It’s all rather brilliantly executed, and it’s a survivalist dream in a way that the Far Cry series hasn’t been in some time. Your character is stricken with malaria which means you have to manage his condition as you battle against armed militias, all of whom actually work together and want to survive as badly as you do. It featured a rugged, hostile African landscape and was the first game in the series to introduce dynamic wildfires. It leaned into the realism and survivalism that became the hallmarks of the series.

Though its format is familiar today, Far Cry 2 was wildly different to the island-bound, sci-fi themed original.

Widely considered to be the best game in the series, Far Cry 2 was Ubisoft’s first crack at the franchise after founding developer Crytec decamped to EA to work on Crysis. Trust us, it’s a good one.īut by far the best game of the lot, at least as far as we’re concerned, is 2008’s Far Cry 2. We reviewed the sequel, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, a few years ago on our now defunct sister site The Iris and absolutely loved it. Xbox 360 owners are set to get brilliant couch co-op twin-stick shooter Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, perfect for four player couch gaming. You’ll also be getting WRC6, so you can get some mud on your tires as you vie for rally championship supremacy, should offroad and rally racing be your thing. It’s free! You literally have no excuse not to download it! It’s one of 2018’s very best games and you owe it to yourself to play it. If you haven’t played it yet, it’s a game about a girl climbing a mountain and the misadventures she embarks on along the way.

The month’s selections are four games, divided as always into two Xbox One titles and two Xbox 360 titles.įor Xbox One owners, you’ll be getting the brilliant, beautiful, tough-as-nails indie platformer Celeste. With December’s Games With Gold lineup finally winding down, January’s selection have been announced and they are very bloody good indeed. It’s almost 2019, and that means a whole new year of free games for Xbox Live Gold subscribers.

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