Prime Gaming - Prime Day 2024 Offerings

Oh yippee, a third article for Prime Gaming in July. When will this torture ever end? I’m not even going to bother listing off the in-game guff because there isn’t any, and the daily challenges exclusive to Prime never really change all that much. Of course, with two other articles written for the month already, you can check out what is currently available until Prime Day, the 16th, as well as what comes after with the previous update article.

On to the three games available for the 16th-17th, and all three are only available by redeeming them through the Epic Games Store. Don’t worry, if you grumble about Epic’s existence, you probably already own two of them, and the third is something you probably want to skip thanks to executives snorting lots of things. There’s no hiding what it is, it is Rocksteady’s latest attempt to squeeze the juices out of the Arkham corpse, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

About as popular as David Ayer’s attempt to make Jared Leto accepted by the wider public, Kill the Justice League killed projected profit margins for those at Warner-Discovery. It’s one of many failed projections by the publisher, as it forced a studio known for its action-orientated stories to create an open-ended, supervillain-clad Skinner box with all the charm and delight of the Arkham series sandblasted away. Released only 6 months ago, this one is the biggest surprise to hit Prime Gaming, but I guess this is the new form of bargain bin deals.

We’ll progressively get older with titles here, but it doesn’t mean they are less interesting, with the next one being Chivalry 2. Sure, Chivalry 2 was free on Epic back in May to early June, so once again, not very exciting for those who follow the articles I do regularly. The medieval stab ’em up is a whole lot of gory hits followed by swearing at some little bloke in the parapets of a castle you are storming for sniping you with a bow. There isn’t really much to say given the frequency with which Chivalry 2 is available through Epic.

The third and final title is one that I actually don’t hate as much as its earlier example in the reboot series, Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration. The sequel to 2013’s terrible reboot of the Tomb Raider series, this version of Lara is still sucking air like an asthmatic in an attic full of mold, shouting for Jonah, and having a slow, boring moment after killing animals, but nothing for the human life she takes. However, as I noted in the review I wrote about the title a couple of years ago now, it is less about shooting and murdering, and marginally about tombs and raiding.

While I’ve still to really give the third installment my time, this was the better of the Tomb Raider reboots. With the 20 Year Celebration version, it allows you to explore Croft Manor, as if it were an actual Tomb Raider game. No open-ended puzzle aspects to the Manor level, though it does give a solid story and allows you to somewhat explore the home belonging to the daughter of Lady Croft.

Available from Tuesday, the morning of the 16th, to claim for the Epic Games Store, all three titles will only be available to claim for a short time. Those with Prime membership only have 48 hours to claim the titles and then they will disappear until the next offering or they are offered free on the Epic Games Store again. In the case of Suicide Squad, I’d give it maybe 4 months.