- 8,800+ game titles to rent
- 1,200+ Blu-Ray DVD's available too
- 10 day games rental free trial or first month half-price
- Most games consoles supported
- Competitively priced packages
- Extra secure payment area for jittery potential subscribers
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Review of Why Buy Games Game Rental
WHYBUYGAMES has just relaunched with a swish new game rental site, great Blu Ray rental section and improved customer services to remind us why they rival the big guns of game rental like Lovefilm and Swapgame.
With an astoundingly large catalogue of games titles for rent the stock at WhyBuyGames.com for DS, GBA, Wii, PS2, PS3, PSP, Xbox and Xbox 360 pretty much covers every game released including a very impressive back-catalogue of Xbox games.
Blu Ray too
And it's not just games.
WhyBuyGames.com is also the only dedicated UK games rental site at the moment currently stocking Blu-Ray films for you to watch on your PS3 (or Blu Ray player if you have one).
There are around 1,200 blu-ray titles available - that's pretty much every title released in the UK and more are being added all the time.
This falls slightly short of Lovefilm and Blockbuster but this is at least partly explained by the fact that those two include bonus discs in their counts.
In fact in our recent feature article on UK Blu Ray rental, it was revealed that WhyBuyGames is only marginally short of Blockbuster in terms of the number of Blu Ray titles it offers for rent.
Ten day trial
Disapointingly, WhyBuyGames.com have returned to offering a rather measly 10-day free trial with the Silver deal.
10 days doesn't safely give you enough time to test out more than one cycle of the games rental process. It's still adequate to test the service but we'd go for the first month half price offer instead if you've already set your heart on Whybuygames.
On the plus side you still don't have to return the games before the trial is over - just make sure they are returned within 7 days of canceling your trial.
Excellent service and fast turnaround
One of the biggest complaints with UK games rental services is that they neither stock enough popular titles nor do they turn around titles fast enough.
WhyBuyGames.com appears to have blasted those two complaints out of the water - well almost.
In terms of title turnaround, WhyBuyGames.com excels. They operate a 6-day a week schedule, so your games can be processed and sent out on a Saturday.
The extra day offered by Saturday processing makes all the difference and we were happy to see titles popping through our letterbox at a pleasingly swift rate.
While no games rental service is immune from lack of popular titles (it would never make sense economically to stock enough popular titles to send to every subscriber on a whim), WhyBuyGames.com appears to have a healthy balance subscribers and a decent stock of new and popular releases.
In practical terms: you receive games high on your queue almost all of the time.
Swish new site
Whybuygames has treated itself to a swish new website which is much easier to use
Email notifications
It's also worth nothing that the WhyBuyGames.com games rental service comes with a few extra little touches.
You'll be emailed every time one of your games is dispatched as well as every time a game is received back at headquarters and you can sign up for text alerts too.
Additionally, if you're going on holiday or you find the landlord is bugging you for rent money, WhyBuyGames.com allows you to postpone your account until times aren't so hard!
In short, we are pleased to see a reliable and comprehensive games rental site like WhyBuyGames socking it to the big boys.
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