5punk

I'm doing an experiment, prompted by last night's impromptu retro extravaganza:

How many games can I get for £30 on budget? I think PC Gamer have done something along those lines before, but it goes to show that you don't need to fork out full price for a new game when you're bored, you could fork out the equivalent of a full price game and come away with three or four excellent games you might have missed the first time around.

So, £30 later I (in theory) find myself with:

Black & White (£4.99, Play.com)
Dungeon Siege (£4.99, Play.com)
Starcraft & Broodwar (£7.99, Play.com)
Warcraft 3 (£6.99, Amazon)
Ground Control 2 (£4.99, Play.com)

I actually just bought UT2004 (£9.99 from Play), as I've already got all of those bar GC2 and wouldn't have time to play them anyway (especially with Oblivion on the way), but it's an interesting exercise.

Finding some I hadn't already got, proved more difficult than I thought, so I had to go to the £10 range:

- Deux Ex: Invisible War
- Black & White 2
- Doom3: Resurrection of Evil

For the £5 ones, all I could find were things I already had floored

- AVP Gold
- Black & White
- Carmageddon II Carpocalypse Now
- Dungeon Keeper II
- No-one lives Forever
- Tribes 2

Apart from these three, which I don't have

- Motocross Madness 2
- Gunman Chronicles
- Hitman Codename 47

Oh, I forgot Mafia, which I've completed but never actually bought - it's about a tenner now (if you can find it).

Playing The Godfather this weekend has reminded me how good it actually was.