Three Blockbuster Games When You Take Home the Xbox One 1TB Holiday Bundle

Xbox Wire:

It’s day two in our week full of bundles and to help gamers get into the holiday spirit, we’re packing a punch today with value like never before. We’re excited to unveil the Xbox One 1TB Holiday Bundle featuring a few of our favorites from the greatest games lineup in our history: Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, Rare Replay and a full-game download of Ori and the Blind Forest. With 1TB of storage, you can play and store more games than ever, including your Xbox 360 favorites thanks to Xbox One Backward Compatibility.

[Fro_xoxo]

Whoa! What a bundle!

[81BX]

Oh damn...

[Automatic79]

Another great bundle MS keeps raising the value of bundles each passing day. Kudos to MS.

[Transporter47]

It doesn't seem that intriguing to me since the games in the bundle are fairly cheap, but that's just my opinion.

[BiggerBoss]

Im just wondering if MS knows what a "Blockbuster" is. Gears is the only one Id consider a blockbuster and its a remaster.

[3-4-5]

Solid bundle, even though I'm not a gears fan, it's hard to argue your not getting a ton of games to play day one.

Indie, shooter & old school fun all in one box + 1 TB = a solid console package/ bundle

[Gotcha5]

Wow... would this bundle offer a total of 36 games:
Ori = 1 game
Rare Replay = 30 games
Gears Ultimate = 1 game
Gears or War BC = 4 games
Now that what u call a great bundle... it make me wanna trade up but i already own all 3 games and my Day One Xbox has always been good to me.

[lastking95]

This is a great starter bundle. You will also get the original 4 gears of war games via bc if you download before December. This is probably the best bundle so far value wise.

[iTechHeads]

They're all old games/ports/remasters. The only "new" game there is Ori and that's "just an indie".

The Tomb Raider bundle offers better value iMO. Quality > Quantity

[Kingthrash360]

Ori isn't an indie....its a low budget game yes but it's a ms game. .there is absolutely nothing wrong with indie games and Ori has an independent dev feel but all in all its not an indie. Otherwise I agree. With this bundle you are nor enjoying the new generation at all. No true xbo AAA games here just old games remade..cept Ori.

[TheGreatGamer]

3 more bundles to go, would love to see what faults you and other ps4 fanboys will try and find in them though. If you don't like Xbox just stay away from Xbox articles, it really is that simple

[lastking95]

These games are quality they may not be next gen but it'll give you countless hours of enjoy and better than 1 AAA imo AS A STARTER. Coming from someone that owns these.

[Kingthrash360]

That's why I disagree too....why would old ...later generation games be a starter? A ryse dead rising forza 5 bundle would be a starter bundle...all the games in this bundle are available on older consoles that may be owned already by the buyer

[mark_parch]

ori is an amazing game. value for money i think this is hard to beat

[Hold_It]

@iTechHeads you could say the same about the majority of PS4's library. Also one of the Tomb Raider games in the bundle is the Remaster of the Tomb Raider Reboot.

[ninsigma]

Definitely! The amount of games you get from this is awesome! :O

[Scuzzlebutt]

Blockbuster? One remaster, one old ass remaster collection that no one bought at retail and an indie game. Its more like a left-overs bundle. The games don't even make sense, one rated M and the rest are E to T? Who is this bundle for, not kids. Maybe old people who remember when Rare made good games?

[holysmokesbatman]

SMH.

[ninsigma]

The gears remaster is awesome dude! And ori is a gem, regardless of whether it's indie. It is one of the best games this generation and any gamer owes it to themselves to try it out,its just so good. I'm not that fussed about the rare replay but none the less they are classic games that many gamers loved and it would be great for the younger generation to experience them! Gears maybe M but we all know kids play thelse types of games because parents seemingly don't know any better, so that's a pretty moot point.

Edit:

Krib, I didn't know that! Yeah would be cool if more games could do that. Would look weird but at least it would be open to a wider audience (not that it matters because most kids will play gory games regardless of whether it's suitable).

[Kribwalker]

You can also turn the gore off on gears. A nice feature they should have in most games

[Kribwalker]

Well rare replay finished at 6th in August NPD ahead of until dawn, and it was first in sales after the first week in the UK as well, so I don't know what you are saying that it didn't sell at retail. I bought mine digitally as that is what I am mostly doing this gen, but it seems to have sold well

http://playeressence.com/ru...

http://metro.co.uk/2015/08/...

[the_dark_one]

Ya, and rare play came out at the begining of august and until dawn at the end, so...

