Sci-Fi Games Xbox
From interstellar warfare to psychedelic journeys, these sci-fi games xbox transport players to far-away worlds and provoke thought long after they’ve finished. Available at RoyalCDKeys, these groundbreaking titles enchant gamers with their enchanting blend of innovative gameplay and immersive narratives.
Halo Infinite reimagines Master Chief’s epic saga, while No Man’s Sky delivers on its promise of boundless exploration with a captivating game world teeming with alien species and intergalactic conflict.
Black Ops 4
Black Ops 4 is the latest entry in Activision and Treyarch’s long-running Call of Duty series of shooters. It’s a near-future sci-fi game that expands upon its predecessors.
It features gritty, grounded, fluid Multiplayer combat and the biggest Zombies offering ever with five full undead adventures. It also includes Blackout, which is a massive battle royale experience that brings the universe of Black Ops to life like never before.
The main attraction of Blackout is the addition of a Specialist, which adds unique abilities to the gameplay. These abilities aren’t the typical power ups you would expect from other shooter games, but rather new abilities that let players use the environment to their advantage. For example, Firebreak can burn walls and shut down healing, while Prophet can chain lightning Tempest through the air.
If you’re interested in learning more about the Blackout beta, Digital Foundry has a 10-minute video that goes into detail about how it compares to the Xbox One X and Xbox One versions of the game. They even take a look at the graphical differences between the two consoles.
Strike Suit Zero
Originally released on PC in 2013, Strike Suit Zero is a sci-fi shooter that promises a frantic space combat experience. It delivers on that promise, but fails to deliver on everything else.
The story is a bland and rehashed variation on stories you’ve seen before, while the gameplay suffers from repetitiveness. While the game’s occasionally thrilling dogfighting action elicits some excitement, its relentless repetition eventually wears on players, as they long for something more lively and rewarding to do in the galaxy.
While the gameplay is repetitive, the game’s impressive graphics and captivating soundtrack help to create a genuinely mesmerizing space experience. Especially the backdrops of star systems and nebulas are reminiscent of ‘Battlestar Galactica’, with a soundtrack that helps to build feelings of tranquility and dread during battles. Despite its repetitive nature, ‘Strike Suit Zero: Director’s Cut’ does encourage replay value by allowing players to level up their ships and unlock new types of weapons.
MechWarrior 5
MechWarrior 5 checks most of the boxes that you’d want out of a modern revival of this long-running series. It’s got a huge roster of mechs to kit out in a variety of ways, each with their own unique handling characteristics. There’s also a decent amount of mission diversity, with a mix of blowing up facilities, assassinating targets and raiding bases keeping the combat fresh.
This latest installment of the franchise, based on the BattleTech sci-fi board game, launched in 2019 on PC before making a homecoming to Xbox. It’s a slow-paced first-person shooter where you control ginormous mechas that move purposefully in a very cumbersome fashion and fire big, heavy weapons in an attempt to destroy their enemies.
The setting is expansive, with thousands of star systems forming the Inner Sphere and humanity splintered into competing factions. The story has a little bit of everything, but the gameplay is where MechWarrior really shines. Although it does suffer from a few flaws. The loading times are a bit long, and the graphics don’t always look “next-gen.”
The Outer Worlds
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the wealth of lore and world-building details in The Outer Worlds. That could be a problem for new players, but the game doesn’t suffer from any major pitfalls that would put it out of the range of those who’ve enjoyed Obsidian’s work before.
The Outer Worlds tells a story that starts off eccentrically enough, in an alternate timeline where William McKinley never died and the USA never passed critical anti-trust laws. As a result, large corporations and robber barons control humanity as it begins to colonize space.
The Outer Worlds is an RPG that reveals much of its cleverness over time, as events snowball and the consequences of your actions are felt. It’s like a futuristic western that does for corporatism what Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire did for colonialism, and it has plenty of black humor to make you smile. It’s a must-play for fans of sci-fi games.