New "Games with gold" game gone up... It's Crackdown!

[J_Allard]

riderz13371 said:

J_Allard said:

Fusioncode said:
Played this one a long time ago, pretty good game but the open-world doesn't really match up to more recent games.

Also, I hate to be that guy, but MS should really start adding some newer titles to this service. PS Plus just got Hitman Absolution, a game from 2012. Crackdown is from 2007. Rant over, enjoy the game guys.

It took PS+ years to start getting really good games. Games with Gold got really good games from the start, but not the more "modern" releases like PS+ gets. But again, it took years for PS+ to get there. No way GwG would match it day one. Plus there is a big difference between the games you get on each service, what with the PS+ games being rentals and the GwG games being actual free games you keep.

Yup it took PS Plus almost exactly 2 years to introduce the "Instant game collection". I wouldn't say GWG offers "free" games since you need to be a gold member to pay. Yes you get to keep them, but these games Microsoft is giving out are basically games that you could probably get nowadays for less than a dollar (used). It's still nice though, free games is just an added bonus to Live subscribes, even if the games are old, they're still giving out pretty decent games (according to their metacritic). 

Although some countries are getting Shadowrun instead of Crackdown. I feel bad for them =P

The part about keeping them is exactly why you get free games. It's a free incentive no strings attached. My copy of BF3 that I just downloaded off PSN isn't a free game. Once my subscription runs out the game becomes unplayable. There is the difference.

And I have never seen any of these games used for less than one dollar, not that price would matter at all anyway.