Game:

Overlord: Fellowship of Evil (2015)

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Let's Play

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Here's a demonstration of Playstation Now running on the PS4. I take you through the entire process, from start up of the system, to renting the game, to starting it, and playing it.

As you can see from the video, PS Now is very playable on my 10Mbps internet connection, but it is far from perfect. There is a barely noticeable lag between the controller input and response sometimes. Other times, it's very obvious when the connection is struggling. There are massive screen tears in parts of the game, and sometimes the video quality degrades so low you can barely make out what's on the screen. But the majority of this playthrough was pretty decent. Honestly, this is the best quality I've ever gotten while testing the Playstation Now service.

In beta form, this is a pretty awesome service. All of the game rentals are free, and I could see it being an awesome value added service for PS+. I don't see myself paying much to use the service though, especially in its current condition. The video looks good, but even at it's best it still looks like you're playing a video game on YouTube. The screen tears and quality degradation really break the feeling of immersion.

So, all in all, it looks like a pretty neat service. I see its usefulness coming down almost exclusively to the cost. I don't want to pay much to play a streaming video game, but for others maybe this will be an awesome low cost solution to get their gaming fix.

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