MolotovCupcake writes - "Travel back to childhood with me as you revisit those little green army men you used to play with. Didn’t have any? Maybe your brother, sister, or one of your friends had some. And they would probably play all sorts of convoluted “army games” with them, wouldn’t they? Anywhere could become a battlefield as long as they had some of the quintessential plastic soldiers. The idea has spawned many a movie, cartoon, and video game. And not too long ago, the concept arrived on the Xbox Live Arcade in the form of Toy Soldiers. Fast forward to summer 2011, and we’ve been graced with Toy Soldiers: Cold War, the sequel to the brilliantly intuitive Toy Soldiers. Best described as an RTS meets FPS meets childhood, it’s a battle royale between toy soldiers, Howitzers, tanks, and…bug spray?"
Join Australian Microsoft Xbox MVP Mark along with Kaedin and Daniel as they discuss everything about the World of Tanks franchise and recent release of the Xbox 360 Edition. They have an Xclusive Interview from E3 2013 with Denny Thorley – General Manager at WarGaming.net. They discuss what game they have been playing as well as the latest News, Game Releases, Updates and more. AND give away 3 Months Xbox Live Gold.
Not to fret, Xbox 360 owners. Yes, those of us fortunate enough to own an Xbox One may be spending the weekend with giant robots in the Titanfall beta since it opened to everyone - but there's new free stuff for those of us on the older console too - it's like Christmas in February!
I think it's the first game I've got on Gold where I've actually got some enjoyment out of it. Continue to give us more mainstream games like Dead Island, please Microsoft!
Currently i have been playing Outlast, Don't Starve, Borderlands 2, Metro: Last Light, BioShock Infinite, Modnation Racers, Guacamelee, Sonic Transformed, Soul Sacrifice all for £40 a year!!!
You Xbox guys get Toy Soldiers? what gives???
IGC is nearly 4 years old now... GwG is 8 months... that'd be part of the reason.
it's a relatively new offering by MS, while Sony's took a while to be established.
IGC is great now but when it started it was poor... GwG will eventually start bringing X1 games with it and hopefully as the time passes it'll get better to a point where it's level standing with PS+
i just dont see Microsoft being as generous as Sony when it comes to free games. they choose money over pleasing the Xbox community.
Except it's not 4yrs old and closer to 3 1/2.
Also MS has been charging people "membership" money for years in advance and to tens of millions at that, no reason for them to be lagging behind what another service offered from the start of membership.
PS plus continues to bring out newer and higher quality games and over 3 systems now. Why can't MS keep up other than that they don't want to... and they just want to see how long they can keep the charade going.
PS plus started with exclusives for the IGC, games PS fans loved for the most part and within the first year was offering newer third party games while continuing with exclusives. 8 months in with more money to offer and MS GwG still has less games, lower quality games, very few quality exclusives and no sign of anything coming to X1 anytime soon.
Lets not forget either that whenever you sign up for PS+ you start with a Isntant Game Collection that maintains a general number of games and offerings which are rotated out weekly except some exclusives which switch out around e3 with a bunch more exclusives.
@ oschino that'd be why i used nearly 4 years... in 4 months it's 4 years
yeah MS has been charging money but the service provide by MS has been considerably better...PSN goes down for a number of hours when it's being serviced (yes i know there is a way around it by logging in before a certain time) but XBL hasn't had that kinda downtime before
yeah PS+ brings newer games out these days but that's almost 4 years since it initiated... it's first 4 games were wipeout, critter crunch, mushroom wars and zen pinball over a 4 month period (was 1 a month to begin with) (only wipeout was exclusive by the way)
depending on your own personal preference "high quality" and newer third party games started coming over a year and a half later on PS+
no-one is denying that IGC is the considerably better offer right now (unless they are completely deluded) but if you compare IGC's first year with GwG's first year, GwG could arguably be better (depending on gaming preferences)
GamerFitNation compares the games in February's Xbox Games with Gold with PlayStation Plus' free games. This month's winner is clear.
PS+ owns Games With Gold this month, but I have a feeling that MS (at least for 1 month, probably when they announce an Xbox game for free) will come up strong, but then fade away
Don't even have to look at the story to know that the PS+ offering will be significantly better.
I've not scrolled down enough yet but I bet I won't have to scroll down long to read a "B-b-b-b-but you're renting them! GWG is free for ever!"
Fact: PS+ pays for itself over and over.
The problem with Games with Gold can be asked in a question, how many times do you actually pick up an old game after finishing it? Not much compared to being excited to playing a game that is really good and came out a year or 2 back. Do you prefer keeping your games and play those the next month or play the games as you get them but they are newer? Think about it, as you're subscribed, you download the latest games given. I'm not gonna subscribe and miss out with older games that I finished the month before.
Yep as long as MS continues with their policy of giving the games away. I really don't think they are even trying to compete because we all know that MS have the influence,power,resources to match IGC or even beat it some months if they would lease these games instead of giving away free old games that don't have as much value or relevance as the newer ones offered by Sony with IGC.
Sure I get to keep these games forever most people would have played these games already. It's much better to give your customers access the newer titles that are more relevant IMO.
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@ThePope
The percentage of people that haven't played newer games like bioshock:infinite and Metro:Last light will be more than likely higher seeing as Dead Island and the like have been available for *Years* of the X360's lifetime.
It can be said for the PS+ games. I mean what percentage of people who WANT to play Bioshock haven't?
PS + rents the games to you GWG gives them to you. Both are different, and both are good.
