We investigate in the immense catalog of the subscription service and streaming game of Sony to recommend some of the best games available.
Sony opted for subscription services with PlayStation Now and although the reception by the community was cold, this and the tremendous competition that Xbox Game Pass implies has made the Japanese company put the machinery of its huge catalog to work . The PS3 and PS4 video games count for hundreds, and such is the amount of titles that form an unattainable list, and which can be available for 9'99 euros per month, 24'99 euros per quarter or 59'99 euros per year , after a recent price drop. Now, PlayStation Now is a more than plausible alternative, but as in all services you have to know how to separate the grain from the straw, and therefore we recommend up to ten essential games among all those present on PlayStation 4.
God of war
God of War: Ascension anticipated a fatigue that never came thanks to a superlative work by Cory Barlog and his Santa Monica team, turning the proposal 180 degrees. Change of perspective, a greater focus on narrative and exploration, a more mature Kratos and even a father in a land that is not his own … The fourth unnumbered installment of the franchise convinced unanimously until he even won the Game of the Year award in the last edition of The Game Awards beating a monster like Red Dead Redemption 2.
Uncharted 4: The outcome of the thief
To talk about Nathan Drake is to talk about ADVENTURE, like that, with capital letters, and to do it in this fourth installment is to make it the most round – although not a few people prefer Uncharted 2: The Kingdom of Thieves. Naughty Dog at his best, applying in the adventures of Drake what he learned in the also magnificent The Last of Us to establish a relationship between our protagonist and his brother Sam that perfectly accompanies a story full of action moments, puzzles, and even scenarios Open and vehicles. If the license continues, something that today is uncertain and rather unlikely, could not have the highest bar.
Person 5
Yes, we know that in a few months Persona 5 Royal arrives and will also do so in Spanish, but nobody should wait so long to play one of the JRPG with more personality in recent years. The formula of Persona is already known to all: student by day, with a lot of activities to do and places to explore, in addition to people to know, through the popular Social Links. Meanwhile, at night, our protagonist, Joker, leads the Phantom Thieves to discover the mysteries of the dungeons with a much improved exploration of previous deliveries. As if that were not enough, its soundtrack is magnificent and even the design of its menus squanders estilazo.
GTA V
What to say, not just one of the most successful video games at all levels, but a little further, one of the entertainment products of greatest impact ever. The story of Michael, Trevor and Franklin is full of “made in Rockstar” moments, that is, very varied at the playable level and completely absurd from the plot point of view, which gets something very complicated in an open-world game and is neither even touch a hypothetical sense of repetitiveness. In addition, this version for PS4 was visually improved and has the ability to play it in the first person, but if more reasons are needed, it has a huge online multiplayer mode that still receives content frequently today.
Bloodborne
Hidetaka Miyazaki – whose trajectory was finally recommended this past Thursday – has already confessed that the favorite video game among all those he has created, which are neither few nor badly, is Bloodborne. There must be a reason. A more gothic atmosphere than the usual dark fantasy of Dark Souls is the first thing that surprised us at the time, but more its combat style, much more offensive, rewarding an aggressive attitude on the part of the player, in addition to the presence of the spectacular parries From Software has perfected to satiety in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. For the rest, Miyazaki and his team in a pure state: maximum demand for the player – although the level declines in some specific bosses – and an absolutely exceptional level design.
Hollow knight
Beyond one of the best indies of recent years -which is-, Hollow Knight is also one of the best metroidvania being a representative so good to be perfectly the first recommended to start in this subgenre of action and platforms. Graphically at a high level, and with an artistic section of great personality, Team Cherry has also achieved a video game with a duration more than considerable considering the magnitude of the project. Of course, we must be aware that we will have to arm ourselves with patience, since moments of loss or confusion without knowing what our next step should be can be common.
inFamous Second Son
After a second notable installment on PlayStation 3, Sucker Punch gave us one of the games that best showed the technical power of PlayStation 4 within a few months of the arrival of the console to the market. For this they knew how to evolve a formula that despite its quality was already somewhat saturated, as is the character with super powers in the open world: the maximum use of them, their variety and a more human history with Delsin Rowe -interpreted by Troy Baker- as protagonist, inFamous: Second Son is the closing -for the moment- of a saga that has put on the map a studio that now wants to surprise us with Ghost of Tsushima. However, we are going to find an open world game of 2014, with all that that entails, and in some moments the duration feels increased based on somewhat unreasonable activities.
Doom
Thanks to Wolfenstein, in charge of Machine Games, and Doom, at the hands of ID Software, Bethesda has shown that there is still room for campaign-focused shooters. It is true that Doom precisely included an online multiplayer, but neither reached the level of the campaign, nor did he need to, why fool us. The individual mode goes to the point, leaving open environments to offer a more linear and direct history but full of action without rest, with a large arsenal available and with the possibility of carrying out visceral executions that far from "casualizing" the game They don't do it but more frantic yet. One of the great first person shooters of this generation, without any doubt.
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
One of the great news of this generation has been the return of the world of The Lord of the Rings to the elite of video games, thanks to the work of Monolith Productions with Shadows of Mordor first and Shadows of War later. The influence of Assassin's Creed is evident in some of its mechanics, although it improves some of these aspects such as the fight, deepening even more in the fantastic Nemesis system that popularized the original delivery, and that turned the most random orc to which we faced a fearsomely powerful enemy hours later, something that despite adding many integers has barely been implemented in similar titles. Better, we should not forget who some of the best ideas are, and this must be noted in the credit of Monolith. Probably your technical section is not the most pointer that we can enjoy at this point, but the fun and varied of its proposal leaves it in a complete background.
XCOM 2
The strategy available to all players, without that going to mean even less that it is an accessible game. Yes it is if we compare it with some of the games for patients of the genre that are on PC, but XCOM 2 is a title with a quantity of content and possibilities that each game can be different. It is a really demanding game, both when taking advantage of the skills of our units and posing the battles and managing them once they are resting, and thus make them progress. XCOM: Enemy Unknown was very good, but the step forward that Firaxis takes with this sequel is noteworthy.
