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[PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for January] Resident Evil 2, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Hardspace: Shipbreaker and more

Draugoth

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PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium | Game Catalog


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Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands – Next-Level Edition | PS4, PS5


Bullets, magic and broadswords collide across this chaotic fantasy world brought to life by the unpredictable Tiny Tina. Blast baddies with powerful guns and devastating spells in frenetic first-person battles and delve into dangerous dungeons for a shot at epic loot! Create the perfect hero with a multiclass system that lets you mix and match six unique character skill trees, all with their own awesome abilities. Level up, refine your build, expand your arsenal and become the ultimate adventurer. Enjoy the story solo or start a party with up to three friends in seamless online multiplayer or local split-screen. Share the spoils or rush to get the shiniest loot – how you play is up to you.


The PS4 version of Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands will also be available for streaming in participating countries.


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Resident Evil 2 | PS4, PS5


Originally released in 1998, Resident Evil 2, one of the most iconic games of all time, returns completely reimagined for PS4 & PS5.Play individual campaigns for both Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield using an all new 3rd person view as you explore the zombie infested areas of Raccoon City, now stunningly re-built using Capcom’s proprietary RE Engine. New puzzles, storylines and areas mean both new and seasoned fans will find horrifying new surprises await them!


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Hardspace: Shipbreaker | PS5


Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve and slice spaceships in zero-g to recover valuable materials in this sci-fi physics sim, exploring a variety of ship types then upgrade your tools and gear to take on more lucrative contracts in the form of bigger and harder craft. Salvage through a compelling campaign, relax in freeplay, or compete in timed challenges.


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LEGO City Undercover | PS4


In LEGO City Undercover, play as Chase McCain, a police officer who’s been tasked with going undercover to hunt down the notorious – and recently escaped – criminal Rex Fury and putting an end to his city-wide crime wave. With two-player co-op, friends can explore the sprawling open-world metropolis that is LEGO City, with more than 20 unique districts to investigate, car thieves to bust, hilarious movie references to discover, vehicles to drive, and hundreds of collectibles. LEGO City Undercover brings together witty, original storytelling with signature LEGO humor to create a fun-filled experience for players of all ages to enjoy.


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Just Cause 3 | PS4


Rico Rodriguez returns to unleash chaos in the most creative and explosive ways imaginable across a Mediterranean island paradise. Arm yourself with a wide range of explosive weaponry, choose from a huge variety of different vehicles and get adventurous with dozens of challenge missions and collectibles to discover. Use your Grapple and Parachute to scale buildings, hijack vehicles, move quickly or tether objects together for creative new ways to cause Chaos, then glide through the air and swoop across mountains with your Wingsuit giving a new way to rain death from above.


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Session: Skate Sim | PS4, PS5


Express yourself freely and master innovative controls in this realistic skating sim. Made by and for skaters, Session: Skate Sim is an ultra-realistic skateboard game that combines ’90s skate culture aesthetic with modern gameplay.


Dual stick controls emulate the feeling of your feet on a skateboard for total board and skater control. Try out real-life iconic skate spots, customise your skater and equipment with items from top skate brands.


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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun | PS4


Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. Take control of a team of deadly specialists and sneak in the shadows between dozens of enemies. Choose your approach when infiltrating mighty castles, snowy mountain monasteries or hidden forest camps. Set traps, poison your opponents or completely avoid enemy contact. Carefully evaluate your options in order to master the challenging missions: how will the characters behave as a team? Which one is best equipped for each task? How can they best master the given missions? Come up with your own ingenious tactics to vanquish enemies and complete missions.


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Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong | PS4, PS5


In this narrative RPG, play as three vampires, wield their powers wisely and strike the right balance between your human and animal side in a heart-pounding story in which your choices will decide the fate of Boston. Each character has their own vampiric abilities and disciplines that you can upgrade individually to suit your preferred approach. Will you choose intimidation, seduction or stealth? It’s your decision, as long as you can sate your Hunger for blood.


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Surviving the Aftermath | PS4


Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world. Recruit over 80 unique specialists, each with their own skills and motivations, to manage your colony’s resources. Outfit your specialists with gear to defend the colony from attacking bandits and rampaging wildlife, then send them out into a procedurally generated world to gather resources, meet rival colonies, and uncover the world’s secrets.


PlayStation Premium | Classics


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Rally Cross | PS4, PS5


Prove your driving superiority across desert, through the lush hills of Europe, and around gigantic stadiums in Rally Cross, originally released for PS1. Mud throwing, fishtailing, and forcing wrecks are all par for the course, as you do what you have to in the heat of battle. Try out 20 different rally vehicles as you race through a season or compete in a tournament. Beware though: the powerslides, rolling crashes, and head-on collisions might look cool, but they’ll damage your vehicle for good.


