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God here to talk you again with another review. This time we are looking over the recent service given to Playstation 3 users earlier this year.
This service is called 'Playstation Plus'. (Abbreviated to be called PSN+.) It is a service very simalar to the xBox Live's gold service. It is a premium subscription based online service that adds bonuses and features over the free service.
There are no features removed from the free PSN and put in PSN+ so you can still play online, access the store, send messages to friends and everything else you’ve been able to do with the service. PSN+ does however add quite a lot of perks for subscribers, but are they worth the price?

PSN+ comes in two flavours, £11.99 for 90 days or £39.99 for a year and your PS3 must be updated to the latest firmware. So for you Jail broken hackers/Modders, this will be unavailable to you guys.
So what do you get for your money? Well, you get discounts on games and add ons from the PSN store, free and discounted avatars and themes, 1 hour long trails of various full games, early access to some demos and exclusive access to some betas, automatic download and free games. Yes, you can actually get free games with this service. I’d like to see Microsoft offer that with Gold Live membership.

According to Sony the games, avatars, themes and discounts offered with PSN+ amount to at least £200 per year so at even at £39.99 the service is some great value for money not counting the other features like Automatic Download and Full Game Trials.

The Automatic Download feature will turn your PS3 on whenever there is an system update or an update to a game you own and download and install the update. You can even set it to automatically download game demos, all you do is set the time you want it to automatically check for downloads and it’ll turn on and download. This seems like a feature that could have been offered for free in a system update and really doesn’t seem like much. It’s nice though if you download a lot as you can have it set to update while you are at work or something.

The Full Game Trails are just one hour trails. You have full access to the game, just like if you bought it, for one hour. It’s a nice feature and a good way to demo games. Trophies you’ve earned and progress you’ve made will be unlocked once you buy the game so you can pick up right where you left off. This is a pretty nice feature but so far, for the first month, it’s only available on two games. I can see this feature being used a lot and perhaps the second biggest draw of PSN+ if they can offer this feature on most PSN/mini games and on a lot more Blu-ray releases.

The biggest draw of PSN+ in my opinion is the free games. While not technically free as you only have access to the games as long as you are a subscriber (something I didn’t know until after I bought my 90 day subscription and played a hefty amount of Age of Zombies) this is still great value. If you purchase the yearlong PSN+ subscription option before the 3rd of August you’ll get Little Big Planet for download for free. There will be new games given away every month so there’s an incentive to stay subscribed and to keep you checking the PSN store.

It’s not only games given away for free, you can also get free dynamic themes, avatars and game expansions. These will also cycle so there’s plenty of free content every month with PSN+. There’s also the discounts to games and expansions which are nice but don’t seem to be very big discounts. At least not going by this month’s deals.

Conclusion:
All in all PSN+ seems to be worth the money purely for the free games. Not only the free games but the chance to have a first preview of the new games to come out in the near future! (BETA testing.)
It costs around the price of Xbox Live Gold for a year and while the biggest thing about XBL gold is the ability to play online (free on PSN) the biggest thing for PSN+ seems to be free games, and I’d much rather pay a fixed price to get a bunch of games a year rather than to play online.


Examples of what is on offer:
The contents below are the offers that were available in the first month that this was introduced to the public.

Content for Month 1 of PSN+:
Games:

• LittleBigPlanet (only available until 3 August 2010) FREE with 1 year subscription
  
• WipEout HD FREE
  
• Field Runners (minis) FREE
  
• Age of Zombies (minis) FREE
  
• Destruction Derby (PS one Classic) FREE
  

Full Game Trials:

• Shatter
  
• Savage Moon
  

Special Offers:

• LittleBigPlanet: God of War Pack – 50% off (£1.20 from £2.39)
  
• LittleBigPlanet: LocoRoco costume pack – 50% off (£1.20 from £2.39)
  
• Gravity Crash – 20% off (£5.03 from £6.29)
  
• Fat Princess Fat Roles DLC – 20% off (£3.19 from £3.99)
  

Premium Game Downloads:

• KillZone 2: Steel & Titanium map pack FREE
  

Automatic Download Demos:

• ModNation Racers demo
  
• Heavy Rain demo
  

Dynamic Themes and Premium Avatars:

• LittleBigPlanet Dynamic Theme FREE
  
• Game Is Just The Start Dynamic Theme FREE
  
• Fat Princess Premium Avatars FREE
  

The items above alone nearly equal the price that you brought the PSN+ service for! So what are you waiting for?
Get into guys and have fun!

Holy cow!
this thread is awesome looks like you put some work into it!!!1
i might actually buy this now..haha

I am a playstation plus member and I can honestly say it isn't worth it. At first what drew me in was the exclusive beta trial of online assassins creed brotherhood. That was the best thing they've had. That was 2 months ago, and not one new beta has come up nor anything really cool. a couple of free wallpapers here and there. I haven't tried to 60 min trial yet b/c I see no point in downloading 6 gb worth of content, something that could take a day or two to download, just to play it for an hour. Playstation + sucks IMO

^ wiht this guy he seems pretty legit and like he knows what he is talking about. not goint o buy but mean as thead dude! keep it up!

Thanks for the support guys.

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It is really only useful if you play lots of games. A wide variety allows you to download more!

Good to know.
I did not see it.

i was tempted to get the 3-month pack at first but then after months of seeing what they put out, nothing really caught my attention but the AC:B beta :| i thought you'd be getting like loads of free stuff but instead it's like a free LBP avatar (the basic sackboy), weird demos and wallpaper & it's nothing but discounts, discounts on stuff you wouldn't buy anyways :| the best thing i noticed was the "+" icon next to your PSN name but i'll probably try it out but my expectations are extremely low

Thank you god nice guide.

No problems.