The 32 Best Xbox 360 Games
A comprehensive look at 32 of the greatest video games available on Xbox 360.
- by McKinley Noble
- November 22, 2010 12:00 PM PT
Spending a little extra time with your Xbox 360? Wondering which games are worth your holiday cash? GamePro has sorted through hundreds of titles to bring you 32 of the best Xbox 360 games that we've seen on the console so far.
Be sure to also read: The 24 Best PS3 games, The Best PC games, The 10 Best PSP games, The 28 Best Wii games, The 36 Best PS2 games, The 31 Best DS games, The 36 Best iPhone games, and The 25 Best iPad games.
Criterion's past experience is put to great use in its first lap with the Need for Speed franchise in Hot Pursuit--a ga
ME that bears many of the familiar hallmarks of the Burnout franchise. Aggressive takedowns of other racers and pursuing police cars function similarly in Hot Pursuit, and are likewise capped off by excessive, slow-motion depictions of destruction porn. Most notably, in a market filled with arcade racers like Split/Second and Blur, the game still feels like a true original.
Completely rebooting the Castlevania franchise, Lords of Shadow takes the series back to older times, with enigmatic whip-wielders and classic monsters of the night. While not the first Castlevania title to go 3D, Lords of Shadow achieves the style of past games in the series, with whip-based combat and heavy platforming. Throw in some boss battles with impossibly large demons and giants, and Lords of Shadow starts to feel like a classic adventure. Man-eating spiders, goblins, vampires, and many more creatures stand between Gabriel and his prize, and the journey to the end kicks off an interesting twist for the series as a whole.
Dead Rising 2 throws tons of zombies on the screen at once, up to thousands of them at a time. With the game’s new “combo” system, simply smashing through dense crowds of undead has a new flair to it, as you can create new and exciting weapons that can really make the bodies hit the floor. Aside from random mayhem and helping survivors, there’s always the Case Files to tend to, which help get to the bottom of the mystery of the zombie outbreak. There’s tons of stuff to unlock, psychotic bosses to fight, and more. Dead Rising 2, like the previous game, is one you’ll want to play again and again just to see everything.
Lionhead Studios has achieved much with the open-ended world of Fable 3. Starting from your mission to overthrow the corrupt king of Albion, the whole of the land is lain out at your feet from the beginning. Everything you’ll do in Albion tailors itself to your custom character, as you can be a melee powerhouse or a wandering warlock. Finding valuable items and hunting hidden artifacts with your loyal dog is just the icing on the cake, as the whole world around you is teeming with interesting characters and odd locales. Fable 3 is deep, and the fantasy world at work here makes for a great story.
"Massive" isn't a big enough word for the fourth incarnation in the popular Elder Scrolls role-playing series, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. As you traversed the world of Cyrodil, you could truly create a life of your own -- mine caverns, learn trade skills, fight bandits... the scope alone of what's possible in Oblivion is simply astonishing, and this amazing adventure is still unprecedented in both size and scale. If you're looking to get immersed in a deep fantasy, your ticket to a new world is hidden in one of the best
Xbox 360 games yet.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s follow-up to the 2009 Undisputed changes everything from the ground up, with a tweaked combat system, revamped controls, and a fleshed out career mode that essentially mirrors the feeling of grinding through the minor leagues of mixed martial arts (MMA) to signing with the big show. Aside from packing a bigger roster of fighters, UFC 2010 also shows that the development team spent some time in the gym, with a modified stand-up game that incorporates dodging and swaying. New fighting styles like Karate and Greco-Roman Wrestling add some more tactics to Octagon fights, and a variety of extra combat animations lend to the realistic nature of the game’s several in-ring match-ups. If you’re a fight fan, UFC 2010 will make you brush up on some fundamentals.
In most survival horror games, zombies are a pesky nuisance at best, and a temporary o
BStacle at worst. , featuring gruesome goons like Hunters, Tanks, and Chargers, will reacquaint you with your itchy trigger finger in a hurry. In this co-op first person survival marathon gone mad, the Infected will chase your motley gang of Survivors with all the gusto of Olympic track runners, and having as many players as possible behind the controllers is indubitably the best way to survive. If you missed the previous Left 4 Dead, get ready to experience one of the best story-driven horror series on shelves now. Oh, and trust us, you don't want to startle the Witches.
Even if you consider it Electronic Arts' answer to Modern Warfare, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 still offers a lot more than the average war combat game, offering multiplayer maps that emulate environments from the Panama Canal to the Alaskan Rockies to the dense jungles of South America. Bad Company 2 also includes a single-player story that takes your squad of commandos from Bolivia to Chile to Colombia. Alongside the plot of an alternate Present Day that sees the Russian government launching a world-wide military invasion of its neighboring countries, it's a wild take on modern war that only Battlefield could do. Come for the multiplayer, stay for everything else.
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