If you like games and were hesitant to buy one of the new consoles that came out last year, Black Friday might be a good time to do so. There are finally enough good games to play on the Xbox One and the Playstation 4, and Nintendo has released enough heavy hitters for the Wii U that we can safely say that has the best library of any of the current systems at the moment. All three consoles will be available for cheap at various stores on Black Friday, along with good deals on tons of recent games. Here are the best bargains you’ll find this week. 10. Forza Horizon 2 for Xbox One—$29.99 at the Microsoft Store I am neither a big fan of racing games or European EDM festivals, and yet I enjoyed Forza Horizon 2 on the Xbox One more than I ever thought I would. It’s both soothing and stressful, great alone or with friends, and has a beautiful visual aesthetic and great soundtrack. The gorgeous open-world racing game still retails for a full $59.99, but it’ll be available for half off at the Microsoft Store on Black Friday.
9. 1 year membership to Xbox Live—$35.99 (eBay) Apparently even eBay isn’t safe from Black Friday madness. The auction site will be running new deals every hour starting right when Thanksgiving ends at midnight ET on Friday. Among the deals listed is a year’s membership to Xbox Live for $35.99, which is 40% off the regular price. 8. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor—$25 (Target, Best Buy) One of the year’s biggest surprises will be on sale for $25 at Target and Best Buy. If you want to hunt down Cockney orcs on a bargain, this is the deal for you. 7. Mario Kart 8—$35 (Walmart) It takes years for big Nintendo games to get a significant price reduction, so getting the almost brand new Mario Kart 8 for $25 off is a fantastic deal. (Mario Kart 7 came out three years ago and the regular price has only gone down by $10.) Mario Kart 8 is one of the best games of the year for any system, and this is probably the best price you’ll find for a new copy until next Thanksgiving.
6. Buy one game, get a second one for 40% off (Toys R Us) Whether you want to stock up on recent hits or fill out your loved one’s wish list, the best overall deal on games is at Toys R Us. Every game will be available for 40% off after the purchase of a full-price game. 5. Disney Infinity 2.0 starter pack—$37 (Walmart) The collectible toy games keep multiplying. Disney just released the second wave of Disney Infinity 2.0 toys earlier this month, featuring Donald Duck, Tinker Bell and a few other Disney characters. They’ll be on sale for $9 at Walmart, alongside the Marvel heavy first wave from September and all of the figures from the first Disney Infinity line-up. Walmart also has the starter pack for 2.0 for $37.50. It’ll be $39.99 at Target and Best Buy. 4. Skylanders Trap Team starter pack—$37 (Walmart) Don’t forget about the original collectible toy game. Skylanders Trap Team, the latest Skylanders game, introduces new heroes and new “trap” pieces required to play as the game’s villains.
The starter pack will be $37 at Walmart, which is half-off. Target will have the starter pack for $39.99. If you feel the need to go shopping on Thanksgiving itself, the starter pack is also $37.50 at Toys R Us (it goes up to $49.99 there on Friday.) Walmart also looks like your best bet for figures, at $9 a piece. 3. Playstation 4 bundle with GTA V and The Last of Us: Remastered or Lego Batman 3 and Little Big Planet 3—$399 (Best Buy, Walmart, Target, Toys R Us, more) If you’d rather get a Playstation 4, there are two different basic bundles available. One includes next-gen remakes of two of last year’s biggest games, Grand Theft Auto V and The Last of Us. The other is a more all-ages friendly assortment, with the brand new Little Big Planet 3 and Lego Batman 3. Both bundles are available at various retailers for $399. 2. Wii U bundle with Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Super Mario 3D World and NintendoLand—$359.97 (Best Buy)
The Wii U may not pack the horsepower of the Playstation 4 and Xbox One, but Nintendo’s weird little box boasts some of the best games of the last few years. You can get four of them along with the system in Best Buy’s Wii U bundle, including Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, which just came out last week. The other games include Super Mario 3D World, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and NintendoLand. The price is $359.97, which will save you about $50. 1. Xbox One Assassin’s Creed bundle with Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and a free game—$329.99 (The Microsoft Store) Either the Microsoft Store or Target has the best Black Friday bundle deal. They’re both selling an Xbox One with last year’s excellent Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag and this year’s middling Assassin’s Creed: Unity for $329, along with a different bonus at each store. The Microsoft Store is adding another free game, although they haven’t specified what choices are available.
Target is tacking on a $50 gift card on top of the bundle. The basic deal of the console and two Assassin’s Creed games will also be available for $329.99 at Best Buy, GameStop, Walmart and other stores. Only Target and the Microsoft Store are offering more.Do not create threads to ask a question. Only post specific video game deals. No affiliate links, trade posts/threads, or self-promotion! The Xbox 360 revolutionized online gaming thanks to its Xbox Live multiplayer component. We take a look at the best multiplayer games available for the Xbox 360. Ever since its release in 2005, the Xbox 360 has been the go-to console for multiplayer gaming. Its success as an online gaming platform can be largely attributed to Xbox Live and its lively community. Although the community has a bad reputation due to the behavior of some of its users, it remains the most popular online platform in existence, surpassing both Steam and PSN by a large margin. That isn’t to say that its rivals won’t some day catch up with Microsoft’s offering, of course.
