2-4-1 Burnout and Fight Night 3

Us Brits might spend Boxing Day morning camped outside M&S, but that doesn't mean we go completely doolally when it comes to sales. Honest.

See, we combine our post-Christmas bargain-hunting mania with a healthy distrust of deals that seem too good to be true. Buy One Get One Free? Why are they doing that – is the product a bit rubbish? Can't they sell them? Is Sainsbury's just trying to kill me with a 1kg Dairy Milk bar overdose? Questions like that form an intrinsic part of our genetic code.

However, in mobile, the humble BOGOF deal is becoming more common on the operator portals, as they try to convince more people to download mobile games. And in most cases, it's all silver lining and no grey cloud. Such is the case with EA Mobile's new bundle.

It combines two games that came out in 2007, based on two of EA's top console brands, and which both bagged Silver awards in their original Pocket Gamer reviews.

Burnout should by rights be rubbish on a phone, given the original's reliance on shedloads of cars, enormous physics-engine-shredding crashes, and motion blur. Mobile handsets aren't known for their skills at any of those.

However, EA Mobile was smart about the conversion, and came up with a new and tightly focused game that works well within mobile's restrictions. So you get a top-down viewpoint, a duel-based mission structure, and very long, very straight roads to avoid the need for cornering.

And it's great. There are four types of mission, ranging from shunting your rival off the road a certain number of times, through to causing as many pile-ups within 60 seconds as possible. You can boost to give yourself an edge, and collect power-ups that repair your car, speed it up, or make it invulnerable for five seconds.

As long as you're not expecting a 3D console-like experience, you'll love it. Read the full review for more details.

However, if it's 3D thrills you want, Fight Night Round 3 is the second game in this double-header. It delivers impressively rounded pugilists who move fluidly and land solid punches, complete with replays and slo-mo knockdowns.

Importantly, it also offers the most varied boxing experience we've seen on a phone, using 11 of the keys on your handset keypad to allow everything from crosses, uppercuts and gut-busters to blocks, dodges and that move where you hug your opponent like a drunk on New Year's Eve, while hoping they don't punch you in the bollix.

Okay, so having to use all those keys is a bit complex, but EA Mobile's control system works well enough that it's not fiddly. Meanwhile, the gameplay itself is well paced, rewarding strategy and timing more than frantic button-mashing.

The fights are wrapped into a comprehensive Career mode, in which you boost your boxer's stats as you go along by training, enabling you to develop a fighter to match your preferred boxing style. Read the full review for more details.

All in all, then, you can ease off on the suspicion. What you're getting here are two excellent games for your fiver, making this 2-4-1 bundle one of the best out there.