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Every month, PlayStation Network (or PlayStation Plus) and Xbox Live (and Game Pass Ultimate or Games With Gold) premium service subscribers receive free games available for download for an entire month, which can be played as long as they subscribe to the paid service. And this time: Sony is trying to save one of the biggest flops of recent years, and show you that it’s not bad at all.
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This month’s main game for PlayStation 5 and 4 is Battlefield 2042 (if you don’t start humming the opening theme song in the background, you don’t have a pulse). What started as a promise to bring the Battlefield series back into the headlines (after Call Of Duty left no room for anyone), ended up as one of the most disappointing launches of the 2021 holiday season with bugs, issues, and a lack of content. But over the past year EA has done a good job of updating the game and now the trend seems to be reversing, and the game is getting a kind of renewed sympathy that will now be fueled by new players getting the game for free.
Once again, the game is focused on multiplayer and in the near future, so you will find both current and future weapons, and you are going to join dozens of other people from around the world in huge battles with planes, tanks, boats and, of course, on foot. The cool real life mode in the game is called Portal which will allow you to create huge battles on maps from the past of the Battlefield series, and use weapons, enemies and friends from the previous games. Listen, it’s free – at most you won’t like it.
Our second game for March is Minecraft Dungeons, An action-adventure game based on the monster gaming brand. Here too you can join up to 4 other friends to try to save the villages and defeat the bad guys while you are fighting huge amounts of mobs. And the last game definitely is Code Vein For PlayStation 4, it’s also a Co-Op game (but you can play with a computer if you’re a bit lonely) but in a Soulslike style with an anime design.
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From March 1 you can download the Trüberbrook, a mystery adventure game set in a German village in the 1960s, where you’ll find quite a bit of inspiration taken directly from Twin Peaks, Bags in the Dark, Stranger Things and even Star Trek. The highlight of the game is its design, with all areas built by hand in miniatures. In short, something different from what you are used to. At the same time, you will also be asked to download the Sudden Strike 4 – Complete Collection which includes the two classic games and the 5 DLCs that came after the launch, and you can fight in the battle for Dunkirk, Finland, Africa and also in the heart of the ocean in multiplayer or alone – and choose which side of World War II you want to be on.
From March 16 you can also download the Lament, a pixel art survival horror game set in 19th century New England. You’ll have to use different weapons and tools as you try to survive her stay at Gray Hill Castle, and it’s not going to be easy.