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Games with Gold September Freebies Finally Go AAA on Xbox One

By on August 25, 2015

Surprising nobody but pleasing many, Microsoft’s Games with Gold September line-up has the company reinforcing an exclusivity deal of utmost important to the Xbox One’s fall line-up. Get ready to know Lara Croft’s name once again.

Xbox One Games with Gold September 2015

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (free from Sept. 16 – Oct. 15)

This reboot of the classic adventure series made waves back in 2013 on the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. It gave eager players a kook at the early life of tomb raider Lara Croft, making an earnest and mostly successful attempt at showing her transformation from an unsure young woman to a stone-cold adventurer. She also murdered a whole bunch of people along the way. Tomb Raider put an overwhelming emphasis on action in the same vain as the Uncharted series before it.

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition Games with Gold September

The Definitive Edition on the Xbox One ups the frame rate to 60 fps and touches up the visuals a bit. Mostly, though, it serves as a segue into this year’s true followup, Rise of the Tomb Raider, an Xbox One exclusive for at least a year. Now that’s marketing! (Microsoft made the original game an Xbox 360 freebie back in March).

The Deer God (free from Sept. 1 – 30)

I read a book called Firebringer in my teens. People described it as the Watership Down for deer. Because of this book, I want to play Deer God, and that’s before seeing a single screenshot or gameplay video. Upon further review, I still want to play it, because it’s a magical mixture of ridiculous, beautiful and weird.

You’re a hunter who is turned into a deer in procedurally generated 3D pixel-art landscapes (though the game is a 2D sidescroller). Sounds like a jam, man. Also…

Bambi Treasure this Moment

Xbox 360 Games with Gold September 2015

Battlestations: Pacific (free from Sept. 1 – 15)

Battlestations: Pacific Games with Gold September

Lead your American or Japanese fleet through classic WWII battles from a multitude of perspectives. It’s a tactical game that puts you in the units you control, which should draw the attention of classic war buffs and killer vehicle nuts alike. Battlestations: Pacific is a robust package, touching on as many scenarios as it can.

Crysis 3 (free from Sept. 15 – 30)

Crysis 3 Games with Gold September

The final game of the very showy Crysis fps series drops your super soldier into a jungle-addled, war-torn New York City. Crysis has always made great strides to make the player feel virtually unstoppable, and Crysis 3 is no different. The sheer number of tools at your disposable grants the game a top tier rating among the series and first-person shooter campaigns alike. The multiplayer was meh.

Though it was announced previously that, at some point, all Xbox 360 Games with Gold freebies will be backwards compatible with the Xbox One (digitally, too), Microsoft did not confirm as much for this current batch, only reiterating that, once the backwards compatibility software goes live for all Xbox One owners, the initiative will take place.

About Trevor Ruben

Though I contribute to many online publications on a regular basis, including The Checkout, the crux of my writing lies in video games. When not writing, I'm often streaming a variety of games on Twitch.

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