May’s irreversible slide into June means another batch of games for PlayStation Plus subscribers, and this month they look an awful lot like Call of Duty WW2 and Star Wars Battlefront 2.
Call of Duty WW2 released in 2017 and marked the long-running first-person shooter series’ return to its Second World War roots, having zipped all around history (and occasionally the future) in the intervening years. Alongside the series’ perennially popular multiplayer modes, it offered up a full single-player story campaign – following the 1st Infantry Division’s battles on the Western Front – and a Nazi-themed Zombies mode for co-operative play.
Eurogamer contributor Jon Denton liked what he saw on release, calling Call of Duty WW2 “quite the package” in his Recommended review. “By returning the series to its roots, Sledgehammer has made the series feel relevant again,” he wrote, “Call of Duty WW2 isn’t just a throwback – it’s the best entry in the series for quite some time.”
Star Wars Battlefront II | Launch Trailer | PS4 Watch on YouTube
As for Star Wars Battlefront 2, its perhaps most keenly remembered for the huge controversy surrounding its use of loot boxes, which reasonably mired its original release and ultimately caused EA and developer DICE to make one of the biggest post-launch U-turns in recent memory, dramatically reworking the game’s progression system to ditch its original pay-to-win monetisation, shifting to cosmetic microtransactions instead.