{"id":74820,"date":"2015-04-30T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=74820"},"modified":"2015-04-30T09:25:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T07:25:04","slug":"mays-games-with-gold-for-xbox-one-and-xbox-360-are-underwhelming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/74820-mays-games-with-gold-for-xbox-one-and-xbox-360-are-underwhelming","title":{"rendered":"May&#8217;s Games with Gold for Xbox One and Xbox 360 are underwhelming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We realise that Microsoft\u2019s Games with Gold campaign has, on the whole, been more underwhelming than not, so it\u2019s hardly a surprise that May\u2019s titles on offer are too. But Microsoft has really stepped up over the past few months, and we were rather hoping they would for May as well. Oh well, you can\u2019t win them all. It\u2019s still free games.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you can expect for Xbox One and Xbox 360 for the month of May:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_74824\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/May-GWG-Castle-Storm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74824\" class=\"wp-image-74824\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/May-GWG-Castle-Storm.jpg\" alt=\"Castle Storm\" width=\"600\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-74824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castle Storm is a weird tower defence\/beat &#8217;em up mash-up, and worth looking into.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>CastleStorm: Definitive Edition <\/em>is not your average tower defence title, and really rather enjoyable for it. Think of it as a physics based tower defence, beat \u2018em up amalgamation. The campaign is entertaining enough, and there\u2019s some room for replayability. Our one gripe with <em>CastleStorm<\/em> is that its multiplayer has some serious drawbacks that hinder the experience.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Xbox One\u2019s second title for May, well Microsoft really just called it home on this one. They\u2019ve extended <em>Pool Nation FX<\/em> for another month \u2013 oh goodie (sarcasm much). There\u2019s a lot more to the Xbox One\u2019s library. You can do better Microsoft.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_74828\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/May-GWG-Mafia-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74828\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74828\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/May-GWG-Mafia-2.jpg\" alt=\"Mafia 2\" width=\"620\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-74828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mafia 2 is hardly a new game, but it&#8217;s definitely worth playing if you haven&#8217;t already.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What can be said about <em>Mafia 2<\/em> that hasn\u2019t already been said? It\u2019s a fairly generic <em>GTA <\/em>wannabe. It\u2019s about causing mischief, running over pedestrians, evading the police and generally larking about. It could be better, but it\u2019s worth looking into if you\u2019ve never played it before. We\u2019d recommend <em>GTA V<\/em> or <em>Saints Row<\/em> <em>III <\/em>or <em>IV <\/em>instead.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_74826\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/May-GWG-F1-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74826\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74826\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/May-GWG-F1-2013.jpg\" alt=\"F1 2013\" width=\"620\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-74826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why not Forza Microsoft? Because it still sells, that&#8217;s why.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s really rather simple: Microsoft isn\u2019t willing to giveaway <em>Forza<\/em> just yet, so here\u2019s <em>F1 2013<\/em> instead.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xbox.com\/2015\/04\/games-make-room-for-mays-games-with-gold\">Xbox Wire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can do better Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":74822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12146,13690,10435,11459,1969,79,10065],"class_list":["post-74820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-castlestorm-definitive-edition","tag-f1-2013","tag-games-with-gold","tag-mafia-2","tag-news-2","tag-xbox-360","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}