Keith: When it comes to Double Fine Productions and the zany games they create, I’m no stranger to them. However, despite this, I wasn’t sure what to expect when it came to Headlander. Sure it combined the tried and true formula of the Metroidvania mashup genre, plenty of combat and a touch of Double Fine’s production values. Though, I never expected a company that typically creates puzzle or adventure type games to step into this particular area. And while I didn’t really doubt Double Fine, I did have my usual skepticism and cautiously approached the game.
Xbox Wire: "It’s true, constantly bringing more games to you is kind of our schtick at Xbox Game Pass, so let’s talk about the journey these latest additions took to get from us to you! We started with the customary good luck ceremony, during which we wrote heartfelt haikus in tribute to each game, and the social media team sang their rehearsal solos for the Xbox Game Pass: The Musical."
I heard really good things about the Alien game. Gonna check out. Another win for Gamepass
alien isolation is a great game. I love how they stayed true to the original film with the late 70's sci fi vibe.
Alien: Isolation has the highest number of players who never finished the game - of all the games... this is why I never bothered with it...
Alien isolation is great. It just needed some editing. If it was about 30% shorter it woukd have been a masterpiece
@Estvez yeah because it got very repetitive and rather than them wrap it up and bring it home they added another 10- 15 hours of nothing new. But would defo check it out on GP if you never played it, it really is faithful to look of the movie and still looks great now
One of the few bright spots for the Xbox One is the Xbox Game Pass. I am waiting for them to be the Netflix of gaming. Even for new titles. That's the goal. That would be so awesome. That's like their main selling point.
The native 4k triple A 3rd party games like far cry 5, shadow of tomb raider, red dead 2 and metro exodus is also a selling point to me. and backwards compatibility with some 360 and OG Xbox games get free 4K patches like half life the orange box and KOTR. Also More and Better free games with gold and you actually keep the Xbox 360 free games forever. And they offer pretty good ones I’ve filled out my gaming library with good titles like South Park stick of truth for example. The controller and 4K blu Ray playback are nice as well.
And while they don’t have the best game library of all platforms there are still pretty great games that can’t be played on a Nintendo or Sony system like games in the halo Forza gears franchise and new games like ori and the blind forest quantum break from remedy sunset overdrive from insomniac. Plus looking forward to new games from ninja theory.
But your right game pass is a big plus. Getting titles like doom, hitman, shadow of the tomb raider, rise of tomb raider, fallout 4, rocket league, alien isolation, resident evil revelations, plus all first party Microsoft games is a damn sweet deal!
It's shocking how much speed Game pass has picked up recently. The selection of new games is great so far.
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GameSpew: "It’s cliché to say this, but 2016 was packed with too many great games. I have my pick of favourites, but there have also been a slew of hidden gems that didn’t get the attention they rightfully deserved."
Agreed, so many good games come out during the years and nobody ever takes a second look at them because they aren't some AAA mainline series, World of Final Fantasy was actually more enjoyable than XV for me at the moment, and even fixed some of the issues I had with the Pokemon series.
Thx for this interesting list. I'm glad not to be the only one enjoying the deadly tower of monsters xD
