Cheap This Week - 20/07/11

Saints Row: The Third [Professor Genki Edition], PC – £24.99 delivered

Disgusting, horrible, beautiful open world GTA-a-like Saints Row is back, and it's still got no shame.

Steve previewed it last month, and here's a typical series of events in Saints Row: The Third:

"As a snapshot of the action, the lead proponent walks down a busy street while smacking random pedestrians upside the head with a three foot purple dildo. He then gets into a jetfighter and starts casually torching people with its inbuilt flamethrower. And then for good measure, he robs a bank amidst a sky full of exploding helicopters. And then he goes and whacks someone in the nuts."

The Professor Genki Edition comes with some bonus in-game tat.

Killzone 2, PS3 - £4.98 delivered

Super pretty FPS from Guerilla Games. I preferred this to the 3rd in the series, and I seem to recall the campaign being a fair bit longer too. Dan had this to say of it:

"Killzone 2 is a taut and muscular game, a shooter that gives back more than you put in, provided you have the intestinal fortitude. It may take its time revealing its true depths and pleasures, but the journey is well worth taking. Between Killzone 2's unforgiving grit and Resistance 2's alien-bursting excess, the PS3 finally has both ends of the shooter spectrum covered in grand style."

But it is also worth adding that it's really, really pretty.

Dungeon Siege III, Xbox 360 - £11.98 delivered

It's been out less than a month, and already it's close to the £10 mark. Most games drop in price fairly quickly these days, but for a fairly well received game to drop in price this quickly is not too common.

Quintin liked Dungeon Siege III to the tune of an 8/10. Here's what he thought:

"With the exception of a handful of tough fights spread throughout the game, it's possible to go tumbling through Dungeon Siege III with half of your brain playing and the other half chatting idly to your co-op partner. You simply tap away at the attack button, dodge on those occasions when you see an attack being aimed in your direction, and fall back and use your healing ability when you're hurt.

But don't think this means that Dungeon Siege III is a brain-dead game. It's just an adaptive one. Because your character has up to 11 abilities, as well as charged versions of each of those, and each is best used in a slightly different scenario, trying to play Dungeon Siege III perfectly is a totally absorbing dance of glossy particle effects, small victories and even smaller failures."

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