When the Xbox One was released in November 2013, it did so alongside a handful of great games: Forza Motorsport 5, Dead Rising 3, and LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, to name a few. Since then, barring a few exceptions, there hasn't been much to play. 2014 will change that, with games coming from Bungie, Respawn, Capybara, BioWare, Turtle Rock, and more.

Alien: Isolation

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Below

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The Crew

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Here are 25 games Xbox One owners should look forward to this year.Alien games like to direct our eyes down a weapon scope rather than onto a motion tracker. While James Cameron’s sequel, Aliens, was all about the guns, Ridley Scott’s original film highlighted the thrill and terror of being hunted. The recently announced Alien: Isolation is, thankfully, more interested in the latter.Isolation takes players back to the Nostromo (the mining ship from the first Alien film). Playing as Ellen Ripley’s daughter, Amanda, you’re searching for the ship’s black box to find out what happened to your mother. We’re used to games delivering power fantasies, but Isolation makes you the prey.Capybara's Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery is one of gaming's most delightful surprises. Its charming visuals, excellent soundtrack, and unique gameplay made it a highly memorable iOS adventure.The studio’s next game, Below, will focus heavily on exploration and permadeath. Its narrative is formed through exploration, as there is no dialogue whatsoever. Seeing a developer experiment with storytelling techniques is great, and if Sword & Sworcery is any indicator, Capy could nail it again with Below.A team-centric racing game where you cruise across the country, Cannonball Run-style, with your friends? Yes, please! The Crew is an arcade-y four-wheeled adventure where you’ll visit dozens of real-life landmarks in an abbreviated version of the United States -- though it’s still going to take quite a bit of time to drive from the Hollywood Hills to Miami Beach.

Dozens of licensed cars are at your fingertips for the trip, and your crew can face-off in interstate challenges with other packs of pals. We don’t yet know if you’ll be able to stop at a virtual In-N-Out Burger.

D4

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Destiny

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Dragon Age: Inquisition

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Dying Light

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The Elder Scrolls Online

D4 is really, really weird, and we wouldn’t want it to be any other way. Here’s the crash course: D4 stands for “Dark Dreams Don’t Die,” and it’s an episodic adventure game from Hidetaka Suehiro. You may know him as “Swery,” the mind responsible for the weird and excellent Deadly Premonition.David is a detective who can relive the past by touching people’s mementos. You use the Kinect (or a controller if you prefer) to interact with your environment or eat pretzels. We called the game “entrancingly bizarre” after a demo at Tokyo Game Show, and we can’t wait to help David recover his memory and solve his wife’s murder.Travel across the galaxy, explore new planets, and build up your character’s armory along the way. Those familiar core ideas behind Destiny sound awesome on their own, but its experimental blending of single and multiplayer could be the next big step forward in shooter design.Destiny is Bungie’s first crack at a new first-person shooter property since Halo: Combat Evolved in 2001. Looking at everything the developer accomplished over the past decade -- it set standards for writing, art, music, and multiplayer -- it’s hard not to be excited about what’s coming next.The Dragon Age series already has a strong foundation, but with Inquisition, Bioware is going all out. New races, new creatures, an improved dialogue system, and Frostbite 3-powered graphics might make the world of Thedas a great place to spend dozens of hours.A common complaint leveled against Dragon Age 2 was that it reused environments. In Inquisition, there’s a stronger emphasis on an open-world discovery. Instead of going on fetch quests, ideally you’ll stumble upon hidden areas and want to explore them on your own. If we can have Dragon Age’s great storytelling as well as an interesting, open world, ripe for adventure, Inquisition could be something special.Take the first-person parkour of Mirror’s Edge, blend it with the brutal melee combat of Left 4 Dead 2 and the open-world freedom of developer Techland’s own Dead Island and you get Dying Light, a game we’ve played and, as such, can 100% confirm our enthusiasm for.You play a survivor trapped in a zombie apocalypse. The government will drop supply crates at various points in the city throughout the day, and you’ll need to race to them as quickly as possible so that you can reap their rewards before other factions get to them. Yep, you’ll have to deal with enemy humans, who can prove to be just as annoying to battle as the undead. Unmarked hidden objectives abound, such as frightened children hiding out in shacks whom you can choose to help rescue (or not). And when day turns to night, watch out: the worst of the undead lot only starts hunting you once the sun goes down.

Perhaps we’ve finally got an Xbox where MMOs will finally be a regular thing and not a once-in-a-blue-moon rarity, like Final Fantasy XI and Defiance on Xbox 360. The Xbox One’s first MMO is a heavyweight: The Elder Scrolls Online. Now you’ll finally get to interact and play with other human beings in Cyrodiil, embarking on quests, waging PvP war in the Arena, and even becoming Emperor of the whole darn land.

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Evolve

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Fable Legends

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Halo 5

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Kingdom Hearts III

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A first-person mode was added after E3 in order to help make it feel a bit more Elder Scrolls-y, and, for now at least, a $15 monthly subscription model is in place. The potential for losing your life to this game (in a good way) is sky-high.Turtle Rock, the original creators of Left 4 Dead, are, *ahem*, evolving the same co-op multiplayer concept from their breakout zombie hit with their next project, in which four human players -- each taking on the role of a different class -- work together to take down Goliath.The catch? Goliath is a human-controlled monster that grows in both size and danger level as the match goes on. By the end, the human quartet will have to be on top of their game in order to bring down the 30-foot spiked behemoth. Dibs on the monster!The events of Fable Legends take place 400 years before the events of the 2004’s Fable, during Albion’s Age of Heroes. Unlike the other Fables, Legends is designed for four-player co-op, with each hero brandishing different weapons and skills.Here’s the kicker: Another player controls the villain, and that character places traps, enemies, and ambushes from a top-down perspective. This take on the pen-and-paper RPG dungeon master system is ambitious, and it’s a breath of fresh air for Microsoft’s role-playing series.What do we know about the next chapter of the Reclaimer Saga? Not much, but what we do know is interesting. Expect Halo 5 (final name is TBD) to run at 1080p and 60fps for the first time in the series’ history. Dedicated servers are in, too.Meanwhile, the director of 2013’s Tomb Raider reboot, Timothy Longo, is leading the next Halo project. Story-wise, Cortana is gone and the battle with the Didact isn’t over yet, if the ending to Halo 4 is any indication. Looks like the fight won’t, in fact, be finished anytime soon.The beloved Kingdom Hearts II released over eight years ago, but Kingdom Hearts III will instead continue the plot from Dream Drop Distance, the 2012 3DS exclusive. Director Tetsuya Nomura said we’ll finally be able to see the end of the “Dark Seeker” saga that began with the first Kingdom Hearts.A lot of what you know and love about Kingdom Hearts will still be present, but the action is set to be ramped up this time. Nomura said battles are more frantic, and that more intricate AI can interact with Sora in ways that weren’t possible before.