Sony has revealed the first PlayStation Plus games that you’ll be able to download in 2016, mixing it up with the old and the new. The most well known game of the lot is Grim Fandango Remastered for PS4, though Sony is yet to clarify whether cross buy will be included for this so you can Double Fine’s title on Vita. The other PS4 game will be Hardware Rivals, an online multiplayer car combat game. There was a beta for Hardware Rivals a little while ago, and it was quite entertaining from what I played of it.
PS3 owners can download Dragon Age: Origins and Medal Of Honor: Warfighter, while those who game on the Vita will have the chance to grab Nihilumbra and Legends Of War: Patton.
- Hardware: Rivals (PS4)
- Grim Fandango Remastered (PS4)
- Dragon Age: Origins (PS3)
- Medal of Honor: Warfighter (PS3)
- Nihilumbra (PS Vita)
- Legends of War: Patton (PS Vita)
Leaving Plus in January are Gauntlet: Slayed Edition (PS4), King’s Quest – Chapter : A Knight to Remember (PS4), Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (PS3), SSX (PS3), Freeedom Wars (PS Vita), & Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken (PS Vita).
Source: PS Blog
cam_manutd
An improvement of sorts. Grim fandango is great. Played it years ago and some of the remaster. Hardware looks good and medal.of honor warfighter is standard fps fare albeit with a few bugs and some interesting multiplayer ideas. Dragon age origins is a good game but a terrible port on the ps3. No idea about the other one.
JR.
Finally a good month (I think). Really enjoyed Dragon Age Inquisition. How does Origins compare?
Avenger
Origins itself is fantastic. I have 135 hours clocked in on the PC version (with the expansion Awakening) across 4 playthroughs, it’s that good imo. However the PS3 version is terrible. Horrible framerate, no isometric view, and only a handful of accessible abilities as opposed to the thirty abilities I could map out on PC. Graphics are a bit muddy too. Inquisition, in comparison, is much more optimised for the consoles.
JR.
Thanks. That’s a shame. Inquisition was my first DA game and it turned me into a hermit for about two weeks. I’ll check this out but if it’s as bad as you say on the PS3 I probably won’t stick with it.
matthangzhou
In my opinion it is the best of the 3 in terms of story. (2 was pretty dire) I enjoyed getting the platinum for it. Whilst I’m sure the PC comments are fair it’s not that bad, however, it probably hasn’t aged well graphically as it was no looked to begin with!
Avenger
It’s a bit of an exaggeration where I’ve said it’s terrible. It’s definitely playable and enjoyable, but the PC version has some more niceties which have probably spoilt my view of the PS3 version.
sirmlivesey
First month back on plus and this lands. I’ll call that a win.
Grim Fandango is probably the best game I’ve ever played. Look forward to playing it again for the upmteenth time. Hardware: Rivals looks your fun, kind of hangs on how the multiplayer is.
Warfighter is good game. Shows what the Battlefield single player campaign could’ve been if EA didn’t kill off Danger Close. Along with the 2010 reboot, the thing that made the games were the characters. It had an okay story but believable characters.
MrYd
Disappointing month.
Grim Fandango at least has skellingtons though ;)
Hardware: Rivals is just the same as the old PS2 game but with cartoony graphics. It was lots of fun back then, but nothing new now.
A couple of the others look at least entertaining, but we’ve also got what appears to be a PSP game again, as well as Dragonage Origins. Which they’ve cheekily got on sale for £3.99 for the next week. And which surely everyone interested in it has played by now.
MrYd
On the other hand, some stuff for christmas and I finally got around to putting a 2TB drive in the PS4. So I don’t really need anything else for January.
Avenger
Will probably try out MoH: Warfighter. An obligatory renewal is due next week so I can access some of the games in my backlog, but that’ll be the only reason for investing in the service anymore, especially with the prices for the three month membership having gone up.
Andrewww
Quite happy I get Dragon age: Origins, as I was tempted to get this for ages. Will try some of the others that get such high praise here.
Dan Jones
Rocket League, Outlast, Towerfall and The Swapper are the only games I’ve played from Plus since I’ve had the PS4 (not including First Light and Ground Zeroes which I already had).
Disappointing line up every single month in my opinion, this month the same. Wouldn’t have resubscribed if it wasn’t for online multiplayer.
Dan Jones
Only talking about eh PlayStation 4 aspect. Offerings on the PS3 and Vita are still just as good as they were before.
JR.
Yeah I agree the offerings on PS4 are very poor. The only games I enjoyed playing (and would have paid for) are:
Contrast
Resogun
Outlast
Apotheon
Never Alone
Race the Sun
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
Grow Home
Everything else I either had already or wasn’t the least bit interested in. 8 games out out 66 is pretty lacking. I know you can’t please everyone all the time but the last few months have been really bad. Some of the games aren’t even worth the download.
Grim Fandango will be the first PS4 plus game that I’ve downloaded since Grow Home which was part of the September lineup.
TSBonyman
I’ll check out Grim Fandango but otherwise it’s a disappointing month for me.