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August2021
Hands On Back 4 Blood Is Left 4 Dead 3 In All But Name
And that's not a bad thing
When Back 4 Blood was first announced, we initially were turned off by yet another zombie game hitting the market. It's a genre that's died a death now (no pun intended), and we weren't sure how many more avenues could be explored. It wasn't until we discovered this was being helmed by the creators of Left 4 Dead that our...
Random Uh-Oh, Halo Infinite's Destructible Fruit Has Become A Bit Of A Talking Point
Attention to detail or just nitpicking?
The first Halo Infinite Multiplayer Technical Preview has officially ended, and while many participants seem to be quite taken with it (including us here at Pure Xbox) there are some more, let's say...controversial takes. One video, in particular, on the Halo subeddit highlights how the destruc
Hands On Halo Infinite's Multiplayer Feels Like The Perfect Blend Of New And Old
This could be the start of something new
There was a lot riding on the Halo Infinite Technical Preview. Despite it only being a taste of what’s to come, first impressions count, and it was one the game scarpered in its gameplay reveal last year. Playing the game for the first time has to feel right, and capture the magic that many felt had been...
July2021
Hands On The Ascent - A Gritty Cyberpunk Action-RPG Shooter That Will Keep You Coming Back
Shoot, loot and shoot some more
If you’re familiar with the cyberpunk genre – be it Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner or games like Shadowrun, or CD Projekt Red's troubled release, you can probably already imagine what the world of The Ascent has to offer. It’s got hacking, body modification, artificial intelligence, overcrowded nightclubs, lots...
Hands On 'Braking Point' Is F1 2021's Version Of FIFA's 'The Journey'
It's a proper, fully-featured F1 story mode
Remember 'The Journey' in the FIFA series? It was a multi-year story centring primarily around the fictional character of Alex Hunter, allowing you to play out his career, make decisions to progress the narrative and watch pre-determined cutscenes every time you got to a certain point in the season. That's...
June2021
Hands On Chivalry 2 Is A Multiplayer Game You Do Not Want To Sleep On
A humorous war simulator
Within the first few minutes of Chivalry 2, you're thrown into a boot camp and taught the basics. Whilst this is happening, you're being shouted at by your trainer as he pushes you forward through each tutorial. It's a jarring start and one that surprised us. Not because it was anything jaw-dropping, but purely through the...
Hands On PES 2021 Is An Enjoyable Compliment To Euro 2020 On Xbox Game Pass
Complete with all the official branding
Enjoying the Euros? This year's UEFA European Football Championships (well, technically last year's) have been underway for just over a week now, and if you're anything like us, you've been hooked to your TV multiple times per-day to catch all the action. But when the action stops, Xbox Game Pass comes to the...
April2021
Hands On Second Extinction Feels Tailor-Made For Xbox Game Pass
Our verdict after a few hours with the Xbox version
There's a lot of buzz in the Xbox community surrounding the release of co-op dinosaur shooter Second Extinction, which arrives on Xbox Game Pass as part of the early access Xbox Game Preview program this Wednesday, April 28. Ahead of its launch, we had a chance to go hands-on with the game this...
November2020
Hands On Seagate SSD 1TB Storage Card Is A Great Expansion For Xbox Series X
Faster than fast, quicker than quick
After spending 24 hours with the Seagate SSD Expansion Storage Card, it's clear it was built with the Xbox Series X|S in mind. It's speedy, accessible and adorable with its minute size, making for an excellent choice for anyone who is already clutching for space on their next-gen system. Immediately off the bat...
August2020
Hands On Project xCloud Works Almost Impossibly Well
'There are moments where this feels like a native handheld experience'
I’ve spent the last few days playing Halo without an Xbox in sight. Microsoft have taken Game Pass Ultimate, a service that was already rolling in value, and have unquestionably made it the greatest deal in gaming with Project xCloud. Not only do you get access to hundreds of...
January2016
Preview Compulsion Confirms We Happy Few Will Launch on Xbox One via Game Preview in 2016
Very happy many
Via a new year round up blog post, Compulsion Games have confirmed that their intriguing We Happy Few will indeed launch via Xbox Game Preview in mid-2016. The game was first announced in February 2015, and Microsoft showed the game during their Gamescom press briefing. It was initially rumoured by a couple of outlets that the game...