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Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace | PS4, PS5


Use the Force – and your wits – to overcome challenges at every turn in this adaptation of the movie, originally released on PS1. In a non-linear storyline that includes key moments from Episode I and additional side-quests, travel to the exotic locales of Episode I, battle hordes of enemies and solve dozens of challenging puzzles.


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Street Fighter: 30th Anniversary Collection | PS4


Celebrate Street Fighter’s historic legacy with the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection. In this massive collection of 12 Street Fighter titles, which encompass the Street Fighter I, Street Fighter II, Street Fighter III and Street Fighter Alpha series, perfect arcade balance makes it to consoles for the first time ever. Hop online and relive the arcade experience through the online Arcade Mode or play with friends in the online lobby within four of the most definitive Street Fighter titles in the collection.


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Legend of Mana | PS4


Meet a colorful cast of characters, square off against fearsome monsters, and explore the vast world of Fa’Diel in this action RPG. Set off on a journey to find the mystical Mana Tree seen in a dream, before discovering… the world map is empty! During your travels, you’ll acquire special artifacts; place these wherever you’d like on the map to bring towns and dungeons to life and advance the story. This PS4 HD Remaster of the PS1 original includes new features, such as the ability to turn off enemy encounters or switch between the original soundtrack or a new rearranged version, and the never-before released mini-game “Ring Ring Land”.


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Secret of Mana | PS4


The adventure of Randi, Primm, and Popoi is reborn in the new Secret of Mana! This PS4 remaster of the classic action RPG sees you battle a perilous empire to reclaim the magical power of Mana and bring the world back to order. This version of the game includes three-player local co-op.




Additionally, we’re pleased to share that select series from Crunchyroll will be available to PlayStation Plus Premium/Deluxe members via Sony Pictures Core in the following additional regions starting on January 15: Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. PlayStation Plus Premium/Deluxe members have access to a curated catalog of 100 movies** to watch on demand from Sony Pictures Core and curated content from Crunchyroll will be included.
 

Nankatsu

Gold Member
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Very mediocre, specially considering that most people probably have already tackled RE2R, thanks to the PS Store promos.
 
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theHFIC

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Hardspace Shipbreaker was one of my favorite PC games in 2022. I first played it at PAX 2020 and was hooked since then. It's a real treat for anyone who enjoys stealing copper from walls and wonders what type of career they could make from it 200 years in the future.
 

STARSBarry

Gold Member
Rofl Hardspace shipbreakers.

A fantastic little gem ruined by literally hiring a woke vampire to head the design, almost instantly the open style story was replaced with some union BS, and as someone who is a member of a Union and understands how they work, some made up fantasy union which is what someone who went through college thinking Communism is the only truth thinks a union is because they have never actually been in one before.

Said woke vampire is semi famous too


Its Jennifer Scheurle the woman who did all the things she constantly ranted men did on the Internet. Once she was hired the game immediately shifted direction to the unfortunate title released today. Before it was a sort of edgey "one wrong move and your dead" hard working mans sort of game. Suddenly its "oh no my student loans, evil captalism has trapped me" game. Sadly she was let go due to the above allegations long after the game had any hope of being salvaged.


To this day people in the forums ask for a storyless mode with progression so they can avoid this, its never getting added, lol.

Edit: I just want to point out the above article was written about the divided community the day after I posted this.


I'm now wondering if the people mentioned in the articles final paragraph are my post, lol.
 
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TVexperto

Member
it's like Sony hired a team of blindfolded monkeys to pick out games from a bargain bin. i am starting to think that the new price increase was just an elaborate scheme to pay for their therapy bills.
 

nial

Gold Member
Yeah, but wouldn't it be awesome if they did a "Resident Evil: PSX Collection" for modern platforms.
Yeah, but it's been clear as heck since 2014 that they're using remakes to replace the original games. That's why RE1 DC on PS4 and PS5 is sub-only.
 
I thought Hardspace would be right up my alley, and I can see how so many people got utterly addicted to it, but it just didn't click for me.

Definitely give it a try if you're even slightly interested, it might be a gem for you.
 

