Gamestation

Used to be great for picking up a retro console or two from a cabinet in the back of the shop, now they just sell the mainstream games for consoles and such. The Steam platform on PC is far better overall for people who are serious about modern gaming and high street chains such as this will only survive for so long unless they can match prices online for the latest titles.

An excellent store with plenty of Game deals and new product releases. The addition of the new ELITE card makes trading in more enjoyable and more exciting way to trade games.
In terms of trade ins Gamestation is the best shop to do this in Chester. The main reasons being that they can take games in without manuals, they can beat any cheaper prices for trade ins unlike Game/​HMV who only take good condition and complete games
Overall a fantastic shop and the staff are really friendly and knowledgeable (a bit crazy!!) but great to speak with. All students should shop here!

Gamestation in Chester is indeed across the street from Game (their rivals). Its easier if you like to shop around like pretty much everyone on this site.
The best thing about gamstation is that becuase of the trade in centre bit, you can sometimes come across old style games or systems or consoles for sound prices, although when it comes to normal games and things i would still shop around.
Only ever seems they pull out their half decent deals for Christmas, last time i bought a console their i did feel liek i was being pushed alot for the add ons or extras that were available for the machine. As if blowing a few hundred on a wii and a few games wasnt enough.
Also the grey in teh store does get a lil depressing after a few minutes browsing, if its not rammed.

Gamestation is almost directly opposite the Game store, as Chester seems to only have shops in pairs (HMV and Zavvi are very close, as are the two best chip shops). If there is any competition between them it is to see who can be the worst value!
The main problems with Gamestation in Chester is firstly that the store is a very long thin shape (which is a issue with most of Chester’s shops) and they have made matters worse by positioning the till right in the way so that if anyone is queuing it is nearly impossible to get to where the games are displayed.
The second problem is that when you do get there, to the bargains, deals and discount areas, even the pre-​owned Wii games for example cost more than brand new copies do online. I can’t understand how real work game shops surive in this era of online preorders. Most games seem to have a 20 or 30 percent premium on them, but perhaps people still buy them because they are too impatient to wait for their games to arrive in the post (why not pre-​order, then you get them delivered to your door on the day of release?!)
I’m the current economic climate I will be surprised if Gamestation are still there in February.

In the process of doing some Christmas shopping we had the opportunity to look around various video game stores in and around Chester and we found the best to be Gamestation.
The staff are knowledgable and offer excellent advice without being too pushy. More importantly, the offers in store were by far the best on the high street and were comparable with ineternet offers.