But 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand might be the only game that allows you to play as a famous rapper roaming through the desert in search of a crystal skull.
BotS is not known for its advanced graphics or thoughtful storytelling. It is in fact quite vulgar, which only adds to its appeal. But who can resist the sheer ridiculousness of leading Curtis Jackson III himself through a taunt-riddled desert showdown? Yes, a game starring 50 Cent is worth playing as a backward compatible title.
View at Xbox Store. The violence depicted in the stealth-survival horror game was objectionable enough to warrant a failed piece of legislation. Regardless of how you feel about violence in video games, this scandalizing context makes Manhunt sound pretty cool.
Especially if your parents never let you own it. Still, this offbeat Xbox classic certainly possesses many unique characteristics that set it apart from the rest.
For example, it has an orb-powered remote NPC control system, a funky TB acid bassline-driven soundtrack. Perfect for a backward compatible pick. Set in demon-infested feudal Japan, this hack-and-slash action series follows Raikoh Minamoto through the Imperial Capital and the Underworld.
The developers have created a standard top-down dungeon crawler, but imbued it with enough soul to lead critics to herald it as advancing the medium as a whole. Hell, Bastion does nearly everything right. It provides a strong narrative, excellent art direction, innovative sound design, and plain-old fun gameplay. If you enjoy arcade mechanics or even just RPGs, this is not something to miss. If there was a game that could be physically modest, this would be it. Check the XBLA marketplace for sales and other discounts.
At the most basic level, Pac-Man CE is a remake. Yet somehow, impossibly, critics have taken to calling it a masterpiece. If you thought playing in an arcade was fun, wait til you get on Xbox Live. Let me reassure you: this is a title that will one day be heralded as a landmark of contemporary art.
From the innovation of the mechanics to the passionate depth of the narrative, Braid stands as a collection of some of the best design the medium has to offer. Blow has imbued with the game with a voice and personality. At times the game is challenging, in other moments, deviously simple. The sound design is affectingly symphonic.
The story, while left artfully open to personal interpretation, speaks boldly to the themes of timing and memory. Five years later, almost nothing has changed. Everyone loves to hate Phil Fish. It turns average gamers into zealous conspiracy theorists, usually overnight. Ultimately, though, Phil Fish worked tirelessly to make it more than that. Every small setting and collectable is a piece of a larger, overarching puzzle that only the most feverishly dedicated will solve.
No one does horror well anymore. All of the biggest franchises Dead Space, Resident Evil , etc. Survival horror, like its cinematic counterpart, requires a detachment from the formulaic design of modern blockbusters. The puzzles, narrative, sound design, and art direction found here are some of the absolute best this generation has to offer. You take on the role of Eivor, a Viking warrior tasked with settling their people in England, and it's a rip-roaring tale to enjoy.
If you like third-person shooters then Control offers up one that'll feel quite unlike any you've previously played, thanks to its stratospherically weird paranormal storyline. Both in terms of gameplay and ambiance, Control is utterly original, very distinctive and deeply satisfying, thanks to a decent roster of side-missions and challenges beyond the main story. A delightful sequel to Ori and the Blind Forest, this lovely platformer will win you over with gorgeous artwork and smooth, satisfying gameplay.
It's an impressive package through and through, and can also scale up to give a serious challenge if you crank up the difficulty. Its gentle story and characterful animations should live long in the memory. This is a splendid remaster of one of the most endearing platform game series of the 90s. Developer Toys for Bob even got the voice actor for the two sequels to revoice Spyro in the first for continuity.
Not just one of the best driving games on the Xbox One, Forza Horizon 5 is one of the best on any games machine. Its Mexican setting works wonderfully for providing great variety in race styles and conditions. It looks unbelievable and has so much content to offer up. The Hitman reboot was a great episodic adventure but the newest sequel is even better - possibly the best stealth game ever, in fact.
You'll need patience but the sheer number of ways to complete each assassination mission make it a game you will come back to again and again. This game also upgrades the episodes of the first two entries, so you can revisit them too using the new and improved game engine.
Whatever Bethesda may believe, and whatever the tastes of millennials, Doom is all about its single-player campaign, which is a blood-smattered brilliant beast of a game.
It's extensive, insanely hectic, unbelievably satisfying, gloriously gory to behold, and more than worthy update of the classic original. The original Resident Evil 2's horror dynamics garnered a huge amount of praise at the time.
The remake makes the maximum use of modern technology to take them to an even higher plane. As a result the new Resident Evil 2 is an absolute tour de force - it's nothing less than an object lesson in how to remake an old game.
The last part of Lara Croft's origin trilogy is also the best. It is bigger than her previous two outings, has a more involving storyline and plenty of tombs to raid. The skill tree and role-playing elements are superbly realised and the graphics are simply stunning at times - especially when presented in 4K on an Xbox One X. Monster Hunter: World proves to be gloriously addictive and endlessly charming, offering an open world experience like few others.
Environments are teeming with life and the RPG elements are great and easy to get to grips with, even to franchise newcomers. You'll soon find yourself addicted to both its charm and challenges. Much like us. Sadly, while Battlefront I and II offered great multiplayer action and authentic visuals, they lacked in story or depth.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order makes up for it in spades, with an expansive single-player campaign and gameplay that feels like a cross between Dark Souls and Tomb Raider. The force is strong in this one. Sea of Thieves represents a risky approach to create a gameplay experience which feels fresh and unique.
But it succeeds. It might just be the first game to nail the knotty conundrum of providing the tools with which gamers can create their own narratives. As anyone who has played a Dark Souls game would expect, Dark Souls 3 is huge, gothic, creepy, studded with bosses which, when you first encounter them, seem impossibly daunting, yet irresistibly addictive. At times, you will curse the impulse which propels you back into its fetid world, as you struggle to advance even a couple of hundred metres.
But the pay-off is that any small triumphs you manage to pull off will be so hard-won that they feel like mighty victories. It can lead to some seriously bonkers battles. While No Man's Sky was criticised a fair amount straight after launch, continual updates and content patches have arrived to turn it into the space exploration game we all originally hoped for.
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