The 44 best Xbox 360 games

Ranked by the scores that magazines gave these games when they came out. The list draws on 3,567 review scores of 1,397 Xbox 360 games; 1,262 of them have enough reviews to be ranked.

#	Game	Platform	Year	Score
1	Grand Theft Auto IV	X360	2008	99.4
2	Portal 2	X360	2011	99.2
3	BioShock	X360	2007	96.3
4	Mass Effect 2	X360	2010	96
5	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim	X360	2011	95.8
6	Grand Theft Auto V	X360	2013	95.6
7	Batman: Arkham City	X360	2011	95
8	Gears of War 2	X360	2008	95
9	Red Dead Redemption	X360	2010	95
10	Halo 3	X360	2007	94.8
11	Fallout 3	X360	2008	94.3
12	Gears of War	X360	2006	94.2
13	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2	X360	2009	94
14	The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion	X360	2006	93.8
15	Braid	X360	2008	93
16	Pac-Man Championship Edition DX	X360	2010	93
17	Street Fighter IV	X360	2009	93
18	Bayonetta	X360	2009	92.5
19	Batman: Arkham Asylum	X360	2009	92
20	Forza Motorsport 3	X360	2009	92
21	Guitar Hero II	X360	2006	92
22	Rock Band 2	X360	2008	92
23	Dishonored	X360	2012	91.7
24	FIFA Soccer 12	X360	2011	91.7
25	Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare	X360	2007	91.6
26	BioShock Infinite	X360	2013	91
27	Forza Motorsport 4	X360	2011	91
28	Halo: Reach	X360	2010	91
29	Super Street Fighter IV	X360	2010	91
30	Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter	X360	2006	90.5
31	Mass Effect	X360	2007	90.5
32	Rock Band	X360	2007	90.5
33	BioShock 2	X360	2010	90.2
34	FEZ	X360	2012	90.2
35	Bastion	X360	2011	90
36	Mass Effect 3	X360	2012	90
37	Call of Duty: Black Ops	X360	2010	90
38	FIFA Soccer 10	X360	2009	90
39	Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2	X360	2008	90
40	Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned	X360	2009	90
41	LIMBO	X360	2010	90
42	Metal Gear Solid HD Collection	X360	2011	90
43	Portal - Still Alive	X360	2008	90
44	Rayman Legends	X360	2013	90

Highly rated, with fewer than 3 reviews

12 Xbox 360 games have a score of 90 or more, but from only one or two reviews, and no Metacritic score.

Game	Platform	Year	Score
The Walking Dead: 400 Days	X360	2013	95
The Orange Box	X360	2007	94
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare	X360	2014	93
XCOM: Enemy Within	X360	2013	92.5
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City	X360	2010	92
NBA 2K9	X360	2008	90
FIFA 15	X360	2014	90
FIFA 17	X360	2016	90
Pro Yakyuu Spirits 3	X360	2006	90
Rise of the Tomb Raider	X360	2015	90
Shift 2: Unleashed	X360	2011	90
Virtua Fighter 5	X360	2007	90

How the ranking works

The scores are the ones magazines gave when the games came out, all converted to a 0–100 scale. Only one review per magazine counts for a game: the most recent.
A game's score is half the average, half the median of its magazine reviews. A title opens the game's page on uvlist.net; a score opens the report with every review behind it.
A game needs at least 3 magazine reviews to be ranked. With equal scores, the game with more reviews comes first.
Metacritic already sums up many reviews, so it is never mixed with the magazines: it is used only for games with fewer than 3 magazine reviews, as their only score.
Each list shows every game with a score of 90 or more. Games with fewer than 3 reviews and no Metacritic score are shown apart: their score is promising, but rests on one or two opinions.

The lists are rebuilt each time reviews are added. To filter by genre, year, magazine or publisher, explore all the scores in the report.

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