What to Play in 2015: Xbox One

We continue to talk about video games, which should be released during 2015. Today, in the field of our vision, the game console of Microsoft - Xbox One has got. In Russia, this console is sold since September 2014, and it must be said that it is already quite well known among Russian gamers.

So, I will remind you that my author's project tells about the most vivid video games of the current year, in which the owners of this or that gaming platform can play. The last material was dedicated to the Sony PlayStation 4 console, I strongly recommend that you familiarize yourself with it too.

Some multiplatform games will be duplicated in several materials, so do not be surprised at this. Once again I would like to focus your attention on the fact that I simply can not physically list all the releases of 2015. Therefore, I will focus exclusively on the most curious projects that attracted my attention.

Resident Evil HD

Genre: Survival Horror
Exclusivity: also released on Xbox 360, PS3, PS4 and PC
Release date in Russia: January 20

I think that any connoisseur of the genre Survival Horror knows and loves the Japanese series of video games Biohazard, known throughout the rest of the world as Resident Evil. The first game of the series was released in the distant 1996 on the Sony PlayStation console and immediately won the hearts of players incredible at the time graphics, enveloping the atmosphere and the blood-chilling horror that is happening on the screen. This is today the series turned into a fairly mediocre shooter, and in those years it was a real revelation and frightened players much more than now. Remake of the very first game is waiting for very many, especially those who once loved the original with all their heart. Wait is not very long, because the game will be released on January 20, 2015.

Evolve

Genre: Action / FPS
Exclusivity: also released on the PlayStation 4 and PC
Released in Russia: February 10

The game, which is the spiritual heir of the Left 4 Dead series. Multiplayer shooter, in which a team of four hunter players is forced to fight with a monster, which controls the opposing player. Characters are divided into four classes: support fighters, stormtroopers, pathfinders and physicians. Together they must be a well-coordinated team, otherwise the monster will deal with them quickly enough. Monsters in the game are also four classes, but each of them is able to evolve during the game, taking an even more dangerous form for the hunters. To evolve, the monster must hunt for a different fauna that lives on the game cards, and accumulate special glasses. After accumulating a certain number of points, he can pupate and regenerate in a more perfect form.

Dead or Alive 5: Last Round

Genre: Fighting
Exclusivity: also released on Xbox 360, PS3, PS4 and PC
Release date in Russia: February 17

This is the third improved version of the popular fighting game, which is primarily famous for the fact that many of its "heroines" have, as it were more correct to say, very magnificent forms. The game will acquire one new girl-fighter, a new boss-cyborg, as well as a slightly updated graphical component in the versions for the PC and next-generation consoles. Connoisseurs of fighting games and pyshnogrudyh girls game will definitely like it. As for the rest of the audience - it's a matter of taste.

Screamride

Genre: Simulator / Tycoon
Exclusivity: yes
Release date in Russia: March 6

Exclusive to the console Xbox One game Screamride is the ideological successor of the series Roller Coaster Tycoon. You will be available 50 levels and three game modes, each of which gives you a unique role. The first mode will allow you to become an engineer of an amusement park. You will build a roller coaster and various amusement facilities for your visitors. The second mode will allow you to become a visitor to your own park and ride on the attractions you have created. And in the "expert destruction" mode, the player can wreak havoc and destruction in his park, as literally everything in this game can be broken. This game promises to be very fun, so we reserve ourselves with patience until early March.

Project CARS

Genre: Simulator
Exclusivity: also will be released on PS4, Wii U and PC
Release date in Russia: March 17

One of the most beautiful and realistic car simulators in the world, finally, is ready to show us its final appearance. The game was transferred several times to bring to mind, but the players are already too long for waiting. The game will offer us a lot of game modes, which include rallies, races on maps, GT and even 24 hours of Le Mans. You can play alone or over the network with friends. The game will also include more than 60 licensed cars, more than 35 existing racing tracks, and an editor with which players can edit their cars as they want. In other words, we have a serious contender for the title of the main competitor of the Gran Turismo series.

