There’s A Big Game Coming To PlayStation Plus For June

There’s no shortage of Call of Duty these days, with the juggernaut of a shooter franchise resurgent once again thanks to the twin successes of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone, the free-to-play battle royale that feeds back into Modern Warfare and appears to have given the paid game a healthy boost to sales. And now PlayStation Plus subscribers are getting access to one of the better installments in the series: Sony just announced that Call of Duty: World War 2 will be coming to PS+ in June:

Call of Duty: WW2 was a major turning point for the series: before it, the franchise had taken a distinctly sci-fi turn that culminated in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, a full-blown futuristic romp with dogfights in space, empathetic AI and planet-hopping mayhem. Fans didn’t respond all that well, but that all shifted when the series returned to the World War 2 settings that it started with. Call of Duty: WW2 took out the superpowers and brought things back to “boots on the ground” combat, with Nazi-shooting, M1 Garands and meditations on the brutality of war even in the face of ostensible heroism.

I’d highly recommend taking a look at it if you haven’t yet. On the single-player side, a social stealth mission where the player takes control of a French resistance fighter before assaulting a fortified position in Paris stands out. On the multiplayer side we got the excellent War Mode, where teams would fight against each other in a series of objective-based scenarios that had a real sense of narrative to them, as well as a way for less-skilled players like me to still contribute to victory.

The game will be available for download starting tomorrow, May 26. Sony says that it will be revealing the rest of the PlayStation Plus games for June later in the week, so stay tuned for these. At times like these, free video games can’t solve all your problems. But they can most definitely make you less bored as you sit at home.