was one of the games that sold me on the 360.

emnmnme

Why bother buying new games when they'll be under $20 eighteen months after release?

minor incident

Oh yes, Viva Pinata, too. You can pick up the special edition package for under $20 used.

Hewn

emnmnme wrote: »

Why bother buying new games when they'll be under $20 eighteen months after release?

Because that's over a year of not being able to engage in the fun? Certainly patience can be a virtue, especially for finances, but there's something to be said for having the enjoyment of a product for 1.5 years. During that time you are able to engage in discussion about the game with friends and forumers alike. Much like being in a book club.

This is especially true for games with an online component, in which the community thrives in the first 2 years.

That being said, there's some titles I can't justify $60 for. But at around $20, well, hello there Dead Rising.

Oh, and can anybody tell me how Tomb Raider: Legends holds up for $20? I played the demo and it felt like Prince of Persia, in a good way.

Shadowfire

Lots of used Star Trek Legacy starting around $15. But then again, I'm really the only person who liked this game...

Hewn

Shadowfire wrote: »

Lots of used Star Trek Legacy starting around $15. But then again, I'm really the only person who liked this game...

I'm a pretty big Trek fan, but was turned off by the reviews. But heck, at that price, it may be worth it just to feed into my geek fantasies of captaining a starship.

Hybridzerg

Add another vote to both Crackdown and FEAR, and if I may recommend two very fun games BC from oxbox, try out Spiderman 2 (3 is more expensive, and for me, less fun) and Star Wars: Battlefront (1 or 2, both are very good). I recently got into the Spiderman series and 2 has the best combo of sandboxing, combat controls, and web-swing mechanics (though I do miss the awesome web-zip from 1) of all 3, and I have played countless hours of SW:BFII doing instant action maps, getting large kill streaks and earning jedi to cut up droids is endless fun.

BornToHula

Test Drive Unlimited and Viva Pinata are both under twenty now.

Excellent, addicting and time consuming games for the price.

I've literally lost hours of time just cruising around in TDU checking out the scenery and what not.

Djiem

Every XBLA title?

:P

Raslin

This should be turned into an all games(maybe barring pc, because there are too many) under $20 that rock thread.

mescalito

How about Rockstar's Table Tennis?

Sanders

Let's just make it an even $30, because a lot of games are going to fall between the $25-$30 bracket.

Going purely off of amazon prices:
Project Gotham Racing 3
Fuzion Frenzy 2
Perfect Dark Zero
Call of Duty 2
GRAW
The Outfit
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Kameo
Moto GP 06
Chromehounds
Shadowrun
Viva Pinata
Crackdown
Oblivion
GRAW 2
Saints Row
Dead or Alive 4
Lost Planet

Pent

I enjoyed enchanted arms, and I picked up the special edition box for $19.99 sometime last summer from best buy

Shooter Mcgavin

mescalito wrote: »

How about Rockstar's Table Tennis?

Is this game actually good? It seems like it could take a few Rockstar devs a few lunch breaks to develop.

mescalito

Shooter Mcgavin wrote: »

mescalito wrote: »

How about Rockstar's Table Tennis?

Is this game actually good? It seems like it could take a few Rockstar devs a few lunch breaks to develop.

It is actually

and your saints row link goes to cod2

CarolinaBBQ

mescalito wrote: »

and your saints row link goes to cod2

fixed...thank's for pointing it out.

UnbreakableVow

Guys.

Symphony of the Night.

COME ON!!

sabyul

Hewn wrote: »

Oh, and can anybody tell me how Tomb Raider: Legends holds up for $20? I played the demo and it felt like Prince of Persia, in a good way.

It's actually very good, I really really liked it. I love the way you can make movements faster by pressing a button rhythmically with Lara's animations. The grappling stuff is a good time.

Make sure you fail quicktime events every now and then. It's fun to watch the death animations

Lunker

sabyul wrote: »

Hewn wrote: »

Oh, and can anybody tell me how Tomb Raider: Legends holds up for $20? I played the demo and it felt like Prince of Persia, in a good way.

It's actually very good, I really really liked it. I love the way you can make movements faster by pressing a button rhythmically with Lara's animations. The grappling stuff is a good time.

Make sure you fail quicktime events every now and then. It's fun to watch the death animations

Legend is outstanding -- the only Tomb Raider game I've liked, really, but I liked it enough to run through it a few times. Definitely has a great Sands of Time-era Prince of Persia feel, since they've gotten rid of the grid-based jumping puzzles. Totally worth $20. Tomb Raider Anniversary is also available, but it's $30 at most places.

acidlacedpenguin

I may get crucified for this but I recently saw Over G Fighters at a local EB/GameStop for like $15 CDN.

I enjoyed that game. I'm probably the only one.

Smudge

I would like to push Lost Planet here. This was a really good 3ps. I personally thought it was a better game than Gears of War, although I wish it had a cover system. I think some people got turned off by the mech controls? They were actually pretty agile (the ones with jets) once you got used to them.

The variety of the enemy creatures was really good in this game and the scale of the boss battles was awesome.

I also love how two of the huge monsters that seemed to be there just to keep you from staying still too long were actually killable and had their own achievements for going back and finishing them off. GREAT game if you overlooked it. Very cinematic gameplay.

NexusSix

Despite the fucking Burker King antics, if you like good games, you owe it to yourself to get Fight Night Round 3. $30 currently at Best Buy. It's really an incredible game.

I hope we see a FNR4 some day. I need me some Kelly Pavlik vs. Jermain Taylor fisticuffs (rematch in February!!!)

h8b1llg8ts

Glad to see someone did start this thread. From it I'm only seeing Lost Planet and some of the BK titles for giggles but kuddos to C BBQ for taking up the task.

To tag along are there some XBLA games from the past that we all might be missing?

Echo

Is Hour of Victory any good? The LGS has it for $cheap.

edit: metacritic says 37/100. :P

captaink

Does Saint's Row have co-op or multiplayer?

I got a second controller for Christmas, and I've been looking for some good co-op games for me and my roomate.

Nova_C

Others have posted and the list has been updated since then, so why is Viva Pinata not on the list? That game has a ridiculously addictive quality to it. Also, is Kameo cheap? I got it free with my XBox and I've been enjoying it as much as I did Halo 3 (Which was also free).

Lunker

Nova_C wrote: »

Others have posted and the list has been updated since then, so why is Viva Pinata not on the list? That game has a ridiculously addictive quality to it. Also, is Kameo cheap? I got it free with my XBox and I've been enjoying it as much as I did Halo 3 (Which was also free).

If you can still find it on shelves, Kameo's dirt cheap: I got it for $5 at Toys R Us on half-price clearance. I'm not sure what it runs used at GameStop but I'm sure it's under $20.

Nimble Cat

Echo wrote: »

Is Hour of Victory any good? The LGS has it for $cheap.

edit: metacritic says 37/100. :P

There should be a demo on Live you can take for a spin. It was pretty horrible though.

bruin

captaink wrote: »

Does Saint's Row have co-op or multiplayer?

I got a second controller for Christmas, and I've been looking for some good co-op games for me and my roomate.

No single console multiplayer of any kind, but there's online deathmatch and stuff like that

captaink

Nova_C wrote: »

Others have posted and the list has been updated since then, so why is Viva Pinata not on the list? That game has a ridiculously addictive quality to it. Also, is Kameo cheap? I got it free with my XBox and I've been enjoying it as much as I did Halo 3 (Which was also free).

What is Viva Pinata? All I know is animals and bright colors.