Top 40 best Xbox 360 games of all time – 2010
The Xbox 360 is five years old now, and has built up a library of impressive games in that time. But what are the best games available for the Xbox 360? Read on for our Top 40 best Xbox 360 games of all time up to the end of 2010.
Whether you’re a longtime Xbox 360 owner or have got hold of one recently, the following list should help you decide which games you absolutely need to own. They are, to our minds, the Top 40 best Xbox 360 games ever released.
Top 40 Best Xbox 360 Games – 2010
Top 40 Best Xbox 360 Games – 1-10
Halo 3 – Where would Xbox be without Halo? And Halo 3 is the best one.
Gears of War 2 – The best third-person shooter available? I think so.
Red Dead Redemption – The surprise hit of 2010, and a true gem.
Mass Effect 2 – An almost perfect game, even better than the original.
CoD: Modern Warfare 2 – What more can be said about this shooter?
GTA IV – Still fantastic, and the best sandbox game on the Xbox 360.
Fable III – Another outstanding gem from Peter Molyneux.
Braid – The highest Xbox Live game on the list. A true stroke of genius.
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 – An old-skool shooter on XBL.
Left 4 Dead – A co-op experience that will suck up many hours.
Top 40 Best Xbox 360 Games – 11-20
Gears of War – Almost as good as the sequel, but not quite.
Halo: Reach – Bungie’s final halo game, and a true masterpiece.
Forza Motorsport 2 – The Xbox 360′s answer to Gran Turismo.
Batman: Arkham Asylum – A good game based on a comic book?
Dead Rising – Killing zombies in a multiple different ways? Yes please.
CoD: Modern Warfare – The original Modern Warfare, still bags of fun.
Alan Wake – It took too long to arrive but it’s a worthwhile experience.
Portal: Still Alive – Sequel to Portal; a game designed to confuse you.
Bioshock – A highly original FPS that is both immersive and intelligent.
Left 4 Dead 2 – The gameplay still rocks in this bestselling sequel.
Top 40 Best Xbox 360 Games – 21-30
Fallout 3 – Not perfect but bag-loads of fun.
Halo 3: ODST – A side project perhaps, but mighty playable.
Mass Effect – We’ve had the sequel, now meet the original!
Bioshock 2 – A welcome return to Rapture.
CoD: Black Ops – No Modern Warfare, but still fantastic.
Dead Space – Survival horror at its best.
Fable II – Another action RPG from Peter Molyneux.
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved – The original, not the best.
Ninja Gaiden II – Ignore the story, soak up the gameplay.
Project Gotham Racing 4 – Formulaic it may be, but it works.
Top 40 Best Xbox 360 Games – 31-40
Viva Pinata – Sold poorly, but much loved.
Halo Wars – An RTS based in the Halo universe.
Crackdown – Innovative and visually stunning.
Rock Band 3 – More music lovers, this tops them all.
Borderlands – A cel-shaded role-playing shooter.
Bayonetta – A sexier version of Devil May Cry.
The Orange Box – Atmospheric five-games in one package.
Dragon Age: Origins – Fantastic RPG with sequel on way.
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Aging badly, but well worth a look.
Metro 2033 – Another atmospheric gaming experience.
Conclusions
Not all of these games will appeal to everyone, but generally speaking they are the essential Top 40 Xbox 360 games to buy and play to death. If you only buy 40 games for your Xbox 360 then make them this 40. You won’t regret it. And if you do, then don’t blame us. Because personal opinion still reigns supreme when it comes to gaming.
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December 5th, 2010
Mass Effect 2
Gears (the novelty of using a chainsaw to kill your friends never wears off!)
Bioshock
Left 4 dead
Geometry wars
December 5th, 2010
left for dead is the only game that would get me to buy an xbox but apparently thats now coming to PS3.
December 5th, 2010
LOL and the majority of games on that list are also on PS3 so everyone buy a PS3 instead and get most of these games mentioned plus an array of Sony exclusives. . .it also works out cheaper to get a PS3 because if you include the price of xbox laglive and all the shite add-ons, the 360 costs a fortune more than the PS3… LMAO
December 5th, 2010
LMAO Geometry Wars is better than reach!
HAHAHAHAHA No wonder you poor fuckers are so angry all the time. If I had that crap to play I would be bitter too.
