
Squares, Atomic Ninjas, Zombie Drive HD and Ghost Recon Future Soldier also join the line-up
Well, here we are folks! Summer is just around the corner: the season of long, lazy evenings, outdoor eating and sun-soaked family holidays. We hope you’ve made some nice plans for the months ahead but, while you’re gallivanting around enjoying the weather, don’t forget your old pal PlayStation.
When it rains (and it probably will) or the sun goes down (a safe bet), you’ll need a friend with a little ‘indoor’ charm to keep the spirits high. The good news is that we’ll be here all summer long dishing out great new games every month on PlayStation Plus, so come rain or shine, you can count on us!
And, wouldn’t you know it? It’s that time again – time to see what’s in store for PS Plus members come 5th June:
XCOM 2
Let’s start with the bad news: your beloved Earth has been overrun by a technologically-advanced, militaristic alien race with a soft spot for human annihilation and the only official human resistance (XCOM) has either surrendered, been killed in action or disappeared into hiding.
Not off to a good start, then… but that’s where you come in: rebuild the XCOM council from humanity’s scattered resistance and begin a campaign to overthrow the colonising alien forces. Develop your underground bunker into a fully-fledged base of operations from which to launch turn-based tactical operations to retake key locations, collect resources from the field, win humanity’s trust and finally send those extra-terrestrial invaders packing.
A smart blend of real-time strategy, RPG mechanics and resource management, XCOM 2 is the perfect game to sink a serious play session into.
Trials Fusion
They don’t make them like this anymore – but they absolutely should. The latest in the long-running Trials franchise, Fusion follows the classic formula, placing you behind the bars of a trials motorcycle and inviting you to undertake a death-defying series of flips, jumps and aerial stunts, all in pursuit of big thrills and high scores.
It’s not just about hitting the throttle and hoping the best though – modelled on meticulous real-world physics, the true challenge of Trails Fusion is in carefully judging your jumps, properly distributing your weight and keep a keen eye on the track ahead.
Go it alone, boot up online multiplayer and challenge your friends or even create your own tracks using the in-built track editor and see what chaotic trials runs you can come up with.
Anything else?
Naturally! Alongside these two beauties there’re four further titles: two for PS Vita and two more for PS3. Put that all together and June’s line-up looks like this:
- XCOM 2 (PS4)
- Trials Fusion (PS4)
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier (PS3)
- Zombie Driver HD Complete Edition (PS3)
- Squares (PS Vita)
- Atomic Ninjas (PS Vita)
All these will be available to download from PlayStation Store on the 5th June – until then, there’s a still a week left to pick up any titles you’ve missed from last month. A quick reminder of those:
- Beyond: Two Souls (PS4)
- Rayman Legends (PS4)
- Risen 3: Titan Lords (PS3)
- Eat Them (PS3)
- King Oddball (PS Vita)
- Furmins (PS Vita)
And that’s all for this month – join us again next month as we unveil July’s PS Plus line-up.
I don’t know what to think?!
Let me help you. XCOM 2 is a 10/10 game.
@Bjarno86 Have they at least fixed most of the bugs? I remember X Com 2 being just one, huge mess full of gamebreaking bugs.
@nolidor8
I played “XCOM2” + “War of the Chosen” like 2 months ago and I didn’t experience any real issues. They have patched the PS4 version quite a bit.
I played it longer than that and game was almost unplayable. I remember frame rate being really bad on original PS4. How’s now?
xcom is a good game but it’s for a small niche of players, which i am not part of.
0/10 month for me.
this month doesn’t make sense, they won’t give us jrpgs because they want to appeal to the majority of players and then they give us one of the most niche games out there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sad my subscription ends next month, would’ve been a great month to skip.
XCOM2 is niche? I’d say JRPGs are even more niche. Not like there are many good JRPGson the PS4 that they could put up anyway. Exist Archive is pretty much the only one that springs to mind that that is most definately far more niche than XCOM2. The PS4 offerings are perfectly fine this month. Just because they might not be your style of game doesn’t mean that the offering is bad.
>The PS4 offerings are perfectly fine this month
There are people who are not into X Com type games, nor Trails. I would probably enjoy X Com, but not Trails.
You claimed there aren’t that many good JRPG’s on PS4, but when you look at… Persona, Tales of Berseria (Zestiria – NOPE!), Lost Sphear Final Fantasy(some of the are good), Utawarerumono, Toukiden, God Eater, Tokyo Xanadu, Star Ocean(I know it’s PS2 on PS4 game, but still)… I don’t have full list in front of me, but at least those are one of the more interesting ones. I don’t have PS4, but I am sure you can find a lot of good JRPG’s on PS3, Vita and PS4. However we won’t be seeing them in EU/US Plus, because reasons.
last time i checked tactical turn-based strategic games were pretty niche…
also ps4 has a lot of good jrpgs and jrpg is a much more played genre than tactical turn-based strategic games.
and i never said it was a bad game, i said the game is objectively good but this month sucks for me because i’m not into that kind of games, like the majority of players.
Here´s the problem, I hate games that are turn based. Completely kills a game for me.
for exemple I don’t like the first Ni No Kuni but I´m currently playing the first one and I like it, the combat is good but the game is way too easy
@Nolidior88 – There’s still a lot of bugs in there, but worse than the bugs is the performance. Still takes over 1 minute to load a save, still has unnecessary lag between turns, etc. And this is on a Pro. Just a poorly optimised port on BlindSquirrel’s part.
Well, Xcom2 is awesome game a probably the best Turn based strategy in a loooog time (at least two generatinos?). So good deal. Take it.
Yes totally agree. 10 out of 10 from 80% chance you will get a miss and enemy from 20% chance will get a crit.
I don’t understand this comment if you understand rules of probability.
80% is not 100%. Neither is 20% but you took a risk you got a critical hit. That’s the point of the game…