SYSTEM WARS VOTES: The Greatest Xbox 360 Game of All Time (10th Anniversary Edition!) (1 DAY LEFT)

What a game system the Xbox 360 was- arguably the best and most important, most influential system of the modern era, the Xbox 360 came and changed gaming forever, indelibly. So much of what we love about gaming today owes itself back to the Xbox 360- from Achievements to integrated online play and online communities, from indie games to the proliferation of so many modern game franchises, from third party friendly game development policies that completely changed the game to even the system's iconic controller design, widely considered to be the greatest ever- the Xbox 360 was a triumph. It will go down in history as a classic system.

On the system's 10th anniversary, which is next month, it is good to celebrate all that it did right- but more importantly, it is important to celebrate the games on this system. And boy, did it have games. Thousands and thousands of games, digital, retail, indie, AAA, western, Japanese, you name it. All the best games of the seventh generation were either only on, or first on, or best on, the Xbox 360- it forever changed the game. And from this library, we will try to pick out the ten best games on the system, in celebration of its legacy.

Given such a massive library of so many great games, it is probably hard to try and pull out games- how do you do that? There was so much on it. Well, we have done it for the PlayStation 2 and the SNES, and those systems were every bit as great as the Xbox 360. We did it then, we will do it now, again.

And how? Why, by using the System Wars Votes format, of course.

This is how this works:

• You must nominate three Xbox 360 games- the order of your nominations is very important, since the game nominated first will get 50 points, the game nominated second will get 25 points, and the game nominated third will get 15 points.
• If you list more than three games, only the first three games will be counted in the order they were listed, and any subsequent games will be discarded. If you nominate less than three games, your post will not count towards the tallies.
• Any officially released Xbox 360 game counts. This includes games that released in only one region, games only released digitally via the Xbox Live Arcade Store, and multiplatform games as well.
• You are free to make edits to your nominations once they have been made! However, if you do so, please make sure to make a note of them in the post itself, so I can update the tallies accordingly.
• No more than one game from a series may be nominated.
• You need to have been a member of Gamespot for at least 90 days and/or must have a post count of at least 100 posts in order for your vote to count.
• You have until November 19 2015 to get your votes in!

Got it? It's pretty simple! Let's go guys!

LIST OF GAMES NOMINATED:

• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Mass Effect 2
• Assassin's Creed II
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
• Halo: Reach
• Gears of War
• Halo 3
• Red Dead Redemption
• Alan Wake
• Bayonetta
• Dark Souls
• Braid
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2
• Dishonored
• The Orange Box
• Bioshock
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Minecraft
• Lost Odyssey
• Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
• Bioshock Infinite
• Ultra Street Fighter IV
• Steins;Gate
• Vanquish
• Viva Pinata
• Borderlands
• Gears of War
• Mass Effect
• Alan Wake
• Fable II
• Banjo Kazooie: Nuts n Bolts
• Project Gotham Racing 4
• Forza Motorsport 3
• Mirror's Edge
• Project Gotham Racing 3

A note on how this list works: Essentially, this list replaces the leaderboard from the the PlayStation 2 and the SNES competitions. Every single game that you all nominate will be listed here. That means that this list will grow, and will continue to be updated with time. It also means that you are not limited to making your votes and nominations from just the games listed here. As I said in the rules, any officially released Xbox 360 game counts. This includes games that released in only one region, games only released digitally via the Xbox Live Arcade Store, and multiplatform games as well.

And here are my nominations:

1. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
2. Mass Effect 2
3. Assassin's Creed II

1. Mass Effect 2

2. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

3. Halo: Reach

1. Gears of War

2. Halo 3

3. Red Dead Redemption

Alan Wake

Gears of War

Assassins Creed II

Driver San Francisco

Please nominate three games, and only one game from a series.

1. Bayonetta
2. Dark Souls
3. Braid

1. Mass Effect 2
2. Red Dead Redemption
3. Battlefield Bad Company 2

I also thought Oblivion was waaay better than Skyrim.

