Game rental review of Gamerang


Gamerang is an online game rental service with a collection of over 3,500 online game rental titles. The selection for renting and purchasing online game rentals is huge and well categorized for easy selection. Parental controls are detailed and marked allowing users to assign them to their account selections. The navigation is excellent and their online support is dynamic and in-depth! 6StarsReviews also likes the fact that they have four distribution centers (California, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Minnesota)! This means that your rental games are shipped faster than other online game rental services with only a single distribution warehouse.

Gamerang offers a wide variety of support for the latest in gaming experience. Not only do they have a large title selection but they also have excellent support for the more recent gaming systems! Not to mention that they also have support for Live online game play!

Game system supported:

• Xbox
• Xbox 360
• PSP1, 2 and 3
• NDS
• Nintendo GameCube
• Game Boy Advance

To use Gamerang, you signup for an account, login to your Queue via their website and select as many games as you'd like. Depending on your membership level you can order your games which will be sent via mail at no cost. They currently have a promotion to buy games as low as $9.95. However, most appear listed between $14.95 and $34.95. Check the website for exact offerings.

Membership options include a variety of options for all types of users!

• Trial- Free 10-day trial subscription with two free game rentals
• 1 Game Rental - $9.95 first month/ $14.95 thereafter
• 2 Game Rentals - $21.95 a month
• 3 Game Rentals - $29.95 a month
• 4 Game Rentals - $39.95 a month
• 1 Year of Game Rentals - $599.95 a month

All membership levels include no late fees and no due dates.

Parental controls are offered through a category named “Kids Games”. The site provides game ratings based on ratings that are suitable for children or all users. Games in this category are rated with an “ESRB” rating. This rating is intended for use by everyone at all ages. Genres (categories) offered in this section are Action, Adventure, Racing, Sports, Puzzles/Arcades and so on. No bad language or violence.

Customer Support is offered via an online knowledgebase that is thorough and answers almost any question you could have about the online game rental service. They also have a great search engine where you can type in keywords to find anything you need to research. Additionally, they offer a 1-800 number for phone support Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm PST, along with email support for registered users.

UPSIDE: Great variety of membership plans. One of the largest numbers of recent and newly released title selections. 6StarsReviews rates the navigation and user interface as excellent. They also have great search capability for games, purchases and support! The best navigation 6StarsReviews has seen yet!

DOWNSIDE: Used game store and gaming guides are not available. Reason given for no game guides is expense and loss of game guides. There are still no electronic guides on line at the time of this review.