December 5th, 2010
LOL LOL LOL
December 5th, 2010
Didn’t realise you were such a halo fanboy. Clearly you’ve never played geometry wars.
December 5th, 2010
Too much I disagree with here Dave.
Halo 1 > 3, sorry.
Gears is NOT the best 3rd person shooter– Mass Effect and UC2 deserve those honours
MW2 is CRAPTASTIC.
I can go on, but I’ll stop
December 5th, 2010
“Clearly you’ve never played geometry wars.”
Yes I did. 24 years ago.
December 5th, 2010
My GF bought a 360 last year at Christmas. No lie – it RROD’d last week.
That… plus the online thing… no thanks.
December 5th, 2010
Gears Of War is the best shooter and Xbox360′s best exclusive title since Mass Effect is now coming to the Ps3. It is really bad that Xbox360 has very few exclusive titles. The majority of the titles listed are multi-platform titles.
December 5th, 2010
“Clearly you’ve never played geometry wars.”
I have – one of the best 360 exlusive games for sure (since there aren’t many good exclusives on 360). On PS3 it will be just another DL game
December 5th, 2010
In other words, these are the best 360 Exclusives:
1 . Alan Wake
2 . Crackdown
3 . Fable II
4 . Forza Motorsport 2
5 . Gears of War 2
6 . Gears of War
7 . Halo 3
8 . Halo 3: ODST
9 . Halo Wars
10 . Halo: Reach
11 . Project Gotham Racing 4
12 .Viva Pinata
December 5th, 2010
What a joke, most of them are shooters and half of them are Gears or Halo titles.
My Top 15 PS3 exclusives:
1 . God of War 3
2 . Uncharted 2
3 . Demon’s Soul
4 . Gran Turismo 5
5 . Killzone 2
6. Infamous
7 . LittleBigPlanet
8 . ModNation Racers
9 . Heavy Rain
10 . Ratchet & Clank: ACIT
11 . Resistance: Fall of Man
12 . Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
13 . Valkyria Chronocles
14 . Buzz! Quiz TV
15 . MAG
December 5th, 2010
So you guys are all impressed with all the pretty colours?
LOL guess you were also impressed with the avashit light show?
You know what they say about small things.
December 6th, 2010
Avatar was brilliant.
Stop hating on the best movie of all time (financially).
December 6th, 2010
Avatar was pretty, not great. I truly don’t understand how it achieved the success it did, but I also thought Titanic was totally bunk. My understanding is not required for James Cameron to gold plate his toilet.
December 6th, 2010
“LMAO Geometry Wars is better than reach!”
LMAO Peggle is rated higher than uncharted!
December 6th, 2010
You guys just don’t like love stories. I am admittedly a sucker for them. But let’s not muddy the water– Avatar was brilliant
December 6th, 2010
Roca the troll
You forgot
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Left4dead
Left4dead 2
dead rising
portal still alive
pgr 3
fable 3
forza 3
December 6th, 2010
I liked Avatar as well.
“You guys just don’t like love stories. I am admittedly a sucker for them”
Including blue alien sex?
December 6th, 2010
I already said I don’t discriminate based on skin colour
December 6th, 2010
“I already said I don’t discriminate based on skin colour”
Does this mean that you do discriminate based on other things?
December 6th, 2010
Yes. If she has a penus– I’m prejudiced!! >:]
December 6th, 2010
@CON
Most of those are multiplatform games, and Forza 4 and PGR3 were not listed. Either way, there ain’t much to list on 360 when it comes to “exclusives”
December 6th, 2010
“Most of those are multiplatform games”
No they’re not you moron troll.
December 6th, 2010
You forgot
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Left4dead
Left4dead 2
dead rising
portal still alive
pgr 3
fable 3
forza 3
Ain’t most of them on the PC? Not exclusive then. And Fable 3 was really shit, I had high hopes as well.
December 6th, 2010
I agree with a lot of the games, though maybe in a different order
But way too many shooters
Why PGR4 and No Forza 3 or Grid, or even split second or burn out paradise.
Why Viva piñata and not Viva piñata trouble in paradise, a huge step up that made a great game even better.
Why no Battle field BC2 with so many other shooters listed
Why Geometry wars (both of them). .yes they’re fun . .but top 40. .Hmmm.
