LAST MONTH ON PS PLUS

Last month really knocked it out of the park – literally. Amid all the whispers about one of gaming’s most hotly anticipated follow ups, there was also news about a little game called The Last Of Us Part II. Ah, we’re kidding, (and you absolutely shouldn’t skip our in-depth feature, beginning on p50), but let’s save the best until last. PS Plus tried to get away with offering another yearly instalment of a sports franchise. The cheek! At the time of writing, Sony hadn’t done a switcheroo with MLB The Show 19 like it did with PES 2019 a few months ago – though developer SIE San Diego Studio being tight-lipped about the inevitable 2020 followup makes it less egregious.

Baseball fans didn’t just enjoy Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Bryce Harper gazing at them from their game library, they also got the dulcet commentary of Dan Plesac, Matt Vasgersian, and Mark DeRosa. The new Moments feature even allowed you to recreate famous plays from MLB history – though that’s a bit ‘insider baseball’ for us (yes, we can do this all day). The main event, of course, was

the Last of Us Remastered.

Surprisingly, baseball featured in this post-apocalyptic survival tale too; wrap some barbed wire around a bat and you had a fine weapon to use against your fellow survivors… though we couldn’t get such favourable results against the horrifying Clickers.

Joking aside, if you’d not experienced Naughty Dog’s tale of survival and redemption, you had no excuse to not jump in last month. Its inclusion in the PS Plus lineup presented the perfect opportunity to play it in time to board the hype train all the way to February next year when Ellie’s tale of revenge releases. We don’t doubt we’ll be seeing an influx of fern tattoos in 2020.