Major Nelson over at Xbox Live just listed Halo 3 on his blog as well as a few other titles that are ready to be downloaded from the Games On Demand service. Not a bad list I suppose. I’m glad they continue to add titles to the backlog to grab easily and digitally with little to no effort. You can grab Halo 3 right now for $30 bucks if you so choose, but you could probably do a little digging online and find it cheaper in a real green box. Then for the rest of us, we already have it.
The question that pops into my mind about Halo 3 being listed as downloadable doesn’t have anything to do with the cost of the game or anything, but why Microsoft and Bungie are going back on what they told us when Halo 3 released: Don’t install Halo 3 on your Xbox hard drive.
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In case you couldn’t get enough PC gaming action from Steam, Impulse, and other current digital distribution platforms, Microsoft is jumping in the ring with Games for Windows Live Games on Demand. That’s a mouth full. That’s what she said. The launch lineup isn’t spectacular and you most likely already have these games in one form or another.
- Dirt 2 ($40)
- Fallout 3 ($50)
- Kane and Lynch: Dead Men ($20)
- Red Faction: Guerrilla ($40)
- Shadowrun ($10)
- Street Fighter IV ($40)
- Viva Pinata ($10)
Considering most of us have these games already, I don’t really see this service thriving. Steam pretty much has the market cornered, so unless Microsoft goes balls deep here, I don’t think they’ll take over.
If you haven’t played Crackdown, you’re really missing out. It’s one of the better open world games of this generation, and it’s now now available for your downloading pleasure on Xbox 360 Games on Demand. The 6GB download will run you $19.99 in the US.
Like most games, you can grab Crackdown for much cheaper if you’re willing to drive to your local GameStop, where used copies run for $12.99.
I haven’t played Crackdown in a long time and probably won’t have a chance to get back to it, so I’ll be passing on this deal. What about you?
Microsoft added two new games today to their Xbox 360 Games on Demand service, Call of Duty 3 and Rainbow Six Vegas 2. Both games are priced at $29.99 in the US. A quick look at GameStop’s website shows you can pick them a bit cheaper.
Call of Duty 3 runs $14.99 used at GameStop, while R6V2 runs $24.99 used (and $29.99 new). I can understand pricing that game at $29.99 for Games on Demand, but CoD3 is a bargain title at this point. Asking gamers to fork over thirty bones for the game is a slap in the face.
It’s going to take gamers talking with their wallets to change the pricing schemes for Games on Demand. Don’t buy this stuff at these prices. Go out and pick up a used copy of the game for much cheaper. You’ll have something to sell later when you don’t want or need the game anymore.
Microsoft’s new Games on Demand service has been both praised and scorned by various members of the media. Regardless of how you look at the service, it’s worth investigating. We recently got a copy of BioShock for Games on Demand to test and were fairly happy with the whole experience. This won’t be a review of the game, as we’ve already done that twice (Xbox 360 and PS3), and as everyone knows it’s amazing. This review will instead focus on the Games on Demand service, how it compares to the disc-based version of the game, and how well it runs.
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For most of us gamers out there, updates to the 360 come to us as we awake from our afternoon nap, throw off the loose Cheetos that hang on to our sweatpants, and boot up the console, only to see what looks like an error message. We rub our eyes sleepily to get the goop out and hope to goodness that Xbox Live isn’t down.
Coming soon though is an NXE update that I think everyone will benefit from in some way. I was lucky enough to send in my survey and be selected for the second wave of NXE preview program invites. Over the past week or so I have been able to put the NXE update through its paces (minus the Netflix updates which I don’t have) and will give my impressions so far on the update coming August 11th.
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