The 2008 holiday season is upon us! This means that the malls are overcrowded, Ebay prices are soaring, and the average gamer’s shelf is stacked to the ceiling with titles that haven’t yet been opened. Soon enough, millions of you lucky gamer folk will be waking up to that new console smell on your holiday morning of choice, and all of you fortunate souls will need to know which games are worth your time.
Don’t worry, TGR has you covered. We present to you our 2008 New Console Buyer’s Guide, where we will cover 5 must-have exclusive retail titles for each of the current-gen consoles as well as 5 games available on multiple consoles that are in need of your immediate attention. We’ll be featuring one console (or multi-console) a day through Wednesday the 17th, so get your wishlists ready.
Sony PSP
Sony’s media-centric portable might not have many new games hitting shelves this holiday season, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t plenty of fantastic titles out there for you to play. Here are five that you are guaranteed to enjoy.
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
(Square-Enix, 2008, Metacritic Score: 83)
A fully fleshed-out side story to Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core takes the ragtag cast of characters that fans have loved for over a decade and drops them and some new faces into a real-time RPG/action title which sets up the events that transpired during the original game. The fighting system is solid and the story will keep loyalists enthralled, but the game also manages to be accessible to someone who has never played a Final Fantasy title.
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