Indiana Jones was one of the highlights of Sunday’s Xbox Showcase.
Microsoft presented one of the best video game showcases I’ve seen in a long time on Sunday, giving us a ton of game reveals, as well as new trailers and game footage for a slew of upcoming titles.
After the large Xbox Showcase, there was a second smaller showcase entirely dedicated to it Call of Duty: Black Ops6. You can read all about that, including all the big changes coming to the new shooter.here.
Microsoft showed off a few dozen games during the lively 80-minute video, which didn’t bother with live speakers or other shenanigans, and mostly just gave us games to get excited about. There were a few that I personally enjoyed more than others, and I’ve included the trailers of the ones below.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
I’m honestly impressed with this trailer. MachineGames – the studio behind the recent Wolfenstein reboot – has really gone to the extreme here, and Troy Baker’s voice as Indiana Jones is fantastic. He sounds as close to Harrison Ford as possible. All I could think of when I saw this was: can we get a Han Solo game next?
DOOM: The Dark Ages
Microsoft started the showcase with DOOM: The Dark Ages and I understand why. What a fantastic trailer! This game looks so damn good, it’s honestly the most hyped thing I’ve ever been to DOOM game since the restart. Maybe even earlier. It’s just brilliant to give the series a gritty medieval atmosphere.
Fable
We haven’t seen much more of the actual gameplay here, but at least we have an idea of where they’re going with the new, highly anticipated Fable. I’m curious to see if this will follow in the footsteps of previous games and allow you to change your gender and appearance to some extent. It looks good!
Dragon Age: The Veil Guard
Okay, so I’m including this because I’m still excited about it Dragon Age: The Veil Guard (earlier Dreadwolf) even though this trailer is a hot steaming pile of dragon dung. Seriously, if you went to BioWare and said, “Please give fans the exact opposite of what they want and a trailer that misses the tone of the series as broadly as possible,” this is the trailer they would give you. Does anyone else at BioWare understand what made their games great? Let’s hope this is just a bad trailer and not an indication of the game to come. Weft.
METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: HOSE EATER
I’m always in my place running around as Snake – Solid, Naked, you name it – and this remake of the 2004 game looks fantastic. It’s also nice to hear David Hayter’s voice again. I think Kiefer Sutherland did a fine job, but I’m still a little annoyed that Hideo Kojima thought it was a good idea to boot Hayter and choose a famous celebrity instead. Not cool, dude.
Call of Duty: Black Ops6
This is a pretty fun, over-the-top, bombastic trailer for BlackOps6, and honestly the game looks like a blast. I love a good Call Of Duty campaign, even if they’re always ridiculous. They’re usually very cinematic and not too long, and I love all that stuff. You play six to seven hours of campaign and then dive into multiplayer.
Read more about BlackOps6 including the new “omnimovement” system here.
Age of mythology
The classic Age of empires franchise is getting a brand new entry with this mythological foundation after many long years Age of mythology. If you like these big civilization/army management type games, you should enjoy this one. It looks absolutely phenomenal.
Gears Of War: E-Day
Okay, this is all cinematic, but that’s fine. I guess we’ll get a gameplay trailer soon enough, and we all know that A) it’s going to look great and B) it’s going to be a third-person cover shooter with gunplay and mechanics we’ve come to expect Weapons of war. What makes this really cool is that it’s a prequel set fourteen years before the original game, where you see the events of Emergency Day as OG protagonist Marcus Fenix. That is awesome!
World Of Warcraft: The War Within
I’m not a WoW player, but I love their cinematic trailers. They always make me think World of Warcraft looks fun. Then I start playing the game and realize that it’s just not my thing.
Winterhol
My cup of tea is more along the lines of this cute critter game, Winterhol, which reminds me of Redwall and Narnia and Mouse Guard and all the other beast-based games, books and cartoons I’ve loved over the years. I thought I should include at least one indie title in this list and this was the one that caught my eye.
Watch the new trailers for from Starfield really great looking DLC and into the next chapter Diablo IV here. Perfectly dark also has a new trailer you can watch here.
What was your favorite trailer or reveal from the showcase? Let me know Tweet and Facebook.