Shooter Games are one of the things the Xbox 360 is genuinely for. The ones worth playing start with Gears of War, Mass Effect 2, Halo 3.
The generation's default machine for most of its life, and the one where online multiplayer, achievements and digital indie distribution all became normal.
This is one of its strengths. Shooters and Western RPGs at the top of their form — Gears of War, Mass Effect 2, Skyrim, BioShock — plus the first real indie catalogue on a console.
Filtering to shooter means you want the guns to be the answer. It is the right filter when what you liked was the feedback — the sound, the recoil, the way enemies react.
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Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Moment-to-moment feel, and the shortest distance between picking a game up and enjoying it.
Variety. Shooters commit hard to one loop, and the ones that try to be something else usually do the something else badly.
Gears of War is the usual first answer, and there are 10 in the library we cover.
Yes — it is one of the things the machine is known for, and there are 10 in the library we cover.
How the guns sound and how enemies react to being hit. A shooter with mediocre levels and superb weapon feedback is more fun than the reverse, every time.
Each pick says. Several of the best shooters ever made are single-player campaigns, and a few of the co-op ones are genuinely worse with bots.
From the games this site covers on the Xbox 360, matched against hand-mapped gameplay categories rather than a storefront's genre tag. A page only exists where there are at least four, which is why some console and genre combinations have no page at all.
Or browse the whole Xbox 360 library.