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.

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I have yet to play Gears of War 2 but the first Gears of War was a nightmare to get through on your own. The game was meant to be played co-op and if you don't have someone to play with you were at a real disadvantage especially considering the friendly AI liked to throw grenades where you are and kill you then if you survived that you found they ran out of their cover and all got killed really fast. If they have not fixed that I would say void Gears unless you have a buddy to play with.

Bioshock is an amazing game and is a bit like Fallout mixed with Doom and though it does not have much replay value it is a great game and a great story considering it is also like 20 bucks now. The only reason to replay it really is to try out different Powers known as Plasmids. The game does require a bit more thinking and tactics than Doom but is a lot easier. It is still a first person shooter but really requires you to analyze a battle and use traps, powers, and guns a bit more effectively. The bad thing about Bioshock, once you realize it, is that when you die you don't suffer for it at all. You get brought back at the nearest vital station yet all the damage you did to any enemy until you died stays, any enemies you killed stay dead, and anything on the ground you haven't picked up stays nor do you lose anything in your inventory so you can potentially, with enough patience, kill the toughest enemies in the game with a wrench just by simply hitting them, dying, respawning, repeat. This brings the game down to a level that says keep playing this particular part until you eventually take everything down or until you get bored enough to quit playing. While the story is great, the powers are interesting, and it is a game worth owning it will not be a game you play a lot once you beat it once.

[xrnzaaas]

To be honest I didn't complain while playing GoW solo (on Hardcore so not the highest difficulty level but also not the lowest . The biggest difference from what I remember (it's been some time since I've played it) is that you DIDN'T have to babysit your partner(s). There were situations where you could survive alone or with a very small group. In RE5 leaving your partner behind or without ammo is equal to losing the game. In addition to that you have to spend far too much time trading items, medicine and ammo, not to mention not being able to give only a small part of your ammo supplies.

Haven't played GoW2 on my 360 yet, but I've heard they've made it a lot easier, so I'll probably choose one of the higher difficulty settings. I don't mind replaying some scenes in this game, especially since there are a lot of checkpoints along the way. To be honest in GoW1 there were only 3-4 scenes where I had to replay the scene more than 20 times. One of them was an early level where you had to advance towards enemy positions and avoid stationary fire at the same time. The second situation was soon after you've found a bow. I just couldn't survive there long enough to fullfill my objectives. Guess it's just dumb luck I've made it through. Oh, and the final level on the train and the last boss fight were also very hard.

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To be honest I didn't complain while playing GoW solo (on Hardcore so not the highest difficulty level but also not the lowest . The biggest difference from what I remember (it's been some time since I've played it) is that you DIDN'T have to babysit your partner(s). There were situations where you could survive alone or with a very small group. In RE5 leaving your partner behind or without ammo is equal to losing the game. In addition to that you have to spend far too much time trading items, medicine and ammo, not to mention not being able to give only a small part of your ammo supplies.

Haven't played GoW2 on my 360 yet, but I've heard they've made it a lot easier, so I'll probably choose one of the higher difficulty settings. I don't mind replaying some scenes in this game, especially since there are a lot of checkpoints along the way. To be honest in GoW1 there were only 3-4 scenes where I had to replay the scene more than 20 times. One of them was an early level where you had to advance towards enemy positions and avoid stationary fire at the same time. The second situation was soon after you've found a bow. I just couldn't survive there long enough to fullfill my objectives. Guess it's just dumb luck I've made it through. Oh, and the final level on the train and the last boss fight were also very hard.

Wow!! You did better than me. I started on Hardcore and was stuck a lot more than that. I had a friend that helped with the extreme problem areas. Might be really bad luck but I would be standing there killing bad guys that show up and suddenly I hear "throwing a frag" and then I blow up. I checked my rear and there were no enemies just allies and they threw a frag right at my feet to kill the guy I just meleed to death. Then every time I sprinted to a new cover area to flank the enemy my AI guys ran out into the open, in most cases, directly into emplacement gun fire and all got killed. Then I would be overwhelmed and eventually die. When I did the hardest level I had a friend help with it as I was not going to deal with stupid AI's on that one.

[The_Disturbed_One]

You just have to get used to it. The single player on Gears 2 is much easier, but the multiplayer matches are terrible. Not difficult, terrible, it was just not fun. It all relies on two weapons: the shotgun and the rocket launcher. The story in the single/multiplayer campaign was pretty awesome though, IMO.

[nugunz]

Bioshock.

Nuff said.