Here are the esoteric delights amidst Sony's new PlayStation Plus

Sony's revised PlayStation Plus draws ever nearer, and this week we got our best look at some of the classic games will be on offer. While there's a sense of a missed opportunity and a surprising lack of fanfare with less than a week to go until the service rolls out in Japan, there's still a sizeable number of cult classics neslted within the new service - and here's our pick of the best of them.

Housemarque was once synonymous with games like this, top-down Robotron-alikes that lived to pit you against vast hordes. To be outmanned is never to be outgunned, however: this is a team that revels in ingenious weapon combos and beautifully paced enemy waves. Play it today and you may see more of Returnal in the DNA than you might expect to - a love of the works of Eugene Jarvis can be hard to shake. And why would you want to?

We are, of course, well overdue an Ape Escape revival, but until that point any opportunity to get reacquainted with the originals should be grasped with both hands. Japan Studio's original was designed to keep especially to keep both thumbs busy, built around the twin sticks of the Dual Shock which were a novelty at the time and enabling a freewheeling inventiveness that's defined the series ever since.

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