The Falcon and the Winter Soldierpremiered yesterday, and much like Disney+ predecessorWandaVision, everyone seems to be talking about it. The show follows Falcon (Anthony Mackie), who has taken up the mantle of Captain America and must team up with Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) to embark on a worldwide adventure. Mackie has played Falcon in several movies for theMarvel Cinematic Universe, and he also starred in the second season of Netflix showAltered Carbon. However, when Mackie isn’t busy with film and TV work, he also apparently likes to play video games.
Mackie recently sat down with Xbox to talk about video games and playXbox Game Passfor the first time.Xbox Game Pass has done crossover ads withThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier, showing Falcon playing video games after he was blipped away for five years, and now Mackie gets to play video games as himself. In the Xbox Sessions video, Mackie plays on the Xbox Series X and discusses his history with gaming.
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As Mackie boots upForza Horizon 4, he classifies himself as an “old-school” gamer who remembers getting excited about the graphics of the arcadeDonkey Konggames. He also gives himself a four-out-of-10 for his gaming skills, which might be accurate considering he earns last place in hisForzarace. Mackie saysXbox Game Passis “actually great” and talks about the sheer number of games available with the subscription service.
He also takes some time to promoteThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier. AfterWandaVisionhooked even non-MCU fansto become a big success, one might think Mackie would be nervous to follow up. Mackie does say he was initially worried that Marvel wouldn’t able to capture the “scope and magnitude” of MCU movies on TV, but he is confident thatThe Falcon and the Winter Soldierwill have that same grandiose atmosphere for fans. He also stresses that the TV show format means fans will get more of Falcon’s backstory.
Though Mackie probably didn’t get too much time to play it, he seemed to enjoyOri and the Will of the Wisps. The game was released in March 2020, several months before the year-end game awards shows, but it still managed to pick up Xbox Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards.Ori and the Will of the Wispsdeveloper Moon Studios have discussed the benefits of the game’s day one release onXbox Game Pass, and more developers seem to be experimenting with that option. The looter-shooterOutriderswill release day one on Xbox Game Passas well, and it seems poised to have a great run on the service.
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