It was a year ago when Sony announced that PlayStation Plus would have something called the Instant Game Collection. That service would see a monthly rotation of PlayStation 3 games (later expanded to include PlayStation Vita games too) and – in addition – a trio of games that would remain the same throughout the year.
For the last twelve months, in among all the monthly titles that came and went (and there has been some real crackers), Sony offered European PlayStation Plus subscribers the brilliant LittleBigPlanet 2, the expansive inFamous 2 and near-future racer MotorStorm Apocalypse. Soon, those titles will be replaced with another set of games that’ll stay for a year.
So, what are we getting in their place? Well, how about the rather splendid Nathan Drake in Uncharted 3 (well, the single player at least)? And how about some LittlebigPlanet Karting, from the guys that made ModNation Racers featuring everyone’s favourite burlap mascot. And finally, you’ll be able to grab XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a neat third party offering.
Remember to grab LBP2, inFamous 2 and MotorStorm before the 12th of June, as that’s when the games will swap over.
cc_star
Yep.
I wish they’d have worked on a MNR2, MNR was good apart from awful load times, which bordered on unplayable – Would have liked to have seen that perfected rather than thrown out the window in favour of a LBPK – which is poor in comparison… Not a patch on Sonic Transformed too
cc_star
Meant to be a reply to R1MJAW
R1MJAW
The load times didn’t really bother me too much, but yeah, I’d have much rather they did a proper sequel as opposed to trying to merge MNR and LBP.
Spence1115
Once again I have all of these, though XCom is on PC because of Bioshock Infinite preorder, but good choice of games. If my copy of Karting wasn’t digital I could trade that in as a result. Oh well.
matthangzhou
Good games. Have the two I’m interested in.
Jim Hargreaves
Have Uncharted, of course, but will be nice to bag XCOM and LBPK :)
DraconZeal
Darn great on two of them but just bought UC3 to play MP again, at least its the GOTY version I guess, so saves on DLC.
Drac.
Kennykazey
Damn! I’ve already got UC3 (I think it’s wrong to offer it before UC1 and 2, but that’s marketing for you) and XCOM. And I’ve lost all interest in LBP Karting ages ago.
Fartinabag
Uncharted 3. The game that any real gamer must play. It’s truly the pinnacle of gaming brilliance.
matthangzhou
Surprised there are aren’t more complaints about a stripped version of uncharted being offered. All games before on plus have been the complete version. To leave out the multiplayer seems a bit bizarre. Or is uncharted 3 multiplayer free to plAy these days?
On an unrelated note, just got my 3000th trophy. Which was smelt 10,000 ores on Terraria.
Ro6afc11
Ha what’s the chances of that. I received XCOM from Lovefilm just today. I think I’ll send it straight back and wait a little longer to play the PS+ version.
rht992
Thats awesome! Still to play Uncharted and Xcom. Its going to be a good month. The instant game collection has been such a great service.