Why We're Excited For 'Ghostwire: Tokyo' To Hit Xbox Game Pass This Week

I'm really looking forward to playing this game. Gonna skip all the busywork and just focus on the main story. Can't wait!

I skipped this on PS5 as was not 100% sure on it. Thanks to my Game Pass Subscription, I will give this a try and see how it goes.

Games nothing special tho, I found it quite average and the story is forgettable.
pushsquare reviews this at 6/10.

I think this game and Deathloop are much more significant than some people realize. With the talk of Sony also trying to get starfield as a (timed) exclusive, I think this is the point where MS thought enough is enough.

Not having the market share to get exclusivity deals unless they were willing to spend exorbitant amounts of money MS just decided that they might as well just buy the studio/publisher.

We may look back in years to come and see this as the point where Sony went to far and paid the price.

7/10 Enjoyed it and did every side quest

All I recall hearing about this game were folks complaining about timed exclusivity. Arguing whether it's good or bad depending on their console of choice at the time.

I don't recall very much talk about the actual gameplay, story or it's mechanics. That's not usually a good sign on past experience regardless of how respected the Dev team are.

Still I will give it a good go and see for myself one way or the other I guess.

@NostromoXP i suspect the same. also i wish the japanese would make an origins of the ninja game series.

Doesn't this version also come with the new DLC too? I'm sure I heard that from somewhere.

It was a decent game, probably in the 7/10 range. I found it much better than Deathloop, which I thought was just awful. GT is also better than HiFi so it’s worth a shot.

The vibe and game style feel right up my street so really looking forward to playing this one!

I didn't like this game at all. I thought it started out great, looked amazing. And then, just fell short after that. Reminds me of Atomic Heart. Great intentions but that's about it.

The thing to keep in mind before jumping in is that first and foremost, Ghostwire is a walking sim above everything else. Think Everybody's Gone to the Rapture with some very basic FPS combat. I was totally fine with that as I'm a fan of the genre but if you aren't then it may well disappoint.

You'll spend roughly 10 or so hours in campaign and side missions and if you intend on getting the full GS you'll spend a further 40 hours finding collectibles.

I've been looking forward to this one. Was going to wait until may to fire it up in case it was part of the game club on the site, but ill be deep within redfall and totk at that point, so it's now or never( or years down the road lol).

When's the review dropping for the site anyway?

@Shigurui Exactly this. A lot of people treated it like some far cry in Tokyo and that isn't what the game is about. In what it tries to do it's awesome, it's just not for everyone

This game used the ps5 controller to the max, its on plus. I dont see how they will emulate all the effects controller wise like they did with ps5.

@Lavalera Yeah, Far Cry it ain't! As I mentioned, I really enjoy walking sims so I had a great time with it for the story and side missions and just wandering around in the superb atmosphere of abandoned Shibuya, the overly excessive collectible hunt, not so much.

It's not a walking Sim you dunce.

Anyone reading the comments between these two "users", just assume they are 15 year Olds that don't know what makes a game good.

@StrawberryWave lol thanks, I didn't even realise it was. Will check it out then tonight 👍🏻

@SyCoREAPER It's absolutely a walking sim. I'll just assume you're a 15 year who's yet to grasp the basics of what a walking sim is.

@Shigurui

Whatever you say kid. I'm not engaging or wasting my time on the likes of you, so if you respond I wont read it. I said what I needed to. I'm out.

@SyCoREAPER Kid? I've got jeans older than you sweetheart. You post direct insults at me then run away. Quite obvious who the child is here. See ya champ.

I have not played the game, but I would not consider any game with any amount of combat content to be a walking simulator.

@NostromoXP People realize it, though most just try to sweep it under the rug or slip one by goalie (in a counterargument to the ABK deal). Others will actually argue the same point as to why it is wrong for MS to acquire Bethesda and make their games exclusive. Just baffling.

@Snake_V5 Yes, Free DLC that is also launching everywhere else on the same day.

Played it upon release on the PS5, and I have to say I was really impressed with the haptics and general feel on that controller. So other than that, it’s good it’s getting seen by a wider audience now.

I agree with the post above, it took me back at the time as it was much more of a walking sim feel than I expected, I guess the marketing gave me a different impression somehow at the time.

Either way, quite a fun few hours! Though best if you love the haptic side of things and have a PS5 to experience it there, if you don’t, then of course you can’t miss what you don’t have and it’ll still be awesome in its own right.

I enjoyed it, so I’m looking forward to giving it another play through on Xbox.

@NostromoXP Yeah damn right as only MS should be allowed timed exclusives because being a trillion doller company with unlimited funds they're massive underdogs.

If this merger has proved anything its how hypocritical Xbox owners are. Sony getting Deadloop and Ghostwire as timed releases is bad but MS getting Stalker and Arc 2 isn't? By your logic Sony should buy the devs behinds those games to stop this from happening again.

@WallyWest

I've decided to take my own advice and grow up, therefore I have deleted my original response to your reply.

I will say that as predominantly a PC gamer I have the privilege of being able to play games from both sides of the camp (eventually) and I have enjoyed them equally.

My original comment (above) was not advocating the current stance that MS has decided on, I was pointing out that when you poke a sleeping bear you might get swatted when it finally wakes up.

@NostromoXP Sony are doing what MS have been doing since the 360 era. MS have gone hard on timed releases for well over a decade yet its bad when Sony do it? If anything MS provoked Sony into it what with their aggressive uprise in timed games and acquisitions these past few years.

Honestly i'm sick of this hypocrisy with timed releases from Xbox fans. Its clearly a case of it being completely fine when MS do it but anti-consumer when Sony do it. Finally i doubt Deathloop and Ghostwire are what caused MS to buy Bethesda as MS were most likely eying them up long before the timed stuff began.

It’s unplayable on my series X - hopefully they fix it before I forget it exists.

@Hexamex-Tex - I was wondering if it was just me. What a mess, performance mode dropping frames all over the place on Series X. The other modes seem to be no better.

How can this be the state of the game a year after it was released on PS5? Did no one test it?!…