OH SNAP VIDEO GAMES

The majority of gaming companies are choosing to do it now. With the amount of people using the gaming marketplaces, more and more companies are releasing downloadable content for their games. The new content tends to be anything from more multiplayer maps like Halo does or a whole new storyline like Grand Theft Auto.

New game content helps to keep websites that specialise video game reviews, as well as the gamers happy as it keeps the game fresh with new things to do long after the game was originally released. It also keeps achievement whores entertained because with these content packs, they generally come with a range of new achievements to get.

The way you buy the packs is pretty simple, all you have to do is access the marketplace service offered by your game console. You also are required to pay using the specified payment options, e.g. Microsoft Points. However, many people are finding that the problem is that they have to own the disk of the game to be able to play the newly released content.

During the current credit crunch, to be able to get their new games, many people are choosing to trade in old ones where they have out lived their use. Unfortunately, some people find that once they trade a game in, new content is released or announced. All gamers tend to be finding this problem. People who enjoy getting all available game achievements are getting annoyed because the new achievements are getting added to the game without evening owning the content packs. For example, if you have 1000/1000 Xbox achievement points on a game, you have 100%, but if new content is released and the points go up to 1000/1500, you now only have 66%, but you haven’t got the content to get those achievements.

This is where many people are finding the problem lies where they no longer have the game and cannot play the content. However, this is slowly changing because a number of companies are choosing to release their content onto disc format. GTA 4 will be the next company to do this, they are going to releasing their next content pack, along with all their previous packs, onto a standalone game disc. What this means is that you can now play the new content without having to have the GTA 4 disk.

The only current downside to this is that companies only really do it once they have a number of packs to release onto disc, whether this will change in the future, we’ll just have to wait and see. Keep an eye out for when video game news sites release a date for the upcoming GTA 4 content. game reviews