Also for the month of December Amazon Prime Gaming delights subscribers with a nice choice of free PC games “forever” (meaning you just need to redeem the codes before the offer expires and they remain in your library Steam, GOG, Epic, and so on permanently); the offer is not as sensational as this month’s (there is still a week to take advantage of it, by the way!), but the highlight is very respectable: let’s talk about Remaster of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, released towards the end of 2020 on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the publication of the original title.
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit was developed by Criterion, and perhaps represents the meeting point with another Criterion arcade racing game series that had become super popular at the time, namely Burnout. In fact, the similarities with Burnout Paradise are quite marked, starting with takedown and “turbo boost” mechanics up to the open-world setting; but the map is much larger than in Paradise, the cars are real models licensed by various manufacturers and the driving physics is a little less arcade (even if we are still a long way from a simulator).
Prime Gaming’s offering is complemented by eight other games, including Football Manager 2021, the independent survival management software Frostpunk and the adventure Journey to the Savage Planet. The full list is as follows:
- Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remaster (Criterion arcade racing game).
- Football Manager 2021 (SEGA football management system).
- Frostpunk (11-bit Studio’s city builder survival management software).
- Journey to the Savage Planet (Typhoon Studios first-person adventure)
- Morkredd (physics-based cooperative puzzle game)
- Spellcaster University (management where you have to build your own school of magic)
- Youtubers Life (influencer simulator)
- Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (Aspyr’s zany action-adventure)
- Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack (Graphic Adventure / RPG by Telltale Games)
To redeem all the games, simply go to the Prime Gaming website starting from December 1st and until the end of the month. The service is included with the Amazon Prime subscription. In addition to the free games, as usual, there is plenty of in-game content and offers for very popular titles such as Battlefield 2042, Apex Legends, Fall Guys, and Genshin Impact.
