XBLA Cyber Monday sale: Beyond Good & Evil HD for £2

By Robert Purchese Published 28 November, 2011

Plus: Daggerdale, Risk Factions, MK Arcade Kollection.

Fabulous remastered game Beyond Good & Evil HD costs only 240 Microsoft Points (£2.06) from Xbox Live Marketplace today.

It's one of four deals to mark Cyber Monday - the Monday that follows Black Friday which, in turn, follows Thanksgiving Thursday.

The other Xbox Live deals are Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection for 400 MSP; Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale (7/10 Eurogamer) for 600 MSP; and Risk Factions (8/10 Eurogamer) for 200 MSP.

Simon Parkin gushed with praise in his 9/10 Beyond Good & Evil HD review on Eurogamer. He called the game "beautifully constructed", "wildly ambitious" and "pioneering".

"Most pleasing of all is the cost," he concluded, prophetically. "At a time when many downloadable games are sliding up to the 1200 MS Points barrier, the 800-Point price tag for this much-beloved classic shows that a little generosity can go a long way.

"If, like me, you let this one pass you by, there's no excuse not to rectify that mistake now."

You can say that again, Parkin.

Beyond Good & Evil HD.

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About Robert Purchese

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Comments (25) Latest comment 6 months ago

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  • Robbie_Wetta #1 6 months ago

    Buy Buy Buy!!

  • lucky_jim #2 6 months ago

    BG&E is a must-buy at this price, although I got it at release. In fact, I got almost everything in this sale at full-price. Maybe I'll pick up the MK collection just so I can feel like I got a bargain.

  • dwalker109 #3 6 months ago

    At that price BG&E is a must buy. It really is a fantastic game.

  • DozyKipper #4 6 months ago

    Bum. I've got 210 points. Typical.

  • homerramone #5 6 months ago

    I expect it would be rude not to for £2

  • DanWhitehead #6 6 months ago

    Excellent review, Simon Parkin.

    Hey, wait a second...

  • ziggysays #7 6 months ago

    Can we invert the camera controls yet?

  • SpaceMonkey77 #8 6 months ago

    Not to be snifed at for that price, BG&E all the way. Never did get it on GC, so will defintely try it out now.

    Hope it gets lots of sales for Ubisoft. We need to see more Live games at these kind of prices.

    Now, if only Mr Schaefer could get Psychonauts on there, for the same low price. Make it happen, Tim.

  • StolenGlory #9 6 months ago

    Holy shitcakes - did EG really give Daggerdale 7/10?!

  • PenguinJim #10 6 months ago

    Try the BG&E trial before you buy, folks, to see if you can actually play it without an inverted Y-axis.

    EG, are you ever going to actually mention this issue in any of your articles about this re-release? The fact that it's unplayable for a significant number of gamers is worth at least one mention, somewhere, surely?

    Meanwhile, the GOG.com version still reigns supreme.

  • robbiejc85 #11 6 months ago

    WTF!! 240 points? I thought getting Super Meat Boy and Stacking for £8 was incredible. I still have 600 points left. It's like Xmas coming early.

    GOD BLESS the globalization of American holidays!

  • Mr.Spo #12 6 months ago

    How can I refuse?

  • JonFE #13 6 months ago

    @PenguinJim To be honest, Jim, I found it unplayable during the trial, but at 240 msp it would be rude not to buy it. That's not to say I would refuse a patch, if Ubisoft bothered to make one... *hint*

  • Zerrin #14 6 months ago

    Come on, PSN equivalent...!

  • MattRobson #15 6 months ago

    £2.06p seriously that is a proper bargain. Cheaper than one of them fancy coffee's at Starbucks, costa et al.

  • BigDannyH #16 6 months ago

    Wait a minute? What's all this inverted y-axis talk? I lapped it up at 800 points (well worth it), played it straight through and don't remember having a problem. I play non-invert and don't remember teaching myself to be weird.

    Also, I can understand the argument of inverting the y-axis (if you moved the butt of a gun up you'd shoot yourself in the toes) but then surely if that's the theory you'd need to invert the x-axis too. That's really weird!

    Is there more too it or is it just for ex-Goldeneye players.

  • Penguinzoot #17 6 months ago

    Can we invert the camera controls yet?

    For me, that is the only thing wrong with this game. Call me challenged, but I just cannot get on with the camera.

  • MrE26 #18 6 months ago

    Just spent the last of my points on a shitty theme about 2 days ago. I wish i was dead.

  • waggy79 #19 6 months ago

    I'm a little confused. Just downloaded bg e and up is up and down is down, how I like it, but in the options you can also reverse it (like flying a plane, weird). So what is the problem with the controls?

  • Kami #20 6 months ago

    BG&E HD gets some attention. Love it.

    Daggerdale, on the other hand, isn't worth 20p.

  • eviroboy #21 6 months ago

    Have it on GameCube, arguably the best version. HD ruins it tbh. great price but no reason to waste points if you already own one version of it, unless you're one of those achievement muppets.

  • zm26 #22 6 months ago

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  • sfp_noodle #23 6 months ago

    Bummer, just bought this off the PSN last week for £4 thinking it was a bargain, wished I'd waited now! You're robbing them at this price. Brilliant game and the only HD conversion by Ubisoft that has had any effort put into it. Makes their Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia "HD" collections look like shit in comparison.

  • MdaG #24 6 months ago

    There were no ads whatsoever of this on my (swedish) dashboard. I had to manually look the games up to see that they were discounted.

  • TRUTH #25 6 months ago

    My personal fav games bought by download and well worth checking (below)...Played Beyond Good And Evil which was an enjoyable game, but thought it was a bit overrated. Thought Tomb Raider: TT... (..can't remember full title!)was a better buy and worth the price at full, but BGAE at full for me was a little let down.

    1)NBA Homecourt(CULT FORGOTTEN CLASSIC!..brilliant fun arcade, but with plenty of depth street basketball game with excellent graphics, sound and amazing animation).
    2)Street Fighter 3: Third Strike (HD widescreen options great 2D fighter with depth)
    3)NBA Jam (CLASSIC now improved and in HD)
    4)R-Type HD (CLASSIC side scroller shooter)
    5)Street Fighter II HD
    6)NeoGeo Battle Colosseum(SNK NeoGeo great 2D fighter)
    7)Ikugra HD (quality classic shooter)
    8)Rez HD (fun for a quick fix)
    Edited by TRUTH at 29/11/11 @ 19:28