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Out of the Park Baseball 21 - PC, July 1 Soulcalibur VI -
Xbox One, July 1 CrossCode - Xbox One, July 9 Fallout 76 - Xbox One and PC, July 9 Endless Space 2 - PC, July 9 We are finally here: July 2020 promises to be one of the most important months in the recent history of Xbox, considering that the Xbox Game Showcase is set for the 23rd of the month, which is the first real presentation of the games being developed for
Xbox Series X, especially regarding Xbox Game Studios' first party projects. On this occasion we also expect announcements regarding the
Xbox Game Pass, for this reason we are quite sure that the next send of free games for subscribers to the
Microsoft service is destined to be quite substantial. In fact, it has happened other times that the company has taken the opportunity of special events to announce real game downloads coming to the catalog freely downloadable for Xbox Game Pass subscribers, as during the E3 conferences of past years, therefore we expect a strong injection of new games also in the second half of July 2020. In any case, the month has already started well with a first delivery that is not quantitatively very rich but characterized by some really interesting quality points. Just the fact that this first batch is so contained as regards the amount of games (only 4, without considering the overlaps between Xbox One and PC), suggests that we are preparing for a much more substantial second wave, but for having confirmation we just have to wait for the presentation of 23 July 2020.
Out of the Park Baseball 21 - PC, 1 July
let's Start with the title which hardly represents the cutting edge of this first delivery of July 2020, at least in our country where baseball is not properly the national sport. In any case, Out of the Park Baseball 21 is a really good product for who has a certain interest for this discipline, even if in this case it is not simulate their action on the playing field, but rather everything that revolves around it, as well as the training and management of the team. It is in essence a management with strategic elements, and, moreover, one of the most compelling, according to many experts in the field: in addition to its good mechanical properties, can also count on the licenses for MLB, MiLB and MLBPA, which makes it a product that is virtually complete from the point of view of the representation of professional baseball in north american. If the construction and operation of a baseball team is among the your interests are hypothetical, Out of the Park Baseball 21 is the game to consider, and even more if you have a subscription to Xbox Game Pass.
Soulcalibur VI - Xbox One, 1 July
Among the games of the more attractive of this first delivery of July, there is certainly Soulcalibur VI , a new chapter in the long series of fighting games to the weapon by Bandai Namco that is able to always maintain a level of quality very convincingly, to distance of years from its first appearance. Also this sixth chapter does not betray the expectations: the return on the Stage of History is seasoned with a considerable enrichment of the scaffolding of graphics and some news that is very interesting for fans of the series but also for new users. You can consider it a sort of reboot, since the piazza in chronological order, in a parallel way to the first chapter (in the SIXTEENTH century) and tells the events in a different way, revealing various behind the scenes of the lore. The roster of fighters contains many classic characters, a couple of new faces and also others coming from the cross-over assorted as The Witcher , If: Automata and Samurai Shodown , creating a remarkable variety of styles and solutions to combat. To this end, we highlight some interesting news as the mechanical Reversal Edge and Soul Charge, which should be to further enrich the combat system the historic.
CrossCode - Xbox One, 9 July
The classic look it
does not take too much in deception: CrossCode resumes the style of a JRPG, but it revolutionizes the different assumptions and solutions of the game, presenting itself as a title, very original. The graphic style in the 2D bitmap obviously recalls the classical tradition of the time, 16-bit, but here there is not only an historical re-enactment to hold the counter, but a genuine willingness to break some preconceptions, and tell a story rather particular, which also leverages the solution of the meta-game (the world is a kind of MMO similar to Sword Art Online ) to make it more deep and complex plot. However, it is perhaps in the mechanical properties of the same gameplay that the game stands out the most: the combat system is virtually the action, while the many dungeons present environmental puzzles that approach the structure of the adventure , giving life to a mixture of styles and solutions of the game truly challenging. Between story, action, puzzles, exploration, dungeon and boss fight, in short, CrossCode is a continuous reserve of situations and elements of gameplay assorted.
Fallout 76 - Xbox One and PC, 9 July
The reinterpretation in the style of the MMO of the classic Interplay hasn't exactly had an easy life: ever since its first appearance, who has convinced immediately the great fans of the series up to its launch of the rugged, Fallout 76 has passed through a series of problems of considerable size. These ranged from technical problems to actual flaws in terms of content and game mechanisms, which were heavily penalized by the MMORPG from Bethesda in the course of the months and the years of presence on the market. The expansion Wastelanders , the most recent and greatest among those outputs after the initial launch, it should represent a sort of summa of the work of development and enrichment made by Bethesda in this year and half of existence of the game and in this enhanced form Fallout 76 arrives finally on the Xbox Game Pass. It was probably not solved all the problems that have plagued the online RPG from its conception forward, but also the free distribution to subscribers can be really the ideal time to try and explore the post-apocalyptic world that has been created by Bethesda softworks.
Endless Space 2 - PC, 9 July
Appeared practically at the surprise between the games July Xbox Game Pass on PC, Endless Space 2 is a welcome addition to the catalog. It is a strategic spatial setting, belonging to the classical tradition of 4X , developed by Amplitude Studios as a result of the founder is dated 2012. According to the standard principles of this particular category of strategic, it is choose a race and take it to the conquest of the various systems, each composed of five different planets, all characterized by specific conditions that determine different consequences in their management. Endless Space 2 is really a very good representative of this genre of games and if you don't have got to try it earlier, having gone out about three years ago on the market, it is strongly recommended you to download and test, in case you are fond of this kind of games, or at least interested in, because you will not find easily best titles from this point of view.
