We received some of the most varied and delightfully beautiful Disney and Pixar worlds seen in the series to date, as well as an excellent overhaul of the combat systems and a raft of key quality of life improvements to just about everything else. It might have taken little over a decade, but we finally received the conclusion to the Xehanort saga when Kingdom Hearts 3 arrived in 2019. Wrong Number is a creative, indulgent, and hypnotic puzzle game that's lost none of its appeal in the years since its release.

It increased the challenge in each of its blood-stained sandboxes, improved enemy AI, and expanded the number of ways your character could leave a trail of mess and murder behind them. Twin-stick destruction set to a thunderous techno beat, Hotline Miami built upon its predecessor in every conceivable way. Hotline Miami 2 takes real delight in dragging players through a gauntlet of violence and viscera. Hell, some of the picks were just so much fun we're still thinking about them seven years later.

The games that pushed storytelling and design forward, the titles that best explored our growing infatuation with always-online and live service experiences, and the releases that truly paved the way to future evolution and iteration. As the PS4 and Xbox One generation draws to an end, we highlight the games that defined the last seven yearsįor GamesRadar's 100 games of the generation list, we've selected what we believe to be the very best of the PS4 and Xbox One era.

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