GameSpy and IGN's Top 25 Greatest Xbox 360 games

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

It was the fourth anniversary of the launch of the Xbox 360 a few days ago and to mark the occasion GameSpy and IGN put together lists of what they consider the 25 greatest Xbox 360 games to date:

GameSpy

1. Fallout 3
2. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
3. BioShock
4. Mass Effect
5. Grand Theft Auto IV
6. Crackdown
7. Gears of War 2
8. The Orange Box
9. Rock Band 2
10. Left 4 Dead
11. Dead Space
12. Fight Night Round 3
13. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
14. Halo 3
15. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas
16. Fable II
17. Street Fighter IV
18. Guitar Hero II
19. Prince of Persia
20. Dead Rising
21. Soulcalibur IV
22. Burnout Paradise
23. Earth Defense Force 2017
24. Forza Motorsport 2
25. FIFA Soccer 08

IGN

1. Mass Effect
2. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
3. Fallout 3
4. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
5. Grand Theft Auto IV
6. Halo 3
7. The Orange Box
8. BioShock
9. Braid
10. Gears of War
11. Halo 3: ODST
12. Halo Wars
13. Borderlands
14. Geometry Wars
15. Rock Band 2
16. Forza Motorsport 3
17. FIFA 10
18. Left 4 Dead
19. Virtua Fighter 5 Online
20. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
21. NHL 10
22. Shadow Complex
23. Dead Rising
24. Lost Odyssey
25. Dead Space

Agree? Disagree?

 

[PKerr]

For the most part I agree with a lot of the list I would just move things around a bit.

Here would be my top 14 as I never really played the others or just didn't like them

1. Dead Space
2. Gears of War 2
3. Fallout 3
4. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
5. Borderlands
6. BioShock
7. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfar/2
8. Halo 3
9. Dead Rising
10. Left 4 Dead
11. Halo 3: ODST
12. Grand Theft Auto IV
13. The Orange Box
14. Crackdown

 

[The Evil Dead]

..........the Xbox 360 rules.

 

[Mistral]

Those are all pretty good games. Surprised WAW didn't make it, though.

 

[TheBrew]

Too much Halo in IGN's list, IMO.

 

[Skywalker]

Too much Halo in IGN's list, IMO.

Yeah, but that's offset by Mass Effect being #1.

 

[Mr Light]

I'm not sure how I would rank them but... Mass Effect, Halo 3, Prototype, Bioshock, Marvel Alliance II, Crackdown...

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Those are actually fairly good lists, even if I do disagree with the words "greatest" and "Halo" being anywhere near each other.

 

[darthraidr]

no batman?

 

[Aragorn]

That Gamespy list is actually from March.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

That Gamespy list is actually from March.

Ah, so it is. I came across it after the IGN list and thought they'd brought it out for the fourth anniversary, too, without noticing the date.

 

[Kelthaz]

I love the Earth Defense Force mention. That game was fantastic, especially in two player mode.

 

[Trubinator]

My list would be more like this:

1. Mass Effect
2. Halo 3
3. Dead Space
4. Assassin's Creed 2 (haven't played yet, but looks amazing)
5. Burnout Paradise

I don't really count Fallout 3 in the list or Left 4 Dead because I see them as more PC games.

 

[Rii]

38 titles across both lists, of which 12 are exclusive to the platform.

 

[firehawk12]

I would put Amped 3 in one of those lists.

 

[Yoda]

I'll take a crack at ranking the games from the IGN list that I have played through...

1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
2. Rock Band 2
3. Gears of War
4. Dead Rising
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
6. Shadow Complex
7. Geometry Wars
8. Grand Theft Auto IV
9. BioShock
10. Braid
11. Mass Effect
12. Halo 3

To me the biggest drop in quality is from Mass Effect to Halo 3... still a good game, but I think I'd call the rest of the games great. It's kind of hard to rank the smaller XBLA titles in there because they're so comparatively small and low budget. But Shadow Complex kicked ass, and I played the shit out of Geometry Wars, great arcade gameplay and looks really nice on an HDTV when HD console gaming was still a complete novelty to me. I have Dead Space as well but I can't rank it as I've barely played it.