Five games that should have been on the Xbox 360
Finally, the following games may not have suffered completely from poor sales, but I believe they could have received more love if they were also released on the Xbox 360.
Lost Kingdoms
Sadly, many people don’t even know this series existed. This GameCube exclusive is what you’d call a card-based action game. Unlike most card battle video games, you are still required to fight in real time. So if you have a sword card, you press a to swing the sword. You can only swing your sword as many times as sword cards in your deck. As with traditional card battle games, your deck is face down and you are dealt them as they come. So if you want good weaponry, include good weapons. This game is a full adventure with maps and puzzles to discover as opposed to what you’d think a card battle game would be. So why would this be better on Xbox? Xbox Live of course. This, not only opens up multiplayer battles and coop adventures, but the ability to trade, sell, or buy new cards online. You could go as far as build an in-game auction house where you could buy or sell your rare cards. As with Guitar Hero’s music downloads, I’m sure Activision would be more than happy to allow you to purchase ‘Booster Packs’ or other specialty cards from the Xbox Live Market Place.
Baroque
Baroque is not only a dungeon crawler, but a hardcore one at that. This game is for those (like myself), who just loves to grind. To complete Baroque you’ll have to play the same levels 100s of times. That is depending on how clever you are at figuring out the story. This game is not for someone who just wants to play a game for a few hours and be done with it. This game takes dungeon crawlers to a new level, as if they weren’t for the Hardcore in the first place. The game is fine; however it could have found a better audience on the Xbox 360. The majority of Wii fans would want nothing to do with this kind of game. Unfortunately, lack of its popularity shows that. It took me a minute to realize Baroque was not a quick waggle game when I died and had to start over at level 1! This game should to be targeted to the hardcore gamers who don’t mind spending 40 plus hours grinding with hopes of finding nice loot.
Star Trek Conquest
Ok I must say, the developers must not have known too much about the various Star Trek series, when they had a Galaxy Class Starship fighting Xindi…Xindi??? Ok sorry for Dorking out, but aside from chronological mistakes in the Star Trek timeline and mismatched space time continuums that keep trekkies losing sleep every night, the game is very addictive and fun. Unfortunately, there is no multiplayer. This would a perfect multiplayer game. Where there is multi-player, there should be online. There is little doubt that Xbox Live is where you will find the best online multiplayer experience in the entire industry! This is a turned based campaign/action game where you chose your faction and take over each quadrant. In the Wii version you are stuck playing against 3-4 computer players. This game could have been a hit on the Xbox Live Arcade.
Final Fantasy
Well since Xbox 360 seems to be the new platform for Role-Playing Games, why not share the love of Final Fantasy, and no, Final Fantasy online does not count! Many Xbox fans have been begging for a Final Fantasy title on the Xbox for some time now. Unfortunately, all they got was the hand-me-down scraps of a last generation Mass-Multiplayer Online (MMO) game. The Final Fantasy creator, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Himself believes this would be a key to the continuing success of the series. So come on Square-Enix?
No More Heroes
Ok I don’t fully think with this, but it’s on my list since it seems to be a popular wish of many gamers. However, there do seems to be more love for this game from gamers who play and love the Xbox, than those who play and love the Wii. I’m not sure if No More Heroes did well in sales or not, but it looks like the people most fascinated don’t have a Wii nor this game. This is such a great game and it utilizes the Wii Controller very well, but did the Wii gamers care?…Not really. I love the game a lot and think it’s perfect for the Wii. However, it could have received the sales and popularity it deserved if it were also on the Xbox 360. Lastly, the game in my opinion is like Rated M+ (if that’s possible). It’s bloody, it’s vulgar, and makes light of anything from decapitation to cold blooded murder.
Also see, Five games that should have been on the PS3 and Five games that should have been on the Wii
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