Battlefield Hardline

Genre: FPS
Exclusivity: also released on Xbox 360, PS3, PS4 and PC
Release date in Russia: March 19, 2015

Many fans of first-person shooters have already tried out a new EA game during its beta testing. Your humble servant also played it on the PlayStation 4 console. What can I say: visually the game was not far from Battlefield 4, since they were developed on the same engine. But, based on the sensations of the gameplay, we can assume that this game is a mixture of GTA V, Battlefield, Counter Strike and Payday: The Heist. It seems that the producers of EA just decided: why not take a few popular games and not put them together? What of all this will be difficult to say for the time being. The beta version was too short to be able to draw confident conclusions. We'll live till March and see.

Inside

Genre: Platformer
Exclusivity: temporary exclusive Xbox One and Xbox 360, later released on PS3, PS4 and PC
Date of release in Russia: March 2015

Inside is the spiritual heir to the cult black and white platformer Limbo from the studio Playdead. The developers have been working on the project for over three and a half years and have invested all their experience in it. The game tells us about a gloomy and even frightening anti-utopia, a world in which people look alike in their "grayness." And only one boy decides to break out of this world. He has to go through a lot of severe tests to defeat the system and at the same time stay alive. Personally for me, this project is one of the most anticipated this year.

Mortal Kombat X

Genre: Fighting
Exclusivity: also released on Xbox 360, PS3, PS4 and PC
Date of release: April 14

The tenth part in the account (after deduction of spin-offs) of the cult of fighting game Mortal Kombat will be released in April this year. The developers promise us even more brutal fights for Fatality, even more cinematic gameplay with carefully elaborated characters, even more special tricks and combo chains, and much, much more. Do I need to change something in this already wonderful series? I think that development should be exceptionally qualitative and quantitative, but the basic idea of ​​the series should not be radically changed in any case. Since the game is released simultaneously on five platforms, including those on the consoles of the previous generation, one should not expect any revelation from it in terms of graphics. But after all, Mortal Kombat always pleased us not so much with graphics, as amazingly spectacular battles.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Genre: Action / RPG
Exclusivity: also released on the PlayStation 4 and PC
Release date in Russia: May 19

If this year the main role-playing game was Dragon Age: Inquisition, then next year this title is claimed by The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt from the Polish studio CD Projekt RED. Continuation of the adventures of the fearless witch Geralt of Rivia will immerse you in a unique atmosphere of gloomy fantasy, which has never looked so beautiful. The developers promise us a game world that is 30 times larger than the previous two games and even 20% more than the world map in Skyrim. To finish the plot of the game, you have to spend at least 50 hours, and to go through additional sidequests, you will have to spend another 50 hours on the screen. Impressive, is not it?

Batman: Arkham Knight

Genre: Action / Adventure
Exclusivity: also released on the PlayStation 4 and PC
Release date in Russia: June 2

Finally, a series of games about Batman will move to a new generation of gaming consoles and will acquire an absolutely incredible graphics. The game before it looked surprisingly cool, and now it will become simply irresistible. The size of the game world at times exceeds everything that you saw in its previous parts. And given that his site Dark Knight can go around on the Batmobile, many can not wait to touch this game as soon as possible. It's sad only to realize that this game will be a triumphant conclusion of this series.

Dead Island 2

Genre: Action / RPG / Survival Horror
Exclusivity: also released on the PlayStation 4 and PC
Date of release in Russia: spring 2015

Continuation of the rather popular in certain circles horror-action game about zombies, which was born in 2011. Personally, I did not like the first game, but for sure there will be those people who do not like the soul in it. But for what I like these games, it's for incredibly cool trailers. You just watch the video a little higher - how can you not fall in love with it? If you think about it, too many zombie games are released this year: Dying Light, Dead Island 2, DayZ, H1N1 and many others. As though this theme has not become boring to people.

Quantum Break

Genre: Action / Third-Person Shooter
Exclusivity: yes
Released in Russia: Fall 2015

One of the main projects for Xbox One in 2015, along with Halo 5. The game from the creators of Max Payne and Alan Wake - Finnish studio Remedy Entertainment. The story of the game is twisted around an unsuccessful experiment in time travel, as a result of which the three main characters of the game gained a unique ability to manage the course of time. One of the newly appeared "superheroes" pursues very bad goals, and the two remaining characters try to stop him. This is not so easy to do, because a villain can look into the future and knows in advance how it will be most correct to do so as not to get caught. Visually, the game is very good: you will literally feel like the lord of time with all these amazing effects (see the video above). In general, we will wait for autumn and personally we will estimate this fascinating history.

