Games Inbox: Best free-to-play video game, Horizon Forbidden West for £35, and Mega Drive Mini 2 in the UK

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Free to try I got so bored of not having any new games to play that I did something I never imagined I would: I downloaded Fortnite to give it ago. I’ve played it before, but not for long and I quick dismissed it. I was being a snob, I admit, because I didn’t want to think I was just following the crowd and the whole thing seemed like it was aimed at teenagers and not me.

Playing it properly now though I still have some difficulty understanding how it got quite as big as it has. The action isn’t particularly good and the main distinguishing feature, of the ability to build, seems to be hated by half the players.

I still got bored by that pretty quick, so then I tried to give Apex Legends a go instead. That was a lot better in terms of the gunplay, although I found the setting and characters to be disappointingly generic compared to Overwatch (which is also going free-to-play!), which is what I assume it’s trying to riff off of.

Moving away from the big names though I’d heard a lot of good things about Warframe and decided to give that a go instead. And so far I’m still with it. I found it to be a lot more engaging than the others, as it has a story and a weird setting that’s more than just ‘people with guns shoot each other’. There is a lot of that, admittedly, but this one feels like a real video game rather than just a flimsy shell to sell microtransactions.

I’ve also played Fall Guys, which is obviously very different, but Warframe is definitely my favourite so far. Maybe I’ll try League Of Legends on my laptop next…Lance

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