Mothergunship & Train Sim World 2 Free On Epic

Monday, I spoke about EA Play Live, Alexx spoke of Manny and Bernard releasing on PC and console, and I made a football joke (which got cut) from the Prime Gaming Battlefield One article. Tuesday, I spoke of the depressing situation at Activision-Blizzard, Alexx did a Jeremy Clarkson in Hokko Life, and Splitgate got a delay and money. Wednesday, Activision-Blizzard employees walked out. Thursday, PAX Attendees will now require a vaccine or a negative PCR (or similar) test, Back 4 Blood is doing an open-beta, and Final Fantasy 1–3‘s pixel remasters released.

Onto this week’s odd options for the free games available through the Epic Games Store. One is fast-paced and like a car crash in a tunnel of love, the other is very dull and dry like the mouth of a Camel after eating a packet of digestive biscuits. The thing is, while the latter is the one you’d expect I wouldn’t be too interested in, the other does have crafting. I am all for inclusivity, but if you want to add crafting into everything, I want to place you in a special little room away from humanity so we can all function without boredom clamping down on us like nipple clamps.

Sure, Mothergunship‘s crafting is not making an axe to cut down a tree, if I need to do that again, I’m going to reenact the Camp Bonifas massacre. Instead, the bullet-hell first-person shooter has you crafting guns and other portions of the game’s weaponry, such as upgrades and framework for your mech outfit’s gun mountings. It is a solid idea to the Doom-esque style fast-paced shooter that has you constantly on the go, but something about it just isn’t lighting fires in my underpants. The concept is everything I enjoy; It is fast, loud, fun, and yet, I’m not jumping for joy that I can play it right now.

The second game is something that I am not jumping for joy over either, but I am more entertained that it seems to be targeted squarely at me. I know I am a boring man, the type that is very James May-esque when I am not doing all this endless waffling on about the pontifications of how a game or a TV show is better or worse than others. I know, because while Mothergunship is meant to be pressing on the part of my brain that says Die Hard is one of the best Christmas movies, Train Sim World 2 presses harder on the old man inside me. Ok, that last bit sounded dirty.

As I mentioned last week, I do sometimes sit and watch Jago Hazzard videos because not only is he entertaining in his short little videos on the Tube, they are interesting. The thing is, we assume there is something wrong with someone who likes trains or the history of trains and Tube stations, but trains are awesome. Not in the grand sense of the universe, where there are planets out there that are made of gas. In a smaller sense trains are weird and wonderful, creating ways for us to travel greater distances in short times before cars and plains were a thing. As boring as it might seem in comparison to mech suited gun rack building, I am happy with something as simple as a train sim to play with when I want to.

All this week, you can pick up Train Sim World 2 (though the DLC is expensive!) and Mothergunship for free on the Epic Games Store until the 5th of August. That brings us to next week and what I’ll be bored to death by. A while back Taylor reviewed Asobo Studio’s A Plague Tale: Innocence, a stealth game about trying to go shopping in March of 2020 without dying of a horrible lung disease. Ok, joking aside about the current pandemic, it is a depressing game about depressed people trying to survive a horrible situation, which is why I am not ecstatic for it next week. Nor am I praising the sun for Double Stallion Games’ 2D combat racer, Speed Brawl, either.