18 Essential Xbox One Games Every Owner Must Play

14. Halo 5: Guardians

Yes, the Master Chief Collection is a sublime assortment of the finest console shooters ever to grace this earth, but it's Halo's fifth main instalment that truly advances the series in a pretty revolutionary degree.

For a start, Master Chief and newcomer, Spartan Locke, have a new set of abilities and moves that shake up Halo's core combat like never before. Ground-pounds, charging shoulder-barges, dashing, ground-slides and mid-air slow-mo aiming fleshes out your repertoire in a way that lets hardcore vets get stuck in, whilst breathing new life into the now decade-and-a-half-old franchise.

Multiplayer too, receives one of the coolest modes seen in years. Named Warzone, it's a unique MMORPG-inspired battle where territories have to be captured to accrue points, but you're up against the A.I. too, meaning last minute flurries to finish off waves of NPCs might net you victory anyway.

You'll battle to unlock cards that can be burned to get your hands on better weapons or vehicles, and whilst this makes everything other than your starting weapons expendable, is a worthwhile experiment that I found paid off very well.