Gateway Games

Looking at Microsoft's long list of inactive franchises, I couldn't help but wonder what could've been if we hadn't stopped getting sequels. So here's a list of the 6 franchises Xbox should reboot and why. Also I've decided to omit Fable and Perfect Dark as these reboots have been leaked (and I couldn't be more excited.) Alan Wake Alan Wake was arguably the best action horror game of its generation, with it's moody, foreboding atmosphere and incredibly creative and tense combat mechanics. The game follows the titular character as he goes on a vacation with his wife to help with his writer's block. It doesn't take too long for Alan's wife to go missing as he begins to experience events from his thriller novels. It's surreal in the best way possible, reminding me more of a nightmare than a horror game; and this opens the doors for all sorts of gameplay setpieces that need little explanation. The enemies in the game are covered in ...

After honestly feeling burnt out by the end of the last game, ‘Rise of the Tomb Raider’, I wasn’t expecting this entry to grab me in the way that it did. At first glance ‘Shadow of the Tomb Raider’ looks like simply more of the same, and while that isn’t an entirely inaccurate conclusion to jump to, ‘Shadow’ changes the structure enough the third time around to make this entry well worth your attention. ‘Shadow of the Tomb Raider’ begins largely in the same manner as the last two; the iconic Lara Croft crashes in a vehicle due to extreme weather conditions and is consequently left scrambling to survive in the wild. The parallels to the last two games in the series are jarringly apparent in the opening hours, but eventually landslides (literally) into something much more. For once in the series Lara actually has an interesting arc in this entry. She begins her adventure just as obsessed with her father’s unfinished research as she was in the last game. Last time ...