

It turned out to be a glorious daft action movie full of hypercockney banter that I finished in a reasonable 20 hours. The most surprising was Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, which I'd heard mixed things about. Jody Macgregor: I am a free games hound, cannot help myself. Tyler Wilde: All redeeming and no playing makes Jack a dull boy.

Well, works as well as the still somehow incredibly slow-loading (even on a fricking NVMe SSD) PoS game ever does. And we also get a kick out of punching each other in the face and blowing up each other's shiny new cars as we hide from the braying GTA trolls in our hacked-together private sessions.īut I haven't actually booted up the Epic version because when I did a complete reinstall of my system my normal Steam version now works a treat. We laugh, we cry, we rage at the frustrating flakiness and wasted potential that GTA Online represents. And I totally would have played the hell out of it on Epic because I've been hate-gaming GTA Online throughout lockdown in the UK with a couple of buddies. That actually spurred me to get into GTA Online in a big way.ĭave James: I think GTA 5 is the only one of the free Epic Store games I've redeemed, and only because I somehow bricked my Steam version trying to install different Reshade mods to thrash the RTX 3090, and no manner of wipes and reinstalls would bring it back to life. The biggest get for me was Grand Theft Auto 5, which came with a whole bunch of free stuff I could claim on my existing account. I just grabbed them because, well, why not? So. Wes Fenlon: It looks like I've claimed something like 90 free games on the Epic Store, but the only ones I've played I actually owned on Steam, too. That alone makes the semi-regular boot worth it. Jacob Ridley: I'm definitely in the five/ten percent bracket when it comes to playing my Epic Games collection, but I've also had a friend suggest a game to me for us to play and found out I already own it on Epic.