Tom Clancy's The Division

Genre: Action / Adventure
Exclusivity: also released on the PlayStation 4 and PC
Released in Russia: Fall 2015

To be honest, I'm not very inclined to trust Ubisoft studio in terms of the level of graphics that we were shown in beautiful videos about this game. In the end, everything may not be as rosy as many might have imagined. We've already got a truncated visual component in Watch Dogs and Far Cry 4. The same thing can eventually happen with Tom Clancy's The Division. Marketing in the world of video games is a cruel thing. I remind you that the game will tell you how a group of special agents is trying to maintain order in post-apocalyptic New York, clearing the city of marauders and saving defenseless civilians.

Assassin's Creed: Victory

Genre: Action / Adventure
Exclusivity: also released on the PlayStation 4 and PC
Release date in Russia: 2015

Traditionally, at the end of the year will be released a new part of the Assassin's Creed saga, the events of which will unfold in Victorian England. If in Unity you could climb the Notre Dame Cathedral, then in Victory you will have the opportunity to climb the top of the Clock Tower of Westminster Palace, which many mistakenly call Big Ben. In fact, Big Ben is just the name of the largest bell located in this tower. To explore London at that time was a very tempting prospect. After the incredibly beautiful Unity, I myself can not wait to touch this game. Another thing is that we probably will have a sea of ​​bugs, which are famous for the latest games of the publishing house Ubisoft, but let's not talk about sad things. Given that the official announcement of the game was not yet, and instead, several frames of the game flowed away from the game process, it may happen that the project will be released only in 2016. Keep this in mind.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Genre: Stealth / Action
Exclusivity: also released on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and PC
Release date in Russia: 2015

The fifth game about giant humanoid robots and seasoned agent Snake in a cardboard box should go on sale before the end of this year. The game promises us a gigantic open world for exploration and a ton of epic moments with the inherent inclusions of witty humor inherent in the developer MGS Hideo Kojima. Be prepared for the incredible plot twists, from which you will capture the spirit, as well as to the new voice of the protagonist, now voiced not by David Hayter, but (!!!) Kiefer Sutherland! Yes, yes, the same actor who played the role of the unbeaten Jack Bauer from the series "24 hours".

Rise of the Tomb Raider

Genre: Action / Adventure
Exclusivity: temporary exclusive Xbox One, later released on other platforms
Release date in Russia: 2015

The company Microsoft decided to go on a customary path for itself and simply redeem the temporary exclusivity of the next game of the Tomb Raider series. After all, the competing PlayStation 4 platform already has a blockbuster of the genre Adventure - Uncharted 4, but the Redmond company does not have such a trump card in its sleeve. Owners of other gaming platforms will either have to purchase Xbox One to play the game, or wait for their turn, which may come six months later, or even a year after the initial release. But will this game be so good that it's worth it to buy a Microsoft console for it?

Mad Max

Genre: Action / Adventure / Racing
Exclusivity: also released on Xbox 360, PS3, PS4 and PC
Release date in Russia: 2015

In the camp of the fans of the films "Mad Max" is a real holiday. Not only will it soon be possible to restart the original franchise in theaters, so they also develop a game of the same name. While little is known about the game. We know that it will be possible to fight both with traditional weapons like shotguns and rifles, and with the help of various vehicles. The hero will be able to make weapons and improve it. The same can be done with their cars.

Halo 5: The Guardians

Genre: FPS
Exclusivity: yes
Release date in Russia: 2015

The main blockbuster of Microsoft this year. The Halo series is the company's golden milk cow, into which fabulous money is swallowed. The original game designer Bungie has outgrown Halo and started her new project Destiny, so the new game is being developed by the 343 Industries studio, which previously released Halo 4. The project promises to be very ambitious, but many franchise fans are seriously afraid that Microsoft will not cope and the game will much worse than their predecessors. These fears do have reasons, because Halo: The Master Chief Collection, published last year, suffered from numerous shortcomings and problems with the network component. Whether Microsoft will be able to bring the project to mind in 2015 - time will tell.

