A lot of great games came out today and many of them are available at considerably low prices. The Banner Saga 2 is actually free for Xbox Live Gold members. You can take a look at all the releases below along with their Xbox Store descriptions.
Dynamite Fishing: World Games
Join the fun in this wild fishing action and rush across the seven seas. Fly fishing is boring! Grab your guns and explosives and let’s catch some fish REDNECK STYLE! Forget about idyllic ponds, or beautiful coral reefs. Dynamite Fishing – World Games will ship you to the best fishing spots all over the globe including an awesome jungle adventure! Choose your favorite characters and boats, explore the most daring scenarios and catch as many fish as you can.
‘Dynamite Fishing – World Games’ follows the tradition of its successful predecessor Super Dynamite Fishing and offers players the craziest fishing action full of fun. Hunt and hook a boat load of different fish, from bass to shark, and send them flying to the beach with a big BOOM! You’ll make them wish for a peaceful life in a fish tank. Collect coins to increase your top selection of crazy explosive weapons to knock out the sea dwellers the epic way. It’s you vs them, so don’t hesitate to throw TNT, nuclear missiles or other surprise ammunition into the water. The fight against the scaly creatures is on! Let’s show them who rules the ocean!
WARNING! All fish in this game are trained stunt fish! Do not attempt to re-create or perform the same or similar stunts at home …your goldfish will not enjoy it!
Features:
✔ Awesome fishing action with unconventional warfare
✔ More than 10 boats with epic equipment to choose from
✔ Loads of outfits and accessories for 5 crazy characters
✔ Many different exotic scenarios with multiple level variations
✔ Vast variety of fish to catch
✔ An arsenal of exceptional special weapons to use
✔ Unique super powers for each character
✔ Mighty upgrades for boats and angler
✔ Competitive matches against virtual opponents to rank up in the league table
Ethan: Meteor Hunter
Freeze time and manipulate the world with endless possibilities: build the solution YOU want where nothing is scripted and levels can be solved in multiple ways. When Super Meat Boy meets Braid, you may die repeatedly and enjoy it! With its unique blend of precision platforming and time-stopping physics-based puzzles, feel like a hero when you succeed!
Your name is Ethan, a rat that got touched by meteorites giving him the power of telekinesis: freezing time and moving objects around him. He is now looking for more meteorites that fell in his surroundings to get more power and his revenge against his neighbor who destroyed Ethan’s house!
When Super Meat Boy and Braid got together – Unique blend of precision platforming and time-stopping physics-based puzzles to race through a gauntlet of ruthless hazards
“Okay just one more try” enabled – Difficult without frustration as you respawn instantly: you don’t know it yet, but you’ll love killing Ethan
Telekinetic gameplay with real time physics – Pause time and move a wide array of objects with their different properties to build the solution you want, nothing is scripted: levels can be solved in multiple ways.
Play more than 50 levels within 3 different worlds
Hardcore completionist gamers wanted – getting all the fragments, 100% of the achievements and secret bonuses
Replay value – Time-attack, fragment collection or minimum number of pause goals in each level
Leaderboards – once you’ve mastered the levels, will you be the fastest one?
Hawken
War is a Machine. Pilot hulking death machines and use massive weaponry to destroy your foes in fast-paced FPS gameplay.
HAWKEN is a multiplayer first person shooter that places you inside a mechanized war machine on the battlefield of a dystopian world. With tactical, fast-paced gameplay in customizable and upgradable mechs across multiple competitive modes, HAWKEN is explosively fun.
KEY FEATURES
• 26 unique mechs in 3 classes
Determine your method of mass destruction. Pilot lightweight assassin-like mechs or wade into the thick of action with heavy bruiser mechs. Every mech is unique and can be tailored to fill a variety of distinctive roles on the battlefield.
• Exceptional customization
Arm your mech with massive sniper rifles, powerful cannons, explosive rocket launchers, and much, much more. Select from among a wide array of upgrades, enhancements, consumables, and cosmetics.
• 6 game modes
Play cooperatively or competitively in Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Missile Assault, Siege, Coop Bot Destruction, and Coop vs AI Team Deathmatch modes.
• 9 stunning environments
Experience a planet in the depths of war. Battle across decaying cityscapes, post-apocalyptic wastelands, and more.
• Easy to learn, hard to master. Teamwork advisable.
The Banner Saga 2
The award-winning adventure continues in Banner Saga 2! This epic, story-based, role-playing game continues its emotional journey across a breaking world. Bold leadership decisions, wise use of resources, and skillful battle tactics are vital to ensure your Viking clans make it through alive. If played, your choices will carry over from the first game, or you can start fresh with new preset characters.
As the world continues to crumble around you, only one bastion of hope remains, but getting there will require strong leadership, hard sacrifices, influencing new heroes, and sound strategy in combat.
• New Characters and a New Race, the Horseborn.
• Improved Strategic combat with consequences – improved, more strategic battle boards enhance combat and permanent loss of characters will still weigh heavy on your mind long after the battle is over.
• The journey is as important as battle – your role is critical in building and managing your caravan as you travel the vast landscape.
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II
It all seemed so simple: defeat the mad scientist, free the land and ride into the sunset, but sometimes the fall of a villain only opens the way to more sinister foes. So the incredible adventures continue, and Van Helsing, the famous monster-hunter returns to save the day again with the help of his charming, ghostly companion, Lady Katarina. The gothic metropolis of weird science is on the brink of destruction as chaos rules the streets and a new enemy plots revenge. It’s time to enter the dark side of Borgova and the forbidden wilderness, but beware: you are not the only one behind a mask.
Main features
– Three playable classes – In the sequel to this gothic-noir adventure, you can choose from three very different classes: the classic Hunter with shooting and melee skills, the magic-wielding Thaumaturge or the Arcane Mechanic, the master of deadly devices, all included in the base game.
– Character import – You can import your level 30 characters from The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
– Hunter’s Lair – The Lair returns in the sequel as your perfect hideout to stash collected loot, trade with non-playable characters, teleport between locations, forge new items, utilize the alchemy lab and accept new quests from allies who join the Resistance against the scientific scourge.
– Extended Tower defense mini-game – With enemies invading in waves, you have the opportunity to defend your Lair and other strategic locations with deployable traps and several upgradable functions to ward off evil, now with improved gameplay mechanics and up to 7 levels presented as optional side quests.
– Resistance Management – As the leader of the Borgovian Resistance, you will participate in the micromanagement of the allied troops, improve the equipment of the Resistance fighters or find loot that makes them more powerful.
– Rage system – You can charge up to three skill modifiers called PowerUps on active skills by way of spending Rage points collected from impressive feats.
– Unique companion – Lady Katarina, a ghost with snappy wit, comes to the support of Van Helsing with her own set of abilities, behaviors, and two skill trees.
– The Beast in the Lair – The Chimera is a unique creature, an artificial monster straight from the Ink. You can enhance its abilities and summon it into combat or send away to the Ink to hunt for treasure.
– Hall of Trophies – You can decorate the Lair with trophies that give global modifiers to the game world, like empowering monsters, granting more spellpower to all allies or turning Katarina into a more lethal ghost.
– Multiplayer – You and your friends can test your skills against each other via the PVP mode (4 players) or join forces and complete the story in the co-operative campaign (4 players).
Asher is a games journalist, former News Writer (Gaming) at Windows Central. They contributed 1110 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on opinion pieces, game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: wrote over 1,100 ICXM pieces on Xbox news, hardware reviews, and platform commentary before joining Future plc’s Windows Central in 2017.