What about civilization, Command & conquer or lord of the rings ..I guess you’re not a fan of strategy games
December 6th, 2010
And Fable III has only 80 on Metacritic, so like GT5 it must be very shit, even shitter than GT5 actually.
December 6th, 2010
No one said Rated Carlb.
I have said it before and I’ll say it again. The reviewers are a bunch of retarded casual gaming Xbots. Almost every one of them. And if you think Peggal deserves a higher score than Uncharted OR Geometry wars deserves a higher spot on that list than Reach then you must be retarded also.
December 6th, 2010
“Avatar was brilliant”
For a POS love story with piss poor actors.
The chick sucked ass at acting. Specially the part where she slapped the guy. So phoney.
December 6th, 2010
“Including blue alien sex?”
Sex with trees and animals. I believe that is called bestiality or something.
December 6th, 2010
“Why Viva piñata and not Viva piñata trouble in paradise, a huge step up that made a great game even better”
Maybe because Viva Piñata: Trouble in paradise got lower reviews than its predecessor. LOL that’s not a step up.. that’s a step back.
December 6th, 2010
“Fable 3 was really shit, I had high hopes as well”
don’t forget about Crackdown 2..
December 6th, 2010
Enough of the Geometry Wars hating people! This game is truely one of my all time favourites. It’s so addictive!
Check out how crazy this video gets towards the end!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kijt1dH1u2g
December 6th, 2010
That video bored me to death.
December 6th, 2010
@godless
“Why no Battle field BC2 with so many other shooters listed”
It’s listed for PS3. It’s probably because the xbot community prefer more arcade-style games like COD, Halo and Forza.
December 6th, 2010
super stardust HD blows geometry wars out of the water.
December 6th, 2010
agreed
December 6th, 2010
Roca Forza is a sim. Doesn’t gt5 have an arcade mode also? HA HA
Roca the troll I’m sorry it bored you, I’m sure if it was on the ps3 it would be the best thing ever. You’re such a troll it’s pathetic.
December 6th, 2010
If it was one PS3 it would be another PSN games like the rest…. PS3 has some many other good disc-based exclusives games.
GT5 has a arcade mode but it doesn’t play like an arcade racer. Arcade mode it’s just the mode where you can playing with friends or by yourself using any car, on any track at any given time without earning credits, XP and without being restricted to the GT-mode Event’s rules and regulations.
Why don’t you get the game, maybe you’ll know what you’re talking about and then we might take you seriously.
December 6th, 2010
@CON
since you like to refer so much to reviews why don’t you try and read one for a change, all of them say that GT5 has the best handling physics on console, the premium cars look better than anything out there snd remind when forza had anykind of weather effect that also actually affects the way your car handels
and since you like review scores so much you must be a real idiot for owning an xbox since ps3 exclusives have higher scores than shitbox exclusives i mean even kinect has lower scores than move
December 6th, 2010
@CON
Did you ever find out which of the gangbang guys was your father?
December 6th, 2010
GT5 IS THE ULTIMATE SIMULATION RACING GAME.
December 6th, 2010
GT5 is a broke, lame, broken promise that is selling on name alone.
if this game was the first in a series that has never been introduced before on the xbox, you ps3 fans would be crucifying it.
but alas, the ps3 fanatics are blinded by loyalty rather than what makes a great game.
good news for sony. bad news for the gaming industry as a whole.
December 6th, 2010
The fact that GT5 has you going all crazy over it just prove that it’s the Juggernaut of all racing sims game..too bad there’s none like it.
December 6th, 2010
Kev is just a pathetic jealous little twat.
December 6th, 2010
yeah kev seems to be going mental because gt5 is so great. . .anyway isnt it halo that sells on name alone? and kev do you do anything apart from hate on gt5, wishing forza 3 was just as good as it?
December 6th, 2010
I liked geometry wars, personally.
And goddamn it– Avatar was amazing. The music especially! You guys just suck.
But how is sex with the Na’Vi beastiality? They were humanoid… So I take it all the sex going on behind the scenes in Star Wars was beastiality by your definition?
December 6th, 2010
“Sex with trees and animals. I believe that is called bestiality or something”
I thought it was called ‘animality’
FINISH HIM!
December 6th, 2010
“So I take it all the sex going on behind the scenes in Star Wars was beastiality by your definition?”
I remember the deleted scene with Chewbacca and Mace Windu . . . . . or was that Star Whores?
