16 Essential Video Games Worth Buying An Xbox One For

5. Crackdown 3

Crackdown 3
Microsoft

Crackdown 3's existence has been a bit weird one so far, but it's so inherently interesting that I more than think it deserves a place here.

See, the original was a standout success, arriving a couple years before Marvel's Cinematic Universe would kickstart the love-in for superheroes in full, letting you leap around an open city, dispensing justice by roundhouse-kicking perps into the sea. As you do.

Sadly, the sequel was too much of the same, which is why for this third instalment, developer Reagent Games are making a point of having large-scale destruction at every turn. Entire buildings can be reduced to their skeletal structures and crumpled from there - which is pretty much the exact same gimmick as Red Faction Armageddon, but hopefully this can succeed where THQ failed.

Incase you were wondering about how much of a processor strain all this physical deformation will have, apparently different buildings are stored on different physical servers; the combined processing power allowing for multiple agents to explore and destroy together. The base idea of Crackdown was oh-so-cool in the first place, and if we can grab other agents and send them careening through buildings, Dragon Ball Z-style, I'll be all in.

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WhatCulture's Head of Gaming.