CounterSpy joined many people’s backlogs when it was a PS Plus game back in March 2015. If it’s been sat in there gathering digital dust then now might be a good time to bring it out to play. After 31st May the servers will be pulled so you’ll no longer be able to earn the “International Nemesis” trophy.
If you do want to go for it then it’s likely to take you less than an hour to get the impacted gong. All you'll need to do is be online while you play and the game will randomly send you a message about a rival agents score. Once you’ve beaten that score the next level will have the rival agents corpse hidden within it. Find the body and that sweet trophy will be all yours.
It’s also worth noting that there are two separate Trophy lists, one for the PS4 version and one for PS3/PS Vita.
Are you planning to give CounterSpy a go before the server shutdown? Let us know in the comments below.
[source playstation.com]
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I'd forgotten about this game. I really liked it. I wish Sony would stop shutting servers down.
I really enjoyed this one. I played it with my nephew. We had a blast playing through it.
Stop trying to mess up my backlog order of play list! ;P
Really enjoyed this on my vita if I remember correctly. Although I would have been on holiday and probably had a few cocktails and beers inside me
Never heard of it. After reading the review, it looks interesting enough, but also isn't something to immediately play.
Well, since I barely heard anyone playing this game, I guess shutting down it servers would make sense. I mean, is not like the game will be unplayable. Seriously though, lots of games this year are getting their servers shutted down. Same thing happened with Xbox One's moba Gigantic.
@get2sammyb I more wish games would stop adding server based features to games that don't need them.
This is a 100% single player game, why do I now need to rush to complete it before it becomes impossible? At least stop attaching trophies to the superfluous online stuff.
This game was ok. It was really hard to get the trophy for killing a bunch of guys with one explosion on the Vita (less powerful console, less enemies on screen😉).
If devs insist on having online components like this, please don't attach trophies to them. If your game is primarily online, that's one thing. But this is a dumb trophy to be locked out of.
I enjoyed this game a lot! What is going on with the server shutdowns?
@Th3solution Haha I know that feeling! I hadn't intended to play this just yet but thankfully the only online trophy doesn't take too long to get!
Maybe it wouldn't exactly work for THIS game, but isn't there a way to make a game able to do peer-to-peer online without keeping up expensive servers?
@YummyHappyPills Funny little game not to easy though.
@Yowza I agree its so terribly annoying but the Tombraider online stuff was the worst i ever had dont know if you ever tried to boost that........
Why should they care about shutting servers down ?
They already have our money...
@Flaming_Kaiser I waited an incredibly long time to get that game and by the time I played it I knew I wasn't even going to attempt the online trophies. I know I could have slogged through most of my own, but I didn't want to waste that much time.
Great little game, loved it! I've already got the International Nemesis trophy on PS4 and Vita, but have had major problems getting the Explosives Expert on Vita.
This trophy isn't at all difficult or time-consuming to get. If you've got the game, load it up now and you can have it within the time it takes to play a couple of levels level (about 30 minutes); then you can get the rest at your leisure.
This game was cool
@Yowza hard to say which is worse - if a game is primarily online, shutting down the servers makes it unplayable. Even circulating the tapes via emulation years later won't solve the problem unless someone mods the files into next Saturday or provides a volunteer server. But online trophies (or their in-game equivalents like related badges in MotorStorm Arctic Edge), while technically even more of a first world problem, can be quite annoying in the context of the entire achievement system, too. I dare wonder if it's really not an option to just edit or patch them out after servers go down.
@nhSnork I wish they'd just automatically grant the trophy upon server shut down via a patch or something.
My point with the primarily online games was that you should expect there to be online trophies, not that they're better for having server shut downs.
Was an ok game but so close to being so much better!
Too many companies are far too quick to shut servers down, not happy about it. My friends and I loved playing Metal Gear Online together on PS3, I put almost 400 hours into it. Konami didn't hang about in shutting down those servers of course. Still gutted about it.
@YummyHappyPills fun game. Almost kinda like a modern Rolling Thunder in how it's presented.
This was a cool game. I didn't get it free... I actually bought and quite enjoyed it.
I never knew about this game. Sound like you dont need a server to play. I look at getting this for the vita.
Aww this was the first ever PS+ game I ever got when I got my PS4, great fun.
@Yowza "If devs insist on having online components like this, please don't attach trophies to them. If your game is primarily online, that's one thing. But this is a dumb trophy to be locked out of."
I've always said this. Achievements and trophies should always be obtainable.
I had real fun with this after it was given away with PSN. It's easy to complain about the servers but in reality, I bet nobody is playing the game and as a result, it makes no financial sense to keep the servers running.
This is like 67th to play in my backlog list so I'm not sure I'm going to get there in time.
@Jenny_Jones I think I beat your score last night to get the trophy! Thanks, lol.
@johncalmc You can do it in one hour tops, trust me. I did it last night. Do it now so you don't regret it later
It was quite a good game. Can't be arsed with going back to it just to get that Trophy tho
@fchinaski Maybe I will. Maybe I wiiiiiill.
@fchinaski hehe you're welcome
Boom. Got the trophy tonight, just in the nick of time. I had forgotten all about the server shutdown untill i bumped into your article tonight. Thanks Jenny
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