PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for July: Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Alan Wake Remastered, Endling – Extinction is Forever

I'm curious about it. Watching the trailers, it looks like it could be a pretty sadly emotional sort of game. Apparently, you control the last mother fox trying to keep her babies alive surviving environmental destruction. Gameplay looks like a side scroller, which is a big plus in my book (my favorite PS+ games so far this year have been the 2D side scrolling indies Axiom Verge 2 and Tails of Iron).

I'll probably check out Call of Duty. I was huge into Call of Duty back in the PS3 era. I never really cared about the story mode for any of the COD games, but I played the multiplayer a ton (especially MW2, BO1, MW3, BO2, and Ghosts).

Moving to the PS4 games that we've gotten from PS+ over the past few years, I always download them, but they just don't hit the same as the PS3 titles. The gameplay is fine (and even better than the PS3 titles), but games like Apex have ruined simpler shooters like COD for me. In Apex, there are real consequences to bad plays. Make a dumb move, and you're dead watching your teammates play or sent back to the lobby, so you're encouraged to play smart if you want to keep playing. In COD, if you make a dumb mistake, you press the respawn button and you're back in the action, so you don't get that same adrenaline rush that you get winning a tight fight in Apex. It's just so mindless, so it doesn't hold my attention like it used to.