Here are 17 great reasons to pick up an Xbox One X this year
Far Cry 5 (PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One – March 27, 2018)
After sending us to the far reaches of Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan mountains, Far Cry is ready to take things home for the first time. Instead of dealing with a despot in a far-flung country, Far Cry 5 takes us to a rural community in Montana under the thumb of a cult. You’ll be doing all the usual Far Cry stuff – driving cars, shooting guns, getting attacked by dangerous animals – against a wholly different backdrop.
The biggest question right now is whether Far Cry 5 can actually do something interesting with its controversial subject matter. Taking the game to a religious cult is a daring move, but it also puts Ubisoft in a precarious position of having to show its game in the same country the game’s antagonists come from.
Jurassic World Evolution (PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One – June 2018)
Who among us hasn’t watched Jurassic Park/City/World/Continent/Planet/Galaxy/Local Cluster and not thought about all the little plot holes that let the park go off the rails? Like, who engineers a super T-Rex? Who employs one (extremely shady) cybersecurity guy that can be out-hacked by a 13-year-old? Who breeds flying and swimming dinosaurs when you’re trying to keep them contained on an island?
Well, now’s our chance. Jurassic World Evolution promises to let us run the park ourselves, dealing with all the emergencies that come up. Maybe we can find a way around all those plot holes and make a successful park that doesn’t get countless paying customers murdered.
Metro Exodus (PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One – Fall 2018)
Many of us missed out on Metro: 2033 and Metro: Last Light, but there’s no denying that the Metro: Exodus trailer above looks damn good.
The Metro games have always been good looking, and Exodus is no exception. Exodus takes the series above ground, and video we’ve seen so far suggests it might be somewhat of an open world game. With the game hitting this fall, we’re looking forward to hearing more at E3.
Monster Hunter World (PlayStation 4, Xbox One – January 26, 2018/ PC – Fall 2018)
Monster Hunter started its life on PlayStation, but it’s been a Nintendo handheld game for what seems like forever. Now, Capcom is bringing it back to consoles and hoping to make it a bit more accessible. The world of Monster Hunter World is one big open world rather than a series of zones separated by loading screens, and it’s set in a lush, living ecosystem made of interacting monsters. I sat down with the public beta and it looks like it’s going to be a riot to play and it might even call to mind the feel of Capcom’s 2013 game Dragon’s Dogma – just with the option for multiplayer.
Yes please.
Red Dead Redemption 2 (PlayStation 4, Xbox One – Spring 2018)
Let’s not pretend there’s any game we’re more excited about this year. Rockstar takes its time. Red Dead Redemption hit in 2010 and left an indelible mark on gaming. 8 years later, it’s still a great-looking game and offers one of the most compelling open worlds out there. But we’re in a post GTAV world.
We don’t know much about Red Dead Redemption 2, other than that it’s a prequel to the original, and we’re playing as someone other than John Marston, the original’s hero. Rockstar is playing close to the vest. The game was set to hit this fall, but the company delayed it into this spring.
And as great as Grand Theft Auto V is, that game was originally built with last-gen consoles in mind. Red Dead Redemption 2 is built for modern consoles (but not PC, so far), so it should be even more impressive an accomplishment than Rockstar’s last outing.
We don’t have a hard date for it yet, but we can expect it sometime this spring.
Sea of Thieves (PC, Xbox One – March 20, 2018)
Depending on who you ask, pirates are deadly serious or seriously funny. One of this year’s two big pirate games decided to go the seriously-funny route. Rare’s been working on a lot of weird projects the last few years, concentrating on Kinect games, but now the studio is back on its own project, and its own IP. That IP is Sea of Thieves, a game that can best be described as a pirate simulator.
This is a massively multiplayer game designed to simulate as many aspects of being a pirate as possible. You can follow treasure maps to find buried treasure. You can repair your ship and bail water. You can drink grog and sing sea shanties. But it’s all done in this multiplayer world with goofy-looking cartoonish pirates, and it’s tailored to help give players stories to tell of silly, wild adventures. If you have a group of friends you play games with, this could be a must-have game and a good palate cleanser after something intense like PUBG.
Skull Bones (PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One – 2018)
Sea of Thieves isn’t the only pirate game coming this year, though. At E3 2017, Ubisoft showed off the game we’ve all been waiting for since Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Skull Bones promises a game filled with everyone’s favorite part of Black Flag – the ship battles.
Ubisoft has had a good run with games like Rainbow 6: Siege and For Honor that focus on online play, and this looks to be more of that. I’m not complaining.
Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2018/01/07/xbox-one-most-anticipated-2018/