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Xbox One Free Games With Gold August 2020: Last Day To Get 3 Free Games

Battle colourful robots and blow Mars up in the August 2020 Games With Gold offerings.

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Microsoft keeps a regular rotation of two or three games free constantly for Xbox Live Gold members, so there's always something for them to play. The Games with Gold lineup for August 2020 includes the regular offerings of two Xbox One games and two backward-compatible Xbox 360 games throughout the month. While one of the games is no longer available, the rest will grab the attention of anyone looking to do some mass destruction on the red planet, fight some robots, or lead an uprising.

All through August on Xbox One, you can grab 2016's Portal Knights, a survival action role-playing video game. Earlier this month the motorcross game MX Unleashed was available, but it's been replaced by Red Faction 2 and Override: Mech City Brawl, the latter of which will allow you to smash big colorful robots from the middle of the month and throughout September.

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Now Playing: Free Xbox One And Xbox 360 Games With Gold For August 2020 Revealed

Check out the free Games with Gold for August 2020 below. If you need to renew your membership, you can currently snag three months of Game Pass Ultimate--which includes Xbox Live Gold--for $38 (down from $45).

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Haven´t care for Xbox One games in the program for awhile. Backwards compatible titles is cool, specially since they are yours to keep, and I have a soft spot for old games (classic or not)

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BUTTON ALTERING GRENADE ! ! !

Red Faction 2 was alot of fun..

*I hope this has matchmaing Mutiplayer but i doubt it.

Probably not.. ugh!

~~remstater Jedi Knight Trilogy already.

Disney would neve rallow it since it shows a waaaay better Luke then the garbage Disney sequels showed...

~Jedi Knight2~ Had best STarWars Feels/audio etc

~Jedi Outcast had best story

~Jedi Academy had the best Lightsaber combat/physics to date & more freedom & some RPG

and it was just soo epic... I tried to play it on console and it's almost just as good as PC except the controls are made for M+K..

The multiplay still to this day has 50 or more people playing and that's just 1 MP location.

If they ever remade it with official MP servers then it would be insane..

What the!!! This topic has nothing to do with Jedi Knight..

Sorry everyone. How do you spell "add" ?

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Honestly, it's time MS scraps this program. Haven't remembered any cool games from it for like a year. It's clear Game Pass is where their focus is. If they're not gonna put in effort to put in at least one cool game, don't bother.

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@xenomorphalien: yup.. I sually hope 1 of em has a good month to balance the others.

But ugh..

Call of Duty again on PS+ and these games are total arbage..

PortalKnight!?!?!? are you kidding me..

Red Faction 2 was a blast but it's gonna look like crap for sure.

iirc it was early PS2/OG Xbox game and not a remaster or anything..

*It did have crisp controls and a fun easy to master super jump.

and a grenade that made ur friends controls topsy turby for 2-4 seconds lol

***Yeah i want GMG + PLS+ to just go away.

Stop charging us for MP..

*iMAGINE IF nETFLIX ONLY GAVE US 2-4 MOVIES A MONTH TO ADD TO OUR LIBRARY OF WHAT WE CAN UE?? (Bah,,assBackwards caps lock,,sorry man)

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@sippio: Honestly PS+ has put out some solid offerings lately. I'd take their lineup this month easily over this.

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I'm pretty happy with these myself. I like MX Unleashed and I've kinda always wanted to try Red Faction II and Portal Knights looks like it might be okay.

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@kdr_65: crappycrap month for sure.

But "IF" RedFaction holds up(i doubt it will/does)

the controls we're awesome & the topsyTurby grenades we're a blast.

And i think you could push people off the walkways intot he abyss/death.

That grenade was funny seeing people walk right off the map into fall death lol

*i hope this isn't the original game as it will be hard for sure..

Yeah a lame month..MX unleashed might be the game i played on PS2 that was fun. i forget...

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Who is sitting in a office at MS and choses which GwG games will be chosen?
Wasnt Portal Knights a PS+ game last year?
I remember even PS owners called that specific PS+ month garbage.
Why the hell would you pick exact the same game for a GwG month?

I believe that GwG will be gone at the time of the launch of the Series X

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Microsoft really have been spoiling us these last few months with their Games with Gold selections...

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Red Faction 2 multiplayer rocks. I still play it today. Fast paced, great weapons, and that damn button reversing grenade still gets me every time. I only wish I could play on fully remastered/re-imagined maps. I much prefer the more toned down destruction on the earlier console released titles than the PC versions or later releases. It's also nice to get in some 4 player split screen action.

