US prices … just a few mind you.
Amazon Marketplace $25.49

Amazon.com USA $39.82

DeepDiscountDVD.com $38.99

GameFly Pre-Played) $24.99

Overstock.com (Used) $29.95

CompUSA $39.99

You Aussies are getting ripped off on this title sorry to say.

Ok these are in Australian Dollars:

GamesWarehouse:
Gears of War $89.95
Gears of War Collectors Edition $99.95
Far Cry Instincts Predator XBOX 360 $108.95

GamesMarket:
Gears of War $89.95
Gears of War Collectors Edition $99.95
Far Cry Instincts Predator XBOX 360 $109.95

GameHead
Gears of War $ 91.00
Gears of War Collectors Edition $ 100.10
Far Cry Instincts Predator $ 108.70

More expensive than even CE from all 3 shops

No problem … I knew you what you meant but I just had to remind you that GoW is God of War … it’s only fair since it was out like 18 months earlier.

And yeah 80% on average is fine by me

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Game Chronicles 6/16/2006 9.6 out of 10 96.0%
Games Xtreme 4/20/2006 9 out of 10 90.0%
GameSpy 4/3/2006 4.5 out of 5 90.0%
Game Informer 6/1/2006 8.75 out of 10 87.5%
Jolt Online Gaming UK 4/7/2006 8.6 out of 10 86.0%
Games Master UK 5/1/2006 86 out of 100 86.0%
Pelit (Finland) 4/1/2006 86 out of 100 86.0%
Game XC 4/25/2006 8.5 out of 10 85.0%
Xbox World Australia 5/31/2006 85 out of 100 85.0%
Wham Gaming 5/23/2006 8.5 out of 10 85.0%
AtomicGamer 4/10/2006 85 out of 100 85.0%
Da GameBoyz 3/20/2006 8.5 out of 10 85.0%
Gamer Within 4/20/2006 8.4 out of 10 84.0%
NZGamer 5/5/2006 8.4 out of 10 84.0%
IGN 3/30/2006 8.3 out of 10 83.0%
PGNx Media 4/19/2006 8.3 out of 10 83.0%
Frag Land 5/22/2006 82.1 out of 100 82.1%
GameZone 4/13/2006 8.2 out of 10 82.0%
Gaming Horizon 4/24/2006 8.2 out of 10 82.0%
Amped IGO 4/5/2006 8.2 out of 10 82.0%
GamingTrend 4/25/2006 81 out of 100 81.0%
Yahoo! Games 3/27/2006 4 out of 5 80.0%
360 Gamer Magazine UK 11/1/2006 8 out of 10 80.0%
DarkStation 7/12/2006 8 out of 10 80.0%
Video Game Talk 6/5/2006 4 out of 5 80.0%
Gameplanet 5/11/2006 4 out of 5 80.0%
Play Magazine 5/1/2006 8 out of 10 80.0%
The Laser 4/26/2006 B 80.0%
USA Today 4/25/2006 8 out of 10 80.0%
Game Vortex 4/25/2006 80 out of 100 80.0%
MS Xbox World 4/18/2006 8 out of 10 80.0%
UnderGroundOnline 4/12/2006 B 80.0%
Game Over Online 4/10/2006 80 out of 100 80.0%
Games Radar 4/10/2006 8 out of 10 80.0%
GameShark 4/6/2006 B 80.0%
Pro-G 4/4/2006 8 out of 10 80.0%
GameDaily 4/3/2006 4 out of 5 80.0%
TeamXBOX 3/30/2006 7.9 out of 10 79.0%
GameSpot 4/3/2006 7.9 out of 10 79.0%
Videogames NZ 7/7/2006 79 out of 100 79.0%
TheManRoom 5/18/2006 7.9 out of 10 79.0%
GameTrailers 4/26/2006 7.9 out of 10 79.0%
IC-Games 5/21/2006 78 out of 100 78.0%
DarkZero 5/8/2006 7.8 out of 10 78.0%
Cheat Code Central 4/24/2006 3.9 out of 5 78.0%

I’m amazed that this game is more expensive than GoW..

And yeah, I’m not big on achievements either, or bragging for that matter. And anyway, where I live, virtually no-one has a 360, so there’s no point in bragging .

