Dark Pictures Anthology owners can invite a friend to co-op for free throughout February
Bandai Namco is bringing its Dark Pictures Anthology Friend's Pass promotion back from the dead once more, enabling owners of the three-strong horror series to invite a friend to play through Shared Story mode for free until the end of February.
All three Dark Pictures Anthology titles — Man of Medan, Little Hope, and the most recent instalment, House of Ashes — are eligible this time around, and players that own any of these games on Steam, Xbox, or PlayStation can invite one friend to complete one full playthrough of the co-operative Shared Story mode for free per game. Own all three games and that's three full playthroughs.
If you've yet to experience developer Supermassive Games' Dark Pictures Anthology in online co-op mode, it's bit of a spooky treat, giving players the chance to experience the same narrative together, with each controlling different characters and making different choices that influence the story's direction — and, ultimately, who lives and who dies.
Sometimes both players might be in the same scene, but at other points, they may go their separate ways, each experiencing a different sequence in tandem — one player might follow the events in one location while the other goes off to explore elsewhere — giving both parties plenty of opportunities to compare notes. It's very cool!
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If that sounds like a suitably intriguing proposition, the process required to get a friend up and running via Bandai Namco's latest Friend's Pass promotion differs notably between PC and consoles; on PlayStation and Xbox, you simply need to get your friend to download and install the free trial version of the selected game from the online store. Then, once you've ensured your own copy is
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