What does its ‘greatest games lineup in history’ say about Xbox?
GamesRadar's Ludwig Kietzmann: "When you take the greatest-ever Xbox lineup as a statement of broad appeal, it doesn’t fully convey the quality and value implied by Microsoft’s excellent marketing. These games are certainly well made, graphically competitive – helping diminish some of the Xbox One’s ongoing narrative of hosting weaker versions of third-party games – and they cater exclusively to what we think of as typical players and genres. At the same time, however, they feel predictable and compromised in annoying ways.
The very best one, Rise of the Tomb Raider, will be playable elsewhere (that’s kind of unfair, but we are talking about a console making a case for itself). Most of them come with some financial strings attached, can’t keep pace with the extravagant promises of Microsoft’s marketing and, as a whole, feel less like the Xbox One finding itself and more like it having a comfy lie-down in the Xbox 360’s shadow. Microsoft has come this far to go back again, Gears of War and all."
