5. Gears of War 4

With Gears of War 4, game creators The Coalition took over from Epic Games who were behind the earlier Gears of War 3. This was considered by many to be the best game in the series to date, but thankfully Gears of War 4 managed to live up to its predecessor. This delivered more of the great third-person action and enjoyable multiplayer as the previous games in the Gears series.

Although the single player campaign featuring new protagonist JD Fenix was not that exciting, it did feature some cool set pieces and interesting new characters. These include JD (son of iconic protagonist Marcus Fenix, who hang his boots in part 3) and others like Kait and Del. The meat of the game clearly is in the multiplayer though, with modes such as Escalation providing some tense and exciting action in this Gears of War game, making this undoubtedly one of the best offerings on the Xbox One this year too.