We are more than halfway through 2021. It is July, and as always, the turn of the month means that it is ready for a new dose of games from PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live Gold.
Sony and Microsoft have unveiled what subscribers can bring out this month, and we have gathered everything in one overview that you can see below.
Playstation plus
A Plague Tale: Innocence (PlayStation 5)
PlayStation 5 owners can adorn themselves with A Plague Tale: Innocence this month. The adventure from 2019 has been upgraded for the new console, with 4K resolution and 60 frames per second, better graphics and faster loading times.
The game follows the young girl Amicia and her little brother Hugo, who must stay alive in a world full of enemy soldiers and created rats. A Plague Tale: Innocence was well received here at the mill, and ended up on one nines on the grading scale.
– A Plague Tale: Innocence is an experience, and it is one of the most immediately immersive games I have had the pleasure of experiencing in recent times, wrote Øystein Furevik in our review.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (PlayStation 4)
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is a rather interesting feature on this month’s PlayStation Plus list, as long as the shooter has no single player part and everyone who plays multiplayer has largely moved on to Call of Duty: Warzone, Modern Warfare or Black Ops Cold War.
Nevertheless, it should be said that Black Ops 4 is a solid feature in the Call of Duty series, which in its time received much praise from our reviewer.
– The fact that Treyarch chose to cut the single player part from Call of Duty was an exciting choice, and one I think they have succeeded well with. There is no shortage of content in Black Ops 4, and overall, this feels like a more focused and pure Call of Duty game, which it also is. The multiplayer is better, more entertaining, and flows better than it has done in a very long time, Gøran Solbakken concluded.
WWE 2K Battlegrounds (PlayStation 4)
WWE 2K Battlegrounds takes professional wrestling and turns up the madness a number of notches. Here it is a matter of beating each other up in everything from single-player campaign and multiplayer to collaborative modes, with well-known wrestlers such as John Cena, The Rock, Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair.
Wrestling games are a genre that has long struggled to hit the mark, and WWE 2K Battlegrounds is probably no exception. Gamer.no does not have its own review for the game, but the user reviews on Steam are “mixed”.
Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown
Those who did not remember to pick up the Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown last month have another month on them.
Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown is the first feature in the fighting game series in over ten years. The game itself is a refurbished version of Virtua Fighter 5, which features the same characters and the same framework as the original. However, the developer has refined the graphics and put in place new web functionality.
All games will be available to subscribers via the PlayStation Store from July 6 to August 2.
Xbox Live Gold
Planet Alpha (Xbox One)
The platform adventure Planet Alpha came to Xbox One in 2018 and is among the latest games Xbox Live Gold members have received this year – but still not the latest this month.
In the game you have to sneak around on an alien planet, in a kind of colorful variant of Limbo. Here you can also control the time, which comes in handy when trying to avoid all sorts of enemies.
Available for free to Xbox Live Gold members from July 1st to 31st. Find the game in the Xbox Store »
Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break (Xbox One)
Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break has not even turned one year old, when it originally came to Xbox One on July 21, 2020.
As in the game’s predecessors, it’s about rolling huge rocks down towards your opponent’s castle, while trying to set up obstacles to protect your own castle. Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break offers several different modes, and entices with a building tool that allows you to create your own crazy tracks.
Available for free to Xbox Live Gold members from July 16 to August 15. Find the game in the Xbox Store »
Conker: Live and Reloaded (Xbox)
Conker, the rap-jawed squirrel from developer Rare, got his latest game – apart from a HoloLens game and a Project Spark expansion – in 2005. Conker: Live and Reloaded served a new round of action-packed experiences, with humor that is always a little on the edge.
Our own Øystein Furevik missed the little extra from the game when it came out, and ended up with 6 out of 10 on the rating scale.
– All in all, Conker: Live and Reloaded is a charming game that provides a good alternative to the serious games out there, but which is unfortunately of a slightly variable quality. A good laugh may make life longer, but it does not work so well when it eventually suffocates itself.
Available for free to Xbox Live Gold members from July 1st to 15th. Find the game in the Xbox Store »
Midway Arcade Origins (Xbox 360)
Midway Arcade Origins from 2013 brings together a bunch of old games from the happy arcade days.
More than 30 titles from Midway are on the list, including Rampage, Spy Hunter and Gauntlet.
Available for free to Xbox Live Gold members from July 16-31. Find the game in the Xbox Store »
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