Crisis? Do you want to try new games without spending a penny? Don't worry, we bring you this first installment of recommendations from free to play games so you can discover the best titles to play without leaving tens of euros to minimally enjoy them.
This business model began to be used in the MMO seeking to attract the attention of casual players, before it was occupied by some other game with greater weight and to avoid piracy. At first, these games were simpler and had fewer requirements, but today there are very elaborate titles that subsist on small micro-transactions and including advertising within the game. To this day, they have already made the leap even to the conservative consoles, so many companies have begun to be interested in this type of free games.
World of Tanks
Developed by a Belarusian company, World of Tanks is a massive multiplayer of a warlike nature, as could easily be guessed from its title, where tanks are the protagonists of the skirmishes in different game modes. We can play in teams of 15 people to capture the flag, the enemy's base or the classic battle mode. Additionally, there is a training mode, tournaments, and even the ability for players to form their own tank divisions and clans.
There are more than 240 real tanks based on models of the extinct -or not- Soviet Union, United Kingdom, USA, Germany, France and China. The game receives quite a few updates on a regular basis including more vehicles and maps. Available in both PC with in a special edition for Xbox 360 -members only Gold-.
Tribes: Ascend
Tribes: Ascend is a free to play action in the first person and cut from science fiction, where we can progress in two ways: either with the sweat of our brow by obtaining experience points earned to advance or improve our equipment -especially weapons- or We can use a credit card to buy with hard cash to access the benefits sooner.
The evolution system also allows you to spend skill points on other characteristics of the character and there are also vehicles to drive and do the kaffir. The classification system may resemble that of Call of Duty, even with a kill cam in the games, and we can obtain different titles and ranks if we meet certain objectives, such as achieving a certain amount of accumulated head shots.
League of Legends
League of Legends, or commonly known as LOL, is one of the most popular and addictive free games in recent years. League of Legends is a game in the wake of Starcraft, where action and certain touches of strategy are combined in a packaging of MMO. The player's objective is to cross the map to destroy the Nexus rival and prevent it from doing the same with yours. It may sound simple, but the implementation is not that simple, thanks to turrets or CPU-controlled enemies that stand up, in addition to human rivals.
Gaining experience by participating in battles is essential to gain experience points and improve the attributes of our character, although as in many games of this cut, we can also buy characters or improvements with real money. League of Legends It is, without a doubt, one of the greatest successes and references of its kind in recent years.
Planetside 2
Planetside 2 can be considered a remake of the first title with better graphics, but above all highlighting the possibility of huge amount of characters that can be playing on the same map simultaneously. It is a first person shooter that exudes action on all four sides and along a huge map which could be considered a continent.
The player assumes the role of one of the members of the three factions that fight for the copper and must fight to reach the enemy bases of the rivals and take them to annex them to the territory controlled by his own faction. There is a good variety of weapons and vehicles, although the action is somewhat frantic - you will die many times in the first few games - but it is quite fun. Available in PC and will reach PlayStation 4.
Team Fortress 2
The mythical Team Fortress 2 is a classic of Valve that everyone, at least, should give it a try and play a game, even if it's out of curiosity. It is a few years old, but it receives regular updates that still keep it up to date and encourage people to keep playing - its fans are inexhaustible. For those who do not know, Team Fortress 2 is a FPS of confrontations to the death on different maps and with very different categories of characters - doctor, sniper, etc-.
Here there is not the minimum plot, it is simply about enjoying pulling the virtual trigger. It has a complex system of improvements and gifts can even be given, although the introduction of micropayments has not sat very well with fans of the game, they are not necessary to be able to sit down and enjoy the beauty of Team Fortress 2.
So far this first installment of recommended free games. Do not have the slightest doubt that we will return with new specials and more games to recommend you and that you can enjoy without having to hurt your economy. See you in Mundi Videogames.