 | Beautiful Katamari (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £21.95 / Used from: £12.99 Yes, it's criminal that you have to pay extra for downloadable content to get the whole game, but I defy anyone to play this for five minutes without breaking out into an enormous smile.
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 | Fallout 3 (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £13.00 Do you like violence? Do you like rummaging through other people's crap at car boot sales? Then Fallout 3 is the perfect game for you.
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 | Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £22.94 / Used from: £9.40 Visuals and sounds so stunning that you'll feel like you're actually there. Even when you're on the receiving end of a chainsaw up the bum.
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 | Burnout Paradise - The Ultimate Box (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £14.15 / Used from: £8.99 The driving game for people who don't like driving games. Can't be bothered to race? Drive around the believable city discovering hidden stunt jumps and smashing billboards. Pure joy.
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 | Half-Life 2: The Orange Box (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £14.72 / Used from: £11.98 Buy this for Portal, one of the high points of gaming in the last 10 years, and get a whole load of quality FPS games for free!
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 | Rock Band 2 - Game Only (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £29.99 / Used from: £26.96 You can argue about the instruments and the interface, but the real reason this beats Guitar Hero hands-down? A massive selection of songs, including... Journey's Don't Stop Believing!
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 | Xbox LIVE 2100 Points Card (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £16.99 Use these points to buy Braid, a game which manages to blend a relaxing pastoral aesthetic with some of the most fiendish time-and-space-bending puzzles in recent memory.
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 | Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £17.74 / Used from: £13.97 If you've got a loved one whose gaming skills aren't up to Gears of War, then this is the perfect co-op play through. Full of character (at least the original trilogy games).
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 | Viva Pinata (Xbox 360)
Buy used from: £3.00 Grinding the highly-addictive piñata-treadmill is a sure-fire way to keep your better half out of mischief.
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 | Crackdown (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £19.99 / Used from: £3.90 A gorgeous, yet much overlooked, "explore 'em up". Hop from rooftop to rooftop ignoring your mission objectives but seeing the sights.
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 | Fight Night Round 3 (Classics) (Xbox 360)
Buy new: £6.40 / Used from: £3.99 At last a fighting game which doesn't rely on button mashing, this instead uses a novel "swinging" of the analogue stick to throw punches.
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