PS Plus: Free Games for July 2015

If you were a PS Plus subscriber in October 2008, you got ‘Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars’ for free. Dig back in your purchase history and you’re good to go. Obviously, Rocket League’s an evolution from that, but SARPBC is still quite a lot of fun!

Rocket League isn’t multiplayer only. That’s the major draw, yeah, but there’s a ‘career mode’ as well. I’m not a big fan of online multiplayer myself, but the matchmaking for Rocket League during the beta was pretty solid. Aside from that, it also supports splitscreen – which is a blast!

As for the value of PS Plus, what about the cloud saves? Or the discounts on the games you prefer? There’s a lot more to PS Plus than the freebies, and even if you cut those out, you’re still likely to come out ahead for $50/year. Save about $4 a month on discounts, and you’ve made your money back. Have a hard drive crash or console die, and you’ve saved yourself hundreds of hours of progress. Trust me on that last one. ^^;

I bought Race the Sun before it hit PS Plus and I didn’t regret it one bit. It’s a lot of fun, and there’s also a ‘hometown’ aspect, since the devs are from Wisconsin. :D

I don’t agree with the tone of this comment, but I think there’s a good Idea here. Only thing is that people would then complain about the ‘old’ games being trotted out as PS Plus freebies. Linking PS Now to PS Plus (and not just a discount) would be great. Linking PS Now to prior PSN purchases (ex: If I own Uncharted 3 digital, I get to play it via PS Now for free) would be even better… even if it’s only a PS Plus perk.

What kinda games do you like? I’m sure the community could help you find some good PS exclusives to scratch the itch. That diversity in TYPES of games is one thing I love about PS.

Well, you’d definitely have inFamous: Second Son and Uncharted 4 to look forward to, and Horizon: Zero Dawn look like it’s going to be pretty great. The new Ratchet and Clank refresh looks like it’ll be work playing even if you played the heck out of the original, too. Of course, my most anticipated title’s No Man’s Sky, which looks like it’ll be pretty single-player friendly. That’s not even getting into the multiplatform titles like Fallout 4, Final Fantasy XV and Batman: Arkham Knight.

I think the 2-D indie titles are going to appeal more to those of us who lived through the pixel-based era of gaming, but some of them are actually good on their own merits.

Few more things about deciding on PS4 vs. Xbox One: Some of the games you own for PS3 and Vita might be cross-buy compatible. Plus, if you ‘buy’ all the PS Plus freebies every month via the Web-based PS Store, you’ll have a nice PS4 collection ready to go as you alluded to with Rocket League above.