More Xbox 360 Racing Game Pickups!

Working on my summer quest to get all the Xbox 360 racing games I am after.

First up

 Sega Rally Revo

Missing the manual though

Played a few hours so far, and it is a fun rally racing game.

Picked it up for $7.00 off the ol eBay, and it was listed as complete and in very good condition. However when I received it, It had a broken, cheap, generic, non original case, and was also missing the manual. 

Not even the same shade of green

So, I filed a return item claim with eBay, and the seller Just refunded me and told me to keep it. Yeah that sounds good and all, but it bothers me not having a manual, But, hey, free I guess. I swapped it into one of my extra Xbox 360 cases I have a box full of,

 Grid Autosport

Complete and in great shape

Most copies of this I have seen sell for an average of around $15,00, which I didn't want to pay, but I just bided my time and waited and I was able to score this copy for $6.22 shipped. The item was listed as Grid in the title, not Grid Autosport. When I was searching eBay for this I always just put in Grid, just for an occasion such as this. 

And finally

Race Pro an Xbox 360 Exclusive

Complete and in great shape

Another great score, on a gamble.

Another Xbox 360 racing game that generally sells for between $12-15.00 complete in good shape. I however only paid $6.00. How you ask? Well, this listed by a Japanese seller, as a Japanese game. But looking at the picture it looked like a U.S. NTSC copy to me. So I read the auction, which said the pictures of the item were pictures of the actual item I would receive and it was all in English and had NTSC markings. I checked other pictures of U.S. copies, and they matched. So I rolled the dice, and got the item for $6.00 shipped to me. And, when I received it, it was a U.S. copy. Awesome!

A little patience and a little gambling, and I was able to pick up these games on the cheap, just the way I like it!

Xbox 360 Racing Game Pickups + A Gamestop "Incident"

In my summertime quest to add to my Xbox 360 collection, I decided to abuse myself and head into a Gamestop to pickup some racing games they showed they had online. Gamestop were running one of their buy two get one free sales, so I figured why not pickup a couple games?

My daughter and I head over to the Gamestop, and I go look at the 360 games I was searching for.

Ridge Racer Unbounded

Plays alot like Burnout Revenge, which is a great game so is a good thing!

Need for Speed Shift

I had never played Shift before, and I am really enjoying it. Reminds me a lot of Forza Motorsport 2, with a little bit of Dirt thrown in (the sector races). And that is not a bad thing. Which makes me excited to get to the last game I bought:

Need for Speed Shift 2

It is missing the manual though......

But, Shift was 9.99, Shift 2 4.99 and Unbounded was 4.99. So, with the buy two get one free, they came out to $5.00 each. Definitely not a bad deal.

All right, and now to the patented Gamestop shitty customer service experience. So, I get up to the counter, give the clerk the cases and he goes to the drawers and gets the discs, except for Shift. Shift he grabs a broken black case with printed non orginal artwork and no manual, even though the case I brought up had the original art and manual in a good unbroken green xbox case.

So I say "excuse me, can i get the other case for this game?" The clerk makes a disgusted face, and grunt and then frisbees the original case I brought up at me at the counter? WTF?!?! Seriously?

I should have just took both cases and left, but no, I took the disc out of the broken fake case, and swapped it into the good case I had originally brought up and just left.

But my fault, what did I expect, I went into Gamestop willingly knowing they seem to pride themselves on shitty customer service, it was my own fault.

But hey, I got my games, and I am enjoying them

Xbox 360 Game Upgrades

One of my latest oddball obsessions has been upgrading my Xbox 360 Games with any edition that came with an Extra or Bonus disc. Let's take a look at what I have been able to pick up lately.

 Timeshift

 Rainbow Six Vegas

As well As

 Rainbow Six Vegas 2

 Gears of War

Another interesting thing to note about this version: The Manual has 3 less pages, as there is Forza Motorsport 2, Fable II and Xbox Live ads in the original manual. So that is the one I kept.

Oh! speaking of Fable II

 Fable II

Which I had previously upgraded already with the Platinum Hits version

As the Platinum Hits version included "Knothole Island" and "See the Future" DLC's on the Disc!

Wouldn't that make this the Ultimate Edition of Fable II ?  😁

I bought a PS4 Game?

Yep, that's right, After I decided that I really had no desire for a Playstation 4, Which I ranted about HERE  I went out and bought myself a Playstation 4 game?

As I alluded to in my blog update, I am currently temporarily staying with my oldest daughter and her fiancee, and they have a PS4. So, since there are literally only 3-4 games I want to play on the PS4, I figured why not pick up one to play while I am here.

Now I know what you all are thinking, I bet you got Gran Turismo. Well, I do really like my Racing games, but you'd be wrong.

For $5.00 I picked up........

 Killzone Shadow Fall

I played a little last weekend.

It was ok. The first mission is a follow mission :/ and then it goes into a storyline video, then you get control of your character for a whole 4-5 seconds....... Then more video.

After while you are finally able to play, and I was having a problem adjusting to the controls. I don't know if it was just me and the PS4 controller, or the actual controls themselves. Then once I make it outside, you get a little AI drone that you need to use, which again I was having trouble with.

I dunno, it was ok, maybe I'll give it another try soon, but I really wasn't impressed. Not like I was with the previous Killzone games.