Let’s take a look at the latest titles driving the Xbox Live’s continued popularity. Forza Horizon is the latest entry in the Forza Motorsport franchise, and one that attempts to make the game far more accessible than any of its predecessors. Set in a fictitious racing festival called the Horizon, in Colorado, the game offers large, open-world environments in which players can race a wide variety of cars, all of which enjoy realistic physics and high-definition graphics. The game's multiplayer component is the strongest in the series, to date. Players can fully customize their rides with decals of their own design, and partake in a highly enjoyable "Cat and Mouse" multiplayer chase mode. Battlefield 3 is the latest edition of the Battlefield series. Set in the modern day, the game offers urban combat unlike any other game currently available on the market. The game offers vehicle combat, highly destructible environments, and cooperative gameplay that encourages players to work as a team while on the offense, or defense.
Though the game is primarily multiplayer-focused, it also offers a decent single-player campaign that's not unlike what you'd expect out of a Call of Duty game. Black Ops 2 is the continuation of the first Black Ops, and it improves upon the game in several ways. Namely, the addition of Scorestreaks as a replacement of Killstreaks makes it so that players can play support roles without worrying about how many people they kill on each round, allowing players to focus more on completing objectives and supporting their team. Beyond that, the game sees a return of the much loved Zombies mode, which allows players to engage cooperatively in a series of missions where they have to face off against a horde of zombies while completing a variety of objectives located throughout the map. It goes without saying that Black Ops 2 is among one of the most competitive games of all time, and Call of Duty has established itself as the premier competitive online game as a result of how well designed Black Ops 2 happens to be.
As if beating the hell out of your opponents in the original “Street Fighter IV” wasn’t enough, Capcom decided to release a charged up “Super” version of the game that contains the inclusion of ten new characters in addition to the original 25. Deemed “too large” for a DLC, the title also includes additional online modes like Team Battle which supports up to 8 players, a replay channel, and an Endless Battle mode for a rotating group of 8 players to go up against each other. Originally panned by early critics for seeming like nothing more than a quick cash grab, Capcom certainly proved them wrong with the game’s success both online and in console arcades. Minecraft may have began as a single player game, but it's seen numerous updates over the years, including the addition of a multiplayer mode that's been improved upon to the point where it's become the single most popular multiplayer game on the Xbox 360, with even more players than popular first person shooters.
Its popularity can be attributed to the fact that it plays like a sort of multiplayer game of Lego, in which players can craft castles and kingdoms to their hearts content, or explore the procedurally generated wilderness for adventures that are unlike anything they've ever encountered. The game's content makes it perfectly suitable for family entertainment, much more so than any other title on this list. Though PC gamers would argue that it’s best played on its native platform due to the faster release of patches and free DLC content, Left 4 Dead 2 is nothing less than a blast to play on the Xbox 360. Playing the game with a mouse and keyboard might be fun for many, but playing it in front of a large TV with a home surround system offers a whole different experience that’s no less compelling. Teaming up with three other individuals (who may be controlled by somewhat lacklustre AI if a player isn’t around to fill the spot), the four main characters have only each other to trust as they go up against hordes of zombies in a bid to survive the apocalypse.
It’s tactical teamwork and cooperative gameplay at its finest, especially on the game’s harder difficulty levels. These three series each cater to their respective sports: soccer, American football, and basketball. They're the best of what they have to offer, with few other games coming close what they have to offer in terms of competitive multiplayer gameplay. Developed by EA Sports, FIFA 13 is the premier soccer title, and one that contains almost every international league within its roster. Every player in the world is meticulously remade for the game. Likewise, Madden series is updated each and every year with a new roster that accurately reflects the sport as it exists in the real world. The game also sees the inclusion of better AI and graphics to make it as realistic as it can possibly get. With any luck, the next-gen versions of the series will be indistinguishable from the real thing. The NBA 2K series by 2K Games may not be an EA Sports title, but that doesn't make them any less popular—or good, compared to their EA counterparts.
The game is the best in class for basketball games. Halo 4 offers much in the way of competitive multiplayer battles thanks to the newly implemented War Games mode, which is made up of at least a dozen different playlists for players to experience. There's regular deathmatch, capture the flag, and variants thereof, as well as mode spectacular modes like SWAT—which is a one-hit kill Counter-Strike-inspired mode, and Grifball. In addition to its competitive multiplayer modes, Halo 4 also offers a host of multiplayer co-op maps that serve as an extension of the game's single-player campaign, set six months after the events of the game. Titled Spartan Ops, the mode is playable cooperatively by up to four players. Gears of War 3 is the third chapter in the original Gears trilogy, though it's not final chapter in the Gears of War franchise—which is continued through Gears of War: Judgment, the start of a new trilogy of prequels. Gears of War 3 offers one of the best cooperative experiences on the Xbox 360 and also one of the most visceral competitive multiplayer modes, as players go up against each other in team-vs-team battles and in Horde mode, where players face off against increasingly difficult tides of enemies.
Like the previous titles in the trilogy, Gears allows players to take on the roles of Marcus and Dominic, the two brothers in arms, through the game's single-player co-op campaign. I'd be doing John Marston a great disservice by calling “Red Dead Redemption” a “Grand Theft Auto” game set in the Wild West. It's a lot more than that. It's a gripping tale of a former outlaw seeking redemption of his past crimes by doing the government's bidding to save his family. Well, I suppose that's not too different from Niko Bellic wanting to take revenge on the man who murdered his squad in the Balkan War. Needless to say, Rockstar tells a good story and “Redemption” is no exception. Much of the game consists of walking around like a cowboy who's armed to the teeth and showing the outlaws who's boss around these parts. You take on the role of sheriff's deputy, revolutionary, and government marshall as you make your way across the blistering sands of New Austin to the unstable edge of Mexico that stands at the brink of war with itself.