LEGO Star Wars: After playing The Original Trilogy exhaustively on the GameCube, and a fruitless search for a PAL copy of the first game was..well...fruitless, I finally broke down and picked this up for the PS2. Finally being a relative term given that I only bought the machine two days ago. Still, given that I will unlikely emerge into the daylight for the next few months, this is probably a worthwhile purchase.
God of War: It was there. It was cheap. I figured 25,114 GameSpotters can't be wrong. Not the sort of thing that I'd normally buy, but for $25 AU (or approximately US $19), I figured that this was a worthwhile investment with the imminent sequel on the way. If it isn't my cup of tea, I figure I will probably be able to hold it up as an example of why I should never be left alone in the games department of a major retail chain.
Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas: Having been briefly addicted to the original Grand Theft Auto way back in the 1990s, and since then being one step behind the current specs needed to run any of the sequels on a PC, it seemed like the right time and price to finally invest in one of the much-lauded sequels. Why am I even still typing? I should be playing these right now! Oh, hang about. My gal's using the telly. The new season of 24 is about to start...