LAST MONTH ON PS PLUS

The sound of Spandau Ballet and A-Ha wafting through OPM Towers last month meant only one thing. No, Milf wasn’t put in charge of the Spotify playlist, instead Metal Gear Solid V built up a Mother Base in the Instant Game Collection and that gave us the perfect reason to return to this masterpiece.

Yep, in a mighty coup for PS Plus in October, MGS V: THE

PHANTOM PAIN was helicoptered in and gave us all an excuse to head back to Afghanistan and Angola– Zaire. Say what you want about the story, you can’t deny that the complex stealth isn’t ludicrous fun. Whether it was breaking into a barracks to steal a cassette tape or hiding in a toilet and scaring patrolling guards away by playing the sounds of a man with bowel problems, it was as quintessentially mad as anything else Kojima has done. Shame it was to be his last Metal Gear. When the freedom of attaching balloons to everything we saw started to wane, we turned to AMNESIA: COLLECTION and boy, did our sleep pattern suffer for it. One of the scariest games (along with its sequels) on PlayStation meant we found ourselves fighting for our Sanity, quite literally. The Dark Descent’s inspired system forced us to try to avoid staring at enemies or cowering in the dark. We braved it anyway, because what’s a week of insomnia? Vita got the colour-swapping puzzler

HUE, which was a decent test for our brain cells, while our thumbs got a much sterner test in the shape of the bright shoot-’em-up of SKY FORCE

ANNIVERSARY. Even better was the fact both were cross-play with PS4.

Finally PS3 owners got the chance to relive their teenage pub experiences with pool sim HUSTLE KINGS, and to live out their dreams of driving garishly decorated trucks with MONSTER JAM: BATTLEGROUNDS.