Look, I’m not just saying that the March edition of Xbox’s Games With Gold was brilliant because I have a full arm sleeve tattoo of Raiden fighting Metal Gear Ray, but hey! Having Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance for free was a hell of a treat that made my Xbox Live subscription worthwhile. This month’s offerings in that department?
MEH.
If there is a plus side, it’s that April sees the release of Star Wars Battlefront 2 on the system as a freebie. No, not that one.
But rather, this one:
Yup, ye olde Star Wars Battlefront 2 from 2005 is getting a second lease of life, just in case you were hungry for some old school multiplayer action before The Force started nickle and diming you. As for the rest of the month? Here’s the line-up and some flavour text:
Star Wars Battlefront 2 – April 1 – 15
Old school multiplayer from a more civilised age that used more elegant ways of selling games.
Outcast: Second Contact – April 16 – May 15
We uh, we never reviewed this, but apparently it’s alright and based on the original game that made your PC bleed graphics cards way back in 1999. Holy time travel Batman
The Technomancer – April 1 – 30
TheTechnomancer makes a valiant effort to be the next big open world RPG and comes close to achieving it, but in the end it feels like the developer was trying to fit too many things in to one game.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 – April 16 – 31
I also don’t think we reviewed this one, but it’s a 2007 military shooter from the before times. Ya know, the era of Ubisoft turning everything into a sandbox. Man, the 2000s were weird now that I think about it.
Last Updated: March 27, 2019
Admiral Chief
March 27, 2019 at 08:20
GRAW 2 had promise, but it was a nope from me
Original Heretic
March 27, 2019 at 08:29
Is Technomancer worth playing? I constantly see it on sale. Suppose that says a lot….
Kenn Gibson
March 27, 2019 at 09:09
I enjoyed it. There’s a lot of good going for it. Lacks polish in area’s.
It was not well marketed, and sold like 3 copies originally so it’s probably why its on sale, need to make that cash moneys back somehow.
Alien Emperor Trevor
March 27, 2019 at 09:09
I think so, I played it & enjoyed it. It’s very much a B-grade RPG though.
Craig Lotter
March 27, 2019 at 09:50
It’s… okay. Quite B-grade though and it doesn’t respect your time, sending you out over the same bits of map time and time again. But playable enough, and I did enjoy a fair few bits of it and its systems.
Admiral Chief
March 27, 2019 at 08:20
GRAW 2 had promise, but it was a nope from me