Essential xbox 360 games 2010

Fable III. Even though the series has only been around for about six years, the Fable franchise is already well into its third game with a fourth Kinect-supported entry on the way. In that time, it has managed to secure its place as the de facto action-adventure series for Xbox gamers.

The gameplay takes simple Zelda-inspired combat mechanics and expands upon it, letting you effectively shape the world as you see fit through your actions and interactions with people.

In your journey to become the king, you can be as good or bad as you want to be. Fallout: New Vegas. When Fallout 3 came out in , it changed the way gamers looked at RPGs forever. Set in an expansive post-apocalyptic open-world and relying on mechanics most akin to a shooter, Fallout 3 is considered one of the finest games of its generation. The thing is, its follow-up, Fallout: New Vegas, is even better in many respects.

The world is bigger and darker, the enemies are more dangerous, and the story is more robust. Fallout 3 relied on black-and-white decision making while New Vegas tends to present its story in a more gray fashion. That means that you don't know why or how you're making certain decisions, and likewise, the consequences of said decisions are nearly impossible to figure out until it's too late, for better or for worse. Grand Theft Auto IV.

Widely revered as one of the greatest games ever made, Rockstar pushed the envelope right off of the table with Grand Theft Auto IV. Taking the open-world formula that they'd been working off of since GTA III hit back in and refining it into a wholly new, story-driven experience with a living, breathing world behind it, Rockstar really hit a resonant theme with gamers all over.

The characters, even while committing atrocious acts, are relatable and even tragic, and their stories will keep you involved to the end, even without considering the huge open sandbox world that you're free to explore at any time. Halo: Reach. The final capstone of Bungie's development of the epic Halo franchise, Halo: Reach was a prequel that managed to tie the Halo universe together in a fantastic way.

The use of light is a significant gameplay element. Remedy has developed proprietary new technology to support the gameplay of the title and to push the high definition visuals to the next level. Minerva's Den is an all-new single-player focused downloadable game add-on for BioShock 2 that introduces new characters, locations and mystery to the world of Rapture.

Dance Central uses the Xbox 's motion-sensing accessory Kinect to guide you through a variety of dance moves and pop songs. Blur is a new style of powered-up racing.

The game drops players into heart-pumping racing action with 20 cars on a track all targeting the finish line and battling each other as they trade paint and collect intense power-ups, including the ability to blast other cars out of the way with huge bursts of energy, boost their speed, and more. Gamers can use offensive and defensive attacks as they battle for the lead and careen through real-world track locations ranging from L. This unique story-driving social network evolves dynamically as players compete in different races, make new friends, rivals and fans, and connect with other racers both in-game and in real life.

Looking beyond Blur's single player story, gamers can engage in competitive and team-based multiplayer races with up to 20 players online, or on a single console via 4-player split-screen. Competitors vie to be the first across the finish line in a made-for-TV city built for destruction, with the ultimate goal of becoming the season champion. Players must use strategy and pinpoint timing to derail opponents, tactically alter the track or create entirely new routes. Along the way, you will encounter diverse allies who will fight alongside you.

Execute powerful attacks with weapons and magic, and summon the enigmatic Eidolons with an evolved Active Time Battle system. Experience seamless transitions between real time gameplay and in-game cinematics. Do you have the courage to face your destiny? More than years in the future, the world has transformed into an unrecognizable state where all that remains are a dwindling human population and merciless robots left over from wars long past.

In Enslaved, players take on the role of Monkey, a strong and brutish loner, and his AI partner Trip, a technologically savvy but sheltered young woman from a peaceful community. Both become captured by a mysterious slave ship, which are rumored to harvest people and take them out west never to return. As they each attempt to escape, Trip realizes quickly that Monkey, with his raw strength and power, is the only hope she has of making the perilous journey back home.

She hacks into a slave headband to enslave Monkey and link them together - if she dies, he dies. Her journey has now become his. Players must make sure both Monkey and Trip work together as they skillfully navigate through the world and survive against the dangerous enemy obstacles that lie in wait. Monkey will deftly wield his trusty staff weapon to attack and defend against enemies, using a combination of melee attacks, blocks and counters. He will also be able to perform spectacular takedown moves, allowing him to rip an enemy apart piece by piece, take its weapon for his own use or destroy it in one final blow.

Deploy an exciting arsenal such as tanks, cavalry, biplanes, and flamethrowers in vintage WWI toy dioramas. Developed by Signal Studios exclusively for Xbox , Toy Soldiers allows you to take control of individual units or control the entire battlefield from a strategic view. Integrating multiple game genres and world-class visuals, Toy Soldiers is a unique and action-packed entertainment experience. Developed by Avalanche Studios, Just Cause 2 finds Rico Rodriguez returning in an epic open-world adventure set in the diverse tropical playground of Panau in South East Asia, where the aim is to cause chaos and destruction in a way that only Rico knows how!

His mission is to destabilize the island and free it from the tyranny of the evil dictator, Baby Panay. Players tackle missions and objectives in any way they want while exploring the highly-detailed and beautiful island by land, sea or air, performing an insane range of new daredevil stunts and mastering the use of the all new grappling hook and Rico's trademark parachute.

