Halo 4

Halo 4 is a game with an awful lot to prove. It needs to show that Microsoft's biggest franchise can thrive without the development skills of its original creator, Bungie, and that an FPS that once dominated the Xbox can still prosper in the age of Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare. Most of all, it needs to demonstrate that the Halo saga still has life left in it now that the arc of the first three games, plus ODST and Reach, has reached its conclusion. Halo 4 needs to prove that Halo still matters.