What game to buy

So your going to buy a game, well firstly you must find out what game you want, so for instance you may be looking for a fighting game. But what fighting game do you want, so the fighting game could be a shooting game E.G. Call of Duty 4 Counter-Strike: Source or Team Fortress 2 , or it could be a sword fighting game like Pirates of the Caribbean at Worlds End Prince of Persia. But, you might not be looking for a fighting game, you might want an RTS like Command & Conquer, Age of Empires or Empire Earth.

So once you have chosen the game you want, don’t just go and buy it straight away, first check the system requirements by typing for example super man the game system requirements on your search engine (note a search engine is something like Google Yahoo Msn etc).

So check your computers processing speed (to check your computers processing speed in windows xp go to control panel from start, then click performance and maintenance then click the general tab, or for windows vista go to control panel, then go to system and maintenance click system and scroll down until you find processor then read that column to find out how much your computers processing speed is). Example 1.8 GHz, But if you don’t find GHz (you will probably find GHz if your using a Pentium 4, or a high end Pentium 3) but don’t worry if you don’t because there is MHz (MHz are like GHz except smaller), Example 800 MHz (I ran a 1GHz game on a 550 MHz computer somehow (this was many years ago). But don’t just go buying the game you want yet there are still a few more steps before you buy.

So once you have done all of this go to some game stores and ask them if they have the game you want. After this you may want to buy the game straight away but look online for the game because you may get a better price, but don’t just look at the price because sometimes they put a bigger price for postage then the games actual price. If you can find it cheaper then you may want to add the site to your favourites but don’t buy it, because you can also ring game shops because they might be selling cheaper then the online price and you don’t have to pay postage. So if you can find any cheaper prices at the store you should get it online but if you find a cheaper price get if from the store.

Once you have done this, scan the game with your anti-virus (optional) and if there is a virus, return it or contact the place you got it from, one you have done this, you can install and play the game!

Enjoy

By Firzen514 on the 16 Mar. 09.