The Locust war end to end: the Marcus trilogy, the courtroom prequel, the two Kait games and Emergence Day itself.
Emergence Day itself: Marcus and Dom on the first day of the Locust war, fourteen years before the original.
Kait’s game, and the first with open areas, a skiff on the ice and a choice at the end you cannot undo.
Baird and Cole on trial for the mission the game is telling in flashback, with a star rating on every fight.
JD Fenix, twenty-five years on, against windflares and a swarm that turns out to be old news.
Southern France and northern Italy joined up, with the fields between the roads opened for driving through.
Japan as the festival map, with Tokyo as the city you drive out of; Playground Games, May 2026.
Australia as a festival map, Gold Coast beaches to outback dirt, with four events running at once.
Kudos points for driving with style through Yokohama, Sydney and Edinburgh, on a soundtrack you rip yourself.
The Top Gear test track, a Nurburgring lap and the car list Xbox built its simulator on.
A grappling hook and an open Zeta Halo; the Chief in a sandbox.
The trilogy ends on Azura, with four-player co-op and Horde 2.0.
Britain through four seasons that change for everyone at once.
Noble Team's last stand; the prequel where you lose from the first minute.
343 take over and make it a story about Cortana dying.
Sinking cities and a riftworm; the sequel that went bigger in every direction.
The whole Earth from satellite data; fly over your own house.
Mexico as a driving festival; the best open-world racer.
Crew a pirate ship with friends and sing shanties; Rare's shared world.
A road-trip festival across Colorado; racing as a holiday.
Bigger, harder and with an owl; Moon Studios' sequel.
A guardian spirit through a dying forest; hand-painted, with an escape up the flooding Ginso Tree.
A writer in a Pacific Northwest town where his manuscript comes true; Remedy's Twin Peaks.
Finish the fight; the trilogy ends with Forge and theatre mode.
Cover shooting, the chainsaw bayonet and the Locust; Epic's Xbox 360 template.
The Arbiter, dual wielding and Xbox Live multiplayer; the console shooter online.
Master Chief on the ring world, the warthog and the Flood; the Xbox is launched.
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