Playstation Plus
Collection is an ongoing series where I give my first impression of all of the
games that are made available each month through Playstation plus. Typically,
there are around four free games per month, and so one shall be covered each
week. At the end of each month I shall give an overall verdict of the worth of
Playstation plus for that particular month.
This week I
shall be bringing you a double header of Ps Plus Collection to finish the year
off with a bang. Or rather, I could only get into one game of Secret Ponchos
and Injustice is a humongous download size. Therefore I’m bringing you the both
of them in the hope that I have enough content to tell you if these games, that
I’ve barely played, are worth downloading.
Secret
Poncho’s is a top down strictly multiplayer fighting game that comes with all
of the standard multiplayer types that you’ll have come to expect in any online
game – free for all, team deathmatch etc. After waiting for approximately half an hour,
the lobby that requires a total of 8 people finally filled up and I was thrown
into a free-for-all match. Within the multiplayer you have numerous choices for
weaponry, I chose to go with the gunslinger, and I found that my choice was
probably the worst one, as people with whips quote literally whipped my ass.
The game
itself is very stylistic, and for a PSN game i would have the say the graphics
are very impressive. The game play is something that is unique to a console
environment with it being top down and offers something new to the weary PSN
traveller. But, and this is a big but, the game is dead. It is one of this
month’s Playstation plus games which should put it in the spotlight, but alas
it is not populated enough to work as a go to multiplayer. If you’ve got some a
bunch of friends that want to try something different you could make this work,
but otherwise I’d give this one a pass.
Now,
Injustice: Gods Among Us is a DC multiverse orientated story driven fighting
game, much like Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe except this game is a strictly DC
game with a unique story that has even spawned a comic spin off. Although i
have not played this game recently because the download size is far too big for
my internet to deal with, I have played this game in the past and it is a very
good game. The game itself functions around cut senses which push the story
forward while also setting up two characters to fight in the typical
side-to-side style at which point you take over.
The game has
its own general fighting mode as well in case the story is getting in the way
of the fighting for you, or if you just want to fight against a friend. The
fighting system is on par with anything else out there at the moment whether
that is Mortal Kombat or Tekken or whatever. It has all the typical traits of a
fighting game with the added bonus of being DC. So you can naturally be Batman,
Superman, Wonder woman along with all of the other well loved DC
characters...and Aquaman. The story aspect may not be for everyone as it is
based around a fighting game, but if fighting games and comics is what you’re
into, this is a match made in heaven.
Conor M.
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