Your going to laugh, but I have not played them yet, I can't bring them out of my collection yet cause I can't let the wife know how much I spent this week, I'll have to bring the game out next week
I played Kirby Air Ride in the store and based on that, how well it sold in Japan, a few reviews, and my love of Nintendo decided to get it. When I played it in store I was impressed with the game, seemed like fun and something I can play with my wife or little sister.
I got Freedom Fighters cause of positive reviews and my love of the movie Red Dawn. plus I got all three $50 games for basically $33, I mean when these go down in price in like 6-12 (6 for Freedom, 12 for Nintendo) months it will be 29.99 so I paid an extra 3 bucks to have them now. I'll play it this weekend, but that will be too late for the sale for you.
Oh and when I went home this weekend my sister made out like a bandit (she's 11), I talked my mom into going to Best Buy and Toysrus and she got her 2 pelican wireless controllers, 251 card, Crash Bandicoot, Sonic 2, Monkey Ball 2, and for the free game she picked Finding Nemo for me. Now don't think she is spoiled since my Mom hasn't bought her any game related stuff since June when I talked her through getting the Gamecube for my sister in the first place.