There's no question that the is my console of choice and having been with IGN for so long and with such a focus on Xbox, well, I've pretty much played every big XBLA game and many of the crappy ones. I'm a contributing editor to IGN. Also, I'm a very important person. After feeding teraflops of game reviews, features, and images into IGN's reactor core, my personality was reconstituted within the company's content publishing software. XBLA continues to amaze me with the quality of its best titles.
For those gamers that don't have the time or money to play every big release, XBLA is a godsend with games that are often more imaginative than what's on store shelves. Scott Pilgrim Vs. Marvel vs. So many great games, but only one could be named top of the XBLA heap. The 1 game received more top votes than any game on any ballot in the history of IGN top 25s. Basically, everyone thinks this game is the very best you can find. You might have a good guess what the top title is, but there's only one way to know for sure.
Check out the video below to discover our pick for the 1 XBLA game of all time Our picks for the very best downloadable games on Xbox All of the biggest franchises Dead Space, Resident Evil , etc.
Survival horror, like its cinematic counterpart, requires a detachment from the formulaic design of modern blockbusters. The puzzles, narrative, sound design, and art direction found here are some of the absolute best this generation has to offer. Limbo is chilling, atmospheric, and almost masochistically enjoyable. Telltale has single-handedly changed the way people will perceive interactive storytelling for years to come.
These writers and developers should be carving their names into the walls of history. At its heart, the game provides a digital choose-your-own-adventure book. The main draw is in decision-making. Each episode stands as a perfect adaptation of the tone and aesthetics of the comics, simultaneously allowing for player agency and character development. All of this was done within the scope of a licensed production.
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These are the absolute best games that XBLA has to offer: Trials Evolution Tying together puzzles, racing, and a fantastic physics engine, Trials Evolution is one of the most addicting staples of the Xbox Live marketplace. Bastion Action RPGs are often lazy hybrids that pilfer recklessly from the mechanics of both genres.
To reiterate: a stunning exploration of the medium. Fez Everyone loves to hate Phil Fish. This a masterpiece. Limbo No one does horror well anymore. Go crazy. The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series Telltale has single-handedly changed the way people will perceive interactive storytelling for years to come. Just keep your fingers crossed your ally knows what he or she is doing if playing Insane mode. Awash with a sea of colors and brightly flashing lights, the title features some of the most realistic and accurate pinball physics of any virtual pinball game to date, whether playing solo or vehemently tackling players via Xbox Live or the using the built-in, split-screen support.
Now if only they offered the Mars Attacks edition. There are truly few games that appeal to all ages and demographics in the way Motocross Madness does. I remember the glory days of Hydro Thunder with vivid nostalgia. The Xbox Live Arcade version boasts many of same features — the rocket-powered jet boats, the dynamic water physics, the unavoidable sea serpents — while adding a couple new game modes and swapping out the former levels for a string of updated courses.
Although I could spend the next words rambling on about the hallmark merits of NBA Jam: On Fire Edition — the razzle-dazzles, the boom-shakalakas, etc. Similarly, if you take the sport of basketball, boil it down to chunks of dunks, douse it in kerosene and set it on fire you get NBA Jam, arguably the greatest arcade sports series in the history of awesomeness.
Thankfully, the manic, physics-blazoned motocross title offers terrific, track single player career and the kind of real-time multiplayer anyone can pick up and enjoy regardless of skill level. The visuals and controls are remarkably crisp, the stunt bar at an all time high, and the intuitive level creator allows players to easily build and share new courses with players from around the globe.
Doom revolutionized PC gaming upon its debut and the Xbox rendition of the classic is just as faithful, and pixelated, as the former. The favorite telltale weapons of the momentous FPS remain intact, bringing back old favorites like the BFG and chainsaw, but the campaign has been expanded with a fourth episode released after the original as part of a deluxe edition. The multiplayer is where the FPS thrives, bolstered by an incredibly addictive gameplay mechanics and a well-proven, balanced class system featuring a standard infantry unit, an antipersonnel scout unit and a long-distance rifleman.
However, Global Offensive does exhibit a few welcome tweaks and notable additions that should keep even the most seasoned players on their toes. Maps have been modernized and added, along with game modes like Arms Race, and the title now boasts an astonishing 45 available weapons in addition to its robust leaderboards and awards.
Not all shooters are reserved for first-person, run-and-gun gameplay and chaotic online multiplayer. The game has a very Galaga -esque feel to it, ushering players to destroy never-ending, incoming swarms of enemy shapes using their claw-shaped geometric vessel and right joystick.
Although there are five new modes catering to different gaming styles, the primary goal is to survive and rack up as many points as possible, whether flying through the vivid and bright single-player mode or battling the relentless hordes of shapes alongside your buddy. It must be difficult to imprint a memorable mark in a field so heavily saturated with as many classically-inspired, horizontal shooters as our own. The challenging game is centered around a group of humanoid animals akin to Star Fox and Co.
Players must navigate through a beautifully-rendered, diesel-punk airspace of Seol — laden with enemies, power-ups and intimidating boss battles — but survival relies more on a time component than your stereotypical health bar. Case in point: destroying enemies will buy you more time while receiving blows will adversely shorten your lifespan.
Super Meat Boy is virtual proof old-school game mechanics and shimmer die hard. Not in the Bruce Willis-John McClane sense of the phase, but in terms of the staggering number of 2D levels available in which you purely run, jump and squander your way to the top.
Though the controls are simple and straightforward, the variety of levels and numerous obstacles make for wide-ranging gameplay that is both utterly time-consuming and altogether infuriating given its sheer level of difficulty. Still, homages to the classic platform titles of yore run amok amid the salt factories and hospitals, subsequently reminding you of why the genre endures.
The cut scenes are crudely hilarious, the animation pixeltastic and the chiptunes top-notch. Who says a good platformer needs a complex, thought-provoking storyline or robust gameplay features? Few trials are as somber, cerebral, and eerily beautiful as the one the young boy faces while in Limbo. Still, it will always leave you wanting more. Additionally, Tim possesses the ability to reverse time, allowing players to wash away their literal pitfalls and poor precision decisions moments after they occur.
If there ever were any doubts regarding how talented rising indie developers are becoming, Braid will provide the answer.
A new perspective can make a world of difference, especially when that perspective comes in the form of a third dimension attainable through a magic hat. With Fez , players don the role of a sprite named Gomez, tackling a series of puzzles and obstacles built within a crumbling 2D environment that can quickly be flipped on a vertical axis at any given moment.
Check out our Fez review for more. The online mode is just as challenging as you might expect, not to mention surprising lag-free, and offers a convenient way to play against other players should you reach the skill level that immediately deters all your friends from playing against you.
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