Titanfall was flash-in-the-pan fun. When I first got my Xbox One, Titanfall was my first foray into the next generation of consoles, and it felt like a real stone had been stepped. The gameplay was so different and fantastic, and it's remarkable that in a game where the main thrust is gaining the ability to drop your massive Titan into battle, you still didn't feel like you were shorthanded as a soldier. Amazing balance. It deserved a solo mode.

This is my go-to FPS. If I had to ever claim mastery over a single game, it would be Titanfall, where I once carried whatever team I was on to a 22 game winning streak, and a K/D ration against other players far over 10:1. Such a smooth FPS, with great maps. The campaign is non-existent, though, and some of the mechanics are bullshit. I could tell you all the things that would have made the second game fantastic, but Respawn took it a different way, and so a small piece of me dies.

Looks great, fun gameplay.

I would give it a higher score because the game mechanics are so good--seriously, even if you suck you generally can do something cool--but there just aren't that many modes and because of that there isn't a lot to come back to. But in terms of moment to moment action it is one of the finest shooters out there, and it helps that the idea was fresh at the time.