When Microsoft entered the console market with the launch of the original Xbox, they were able to have a hand in publishing some of its best titles. Yet many of them, like its competitors during the sixth generation of consoles, were designed to target an older, more mature audience of teens and young adults, rather than the "kids" who were supposedly the biggest gamers out there. These were games that attempted to change what had come before, by being not just more grown up, but tougher.