Best 360 Game?

nori

I ended up with some extra cash a few months ago, so I sprung for a 360.
I'm too cheap to buy a lot of games (I always wait till they go way down in price) And I had my regular X Box games, But I wanted to get one new game.

I heard a lot of people say that Gears of War was the best X Box 360 game. Personally I'm not super impressed. I don't love the game play, I hate the grenade handling, and the whole game is grey. (I am constantly shooting my own people--they look the same as the bad guys)

The graphics are phenomenal, and it is a decent game... but I would have rather waited and paid $30 instead of the initial $70.

So what is the best game?

mcgovern

It might help if you told us what sort of games you like?

Retr0gamer

Wasn't all that impressed with Gears of War either. Nice looking game, fun but does nothing special or particularly well.

Get Rainbow Six Vegas instead. It's a far superior in every way, great single player game, with loads of skirmish missions and killer multiplayer modes.

If you have xbox live the absolute best game you can get is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night from the xbox live arcade. It may be a 10 year old PS1 game but it's still amazing.

Mikeyt086

Fight Night Round 3. Out since last march, but it is still one of the best games on 360, also its cheaper.

Im one for the sports games so im still playing Pro Evo 6, NHL 07 is class.

Racing games, Forza 2 is really good.

I sort of like Gears every now and again, but i think Rainbow 6 is better, COD3 might be my favourite shooter though.

Oh and to go out of the ordinary, Guitar Hero 2 is amazingly good fun.

tman

Another vote for Castlevania: SotN, it became one of my all time favourite games after I finally got around to playing it recently.

I'd definitely recommend the Darkness, but there seems to be quite a split of opinion on that one. Maybe read a couple of reviews first and see if it sounds like your cup of tea...

0ubliette

Retr0gamer wrote:

Wasn't all that impressed with Gears of War either. Nice looking game, fun but does nothing special or particularly well.

Get Rainbow Six Vegas instead. It's a far superior in every way, great single player game, with loads of skirmish missions and killer multiplayer modes.

No its not
RS:V is the standard clancy affair...it looks like a PS2 game, and the story was probably something clancy scrawled on the back of a smoke box. Its a good game dont get me wrong, but after the first level youve more or less seen everything it has to offer, both it and gears are examples of the halo philosophy of 30 seconds of fun over and over, but gears does it better. Ive finished gears about 5 or 6 times, and restarted it yesterday, i just cant get tired of it
Oh and the graphics in RS:V in multiplayer look absolutely abysmal, even worse than the SP.

Back OT tho, best games on 360 for me would be:

Gears (natch)
The darkness
Dead rising
DiRT
FN03
Prey
Oblivion

0ubliette

tman wrote:

Another vote for Castlevania: SotN, it became one of my all time favourite games after I finally got around to playing it recently.

I'd definitely recommend the Darkness, but there seems to be quite a split of opinion on that one. Maybe read a couple of reviews first and see if it sounds like your cup of tea...

SOTN is cool too, but seriously, it needs some kind of manual, i found it all a bit confuzzling, i got stuck after a few hours and cant get any further

koneko

RB6 Vegas is very good. Other than that... Oblivion, Dead Rising, Viva Pinata, The Darkness (mixed opinions on that though). Guitar Hero 2 is a blast but expensive (thanks to the guitar). Crackdown is fun.

I like Condemned and you should be able to get that really cheap. COD2 is good and you can again probably pick that up (secondhand?) for a good price.

If you like racing games, Forza 2 is good.

Kinetic^

Everything Retrogamer and Koneko said!!!!

R6 is a great game, both online and offline. (although the ending pissed me off, still a great game)

Retr0gamer

0ubliette wrote:

the story was probably something clancy scrawled on the back of a smoke box.

And Gears of War is a standout piece of videogaming story telling. Lets see, Butch macho jock busts out of prison with help of jock friend who are then drafted into the army, they meet up with more jocks and find out about the 'resonator' (oooooh groovy name) and how important it is. After much fighting the lads deploy the resonator, it turns out to be **** and all is lost. As luck may have it one of the lads finds a 'thing' in his pocket amoung all the fluff, bus tickets and roy of the rovers bar wrappers. It happens to have some of the data the resonator should have got. Jock no. 1 decides that the lads should go to his gaff and think things over. Ofcourse this isn't so easy since his gaff is in the middle of a warzone. After they get there is seems that Jock no. 1's da has been hogging all the data that the army needs after all. How coincidental!. The lads then hop on a train the army sent but the boys in brass sent them a train crawling with bad guys and the main bad guy of the game. After a bit of a ruckus the lads fire some missles and everything is hunky dory. On no it isn't. Another evil dude emerges, shakes his fist, laughs maniacially and says 'You'll pay for this jocks!'.

