Life is Strange: True Colours is the first in the series of adventure games to release as a whole batch rather than episodically. You play as Alex Chen, a mind-reader who’s accepted an offer from her estranged brother to move to a painfully twee town in the Rockies. ![]() Purchase From: Microsoft Store | Amazon Australia | Big W | JB Hi-Fi Life is Strange: True Colours Image: Square Enix Not A Good Match For: Folks with packed schedules. You just might get your ass kicked by a building-sized immortal god who feasts on the bones of fallen soldiers.Ī Good Match For: All of you who wished Xbox had its own version of BotW or Bloodborne. Absent heavy-handed direction, you can go wherever you want. It’s not just “an open-world game.” It is, in perhaps a way no other game has done since Nintendo’s Breath of the Wild, an open-world game that reimagines what an open world can be. ![]() (The studio’s hit game Bloodborne is currently PS4-only, while a recent remake of Demon’s Souls was exclusive to PS5.) But Elden Ring, the studio’s latest chart-smashing hit, is easily one of the best games on Xbox Series X/S. You may associate legendary developer FromSoft’s oeuvre with PlayStation. Purchase from: Microsoft Store | Amazon Australia | Big W | JB Hi-Fi Elden Ring Image: From Software Also, folks who prefer linear adventures and people who have stepped on LEGO bricks. Not A Good Match For: Serious or boring people. Just one catch: There is sadly no online co-op.Ī Good Match For: Star Wars fans, LEGO lovers, younger kids, fans of collect-a-thons, and people who like silly things. Even if you don’t love Star Wars or LEGO as much as the most devoted fans, Skywalker Saga is still worth checking out-especially if you have younger kids and want something fun to play with them. At times it’s hard to tell if you are playing a game or just watching real LEGO ships fly around. How could a Star Wars fan not be excited by a game that contains all nine main films and then combines them into one giant open-world video game package, complete with hundreds of sidequests, planets, characters, ships, and missions? And all of it is recreated in incredible detail using LEGO bricks and pieces. This is the Star Wars game you’ve been waiting for ever since you first saw the films back as a young kid. Purchase From: Microsoft Store LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Image: Warner Bros. ![]() Not A Good Match For: Anyone hoping to bust out THPS-style million-point combos. Y’know, like real snowboarding.Ī Good Match For: Fans of Skate, Session, and similar games. But you will slowly learn to master a bag of tricks: measured spins, stylish butters, steezy grinds. You won’t grind down a lift line and stomp a quadruple backflip with the push of a button. Like Skate and other action sports games of its ilk, Shredders puts a focus on realism. Some models of the Xbox One, you see, couldn’t render Shredders at a high enough frame rate-essential for the type of smooth, precise tricks that comprise its gameplay. Yes, the snowboarding sim is part of a rare class of games available on next-gen Xbox consoles but not last-gen ones. Shredders is one of the best games on Xbox Series X/S, and not just because it’s one of the few games truly on Xbox Series X/S. The best games for the Xbox Series X / S Shredders Image: FoamPunch This article has been updated since its original publication. With all that in mind, here are the best Xbox Series X / S games. For $15.95 a month, you can access a library of more than 100 Xbox games, including first-party exclusives and a rotating slew of third-party hits. There’s also the matter of a little service called Game Pass. A good rule of thumb is this: If it was playable on the Xbox One, it’s playable on the Xbox Series X and S. Yes, the Xbox Series X and S are basically souped-up Xbox Ones, which means you’ll rarely be pressed for awesome games to play. Though you can technically play all of them elsewhere, they perform notably better on these new consoles. (In other words: sharper resolutions and higher framerates.) Amid the 30 or so “optimized” games, there are some true gems. Meanwhile, a handful of legacy Xbox One titles have received “optimized” versions for the Series X and S. Instead, Xbox games are often released in both last-gen and next-gen versions. So far, there are few true next-gen exclusives. ![]() That’s not exactly the case with Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, at least not yet. BTW - prices are accurate and items in stock at the time of posting.Ī new console generation usually means a new library of games. We have affiliate and advertising partnerships, which means we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. At Kotaku, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you'll like too.
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