A new month has begun, and that means the next batch of PS Plus Essential monthly games are incoming. October's lineup was announced last week, and will be available very soon, but there's still time to claim the previous games if you haven't yet.
As a reminder, September's PS Plus Essential games are:
- Black Desert (PS4)
- Generation Zero (PS4)
- Saints Row (PS5, PS4)
It's perhaps not the most premium month in PS Plus' history, but there's definitely still fun to be found in this trio. If you haven't yet, remember to redeem the games via your PS Plus subscription. Once they're added to your library, you can download them at your leisure (as long as your subscription stays active). You only have until around 10am BST tomorrow, which is when October's games will begin rolling out.
The games coming up for October are:
- The Callisto Protocol (PS5, PS4)
- Farming Simulator 22 (PS5, PS4)
- Weird West (PS5, PS4)
Have you been playing any of September's PS Plus Essential games? Tell us in the comments section below.
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Generation Zero is not that bad btw. I’m stuck with this game on PC cause there I can aim much better.
Saints Row is not that bad too, I was thinking till I stuck in a bugged mission and rage quit the game with no return.
Bring on The Callisto Protocol.
Gen Zero was an ok game with you vs never ending robots in the hills of an archipelago off of Sweden. Why a kid with zero experience survived when nobody else did is a real head scratcher. Good game, too big of a map and unnecessary added mechanics.
Saints Row is a nice reboot with some questionable progression and a mostly boring map. Very few vehicles to play with only 1 or 2 air/sea things. It’s fun to a point, and misses a lot on the comical that made the others fun.
The MMO I didn’t touch, Extra is enough without another subscription game.
Personally can't wait to try out Callisto tomorrow, aware its combat gets repetitive left or right dodge a lot before going in but at least gonna attempt to enjoy it regardless, who knows might like it, only one way to find out. SR reboot was a fun plat for me despite what some will say, even funnier when some act like snotty experts of the game despite never playing it
Now many of us are looking forward for Callisto Protocol, and then we realise that the Metacritic score of 69 wasn’t an accident.
@Max_the_German 69 is fun number lol. Seriously though that's almost a 70 which is above average, not excellent top tier, not terrible either. Just hoping the combat doesn't end up the worst repetitive ever as some have been saying
Saints Row wasn't worth the download. I gave it a few hours and it just felt totally OFF. The controls were just sluggish and imprecise.
Then, I realized I was suffering what ended up being a longstanding audio glitch that made nearly the entire game muffled and quiet. I could not hear my character move or shoot or drive at all. Only audio that worked was the music and cutscenes.
When I looked it up, it ended up being something the game/community has suffered from since release. If a game isn't given the attention it deserves to be as good as possible from those that made it, it's not worth my time as a player.
Hopefully Callisto Protocol has a decent enough story. I wanna play through something spooky for Halloween before diving into Cyberpunk full force.
Saints row. Where do you start? Its one of the worst games i've played. I tried to like it but there is nothing good about it. The dialogue is cringe and i dislike that term with a passion as its so todays youth but in this case its the most apt word i can use without getting my comment deleted. Awful game.
@Beerheadgamer82 I went in with an open mind after hearing about the repetitive combat of the game...and was still let down. Great setting but Calisto to me seems like wasted potential, shame. Worth a play through at least
@PrettyPawsome all depends on how much of the repetitive combat I can take tbh. All games have some sort of repetitive nature to them so I'm kinda naturally used to it in a way. About to plat Powerwash Simulator soon which can be naturally so repetitive. Gameplay is so important though, more important than story and graphics imo. One things for sure though if end up deleting and moving on, is I won't be pretending to be a Mr know it all of a game I've only put a few hours in. I wouldn't call a game the best ever after only a few hours, likewise I wouldn't make out a game to be the worst ever after only a few hours
I don't know what people expected from Callisto. It delivered on that what it set out to do. Maybe my memories of the OG dead space aren't that fresh anymore, but it didn't offer that much more gameplay wise beyond the dismemberment system. Still looking forward to playing the remake when it's on a proper sale.
Anyways, Signalis beats them all in my book when it comes to Sci-Fi horror.
I wish I didn't claim Saints Row. That game is so so bad. Easy 3/10. Still buggy, still stupid, still clunky to play (down is crouch? No. No please), it ****es on everything Saints Row was and asks you to open wide and just drink it in.... Corporate sanitization complete with a...sigh...team building segment. Cringe.
Bad graphics. Bad gameplay. Bad writing. Bad controls. Bad bad game. Customization is pretty good, credit to where credit is due, but the game still looks really bad, so ehh.
@tameshiyaku I can't speak for everyone, but my main gripes with Calisto Protocol were:
Lack of enemy variety.
Lack of weapon variety.
Bad to mediocre boss design.
An uninteresting and predictable story.
Half baked stealth mechanics that felt tacked on for just a couple segments.
Game was really short.
Combat, while meaty feeling, was undercooked, lacked variety, and was way too easy to cheese (you can dodge repeatedly from left to right and you're fine most encounters, even more so since the enemy AI change)
Even still, I liked the game. I thought it was good for the most part if not mediocre. 6 - 7 out of 10. But it's nowhere near as good as thr OG Dead Space, Dead Space 2, or even Dead Space 3, and for a game to not be as good as DS3? A supposed AAAA game like the marketing guff would have us believe?
That's a problem. I would think that people were expecting a next gen game on par with the game it was succeeding. It is not that, but that's my impression, and the impression what other people have been saying.
@Northern_munkey Wholeheartedly 100% agree with you, Saints Row reboot is absolutely awful.
@MFTWrecks
Saints Row was the first game where I had to immediately go into the control setup and try play with it to make it even playable.
Then after playing a few missions, I deleted it and will almost certainly never go back.
The review scores were justified.
Being able to play the Saints Row reboot basically confirmed everything I suspected about it. It's complete garbage! It's amazing how bad it is compared to just about everything I have played lately, heck even compared to the first 3 games. To top it off it's not even a better looking game, graphics look last gen to me despite bad performance and the art style was simply awful. Then there's the uninteresting characters, cringe story, boring missions, awful driving, I mean I could go on but then I'd be writing an entire review. Basically, the game sucks, and I am glad I didn't have to pay for it.
@Netret0120 It amazes me how some people actually try/tried to defend that mess. Shows the power a desire to justify a purchase can have. I just feel sorry for anyone who paid much for it.
@Netret0120 AGREED. And I played it a few weeks ago, not at release! After a year of updates, they still couldn't make the game feel (or sound) completely standard. Huge letdown to me, as someone who liked the original games and was willing to give it a shot.
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