If you absolutely MUST go to gamestop:

If you want to buy new, go somewhere else. God knows if they're new or not.
I purchased SFIV a couple months back and they tried to sell me an open one for the price of a brand new one. Thats the last time I thought of buying a new game from there.

you guys do realize that most games you buy "new" from gamestope are actually new? They let their employee's check out the games, meaning they take these new games home and use them, and then bring them back.

Never buy new from gamestop.

i find that the sticker on the front comes of fairly easy except the one on the back with numbers on it its impossible to get it of properly

If it isn't shrink wrapped, I'm not buying it.

Never happened to me, I hardly buy new games at Gamespot...

You do realize it's fairly easy to tell which games that might have happened to and which ones haven't, right? If it's still shrink wrapped, like the majority of their new games are, I'm fairly certain it's never been played by anyone prior to purchaser.

This should go as a general rule. There's nothing wrong with buying a new game at Gamestop. Just make sure the new game you buy is a shrink wrapped copy, otherwise go somewhere else. Very simple.

Yeah and they call it new, i rather buy a copy with shrink wrap on it.

You guys could always, you know, like Onyxmeth pretty much said... just ask for a Shrink Wrapped copy, they can't really deny you that...

it might have changed, but when I worked there we just re-shrink wrapped them.  So nobody could tell if it had been used or not.