People were playing games on PlayStations, Nintendos, and PCs long before Xbox came along.
Yet, since its creation, the Xbox brand has made a significant impact on the gaming industry.
We explore the best Xbox titles of the 2010s.
Xbox’s family of consoles has been influential in terms of gaming hardware.
Here is a collection of the most influential games to land on an Xbox system.
This collection only contains games exclusive to Xbox or released on Xbox simultaneously with other platforms.
So, the likes of Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto 3 aren’t included.
Not only was this title a success and helped launch the series, but it was also very influential.
Although it wasn’t the first third-person shooter, Gears helped popularize cover-based shooting mechanics.
This is why many titles after this borrowed Gears' cover system.
Even classic point-and-click adventure games had plenty of puzzles to solve.
TellTale’s The Walking Dead doesn’t include many puzzles, though.
It is like an interactive movie.
More importantly, it was very successful and became a beloved game.
For plenty of people, it was the game that got them in PVP multiplayer.
After this title, more modern-setting shooters began to crop up.
After all, Dark Souls was a much more famous game, likely due to releasing on more platforms.
Everybody says “Soulslikes this, Soulslikes that” but what are they really referring to?
We explore this “recent” subgenre of games to find out.
Therefore, many learned of the punishingly challenging Soulslike gameplay from Dark Souls.
Many games have incorporated this sort of combat since.
There aren’t a lot of mechanics in Portal.
you’ve got the option to pick stuff up, jump, and shoot portals.
That is pretty much all it took to make one of the best puzzle games of all time.
There aren’t even a lot of characters in the game, and most of the environments look similar.
It’s all so simple, yet it works so well.
In the aftermath of the game’s success, plenty of similar puzzle games started to be released.
It helped modernize the FPS genre and introduced several mechanics that are still seen in the genre today.
But Halo didn’t just help change the FPS genre.
So, Combat Evolved is influential in plenty of ways.
The Xbox 360 is one of Microsoft’s most popular consoles.
But how many games did it have?
