What are the best singleplayer games for the 360?

[xrnzaaas]

I'm planning on buying a 360 in the near future and I wanted to hear your opinion on the best games for this console. I'm interested in singleplayer gameplay and I also have to admit that I prefer games targeted for a mature audience.

So far this is what I've came up with (excluding PC games which I've already played):
Dead Rising
Soul Calibur IV
Forza Motorsport 2
Project Gotham Racing 4
Gears of War 2
Midnight Los Angeles
Condemned: Bloodshot
The Darkness
GTA IV (my PC couldn't handle the port :/)
Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon
Golden Axe: Beast Rider

[hippie pieces]

I would add Fallout 3, Resident Evil 5 and Street Fighter IV.

Xbox 360 is definitely worth getting if you like mature games.

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If you like a mature audience game and just depending on what you like Wanted: Weapons of Fate is going to be really good. It comes out at the end of the month so I have only played the demo but the game play is amazing. The story picks up right after the movie ends with Wesley (1 of 2 main characters) is trying to find out information about his "real" father and mother. The demo is so nice and the game play was completely designed around single player. In fact the company asked them to include a mutliplayer because it helps the game sell and they flat out told them no. They said they would take away from the single player enjoyment just so you can sell the game "easier". The whole battle system is a 3rd person shooter which uses "quick cover" in which you lean out of cover and just push A to advance to another cover. This is key because the game is designed to say you can't sit in one spot and shoot things or you will die. The bullet curving is easy to do and built well into the high action and easy controls they designed the game around. Also the one thing that sealed it for me was the fact that if your enemy is hiding on the other side of a cover (that you can reach over/around) you can choose to assassinate them by a quick press of the B button. This means your character will reach over/around the cover and knife the guy in the head for an instant kill. So no more having to stand up to shoot a guy on the other side of a cover "Yeah!!!". You can also do this when someone's back is turned to you or you can keep them held and use them as a human shield.


Other games I would add:

Tom Clancy's Hawx, Ace Combat 6, Lego Batman, Fable II, Crack Down (which again not out yet but is basically GTA except your a cop instead of a criminal), LOTR Conquest, and Mass Effect.

[xrnzaaas]

Thanks for the tip about Wanted. What about Saint's Row? Is it any good? Should I start with the original or can I ignore it and buy only the sequel?

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Thanks for the tip about Wanted. What about Saint's Row? Is it any good? Should I start with the original or can I ignore it and buy only the sequel?

I don't know about that game but I would avoid Forza unless you want a game you won't beat for years. I own the 1st one for the original xbox and I have been working at that game for the past 2 and half years and am only about 75% of the way through it and have only bought about 40% of what is available to buy (cars, engine parts, ect.). Most races take like 5-10 minutes to finish and the advanced races take up to 2 hours to complete and you have like 50 of those in Forza 1. On top of that most cars require you to tune the engine to get it to run right and not damage parts of your car like the gear box because the timing is off. This is a system that I have yet to fully figure out and there are really no guides to help understand it so unless you are a gear head who really understands a lot about how engines work that might give you some trouble as it did me. I learned to correct for the damage but at the cost of top speed/acceleration which ended up hurting me just as much as the damage I took.

[The_Disturbed_One]

Thanks for the tip about Wanted. What about Saint's Row? Is it any good? Should I start with the original or can I ignore it and buy only the sequel?

I loved Saint's Row. The first one's ending was kinda bad, but the second one picks up right where the first one ends. You can just play the second one if you want, but to fully understand everything, I recommend you pick up the first as well.

[xrnzaaas]

I don't know about that game but I would avoid Forza unless you want a game you won't beat for years. I own the 1st one for the original xbox and I have been working at that game for the past 2 and half years and am only about 75% of the way through it and have only bought about 40% of what is available to buy (cars, engine parts, ect.). Most races take like 5-10 minutes to finish and the advanced races take up to 2 hours to complete and you have like 50 of those in Forza 1. On top of that most cars require you to tune the engine to get it to run right and not damage parts of your car like the gear box because the timing is off. This is a system that I have yet to fully figure out and there are really no guides to help understand it so unless you are a gear head who really understands a lot about how engines work that might give you some trouble as it did me. I learned to correct for the damage but at the cost of top speed/acceleration which ended up hurting me just as much as the damage I took.

Wow, that actually made me want the game even more. I can't say I'm a hardcore racing games fan, but I've played a lot of arcade/sim games in the past, including Gran Turismo 1 & 2 on PSX and a lot of more realistic games on PC (including GTR series from the creators of Race Pro on the 360). Besides I'll probably go with quality and purchase 3-5 games at the beginning. GTA IV will probably take me at least a month (or two if it's as interesting as San Andreas) and then we'll see what's going to be next.

[mambrose1986]

Dead Rising
Soul Calibur IV
Forza Motorsport 2
Project Gotham Racing 4
Gears of War 2
Midnight Los Angeles
Condemned: Bloodshot
The Darkness
GTA IV (my PC couldn't handle the port :/)
Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon
Golden Axe: Beast Rider

Gears of War 2 and The Darkness have really good single player games. The Darkness is terrible for online multiplayer though. Other games I would suggest would be Bioshock (one of the best 360 games IMO) and The Orange Box (5 games in 1). The first Condemned game was really good too, but the second one, Bloodshot, was kind of disappointing.

[mattgcoot29]

Others that Ive enjoyed that havent been mention

Assassins Creed
Lost Planet
Prey

[xrnzaaas]

Others that Ive enjoyed that havent been mention

Assassins Creed
Lost Planet
Prey

Thanks but I've played all three on my PC. And I only liked Prey.