You should pick up the version for the 360 … these days you can get a used copy for $25-$30.

“original Far Cry Instincts” lol you have to read that one carefully.

Yeah that was a graphically enhanced version Instincts, which is a different game developed and published by Ubisoft which only came out on the XBox.

Now that I’ve read about it, I should buy this game for the 360 and see what it’s like.

Also I posted this before, but it had to get moderated because I used a link:

“There are a lot of people who what Crysis on the 360, mainly because their 360 would be better than their PC, and they cant afford, or don’t want to upgrade. EA likes to port things to every existing platform, but at the same time, Crytek doesn’t! It’ll be interesting.. and I’m thinking that there could very well be a console port. Not 100% sure though. “

“It’s been a big week for the Far Cry franchise. Its publisher, Ubisoft, shipped the two latest installments in the series: the Far Cry Instincts Evolution expansion for the Xbox and Far Cry Instincts Predator for the Xbox 360, which combines both Evolution and the original Far Cry Instincts into a single next-generation game.

There was also some predation of the business kind on the Far Cry front. Ubisoft announced it has secured all rights to the first-person shooter series, which was created by German developer CryTek. Though financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, it covers both the intellectual property itself and “a perpetual license to use the CryENGINE Far Cry Edition.” The graphics-intensive CryENGINE is the basis of all Far Cry games, the console versions of which were developed at Ubisoft Montreal.

Today’s deal was seen as a preemptive measure to secure the popular license in the wake of CryTek’s long-term development deal with megapublisher and Ubisoft-archrival Electronic Arts. The first game to be published under that agreement, the military sci-fi shooter Crysis, recently made waves at the Game Developers’ Conference via an impressive PC demo. No release date has been announced for that game.”

Can’t find any references to console ports on this. Far Cry: Instincts/Evolution is an entirely different game to the original PC version, developed by Ubisoft.

There are a lot of people who what Crysis on the 360, mainly because their 360 would be better than their PC, and they cant afford, or don’t want to upgrade. EA likes to port things to every existing platform, but at the same time, Crytek doesn’t! It’ll be interesting.. and I’m thinking that there could very well be a console port. Not 100% sure though.

I hope Crysis ends up being a quality, well balanced game, and it looks like it very well could be. We’ll have to see how it turns out.

This will probably be a news post here but so that you all know ASAP I will post this here.

“Crytek Explains Crysis Delay to Fans
“Some of this stuff just takes time to get right.”
by Patrick Klepek, 12/06/2006
5 of 5 users recommend this story.
Far Cry was an impressive first effort for Crytek, but Crysis looks to be where German developer really shines. Achieving the right balance means spending more time in development, though; Crysis was originally expected at the end of 2006, speculatively delayed due to Windows Vista’s move into 2007, then moved past March 2007 and now neither Electronic Arts nor Crytek will commit to a new release date.

Crytek felt fans deserved honesty, so company CEO Cevat Yerli wrote an explanation for fansite inCrysis. “The game will ship a little later than planned. I want to assure everyone that Crytek are working as hard as we possibly can to deliver this game to our fans and consumers in the earliest timeframe that meets our high quality threshold. Taking the extra time in the studio is the right decision because it helps us be sure that we can bring you the experience you expect from this new game,” he said.

The incredible visuals have also worried many their machines will burst into flames before they’re able to run Crysis — but Yerli says they’re working on it. “We are focussing [sic] our efforts right now on getting the best possible experience for the widest variety of PC configs, starting from entry-level PC’s up to the hard-core game rigs,” he said. Well, that’s encouraging — hopefully it runs better than Neverwinter Nights 2.

Reasoning in hand, everyone involved is stepping away from issuing a release date until they’re confident they can hit it. “We are tracking well and trying our very best to release the game as soon as we can,” concluded Yerli. “

All the evidence from the past three years shows that every single non Source engine based PC shooter did make it onto a console. In fact the vast majority of their PC games (not couting the RTS games) eventually turned up on consoles or are still in development.

Now with HL2 getting ready for some 360 play it would seem that not even Source engine based games are safe anymore. Pity for those who crave that great exclusive PC game but at least the millions of consoles owners who don’t also own a super rig will one day be able to play this game.