The 5 Best Xbox 360 Action Games

My favorite hobby is gaming.  So I did the 5 best action Xbox 360 games because I have a lot of favorite games that belong into this category.  Most people base a good game off of the graphics or just the action within and don't pay any attention to the other aspects, like music, smoothness of gameplay, storytelling, difficulty and most importantly how the game is organized and brought together.  The action games that I'm about to talk about consist of super heros, cowboys and streches into the olden days of Babylon with a famous assassin.  Action games have no limit in the gaming world. 

Number 5 in this category starts in Babylon with your action packed game Prince Of Persia, developed by Ubisoft Montreal.  This game will have you fighting for your life and running and jumping off walls, literally.  In this game you play as the Prince of Persia, occompanied by the Princess Elika restoring the land of the kingdom lost to the evil god of darkness, Ahriman.  I myself have not yet tried this game, but I have followed the game since it was announced, I would really like to play it because I was a huge fan of the other ones, and this one is supposed to be great.  From reviews I've read the only weak aspects to the game is the difficulty and the storytelling.  The story telling bothers me cause this game has a huge story and I hope it was able to keep there action packed story alive for one more game.  The strong aspects to the game is the beautiful graphics, great music and acessible gameplay.  The game is said to have a great new story but less combat than the others, all in all from the reviews I've read on this game I cant wait to play it and get witness first hand how they layed out this game.  This game although has no multiplayer, it is strictly a single player, story telling game.  I'm giving this the number 5 spot because of great reviews, the amazing series and the pure fun it brings to the table.

In the number 4 spot we travel into the life of Rico Rodriguez, the mercenary spy, in the do it yourself action movie called Just Cause 2, developed by Avalanche Studios.  In this game you are fighting against a corrupt govenrment.  This game is a free roam do as you wish style of game that allows you to do things you could only dream of ever wanting to do.  Like for example how many people grapple hook onto a airplane and then parachute off it into a high case scene landing on top of a car then hijacking the car from the driver?  Only Rico Rodriguez.  I have infact played Just Cause 2 but although I never got to try the story, mostly when I played it I just fooled around and did crazy stunts, which is probably the best aspect to the game.  I do agree with people giving it the number 4 spot, and heres why.  Even though the game has some very strong aspects like; great graphics, new helpful gadgets, huge world to explore and its untimely amount of fun the game also suffers some serious weak aspects.  Some of these aspects are wonky controls, glitchy gameplay and the world may be too big for the game to handle, causing these problems.  I haven't played this games multiplayer but reviews tell me it is really fun.  Its basically free roam do what ever you want style of multiplayer allowing for anything, and I mean anything to happen in the world of Just Cause 2.  I think this game does deserve the 4th spot because of the amount of fun you can have, from experience in playing it and with the great reviews.

Moving on to the 3rd best action game brings us to the brutally gory zombie slaying nonsencial game known as Dead Rising 2 developed by Blue Castle Games.  In this game you follow the life of Chuck Greene and his daughter Katey in the apocoliptic world.  Katey has been bitten by a zombie, but the medication is keeping the disease from evolving.  Chuck is blamed for an outbreak while trying to get money for his daughter and now only has 72 hours to clear his name and wait for rescue.  I have played a Dead Rising game in the series but it hasn't been this game.  The game lets you explore a zombie infested town and have all the zombie slaying fun you wish.  This game has way more stong aspects than weak, which I love to see in games.  The stronger aspects are the new combos/weaponary, nice presentation, brutal gameplay, huge open world to explore and it maintains to keep that Dead Rising feel that players came to love.  The game of this series I did get the chance to play, I can strongly say that Blue Castle Games have the ability to make great and amusing zombie games.  Although it does suffer from some weak aspects, and the most major one is the clunky controls and long loading screens.  No gamer wants to spend 5 to 10 mintues on a loading screen, they want to be right in the action, killing off zombies and enjoy it.  This game also consists of a multiplayer feature allowing you and your friend to team up and fight zombies together having much more fun.  This game is awarded number 3 because of its gameplay, presentation, ability to make an excellent and amusing zombie style game. 

