Top Xbox One Action Games of All Time
Welcome to VideoGamer.com's top Xbox One Action games of All Time, a list of the best videogames, created from editorial reviews on the site. It's the perfect tool to find that great game you haven't played yet, or even to find a gem for a friend or loved one as a gift.
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LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
LEGO Batman 3 starts slow and then gets a lot better, and then overwhelms with so much content it's hard to be disappointed. I don't think I've ever played a game so clearly made with hardcore fans in... more
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Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions
Geometry Wars 3 makes big changes, but retains the excellent core gameplay and delivers another addictive blaster. I stuck my middle finger up at my TV within five minutes of playing Geometry... more
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Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin
A worthy technical upgrade, but changes to enemy spawn locations serve to add frustration and highlight issues with the original release. I've often felt that Dark Souls 2 follows the misguided notion that more... more
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Disney Infinity 3.0
The Disney Infinity 3.0 Starter Pack is a great introduction that will keep kids and kidults alike entertained for a long time. Disney Infinity has, to me at least, always felt like a great idea that... more
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The Flame in the Flood
The Flame in the Flood is beautiful, desolate, and it will kill you again and again. The Flame in the Flood is a roguelike survival game, but given that... more
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Quantum Break
Quantum Break is a glorious use of current-gen power, with the visual fireworks on show making the combat feel positively joyous. A few years ago Quantum Break was a dead cert to become the game most likely... more
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Dark Souls 3
Dark Souls 3 relies too much on former glories to reach the heights of Bloodborne or the original Dark Souls, but that doesn't stop it being another superb adventure. Editor's Note: Now that Steve has had some time with the multiplayer side of... more
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Hitman: Summer Bonus Episode
An interesting and imaginative remix. Playing these bonus missions, it's hard not to wonder how many of the Hitman... more
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Watch Dogs 2
Watch Dogs 2 is missing a bit of refinement, and has had issues with multiplayer, but joining DedSec is still a riot and a half. It's high energy fun with engaging characters, and you can make an entire city your playground. Watch Dogs 2 has launched without full multiplayer functionality. While you... more
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The Sexy Brutale
The secret stories Father Lafcadio uncovers are lovely, but you won't always enjoy the process of uncovering them. Still, a series of elegant murders, with elegant stories, in an elegant mansion is enough to show anyone a good time. Time and time again... Lafcadio Boone is a mysterious man. He's trapped playing out the same 12... more
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Middle-earth: Shadow of War
It's a shame the story is so strangely paced, but you hardly need it. Fortress Assaults are great set pieces, and there's a lot of fun to be had with the upgraded Nemesis System alone. When someone goes on Dragon's Den, clutching a sheet of five year... more
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Assassin's Creed Origins
Assassin's Creed Origins has vastly improved combat and an astoundingly beautiful world to explore, but it felt a little afraid of going all in with its new direction. I have now spent many hours in Assassin's Creed Origins, and I will probably... more
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Control
Control is Remedy at its best: pulpy, weird, and immensely satisfying to play. Its setting is a potent concoction of '60s brutalist style and wacky sci-fi. Performance issues hamper the shootouts, and the characters are a little cold, but it's the setting and atmosphere that win the day. The first words in Alan Wake, intoned by its eponymous hero, are... more
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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has a string of wisely chosen influences, and it delivers on the long-overdue promise of a fun Jedi action-adventure. Bugs and design wrinkles irritate. The trouble with Star Wars is that it is no longer a long time ago, nor is... more
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Shadow Complex
Shadow Complex is a triumph, a new standard for downloadable games. Shadow Complex is Super Metroid for the Gears of War generation. Its 2D... more
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Skylanders: Swap Force
A brilliant, imaginative game for kids of all ages In the face of strong competition from Disney Infinity, Skylanders really... more
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Grand Theft Auto Online
GTA's online offering lives up to its billing. With a launch so devastatingly crippled by server issues, it's fair to say... more
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LEGO Marvel Super Heroes
The strongest Lego title yet, and the best Marvel game ever made. Lego Marvel Super Heroes is, for the most part, plastic proof that... more
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
A triumph of emergent gameplay, slightly let down by a heavily scripted ending. Forget the Tolkien association, and put aside its similarities with... more
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DmC Devil May Cry
DmC Definitive Edition's customisation tools that allow the player to tweak gameplay to suit their own style is what makes this an excellent remaster for newcomers and veterans alike. Remember back in 2013 when all the internet had to get mad about was a... more
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Rise of the Tomb Raider
An awesome adventure that delivers an epic sense of discovery. On PS4 Rise of the Tomb Raider is just as gorgeous as ever and packed full with some excellent bonus content. Tom and Colm discuss what's new in Rise of the Tomb Raider on PS4.What... more
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NieR: Automata
NieR: Automata has more creativity and self-awareness in its little finger than most games have for their entire run time. Don’t miss this because it’s sandwiched between other, bigger games. This review was kindly done for us by Adam Cook. Find other cool stuff he's... more
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is beautiful, discomforting, and compelling. It might challenge what you like about games, but challenge is good. You're doing yourself a disservice if you don't try it. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is the sort of game that you'll either really... more
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Monster Hunter World
This long standing series makes an outrageously good current gen debut. The size and scope of the environments, and the monsters in them, is awe inspiring, making Monster Hunter: World a true (lizard) king of games. There will probably, whilst playing Monster Hunter: World, come a moment... more
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Red Dead Redemption 2
Few worlds are as well-realised as the one Rockstar has created for Red Dead Redemption 2. Thanks to some wonderful scripting and stellar performances, the characters you randomly meet in the wild are captured as well as the ones you spend most of your days around camp. How do you follow Red Dead Redemption? You make Red Dead Redemption 2. Loyalty is important to everyone in the vast open world of Rockstar... more
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Devil May Cry 5
Devil May Cry 5 revels in its own gleeful stupidity, presenting a world in which the most valuable commodity is style. At the beginning of Devil May Cry 5, the city of Red Grave – which... more
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon
This is the crux of Yakuza: Like a Dragon. It is fascinated by the way that games lurk at the soft verges of life, vesting our days with dreams. Fifteen years on from the first Yakuza, after five sequels, a prequel, two... more
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Grand Theft Auto 5
The definitive version of Rockstar's biggest world to date. Editor's Note: Below is a rundown of the technical accomplishments of GTA 5... more
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Batman: Arkham Knight
Batman: Arkham Knight is the best Batman game ever made and a classic in its own right. 'The Batman games wouldn't be any good if Batman wasn't in it' is a long... more