Game Pass Loses One Of Its Best Games, Gets One Of Ubisoft’s Worst
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On the one hand, Game Pass is dropping a lovingly-made dungeon crawler that Says Things concerning the existence of contemporary life. But alternatively, no less than it’s getting one of the vital callous Ubisoft map video games in latest reminiscence (I’ll offer you one guess). Here’s what’s coming to Microsoft’s games-on-demand service within the coming weeks.
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August 2
Ghost Recon Wildlands (cloud, console, PC)
August 4
Shenzen I/O (PC)Turbo Golf Racing (cloud, next-gen console, PC)
August 9
Two Point Campus (cloud, console, PC)
August 11
Cooking Simulator (cloud, console, PC)Expeditions: Rome (PC)Offworld Trading Company (PC)
And right here’s the complete listing of video games leaving as of August 15:
Boyfriend Dungeon (cloud, console, PC)Curse of the Dead Gods (cloud, console, PC)Library of Ruina (cloud, console, PC)Starmancer, by way of Game Preview (PC)Train Sim World 2 (cloud, console, PC)
Boyfriend Dungeon, regardless of the messy, bad-faith controversy that outlined its launch final summer season, is definitely one of the vital participating dungeon-crawlers lately. Part relationship sim, you date individuals who can remodel into weapons, and use these weapons to battle the bodily manifestations of your anxieties in isometric fight. Not solely is the fight a blast, however it additionally options some sharp dialogue rife with incisive commentary concerning the good and unwell of contemporary relationship. It is a bummer to see it depart.
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This month’s large Game Pass addition, Ghost Recon Wildlands, has…quite a bit much less to say. Sure, Ubisoft’s co-op shooter sports activities stable gunplay and an impressively massive, if not precisely energetic, open world. But it’s additionally a politically abhorrent, borderline propagandistic sport, portraying Bolivia as a narco-state overrun by cocaine-running cartels: You play as a squad of U.S. particular forces swooping in to “save” the “day.” Ubisoft did such a poor job at representing the nation that Bolivia’s inside minister despatched a proper letter to the French authorities and threatened authorized motion.
But hey, no less than Turbo Golf Racing—a sport that mainly appears to be like like Rocket League grafted onto a golf course, and likewise a sport that I’m solely simply studying about at this time—appears to be like cool AF.
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