The PlayStation Plus free titles and Xbox Live Games with Gold have been announced for April 2018. It’s time to pit the collections against each other to see which console comes out on top with April’s offerings. Welcome to PS Plus vs Games with Gold!
Let’s take a look at the contestants. First up, the PS Plus Instant Game Collection.

Mad Max (PS4)
Trackmania Turbo (PS4)
In Space We Brawl (PS3)
Toy Home (PS3)
99VIDAS (PS Vita)
Q*Bert Rebooted (PS3/PS4/PS Vita)

Next, here are the Xbox Games with Gold that you can grab on Microsoft’s platform next month.

The Witness (Xbox One)
Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate (Xbox One)
Cars 2: The Video Game (Xbox 360, Xbox One w/ backwards compatibility) Dead Space 2 (Xbox 360, Xbox One w/ backwards compatibility)

PS Plus Free Games April 2018
While it’s hard to beat Bloodborne being handed out in March, I’m still impressed with the April PlayStation Plus releases. Mad Max is a really fun open world game that does visceral combat and driving around a desert wasteland really well. It could have easily been quite boring, but the developers managed to make exploration of the sandy browns and grays really interesting and enjoyable. The upgrade trees and gameplay progression keep things fresh as players push through what ends up being quite a lengthy campaign. While it released around the same time as Mad Max: Fury Road, it is not actually a movie tie-in. Mad Max tells its own story. It was more ...