Heisenberg007

Gold Journalism
Excellent overall selection of games this month. Biggest highlights for me:
  • Plague Tale Requiem
  • Evil West
  • Resident Evil 2
  • Nobody Saves the World
  • Hardspace Shipbreaker
  • Tiny Tina
  • Shadow Tactics
  • Street Fighter
 
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foamdino

Member
Yeah pretty good month - enjoying Nobody Saves the World and looking forward to Tiny Tina and Hardspace Shipbreaker.
 

Fbh

Member
Damn, probably the weakest month of Extra since I subscribed.
First time I'm not even remotely interested in any of the games (RE2R Is great but played that years ago).

That said the essential tier this month was one of the best ever, at least for me. So I guess it evens out.
 
Crap month again. I really wish SONY would get some PSVR2 games on the service

They're going to need a large enough back catalog of games before they really start to lean into monthly PSVR2 games. They'll also want to wait for these games to have been on the platform for a requisite amount of time.

My guess is we won't see PSVR2 games on PS+ until PSVR2 drops in price and more people have had an opportunity to buy these games at relatively full price.

People are counting PSVR2 out already, but it hasn't gotten a really needed price cut, and some big name titles like Ace Combat are still yet to come out and that's just a matter of time.

PSVR2 could probably in my mind live off of Ace Combat 8, Gran Turismo 7, and Resident Evil 4. That trio is really proof positive of what PSVR2 can deliver.

I'm sure we'll see some things like a Resistance Trilogy remaster featuring VR Mode. Makes too much sense given the PS5's need for FPS and Insomniac's experience with VR.
 
They're going to need a large enough back catalog of games before they really start to lean into monthly PSVR2 games. They'll also want to wait for these games to have been on the platform for a requisite amount of time.

My guess is we won't see PSVR2 games on PS+ until PSVR2 drops in price and more people have had an opportunity to buy these games at relatively full price.

People are counting PSVR2 out already, but it hasn't gotten a really needed price cut, and some big name titles like Ace Combat are still yet to come out and that's just a matter of time.

PSVR2 could probably in my mind live off of Ace Combat 8, Gran Turismo 7, and Resident Evil 4. That trio is really proof positive of what PSVR2 can deliver.

I'm sure we'll see some things like a Resistance Trilogy remaster featuring VR Mode. Makes too much sense given the PS5's need for FPS and Insomniac's experience with VR.
It is time t to add some games IMO and I don't get why SONY isn't looking to get the likes of Rush Of Blood and Astrobot on PS5VR.
 

Bartski

Gold Member
Shadow Tactics is cool. Didn't beat it but a good Commandos clone for sure if you like this kind of stuff
 

engstra

Member
Not a great month for me. I'm a little confused about the classics lineup. The video mentioned Alone in the Dark: New Nightmare (PS1) but not seeing it on the blog post?
 
Anyone that thinks they like stealth games, from Metal Gear to Splinter Cell owes it to themselves to give this a real shot. It will feel like something new, but it's basically the best stealth out there.
I love how you'll encounter a level at first and think wow, that's fucking impossible. Then you kind of take it apart one small encounter at a time and by the end you're setting up elaborate ambushes and all. It's so fucking cool and the game constantly pushes your limits with encounter design. I beat it on Hard several times and some of the scenarios legit feel impossible at first.
 

Nydius

Member
I hear Tiny Tina is enjoyable.

It's okay for a single playthrough if you like the Borderlands 3 gunplay, but that's about it. Loot isn't as deep or interesting, "end game" is complete trash that you'll get tired of after five minutes, and the humor of it was completely neutered in service of getting the teen rating and to not offend the "I support current thing" folks. For example, Torgue is a shell of himself when he could have been one of the funniest characters in the game. It also commits the cardinal sin of: Oh you want to power through the main missions? Too bad, you're too underleveled unless you go do all this side quest busywork!

In many ways, Wonderlands is the kind of game Borderlands 1 and 2 would have lampooned.

Edit: If anyone wants the Blightcaller class, just buy that single DLC by itself for $5. The rest of the DLCs aren't worth your time or money.
 
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RE2 came out 5 years ago so if you had any interest at all you already own it.

Only thing I remember about Tiny Tina is she was one of the most annoying characters I've ever come across so no way in hell I'm playing a game dedicated to her lmao.

Not seeing much of a reason to renew when my sub expires in a few months.
 

cash_longfellow

Gold Member
Putting remasters behind the premium paywall is bullshit. I’m about to let my sub run out. With the price increase, decrease in quality, and lack of playing much multiplayer at all these days, I might even let essential run out too.
 

sachos

Member
Classics line up plus RE2, is pretty good for me. Already played it though. Maybe i'll try Wonderland. Curious about Session too but i know it is not as arcade as THPS.
 
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