Top Xbox One Games 2023

Madden NFL 22 features a revamped franchise mode, minor gameplay improvements and a successful story mode, but the NFL simulation is still growing stale.

To become a mob kingpin in Empire of Sin, you’ll need brains, brawn, and a high tolerance for boredom.

Little Hope tells a mostly one-note story with underdeveloped characters, and even a fun co-op mode can’t inject enough life to fix that. There weren’t enough meaningful consequences to the choices I made to inspire further digging into its box of tricks, which made additional playthroughs tough going, and the more generous amount of time you have to react to quick-time events deprived me of any gory deaths. A gorgeous setting and some genuinely frantic monster sequences save it from being a complete disaster, but this still feels like a step backward from the heights of interactive horror stories. Hopefully, the next entry in the Dark Pictures Anthology will have interesting characters with much more to say and do, as Little Hope’s predecessors have proven Supermassive can deliver.

Ground Zeroes, the prologue to the upcoming Metal Gear Solid: The Phantom Pain, showcases thrilling gameplay and Kojima Production's beautiful Fox Engine, but the game's brevity may leave many Gearheads feeling a bit flat.

Crackdown 3 is worth playing for its outrageous action and addictive orb collecting, even though it doesn't do anything new.

The genre-defining action game series is back with a new look, new abilities to master, and new characters to play, while retaining the series' trademark style and fun.

A beautiful ode to the anime on which it is based, Dragon Ball FighterZ looks to be the most exciting tag-based fighting game this console generation.