"LIVE Activity for week of Feb 8th
I’ve decided to expand many of these lists to include the top 20 titles. I think this gives a much better idea what the 23 million Xbox LIVE members are playing.
Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on UU’s)
1 Modern Warfare 2
2 Halo 3
3 Aliens Vs Predator Multiplayer Demo (Pre-order the game)
4 Call of Duty: WaW
5 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – Demo (Pre-order the game)
6 FIFA 10
7 Call of Duty 4
8 Mass Effect 2
9 GTA IV (Purchase the full game for direct download )
10 Madden NFL 10 (Download the demo)
11 Left 4 Dead 2
12 BioShock 2
13 Gears of War 2
14 Forza Motorsport 3 (Download the demo)
15 Assassin's Creed II
16 1 vs 100
17 Halo 3: ODST
18 Borderlands
19 Trials HD
20 NBA 2K10
Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased)
1 Turtles in Time Re-Shelled
2 Marvel vs. Capcom 2
3 Trials HD
4 Castle Crashers
5 Madden NFL Arcade
6 Chime
7 'Splosion Man
8 Battlefield 1943
9 Darwinia+
10 UNO
11 Hasbro Family Game Night **
12 Magic: The Gathering
13 Invincible Tiger: The Legend of Han Tao
14 Worms 2: Armageddon
15 Zombie Apocalypse
16 Marble Blast Ultra
17 Shadow Complex
18 Serious Sam HD: TFE
19 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 Classic Arcade
The above arcade list is based on full versions purchased.
**Combined sales of all Hasbro Family Game Night titles
Top Indie Games (Full Versions purchased)
1 Yet Another Zombie Defense
2 The Impossible Game
3 I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1
4 Avatar Drop
5 Avatar Meet Up Live!
6 Dont B Nervous Talking 2 Girls
7 Head Shot 2
8 Who Did I Date Last Night
9 Miner Dig Deep
10 Rate My Avatar
11 Avatar Golf
12 Samurai vs Zombie
13 Your Doodles Are Bugged!
14 Mind Warp
15 Hockey Fights
16 Inside Lacrosse's CL2010
17 KGB Episode One
18 Beat Hazard
19 RC-AirSim
20 ZP2K9
Original Xbox Top Live Titles (based on UU’s)
1 Halo 2
2 Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
3 Counter-Strike
4 Splinter Cell Chaos
5 Fable
6 Conker: Live Reloaded
7 Star Wars: Battlefront
8 Doom 3
9 SW: KOTOR
10 SW: Republic Commando
These lists are based on global unique users connected to Xbox Live or in the case of Arcade and Indie Games, full versions purchased during the week.
Some content (and therefore the links) may not be available in all regions. "Major Nelson
There is little in the world that surprises me anymore. Honestly, I have to admit that the fact that Halo 3 is still #2 when it came out in all most 3 years ago is amazing to me. Also, it amazes me how much the press have dumped on some of the games on this list and been totally fine with the short comings of the games in the top ten of this list. This of course, excludes the demos in the top ten. Demos are all ways popular because they are FREE! If you want to give your game away I'm pretty sure it will move more units than any game in history no matter the quality. But let's not get off topic...
Call of Duty World at War is a World War 2 FPS, Halo 3 is a 3 year old FPS with no progression system, and FIFA is among one of the ugliest modern sports games in history, oh and Call of Duty 4?Modern Warfare 2 is the bestselling game in history and there are enough dudes on Call of Duty 4 to make it #7 out of 10? That seems crazy to me.
Again, I digress... Let me say that when reviewers complain about Borderlands, Bioshock 2, or Left 4 Dead 2.not being original enough or too repetitive I would like to ask what about the games in the top ten of this list. The games that sold a ton of copies but even in their day were nothing even close to original or non-repetitive. Mostly they were just more of the same, piggy backing on the success of others. But the fact, that people were down on all three of the above games before they came out rather than being jazzed about them. Another words, the pile on mentality works both ways. I say this because it is often hard, without playing a game to know who is being hyperbolically positive and who is being hyperbolically negative. Besides the fact that if you don't do this sort of thing for a living or a very serious past time; you might just take the "professionals" word for it. Don't believe everything you read or see on the Internet. If you think a game appeals to you, try it. Rent it... Then decide... Use reviews as a guide, not gospel; it's best for everyone that way. That's all I'm really saying...
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