Ascend is what happens when a small team plays Titanfall, likes what they see then decide to go and (try) make something better.

To recap: the best thing about Titanfall was not the mechs. It was the wall-running. So the more games doing that sort of stuff, the better.

Ascend: Hand of Kul is a free-to-play RPG on Xbox 360, and it's surprisingly fun. Sure, you do have to look past all the HEY BUY THIS but it's a decent hack-and-slash where you can peek into other players' worlds and banish some of your enemies for them to deal with. Not a bad gimmick.

You've had two months to look at videos and screenshots and complain about how much of a World of Warcraft clone it is. Now you can try Trion Worlds' Rift for free and potentially score your Rifting friends a virtual puppy in the process.