I always want to multi whenever I hear that speech start up:

The world, has abandoned us. We fight alone against an insidious enemy, an enemy, who would destroy the commonwealth! Who would have our nation, triumphed, from within. But we are strong enough to fight the red faction. We are strong enough, to prevail. You asked for greatness, I have given it. you asked for victory, it is within our grasp. Do not ask me to surrender to our enemies. I will not! Red faction fanatics would enslave our sons, and prostitute, our daughters. I, Sopot, am patriarch of the commonwealth, I dedicate myself, to protecting the lives, of out precious children. Death. Despair. Desolation. Chaos. This is what the red faction would bring the commonwealth and it's citizens. Our soldiers fight, for the glory of the commonwealth. Our workers labour for the glory of the commonwealth. Our children sing! for the glory of the commonwealth... Fight! Fight, I say! Do not tell me that we cannot, we must! we must crush the red faction! We cannot tolerate these traitors in our midst! The lies of traitors weaken our nation! Destroy the traitors! Destroy their lies! Destroy! The red faction!

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You can’t actually terraform Mars with anything in Red Faction 2; it takes place on Earth.

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Lame. Lame. Own it. Own it.
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Another disappointing Gold month.

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Which selection is worse this august, this or PS Plus? I vote for a tie.

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They are free so you can't complaint but they also crap. I'll wait for September

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@doomsdayhell01: You dare call Red Faction 2 crap! How dare you sir Out with you.

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I don’t expect games with gold to provide amazing games with Gamepass taking over. I barely even check GWG now

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Portal Knights = awesome!

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Ehhhh, it's free whatdaya expect. I am OK with it & there is always next month to look forward to. I wish they would give away Star Wars Battlefront 1, as we need more noobs azzes to tear up!

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@just1mohr: Dude,, try Jedi Academy on PC with a controller if u must.

The servers are always going somewhere..

*btw,,They gave us BF1 already.. was about 3 years ago iirc..

1 sure was fun but it's a whole different game without autoAim turned on..

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@sippio: OK, checkin it out.

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I don't think anyone has ever heard of these games.

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@dmblum1799: The only one I haven't heard of is Override: Mech City Brawl. It is the first time I've actually seen portal knights even though I've heard of it a bunch of times.

MX Unleashed is a part of the MX VS ATV series and was pretty popular across PS2/Xbox and PS3/360 in it's days.

As for Red Faction 2, campaign has aged poorly but the multiplayer is still a blast to play. It has a fun weapons sandbox and 4 player split screen multi as well as customizable bots so you can even enjoy it when you have no-one else to play with. Just ignore the graphics ;)

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@wahsobe: you can't ignore graphics on a large TV.

It's 100X's worse then on a smaller 32" monitor..

*Red Faction 2 i think is the RF that had the topsyTurby grenades and MF's would walk off walkways ROTF

*They coulda repolished it atleast...

Can't wait for GMG to go away

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@sippio: True but both MX and RF2 have benefited from the Heutchy Method. It's no miracle solution but it does make a difference. What's interesting with it is there are some things that look infinitely better and other things, not so much.

Ya, those grenades and the slow mo grenades are a pain in the ass but it's all good fun. The rail gun shooting through walls was always a workout to get away from. I was looking forward to an updated title but The new Red Factions multiplayer never captured what I loved about RF2.

RF2 also boasts one of the most full featured multiplayer experiences there ever was.

4 Player split screen

Tonnes of character skins

Large list of varied and unique weapons

Dual wielding

Cool and or funky grenades

Fully customizable weapons priority list that could swap automatically on pickup

Plenty of maps and a fun but modest collection of game types

Fully customizable bots (BOTS!!!! oh how I miss bots)

- And all in 2002. Those really were the days.

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absolutely shocking. honestly microsoft need to just kill off GWG if this is the best they can offer and just put the little money that is going into it each month into game pass since game pass is clearly the one they care about.

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@xnshd: Yeah it is only an matter of time and it may be coming. They merged Gold and Live together so you can enjoy both and I am an member of that. They know Game Pass especially Game Pass Ultimate is popular and people using Live may be diminishing. Even though some of the games are lack luster I am not angry as I now switched over to Game Pass Ultimate which cover both.

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@xnshd: i have a feeling thats what they intend to do. Hopefully that means free multiplayer like pc too.

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