redhotray
09-02-2004, 05:19 AM
An interesting occurence has been developing over the last several weeks at gameplay.com.
Presently, two of the top five budget games bought by PC owners are "The Curse of Monkey Island" at slot #2 and "Escape from Monkey Island" at slot #5.
This is a top five that includes Sim City 4 (#1), the Diablo 2 expansion pack (#3) and Need for Speed Underground (which is at #4).
If you want to include the top ten budget games at Gameplay.com, then you can add Grim Fandango to the mix at #9.
You also have The Dig at #16, Broken Sword 1 at #19, the Sam and Max/Day of the Tentacle collection at #30 and Full Throttle at #35!
Gameplay are running a "2 for 14.99" deal on their budget games momentarily, which features all of these titles, and certainly, that aids along the statistics, but even still...I think the figures speak for themselves.
I've added a small review to each title as well, in hopes that it might catch people's attention, and help sway their decision to part with their hard earned money, to play some of the finest games this genre has ever produced.
Over the last few weeks, adventure games have been doing really well, but today stands as the best, as Curse has now reached the #2 slot in the budget titles and stands at #16 in the Top 40 PC games chart, which features Doom 3 at #1. Also, In Memorium stands at #24 (costs £9.99 by the way, I'm about to buy that myself.), and the Silver Earring is at #33.
I know this is one website, with a deal on the titles, but it is also one of Europes premier online distributors for computer games.
I shall be continuing to watch, to see how well the games continue to fare. They will have a tough task next week, IMO, when Simpsons Hit and Run makes it's way to the Sierra Best Sellers series (I've already pre-ordered my copy!!).
September is a busy month for PC games, what with imminent arrivals of The Sims 2, Half Life 2 and Final Fantasy XI. This should be interesting.
:)
Presently, two of the top five budget games bought by PC owners are "The Curse of Monkey Island" at slot #2 and "Escape from Monkey Island" at slot #5.
This is a top five that includes Sim City 4 (#1), the Diablo 2 expansion pack (#3) and Need for Speed Underground (which is at #4).
If you want to include the top ten budget games at Gameplay.com, then you can add Grim Fandango to the mix at #9.
You also have The Dig at #16, Broken Sword 1 at #19, the Sam and Max/Day of the Tentacle collection at #30 and Full Throttle at #35!
Gameplay are running a "2 for 14.99" deal on their budget games momentarily, which features all of these titles, and certainly, that aids along the statistics, but even still...I think the figures speak for themselves.
I've added a small review to each title as well, in hopes that it might catch people's attention, and help sway their decision to part with their hard earned money, to play some of the finest games this genre has ever produced.
Over the last few weeks, adventure games have been doing really well, but today stands as the best, as Curse has now reached the #2 slot in the budget titles and stands at #16 in the Top 40 PC games chart, which features Doom 3 at #1. Also, In Memorium stands at #24 (costs £9.99 by the way, I'm about to buy that myself.), and the Silver Earring is at #33.
I know this is one website, with a deal on the titles, but it is also one of Europes premier online distributors for computer games.
I shall be continuing to watch, to see how well the games continue to fare. They will have a tough task next week, IMO, when Simpsons Hit and Run makes it's way to the Sierra Best Sellers series (I've already pre-ordered my copy!!).
September is a busy month for PC games, what with imminent arrivals of The Sims 2, Half Life 2 and Final Fantasy XI. This should be interesting.
:)