I have a healthy respect for aimless, open-ended games that let us play and explore at our own pace. And boy, does it feel good to be home.- Patrick Lindsey It’s something much better, much more pure.
But DOOM (2016) isn’t a departure or a reimagining. You may argue that a good sequel’s job is to iterate on past successes, to further develop mechanics, or to evolve a title to the next step in its life cycle. That has always has been DOOM, and id’s legacy has been rekindled with DOOM (2016). In that way, Oxenfree recreates that sense of self-mortification that should be most acute during your teenaged years, and how we’re not always capable of saying what we want to say.- Garrett Martin Even Alex, the character you control, can occasionally rankle with her petty reactions and annoying humor. No matter how believable these characters and their relationships can be, though, you might find yourself wanting to get away from them altogether, especially early in the game. Oxenfree captures the vicissitudes of friendship, especially the heightened passions of teenage friendship. Inside is a bit more defined than Limbo, though, replacing that game’s more nature-based fears with Orwellian overtones and a dystopia run by man, and then making your own character complicit in the same kind of mind control that’s ruined his town.- Garrett Martin The boy you control will die suddenly and frequently in violently graphic ways, and the world he explores is almost entirely cast in shadow. Like Limbo before it, Inside is a dark puzzle game set in a deadly and oppressive world. I came into this game hoping it wouldn’t be “just another Dark Souls game.” But I’m glad that’s what I got.- Suriel Vazquez It doesn’t make sweeping changes to the series’ structure or rhythms, but just this one time, it can get away with tugging at familiar heart strings.
And by sprucing up those moments, it gives new players a chance to finally understand why these games matter. As a comprehensive second draft of the best moments from the series, it left me with fond memories of everything I love about these games. I enjoyed almost all of my time with it, but I’m not sure if I’d want another game like this to come by for a long time. If the alien invasion genre is really all about humanity and how it gets tested, then this game mobilizes that genre in order to frame the individual player being put to the test at all times.- Cameron Kunzelmanĭark Souls III would be a fitting end to a videogame series, and we don’t get many of those. That final factor is the core strength of XCOM 2, and it is what elevates it beyond yet another tactical game in an ever-growing genre. XCOM 2 is the most extreme opposite from base management to isometric choice, requiring that you take risks, move quickly and generally understand that you’re always going to be between a rock and a hard place when it comes to making decisions that get the job done and minimize risk to your soldiers. XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a boring game in the sense that to solve it means to operate it like the most undependable machine. It’s a diverse line-up of experiences that reveals how strong 2016 was, not just for the Xbox One, but for games in general.
It includes big-budget shooters and action endeavors, higher-minded narrative fare, retro-tinged abstractions, a sprawling Japanese role-playing game, and even a sports game. The best Xbox One games of the year represents perhaps the most well-rounded collection of games in recent memory. It’s hard to imagine Xbox One owners complaining about this, though, as they still had more good new games to play through then they could probably manage.
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There aren’t a lot of Xbox One exclusives on this list-a few games had brief windows of exclusivity before appearing for PC or the PlayStation, and a couple still aren’t available on Sony’s system-and even Microsoft seems to have even acknowledged how exclusives have lost significance by usually releasing its own major games for both the Xbox One and the PC. It was a fitting final major release for a year that emphasized how the importance of exclusives has waned. The Xbox One capped off a fine 2016 by welcoming Stardew Valley, one of the year’s most beloved PC games, to its lineup in December.
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