With the EA Play library included with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, more and more people are revisiting old favourites or discovering a bunch of new games they might not have necessarily played before. If you’re new to the service, then you might be wondering where to start with so many great games on offer. Here are some of the best games currently available with EA Play.Mass Effect Legendary Edition Mass Effect Legendary Edition is the highest-rated game in EA Play according to our community ratings, and deservedly so. The Legendary Edition includes excellent remasters of Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3 as well as over 40 DLC packs from across the trilogy. Visually, BioWare has gone through all three games and updated all the textures, improved the various environments, enhanced character models, and improved the lighting in both gameplay and cutscenes, breathing new life into the ageing space opera series. You play as Commander Shepherd, who sets out on a space-hopping journey to bring an end to the Reapers —a race of highly-advanced synthetic/organic spaceships who are intent on wiping out the entire galaxy. If you haven’t checked out the Mass Effect series, this Legendary Edition is the definitive way to play the game, and if you already have and your due a revisit, the Mass Effect Legendary Edition achievements, with a combined total of 2,915G, should be enough to tempt you back into the fray. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen OrderThe latest addition to EA Play is the superb Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and it’s one that everyone with either an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or EA Play subscription should at least check out. The action-adventure game that leans heavily into the Metroidvania sub-genre has been received well by the TA community (currently sitting with a 4.40 rating) and critics alike. You play as Cal Kestis, a Jedi Padawan that manages to survive Order 66 and sets out on a journey to rebuild the Jedi Order. Aside from the fluid lightsaber combat that only gets better over time with the more abilities unlocked, the story, which feels like a true Star Wars story, will also have you gripped to the very end. Plus, it’s a pretty straightforward completion as far as the achievement list is concerned. Dragon Age seriesWith your EA Play or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, you get access to BioWare’s stellar trio of fantasy RPGs: Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, and Dragon Age: Inquisition. Set on the continent of Thedas, the Dragon Age series revolves around stories born out of an event known as a Blight, where hundreds of Darkspawn spring up from underground and invade the surface world. In Origins, you are tasked with defeating the Archdemon and stopping the Blight, while in Dragon Age 2, the story focuses on Hawke, a refugee who flees the Blight seen in the first game. The third game, Dragon Age: Inquisition, builds on the events from these two games. If you’re looking for a series of games to get stuck into that’s lore-heavy, has some superbly written characters that you’ll need to recruit, and has excellent gameplay, then Dragon Age has got you covered. Skate 3We’ve recently seen a resurgence of skateboarding games with the likes of the superb Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1+2 Remastered, Session, and Skater XL. Although each one of these games is great, fans have been begging EA for a new entry into the Skate franchise for years now. Instead, they’ve had to make do with Skate 3 — an Xbox 360 title released back in 2010 that still holds up remarkably well today. In fact, since Skate 3 came to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate via EA Play, we’ve seen the game feature numerous times in our weekly Xbox Gameplay Chart. Skate 3 is a bit of a slow burn, to begin with, but it still holds up today and offers some engaging gameplay (once you’ve got to grips with controls), and is great either solo or with some pals online. Battlefield: Bad Company 2Do you want to know a little secret? Sh. You can’t tell anyone. Ignore the bomb blast outside and the fact we are chatting beneath the bow of an enemy tank and just focus on my lips when I say this: “It never got better than Battlefield: Bad Company 2.” Now the tank is reversing back out of your crumbling messy spawn point, we can hear the jeers of: “It was Battlefield 1 that was best, actually.” Another call: “Nay! ‘Twas Battlefield 4 and leveloution, good sir.” Staff writer Tom, you can actually see his bearded figure across this desolate ruin of a village, is shouting something to the tune of “Battlefield Hardline was the best!” No, you and I, we tread backwards. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 brings the vehicle combat, the large maps, and the class system we love elsewhere but does one thing to make it all work perfectly — useful, precision destruction. Look around us. We have seen planes ducking and diving through the air, only to shoot the pilot out from a tiny hole in the wall. We have fought from the first floor to the second floor across two houses with the enemy; only to C4 a rover, drive it over a hill and onto the roof of their building, detonate the car, and take the entire house and the enemies. Rush is so intense here in Bad Company. The guns feel so crisp, and the atmosphere is thriving at every turn. It doesn’t get better than this.It Takes TwoFor the co-op lovers out there, nothing comes close to It Takes Two, and luckily for you, it’s included with EA Play! Hooray! It Takes Two takes you and a pal on a “genre-bending platform adventure” where you’ll need to work with your co-op buddy to solve puzzles and help the game’s two protagonists, Cody and May, who have also been turned into dolls by a magic spell, escape the chaotic and fantastical world where they’re trapped. The game is inventive and has a wonderful, heartwarming, and funny story that you won’t be able to stop playing. Burnout Paradise RemasteredAs far as arcade racers go, Burnout Paradise Remastered is one of the best and most exhilarating. The remaster brings the Xbox 360 classic into the modern age with support for 4K resolution and 60fps. Set in an open world that’s filled with chaos, you’ll be racing through narrow city streets at extremely high speeds while trying to dodge oncoming traffic, taking out other racers, and performing death-defying stunts. The takedowns and the crashes in the racer are so beautifully brutal that they never get old — you’ll be hard-pressed to find crashes and takedowns that are satisfying as the ones in Burnout Paradise Remastered. Plus, that soundtrack? Sublime.Dead Space seriesIf you’re in the mood for something truly terrifying, Dead Space has got you covered. The third-person action horror sees engineer Isaac Clarke sent to repair a communications array on the vast mining ship, the USG Ishimura. Once aboard, Clarke finds crewmembers mutilated and infected by an alien plague and has to fight his way through the nightmare ship. Dead Space has a TA community rating of 4.44 and is widely regarded as one of the best horror games of the 360 era. Dead Space 2 and Dead Space 3 are also included in EA Play, and they’re also pretty damn good, so if you fancy playing through the entire trilogy, you can! Just don’t blame us when you can’t sleep at night. Titanfall 2Titanfall 2 is a first-person shooter where players pilot ten-metre tall mechs. When it launched back in 2016, the game saw largely favourable reviews, and that’s reflected in the TA community’s rating, who have given Respawn’s action-packed FPS a 4.34/5 rating. Although the campaign is excellent, it’s a little short for some gamer’s tastes. However, the multiplayer is where Titanfall 2 really shines. Multiplayer matches are often tense, close affairs, filled with various wall-running/parkour opportunities to snag kills thanks to some super map design. What are your favourite games from the EA Play library? Let us know your top picks in the comments below!
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