Image: Treyarch, Raven Software/Activision Get it here: PlayStation Store Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War It should be a major launch-day treat for those lucky few who managed to score a PlayStation 5 pre-order. But it turns out that this is one of the best platformers Sony has ever made, matching the charm and fluidity of a Nintendo platformer while also demonstrating the power of this new console. Without playing it, it’s easy to write off Astro’s Playroom as a silly, ignorable pack-in game, something to fill up your system storage while you wait for the actual games to download. Tugging on a rope to launch an underground enemy into the sky yields a far different experience, with a more intense vibration within the whole of the controller, followed by the ka-thunk of Astro falling back on his robutt. As just a simple example, if you walk across a glass surface as Astro, you’ll feel the small tippy-taps of each step within the controller. Each of these activates the new haptics in the DualSense controller, showing off the nuances of the enhanced vibration technology. Astro doesn’t have as wide a range of talents as, say, Mario in Super Mario Odyssey, but he does have a handy jetpack, a fierce spin attack, and the ability to tug on ropes real hard. This cute theming runs throughout the game, showing off different chunks of the hardware.Īs in any great platformer, it’s a treat to just run around the environment in Astro’s Playroom. The first area, Cooling Springs, is filled with waterslides and glaciers, implying that it’s keeping the heat down to a manageable level. Image: Team Asobi/Sony Interactive EntertainmentĪstro’s Playroom is themed around the idea that you’re running around inside your working PlayStation 5.

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