And, if you want to get all the cars we've got the Forza Horizon 4 Barn Find locations to help you along. Some 16 years after the original game was released, we finally got a sequel. Thankfully though, Psychonauts 2 was more than worth the wait, delivering a fantastically whimsical tour through various minds against a soundtrack that'll get your feet tapping.
It's a fantastic platformer with levels that are so brilliantly designed that you'll be thinking about them for years to come. Plus, there's a handy recap at the start of the game so you don't have to have played the original to get stuck in. Release date: Developer: Rare Genre: Adventure. Possibly the biggest boon for Xbox One owners is the fact that Sea of Thieves is all theirs. Rare's emergent pirate adventure sees players sailing across the big blue, finding treasure where the X marks the spot, defeating hordes of skeletons and undead sea captains, and even collecting chickens and other items to sell to travelling merchants.
Of course, you're doing all that in between swigging grog, singing sea shanties and having a laugh with your mates. Because, if you know nothing about Sea of Thieves, all you need to know is that's it's the best game to play with your friends. Following straight on from the events of Gears of War 4 , Gears 5 — as it is now simply called — focuses on the story of Kait Diaz.
Struggling to comes to terms with the death of her mother, Kait is now focused on finding out more about her past after in her mother's last moments she's passed a necklace that bears the Locust Horde icon. All the old favourites are back too of course, from Marcus Fenix to his son JD, and it's all in for a brilliant Gears experience.
It's not just limited to single-player, or brilliant co-op, story moments though, as there's an extensive multiplayer component to the game too, ranging from PvP frays to a glorious horde mode that literally keeps on giving. Her experience has seen her cover console and PC games, along with gaming hardware, for over seven years, and for GamesRadar, she is in charge of reviews, best lists, and the overall running of the site and its staff.
Her gaming passions lie with weird simulation games, big open-world RPGs, and beautifully crafted indies. Halo: Master Chief Collection collects Halo 1, 2, 3 and 4, including every multiplayer map ever released. The result is a jamboree of Halo content that represents a staggering amount of value, with Halo 2, in particular, being the highlight.
This is because Halo 2 is the game given the newest visual treatment in this compilation release, featuring updated textures and all-new cutscenes redone by renowned animation studio Blur. If you want to get started with Halo, look no further. That adventure is none other than Sea of Thieves , an Xbox One exclusive that sets you and a bunch of friends off into the ocean, where you can roleplay as pirates plundering lost treasure and fighting off skeletons.
The entire game exudes this charming claymation-like art style, which works wonders in inspiring both kids and big kids alike to hop on a ship and set sail. Developed by a relatively small indie team, The Ascent is an Xbox exclusive co-op shooter that does a lot with very little.
What else would you expect from a game set in a towering Cyberpunk metropolis. Fighting through waves of enemies is always fun in this twin-stock throwback, however, especially because Xbox players can do so as a team of four. A whimsical metroidvania that sees you venture through various luminous biomes in search of your missing friend, this Xbox One exclusive merges heartfelt storytelling with clever level design.
Picking up immediately after the events of the first game, Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a 2D platformer sequel that improves upon the original by introducing improved combat and a much fairer checkpointing system.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps touts an incredibly unique colour palette, leaning into neon shades that makes the 2D adventure is otherworldly — almost like a fairytale. This combines with beautiful hand-drawn animations, which helps brings characters to life and adds more personality. This objectively great third-person cover shooter literally changed the game back then, going onto to inspire all manner of other games in the genre ever since. This first entry to the gritty Xbox-exclusive franchise received a new coat of paint via Gears of War: Ultimate Edition , which boasted all-new textures, a higher frame rate and other appreciated visual flourishes.
The remaster was handled by new Gears of War developer The Coalition, who were careful to leave the basic bones of the game intact while just sprinkling in a tad more extra polish. There's no shortage of Metroidvania-style platforming games, which makes it hard for any one to stand out.
It has a gorgeous art style, ultra-responsive controls, a bounteous variety of enemies, and a tough-but-fair level of difficulty to its platforming challenges. Tying it all together is a touching story that made us care deeply about these characters and their world almost instantly. It provided an outstanding foundation for the sequel, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, to build on. We played through engaging and epic questlines featuring the voices of Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean!
Whether you yearned to become the Gray Fox of the Thieves Guild or Arch-Mage of the Arcane University, Oblivion is full of engrossing storylines to uncover and lose yourself in. Epic Games may not have invented the third-person cover shooting genre, but the original Gears of War revolutionized it in a stellar cooperative shooter that pushed the Xbox to its limits and kicked off another flagship Xbox game series.
This single-player, co-op, and multiplayer triple threat innovated with its embrace of the second-generation of Xbox Live that made it easy to find a friend playing through the gritty and bloody campaign and drop right in to join them, or just wholesale invite your friends into a party for some pub-stomping in public matchmaking for competitive matches.
Beyond that, you can buy a house, get married, get divorced, kill your best friend, and embrace a freedom of choice not often seen in its time. But above all, what Fable really accomplished was to carve out a wholly unique attitude for itself, cementing a sense of nostalgia that many of us are still chasing to this day.
Forza Horizon is Xbox's Porsche — a franchise that's attractive, powerful, and most importantly, reliable. Forza Horizon is consistently a showcase series for the Xbox consoles, and Forza Horizon 4 is arguably the best among them even today. The way it brings the United Kingdom to life with utterly spectacular sights and sound design is unmatched. Come on, did you really think anything else could ever possibly be 1 on this list?
As one of the all-time best launch games for any console, Halo: Combat Evolved proved to be so good, so influential, and so important to Microsoft that the Xbox might not have made it past its first console generation without it.
The fun comes when you team up with friends. Although the beginnings of a campaign are present, Grounded is, in its current state, a persistent survival game and nothing more.
Ori and the Blind Forest is a beautiful game. Now, we have a sequel, Ori and the Will of the Wisps. Although both games are excellent, Will of the Wisps is superior in almost every way, featuring a larger world, expanded combat, and for the first time in the series, boss battles. The same lovingly crafted world is still intact, with Moon Studios, the developer of the first game, at the helm.
Will of the Wisps picks up immediately after the events of the first game, with the comforting voice of the Spirit Tree guiding your path. Read our Ori and the Will of the Wisps preview. Best played with a friend by your side to slap whenever they win, IDARB is weird, nonsensical, and a whole lot of fun.
Playground Games has proven itself as one of the best racing game developers on the planet, and the studio has outdone itself with Forza Horizon 4.
Read our full Forza Horizon 4 review. If you drool whenever you see a supercar speeding across a track or bask in the reflection of its paint, there is no better place to do it than Forza Motorsport 7. Read our full Forza Motorsport 7 review.
If you do plan on spending money, the characters are available in separate season packs, so you can choose the ones you want the most. The original three Halo games are among the best first-person shooters of all time, delivering an exhilarating and emotional story that slams on the gas and never holds up.
Halo 4 ushered in a new age for the series as developer Industries took over and delivered its own successful vision, set against an entirely new kind of enemy. For the first time, players can use an aim-down-sight ability to better locate their shots with several different weapons, and new powerful special moves allow you to quickly change the momentum in a close match.
The large-scale Warzone mode — which sees Spartans battling alongside vehicles in player-versus-player and player-versus-environment scenarios — is just a bonus. Gears 5 is a massive improvement over Gears of War 4 , showing The Coalition is more than fit to fill the shoes left by Epic Games.
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