To Majin,
You don’t know what PS+ will look like on PS4, will it be all Indies with only half being worth playing? Or will it be lots of AAA games. Only time will tell. Not only that we have no idea what's in store for GWG. And if you don’t think Microsoft is focusing on spending the money (which on the manufacturers side is all this about) to make the program amazing you’re crazy...
Does the renting argument even apply to ps4 owners anymore though? As nearly every PS4 owner will have a PS+ sub anyway.. So you basically have them for life or until you finally had enough of the console.
@thepope whatever the PS+ has in store is sure to blow away whatever GWG is going to offer in the future.
Microsoft needs to step it up. In just the past 3 months we've gotten Borderlands 2 (released late 2012), Bioshock Infinite, Brothers, Metro Last Light, Payday 2, and Remember Me (all five of those launched less than a year ago). And that's just for PS3. There was even more offered on Vita and PS4.
Dead Island? That was on PS+ like...over a year ago. Sure, they let you keep your 4-year-old game. Wow. I'd rather pay a reasonable sum to "rent" these games (many of which I'd never buy and I'll likely never replay) than get a few games that I own forever but probably won't replay anyway.
"many of which I'd never buy and I'll likely never replay"
So who cares then? Sounds like both are offering you games you don't want.
ThePope
Nah, I'm old-school. I actually still rent (well, did rent, prior to PS+) games. I try before I buy if I can. I used Gamefly in the past (but I don't subscribe anymore). I borrowed games from friends and lent my games to my friends in return.
There are a lot of games out there that are okay. Heck, there are a lot of games out there that are really, really great, but I'll never replay them, so why bother with owning them? I didn't get a chance to play Brothers last year, nor have I played Borderlands 2. Why? Not on the top of my priority list. But I'll certainly give them a try, now that they're free to me.
That's the thing. I like being able to try these games, many of which are less than a year old. Microsoft is offering very old games, many of which already have newer sequels. I am significantly less likely to be interested in trying a game that's 3 years old compared to a game that is less than 1 year old. Not to mention (using the last two months as an example) games like Bioshock, Brothers, and Metro were featured on tons of GotY lists and Best of 2013 lists. Can the same be said for Dead Island?
@thepope justify it any way you can to help you sleep with your poor choice for gaming but PS+ trumps GWG
Yeah, it must be so expensive for M$ to give you games that can be found at garage sales and pawn shops and that you can trade in for 25 cents.
The fact stands that i got to play over 1500 dollars worth of titles i would have never known id love through ps plus. Games with gold games are so old i wouldnt even waste the room on the tiny little hdd xbox 1 has.
Are we still doing this nonsense? To date, it has been no competition. We don't need monthly updates on it. When Microsoft begins to offer games that aren't a decade old and complete garbage compared to psplus, that's when articles should be written. Until then, we don't need news we already know.
Don't even need to read the article to know who is the winner here. My PS4 is an atomic free indie game machine and i'm not even mad really. Don't starve kept me busy for the whole months like crack to a.. umm.. crackhead? and Outlast seriously is creepy as fuck and hard to play alone but wicked awesome.. reminds me of the Res dayz. Bf4 is where it's at though, Ea needs to get there shit together right quick though, Jesus H !!!
Another website wanting hits.
Many gamers will constantly say that psn is better then xbox live but lets look at a few reasons why they are both great. First PSN + has had a year headstart and as a nextflix subscription based program it has proven to get better with time. Xbox live does not not even have a year out since May gamers have been treated to some great classics and modern games. Now here is the kicker psn + gives you rented games for PSVita, PS3 and now PS4 where as Xbox live is for Xbox 360, MS Surface windows based apps and soon Xbox One. Overall PSN games are rented and Xbox live games are free for ever. Cons if you stop the subscription for psn you lose the games if you stop xbox live you keep them. Both offer great titles and both are considered free when you are part of there ecosystem. Enough with the comparison both have been great value's to current and future subscribers.
You have not played a lot of bad games then.
I am one of the lucky ones to have played ET for the Atari 2600 and Superman 64.
When I played Dead Island with a friend, the game simultaneously froze both of our Xboxes. The dialogue, voice acting and story were terrible. The weapon durability system was frustrating; the best weapons only lasted a few hits before the player has to drop a colossal amount of money to repair them. The gameplay was six hours of hitting the same zombies with sticks, with the occasional special zombie thrown in.
I'm not saying it's the worst game ever made, but it's pretty terrible.
If the game had worked properly I'd say it was pretty decent, though not amazing in any way. Unfortunately it was hands down the buggiest game I've ever played. Lots of freezing, mostly when I played online, but online or off I had issues with my progress through the game not registering. I had to play multiple sections of the game two, three, sometimes four or five times. As an example, I did the part where you go through the sewer to city hall and back three times before the game gave me credit, even though the maddening autosave symbol would come onscreen several times during the run. I began to hate the autosave symbol. I had weapons vanish from my inventory as soon as I stepped away from the workbench after making them, or disappear into the ground after throwing them. I saw zombies run through walls or down into the ground, only to pop out of the ground in front of me. I had vehicles vanish while I was driving them, then appear down the road. Quest rewards not given to me… the list goes on, and the friend who co-oped most of the game with me had the same problems.
omg superman 64. i dont even remember what you had to do in that game besides fly around
I loved it. God knows how many times I've played through it both solo and co-op. Probably 6-8 times if I had to guess.
Never had any serious problems with the game and I thought it was a blast.
And 6 hours? Are you saying you played the entire game in 6 hours, because that seems impossible? I think my FASTEST playthrough was near to 30 hours.
Dang it is that bad, I played it for like 30 minutes but I wished I played it with friends
@typoknight
Dead Island is a decent game, with way too many glitches.
I wouldn't say it's the worse.
