Largest Inside Xbox ever, eh? I can get behind that. A
lot of announcements for things and trailers shown – even if there wasn’t the
explosion of new reveals that some hoped for.
There were a lot of Game Pass announcements. Sixteen, in
fact. I’m not going to list them all, but Supermarket Shriek looked fun, and I
might try out a few of the others. Thief of Thieves is already on the service,
so I can certainly see myself going for it. I admittedly haven’t been as active
in trying out stuff recently, owing to a lot of Forza Horizon in the past
month.
And speaking of Forza Horizon, the newest expansion for
the fourth game got announced as being the largest expansion created for the series
yet. From the little we saw of it, Fortune Island is looking a great place to
explore. I’m ready to get into it next month. There’s also more drift cars
coming in the form of more additions to the Gymkana pack.
Crackdown 3. Larger than the first game while staying
similar to its format, the multiplayer is the thing that got shown off. That
destruction looks superb, and the mode of Wrecking Zone is simply an excuse to
just go crazy in 5v5 battles – using every surface and wall to hide or ruin
someone’s day. This is my next big game on Xbox, and I’ll be happy to lose
myself to yet another world.
Kingdom Hearts 3 got a new trailer here, but the obvious
announcement of bringing The Story So Far to the platform that hasn’t had any
of the story seems to have been left on the floor yet again. I can’t complain
too much, as there’s obviously going to be some form of story catch-up within
the game, but it would be good for the other platforms to get the same love as
Playstation.
InXile and Obsidian join Microsoft Studios, a rather cute
hand-crafted trailer announced cats and pandas coming to Minecraft, Sea of Thieves
gets the players more involved with The Arena, and a wacky trailer announced
some Black Friday deals. Several other things were also shown off, including
games featuring keyboard and mouse support on Xbox One.
It was certainly an enjoyable two hours with a good pace.
The largest Inside Xbox is also the last for this year. Whenever I watch one of
these, I always feel it doesn’t matter much about the announcements. It’s the
atmosphere that makes it worth watching. While usually there isn’t the
excitable crowd surrounding things, the informal nature of the presentation
makes it worth the watch.