"July is almost here and now that both Microsoft and Sony have announced their free games lineup for the month via Games With Gold and PlayStation Plus its time to look at which is offering the better value for gamers."

Xbox Games with Gold is entirely fine this month, with a healthy dose of good multiplayer games and a Splinter Cell you might forget existed at all.

July's Xbox Games with Gold offering is topped by Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction and Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown - both Xbox 360 games.
Conviction is the penultimate entry in the Splinter Cell series (to date, anyway), originally released in 2010. It's decent fun - far from the height of the series, but probably not its low watermark, either (that would be Blacklist, which arrived in 2013).
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown, meanwhile, is the latest version of Sega's fighting game series, released in 2012.

July 2018's lineup of free games includes Splinter Cell Conviction, Death Squared, Virtua Fighter 5, and more.

July 2018's lineup of free games includes Splinter Cell Conviction, Death Squared, Virtua Fighter 5, and more.