{"id":34480,"date":"2019-03-16T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=34480"},"modified":"2019-03-16T00:06:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T07:06:00","slug":"ps-month-without-legacy-call-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/bens-bytes\/ps-month-without-legacy-call-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"First PS+ Month Without Legacy Titles Doesn’t Answer Call of Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speculation circulated over what might happen once Sony pulled out of the PS3 and PS Vita freebie game at their announced date.\u00a0 With their competition offering four games at staggered time periods — and across both current and legacy consoles — the opportunity was wide open for the PlayStation Plus system to pull ahead with, perhaps, double the amount of current-gen titles.\u00a0 Action games and puzzle games? Shooters and RPGs? The possibilities were right in front of \u2018em to exert their dominance with goodies from the here and now, to showcase why their choice to eliminate legacy titles would be worth it.\u00a0 Instead, they\u2019ve dumped the \u201cexcess\u201d baggage and reduced the downloads to 2. And the ones they\u2019ve offered aren\u2019t exactly the cream of the crop, either, one being a popular remaster of a classic last-gen game, and the other that \u2026 well, it’s one that their chief competitor offered for free almost exactly a year ago. Shall we look closer?<\/p>\n

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered<\/h4>\n

The original Modern Warfare<\/em> — Call of Duty 4<\/em>, to be precise — wasn\u2019t the installment that turned COD<\/em> into the gaming juggernaut that it\u2019s become today; Modern Warfare 2<\/em> often gets the “best shooter ever made” moniker, unlike its predecessor.\u00a0 The critical and commercial acclaim that it received at launch was certainly enough to fast-track any and all sequels thereafter, though, hinged on both its engrossing single-player campaign and, of course, the versatility and accessibility of its online multiplayer. The desire for a remastered version of this game has circulated among its die-hard fans for quite some time, and the fact that Raven has simply duplicated the original\u2019s functionality in a newly spit-polished graphical presentation is a compliment to the game\u2019s core successes at a design level and a relief for its exhausted base. The campaign still seems to hold up among both the critical community and the franchise\u2019s devotees, while the more tactical, less sci-fi style of combat in this nearly decade-old game manages to be both a breath of fresh air and possess a hint of nostalgia.<\/p>\n

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The Witness<\/h4>\n

There\u2019s something inherently mysterious about exploring and solving puzzles in Sierra\u2019s classic point-and-click title Myst<\/em>, where the atmosphere possesses nearly as much storytelling itself as the mystery being unearthed about the island. It\u2019s that caliber of environmental fascination that Braid designer Jonathan Blow hopes to capture within The Witness<\/em>, a puzzle-driven interactive adventure. You want to learn more about the location as you solve maze-like puzzles that redirect functional energy, which lends immediacy and pacing to the game\u2019s experience. What it lacks, however, is a sense of true narrative, something to reward the discovery and the completion of puzzles.\u00a0 That\u2019s where recommending The Witness<\/em> grows tricky, especially for those who\u2019ve played those classic Sierra-style narratives: the look and feel may be there, but what lies underneath lacks a reason to keep up the flow.\u00a0 If you’re in the mood for gorgeous 3D landscapes and line-based puzzles to solve, embark on this journey; however, if you’re in it for some kind of story, take a peek at the likes of Shivers<\/em> or any number of Myst<\/em>‘s many lesser-known sequels for a stronger dose of ’90s-style investigative mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ouch.\u00a0 Speculation circulated over what might happen once Sony pulled out of the PS3 and PS Vita freebie game at their announced date.\u00a0 With their competition offering four games at staggered time periods — and across both current and legacy consoles — the opportunity was wide open for the PlayStation Plus system to pull ahead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":34481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1262,401,25],"class_list":["post-34480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bens-bytes","tag-ps-plus","tag-ps4","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34485,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34480\/revisions\/34485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}