Games that have really impressed me: * Tom Clancy' s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
It' s actually probably my " favourite" 360 title and i would have gone as far as to give it GOTY if the decision was down to me. The single player campaign isn' t as long as i would like but the multi-player, online and additional content adds so much depth to what' s already a great game.
I' ve actually probably played more GRAW online than anything else. Quez and i are nigh unstoppable! But seriously, i you haven' t played it you need to, and if you' ve played it and weren' t initially drawn in, give it another go, play the different parts (the mission mode, solo campaign, online etc) because they' re all different, and maybe it' ll grow on you.
* Hitman: Blood Money I stopped playing the 2nd Hitman game after 3 levels and never touched or considered the series until Silentbomber got me interested in Blood Money. I watched some gameplay videos and read a couple of reviews and still didn' t expect to like it, ...but i bought it anyway and don' t regret the decision. The game is truly great. It has some issues but they are easily overlooked because the gameplay has so much depth. I would definetly encourage people to buy it.
Also, if you played the demo and didn' t enjoy it, i didn' t either. In fact, i still don' t like the first level (from the demo). It' s just different from the rest of the game and doesn' t quite fit. As soon as you get past it and onto the 2nd level everything is 500% better!
* The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion I' ve lost count of how many hours i' ve played and how many quest i' ve completed. The main quest is far less engaging than the 100' s of side quests. The sheer attention to detail is amazing. I played and didn' t really get into Morrowind but Oblivion has had my gripped for months now and try as i might i can' t get bored of it, there' s just so much to do.
* Dead Rising A completely different game to RE4, with the only similarity being the aiming controls. Anything can be used as a weapon, food stuffs can be blended (in erm, blenders...
) to create varying cocktails that give you special abilities like invisibility, giving you health boosts etc. Mixing pie with orange juice for example creates " zombait" which is to be when you need to keep the zombies away from other survivors. Cold foods that are meant to be eaten hot can be cooked in an oven or microwave which boots their healing properites. You can even turn yourself into a zombie and mingle with the crowds!
Cool weapons, tons of gore and severable limbs, a huge amount of easter eggs and references to other games. This game is awesome! Shit, any game where you can perform wrestling moves on zombies will easily get my vote!
* Project Gotham Racing 3 Not as large as the 2nd game but much more refined. Perfect handling, perfect cars, perfetct courses, perfect online play. It has to be the best driving game available. It might not be for everybody, but since i hate Ridge Racer because it' s
too arcadey, and hate Gran Turismo because it' s
too much of a simulation, PGR3 strikes me as the perfect balance. The photo mode is superb too.
Other great game include; Rockstar Presents Table Tennis, Top Spin 2, Call of Duty 2, Condemned, Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, Dead or Alive 4, Kameo, Fight Night Round 3, Moto GP 06 and Burnout Revenge. I didn' t include these above because they' re not my current " favourites" . Games i' ve been really disappointed by: * Quake 4 It' s a sub-par port of an already sub-par game. I though the online might be enjoyable and i was wrong. I don' t care what anybody says, ...Quake 4 was completely outdone by Doom 3 and is just another example of how bad Raven Software are at making games. id Should have hendled it themselves!
The 360 port has a dodgy framerate, some minor graphical issues and no additional content, yet it still retails for £20 more than the PC version. Ports like this should either be released at a cut price or not released at all. I hate it and i didn' t even play through the easy campaign to get the achievement points.
* Perfect Dark Zero No excuse can be made for such a bad game. The story, animation, voice acting, cutscenes, textures, weapon modelling, character modelling, online component etc are all RUBBISH!!!
I bought it at launch, completed the main game hoping right untiol the very last level that it would get better, then playing the online multiplayer hoping that would be good and gave it away within days. It' s goddmn awful!
* Peter Jacksons King Kong Ok, so i really shouldn' t have bought it, but i never thought it would be so bad. It' s worse than PD0. Just steer clear, even if you see it really cheap.
* Far Cry Instincts Predator Could have been good but ultimately marred by dodgy modelling, low-res textures and rubbish handling (now fixed). The online is " supposed" to be good but it' s not. The game might have an impressive draw distance and awesome looking water and it may have an impressive amount of content but that still doesn' t make up for it' s annoying problems.
* Ridge Racer 6 Type 4 remains king of the series. The PSP version was great but still didn' t do anything for me. RR6 is just boring. Namco need to make some serious changes for the western releases of their Ridge Racer games because what works in Japan doesn' t always work abroad. How i can go into a drift facing the wrong direction and then still come out without a scratch or slowing down/stopping is testiment to the rubbish decade old gameplay mechanics.
* Tomb Raider: Legend Ok, so it' s not a bad game, but it did disappoint me. It looks gorgeous in parts but it' s pretty boring and the boss fights are laughable. The bike sequences are simply retarded. I still have it but probably won' t play it again for a long time.
Other games that don' t quite make the grade are; Amped 3, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Prey and Ninety Nine Nights. These aren' t bad games, they' re just not as good as they should have been. 
I own/have owned (i no longer own; Quake 4, Perfect Dark Zero, Ridge Racer 6, Peter Jacksons King Kong or Far Cry Instincts Predator) all of the above listed games and the opionion stated it my own.