Scalebound

Genre: Action
Exclusivity: yes
Release date in Russia: 2015

Scalebound is an exclusive game for the Xbox One console developed by Platinum Games, which has given us action games such as Vanquish, Bayonetta and MadWorld. The plot of the game takes you to a distant and hostile world, inhabited by giant monsters, simultaneously reminiscent of dinosaurs and dragons. While nothing is known about the game, but knowing the level of quality of the remaining projects of this studio, you can be firmly confident in only one thing: the game will be very exciting.

Crackdown

Genre: Action / Third-Person Shooter
Exclusivity: yes
Release date in Russia: 2015

I'm not quite sure whether Microsoft's internal studios will be able to release this game this year, but if they succeed, it will be a real holiday for Xbox One owners. Many gamers remember the series of Crackdown, the first games of which appeared on the Xbox 360 console and represented a cyberpunk-sandbox with a very unusual visual stylistics. The developers promised to maximally integrate the computing power of the cloud array of Microsoft servers into the game. And rightly, it's high time. Otherwise, these servers are idle to nobody. Well let the games do better.

Ori and the Blind Forest

Genre: Platformer / Adventure
Exclusivity: temporary exclusive Xbox One and PC, then the game will be released on other platforms
Release date in Russia: 2015

Incredibly beautiful and touching game, telling a story of the spirit by the name of Ori. A long time ago, Ori fell from the sky into the forest, and a local inhabitant picked up and took him out a little bit alive, looking something like a bear. The evil essence of Kuro separates the protagonists, and Ori must go on a long journey to defeat evil. The game is developed by the studio Moon Studios, whose employees are in different countries and are working on the project remotely. This is an example of the fact that a great idea can unite talented people over a huge distance. For me, this game has become one of the most anticipated projects of 2015. Look at the trailer and you will understand me.

Fable Legends

Genre: Action / RPG
Exclusivity: yes
Release date in Russia: 2015

A new game series Fable, the output of which was also planned for 2015. The game introduces for the first time in a series of cooperative multiplayer, through which you can search for adventure on your head with friends. If you have strained your friends, the role of the rest of your team can be taken over by a computer AI. Among other things, you can play not only in the role of positive characters, but also be in the shoes of a villain who will have to defeat the good. This is a very interesting innovation that sends us back to the days of Dungeon Keeper.

Below

Genre: Adventure
Exclusivity: also released on PC
Дата выхода в России: 2015 год

Очень красивая и необычная игра от создателей Critter Crunch и Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. Крошечный искатель приключений в огромном подземелье, полном опасностей и сокровищ – ну что может быть интереснее? Необычная стилистика игры лишь делает её ещё более привлекательной для пользователей. Уровни подземелья будут генерироваться случайным образом, так что реиграбельность Below будет на высоте.

Forza Motorsport 6

Жанр: Racing
Эксклюзивность: да
Дата выхода в России: 2015 год

В рамках автомобильной выставки North American International Auto Show компания Microsoft объявила, что в конце этого года выйдет шестая часть автомобильного симулятора Forza Motorsport. Игру разрабатывает студия Turn 10 Studios при активном участии инженеров компании Ford. Благодаря этому в игре появится новый автомобиль Ford GT, который был представлен зрителям на выставке, а также другие не менее интересные авто вроде Shelby GT350 Mustang и F-150 Raptor. Никого, похоже, не смущает, что игры серии выходят с такой пугающей частотой.

Вот таким насыщенным выдастся 2015 год для владельцев консоли Xbox One. Разумеется, я не упомянул ещё десятки различных игр для этой консоли. Но думаю, что пытливые умы смогут найти оставшиеся без моего внимания игры при помощи Google или любого другого поисковика. В следующий раз мы поговорим о том, во что смогут поиграть в 2015 году обладатели игровых консолей Nintendo Wii U.

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