Downloadable Content Keep a powerful hybrid VI intelligence — and the geth it has unleashed upon a planet — from wreaking havoc across the galaxy! Overlord includes 5 new levels, exciting ground combat and Hammerhead missions, and all-new achievements. Get closer to the Puzzle Quest action than ever before with a more intimate viewpoint of the world, and with all new character classes: Sorcerer, Templar, Barbarian, or Assassin.

Once you've proven your command ability, take your Darwinian army online and challenge your friends to strategic combat, as tribes of Darwinians slaughter one another in a desperate struggle for supremacy. From rewarding epic bails and fails with a beefed up Hall of Meat mode to honing your craft with the all-new skate. The franchise also continues to raise the bar for user created content with the skate. Create feature suite, an innovative toolset that empowers gamers to truly express their skate style by creating their own graphics, videos, and skate parks.

Five decades have passed since the events of Fable II, and Albion has matured into an industrial revolution, but the fate of the kingdom is at peril. The choices and sacrifices you make while fanning the flames of revolution, and then as you rule as King or Queen or Albion, will lead to an ever evolving world of consequences that will be felt across your entire land. This sets the stage for unparalleled action and adventure that offers even more ways to fight and engage than ever before.

Throughout your journey, you encounter a colorful cast of characters that fans have come to expect from the off-beat style and humor in the Fable games. After determining whether these characters are your friends or foes, you either join them or fight against them in explosive combat, alone or with a friend on Xbox LIVE.

In your quest to plant the seeds of revolution, seize power and rule over your kingdom, the choices you make change the world around you, for the greater good or your own personal gain. Who will you become? A rebel without a cause, the tyrant you rebelled against, or the greatest ruler to ever live? Designed and written by the same team that brought you Dragon Age: Origins, the Awakening expansion pack offers a brand new area of the world to explore known as Amaranthine, featuring an epic story that will allow players to unravel the secrets of the darkspawn - and their true motivations!

Players face a range of horrific and terrifying creatures including an evolved, intelligent breed of darkspawn and other menacing creatures such as the Inferno Golem and Spectral Dragon.

Dragon Age: Origins — Awakening provides exciting new ways for players to customize their heroes and party, including the ability to re-spec their character attributes, allowing even greater customization and replayability. Featuring an increased level cap, new spells, abilities, specializations and items, plus five all-new party members, players can continue their adventures from Dragon Age: Origins, or begin with a brand new character.

With simple flight controls and a hangar full of customizable planes and weapons, all you need are nerves of steel to climb the Leaderboards and become a Flying Ace. Snoopy Flying Ace takes addictive, fast-paced airborne combat to new heights, with fantastic solo and co-op challenges testing your skills against the Flying Circus of the dreaded Red Baron.

Remember, it ain't the size of the dog in the fight … it's the size of the fight in the dog! The game starts off looking like the classic Space Invaders, but as you play through the game, it evolves.

Unlock new stages, new power ups, and new features. In addition to Normal Mode, Challenge Mode pits you against 99 randomly-created stages. And Music Mode generates custom stages based on music stored on your console.

The Invaders are back, and they're watching you. The more you play, the more the game evolves! Diggabone's getting too old for archaeological digs, or so he says. Truth be told, he's just plain lazy That's where you jump into Lazy Raiders and take control as you spin and flip mazes to send the Doctor or your Avatar on a gravity-defying quest for lost relics that would bring him instant fortune and glory.

Of course you'll have to deal with greedy thieves, pesky minions, and ingenious traps along the way. If there weren't any challenges, you'd just grow lazy Now you can find out what happened during that mission at Spencer's estate.

This package also allows you to unlock two new characters in the all-new The Mercenaries Reunion. There are also additional figures available in Extra Figures to round out this action-packed package. EA SPORTS MMA promises to feature the most authentic, intense and broad mixed martial arts experience to date - complete with a vast array of top fighters and fighting styles from around the world.

More than 60 percent of the purchase price of Chime will be donated to children's charities around the world, helping those who need it the most. Mega Man 10 continues to bring the series back to its old-school roots, with retro platforming action and classic 8-bit graphics and sound. Rediscover Mega Man with new, classically-inspired boss characters, each with unique weapons and vulnerabilities.

The year is 20XX and Robotenza - the Robot Flu - has spread like wildfire, incapacitating robots everywhere. One month after the outbreak, the situation worsens. Infected robots have gone out of control and have destroyed the city! It's up to Mega Man to get to the bottom of this viral mystery.

It blends intense combat, finishing moves, and gameshow-like challenges and rewards to produce an action experience unlike any other. Why fight for "honor" or "duty" when you can fight for the real American dream - cash, fame and endorsements?

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, will introduce main protagonist and former motocross champion Chuck Greene and provide a link between the original game and the events that await players in the gambling paradise of Fortune City. Throughout his adventures DeathSpank has searched for a powerful artifact called The Artifact.

