{"id":89139,"date":"2026-09-09T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89139"},"modified":"2026-09-09T20:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T00:41:16","slug":"sunset-overdrive-was-the-highlight-of-the-otherwise-rough-xbox-one-era-and-remains-criminally-underrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89139","title":{"rendered":"Sunset Overdrive Was the Highlight of the Otherwise-Rough Xbox One Era and Remains Criminally Underrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><em><strong>This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains \u201cthe Xbox guy.\u201d In the run-up to Xbox\u2019s 25th anniversary, he\u2019ll be sharing his memories from the platform\u2019s first quarter-century. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"divider\">\n<p>When I started this Xbox retrospective project ahead of the console\u2019s 25th anniversary this November, I knew it\u2019d skew heavily towards original Xbox and Xbox 360 games. And while the Xbox One era wasn\u2019t all bad, it was nonetheless one that a lot of Xbox fans would be happy to fast-forward through. Sure, the platform and messaging woes get most of the blame for Xbox\u2019s first failed console (and before the Xbox faithful come after me, Nintendo\u2019s had one too: anyone remember the Wii U? And heck, Sony had the Vita), but the lack of first-party games \u2013 let alone good ones \u2013 had as much to do with the Xbox One being a rough generation for Xbox as anything else.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there were diamonds in the rough, and one of them would\u2019ve been a HUGE hit in the Xbox 360 generation, but instead it was released on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains \u201cthe Xbox guy.\u201d In the run-up to Xbox\u2019s 25th anniversary, he\u2019ll be sharing his memories from the platform\u2019s first quarter-century. When I started this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":89141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89143,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89139\/revisions\/89143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}