December 6th, 2010
“But how is sex with the Na’Vi beastiality? They were humanoid… ”
What about connecting their tails “cocks” to the flying dragons?
December 6th, 2010
zman
“since you like to refer so much to reviews why don’t you try and read one for a change, all of them say that GT5 has the best handling physics on console”
HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
Show me the quotes!!!
December 6th, 2010
A linear list of the top games is rating games nc.
The reviewers are a bunch of casual gaming retarded PBots. Almost every one of them.
See what I did there? Sounds just as retarded.
December 6th, 2010
They were humanoid– they had dicks and pussies, and you clearly can see Netiri’s breast (nipple). The braid was the physical way they connected with nature, like Africans and the N. Americans do, albeit spiritually
December 6th, 2010
i dont care but i would bang that na’vi, i think its netri LOL
December 6th, 2010
Liquid-here ya go
http://cdn.mademan.com/chickipedia/images/4/47/Zoe-saldana-picture-2_115.jpg
December 7th, 2010
I would split that in two Capt.
December 7th, 2010
so would i. . .in human form or na’vi LOL
December 7th, 2010
http://findlaydonnan.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/neytiri-zoe-saldana.jpg
December 8th, 2010
Just looking at the ears on the na’vi saldana scares me.
December 8th, 2010
Wow…. She’s gorgeous, her Na’Vi is gorgeous, and if I didn’t have a brilliant and gorgeous girlfriend, I’d definitely go for Zoë, assuming I had a shot
December 8th, 2010
New Wiki Definition:
I don’t know how, as a self proclaimed gamer, you can call any game a “Juggernaut of all racing sims game” with all of the screen tearing, blocky shadows, poor physics, unrealistic tarmac, inept Artificial Intelligence, reusing old car models from LAST GENERATION, all while charging you over $100 for the “collector’s edition”.
the only thing Juggernaut-ly about it seems to be the huge sense of disappointment from the fans.
December 8th, 2010
Liquid – Halo has been selling great since it’s launch on the market. You *do* realize you can’t sell on name when you’ve never entered the market before, right? lmao…..
December 9th, 2010
It’s called word-of-mouth you tit.
“You *do* realize” when Halo first launched, it sold relatively poor.
“You *do* realize” there’s no way an unknown IP sells WELL without hype, of which it had NONE
“You *do* realize” Halo 2 was the one that sold off it’s name
“You *do* realize” your argument has failed, and you just got owned
Right?
December 22nd, 2010
To LIQUID: If you can’t afford an awesome system like the XBox 360 with all the great accessories, then that would be your own personal financial problem…. don’t hate on an awesome system because you can’t afford it. XBox has very sweet exclusives and most games have been reviewed and proven to play better on the XBOX 360 than the PS3. Weather it be the controls or graphic performance. I’m sure you’re also hating on Ferrari’s also and everything else you can’t afford. PS3 is also an awesome system with sweet exclusives, sure, I know, I own and have played almost all of them. That’s why I buy what I love to play…. and I love to play great video games. And both Systems have GREAT games/exclusives. Stop being such a pus….. I mean… fanboy.
December 22nd, 2010
To CaptBirdman:
“You do realize” that Halo in fact DID sell more than expected… especially during it’s time where video games in general didn’t receive much hype by the masses and didn’t really sell in the millions as todays games do.
“You do realize” that Halo practically sold the XBOX name, which in turn had the developers rush the already in progress “upcoming Halo 2″, which THEN, continued AND exceeded the expected sales of the XBOX. I don’t think you knew that. I don’t think you’re a gamer…. just another fanboy who stands blindly behind a product and product name. THAT’S what I “realize”.
December 22nd, 2010
Key makes a great point on most of his comments…. really… some people are just too damn humping loyal to a “name” rather than the love of the game. Dam followers. Get a life support what’s good because you know it’s good…. not because it’s what “you own” or “follow”.
SO…. point made…. and happy gaming =] (for us the REAL GAMERS)
December 22nd, 2010
TO CarlB:
“LMAO Geometry Wars is better than reach!”
LMAO Peggle is rated higher than uncharted!
Dude… these games are not better than eachother… they are categorized DIFFERENTLY. In separate categories. They just feel that they are the best games of those categories. Goodness, get some sence people….. COMMON SENCE.