🦸♂️ Unleash Your Inner Hero with the Ultimate Batman Bundle!
The 500GB PlayStation 4 Console - Batman Arkham Knight Bundle offers an immersive gaming experience with a powerful console, a DualShock 4 controller, and the critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham Knight game. This bundle includes exclusive missions, customizable skins, and access to PlayStation Network for multiplayer gaming, making it a must-have for any gaming enthusiast.
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worth the upgrade. Great system.
I've been playing for 2 weeks now, and just got to 98% on Arkham Knight, which was a fun game even if I disliked the game's ending.But this is about the PS4 itself. All I can say is wow!I bought this bundle because I got it on a day where Amazon gave me $20 in credit on top of me using a bunch of saved up bonus points making it almost free. Really, the only reason I was getting a PS4 was to play Fallout 4 and Star Wars Battlefront, but they don't come out till November. The deal made me bite early. I'm glad I did!Close to the first thing I did was swap out the hard drive for a SSHD 1 TB drive as I knew the space on 500 GB would run out fast (trust me, Arkham Knight itself, even playing off a disk, requires a 50 GB install - so, 8 games and the drive would be full). The swap out was so painless and easy I couldn't believe it. granted, I have some experience with such things, but honestly, it was so easy anyone could do it.The drive came 1 day after the system, and I couldn't resist, so I spent the first day playing games on the stock hard drive. There were updates that needed installed, and then there were my save files. Transferring these to the new hard drive was effortless as well. On a USB 3.0 thumbstick (128 GB) it took me 35 minutes to copy 75 GB off the stock drive, and then after the new drive was installed and initialized, about 45 minutes to copy it back onto the system. I did it in between mowing the lawn and doing laundry and it was click and forget it for each step. set up the process, go mow the lawn, come back and it was done. perfect.Next, I transferred over my PSN account with my PS Plus subscription, and I added in my info for Twitch, Facebook and Twitter. I'm not a huge social media person, but the ability to stream game play, create share parties and the like is really cool. I'll broadcst my play with the press of a couple buttons, and I go on and watch others play a game to really get a sense as to if I want to buy it or not. Sort of me paying back the community for being able to watch them I guess. But also, my friends and I can swap strategy on solving a tricky part in a game, and it's pretty neat being able to do that in the system.The graphics are, of course, fantastic. But that will be game dependent. Arkham Knight is great looking, so was Bloodborne. The Witcher will be next up for me, and I hear that's beautiful as well.Load times can be a bit rough. The SSHD helps with that some, but still in Arkham Knight, the load time after I die and respawn is around 15 seconds. It was about 25 seconds with the stock drive before I changed them out. the big thing about the system for me, however, is the Rest Mode. I don't ever quit a game, I just go out of it and put the system to "rest". It wakes up in about 2 - 5 seconds on the SSHD drive and I'm right into the game. litterally, I sit on the couch, push the button on the remote and turn on the TV and sound system, and I'm playing, just that quick. It's hard to explain how cool that is until you experience it. Plus, I can use the MLB.TV app (I love watching baseball) and while I'm watching, the game is still running (Paused) in the background. so when the game is over I can still switch right back to Arkham in seconds. This is awesome to me.The controller is much improved from the PS3 version. I was always more a fan of the XBox 360 controller, but I have to say that the PS4 controller is rally good now and at least as comfortable as the 360 controller, IMO. The touch screen pad on the front is a little gimmicky, as is the accelerometer, but it's up to games to make use of them, and the games I've played seem to not make you rely on using the gimmicky controls, so I'm fine with them being there.One really nice feature of the controller is the headset jack. It's located on the underside of the controller, facing you when you hold the controller, and accepts any standard 3.5mm headphone jack with or without a mic input line. You can set the system to output only chat audio or all system audio to the headphone jack. If you set it to play all system audio, then whenever you plug in headphones into the jack (I use Bose QuietComfort headphones, with inline mic) the system audio will go through the headphones and not your soundsystem/TV. Then when you unplug the headphones, sound goes back to coming out of the soundsystem/TV. Great for late night gaming.Remote Play: My awesome soon-to-be wife bought me a PSP Vita (SCH-2000 model) for my birthday a few months before I got this system. I loved using it on the few games I had, but no that I have PS4, well why not try out the Remote Play feature. When I first tried it out it had trouble keeping