Remedy’s inspired homage to Twin Peaks and The Twilight Zone gets the pacing and presentation of a TV show just right.
I may not check the scoreboard that often anymore, but whenever I do I quickly lose an hour trying to best my friends.- GM The sequel expands on everything great about the psychedelic dual-joystick shooter, multiplying the original’s various permutations of competitive thumb twiddling. The first Geometry Wars launched the 360’s Xbox Live Arcade in 2005, proving that actual worthwhile games could be beamed straight into your game boxes through the internet. That Metroid framework is a hard one to mess up, but Shadow Complex excels with excellent level design, crafty sequence breaking and beautiful 2D/3D hybrid graphics that flesh out the sci-fi military industrial aesthetic.- GM 7. Shadow Complex is Metroid rebuilt with an anonymous white dude accidentally storming an Advanced Idea Mechanics secret lair. Harmonix’s dance series shows that motion controls don’t have to be untrustworthy or unfulfilling, and despite their physical requirements they remain the perfect games to demo the Kinect for both dedicated players and a wider audience curious by this still relatively new, still relatively weird camera peripheral.- GM 8. Exactly precise enough for the craziest of car nuts, but more than tolerant of the interested neophyte, Forza Motorsport 3 never forgets that it’s a game, and that games should be fun.- Garrett Martinĭance Central and its sequels remain the exception to the Kinect rule. The visually amazing Forza Motorsport 3 is an absurdly deep and complicated racing simulator, but it’s accessible enough for anybody to enjoy. (And when you’re done, go read our list of the best PlayStation 3 exclusives.) 10. Some of these games are available for the PC, Mac or mobile devices, but the Xbox 360 is the only videogame system they were released on. Before the 360 retires in full, let’s take a brief look back at the ten best games that weren’t available on any other console. The 360 won’t disappear over night, but Microsoft’s focus is moving on, and eventually the system that mainstreamed online gaming and HD visuals for console games will be sitting on a basement shelf next to your GameCube and TurboGrafx-16.
Don’t let the name confuse you: The One is a brand new system, the successor to the eight-year-old Xbox 360.
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