My Xbox 1 catalogue

[floppybootstomp]

I recently bought a couple of Xbox 1 games online from the GAME store in their '2 for £20' offer Assassins Creed Syndicate and Dead Rising 3 and am at this moment installing them. ACS is going to take up almost 40Gb and after both games are installed I will be getting close to filling the consoles 1Tb HDD and should consider an external USB3 disk for extra storage.

I've never been a great fan of the Assassins Creed series but Syndicate is set in old London Town, received good reviews and so I thought it was worth risking a tenner. It's still £34 at Steam for the PC version. I shall see how it fares when it's installed and the same for Dead Rising 3.

I thought I'd catalogue my console games and below is a (Libre Office) spreadsheet which includes my summary of each games worth. My rating table goes thus:

Excellent
Very Good
Good
Fair
Crap

As well as those games listed I have Forza hub and a Trackmania demo installed. I have the Xbox 1 S version which has an integral power supply and soon Microsoft will release their new Xbox console - the Xbox One X which looks to be pretty damn good and has 6Gb of DDR5 memory to quote just one tech spec. It will also cost £449 on launch with a 1Tb HDD which makes me think I'll hang on to my S version for quite some time yet.

So, heres my console games.

 

[Ian]

You've got a decent selection of games there - but I couldn't help laugh at your 2nd last entry... Was FIFA 17 a freebie that came with the console? You should trade it in!

I completely forgot about the "Undead Nightmare" addon for RDR - I loved that game and meant to come back to the addon, but never did. That's next week sorted for me!

 

[floppybootstomp]

FIFA 17 did come with the console, at time of purchase that was the only version available if I wanted to buy the 1Tb version of the console, much to my annoyance.

I did try to sell the download code at a more than reasonable price but no takers so thought I'd install and try it. It took up a huge amount of space as I recall and when it was ready to play looked as though it only worked well in multiplayer.

And when I did try to play it I couldn't figure out what to do anyway, I don't know football, I don't even know what offside is So I uninstalled it and wrote it off.

Assassins Creed Syndicate now installed, 190Gb of free hard disk space remaining before Dead Rising 3 is installed.

 

[Ian]

Ah that makes sense then . Bit of a shame it's not possible to resell digital games like that, as it's really popular!

 

[V_R]

Ah nice, didn't know you were a Forza fan too. Have you tried the FM7 demo yet?

RE: external drives, I've got a 1TB Samsung M3 which is grand, USB 3.0 powered so no extra faff. and the games do run a little faster off the drive rather than externally too.

 

[floppybootstomp]

V_R: Nope, haven't played the Forza 7 demo yet, wasn't aware it existed, I'll give it a go.

I've tried Assassins Creed Syndicate and Dead Rising 3 now and I'm not mad keen on ACS but DR3 looks like it could be fun. ACS may be set in London but it still uses a similar game engine to all the other AC's I've played which, to my mind, is frustrating and annoying.

I've played AC1 and own 2, 3 and Black Flag and of those the only one I've mildly enjoyed is Black Flag (it came free with some hardware I purchased a whiles back). In DR3 you basically wade through hordes of Zombies trying not to get killed and killing as many of the blighters as you can as you go.

I think the best Zombie games I've ever played are still Left 4 Dead 1 & 2.

I updated my Xbox 1 spreadsheet with my own ratings for my 2 new games and tbh I'm a little disappointed with both of them. I had also forgotten to list the JRPG Lost Odyssey in my list but it's there now.

New list: