
As we look forward to the New Year, we’re excited to share our January 2016 PlayStation Plus lineup with everyone. This month our PS4 games pay homage to a couple classic, fan-favorite titles, while updating the gameplay and graphics to PS4!
Hardware: Rivals makes its exclusive debut on PlayStation Plus. Get behind the wheel of a powerful tank or mobile attack jeep in this arcade-style, vehicle combat game. Inspired by the PS2 classic Hardware: Online Arena, Hardware: Rivals lets you challenge your friends or enter the online multiplayer arena on your own and experience epic vehicular mayhem with multiple maps, game modes, and special events.
If you need a breather from all the vehicle-on-vehicle combat, you can always turn to the twisted Mexican folklore of Grim Fandango Remastered. As Manny Calavera, travel agent for the Department of Death, you’ll guide poor souls to their eternal rest. Crime. Skeletons. Romance. You’ll experience it all in this update to the beloved adventure game.
These PS4 games are free for PlayStation Plus members starting on the first Tuesday of January, and you can find the full list of PlayStation Plus games below.
Full Lineup:
- Dragon Age: Origins, PS3
- Grim Fandango Remastered, PS4, PS Vita
- Hardware: Rivals, PS4
- Legends of War Patton, PS Vita
- Medal of Honor Warfighter, PS3
- Nihilumbra, PS Vita
Before you go, we want your feedback! Please leave us a comment below and tell us what you think of the lineup. Thank you for stopping by.
Until next time! Enjoy.
the PS Vita is getting two three-year-old games, one that had 5/10 review scores and one that was a mobile game
the PS3 is getting one three-year-old game that got 5/10 reviews and a decent six year old game.
the PS4 is getting what appears to be a lazy port of a good old game that you can buy for about £4, and an unknown indie game.
Hardware: Rivals is going to have to be amazing, but otherwise this is the weakest lineup I’ve ever seen. It seems such an odd time to pull this too – I know PS4 is doing well but I don’t think they can just stop dead and expect the momentum to last another five years.
I just want to know what happened to the vote to play thought that was gonna be a monthly thing other than that can’t complain I mean they are FREE you haters need to just buy what you want and quit crying
I played Hardware: Rivals in Beta and there were quite a lot of things I didn’t like about the game.
1. You’re forced through the simple tutorial and cannot skip it
2. There’s players in the game (beta mind you) that can kill you from across the map without even a clear line of sight!
3. It’ll take some good teamwork to manage taking out a tank if you’re in a Jeep.
I don’t recommend it. Maybe Grim Fandango is a good pickup but I’ve only seen reviews and never got into the game myself.
Garbage!
Another month of crap…
Another month of crap….
WHY do you guys insist on calling these games “free”, when they are quite clearly not?
You have to pay to access them and you lose access if you don’t pay for them.
They are not free.
Calling them that is tantamount to fraud.
Exceptionally underwhelming PS4 games again :(
I had certainly hoped for more, especially as a big welcome to 2016.
I doubt I’ll be renewing my subscription next time. The last good game for ps4 was Rocket League. I tried the trial for Hardware, got boring after 10 minutes. X-box here I come!?
Aren’t people just misunderstanding what PS+ games are supposed to be for? It’s not for ways to get free AAA games as most people think it should be (which no big publisher is likely to allow until well after people stop buying it so upwards of a year or more). It’s a way to introduce you to some games that you would never buy on your own that you might like and a way to give Indie developers exposure (since everyone thinks Indies are trash, almost as much as everyone thinks open world is the end all be all of the ultimate game (I’m more of a linear fan myself))
I would never have bought rocket league based on what I thought it would be but being free gave me the opportunity to enjoy it and see that it is worthwhile. I also never would have bought Gravity Rush and I think it’s pretty much the best game on the vita. Similarly I would never have bought Grim Fandango but now I have the opportunity to play it.
Grim is great, but otherwise…. NO
This is very disappointing. One of the main reasons I got a PS4 was to enjoy what PS+ has to offer…but not if they’re shoveling out stuff most of us don’t really want to play. I even upgraded to a 1tb hard drive.
Seriously, not worth the disrespectfully slow download times, although Dragon Age looks interesting, it’s still a last-gen title. It seems like devs are more concerned with rehashing and remaking last-gen games, which is not why I bought a current-gen system.
They’re making it rather difficult for me and I’m sure for many others, to justify spending so much money on the hardware on top of the mandatory $50 for PS+.
DA:O is one of the greatest games ever but this list would tick up about 75% for me if it was playable on PS4 free not PS3. I’m not dusting off my whirring old PS3 for it.