a steady connection. The PS4 was linked to the internet via WiFi. The PS4 in the basement game room and the WiFi router being upstairs in the living room. The signal strength probably wasn't the best. It turns out that even when you allow the remote connection to the Vita to take place "without WiFi" that is only for the "second screen" feature (which seems useless so far). Remote Play requires use of WiFi. My solution was to buy a 30ft ethernet cable, drill a hole in the living room floor, and hard wire the PS4 into the router. Internet test on the system showed and increase in download/upload speed from 3.1Mbps/1.1Mbps to 29.7Mbps/2.3Mbps. Once this was done, remote play worked throughout the house, no problem. So it wasn't the Vita, it was the PS4 - so if you're going to use Remote Play, consider the need to plug directly into the router.As to how remote play works with the games, well, it takes some getting used to. The Vita firmware allows for buttons to be remapped, but this requires support from the software/game. Arkham Knight doesn't allow it. This means that the R2/L2 buttons are mapped to the rear touch pad and there's no way to change it. This made for some getting used to and wasn't terribly intuitive. It works, but the more complex the control scheme for the game, the more difficult it might be.I absolutely recommend this system. I don't know if I would have paid $399 for it, but if you can find ways to get the price down to around $200 or less somehow, like I did, totally worth it. You'll have a blast.I can't compare it with the XBox One, as I've never played it. I just made a choice and can say I have no regrets. I doubt you would either.
M**L
Best System of This Generation Meets One of The Best Games of This Generation.
I've been gaming since I was old enough to hold a controller back in the Atari 2600 days, and have played on what I feel were all of the best systems from then until now. Still, even with these experiences behind me, I was caught off guard by both the PlayStation 4 and Arkham Knight.The PlayStation 4 is easily my favorite game system to date, with everything from the best UI (User Interface) of a system, to the best graphics available this console generation and so much more. I knew the PS4 would be great but I underestimated how great.The Dualshock 4 is hands down the best controller I've used with it's updates to the shoulder buttons, and the new touchpad that's surprisingly useful despite my initial dislike of the idea (trust me, one use of the DS4 dispelled any doubt's I had about the touchpad), the new speaker which --when utilized properly by a game's developers-- adds a whole new layer of immersion, I cannot find a negative thing to say about it.Then we have Arkham Knight.With decades of gaming experience, this became one of my favorite games ever withing the first play session.Not a fan of Batman? No problem, neither was I. Never touched the Arkham series? No problem, neither had I. In fact, I didn't even want this game, I only got the bundle because I knew I would be flat busted after buying the system and I wanted a game with it rather than just an empty console sitting around until next payday. The Arkham Knight bundle was a no brainer since I would have a game for only a dollar more, and it would at least give me something to play until I bought a good game the next week.But this game blew me away. I'm currently 100%ing all 300+ side objectives plus looking forward to my next play through on the new unlockable mode and free DLC that came with the preorder. If you're a completionist you'll likely have a solid 100+ hours here in a single play through and love every minute of it.The game's story is amazing and delves into the inner reaches of Batman's mind, playing on his deepest fears. This game explores psychological torment and messes with your head badly but in the best way possible. Before it's all said and done you'll be questioning everything that your eyes see and ears hear. You'll wonder how much is real or if any of it is. This story is very compelling to say the least.The gameplay is some of the deepest you'll find anywhere. From amazing battles in the Batmobile's tank form, to high speed chases, to intense stealth moments, to high powered battles and insanely powerful and hilariously entertaining gadgets to employ, there's no shortage of things to do. And let's not forget 255 riddles to solve and roughly 100 other objectives to meet along the way for a completionist. Not sure if anything could have been handled better here.Long story short, you won't regret buying a PS4 and if you like Action games, open world games, adventure games, or even vehicle combat or stealth games, you won't regret getting Arkham Knight. So if you plan on buying a console, why not buy the best available this generation and couple it with what should be the Game of The Year for 2015?
C**N
La mejor consola
Sin lugar a dudas la mejor consola de esta generación, la variedad de juegos es muy buena y sobre todo la calidad gráfica es impresionante.
E**.
Genial!!
Llego en muy buen estado y funcionando al 100%, la entrega fue muy rapida ya que solo se tardo 2 dias!!
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