Last week, as part of the usual PSN Store Update, Sony reduced the price on a huge number of PSP titles, dubbed ‘PSP Favourites‘.  These games, most of them AAA class titles in their own right, are currently available at knock down prices until the 15th of April, but seeing as there’s so many to choose from we thought we’d round up the best 5 and let you know whether the rest are worth picking up too.

LittleBigPlanet

This should be a no-brainer. Sackboy’s portable adventure is just as endearing as the PS3 version, and having one of the best platformers ever created in the palm of your hands is too much to miss out on.  For £13.99 (reduced from £20) you’re getting a large pile of levels and the ability to hand craft your own from scratch, as well as downloading any that other creators have added to the pile of online levels up there.  Sony’s support of the game post release is encouraging, too.  Buy it. (review)

Gran Turismo

By dropping from £20 to a penny under £14, Gran Turismo sheds any criticism of its length and lack of a dedicated career mode and becomes a perfectly priced racer with superb graphics and a selection of cars and tracks unmatched not only on portable handhelds, but on pretty much every main console game too.  The handling is sublime, the visuals to die for and the fact that you can now play online (using AdHoc Party) means that every racing fan should own a copy of Gran Turismo PSP. (review)

God Of War: Chains Of Olympus

So good I bought it twice. To be fair, I had to because my Go can’t play UMDs, but for just £7.99 you’re getting the PSP’s best action adventure bar none and a perfect way to pass the time when you’re away from your PSP and God Of War III.  Anyone doubting Ready at Dawn’s ability to get a full-sized Kratos adventure onto the PSP is mistaken: Chains Of Olympus is 100% God of War.  It looks like God of War, plays like God of War and for that price you’d be crazy as Zeus to miss out.  Essential PSP gaming.

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

£11.99 for a game that cost £30 the day before? Surely there’s something wrong, but no – as our review stated Chinatown Wars is brilliant.  The PSP version looks much better than the DS version and controls better than the iPhone version thus making it the definitive version of this brand new adventure billed as a side story to Grand Theft Auto IV.  We’re still in Liberty City, but it’s from a new angle (both in terms of characters and the viewpoint) and feels as fresh as any other game in the series.  A bargain. (review)

Beaterator

An odd choice, perhaps, but for a few pence over seven quid you’re getting what amounts to a portable eight track dynamic music studio, capable of sampling, looping, multiple effects, drum kit and melody creation.   I was taken aback by how powerful Beaterator is and I still use it today when messing around with ideas for tracks.  There’s a wealth of pre-built loops on there for those wanting to get started quick, but the ability to create your own from scratch is both welcome and – now – cheap as hell. (review)

Also worth picking up is Motorstorm: Arctic Edge (now £13.99), an icy take on the Motorstorm series with a great handling model , some wicked graphics and an addictive multiplayer quotient; the two GTA Stories games (£8.69 each) ported over from the PS2 and great fun for fans of GTA III and Vice City; FIFA 10 for some up to the minute footballing action (£15.99) and Codemasters’ F1 2009, which is now just £11.99.  For the full list of all the bargains to be had, cast your eyes about 20 pixels south:

• LittleBigPlanet (was – £19.99/€34.99 now – £13.99/€17.99)
• Gran Turismo (was – £19.99/€34.99 now – £13.99/€17.99)
• Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier (was – £19.99/€34.99 now – £13.99/€17.99)
• MotorStorm: Arctic Edge (was – £19.99/€34.99 now – £13.99/€17.99)
• Ghostbusters (was – £14.99/€24.99 now – £9.99/€12.99)
• God of War: Chains of Olympus (was – £14.99/€19.99 now – £7.99/€9.99)
• FIFA 10 (was – £29.99/€39.99 now – £15.99/€19.99)
• Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (was – £29.99/€34.99 now – £11.99/€14.99)
• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (was – £13.99/€17.99 now – £8.69/€10.99)
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (was – £13.99/€17.99 now – £8.69/€10.99)
• Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny (was – £23.99/€29.99 now – £11.99/€14.99)
• Tekken 6 (was – £31.99/€39.99 now – £15.99/€19.99)
• F1 2009 (was – £23.99/€29.99 now – £11.99/€14.99)
• Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron (was £31.99/€39.99 now £15.99€19.99)
• Need for Speed: Shift (was – £29.99/€39.99 now – £15.99/€19.99)
• IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey (was – £29.99/€34.99 now – £13.99/€17.99)
• Colin McRae DiRT 2 (was – £23.99/€29.99 now – £11.99/€14.99)
• Beaterator (was – £23.99/€29.99 now – £7.19/€8.99)
• Football Manager Handheld 2010 (was – £29.99/€34.99 now – £15.99/€19.99)