The runner up contender will no doubt go to the action packed western game Red Dead Redempetion, developed and published by Rockstar San Diego.  The life of ex gang member John Marston isn't easy, trying to provide for his family, keep his farm and hunt down his other gang members, to save his own life.  John travels from the state of New Austin to Mexico insearch for his former gang members encountering troubles along the way.  I have played and beaten Red Dead Redemption and its many DLC's (downloadable content; like Undead Nightmare) and I can honestly say that it is the funest and most excellent third person western shooter I've ever played.  The way this story is presented is by far amazingly well done, although about 3/4 into the game the story starts to lose interest, but gains interest very quickly again.  There are many very, very strong aspects to this game like amazing story and character developement, solid voice acting protrayed, well designed free open world and very fun gameplay.  Even though this game is almost perfect it still suffers from too downsides with is glitchy gameplay and off pace story near the end.  This games multiplayer allows the game to be taken to a whole different level.  Allowing to play with friends and do co-op missions, go hunting cougars or bears or raid forts for loot.  This game gives you unlimited options wether by yourself or with your posse.  Red Dead Redemption has won the title of Game Of The Year in 2010.  No other game could be worth the runner up spot for best Xbox 360 action game besides this one.

Now the moment we've all been waiting for, the number one best Xbox 360 action game goes to none other than the amazing third person fighting game sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman: Arkham City developed by Rocksteady.  About.com states that "More than any other game before, Arkham City makes you truly feel like Batman, and that is pretty awesome," and boy are they right.  I'm a big fan of this 2 part series, I loved the first one and the second one was just icing on the cake; it simply blew me away.  There's honestly parts in this game wether you're fighting for dear life against a boss or free roaming the city and stoping crime, that will take your breath away.  It happened to me numerous times.

In Batman: Arkham Asylum you play as Batman in the Arkham Asylum.  While putting Joker behind bars, he escapes, taking over the entire asylum unleashing this Titan gas which was used to create Bane's monsterous figure.  This gas is basically a preformance enhancer gone through the roof.  You go through the asylum facing the many bosses that stand in your way like; Bane, Killer Croc, Scare Crow, Posion Ivy to reach The Joker.  In the end you end up defeating the Joker like always and the Titan gas is taken undercontrol, atleast thats what you think, until you see one of the major bosses hand sticks out of the water (depending on what difficulty you beat the game on).

In Batman: Arkham City you continue playing as Bruce Wayne aka Batman, but instead of evil terrorizing the asylum, the Joker has taken it to a whole new level, he's taken control of Arkham City (a large walled off area in Gotham).  The world to explore is now bigger which means more activities to do, more secrets to find, and more bosses to fight.  New additional bosses that were added into this game are as followed; Mr. Freeze, Two-Face, Penguin, Solomon Grundy, Clayface, and the two russian henchmen twins.  Not only do you play the role of the dark knight Batman, you also get to see the life of Selina aka Catwomen, which adds a new and neat aspect to the game.  Bruce has been thrown into Arkham as a prisoner, he esacpes and recieves his Batman equipment so he can find out what is really going on inside this corrupt city.

Batman: Arkham City is by far the best action game I've ever played.  It has all the great aspects to make a game; freedom to move around the city as you wish, a great action filled story which also has some tragic moments, lots of collectibles to find, combat moves fluently with no flaws what so ever, and the addition of Catwomen allows a whole new point of view to be played.  Although with every amazing game, there always has to be a flaw, and in this case its easy boss fights.  I dont find this a bad con though, I mean no one wants to spend hours on end trying to beat a boss, you want them to be fun, action filled and you want to be amazed at the end of them and this is exactly how Rocksteady presents their boss fights.  For gamers that haven't yet played this game I strongly recommend this game.  In my opinion it gets 10/10 overall, the game masters every aspect to a great action game.  This game will be a hard game to beat out of its number 1 spot for newer action games, and in my opinion it'll stay number 1, because it's just that amazing.