After my rant is over the stories of both games are only there to keep you moving from each area to the next. I just much prefer capping tangos.

Gran Hermano

-1 for Gears of War
+1 for Rainbow 6 Vegas

mikemac

Battlestations: Midway

Noone else nominated it.
Class game to play on LIVE, loving it.

Dont be at yourself

Ranked in order of preference:

Pro Evo 6
Dead Rising
Earth Defense Force
Gears of War
Crackdown

Outside that, there's little worth playing.

Flaccus

NekkidBibleMan wrote:

Ranked in order of preference:

Pro Evo 6
Dead Rising
Earth Defense Force
Gears of War
Crackdown

Outside that, there's little worth playing.

So according to you there is 5 good games only. That's not a fair comment...the OP might like racing games (so Forza2, PGR3, Ridge Racer, Dirt etc spring to mind.). And then there is fps's like GRAW, GRAW2, Vegas. And what about Oblivion for RPG's. Or C&C for a decent RTS. Or Crackdown or Saintsrow if he wants a GTA clone.

Smellyirishman

Retr0gamer wrote:

And Gears of War is a standout piece of videogaming story telling. Lets see, Butch macho jock busts out of prison with help of jock friend who are then drafted into the army, they meet up with more jocks and find out about the 'resonator' (oooooh groovy name) and how important it is. After much fighting the lads deploy the resonator, it turns out to be **** and all is lost. As luck may have it one of the lads finds a 'thing' in his pocket amoung all the fluff, bus tickets and roy of the rovers bar wrappers. It happens to have some of the data the resonator should have got. Jock no. 1 decides that the lads should go to his gaff and think things over. Ofcourse this isn't so easy since his gaff is in the middle of a warzone. After they get there is seems that Jock no. 1's da has been hogging all the data that the army needs after all. How coincidental!. The lads then hop on a train the army sent but the boys in brass sent them a train crawling with bad guys and the main bad guy of the game. After a bit of a ruckus the lads fire some missles and everything is hunky dory. On no it isn't. Another evil dude emerges, shakes his fist, laughs maniacially and says 'You'll pay for this jocks!'.

ZOMG! Spoilers plx!

(I lol'd a hearty lol.)

All of the big names have been named OP. It's hard to suggest things when we don't know what you like, only that you don't like GoW. I thought Saint's Row was a decent bit of craic too (except for the highly irritating "gangsta" setting), could probably get that cheap enough now.

The Sparrow

For me Prey is the best game that Ii have played so far on the 360. I got it for 15 euros a couple of weeks ago in a play.com sale and found it to be a very enjoyable game.

Rowley Birkin QC

+ Pro Evo 6
+ Dead Rising

Dont be at yourself

So according to you there is 5 good games only. That's not a fair comment...the OP might like racing games (so Forza2, PGR3, Ridge Racer, Dirt etc spring to mind.). And then there is fps's like GRAW, GRAW2, Vegas. And what about Oblivion for RPG's. Or C&C for a decent RTS. Or Crackdown or Saintsrow if he wants a GTA clone

Right, and he might want a horse-adventuring game with dolls, in which case Barbie Horse Adventure might appeal. It's entirely subjective, and I can only give my opinion, I can't read minds.

DarkMars

For me it was allways pes 6 and you if you like that sort of game:)

The Freeman

Rainbow 6 Vegas

steviec

Rainbow Six Vegas and Crackdown.

Flaccus

NekkidBibleMan wrote:

Right, and he might want a horse-adventuring game with dolls, in which case Barbie Horse Adventure might appeal. It's entirely subjective, and I can only give my opinion, I can't read minds.

But your the one who said outside the games you listed there is little worth playing. Sounds like a statement of fact you were making rather then an opinion you were giving.

