Ever since Microsoft's Games with Gold promotion began, the games it has included have always been so very in demand and new and that's not an absolute lie or anything covered up with sarcasm. Actually it's totally a lie covered up by sarcasm because that's kind of what I do. Some of the bigger retail (which is the key word here) titles that have hit the service are Gears of War (as in, the first one), Assassin's Creed 2 and Halo 3, all of which would've been fantastic gets....a couple years ago or so, but right now, are merely a bit silly. It'd be akin to Playstation Plus offering you a copy of Heavenly Sword or the original Uncharted in February. Of course, I cannot say that won't happen, since Sony has said they won't redo games and the well will dry up at some point, but still, relevancy is a big deal and it's something that's been sorely lacking from Games with Gold. That all changes next month.
Sleeping Dogs will be January's first Game with Gold, being free from January 1st to the 15th, where Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light will finish out the rest of the month, but that doesn't matter so much. I'm sure it's a fine game and blah blah blah, but Sleeping Dogs. You might remember, but I liked Sleeping Dogs. I liked it a lot. A whole lot! So any and all opportunity for the game to be played by someone who otherwise has not played it (what is -wrong- with you, by the way) is a good one that I encourage. Encouragement might sound vaguely like threatening, since it might sound like I'm saying anyone who doesn't play Sleeping Dogs for the insane price of Free deserves what they get, but of course, what I -mean- is "nothing". In that they get nothing. In that they lose.
Good day, sir.
Er, anyway. XBox Live Gold is almost required for those who have a 360 and/or indeed, an XBone, so this has a potentially far reach. As such, there better be some people picking the damn game up, if just to get ready for Triad Wars which is actually going to be like Sleeping Dogs in most aspects if a screenshot confirmed to be from Triad Wars is any indication. Because it certainly looks like an open-world game from that at least, and I'm most happy about that. My worry that they'd delve into something silly for a new iteration of the franchise was definitely not misplaced because of Squeenix, but I'm glad that it was at least unfounded in some way. Still, this is definitely something to celebrate in any case - the game will only be a little over a year old when you get it for free through Games with Gold which is a milestone for the service as far as I know, and it might just be an indication of the offerings coming in the future. Even though I don't have a 360, nor Gold because of that, it's still something that we can all hope for, because hopefully some worthy competition will keep Playstation Plus shining now that it's more or less required for the PS4 as well. Since we'd all hate it if Sony got complacent because of that.
It's kind of amazing that Sleeping Dogs has been free on everything -but- Steam now
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