10 Best Sci-Fi Video Games You've Never Played
6. Child Of Eden (2011)
Children of Eden is a 2011 rail shooter released for the XBox 360. It was one of the first titles to incorporate the use of the Kinect camera, but it, fortunately, doesn't require it for gameplay. The title was developed as a spiritual successor to Rez, and it introduced unique mechanics.
Players take control of a ship flying through Eden, which is a new form of the Internet spanning the entire universe. Your job: eliminate viruses to protect a digitized version of Lumi, the first human born in space.
Every level in the game is highly stylized and varied. There are ocean levels (not water levels, so don't worry), and levels that look like gardens while others offer up scenes filled with clouds, space, and other sci-fi settings. Children of Eden is specially designed as an experiment with synesthesia, which is the perceptual phenomenon some people have that lets them see numbers as colors.
Color and sound are the two main features of the game, and jumping into the world of Child of Eden is like stepping into a virtual painting. It's a beautiful, engrossing, and innovative experience you're not going to find in any other rail shooter.