0ubliette

Retr0gamer wrote:

And Gears of War is a standout piece of videogaming story telling. Lets see, Butch macho jock busts out of prison with help of jock friend who are then drafted into the army, they meet up with more jocks and find out about the 'resonator' (oooooh groovy name) and how important it is. After much fighting the lads deploy the resonator, it turns out to be **** and all is lost. As luck may have it one of the lads finds a 'thing' in his pocket amoung all the fluff, bus tickets and roy of the rovers bar wrappers. It happens to have some of the data the resonator should have got. Jock no. 1 decides that the lads should go to his gaff and think things over. Ofcourse this isn't so easy since his gaff is in the middle of a warzone. After they get there is seems that Jock no. 1's da has been hogging all the data that the army needs after all. How coincidental!. The lads then hop on a train the army sent but the boys in brass sent them a train crawling with bad guys and the main bad guy of the game. After a bit of a ruckus the lads fire some missles and everything is hunky dory. On no it isn't. Another evil dude emerges, shakes his fist, laughs maniacially and says 'You'll pay for this jocks!'.

After my rant is over the stories of both games are only there to keep you moving from each area to the next. I just much prefer capping tangos.

It has a better story than vegas, put it that way. Lets see, im an elite counter trrorist, someone shoots one of MY BOYS and blah blah, now im in las vegas, terrorists etc, kill some more terrorists, why am i here again? Oh right to get the person who KILLED ONE A MY BOYS oh no, one of MY BOYS turned out to be a traitor, end creidts.
Its a good game as i said, i enjoyed it, gears beats it in every aspect. Better graphics, better story, even if gears story is a bit lightweight, if you read the backstory that comes in the CE it adds more weight to it. The enemies are cooler, the cover system is way better implemented, i just find that clancy games all blend into one if you play them long enough. R6V IS GOOD, im not slating it, its jsut that once youve played one tom clancy game, youve more or less played em all.

And another +1 for prey, i love that game.

Dont be at yourself

But your the one who said outside the games you listed there is little worth playing. Sounds like a statement of fact you were making rather then an opinion you were giving.

As I've not just been seen having a chinwag with a burning bush or the likes, I don't think anybody is misconstruing my opinion as fact. There is no cold hard facts when it comes to good games, it's obviously entirely a matter of opinion.

But anyway!

sham69

In no particular order

Gears of War: only played it on sunday, very impressive

The darkness:There is something different about it and I love mike pattons voiceover.

FNR3: Had it on the Xbox 1 and loved it so had to include it.

Guitar Hero: Some of the best fun I have had in ages, great after the pub with the lads.

Tenchu Z: I know this got a terrible review but I love the tenchu games and this is not bad at all. (waits for abuse)

CyberWaste

I recommened these games:

PGR 3
Gears of war
NBA 2k7
Pro Evo 6
Rainbow Six
Saints Row
The Darkness

dor83

If you are looking for an online game I'd recomend Shadowrun, it's very good and easy to get into and you dont need to take it as seriously as the likes of R6 and GoW. They only bad thing I can say is that there is no single player but I dont mind coz the online is so much fun. But try the demo first.

BENJAMIN61

The Best Games Are Oblivion And Dead Rising Also Halo 3 When Comes Out

Bobalicious93

definitely guitar hero 2 without a doubt, however i would wait for either Rock Band or Guitar hero 3 rather than shelling out 110 euro for GH2

if you dont really have much info on rock band then check out this vid, i know its 40 mins but well worth watching every second of it

http://www.gamespot.com/video/938870/6175122/rock-band-stage-demo

JohnG2176

Oblivion is a great game, you'll get over 100 hours of gameplay on that, well worth the money

i rank 'gears of war' as an ok game, great for the first few days but boring after that.

niall2j

PES6 is the only game I have consistently come back to and it's been out for about 8 months. Online is v good (when playing with the right people) and it can easily be found for under €30

quad_red

I have to say, RetroGamers harangue about GOW and 0ubliette's counter-rant have me greatly amused.

Two great games and two funny posters!

redbhoy1888

Best current game is Rainbow 6 vegas currently playing that both off and online.Thing is all the really great potential games are still to land.Watched the E3 coverage of Brothers In Arms Hells Highway on Gamespot yesterday Oh my God I want it now.Assassins Creed, Kane And Lynch, even Medal Of Honor Airbourne looks quality.

Played Gears Of War at christmas and didnt like it much.

Pro Evo 7 to come also....

eggplantman

dead rising is good:)

redbhoy1888

LIGHTNING wrote:

Does anybody else find that if you play too much PES6 you get very angry. I get so annoyed due to all the silly things in the game . Stuff that doesn't happen in real football. I still think its a quality game though!

I`d agree with the above list of games, I picked up prey in virgin for 25 euro a few weeks ago. Its not brilliant but its a bit of fun.

Yes but do you still play it even though you know well it could be much better?i tell you brother its a sick addiction Ive played about 700 online matches even though I DONT EVEN REALLY LIKE IT.

Im going to lie down now.