Jason Bradbury counted down The Gadget Show’s top 5 computer games for Christmas. Here are the games featured, from 5 to 1:

5) Lego Batman

Gadget Show presenter Jason Bradbury remarked that sometimes all you want is a simple game that’s quick to load and fun to play, and Lego Batman on the Nintendo DS fits the bill perfectly. Lego Batman is the latest in the successful Lego series of computer games which includes Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones. The aim is to make it through the 30 levels fighting your way through using classic Batman moves and gadgets faithfully recreated in Lego form, and collecting as many Lego bricks as you can along the way.

Lego Batman for the Nintendo DS is an easy to play, great fun and distracting game. Get it now in time for Christmas.

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Lego Batman is also available on other formats

4) Spore

Spore for the PC is from the makers of The Sims. Gadget Show presenter Jason said it could possibly be the biggest game in the history of games. You start off as a single celled organism floating around in a big sea. By eating everything you come into contact with you grow and grow, evolving as you eat particular cells. You control the evolution of your character through four different stages, ending up in the conquest of space. Apparently the space element of Spore is almost a separate game in its own right, with 50,000 planets to explore in the Spore universe.

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3) Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip

Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip is available for most formats including PS3 and XBox 360, but perhaps the most exciting version can be found on the Nintendo Wii, where the balance board from Wii Fit can be used as a virtual snowboard. Tilt backwards, forwards, left and right as you would on a normal snowboard - the controls for the Wii version of Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip are intuitive and lifelike. Only a couple of buttins on the Wii-mote are used to perform tricks - everything else is controlled by your own sense of balance on the board. The Gadget Show presenter Jason thought this game would also do well for Travel Agents by giving people the snowboarding bug.

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2) Tom Clancy’s EndWar

Ton Clancy’s EndWar for XBox 360 and other formats came in second place in The Gadget Show’s Top 5 Computer Games for Christmas feature. It is an action strategy game in which you control a World War III army, but it’s how you control the army which makes the game unique. You may have already seen adverts on TV for Tom Clancy’s EndWar - using a headset you can control the game by only using your own voice. Ordering troops around couldn’t be easier than barking out orders from your sofa. The voice command system is amazingly responsive. But Tom Clancy’s EndWar isn’t a gimmick of a game - it is a solid strategy game with the added bonus of the voice controls.

Click here to buy Tom Clancy’s EndWar for XBox 360 as seen on The Gadget Show 

Buy Tom Clancy’s EndWar for PS3

1) Little Big Planet

Little Big Planet is a PS3 exclusive, meaning it will not appear on any other platform. It is number one in The Gadget Show feature of the Top 5 Video Games for Christmas. Jason Bradbury described Little Big Planet as ‘kind of odd…but in a really good way’. You begin by customising the look of your fabric character, or sackboy. There are 50 weird and wonderful levels in the form of a 2D/3D platformer. It is totally unique, and totally beautiful.

Using the level editor you can even create your own levels, then share them with the PS3 online community. Conversely you can play other peoples levels, meaning that the replayability factor of Little Big Planet for the PS3 is basically endless. Little Big Planet is receiving rave reviews for it’s gameplay, concept, creativity and its original and innovative graphics. The Gadget Show’s Suzi Perry said that Little Big Planet was the most gorgeous computer game she’d ever seen.

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