PlayStation Plus Extra game news: 5 games to review the basics at the end of the year
Published on 06/12/2022 at 18:45
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To approach this period well, there is nothing like taking advantage of the PlayStation Plus Extra or Premium subscription by going through the “essential” box. Here are 5 basic titles, included in the Extra catalog, not to be missed or to revisit with pleasure.
Control Ultimate Edition | PS4, PS5
The strange adventure of Jesse Faden, stricken with supernatural powers – flight, telekinesis – as she searches for her missing brother in the premises of the fictional and mysterious “Federal Bureau of Control”, of which she also – and suddenly – becomes the Chief Executive Officer. The Remedy game takes you to a huge set of buildings with an incredible atmosphere and brutalist architecture. An ode to “new weird” literature and above all to the purest science fiction, attests to its futuristic soundtrack which even allows itself a few Finnish and/or metal accents. A “closed” open world and paradoxically rich in escape, in third-person physical stress relief mode, where sections of gray concrete wall and reams of A4 paper fly faster than possessed enemies in safety suits. If you don’t understand the story, you will literally love “controlling” Jess’ powers and “service weapon”.
Marvel’s Spider-Man : Édition Game of the Year | PS4, PS5
Another monument of the video game of recent years, signed Insomniac, and another video “toy” in the third person, Marvel’s Spider-Man, as its name suggests, fulfills its initial proposal, simple but ambitious. : let you act as you please in the streets of Manhattan, and in one of the – many – costumes of the Spinner, embodied by a Peter Parker a lot more mature than usual. But not too much anyway. A title also optimized for the PlayStation 5, whose Game of the Year edition comes with all the additional downloadable content included in the pack “The City that never sleeps”, with new stories, new missions, new challenges , new enemy factions and even more outfits to unlock. To your webs.
We no longer present the title of Bethesda, whose very first version, released in 2011, already seems so far away, if only at the technical level. Indeed, a lot of ground has been covered since then, with a model of the first or third person RPG which owes its longevity to its unprecedented success in the Elder Scrolls saga, from which it takes up and improves the best, initiated in the episodes previous Morrowind and Oblivion. The reason for this legendary game status? Perhaps the good part left to the dragons, omnipresent in the game, from which our character inherits the magic cry and which we can face in epic battles? Or perhaps the region of Skyrim, land of northern ice and home to Norse humans and the Falmer, the snow elves. The Special Edition, with the latest generation graphics, of course includes additional content and above all the use of the many mods that have also built Skyrim’s particularity over time.
Horizon Zero Dawn – Complete Edition | PS4, PS5
Live or relive the story of the origins of Aloy, the heroine Nora, in a world where it is no longer quite clear whether it is nature or whether it is machines that have taken over their rights, in forms autonomous robotic animals. Indeed, the pariah hunter, banished by her family, evolves in settings with very varied geography and climate, where she will have to face the rather unusual fauna which in turn takes on the opposite roles of game and predator. . In parallel with this activity, Aloy is looking for answers about her past, and will incidentally have to save the future of her planet, always in third person view. The Complete Edition includes “The Frozen Wilds” expansion, with new territories, skills, weapons and machines.
Batman: Arkham Knight
Since its release in 2015, Rocksteady’s latest Arkham has further perfected the already exceptional homage to the Masked Vigilante in the studio’s two previous installments, Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. A title that begins the day before Halloween and goes back to basics by taking place in Gotham City, even introducing a Batmobile that is as memorable for some players as it is sometimes annoying for others. Whether you love or hate his transformation into a “tank” at will – and on the fly, the textures of the characters, their style, the degree of combat action, movement and special abilities of the Dark Knight and other characters playable make “everyone” agree. It is not for nothing that the franchise has served as a basis for other developers present in this selection for their own tribute game. To this day, Arkham Knight remains the chapter – and the Batman game? – the most technically successful, even without any optimization.
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