[ninsigma]

Come on guys, no need to be like this. It's not a measuring contest if you get my meaning. No need for sales war here, it's just a bundle announcement. A bundle which many people will enjoy should they choose to pick it up just like people yet to pick up until dawn will enjoy that too. All gamers here guys, let's just enjoy the awesome end of year flow of great games without bickering about it for once :D

[Kribwalker]

@thedarkone

Gears of war remaster and madden came out the same day as until dawn and finished 3 and 1 respectively, what's your point?

[the_dark_one]

you wore the one who brought it up. im just talking about rare replay and until dawn, i didnt say anything about madden or gears.-"Well rare replay finished at 6th in August NPD ahead of until dawn"

[Kribwalker]

The only reason I brought sales of rare replay up to start with was because scuzzlebutt up above says it hardly sold anything, when in fact it sold quite well for a remaster collection. No other reason but that.

[NotAFanboyyy]

Orie isn't an indie. It was funded and published by Microsoft. It is also one hell of a game to boot.

[Subaruwrx]

@NotAFanboyy - "Orie isn't an indie." Yeah, but it's not a blockbuster title either. It's also arguable that the Rare Replay and Gears of War remasters qualify as blockbusters. Definition of block buster: "Something, such as a film or book, that sustains widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales."
http://www.thefreedictionar...
I'm not saying that this isn't a great bundle, I'm just questioning Microsoft's propensity for over hyping just about all of their products.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Conker's Bad Fur Day, Perfect Dark and Perfect Dark Zero are also rated M.

[Obility]

I didn't even know RR sold at retail. Didn't see it. Maybe that's why. I bought it digital doe.

[Soap_Z]

It can be called "Remaster Bundle"

[oSHINSAo]

i´ll go with the "Nostalgic Bundle"

[Masterchief_thegoat]

They are alright bundle can't complain wit 1tb

[RiseofScorpio]

Wow a 36 games in total, this has to he the best value there is.

[TheOnlyMastrx]

Already have an Xbox One, but really hope PlayStation 4 has a good holiday bundle, cause thats what I'm getting this year! Can't wait, but this is a decent bundle for newcomers to Xbox One!

[ninsigma]

Yeah it's a great bundle for newcomers to xbox!

Good decision on the ps4 man! I own both too and it's awesome being able to choose whatever game takes your fancy! What games are you planning to play on ps4?? You gonna hit the backlog of games already available or are you buying purely for new games??

[TheOnlyMastrx]

I haven't played any Uncharted games so I plan on getting the Nathan Drake Collection. Then there are games that I would rather play on PlayStation. Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Rock Band, Guitar Hero, Mortal Kombat.

There will be others, I haven't paid much attention to what has come out exclusively on PS4 but I will be looking at that when I get closer to buying the console.

[ninsigma]

Nathan drake collection is a good choice. I'm looking forward to ff and kh myself!
I recommend the order, bloodborne (my game of the generation) and infamous second son. All three are great games. There's loads more than that too! Plenty to choose from. Enjoy :)

[AizenSosuke]

Nice juicy bundle for Xbox ONE starters.

[Axonometri]

Go Microsoft. Eager to see Sony respond to these daily bundles.

[Jayszen]

What has Sony got to do with this? Just buy the bundle if you want but do not turn this into a fanboy, 'ours is better' situation as it is unnecessary.

[MeliMel]

Great bundle alot of games to keep you busy especially if you haven't played them. Also not to mention Smite, Neverwinter and other Free 2 Play games available via XBL Gold.

[NeoGamer232]

And World of Tanks and Warframe.

[pelenow]

Lot of value for sure especially if you get the other gears of war games. If this drops to 350 or below on black Friday it will be hard to find.

[Subaruwrx]

Great bundle but in no way does it qualify as a blockbuster bundle.

[magiciandude]

This bundle offers an insane amount of content. If you dig those kind of games, you'll be busy with the Xbox One for a long time without buying a game!

[gangsta_red]

Man, that is one great deal, plus a 1TB HDD (which should have been standard). Really great deal for anyone thinking of getting an X1 for the holidays.

MS is definitely going hard with some great diverse games and these insane deals.

[FoxyGotGame]

Good Mix of titles which all rated highly...

I can see something for every kind of Gamer in this deal.

Great Value!

[conanlifts]

The only thing about this bundle that surprises me is that it costs more (in Australia) than the tomb raider bundle.

[FN4GM]

Microsoft are such a bunch of try hards, LOL.