Traversing between areas is nicely handled but becomes a frustrating wait, especially versus open world games where you can roam at will. For example, if you walk in to an apartment, pick up someone's fridge and drop it out of the window, that seems just-fine with everyone.
Prague is rendered well, though most NPCs that populate it are just props with a few random stock-lines.
Side missions feel well designed, relevant and a consistent part of the story, rather than Ubisoft-style random tasks. There's a well fleshed-out word (background TVs, newspapers etc), which bring the story to life. The skills system is excellent, making you choose between fighting and sneaking. Graphics are good, though not amazing (lip-syncing and facial expressions were weak). You take the role of Tom, a security guard working the night shift in an abandoned facility, uncovering its dark past as you explore across multiple playthroughs.Īll games will be available to download until the start of February (usually the first Tuesday of the month), except for Starblood Arena, which you can grab until March 6 2018.While the story isn't quite as deep or intriguing as in previous Deus Ex games, the gameplay is well balanced (albeit with a long and fairly steep learning curve) and the atmosphere is as excellent as you'd expect. A bad slip might leave you with a broken bone that impairs movement or your use of weapons, thus changing how you have to approach certain situations. The last game coming for current systems is Uncanny Valley, a 2D survival horror which tries to make your actions meaningful through its inventive “consequence system”. It’s a really solid experience, and oozes the style that you’d expect from Japanese sci-fi anime.
You play as both Batman and Bruce Wayne in a variety of the comic’s most well-known locations, like the Batcave and Arkham Asylum, facing off against some of his most deadly enemies in a new mystery unrelated to any other Batman canon.īatman: The Enemy Within kicked off season two of the Telltale series in August 2017, but from PlayStation Plus you get all five episodes in the game’s first season.Ī visual novel based on an anime of the same name, Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness is a bit like Minority Report, set in a future where people can be arrested for crimes they’re yet to commit. It’s well worth a look if you missed it the first time around.īatman: The Telltale Series is another good addition to the catalogue, bringing Telltale Games’ tried-and-tested narrative formula to Gotham. Regardless of the behind-the-scenes, Mankind Divided gives you real choice in how you want to tackle missions, expertly blending action and stealth in an interestingly realised dystopian cyberpunk world. However, in November Square Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda stated that it’d only been pushed back in Eidos Montreal’s development calendar while they work on a - potentially more lucrative - Marvel comics licensed game. Despite this though, sales were generally underwhelming, leading the series to be put on hold by publisher Square-Enix. PS Plus subscribers can also add PSVR shooter Starblood Arena to their library from January 2 as well.ĭeus Ex: Mankind Divided reviewed strongly when it came out in the summer of 2016, and we thought it was good too, calling it “a great action-RPG”, and “bloody good stuff” in our review.
There’ll also be a new PS Plus booster pack for Warframe after it’s big Plains of Eidolon update, which includes some in-game currency, a weapon, skin and a mod pack. The lineup this time features Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Telltale Batman for PS4, along with Sacred 3 and The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 for PS3, and Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness and Uncanny Valley for Vita (the latter of which is cross-buy with PS4). The first monthly PlayStation Plus games for 2018 will be available for download today.