April2014
Feature These Are The Xbox Games Coming In April
Will we be showered in greatness?
After a slow start to 2014, March showed up and had us putting in overtime with our Xbox consoles. It was all thanks to games like South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Thief, Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes, and Titanfall — which were all either fantastic or, at the very least, good enough to be worth a...
August2013
Up close and personal.
At a small building in London’s Waterloo area on a bright and sunny Wednesday, Microsoft decided to give the UK press their first taste of the Xbox One. Spread across three floors, the event showcased Kinect, Forza Motorsport 5, Kinect Sports Rivals, Ryse: Son of Rome, Killer Instinct,
Stunning.
At a small building in London’s Waterloo area on a bright and sunny Wednesday, Microsoft decided to give the UK press their first taste of the Xbox One. Spread across three floors, the event showcased Kinect, Forza Motorsport 5, Kinect Sports Rivals, Ryse: Son of Rome, Killer Instinct,
Believe in it.
At a small building in London’s Waterloo area on a bright and sunny Wednesday, Microsoft decided to give the UK press their first taste of the Xbox One. Spread across three floors, the event showcased Kinect, Forza Motorsport 5, Kinect Sports Rivals, Ryse: Son of Rome, Killer Instinct,
July2012
Feature Kinect PlayFit - First Impressions
Free. Worth every penny.
So, Kinect PlayFit has been out for about a week, and it seems that folks are racking up the burnt calories like there's no tomorrow. The free app (available from your Xbox dashboard) tracks your play across 10 different Kinect titles, tracking how many calories you burn and awarding achievements and avatar awards based on...
April2012
First Impressions Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor
Metal madness
Pack it up, folks: with Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, we have reached the apex of video games as an entertainment medium. We now have the technology and, apparently, the desire to fist-bump our computer cohorts, and there's no going back. "Bro-op" aside, From Software's Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor's mammoth task is...
October2011
First Impressions Kinectimals with Windows Phone 7
Kitty in your pocket
Unlike Nintendo and Sony consoles, sadly you've never been able to take your Xbox games on the go with you, something even Dreamcast offered over 10 years ago. Now with Windows Phone 7 devices and Xbox 360 you're able to access select content wherever you are, something we recently got chance to try out with Kinectimals and...
September2011
Hands On Kinect Sports Season Two
We visit Rare's UK HQ to experience what could be this Christmas' biggest Kinect title
Given the incredible commercial and critical response to the original Kinect Sports, it was inevitable that a sequel of some description would occur. What was slightly less predictable was the news that the legendary British code house Rare would be co-developing...
July2011
First Impressions The Black Eyed Peas Experience
Rock that body
Michael Jackson: The Experience was a pretty good attempt at bringing the King of Pop to the living room, but the Black Eyed Peas are a totally different undertaking: whereas the MJ game put you in Michael's shoes in his legendary live shows and music videos, in The Black Eyed Peas Experience you don't play as Will.i.am, Fergie or the...
First Impressions Just Dance 3
Get on the floor!
Until now Harmonix has undoubtedly had the Kinect dancing market all sewn up, but that dominance will meet its sternest challenge yet in October when Ubisoft brings the astonishingly successful Just Dance brand across to Xbox 360 in the luridly coloured form of Just Dance 3. At first glance, very little has changed from its Wii...
First Impressions Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012
Toned up
Ubisoft knows when it's onto a good thing: not only is the publisher bringing Just Dance 3 to Kinect, it's also gearing up to launch a sequel to the sensor's biggest selling fitness title. Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 is set for release this November with all the original game's content and some new tricks up its sleeve too. Game...
First Impressions Kinect Sports: Season Two
Another big score for Microsoft?
Last night we brought you our First Impressions of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier from Microsoft's Christmas showcase, and next on our travels was the sequel to Rare's Kinect Sports, without doubt one of Kinect's best launch games. We were quickly told that the motion tracking had been vastly improved from the first...
June2011
First Impressions Fruit Ninja Kinect
Ripening nicely
If you happen to own a modern smartphone then you’ve probably already sampled the delights of Halfbrick’s amazing Fruit Ninja. The game has now registered over 20 million downloads across mobile formats, and rightly so — it’s one of those unique titles that takes a very basic premise (in this case, the slicing and dicing of...
