A classic is about to make its way to the more modern platform, although we should add that the studio that developed it recently closed down.

Perhaps the only saving grace of PlayStation Plus Premium is that it gives you access to older games up to the highest level of Sony’s subscription service. It allows you to play PS1, PS2, PS3 and PSP games, although these only offer a very small fraction of the full range of the four platforms (there’s no way to use discs with the console, which obviously wouldn’t work with PSP UMDs).

The game in question is Summoner, which was one of the PlayStation 2’s launch titles, released on October 26, 2000 in North America and April 6, 2001 in Europe. There was a PC port later (it was released in North America on March 20, 2001, but Europe inexplicably didn’t get it until a year later, on April 26, 2002…). It was an action RPG published by THQ and developed by Volition. Yes, the same Volition that made a big splash with Red Faction and later made a name for itself with Saints Row. It was very similar to The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (although that came out later, in 2002!), and we’ve previously summarized our thoughts on it in more detail here.

Hell yeah! Who remembers this gem?
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Many on Reddit were excited to hear the news. Some asked a rhetorical question (who remembers it?), others were happy to remember how much they played it on PS2 (and still have the disk). A third commenter said that Summoner was the best emulation on PlayStation Plus Premium. For some, it was the first RPG of their lives, and for others, there was a strong sense of nostalgia.

You don’t have to subscribe to PlayStation Plus Premium, though: if you want to buy the game, there’s an option to do so on PlayStation Store, so you can pick it up for a few bucks if you fancy it.

Source: Gamingbible