Spending a little extra time with your Xbox 360? Wondering which games are worth your cash? From The Orange Box to Halo to Mass Effect, we sort through hundreds of titles to bring you 10 of the best Xbox 360 games that we’ve seen on the console so far.
10. Grand Theft Auto 4
Like Rock Band, Grand Theft Auto 4’s a tossup. If you’ve got the Xbox 360 build, however, you’re a truly lucky gamer. Rockstar Games is still dishing out GTA goodness in the form of episodic content, with great characters and intense new side stories to explore. If you’ve been itching to get back on Liberty City’s streets, try The Lost and Damned or The Ballad of Gay Tony. As if that wasn’t enough reason to count this game among the best Xbox 360 games ever, there’s always the fact that you can push people in front of trains, saw pedestrians down with helicopter blades, and drive your dinner date off a cliff. Be bad, be wild, and be a menace!
- Grand Theft Auto 4 screenshots
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9. The Orange Box
Talk about bang for the buck: The Orange Box includes five hit games from the FPS gurus at Valve Software, making this a must-have for any shooter fan. Not only do you get the award-winning Half-Life 2 and the follow-ups Episode One and Two, but you also get the butter-smooth online game Team Fortress 2. But the real jewel of this fantastic collection is Portal, a mind-bending puzzler that every gamer should experience at least once. Armed with one of the coolest weapons ever devised in the Portal Gun, you run through a series of deviously designed levels while the omni-present voice of GlaDOS gently coaxes you onward. Filled with delicious humor and addictive gameplay, Portal is worth the purchase price alone but lucky for you, there’s four other amazing games to keep you occupied long after you’ve discovered the secret of the cake (hint: it’s a lie).
8. Batman: Arkham Asylum
No one expected Batman: Arkham Asylum to be this good. In fact, no one expected it to be one of the most impressive and thrilling action games to ever hit the Xbox 360. Thankfully, Rocksteady Studios and Warner Bros./DC Comics made the invaluable choice of enlisting help from the best talent possible, including big-ticket names like Paul Dini, Kevin Conroy, Arleen Sorkin, and of course, Mark Hamill. For once, a video game developer got everything right in a Batman game, and Rocksteady may have single handedly saved this series from an eternal cycle of horrible cash-in clunkers. But most rewarding was the fact that The Caped Crusader fought like a demon from Hell, his tools were inventive and intuitive, and the atmosphere of Arkham Island was as demented and dangerous as its inhabitants. Welcome back, Batman.
