March is just around the corner and there is a line of games of different types, across different consoles due to be released throughout March.

There is too much too go into for this article, though we will just give a brief teaser into each of the selected titles:

Far Cry: Primal (PC): Ditch the tech and go primal; tame and control beasts and take control of each of their unique abilities as you battle against man and beast in this ultimate hunting and survival based game.

Heavy Rain (PS4): The Origami Killer is out on a killing spree. Play as a variety of characters throughout the adventure, including an everyday father, a private investigator, and a member of the FBI; their journeys cross over at various points in the game.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD (Wii U): Ok it’s a rehash of Twilight Princess, and so it’s going to be clearer and crisper in terms of a gaming experience. Play the hero and save the princess; solve puzzles, go on an adventure, and battle your way through the dungeons of the game and work your way towards the final showdown with Ganandorf and his many forms.

Tom Clancy’s The Division (PS4, Xbox One, PC): New York has gone to hell and maybe even the world after a pandemic sweeps the city. Play as a division of elite sleeper agents trying to maintain control and order on the streets of NYC, and battle against gangs, rioters and enemy agents.

Hitman (PS4, Xbox One, PC): Play as the notorious Agent 47 and move around on a fixed style freeze-frame area finding different ways to avoid or kill enemy targets; learn how to use your skills and tools with the different skills and tools of the enemy targets and access secret areas of the game.

Aside from the illegal stuff, you can download a variety of games legally online from various sites; the cost of the games vary’s depending on where you are downloading and the type of game you are after. Hey if you are lucky some of them may be free!

Some of these games will be downloadable and playable for a particular console only, so might not be possible to play on your P.C or other consoles; games from the PSN network for example.

You can get free quick easy-play games from myrealgames, iwin, and bigfishgames; they have a massive selection of games there that you can play, though be aware that some of the games will claim to be fully free, but may be a stripped down demo that you can play to a certain point, but will need to pay (buy the game), to unlock the full game (it varies on different sites).

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I bought Battlefield 4 within the last few months. I know, I am not exactly up to date there, but the game has received a number of free updates and, in the process, become a whole lot cheaper and got much more bug free along the way. That was all enough for me to jump in – especially when I saw that Battlefield: Hardline (the latest entry in the series – a spinoff from a different studio) was struggling commercially and critically.

The game, instead of being a war time epic between East and West, as they usually are, pits police against bad guys. Good vs evil in a modern, relatable scenario (avoiding any current political issues about how “good” members of the American police force might or might not be.) The game lacks the scale of the classic Battlefield games and the environments, too, are much more intimate and city based. That factor was a major downfall for the game.

Metal Gear Solid has always had incredible gameplay, even if the story and nonsense fiction behind it all has always grated with me a little bit. Ok, well, quite a lot. But when the game is ticking? When all of those component parts are all working together there’s very little else that compares. Over the years, then, people have pined for an online Metal Gear game. They want to take that gameplay and use their skills online versus other people.
Metal Gear Solid 4 was the first with online gameplay. It was a lot of fun, if a little bit rough around the edges. It was not quite up the standards you might expect of a Metal Gear game in terms of stealth, but the foundations were there for something good. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain has a revamped system but it won’t be available until the base game has settled down for a couple of weeks. We wait with baited breath.

The most incredible thing is happening in gaming. It started on mobile phones and simply involves clicking things. Clicking to collect things. Clicking on coloured blobs and.. well.. not much else.  It makes sense though; for those people commuting on trains or buses often don’t want to commit a lot of time to something, be it gaming or reading. These clicking games simply allow you to kill a bit of time without committing much brain activity to it.

These games, however, have started to infect other gaming spaces. The PC, so often seen as the bastion of the hardcore gamer with their 4X strategy games and political simulators, have really taken to these games and more than one of them sit among the top played games on Steam every single day. There is an addictive nature to them that isn’t replicated elsewhere and a simple charm that means it’s just a little bit of fun.