By Genre: First-Person Shooters
Xbox One
- Halo 5 Guardians
Playstation 4:
- PlanetSide 2
Verdict: Xbox One
Xbox has dominated the first-person shooter genre since the release of Halo: Combat Evolved back in 2001, and 2015 was no different. Though PlayStation struck important third-party marketing deals with games like Star Wars Battlefront and Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Halo continues to be the definitive exclusive first-person shooter franchise on either console.
Returning to the arena-style multiplayer which made Halo 2’s online play a runaway success, Halo 5 gave fans of the franchise what they had been asking for since migrating away from it in Halo 4. While they returned in some ways to the roots of what made Halo great, Halo 5 also added the new game mode Warzone which pits Red vs. Blue vs. NPC enemies in a large-scale, objective-based battle.
