The primary three video games within the Armored Core collection are coming to the PS Plus Classics Catalog later this yr.
As introduced through the newest PlayStation State of Play presentation, all three PS1 Armored Core titles shall be coming in 2025, however no launch date was confirmed.
Sony additionally confirmed a earlier leak, saying that PSP title Patapon 3 shall be coming to the Classics Catalog subsequent week.
Each recreation within the Armored Core collection was developed by FromSoftware, with the primary releasing on PS1 in July 1997. The primary recreation noticed gamers taking up missions to earn cash which may then be spent on upgrading their Armored Core mech unit.
The second recreation, Armored Core: Challenge Phantasma, was launched 5 months later and was designed to be a standalone enlargement. It added an Area mode and the power to load save knowledge from the primary Armored Core and carry it by way of to the Challenge Phantasma. It’s not but recognized if this performance shall be replicated when the video games come to the Classics Catalog.
The third recreation, Armored Core: Grasp of Area, was one other enlargement launched in 1999, and was the final within the collection to be launched on the PS1 earlier than the primary ‘correct’ sequel, Armored Core 2, got here to the PS2 the next yr.
After greater than a decade on the sidelines, FromSoftware introduced again the Armored Core collection in 2023 with Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, which was launched on PS5, Xbox Sequence X/S, PS4, Xbox One and PC. The sport was critically praised, with a Metacritic rating of 86.