1. Halo Reach

2. Bayonetta

3. Dishonored

EDIT:

1. The Orange Box

2. BioShock

3. Dead Space

1. Halo 3

2. Dark Souls

3. Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition

1. Halo 3

2. Lost Odyssey

3. Mass Effect 2

1. Dark Souls

2. Alan Wake

3. Mass Effect

Can you please edit your vote? Only one game per series is permitted.

Metal Gear Rising

Dark Souls

Halo 3

1. Mass Effect 2
2. Halo: Reach
3. RDR

1. Battlefield: BC 2

2. Lost Odyssey

3. Gears of War

Most people naming games that were not exclusive including me.

Does it matter? Almost half the games on the PS2 list were not exclusive to it at the time, and none of them are as of right now. The point, especially for a legacy system is, how many great games did it offer you to play? In the Xbox 360's case? Way too many.

1. Mass Effect 2
2. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
3. BioShock Infinite

1. Vanquish

2. Ultra Street Fighter IV

3. Steins Gate

1 - Mass Effect 2
2 - Gears of War
3 - Bioshock

1. Viva Pinata

2. Borderlands

3. Gears of War 2

Outside of that last one, I doubt any of mine will place haha. I'd put Skyrim on there too, but it's hard for me to vote for a Bethesda game on a platform that isn't PC... it's almost like playing a different game.

Done!

Fable 2

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts&Bolts

Project Gotham Racing 4

1. Bioshock

2. Forza Motorsport 3

3. Red Dead Redemption

The Xbox 360 was such a great console, picking three out of the huge library proved to be harder than I expected. Even now, I'm still not sure of those three choices, but i'll stick with them.

1. Dark Souls

2. Fallout: New Vegas

3. Gears of War

1) The Orange Box

2) Halo Reach

3) Bioshock

@charizard1605: Halo 3, Gears Of War, Mass Effect

Lost Odyssey

Halo: Reach

Alan Wake

1. Mass Effect 2

2. Halo Reach

3. Mirrors Edge

1. Bayonetta
2. Project Gotham Racing 3
3. Gears of War

Halo 3

Mass Effect 2

Alan Wake

1. GTA V
2. Bayonetta
3. Red Dead Redemption

These polls don't work when they aren't limited to exclusives. I can literally get most of the 360's games that will make the list on several other platforms.

The best games you could get ONLY on the 360 were:

1. Dead Rising
2. Forza Motorsport 4
3. Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (**** you, it was awesome)

1. Mass Effect

2. Red Dead Redemption

3. The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings

1. Orange Box
2. Bioshock
3. Mass Effect 3

1. Tales of Vesperia

2. Gears of War

3. Lost Odyssey

1. Fallout: New Vegas

2. LEGO Lord of the Rings

3. Tekken Tag Tournament 2

1. Mass Effect 2
2. Bioshock
3. Halo 3

1. Bayonetta

2. Rayman origins

3. Metal gear rising

1. Alan Wake

2. Gears of War

3. Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts

I wanna see Rare games in this top list, Alan Wake too, eventhough they sold like total ****

#BestBanjoGame

1. Read Dead Redemption
2. Bayonetta
3. Dark Souls

1. Halo 3

2. Red Dead Redemption

3. Burnout Revenge

I love my xbox 360 very difficult choice 1 REdemption 2 skyrim 3 halo 4

1. Halo3
2. Gears of war
3. Dark Souls

Halo 3

The Darkness

Bad company

LMFAO, how pathetic this list will be, probably only multiplats since most exclusives suck or are Halo/Forza/Gears.

Damn I'm right too, look at people's choices, almost all multiplats. Just showes what a mediocre system 360 was in the end and I'm not even talking about RROD.

Anyway;

1. Red Dead Redemption

2. Dark Souls

3. Alan Wake (Played it on PC)