Dead Rising 2 takes the franchise to a new level of zombie-killing fun with tens of thousands of zombies, the all new gambling paradise of Fortune City to explore and conquer plus a host of new in-game objects that can all be used as deadly weapons to stave off the zombie assault. Dead Rising 2 is set several years after the infamous zombie invasion of Willamette. Unfortunately, the zombie virus was not contained at the conclusion of Dead Rising, spreading unchecked throughout the United States and Dead Rising 2 depicts a country where zombie outbreaks continue to strike.

Build the adventure from Privet Drive to the Triwizard Tournament and experience the fun of the first four Harry Potter stories — Lego style. Explore Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learn spells, brew potions and relive the adventures with tongue-in-cheek humor and creative customization that is unique to LEGO videogames. Greed Corp is an online multiplayer strategy game in which you battle for dominance over a world once rich in resources.

In order to prevail, exhaust all the remaining resources to build an army, and then use the depleted collapsing terrain to your advantage. An extensive campaign mode and multiple unlockables prepare you to take the battle online.

Will you defend your territory or sacrifice it to keep it out of enemy hands? Manage the finite available resources to build your army and use the unique collapsing terrain mechanic to your advantage, all while the mist grows closer. Now this classic shooter comes to Xbox LIVE Arcade, rendered in greater definition and detail and sporting a silkier framerate than ever before. Fire up your Farsight and prepare for assignment—the Dark returns this winter.

CLassic action: Play the original full game beautifully restored and back in full HD, p at 60 frames per second! Gamers select a team and square off to try and bring home The Ryder Cup for their squad. The Ryder Cup is one of the last great sporting events to be founded in prestige rather than prize money. Choose from the U. When playing The Ryder Cup mode offline, gamers have the option to swap matches, thus giving you the ultimate control over the outcomes of other matches. Balls can now be spread absolutely anywhere with surgical precision, with long balls into space, short passes to feet, and intricate one-twos allowing the player to dictate play and control the tempo of a match.

Players are plunged into the action thanks to the exclusive IRISZOOM Engine which offers an intuitive interface that allows for smooth, rapid transitions from a birds-eye view of the entire conflict, down into the heat of the battle and vice versa. A first in a strategy game, R. In RISK: Factions, play with the classic rules or reign supreme with objective-based and world conquest scenarios as you command your army and take tactical gambles to win the day.

Then challenge your friends in local or online multiplayer and see how you stack up on the leaderboards. Double Impact slams into your home with seamless online and local co-op multiplayer, new music by acclaimed remixologists, HD-filtered graphics, a host of unlockables to discover, and an integrated online leaderboard to prove your mettle!

Battle nastier, deadlier demons and monsters with your trusty Super Shotgun. Survive more mind-blowing explosions and take part in the bloodiest, fiercest, most awesome blastfest ever. Recruit your friends and plow through nine all-new levels in the new episode, No Rest for the Living! Set in the shattered subway of a post apocalyptic Moscow, Metro is a story of intensive underground survival where the fate of mankind rests in your hands.

A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age. The year is An entire generation has been born and raised underground, and their besieged Metro Station-Cities struggle for survival, with each other, and the mutant horrors that await outside. You are Artyom, born in the last days before the fire, but raised Underground. Having never ventured beyond your Metro Station-City limits, one fateful event sparks a desperate mission to the heart of the Metro system, to warn the remnants of mankind of a terrible impending threat.

Your journey takes you from the forgotten catacombs beneath the subway to the desolate wastelands above, where your actions will determine the fate of mankind. Play as a giant to help the tiny Keflings build up and beautify their Kingdom. Start out small, unlocking new blueprints, buildings and tasks as you work towards designing and building a Kefling castle.

Create your own private world, or construct a kingdom with your friends online! The shooter classic "Guwange" is reborn for a new generation! In which handsome master assassin Ezio hits Rome, meets Machiavelli and fights the Borgias, all within a beautifully constructed rendition of Renaissance Italy. This game is just dripping in atmosphere, its endless, craggy landscapes, battered characters and violent double crosses intermittently bringing to mind the great works of John Ford and Sergio Leone.

Best of all, you felt like you were there, on the horse, six gun at your side, clip-clopping through the desert, a looming orange sun turning the world to silhouette. How could you make Las Vegas better? New Vegas thrusts you into this twisted universe as a courier for the Mojave Express who becomes embroiled in a battle for the Hoover Dam.

Hilarity ensues. OK so this ridiculous sci-fi shooter sank like a mini-cannon when it was released in , but that is one of the great crimes of the Xbox era.

Bulletstorm is a joyous exploration of shooting mechanics, adding art and ballet to combat via its skillshot feature, which rewarded players for defeating enemies in ludicrously graphic and violent ways. It is also filled with great visual gags that poke endless fun at action game conventions. Brilliant and overlooked. A launch title with the Xbox and a strong continuation of the hit Xbox street racing series, Project Gotham 3 brought graceful car models, detailed city circuits and some groundbreaking online features to the console from the outset.