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Here are all the games Xbox previewed during their next-generation showcase

By Tim Augustin - on 8 May 2020, 8:30pm

Shoot dinosaurs, explore paradise!

Call of the Sea

This game looks beautiful. Call of the Sea takes players to the South Pacific in the 1930s, where they’ll get to explore a serene island paradise. You’ll have to solve puzzles and uncover the secrets of a lost civilisation, hunting for your husband’s expedition - which has gone missing. You’ll also turn into a sea monster at some point, I guess? This game is wild

 

The Ascent

You can never have enough cyberpunk in your life. Mega-corporation The Ascent Group has collapsed, leaving citizens to pick up the pieces. Naturally, when a company in control of the people falls to its knees, the people pick up guns and start shooting at each other. Realism!

 

The Medium

Looking for the next Silent Hill? This might be it. This next-gen psychological horror game has you playing a medium of two worlds - the one we live in, and the one that comes after. The Medium's currently-unnamed protagonist finds themselves haunted by visions of a child’s murder and travels to an abandoned resort to search for answers. Silent Hill 2 composer Akira Yamaoka will score the game!

 

Scarlet Nexus

Bandai Namco’s new game places the last hope humanity has for survival in the hands of an elite group of soldiers. This superpowered team fights the Others, who are hell-bent on destroying humanity. 

 

Second Extinction

Dino Crisis, this is not - but it’s close. This multiplayer first-person shooter has three players cooperate to fight dinosaurs! With bullets! I mean, what more do you need? 

 

Yakuza: Like a Dragon

If you’ve enjoyed the Yakuza series and its spin-off Judgement, this should be pretty exciting. The seventh entry in the mainline Yakuza series soft-reboots the story with a new protagonist, Ichiban Kasuga. This yakuza grunt was betrayed by the people he once trusted and is out to get answers and crack some skulls. 

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Overall, it’s not the huge next-generation gameplay showcase most were probably hoping for, but the games on display here are still pretty interesting and diverse. In July, Xbox plans to show off gameplay for its first-party titles, so this might be their way of getting smaller games out of the way beforehand. Who knows?

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