So, the First game I played was another that came free with PS plus called Tower of Guns. So I checked what the Internet had to say about that (as well as other free PS plus game Aaru's awakening (spoilers, the Internet hates it, so I didn't play it)) and it was suggested it was a fun indie fps with lots of replaybility due to it's grinding nature of unlockables. Truth is though it's lame. That's my thoughts anyway. You fight your way up a tower filled with mounted guns and a few flying spinney disk things and if you die you go right back to the start of the game (which was an extra annoyance to me due to my lack of interest in replaying games, though granted the levels are randomly generated so they'll never be exactly the same, but the challenge is the same, over and over and over again).
It was hard as well, not especially in a fun way though, more in a 'your outnumbered, your weapon isn't powerful enough yet until you play the game through another 50 times so you may as well just stand there and die' kind of way, at least that's how I frequently felt. Then I unlocked a perk that made the game easier (perhaps a little too easy though). That way I finished the game in order to put it on this list, although I was extremely close to not bothering, I had no fun with this game at all.
Okay, on to Forza Horizon 2 presents the Fast and the Furious (a bit of a long one). Last year I went on about how much I loved Forza Horizon 2, possibly my favourite racing game of all time and it made my shortlist for game of the year last year (though not winning). On the other hand, I have never seen, nor have any interest in seeing a Fast and Furious movie. This game was free for a couple of weeks though so I picked it up then, although by the time you're reading this you'll have to pay for it. What the game essentially is, is demo for Forza horizon 2. It's a small section of the map, a handful of cars and about 20 races and a bucket load of easy achievement points (if you're in to that kind of thing). I've been considering whether to count this game as a game or not but I figured yeah, it's got a story and 1000g, so why not. The story, as I understand it is you have to make a collection of cars to ship off to some other people by racing opponents for 'pinks', which basically means you win the car. I'm not sure if you lose the car your in if you're beaten as I won every single race as the game is extremely easy. Apparently the guy who does the voice over telling the story for the game is a character from the movies , but i wouldn't know. It is an interesting concept for a licenced game as a mod to another, real existing and actually good game and not some terribly rushed licensed game, but this doesn't hit the mark. Sure, it still plays like Forza Horizon 2, but the story is of no consequence to me and it's way too easy. It'll be interesting to See whether or not other movie games go down this route too (but hopefully are implemented better). This is hardly a cash in for the movie franchise as you could get it free for it's first couple of weeks of existence and I cant imagine it making Fast and furious fans out of Forza fans, it didn't for me after all. The other way round? Possibly, but this sets a bad precedent for Forza being far too easy.
If you want to know much more about the real Forza Horizon 2, please go back a few pages and read a full review of the real game there and not this, which is essentially a demo.
I'd like to say that is all for this 12 weeks, 12 games stuff, but I'll come back and write up a summary of it later, I just don't have time right now. Next week most likely.
Completed games
Transistor
Worms Battlegrounds
Saints Row 4: Gat out of Hell
Wolfenstein the new order
The Swapper
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die
Apotheon
Sonic Adventure 2
The Order: 1886
Shovel Knight
CounterSpy
Ori and the blind forest
Freedom Planet
DLC Quest
Infamous Second Son
Resogun
Ben there, Dan that
Time Gentlemen, Please.
Tower of guns
Forza Horizon 2 presents the Fast and the Furious
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