Xbox One games of tomorrow - six mystery titles we're dying to uncover
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Just twenty one days to go till we'll have our pick of twenty two launch games for the Xbox One. There are plenty more next gen games on the way next year and beyond - Titanfall is the title that springs first to mind, naturally - some of which are so shiny, new and barely there at all that we don't even know their names.
Here are six projects that could prove to be very exciting indeed, once the publishers in question get round to parting the mists. Not planning to jump aboard the Xbox One bandwagon any time soon? This whopping list of forthcoming Xbox 360 games may be more interesting, then.
The Mass Effect universe is simply too dense, too rich and too stuffed with delicious creamy promise not to revisit, even after the conclusion of Shepard's story. We know a fourth entry to the franchise is in the works, but Bioware has remained tight-lipped about the particulars. It has said, however - via the mouth of Mass Effect 3's lead writer Mac Walters on IGN - that the new title "has to be Mass Effect. It can't just feel like a spin-off". A proper numbered entry, then?
Alien: Isolation
Now, think of the original Alien film,
Imagine the kind of game that first scenario might inspire. By the sounds of things, that's the kind of game Sega has up its sleeve next, after a painful lesson in what fans want from the franchise. The recently filed trademark "Alien: Isolation" is evocative enough, but if various rumours surrounding the game are to be believed, it's the long-suffering Alien fanboy's dream. Developed by Creative Assembly, it's allegedly a first person stealth and horror game that stars the daughter of one Lieutenant Ellen Ripley, and is inspired by the likes of Dishonored and Bioshock. If any of these details turn out to be true, we may finally get the Alien game we've all been waiting for and, as Ed speculated way back at the start of the year, it could well save the struggling franchise
Black Tusk's upcoming game
Black Tusk, the studio formerly known as Microsoft Vancouver, has been frustratingly silent about its new triple A franchise, which has been in development for roughly a year now. So silent, in fact, that the game doesn't even have a name yet. According to Log's feature on the subject, any chat from Microsoft on the project refers to it as the "next big entertainment franchise," which would seem to indicate that it may go the way of Quantum Break, and include non-gaming elements.
Microsoft's big Japanese exclusive
Microsoft has reaffirmed its dedication to the Japanese market this generation, but has yet to say all that much about its plans for the region
Spencer told the mag. "I think we'll be announcing these titles once the Xbox One release date draws closer. Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey on the Xbox 360 were wonderful experiences, and I'm looking forward to forming partnerships with new developers for this system as well." Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey you say, Phil? We'll happy take some of that, too, if it's going spare
A new Gears of War
Chatting on IGN's Podcast Unlocked, Phil Spencer may have put a damper on hopes of a next gen Gears of War, but it seems unlikely that Epic's chainsaw-toting franchise is gone forever. The last instalment in the series, Judgment, was a good game, disagreements about spelling aside, but didn't sell all that well. Perhaps once Epic has given the series some time out of the limelight to rest up, it could make a triumphant return with all guns blazing later in the platform's life - once its legend has had a few years to flourish in the minds of both fans and newcomers.
Crackdown 3
Basically, if Crackdown 3 doesn't happen, Phil Spencer is in serious doo-doo. The title was first teased long ago, when dinosaurs ruled the earth and the Xbox One still mandated an internet connection - an Agility Orb icon is visible on a slide from Microsoft's reveal presentation. These things don't happen by accident. Fanning the flames a few months later at Gamescom, Spencer told Eurogamer that "[Crackdown] was one of my favourite games on Xbox 360. We did a really nice job on the first one. The second one, I wish we'd have given it more time to build out the complete game.
http://www.oxm.co.uk/65274/features...row-six-mystery-titles-were-dying-to-uncover/
Just twenty one days to go till we'll have our pick of twenty two launch games for the Xbox One. There are plenty more next gen games on the way next year and beyond - Titanfall is the title that springs first to mind, naturally - some of which are so shiny, new and barely there at all that we don't even know their names.
Here are six projects that could prove to be very exciting indeed, once the publishers in question get round to parting the mists. Not planning to jump aboard the Xbox One bandwagon any time soon? This whopping list of forthcoming Xbox 360 games may be more interesting, then.
The Mass Effect universe is simply too dense, too rich and too stuffed with delicious creamy promise not to revisit, even after the conclusion of Shepard's story. We know a fourth entry to the franchise is in the works, but Bioware has remained tight-lipped about the particulars. It has said, however - via the mouth of Mass Effect 3's lead writer Mac Walters on IGN - that the new title "has to be Mass Effect. It can't just feel like a spin-off". A proper numbered entry, then?
Alien: Isolation
Now, think of the original Alien film,
Imagine the kind of game that first scenario might inspire. By the sounds of things, that's the kind of game Sega has up its sleeve next, after a painful lesson in what fans want from the franchise. The recently filed trademark "Alien: Isolation" is evocative enough, but if various rumours surrounding the game are to be believed, it's the long-suffering Alien fanboy's dream. Developed by Creative Assembly, it's allegedly a first person stealth and horror game that stars the daughter of one Lieutenant Ellen Ripley, and is inspired by the likes of Dishonored and Bioshock. If any of these details turn out to be true, we may finally get the Alien game we've all been waiting for and, as Ed speculated way back at the start of the year, it could well save the struggling franchise
Black Tusk's upcoming game
Black Tusk, the studio formerly known as Microsoft Vancouver, has been frustratingly silent about its new triple A franchise, which has been in development for roughly a year now. So silent, in fact, that the game doesn't even have a name yet. According to Log's feature on the subject, any chat from Microsoft on the project refers to it as the "next big entertainment franchise," which would seem to indicate that it may go the way of Quantum Break, and include non-gaming elements.
Microsoft's big Japanese exclusive
Microsoft has reaffirmed its dedication to the Japanese market this generation, but has yet to say all that much about its plans for the region
Spencer told the mag. "I think we'll be announcing these titles once the Xbox One release date draws closer. Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey on the Xbox 360 were wonderful experiences, and I'm looking forward to forming partnerships with new developers for this system as well." Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey you say, Phil? We'll happy take some of that, too, if it's going spare
A new Gears of War
Chatting on IGN's Podcast Unlocked, Phil Spencer may have put a damper on hopes of a next gen Gears of War, but it seems unlikely that Epic's chainsaw-toting franchise is gone forever. The last instalment in the series, Judgment, was a good game, disagreements about spelling aside, but didn't sell all that well. Perhaps once Epic has given the series some time out of the limelight to rest up, it could make a triumphant return with all guns blazing later in the platform's life - once its legend has had a few years to flourish in the minds of both fans and newcomers.
Crackdown 3
Basically, if Crackdown 3 doesn't happen, Phil Spencer is in serious doo-doo. The title was first teased long ago, when dinosaurs ruled the earth and the Xbox One still mandated an internet connection - an Agility Orb icon is visible on a slide from Microsoft's reveal presentation. These things don't happen by accident. Fanning the flames a few months later at Gamescom, Spencer told Eurogamer that "[Crackdown] was one of my favourite games on Xbox 360. We did a really nice job on the first one. The second one, I wish we'd have given it more time to build out the complete game.
