![]() Everything is so utterly ridiculous, enjoyably so. The crowning achievement of Gears of War is its over-the-top combat. It’s something entirely different, something special and weird.- Garrett Martin It’s not like dancing, and it’s not like playing in a band or DJing at a bar. I’m bouncing around, working up my heart rate, hurling my arms in every direction, pulling in keyboards and clarinets, muting guitars and drum machines, sculpting solos with my hands, and feeling a connection to music and to a game that I’ve never felt before. The end result is one of the most exhilarating games I’ve ever played. It’s about exploring music and the possibilities of sound, letting me literally reshape them with my hands. Here are the 50 best of them.įantasia: Music Evolved isn’t about turning music into a sequence of buttons to mash, or about the nostalgia of a classic movie. We didn’t factor in those 360 games for this list, but we also didn’t have to: there were more than enough great games made with the Xbox One in mind. And if none of these newfangled games do it for you, it can also play over 600 Xbox 360 games, so those discs don’t just have to sit on your shelf until the next time you hook your old 360 back up. But Microsoft helped release some of the most interesting games of the generation, like Superhot and Cuphead, and the Xbox One can play dozens of the top third party games. It’s a little short on great exclusives-Microsoft tried to launch new franchises with Sunset Overdrive and Ryse, but despite both having a lot to like, neither were fully successful artistically or commercially, and series like Gears of War and Halo feel depleted at this point. ![]() Still, despite its issues, the Xbox One is home to some fantastic videogames. With the next version of the Xbox scheduled to come out this Fall, the Xbox One is ready to fade out from a scene it never fully arrived on. It’s kind of a shame: not only did Microsoft have some interesting ambitions with the system when it launched, but later Xbox One revisions (namely the Xbox One X, which is the most powerful console on the market today) offered a notable boost in performance. Even though that latter idea was squashed before launch, and the Kinect was gradually killed off starting in 2014, the damage was done: the Xbox One has sold less than half the number of units as the PlayStation 4, and has already been outsold by the Nintendo Switch, which came out over three years later. It launched in 2013 under a cloud of bad press, due largely to its dependence on the Kinect motion sensor and a pre-release DRM plan to require every console to go online at least once a day. ![]()
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