Leveling Down

For anyone that still has yet to purchase this game, I guess maybe the wait was worth it? (If you’re on the fence, check out my review tomorrow.) Newegg has the Special Edition of the 360 game for the low price of $39.99.

The Special Edition includes:
- Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system with special packaging.
- Grand Theft Auto IV Art Book, featuring never-before-seen production artwork from Grand Theft Auto IV.
- Selected soundtrack CD from Grand Theft Auto IV, featuring new material from top artists, only available on this release.
- An exclusive Rockstar key chain for the safety deposit box keys.
- Completing the collection is a limited edition Rockstar duffel bag.

I own the Special Edition myself, and I’ll say it’s a nice package. While the artbook and soundtrack CD are pretty dinky, the lockbox and duffel bag are nice so I’d say it’s worth it at that price point…

Grand Theft Auto IV Special Edition Xbox 360 Game ROCKSTAR [Newegg.com] via Cheap Ass Gamer

Talk about making a lot of people happy. This may actually be a game I’ll purchase on Xbox Live! The game was announced earlier this week and it will be $15 on both Live Arcade and PSN – a steal compared to the astronomical prices for PS2/Xbox versions of the game since they went out of print. A PSN demo will be released tomorrow, but sadly, no Live demo has been announced. I guess the d-pad is really making the PS3 home to fighting games.

The game will feature online ranked matching as well as quarter match modes where 4 people can sit in a room to play and chat, something that was noticeably absent with Street Fighter IV. It will also have several graphics options – the original Dreamcast pixels or better filtering for a smoother look on HD tvs. Looks great to me.

I don’t know if I can go back to Marvel vs Capcom 2 after getting into Street Fighter IV, but my friends and I played that game in college for hundreds of hours so I may just pick this up for nostalgia alone. I guess it’s time to dust off my team of Cyclops, Omega Red, and Jill. Or maybe I’ll learn some new characters…because after all, there’s 56 of them!

Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 Confirmed With HD, Online Support, Demo Coming [Kotaku]

Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. looks similar to Ace Combat 6, but manages to throw in a few new features.

One of the last games on my current “to potentially buy when it’s cheap enough” is Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. Surprisingly, Ace Combat is what got me into the genre – most notably Ace Combat 4 and 5 on the PS2. Having just completed Ace Combat 6, I decided to give the H.A.W.X. demo a whirl to see if it was a game I should potentially get. After all, now that Ubisoft owns the Tom Clancy name, they can slap that on anything but will it mean it’ll actually be good? After the disaster that was EndWar, I’m a little more skeptical about Tom Clancy so read on for my thoughts on the H.A.W.X. demo.

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