The game also features multiplayer on and offline, co-op, races, and survival modes. To add more to the package, you can build your own levels and share them with friends over Xbox Live.
This game has so much content in it and is simple platforming. What more can you ask for? Still Alive It featured the award winning game Portal, as well as extra maps with new puzzles for you to solve.
While this game was originally part of The Orange Box, now gamers who never picked that up can download Portal straight from the Arcade. Its amazing puzzle design, interesting concept of the using portals, and the hilarious story with GLaDOS makes Portal a game you do not want to miss.
Geometry Wars 2 has a lot more to than its first iteration. Released on July 30, , Geometry Wars 2 added new game modes, multiplayer, and kept the visuals that the first was loved for. The games simple play style of keep moving, keep shooting, and don't get hit, makes it one of the easiest to pick up and play, and the hardest to put down.
Mega Man 9 did something very unexpected: it made a game play and visuals exactly like its NES predecessors and just made a new game that appealed to fans of the series. Mega Man 9 was released on October 1, , and was looked at by reviewers and gamers with question, followed by delight. Why change something good? Mega Man 9 is a fun platforming shooter that rebirthed the Mega Man series and kept the same fun that is had in the past.
While the game is generally difficult, it never subtracts from the fun that Mega Man 9 delivers. Castle Crashers gave new life to the beat'em up genre. Winterbottom is a stylish, black and white game inspired by silent films and developed by a team befitting of their moniker, The Odd Gentlemen. It's also one of the most charming, challenging and quirky puzzle games available on Xbox Live Arcade. But the game is hardly simplistic. Pixel-sized enemies haunt you at every corner waiting to decimate your stick-figure character and drive you insane with frustration.
Some have compared Peggle addiction to that of substance abuse. Of course, real substance abuse is no laughing matter, but Peggle does have the ability to melt away hours, leaving relationships ruined in its wake. Inspired by the Japanese game pachinko, Peggle is a casual game that has burst through the classification and latched onto every group of gamers. There's something to be said for a title that can draw in hardcore gamers and grandmothers alike, but Peggle does just that.
The XBLA version also includes various multiplayer modes where those aforementioned hardcore gamers and grandmothers can throw down in epic online battles. Still Alive comes with the original mind-bending first-person puzzle game with a heaping serving of additional content: fourteen new challenges that were based on Portal: The Flash Version.
With the recent announcement of Portal 2 coming later this year, now's a good time to prepare for the sequel. When it first hit stores in Japan, Rez was released with one of the most bizarre peripherals we've seen: The "trance vibrator. Q Entertainment's XBLA version ditches the extra and delivers what shooter fans really want: a gorgeous remake of its addicting shooter.
Rez still holds up today with its distinct visuals and pulsating electronic music that the player manipulates by playing the game and destroying enemies. The game features six episodes that follow the adventures of two private investigators who also happen to be a pair of anthropomorphic animals: Sam is a canine who wears a suit and fedora and Max is an unidentifiable relative of the rabbit family who wears absolutely nothing.
The Microsoft Point price tag might seem steep, but the bundle includes hours of content, and once you complete this series, season two is also available for purchase on Xbox Live Arcade. Borrowing elements from some of gaming's most beloved side-scrolling action franchises including Contra, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Super Metroid, Epic's Shadow Complex is one of the finest Xbox Live Arcade-exclusive titles available today. The game is presented in "2.
Shadow Complex's critical and commercial success can be attributed to the creative minds involved in the XBLA project, which include Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski as design consultant, comic book writer Peter David as scriptwriter, and award-winning science fiction author Orson Scott Card who licensed his Empire series for the game's universe and plot. In Twisted Pixel's quirky Xbox Live Arcade-exclusive hit, you play as a lab experiment gone horribly wrong, whose molecular body is made up of explosions.
In order to solve puzzles, avoid scientists, and trigger events in the game you must make yourself explode or "splode". The game also gives you a lot bang for your buck as it packs on a whopping 50 levels to play through and four-player co-op support.
If you never got the chance to play LucasArts' The Secret of Monkey Island when it was originally released in -- back when the developer was known as LucasFilm Games -- you can now experience the classic adventure on Xbox Live Arcade. Darius Burst : Another Chronicle. Track and Field. DJ Max Technika 3. Terminator Salvation Arcade.
Star Wars. Guitar Hero Arcade. Spy Hunter. Elevator Action. Silver Strike Bowling. Major Havoc. Global Arcade Classics. Dragon's Lair. Target Toss Pro. Rockin' Bowl O' Rama. Golden Tee Complete. Time Pilot. Target : Terror. Space Duel. At some point in the last decade, Tomb Raider games started to feel stale. Breaking from the third-person adventure game mold, Guardian set itself apart by focusing on arcade-like action, an isometric camera and a top-notch co-op experience. One player controlled Lara while the other guided Totec — an ancient Aztec spirit and the titular guardian.
Though Guardian of Light was initially launched with local-only multiplayer, Crystal Dynamics eventually patched in online multiplayer, removing any reasonable excuse not to play the game. Unlike the puzzles in past Tomb Raider games, those in Guardian never broke from the action for too long, and they still managed to offer nice challenges.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is a great way to scratch a co-op or single-player itch before the Xbox One arrives. Stop back in tomorrow to see us continue counting down the top 25 games! Meanwhile, take a look at the other games to have made the list:. Features Feature List.
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