Rise of the Tomb Raider

The best entry in Lara’s rebooted trilogy is an amazing advert for Xbox One X. While Rise of the Tomb Raider looks fairly impressive on the base console, play this Siberian-set sequel on Microsoft’s supercharged system and a 4K television, and the trinket-scavenging action looks incredible. Expanding on the hub areas of the first game and making those Challenge Tombs more intriguing than ever, Lara’s frosty adventure combines sharp Uncharted-style shootouts with platforming sections that give you more agency than PlayStation’s poster boy ever trusts you with. Is the story mostly nonsense? Sure. But when you’re wading through the most impressive virtual snow on Xbox and sticking your pickaxe into a furious grizzly’s throat, you’ll forgive the gaping plot holes.